Blood of Prokopius

(Yesterday was) the Feast of the Virginmartyr Anysia of Thessalonica. Although I had every intention of writing about this yesterday, life g...

Merry Christmas! A great and paradoxal miracle has taken place today. A Virgin has given birth, and there is no damage to her womb. Th...

Today is the Feast Day of the Ten Martyrs of Crete: Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician, Zoticus, Agathopus, Basilides, Evare...

Back in December of 2011, I did a review of a module penned by Matt Finch called Demonspore . In it I stated that is the best module produce...

Today is the Feast of the Prophet Haggai who prophesied in the year 520 B.C. during the post-exilic era in Jerusalem. Not a lot is known abo...

Today is the Feast of the Conception of the Theotokos & Ever-Virgin Mary. Yes, you read that right: the Orthodox Church is celebrating a...

Of all the iconic and popular TSR modules, the one I probably dislike the most is I6: Ravenloft. While it reads like a pretty decent dungeo...

As those who have followed this blog over the years are probably aware, my favorite TSR module of all time is T1:The Village of Hommlet . Th...

Today is the Feast of the Prophet Habakkuk. Not much is known about this Prophet, because, unlike almost every other prophet, his book does ...

For those wondering where I have been the last couple of weeks, I have been fighting with Gene Wars, my third installment of Swords and Wiza...

Today is the Feast of St. Menas of Egypt. His moniker comes from his birthplace and his martyrium. His life, however, took place mostly in P...

As I was meditating on an “Advanced” version of SWCL and looking through some of my old gaming notes, it occurred to me that Goblinoid Games...

One of my favorite (if not the favorite) retro-clones is Labyrinth Lord . As I have said on many occasions, the reason I like it so much is...

Well, my latest alternate version of Swords & Wizardry Continual Light is finished, but this one feels different. It is SWCL. It is D...

Back when I first started looking into the FF seriously, I made the observation that the number of monster entries per page was significantl...

Today is the Feast of Joannicius the Great. He was born in A.D. 752 in Bithynia (in modern-day Turkey) to faithful but very poor parents. Th...

I am in process of converting a bunch of FF monsters to SWCL and it is actually kind of a fascinating process, assuming that one can only us...

Long before I ever went through the Monster Manual 2 to see what would happen to B/X if the only monsters available to Moldvay came from the...

Since I couldn't really think of anything to write about St. Stephen the Sabaite on his Feast Day, I decided to do as much as I could t...

One of the ideas from 0e that I truly find fascinating is the idea that elves can adventure as fighters and magic-users, they must do so one...