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Saturday, January 27, 2018

Saintly Saturday: The Transfer of the Relics of St. John Chrysostom

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Today is the Feast of the Translation of the Relics of St. John Chrysostom. Thirty years after St. John's death in exile, St. Proclus, P...
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Thursday, January 25, 2018

Rinn's Journal Part 1

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Fifthday, 25 Janus 1143 Today the initiates were very excited when news came from town that a yellow robed mage was visiting Headwaters. I...
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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Saintly Saturday: St. Euthymius the Great

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Today is the Feast of St. Euthymius the Great who was born in Melitene in Armenia to faithful parents about the year A.D. 377. His parents w...
Saturday, January 13, 2018

Saintly Saturday: St. Hilary of Poitiers

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Today is the Feast of St. Hilary of Poitiers. Born in the 4th century A.D. of pagan parents in Gaul (modern day France), he was trained in p...
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Sunday, December 31, 2017

Saintly Saturday: St. Anysia the Virgin Martyr of Thessalonica

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(Yesterday was) the Feast of the Virginmartyr Anysia of Thessalonica. Although I had every intention of writing about this yesterday, life g...
Monday, December 25, 2017

Christ is Born!

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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...
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Saturday, December 23, 2017

Saintly Saturday: Ten Martyrs of Crete

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Today is the Feast Day of the Ten Martyrs of Crete: Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician, Zoticus, Agathopus, Basilides, Evare...
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Thursday, December 21, 2017

On Adventure Design

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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...
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Saturday, December 16, 2017

Saintly Saturday: The Prophet Haggai

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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...
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Saturday, December 9, 2017

Saintly Saturday: Conception of the Theotokos & Ever-Virgin Mary

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Today is the Feast of the Conception of the Theotokos & Ever-Virgin Mary. Yes, you read that right: the Orthodox Church is celebrating a...
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Thursday, December 7, 2017

Isometric Map Experiment

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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...
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Sunday, December 3, 2017

It's Re-Imagination Time!

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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...
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Saturday, December 2, 2017

Saintly Saturday: The Prophet Habakkuk

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Today is the Feast of the Prophet Habakkuk. Not much is known about this Prophet, because, unlike almost every other prophet, his book does ...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Gene Wars (SWCL)

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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...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Saintly Saturday: St. Menas of Egypt

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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...
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Friday, November 10, 2017

Advanced Edition SWCL + Mutants

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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...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Advanced Edition SWCL

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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...
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Fiends & Falchions (SWCL)

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Well, my latest alternate version of Swords & Wizardry Continual Light is finished, but this one feels different. It is SWCL. It is D...
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Sunday, November 5, 2017

FF Monsters and SWCL Part 2

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Back when I first started looking into the FF seriously, I made the observation that the number of monster entries per page was significantl...
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Saturday, November 4, 2017

Saintly Saturday: St. Joannicius the Great

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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...
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