Blood of Prokopius

Yesterday, I waxed poetic about how I run the first session of a sandbox campaign . In it I posited several site-based adventures in order t...

Continuing with the theme of my last couple of posts, here is my process on running the first session of a sandbox campaign: Character Cr...

Justin Alexander has an interesting post about the decline of D&D Adventure Modules. His is a fascinating observation, and one that I a...

So, with school officially ending and with no summer programs in sight, I decided to challenge my middle child with the task of creating a s...

No. Enc.: 1d6 Alignment: Chaotic Movement: 90 Armor Class: 5 Hit Dice: 3 Attacks: 1 weapon + special Damage: by weapon type (1d6) Sav...

Halflings (Half-Dwarves) Requirements: DEX 9, CON 9 Prime Requisite: STR and DEX Hit Dice: d6 Maximum Level: 12 Hill Dwarves (sometim...

So, over at B/X Blackrazor, JB has an excellent post on Gnomes , doing an historical dive into the origins of the race in search of why they...

Resurrection Day! O peoples, let us brilliantly shine! Pascha, the Lord's Pascha! For Christ our God has out of death passed us over ...

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...