Blood of Prokopius

I just finished re-reading Dune again and had to get this off my chest. Please note: I have never read beyond a couple of chapters into the ...

Ever since I started down the path of trying to combine Holmes and Cook , I have been trying to create a megadungeon that would tick off al...

Recently, an old high school buddy of mine got inspired to go back and re-read some of the older rulesets of D&D, in part because of my ...

The Venerable Barlaam the Abbot of Khutyn, Novgorod is an ascetic saint of the twelfth century. He grew up in an illustrious family of Novgo...

I love me some random tables and I love me some Holmes Basic D&D. In honor of Free RPG Day, Zenopus Archives released Holmes Ref 2.0 . I...

Today is the Feast of St. Botolph, Abbot of the Monastery Icanhoh who is a British saint from the 7th century. Born in Britain, he became a ...

Having read JB’s thoughts on the matter and some of the rants that inspired his post , I want to share some of my thoughts, but not in a phi...

Today is the feast of the Holy Schemamonk Silvanus of the Kiev Caves. He was an ascetic in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The mona...

Over at B/X Blackrazor , JB ran an adventure for his kids and shared a little house rule he uses with multiple attacks: My (simple) house ...

I must admit, this is not the Feast of St. Alexis the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia. HIs main feast is on February 1...

It has been quite some time since I’ve regularly blogged about the saints and RPGs. Today is the Feast of St. Justin the Philosopher and he ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...