• A little while, I was watching a Sly Flourish video and he talked about making a little “Lessons Learned in Gaming” diary as a resource for future inspiration and a means of reflection. I did something like that with a little bit celebrating something about the session (and later discovered Stars and Wishes) and pondering Read more

  • Item – Mermaid Rainbow Chimes “It was not their sound but the way the light of the setting sun reflected off the iridescent scales that held my gaze. There I stood until the darkness restored my senses, but by then it was far too late …” Not all sirens sing. Glistening and polished, they shimmer Read more

  • Item – A wooden box of beetles, dry shells rattling. Mash them up, boil them up, serve them in a mug. The massive Dark Coast Beetle native to the DARK YUCATAN is much bigger than their European cousins, causing painful but non toxic welts when it bites. Properly harvested, they can serve as ingredients for Read more

  • “Sharp mothers with shadows in their eyes. Do not wrong the thorn brides or their children, sharp is their skin and furious are their songs. Daughters to the long ascended Erl Kings, they watch over those verdant groves of ancient forests and deep jungles, tiny fiefdoms that still survive the poisons of Men.” Dryads are Read more

  • “Tufts of hair still cling to the diseased skull of the thing clutching the carved lectern, foul words forming on withered lips, blind eyes scanning forbidden text, following fingers that probe the vellum pages for their secrets. A single harsh syllable escapes it’s throat, expanding to envelop the room with a fist of flame …” Read more

  • “A small piece of something larger, it’s form suggesting something grand. Now, it sits easily in your hand but there is a pull, calling to the greater whole. The compulsion to be reunited itches at the base of your skull, a thing forgotten but never known until now.” It doesn’t matter where you found it, Read more