Listening to the History of the Germans podcast in episodes about the struggle for power between the Papacy and the Hofenstaufen Holy Roman ...

This weekend, in the spirit of Halloween, I plan to run a one shot (well, probably two shot before it's over with) of the Onyx Path game...

I've been thinking about this sort of material again, recently. The original version of this post appeared in 2021... It's well know...

Gray, misty Inaust on Whulggan Sound is a place few choose to visit except on the most important of errands. If by some strange fortune you ...

Art by Vsevolod Ivanov While I was vacationing in Alaska a couple of weeks ago, I got though idea for a campaign inspired by the Klondike an...

I've posted a lot of setting riffs on this blog over the years and others on various social media platforms. Most of these are just idea...

A little bit more about a couple of types of spellcasters in the Elden Urd setting  Elden Urd setting I have been working on. Clerics wiel...

 Here are some notes on the standard D&Dish races (focused on the "how our [x] are different," as you do) for a world I've...

During the Titan War, the gods empowered human worshippers to serve their cause, and in response, so did some of the titans. The techniques ...

In the aftermath of the Titan War, with the withdrawal of the gods left from the world, humans were able to seize divine knowledge and tools...

The home provinces of the Draconic Empire are ruled by noble houses with a chromatic dragon progenitor. While not all nobles are sorcerers,...

I think my group will finish up our current campaign in the Land of Azurth this year, and though with months to go some plenty of time to ch...

To its foes, the Draconic Empire is perhaps the greatest threat to the peace. Rapacious and destructive as the chromatic dragons that founde...

When Janus stopped being just an orbital mechanics curiosity and became a genuine anomaly by broadcasting a signal, a flurry of probes was ...

Thinking about Armageddon 2419 A.D. (Nowlan's 1928 novel that introduced the world to the character later known as Buck Rogers) while l...

There is no place in the Solar System that doesn't feel the hand of the Elvish Empire. They view themselves are benevolent civilizers, b...

My recent readings in science fiction and musings on Star Frontiers have given me an idea for a science fiction setting combining some tho...

  As the Republic spread throughout the galaxy, encompassing over a million worlds, the GREAT SENATE grew to such overwhelming proportions t...

Driving over the Thanksgiving holiday my family listened to the audiobook of  The Patchwork Girl of Oz,  and I was struck by how similar Bau...

The original version of this post appeared in 2015... One of the complaints against the standard D&D Planes is that, while conceptual...