Blood of Prokopius

This past week I have been trying to watch the show The Magicians which is based on the Lev Grossman novel by the same name. If I had to de...

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There is an interesting pattern that exists in the way 5e describes armor and the way that BX presents armor. 5e has three categories: Light...

For years, I have used universal damage dice at my table while playing BX or LL. This decision, however, is not a partisan one as I have exp...

Historically, I have never been a big fan of skill systems in RPGs because they tend to describe what a character cannot do rather than wha...

Now that Jeff Rients has officially released Broodmother Skyfortress under the Lamentations of the Flame Princess ruleset, he is going thr...

Stocking the "Dungeon" As I did for my similar meditation on the Fiend Folio , I wanted to find a map of a dungeon to stock usi...

The group that I am currently playing 5e with have a number of short (90-120 min.) sessions under our belts, and I thought I should be take ...

One of the interesting things that happens when I go about any kind of thought experiment, is that it has a tendency of bleeding out into ot...

Ecology of MMII Demi-Humans As I have noted before, the MMII has two different elves within its pages: wild elves that are neutral fighter...

Magic Items Something I never did when I hypothesized a Moldvay Basic D&D with a Fiend Folio monster section was to see how that would...

Wandering Monster Table Level 3 Oozes and Slimes continue to be my bane when trying to come up with Wandering Monster Tables for an MMII v...

Wandering Monster Table Level 2 For this Wandering Monster Table (WMT), I again used the break-down of Moldvay’s WMT as a template . As ha...

Wandering Monster Table Level 1 I have been trying to work on some Wondering Monster Tables (WMT) for a Moldvay Basic Edition using only M...

Demi-Human Player Characters Unlike my experience with the FF, which had no halflings, dwarves or playable elves in its monster list, the...

Notes on the Undead Interestingly, there are not many undead creatures in the MMII: Animal Skeleton Demi-Lich Juju Zombie Monster Zo...

In Search of a Theme Moving forward, I am going to have to depart from the methodology I used with the FF, because, while I whole-heartedl...

A few years ago, I did a series of posts based around the idea of seeing what would happen to Moldvay’s Basic D&D if the Fiend Folio had...

The news that Jack Chick has passed away has been making its rounds around the blogosphere. Reactions range from the vindictive to the conci...

Anyone familiar with my musings on how to run a campaign is well aware of my long love-affair with Arneson’s rule of 1 gp of treasure spent ...