So you want to make friends (or enemies) of the various peoples of the world but only have the length of spellcasting time to form those relationships? No problem! Welcome to the magic school of enchantment. For the sake of discussion and example, I’m using D&D 5e, but the thoughts are easily applied elsewhere. The… Read more Thoughts on Enchantment Magic
It was another day inside and on twitter. That day, I popped into a thread on magic in tabletop games and related mechanics with Dee Pennyway. After a pretty solid exchange of ideas, we decided to continue the convo via DM when this happened: I’ve read your blog posts and I like everything I’ve seen… Read more Love Letter from Memory
I’d heard about GenCon for a couple of years thanks to new friends made while being in and on streams. Lots of nerdery and good times to be had. Comics, board games, tabletop games, and good times with friends. It seemed cool and something that I might try in that ever distant “one day”, but… Read more My First GenCon
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This entry is going to be heavy in stream-of-consciousness writing. I will try as hard as I can to get keep this readable. The recent revelations of long-standing issues and their impact at Wizards have left us all a bit of a wreck. Partly because we treat companies like people but also because of nostalgia… Read more A Word on WotC
I was reading this thread the last night and among the things that stuck out for me was this particular point: I started to think about an answer to this question and the first thing I ran into was this thing I already wrote about accountability. In some of my calls for accountability, I’ve been… Read more On Things Redemption Looks Like
First, let’s have a definition so we’re all on the same page. Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. For example, chromesthesia (sound to color). From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia Hello. It’s me. I can do that. It’s nifty. Simple… Read more Narrative Concept: Synesthesia
As pride month ends, I’m copying this from my secret stash and posting it here. I hope these words are helpful and healing. I hope they lead to good questions. I hope you find courage here. * * * I feel like this comes up a lot for me; in many cases, I have a… Read more The Power of Language: Sexuality
This post contains mentions of sexual harassment. A while back, almost two years ago, I wrote about a situation that involved sexual harassment. At that time, the end was uncertainty. Not knowing how to move forward and be helpful. I’ve learned since then and I want to pass that knowledge to you. What I learned… Read more Teach Me How To Ally: Lessons on Listening
With all of the discourse around trying to pick a system – D&D or otherwise – to tell a particular story, I’ll take a story I’ve worked on refining for the last three years. The story of Of Hand and Heart (OHAH). I’ve chronicled different things about the story and the journey it’s been here,… Read more Story Concept: Emerging Heroes OR Deconstructing OHAH
