Blood of Prokopius

Today is the Feast of St. Gregory the Illuminator of Armenia. He was born in the middle of the third century A.D. His father, Anak, was part...

Well, I just finished a week sans wife taking care of the kids by my lonesome. Thus, blogging became a very low priority; however, I do want...

Today is the Feast of the Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna. The title “Ancestors of God” is a title derived from the fact that they are th...

In my last post, I didn't receive much feedback as to how to edit my Star Frontiers + Swords & Wizardry Light Mash-Up, so I am goin...

Today is the Feast of St. Mammas the Martyr. He was from Gangra of Paphlagonia, which is the north-central part of modern-day Turkey. His pa...

So, I have settled on a name for my SF + SWL Mash-up: Star Lite . I type-set it and mocked it up on some thick stock paper so that it can st...

Today is the Feast of the Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalie. One of the things I love about studying the lives of the saints is the realizatio...

As I mentioned yesterday, I am in the midst of type-setting my SF + SWL Mash-Up and I am not sure I will have enough room for Ship-to-Ship ...

I am in the midst of typesetting my 4-page SF+SWL Mash-Up and realized that I have no real intention for this game to go beyond 3rd level be...

Monsters What follows are the stat blocs for several monsters. Like SWL, I have 18 creatures with simplified mechanics and descriptions. ...

Characteristics Before I get to the crux of this particular post, I need to explain my thinking on Characteristics because I won’t be usin...

Today is the feast of St. Andrew the Commander. He was a roman soldier during the reign of Maximian. About the year A.D. 289 he was sent by ...

Classes For those who have been following this series of posts, it is possible to intuit that there will be only three classes: Cleric, Fi...

Crunch Now that we have established the proto-skill system of AoEs, we need to have a means of determining what happens when Joe or Jane P...

Skills When it comes to skill systems, I tend to be a curmudgeonly old grognard. I don’t like them. Instead of being inspirational, they a...

Today is not the feast of St. Maximus the Confessor. Tomorrow, the Orthodox Church celebrates the translation of his relics; however, since...

As I mentioned in my last post , my Gamer ADD has gone into over-drive and I am working on producing a yet-to-be-named mash-up of Star Fron...

Those who are familiar with my blog know that I suffer quite often from Gamer ADD. When I come to a point in a project or a campaign where t...

Today is the feast of St. Eusignius of Antioch. He was a soldier of the Roman Empire who served under several emperors, including the father...

When the Surprise Roll in D&D and its clones is used for Wilderness and Dungeon Encounters, it is generally a precursor to combat. There...