The Tao of D&D

This is not intended as a redress against A Paladin in Citadel, who wondered in a comment on my last post if books would give players “some ...

For a long time I had wanted to give books as treasure, but the foremost problem that occurs is the title and subject matter of the book.  T...

Before getting into the meat of the post, I feel I have to take a moment to clarify the difference between ‘writing’ and ‘alphabet’ as I und...

It comes that time to post the next segment of Civilization IV technologies, columns 5 through 8 of the whole tech tree from the game.   And...

On the left, I include the character sheet front page of one of my players, running a mage/thief.  I only chanced to see this a few days ag...

So now it's, quote, "Arneson's Game"?  What the fuck. I realize the man is dead now, and that there's a growing sent...

Rusty Battle Axe left me this query on the last post, and I finally have time to take a swing at it: ”I'm always struck how much easie...

It feels good to be running again, both on and off line.  Mostly for the reasons the gentle reader would expect, but also because it provide...

There is more iron in the world than every other kind of metal put together, by almost a factor of ten. Iron ore is wildly common, so common...

I have a small issue with this technology, as it is indivisible from ‘bronze working’ and ‘iron working’ – since it was learned early that m...