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...

Going back to the Greyhawk Folio has made me realize how it differs from modern setting material and perhaps why I bounced off of it when I...

Rel Astra is one of the major port cities of the Great Kingdom. It is an old city of the Aerdy, the original seat of the early Aerdian Churc...

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) describes Howard's Hyborian Age and similar imagined worlds as "fantasylands" in contrast ...

by Anna Meyer The Iron League was a separatist alliance formed in 447 CY for mutual defense against the Great Kingdom. While the members mad...

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

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...