100 Days of Halloween: 4e Witches
Yesterday I took a look at the World of the Witch for 4E. Today I want to re-reflect on the official witch from 4e in Heroes of the Feywild. I also want to go over the Heroes of Shadow. While there are...
View ArticleOctober Horror Movie Challenge: Prey (2022)
I have been wanting to see this one since it came out. Glad I got a chance to finally see it.Prey (2022)Naru (played by the amazing Amber Midthunder) is a Comanche woman who is trained as a healer but...
View Article100 Days of Halloween: Out of the Abyss
Sorry for the delay on this one. The perfect combination of a migraine and no internet all day conspired against me.I have spent time with all the previous editions of D&D, let's do 5th today. And...
View ArticleOctober Horror Movie Challenge: The Cursed (2021)
A surprise one tonight while browsing Hulu. A neat werewolf movie.The Cursed (2021)During the Battle of the Somme, a French captain is wounded. He is taken to the hospital tent and he had three bullets...
View ArticleIt's Halloween!
It's Halloween! I have a lot going on today, so let's get going.I am ending my Month of Halloween the same way I began, by guest starring on a podcast.On October 1 I appeared on Monster Movie Fun Time...
View ArticleMonstrous Mondays: D&D Undead
Wow. It is the last Monday of October and it is Halloween. If you think I have been saving something special for today then you would be correct. Today I want to talk about the Undead!Ghosts....
View Article100 Days of Halloween: Witch: Fated Souls Second Edition
Double shot today for my LAST #100DaysOfHalloween. Wow. It was nice and sunny and I was sitting on my patio when I wrote my first post in this series. Now it is cold, rainy, and gray outside. But this...
View ArticleOctober Horror Movie Challenge: Documentary Night
I do like to have at least one night of documentaries.Understanding the Witch Trials (2018)This was a good one. I found it on Kanopy and it is part of the Great Courses series. Not a lot of new data...
View ArticleHalloween Hangover 2022
Well, here we are at the end of another Halloween season. Let's look at some numbers.I had a total of 85 posts for October. Not my highest, but certainly a lot.I watched 48 horror movies, 37 of which...
View Article100 Days of Halloween and October Movie Challenge, Visual Guides
Today has been a day of collecting pages of notes, half-jotted ideas, and plans. What are those plans? Oh so many, enough that I am calling 2023 The Year of the Monster now. More on that later.But...
View ArticleThe Isles of Avalon
One of the reasons I do the long projects here like 100 Days of Halloween or BECMI Month or even shorter week-long deep dives into topics is to take a topic and explore it as deeply as I can. Some...
View ArticleMonstrous Monday: Year of the Monster and Mastodon
I am at a pivot point with my Monstrous Mondays.I have a bunch of projects I am desperate to get out because I am tired of them languishing on my hard drives and instead need to be on my, and hopefully...
View ArticleMail Call: Old-School Essentials Classic and Advanced
Been on an Old-School Essentials bender now for a while. It has pretty much taken over as my OSR game of choice. So I was quite pleased when my OSE boxed sets came in the mail this past week.They are...
View ArticleThe Witch Babylon: Daughter of Eros, Mother of Harlots
So back at the end of September, I guess we had, and missed, another end of the world. Yup. I was reading that September 25, 2022, was supposed to be the Rapture. There were a bunch of videos on TikTok...
View ArticleLarina Nichols for Amazing Adventures
I have some projects going on right now that I am trying to get organized for my big Christmas break this year. I am planning on burying myself in writing. So I am finding bits of text here, and some...
View ArticleKickstart Your Weekend: Indiegogo Edition
A couple of really fun ones on Indiegogo this week. Both of which you will see more of here.Amazing Adventures Multi-Genre RPGhttps://www.indiegogo.com/projects/amazing-adventures-multi-genre-rpg#/I...
View ArticleMonstrous Monday: Neh-thalggu (Brain Collector)
One of my favorite adventures is X2 Castle Amber. It covers so much of what I love in an adventure. Plus it is full of great Clark Ashton Smith homages and nods.Among these homages is the Neh-thalggu...
View ArticleMail Call: HYPERBOREA
Another Old-school mail call this week and this one is quite timely. I finally got my Hyperborea leatherette Players and Referee's Guides.If you have been here for any amount of time you know of my...
View ArticleIslands, Hyperborea, and Party Like it's 1979
Sort of an overview, sort of me doing more mental gymnastics. Note: This one got away from the original thesis, so I cut chunks out for another post later. I have been thinking about a few things this...
View ArticleFrigid Follow Friday
We are finally getting some proper cold weather here in Chicago! I am not going to complain about it. It's November, it's Chicago. I know what that means. It is also Friday and that means it is time...
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