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Monstrous Monday: Horned Women
The Horned Women of Celtic MythThe horned women, or horned witches, are magical hags of Irish myth and legend. They pester newly married young women or new mothers. They are also known to plague any...
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Going Wild for Wildemount
Wizards of the Coast just announced their next book for Dungeons & Dragons 5e and it has some sections of the fandom wailing in lamentations, but the vast majority excited about it.Explorer's Guide...
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Updating Layout and War of the Witch Queens
I updated my layout a bit over the last few day here at the old Other Side.I updated my Books page, which I have not done since 2016 or so. Witch Links is getting updated more frequently now. I am...
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Old School Essentials: New Witch Spells
The hottest new property in OSR gaming is Old-School Essentials. Justifiably so too. It is a great reinterpretation of the Basic/Expert rules and it is a lot of fun. It is also on sale today as the...
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Marvel Movie Maddness
It is pretty well documented that I am a hardcore DC guy.But there are few Marvel comice I really enjoy, and all of them are getting new movies! Where to start?Ok, let's go with what might be some of...
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Weekend Gaming: Dungeons & Dragons & Dinners & Dramaturges
I have not done a weekend gaming post in forever, despite having a game or two going every weekend. If you follow me on Facebook or my personal Instagram page then one thing is pretty obvious. My...
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Class Struggles: The New* Basic Classes
2019 was the start of my Back to Basics theme here at the Other Side. I have covered a LOT of Basic-era/BX/BECMI/RC type products. It got me thinking. In addition to the the base four human classes...
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Classic Adventures Revisited: Palace of the Vampire Queen
In this new series of posts, I want to look back at some of my favorite classic adventures both from TSR and others. I'll give a review, though most everyone knows what is in these adventures by now,...
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Weekend Gaming: Wormholes and Chicken
Liam and Connor's 5e game is going on this weekend. They are going deeper into Curse of Strahd, but as typical the party made a left turn when they should have just kept going straight.While looking...
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Monstrous Monday: Bánánach for OSE
Working on all sorts of things, mostly getting my bits of Night Shift done and a TON of day job stuff.I wanted to get The Pagan Witch out to you all soon, and I still might, it is done, minus some...
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BlackStar: Kzinti
One of the races I really enjoyed back in the Pre-TNG days of Trek (Pre 1987) was the Kzinti. I was very familiar with the race from the Animated series and was aware, vaguely, of the "Man-Kzin Wars"...
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Greyhawk and D&D 5
The next D&D 5 book, Wildemount, is already breaking sales records for D&D and is well on it's way to being one of the most successful D&D books ever outside of a core rule book.Yet some...
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Kickstart Your Weekend: Swords, Wizards and Heroes
A couple of big Kickstarters today.First up a BIG one.Swords and Wizardry: Limited and Collectors Edition Box...
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BlackStar: The United Federation of "hold my beer, I got this"
Ok. Not *really* BlackStar related, but this is in the back of my mind the whole time I am thinking about BlackStar. This is always worth forwarding. Some of the comments are gold too.The United...
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Weekend Gaming: It's Always Sunny In Waterdeep
The kids had their games this weekend.Friday Liam has his group, The Dungeoneers that have been playing together for over 10 years. He ran a 5e game and had a blast.Saturday was the game with Connor's...
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Monstrous Monday: Lithobolia for OSE
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of DoubtSo. I missed my next deadline for the Pagan Witch for OSE. I was working on getting things...
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Classic Adventures Revisited: B1 In Search of the Unknown
I want to look back at some of my favorite classic adventures both from TSR and others. I'll give a review, though most everyone knows what is in these adventures by now, I'll also talk about how I...
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Marissia, Daughter of Zelligar, The "First Witch"
In my post yesterday I talked about my favorite adventure, B1 In Search Of The Unknown.One of the things that brought back memories for me was Cavern #43. It is blank in the adventure, but I added...
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BlackStar: The Ghost Station of Inverness Five
I am a Trekkie, and I have always preferred "Trekkie" over "Trekker" as well. No negative connotations for me, I embrace them.To that end, I am a fan of both "Axanar" and "Discovery" even if they are...
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Monstrous Monday: Green Martians for AS&SH
No gaming for me this past weekend. One game for Connor and two for Liam though, so I was left to my own devices. Those devices were going over my Mōdiphiüs Star Trek and John Carter of Mars RPGs....
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