In the spring of 2014 Baen Books advertised a fiction contest. I wrote this one as a stand-alone, submitted it … and didn’t win. Bummer. It ended up on OSRtoday instead, while that site lasted. The elderly couple sat quietly in the corner of the tavern, their grandchildren chatting nearby about something interesting […]
I created the cave blinder after being inspired by a thread on Dragonsfoot. If I recall correctly, the author needed a low-level monster for an Underdark campaign, and this one flowed out of my word processor. The text for this pastiche flowed almost as easily, and this was published in Footprints. Jake was […]
Like the bone guardian, this was someone else’s creation – Nicole Massey. Nicole and I agreed I’d add the fiction, and the collaboration worked well. This is probably why I hit Andrew up to add to the bone guardian. “I have never heard of orcs eating their own dead,” David interjected. Hal pounded […]
Andrew Hamilton had the bone guardian ready for publishing for Issue 2 of & Magazine. I thought it needed more, so I wrote this to give it more flavor. I’m not sure he was really in favor of my addition, but he didn’t say “no” so it’s part of “and”. “And that is […]
These short stories are pastiches I wrote, mostly published in & Magazine and similar Dungeons & Dragons-themed free magazines. The first one written – Gree-Kin – was written about the grandparents of one of my children’s AD&D characters. I wrote the pastiche as a way of making Marissa and Trajan come alive, and as a […]
This was the second pastiche written, to accompany the bereaver article published in & Magazine Issue 5, Ecology of the Bereaver. I’m still not sure why I ended it the way I did. Gree-Kin was the beginning of the trio, this was the end. Everything written after this fills in the details. The writeup of […]
Kevin invented this one — it proved deadly for lower level parties, especially when the spore spitter kept making spores faster than we could kill them. This monster was originally published in & Magazine, Issue 8, and the short fiction that was published along with this description is here. Spore Spitter Frequency very […]
My first campaign as DM had a number of experienced players. This was a first attempt at shaking up the experienced players by providing encounters for which they could not be prepared. While we never used all the types listed here, the Gem spore was entertaining, as was the Invisibility spore. Gas Spores Frequency […]