Blood of Prokopius

As someone who tries to practice what he preaches , I have started working on making The World of Greyhawk into a sandbox campaign that I w...

Dear WotC, Since you have felt the need to apologize for ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice that may or may not exist within your legacy...

It seems that my last post has caused some confusion. There are those that don’t quite grasp why I take issue with the weak and subjective l...

As someone who originally went to school to become an historian, I have learned over the years that human nature is the same no matter the l...

The next step in creating the Town for the Gygax 75 Challenge are the NPCs. Otus suggests five (which nicely fits into a Wu Xing diagram ) w...

The next task in creating the Town for the Gygax 75 Challenge is to do each of the following: A political faction and its rival The plac...

So, I ended up going to the trouble of making three Name Generators. The first is based on Irish names, the second on Welsh names, and the t...

When detailing the Town for the Gygax 75 Challenge, Otus suggests by starting with the equipment list. With it, various locals can be intuit...

Week 4 of the Gygax 75 Challenge is dedicated to creating a Town. We finally come to a part of the process in creating a campaign that I per...

In a continuation of Week Three of the Challenge, the next step on the list is placing monsters. Otus suggests 11 (probably to make coming u...

Otus quotes Gygax as an introduction to the third week of this challenge, saying that it “is very difficult and time consuming.” Which is wh...

Week two of the Gygagx 75 Challenge focuses on The Surrounding Area — the terrain around the beginning settlement and the dungeon. Otus poin...

In his Introduction to The Gygax 75 Challenge , Ray Otus very specifically warns me: If you are an inveterate tinkerer and are trying to r...

Given my recent focus on practical examples on how to home-brew things for D&D, I would remiss if I didn't mention The Gygax 75 Chal...

I was recently asked by an old buddy of mine to look at how D&D stats up humans as monsters to see what that said about the game and by ...

So, one of the comments on my post on How I Homebrew a Dungeon , I was asked If I could do the same for a dungeon for characters 6-9th level...

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...