Most people in the English-speaking word, I wager, would be completely unfamiliar with the name Ebeneezer if it were not for Charles Dicken...

Schemas of history are not unique to religion.  For example, one popular schema divides history according to whether the years in question ...

From blood yesterday, we move rather naturally to covenant today.  We use the term covenant to refer to a solemn agreement.  In the times of...

For the life of the flesh is in the blood : and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the bl...

A : A lbertus, A grippa, [Avatar] I noticed that these two medieval men, one a scholarly saint and the other a wandering magician, have som...

This year will be my second year in a row to participate in the A-Z blogging challenge.  I'm back in town and I have made it through som...

 The last half of the month got pretty hectic, as you can tell from my missing my regular feature the last couple of weeks.  Besides an incr...

The Family that roles together left to right: Zordlan Elf Fighter, Minerva Elf Rogue (Mersiel modified), Rogar Dwarven Cleric of Gorum  (Ez...

Last week , I blogged about the tendency of gnomes to get swallowed up by the other demi-human races and to fail to achieve a strong and dis...

I entered the cinema with hope, in spite of the fact that I had been fearful for weeks.  I discovered John Carter of Mars as an eighteen-ye...

I WAS A 44-YEAR-OLD CON VIRGIN My involvement with roleplaying games began on the cusp of the Eighties. While in seventh grade, I was sh...

From the original Deities & Demigods to The Path of the Eclipse to Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom to Death in Delhi , the im...

In the past, I have alluded to the fact that I continue tinkering with rules to produce my own version of the ideal OSFRPG, drawing mostly o...

The Gnomish Identity Crisis in Fantasy Role-Playing Games Ever since I first ran into gnomes, they've seemed to be a fantasy race look...

Ben Kingsley as the Clockwork Gnome? I'm probably behind everyone else, but I finally saw Hugo today (for IMDb, see here ). It deserve...