Blood of Prokopius

Strap in folks, this is a long one, but one that I am rather excited about. I hope you find it as useful as I have found it to be fun to wor...

One of my favorite published megadungeons is Rappan Athuk published by Necromancer/Frog God Games. With all of its various entrances it is ...

Probably my all-time favorite illustration of a goblin The most iconic adversaries for a party of adventurers exploring the first levels of ...

The name Asmodeus does not appear in the NT or in the Masoretic text of the OT; however, it does show up in the Septuagint OT in the Book o...

As you might recall from my last post , the name Baal is a generic title for a local pagan god which can be translated as “lord.” This name...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

 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 ...

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

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...

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...