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

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...

I've recently been listening to the audiobook of 2 4 Hours in Ancient China: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Yijie Z...

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...

That's how our Land of Azurth 5e game last Sunday ended up, but it started with a dragon. Or drake, more precisely. The party was lookin...

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

The above illustration by Enrique Alcatena, Argentine comic book artist extraordinaire, inspired me to create a group of deities.  Werdagda ...

 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 long been a bit of the Hârn rpg setting, but recently a I decided to look at the latest iteration of the  HârnMaster rpg system,  H...

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...

Our Land of Azurth 5e campaign continued last night with the party summoned to a counsel of the three rulers: Viola of Yanth, Desira of Viri...

Constructed languages, at least for naming, are a big part of fantasy literature. Evocative coinings like Minas Tirith, Lankhmar, Aes Sedai,...

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

The original version of this post appeared in December of 2010. I've updated it with some newer thoughts... We’re all familiar with th...