In the Land of Azurth, the wizard Mondegreen is infamous among magical practitioners, not because he was powerful (though he was) nor for...

One of these days, I'm going to completely finish (and maybe publish) this series on the Great Wheel, but until then, here's everyth...

Watching Delicious in Dungeon and  Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (which are both great, so watch them), I've noted that both displa...

Over the years since its creation, the standard mode of D&D has become a subgenre of fantasy unto itself, codified now in the other rpgs...

Inspired by Vance mostly, people have considered spells as living entities. It was discussed in the Gplus days, and it shows up in Eric Diaz...

Over the weekend, I read this interesting blog series about how polytheism worked in the real world. Check it out.  Anyway, it got me think...

The original version of this post appeared in 2018.   A common reframe in the old school landscape is "Combat as War vs. Combat as S...

Everything Lawful, in one post! The Twin Paradises The Layers of Heaven ( part 1 ) ( part 2 ) ( part 3 ) ( part 4 ) Arcadia The Planes of Pu...

Arcadia was born from the schism between Absolute Order and the Archons which believed in transcendence, those who raised up the Heavenly M...

Back in Dragon Magazine #8 when Gygax presents the first diagram of the standard planes of D&D (which wasn't yet a "Great Whee...

The Archons of the Cosmos and their lesser progeny have the comfort (or curse) of an unshakable belief that there was something different b...

No one is quite certain how the Concordant Opposition came to be. It is quite possible that some soldiers of Law and some warriors of Chaos ...

There is a realm where the obdurate, crystalline structure of a Mechanus shatters and fragments, floating free into the void of half-formed ...

The Known World of Mystara is a Hyborian Age-esque fantasyland of often thinly disguised real world cultures from a variety of historical er...

I went with most of my gaming group to see Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves this past weekend. The short review is: we all enjoy...

  It is possible for the determined traveler who has been shown the hidden paths to walk from the Elysian Fields to another planar realm. T...

In wuxia fiction, the characters are members of the Wulin, the World of the Martial Arts or community of martial arts practitioners. This te...

Thinking about the 13th Age Icons this weekend, I think it would be fun to replace them with these guys. Really, it wouldn't take much...

This post originally appeared in 2017...   Seeing Alien: Covenant yesterday, which (no real spoilers) carries a theme from Prometheus ...

This post originally appeared almost 10 years ago to the day...   The element iron has a special status: it carries oxygen on our blood;...