Blood of Prokopius

Earlier this year, Circas K meditated about rethinking clerics and religion on his Sword of Mass Destruction blog. He and I are of one min...

Long time readers of this blog know that I am no real fan of Star Trek . So, it might surprise people to know that I think that Picard, the...

I have long been tempted by the call of Adventures in Middle-Earth 5e . I have read good things, it uses D&D as a chassis, and I have be...

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men! — Luke 2:14 As a kind reminder (especially to myself) the peace offer...

Let’s talk about the new Netflix show The Witcher . Note: I do not play a lot of computer games, so I have absolutely no knowledge of the ga...

I have created a title for the purpose of publishing variant rules for ba5ic and 5e. I call it The Bugbear. The first two have gone ...

I am acutely aware that my presence here on the blog and any activity in regards to ba5ic has been nil over the last few months. My youngest...

Ba5ic is now available as a POD on DriveThruRPG. The link is here . Enjoy. Life is a bit crazy at the moment, but I plan to upload ...

JB of B/X Blackrazor has been meditating how to go “Advanced” from his usual B/X D&Ding. As seems always necessary in such endeavors is ...

I just ran across the story of the Fuke sect of Buddhism in Japan. The sect showed up during the Shogunate period. They were characterized b...

One of the most challenging things about doing a superhero game within the mechanical structure of D&D is the radically different assump...

Have you ever had a dream where you are in a game shop and you find a really interesting game that you want to buy but then wake up and real...

If I were to pick a fantasy author whose work I love and have read avidly but had the least impact on the way I play D&D, that author wo...

Ba5ic is going to be available as a POD through DriveThruRPG . . . after I fix some formatting problems that reared their ugly head once I g...

Thanks to everyone who commented and helped when I posted my (very) rough draft. I have gone through and re-read the entire book. I found a ...

As I noted in my last post , I am itching to sink my teeth into the D&D Essentials Kit in order to glean a simpler, cleaner version of 5...

I have a confession to make. When Robert Conley wrote up a blurb about the D&D Essentials Kit , I got really excited. In it I saw a vers...

In my extended absence from writing anything on my blog, I recently got this comment from David B. and it deserves its own post: Greetings...

One of the things I find fascinating about Chinese history is that it was a copper based economy and were very early adopters of paper money...

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