Blood of Prokopius

In my last post , in which I gushed over the Swords & Wizardry Legion Pack (SWLP), I nitpicked about the scale of the map provided on th...

I got a very special surprise in the mail today. Michael Badolato was kind enough to send me the Swords & Wizardry Legion packet and it ...

Recently, my eldest has shown interest in running an RPG game. Therefore, I pulled out Erik Tenkar's Swords & Wizardry Light and ha...

No one need fear death; the Savior's death has freed us from it. While its captive He stifled it. He despoiled Hades as He descended...

Talysman over at The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms has been meditating on random maps. His most recent post posited a leximorphic method that qu...

It has been a rough 2017 for me and mine. Someone in the house has been sick continuously since January, thus I have not been a position ...

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...