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Musings on Religion & RPGs

Friday, March 26, 2021

Why Star Wars, etc. Now S*cks

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I was one of those kids who saw Star Wars (before it was dubbed A New Hope) in the theater. I was doomed to be a sci-fi/fantasy fan for the ...
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Thursday, December 31, 2020

Half-Ogre/Ogre Race-as-Class for B/X

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In a wonderfully weird way to end 2020, this post exists because the cleric in my solo campaign just got polymorphed into an ogre when setti...
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Friday, December 25, 2020

Christ is Born!

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Notice that the Christ child is wrapped in burial clothes and lying in a tomb underground  I wanted to take a moment on this strange and lon...
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Thursday, December 10, 2020

TLoS: The Fighter

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One of my goals in this little experiment is to demonstrate that at its core, 5e is just a bunch of mechanics. The reason this is important ...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

5e & 4+3 Campaign Notes: The Land of Songs

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 My eldest requested that I do a write-up of one of the worlds suggested by my last post . I'll cover some of the foundational stuff in ...
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Saturday, December 5, 2020

5e & 4 + 3

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Last month, James over at Grognardia reflected on how the " 4+3 " structure of how B/X presents classes is simple, sturdy, flexibl...
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Saturday, October 24, 2020

R.I.P. Lenard Lakofka

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I just read over at Grognardia that Lenard Lakofka has passed away . James makes the observation that Lenard may be one of the most underap...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Holmes and AD&D Weapon vs Armor Class

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There is an interesting comment on this post over at Grognardia that points out that the 1e PH has a relatively simple set of rules for com...
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Friday, September 11, 2020

Towards a Holmesian Dungeon

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What follows is not anything particularly new. Many of these ideas have been present within the hobby and explored throughout the years I ha...
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Sunday, September 6, 2020

Saintly Saturday: The Miracle of Archangel Michael at Colossae

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…on Sunday  It has been quite awhile since I did a Saintly Saturday, where I look to the Feasts of various Saints as an inspiration for RPG ...
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The Monastery of St. Gaxyg-at-Urheim

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About ten years ago (has it really been that long?) I drew a map for James Maliszewski over at Grognardia . At the time, there was a bit of ...
Friday, August 28, 2020

5e Also Knows How to do Monsters

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In my last post, I admitted that I could not speak for 5e, due to my relative unfamiliarity with it, but made that case that monsters in MM1...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

D&D Does (Did) Know What Monsters Are

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Talysman, over at Nine and Thirty Kingdoms, has highlighted a post over at Throne of Salt which makes the claim that D&D doesn't k...
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Saturday, August 8, 2020

World Building with the Noahide Laws

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In my last post , B.W. Byers asked me if I had ever looked at the Noahide Laws as a model for a pre-historic law/religious system for a FRPG...
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Sunday, August 2, 2020

Revisiting World-Building and Clerics

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JB of BX Blackrazor has been interested in having religion being part of his RPG experience for a long time . As a consequence, our two blo...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

The Importance of Evil

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I think I agree about the ‘creation by evil’. But you are more free with the word ‘creation’ than I am. Treebeard does not say that the Dar...
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Friday, July 24, 2020

Orcs of My Greyhawk Campaign

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Given the fact that the etymology of the word orc includes such definitions as hell-devil , evil spirit , and underworld corpse (literally...
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Monday, July 20, 2020

Gazetteer for My Greyhawk Campaign

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Political Divisions Current Leader: His Majesty King Pepin I of the House of Rax, Altmeister of All Aerdi Major military and religio...
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