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This Old Dragon: Issue #74
It's June 1983. I had just turned 14 so I took about two dozen friends to the movie to see "Octopussy" in the theatres on my birthday (remember when I said I was a huge Bond fan?) and it was great....
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Kickstart Your Weekend: Aliens in Dungeons, Wizards and Warriors in the Mean...
Starfinder is the new hotness, but D&D 5 is still going strong. So it seems natural to have a product that can support both. So here is one of the first:Alien Bestiary for Starfinder and 5E...
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Monstrous Monday: Imp of the Perverse
"We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued, for immediate energy and action....
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Witch & Witchcraft Reading Challenge: Conjure Wife
"Women are witches. Fighting for their men. Tansy was a witch. She was guarding you. But you made her stop."Here I am with the last book required by the Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge for...
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This Old Dragon: Issue #156
It's April 1990. I am a Junior in University at this point and working on my very first psychology study (I compared incidents of violent imagery vs. sexual imagery in heavy metal and rap videos....
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Mona Dowie, In Memoriam
You may have already heard or read this by now, but artist and friend of the Other Side Mona Dowie lost her fight with cancer this week.Her husband +William Dowie informed everyone via Facebook that...
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Witch & Witchcraft Reading Challenge: Grimalkin the Witch Assassin
"I am Grimalkin, the Witch Assassin. I am the mother of Death. She follows behind me leaving bloody footprints in the grass."Also known as "Spook's: I Am Grimalkin" by Joseph Delaney.I decided to go...
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The Witches of the Last Apprentice: AS&SH 2nd Ed.
When I was reading the Last Apprentice books a couple years back I thought that they would work well with Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. The vaguely weird fantasy and...
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Class Struggles: AS&SH 2 Warlocks and Witch Lords
The new Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, 2nd Edition from +Jeff Talanian is out. It's going to take me a bit to go through it all. But so far I am enjoying the hell out of it.One...
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This Old Dragon: Issue #81
Today I set the Wayback Machine to my Freshman year in High School. I was just getting over an 18-week long bout with a brutal combination of chicken-pox and pneumonia, both for the second time. No...
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Kickstart Your Weekend: Adventures at End of the World Collection
Well according to the latest Doomsday theory tomorrow is the end of the World. Again.But hey don't let that stop you! There are some great Kickstarters to be had.Up first is another one from mad wizard...
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Nibiru: The Crossing Star
If you are reading this then you know we survived.Today is the day that some conspiracy theorists believe that the planet Nibriu will destroy the earth.Interestingly enough the Babylonian "star" of...
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The Witch's Tea Ritual
"You can find a witch just by figuring out who is drinking the most tea in the village." - Halfling sayingI read a lot of books on witches. An inordinate amount really. The one thing that has seemed...
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New Ritual: Reunification of Life
It's almost October and naturally, my thoughts turn to vampires.A while back, many years now, I had a player who played a ranger (back in 2nd ed). This ranger was later killed and turned into a...
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This Old Dragon: Issue #132
Dragon magazine for April 1988 is quite a memorable issue. First, it's an April Fools issue, and it's one I actually kinda liked. Secondly, I LOVE that cover. I mean, Elmore, Snarf. What's not to...
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Zatannurday: Sabrina the Teenage Witch Returns to TV
Sorta-kinda-Zatanna related.The CW is looking to bringing back Sabrina the Teenage...
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October Horror Movie Challenge: The Exorcist (1973)
Let's start this off right with a movie I consider one of the scariest ever made. 1973's The Exorcist.By today's standard, this movie is slow. In fact my son kept asking for when it was going to get...
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Rosaleen Norton: The Witch of Kings Cross at a 100
Rosaleen Norton would have been 100 years old today.She was an occultist, artist, nude model, bi-sexual, and self-proclaimed witch all in a time when women barely had the same civil rights as men.I...
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October Horror Movie Challenge: The Car (1977)
Ah. This little piece of cinematic trash made to it TV sometime in the late 70s. I am sure I recorded it back in the 80s at one point, and then transferred to another tape in the 90s. I WISH I had...
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October Horror Movie Challenge: The Shinning (1980)
This might not be the best Stephen King book made into a film, but it is certainly a great one. This is a Stanely Kubrick masterpiece of insanity, murder, and supernatural happenings that few movies...
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