Been on the mend for some time. Real life has been hitting me hard since October. Recently I have been sidelined with a stress fracture in my foot and some interesting projects at work.
Needles to say, work on Andras stopped. Om Magike was off to a good start and then POW! I’m laid off and really unable to concentrate.
Now that I am on the mend, just throwing out a useful suffix from Old English.
Raeden was a suffix meaning protector. For example, a Wyrmraeden would be a protector of dragons or serpents. That got me to thinking about sweartraeden, the defenders of the dark or The leohtraeden, the defenders of the (day)light. Aside for cool names for paladins or clerics, there,s other possibilities. I don’t remember the location, but there was a post about breaking up the schools of magic by color. You could have the Haewenraeden as the practitioners of blue magic (lit. Protectors of the Blue) and so on through the colors.
Hopefully, I’ll be back to work soon. Proud of some of the converted spells from d6.

Thoughts from Turkey Day
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I did. My wife outdid herself with all the wonderful food.
As far as gaming goes, I tend to be behind. I just discovered that Paizo is licensing a MMO game.
This is hardly news to anyone. Personally, I wish Paizo well. I hope folks really like it.
Seeing that this happens from time to time, I keep hoping that someone will license Labyrinth Lord or Swords and Wizardry into a MUD. I wish it would be as simple as downloading Pennmush and creating rooms. I imagine it would take a bit of programming to get the standard classes.
Still, it’s a frontier untouched by the OSR so far…
I still remember the unofficial MUD list circulated in college. Once I got XWindows running on my Amiga in my dorm room, I could rely on a bit of good gaming, especially during finals when the brain was fried.
I know that the OSR is more than just nostalgia. It’s just that the idea of an LL
MUDMUSH would be the ultimate in retro.Then again, maybe putting all the rules in an HTML Help file is the ultimate retro.
I promise to have something more useful next time.