Blood of Prokopius

Musings on Religion & RPGs

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Scripture and Deities & Demigods

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For many years now, I have pointed out that D&D's explicit rendering of the various gods of pagan pantheons into creatures and monst...
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Monday, June 21, 2021

Skylin (Dogfolk) Race-as-Class for BX

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Icon of St. Christopher with the head of a dog Skylin Prime Requisite: CON Requirements: DEX 9 Hit Dice: d8 Maximum Level: 12 It is ...
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Sunday, May 23, 2021

Orcs and the One and the Many

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Over on BX Blackrazor, JB is meditating on the D&D trope of killing gods . In the comments, I pointed out that the game has been giving ...
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Sunday, May 2, 2021

Christ is Risen!

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Though You went down into the tomb, O Immortal One, yet You brought down the dominion of Hades; and You rose as the victor, O Christ our Go...
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Friday, April 9, 2021

How to Write Strong Women Characters Pt. 2

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The Magnificat My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior. For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidser...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

How to Write Strong Women Characters

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Following my last post, I wanted to give a positive example of good storytelling using female characters, since the comment section included...
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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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