Time to put the Blogging from A to Z Challenge to bed. First, I wrote last week that I didn't think I would do this again next year....

One of the rituals of growing up in California is the fourth grade mission project . Every fourth grader in California learns the history of...

The setting sun was casting its level rays across the steppe grass as the last of the beaters brought in their game on the back of pack hors...

Courtesy of Knight's Edge , an online retailer of medieval arms and trinkets: The xiphos is a sword that was used by the ancient Greek...

And I've noticed the same phenomenon in the A to Z Blogging Challenge, the blogs with the quirky titles tend to have the quirky content...

A furore normannorum libera nos domine.

I've mentioned my Flashing Blades campaign, Le Ballet de l'Acier - The Dance of Steel - a number of times in different posts, to h...

Rodriguez wished that he could have had a less ambition than to win a castle in the wars, for in those glades and among those oaks he felt t...

This week's guest illustrator is Howard Pyle, the dean of pirate painters.

A modest proposal to Wizards of the Coast: how about including a more diverse representation of ethnic background in your core product? You’...

When I decided I wanted to run a swashbuckling campaign, I went to a couple of gaming forums to ask for opinions on games . Once I settled...

7th Sea ? Yeah, it's like that.

I come to bury the chevalier de Saint-Sauvan , not to praise him. According to the designers the Mythic Game Master Emulator is intended ...

Once again , you are challenged to a duel. Roll 1D20 to determine the actual location where the duel takes place. 1. On a coral reef at l...

Roleplaying gamers have a sometimes contentious relationship with the rules of our games. The rules for a roleplaying game may only number...