In the waning days of the Great Kingdom, folk who were faced with debts they could not pay or disagreements with the legal authorities that ...

Art by Mihai Radu The Overking was traditionally appointed by vote of the magnates ruling the constituent territories of the Aedi. One of th...

Under the enlightened rule of the Herzogin, Eliamund, South Province could reasonably boast to being the most cultured and genteel realm of ...

I've got more posts to come, but I figured it was a good time to put all the posts I've written so far together in one place: The pr...

Art by Keith Parkinson The barbarians swept out of the hills in a ravening horde, without warning, and stormed Venarium with such fury none ...

Tenh (the nh diagraph is pronounced as a voiced palatal nasal like the Spanish ñ ) as the heir to the proud culture of the Flannae. Its pe...

The area known as the Pale, as the name would suggest, once served as the border of Aerdy with the holdings of the Flan and the humanoid tri...

Nomism (not to be confused with Gnomism!) is the umbrella term for the doctrinally diverse and often competing churches of Law in the Flanae...

 Not for the first time, I've been thinking about the best presentation style for setting material. This time it was prompted by re-read...

 In thinking about Greyhawk for my recent posts, I've been inspired by Anna Meyer's great maps. Particularly her climate map which h...

Ket sits astride a major route of commerce between the Oeridian East and the Baklunish West. Its people are a mixture of those cultures, tho...

I've been listening to the audiobook of A Travel to the Middle Ages , and its description of what, by the late Middle Ages, is essential...

The origin of the so-called humanoids of eastern Oerik is something of a mystery. They first entered history as mercenaries and foederati of...

 My "Hidden Religions of D&D" posts got me thinking about a new way to view alignment in D&D, and that is not as personal ...

 Lately I've been thinking about how well some classic adventures might adapted to real world settings. By real world, I mean historical...

There are a lot of very reasonable criticisms regarding the Gygaxian Great Wheel of Outer Planes, though I also like a lot about it . I'...

The See of Medegia is a territory ostensibly within the Great Kingdom of Aerdy that is under direct sovereign rule of the Holy Censor of the...

This one isn't so much hidden, but hey, when you've got a series title, you gotta stick with it. Unlike with the  Church of Law  whi...

Over the past month, I've been reading some historical fantasy ( Between Two Fires  and His Black Tongue ), some straight historical stu...

I don't know Gary Gygax's preferences in regard to authors of fantasy fiction, but I feel pretty strongly that L. Sprague de Camp (1...