Blood of Prokopius

Musings on Religion & RPGs

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Gamer ADD: Underneath the Haunted Keep

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When creating a potential mega-dungeon, I like to not only come up with a history of the place, but a side-view in order to get a handle on ...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

Meditating on 5e: LBBs + LBBs

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One of the things I really like about 5e is the whole concept of Backgrounds. It immediately adds flavor to a character and gives a good Ref...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Reconsidering a Holmesian Dungeon

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As someone who regularly suffers from Gamer ADD, I am occasionally reminded about how many projects I have left fallow over the years. One s...
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Sunday, May 14, 2017

On Elves and Angels

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In a post I made last week about the fey , a commenter mentioned a story about angels. According to the story, there are three types of ange...
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Friday, May 12, 2017

Gamer ADD: A Map of the Haunted Keep

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Haunted Keep Background In the ancient days when the Shorsai Forest was part of great expanse of woods that made up the Forest Kingdoms, ...
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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Gamer ADD: A Ghast at the Possibilities

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As far as I am concerned, the mark of a really good monster folio are those little phrases that allow you to completely rethink another type...
Monday, May 8, 2017

Gamer ADD: In Need of Some Fey

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In the wake of receiving the Swords & Wizardry Legion Packet, I have been hit pretty hard with Gamer ADD, so much so that I have persist...
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Thursday, April 27, 2017

A Question of Scale

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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...
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Monday, April 24, 2017

Swords & Wizardry Legion

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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 ...
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Saturday, April 22, 2017

Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day (Light Edition)

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Recently, my eldest has shown interest in running an RPG game. Therefore, I pulled out Erik Tenkar's Swords & Wizardry Light and ha...
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Sunday, April 16, 2017

Christ is Risen!

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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...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

A Random Map

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Talysman over at The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms has been meditating on random maps. His most recent post posited a leximorphic method that qu...
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Monday, March 20, 2017

Happy St. Cuthbert's Day

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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 ...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Killer Wabbits!

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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...
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Thursday, February 2, 2017

Running a Sandbox Campaign: Explain Everything

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Recently, the current campaign I am running achieved that quintessential D&D moment where every one is standing around the table, all ey...
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Saturday, January 14, 2017

Running a Sandbox Campaign: Why a Random Event Isn't Random

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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...
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Friday, January 13, 2017

Running a Sandbox Campaign: Player Expectation

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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 ...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Meditating on Vancian Magic

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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...
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Sunday, January 8, 2017

Sorcerer Class for BX/LL

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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...
Friday, January 6, 2017

Why I Don't Like Most Modern Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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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...
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