Blood of Prokopius

Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: The camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew...

Recently, the current campaign I am running achieved that quintessential D&D moment where every one is standing around the table, all ey...

By its very nature, a sandbox campaign has a lot of randomness. For me, this is one of its charms. Not only do I get to be surprised as a Re...

A couple of years ago, I wrote a series of posts about Prepping a Sandbox Campaign . I have also mentioned that I am currently running a 5e ...

The tomes which held Turjan’s sorcery lay on the long table of black steel or were thrust helter-skelter into shelves. These were volumes c...

This is a class I created for BX/LL using the Custom Class rules from the ACKS Player’s Companion (which is one of my top five OSR purchases...

Or, Why D&D Rocks So, my last post generated quite a bit of dialogue, all of which I found really interesting and it got me thinking...

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...

Merry Christmas!

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...