I read some interesting stuff this week on magical belief in the early modern era. Specifically, magic used for protection from weapons, sur...

My recent trip to Alaska brought to mind this old post from 2011... An arctic of only (melting) ice is sort of boring, don’t you think? At l...

I keep thinking I'm going to stat these guys, but I haven't got around to it yet, so I figured it was time to share. I don't ...

The original version of this post appeared in 2014...   An email from a friend  on every Russian's favorite holiday destination (not ...

The original version of this post appeared in 2011... Following up on the weird South American jungle map I presented earlier, today we&#...

This post originally appeared in 2014. I think I will have to add a few more of these sorts of operators to the environs of Rivertown in the...

This post first appeared in 2013, but I felt like it was worth a rerun. Some interesting storys to inspire dungeoneering, perhaps in a moder...

The original version of this post appeared in December of 2013. The  Lokapannatti (an 11th-12th Century Pali cosmological text) tells...

This post first appeared just about 8 years ago. It's as pertinent to dungeon crawls as ever. Ooozes and slimes aren’t just the th...

This map is is by Harold Wilkins and found in his book Secret Cities in Old South America . All it needs is some of these locations written ...

Need a dungeon map for you next adventure? Just stock one of these cave national park maps. Here's Carlsbad Caverns: And Mammot...

Back in rpg blogging's Golden Age (well, the part of it I was there for). I wrote a series of posts about "real" (meaning s...

Ocean-going pirates and landlubber thieves are common rpg archetypes, but there's another group, less dear to the pop culture imaginatio...

Middle school World History really left out some crucial bits--like say, the robot building expertise of ancient Rome! The  Lokapannat...

Some reason G+ discussion last week got into resources for real world star maps for science fiction gaming. Not everyone will find this...

Frank Frazetta The old cliche says "truth is stranger than fiction." I don't know if any of the tales here are true, but h...

I keep thinking I'm going to stat these guys, but I haven't got around to it yet, so I figured it was time to share. I don't ...

He attacked women in the night in the streets of Victorian London, slashing them with knives or claws. He was said to be of hideous, inhu...

Real life has intruded on my blogging.  My current location is the home of Superfriends ' Hall of Justice--or at least its real world...

Giant birds show up pretty frequently in fantasy art. The phorusrhacos and diatryma represent the group in game products, and are joined ...