Blood of Prokopius

As long-time readers of this blog know, I have more than a passing knowledge of GW’s Warhammer 40k universe . Those same readers are also aw...

  Glorify Him! Merry Christmas! I know I haven't been active around here lately. In the past that has usually coincided with some kind o...

As I have perused the OSR corner of the internet over the years, there seems to have been a significant number of folks who owned some versi...

James over at Grognardia reminded me that I missed HPL’s birthday , so I was inspired to go to our local library to borrow the recently publ...

Over ten years ago, James over at Grognardia posited the idea that high ability scores ought to have drawbacks and low ability scores should...

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 ...