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This was another of my brother’s monsters from our first campaigns. I re-created it from memory and updated it according to my current prejudices. The Spore Spitter was published in & Magazine, Issue 8, and this short fiction was included in the article. The Spore Spitter description is here.     The woman found her […]

I’m not sure what inspired creating the Anyuri, but it’s a great foil for lower level parties in a high magic campaign.     Trajan sat in Jannalanga’s tavern in Kerr with his wife, both sipping mulled wine from heavy mugs that preserved the heat. Hal had finished a fantastic tale of how he survived […]

The characters in these pastiches are made up as single-use characters. While it’s possible I might re-use any of them at some point, I rather doubt it. When dreaming up this one I could not fit any of my existing characters into the framework I needed to explain how a Weapon of Change works. I […]

The Council of Rendelshod was composed of the characters from my original campaign, with my co-DM (my brother Kevin). While that campaign ended in 1986 (or so) the characters live on in my campaign world. Some of the characters – including Thorin, Meselda, Baldor, Susafras, Paprazzi, Edine, and Fay – are characters from the original […]

This scene took place on the walls of Vigerfast, where the Company helped defend the city against the pashehah, creatures of Elemental Chaos. As with the Chaos Gargoyle this version is edited down from the original campaign journal that describes the event.     David of Kerr took a deep breath and grounded his sword. […]

The Company from Kerr is the name the Eric and Patrick’s AD&D characters was called in the land of Shahrivar. Originally the group was Jake, David, Bisonbit, and the dwarven cleric Gilden. Later they were joined by David’s henchman Sam. After being killed one time too many, Sam retired before death became permanent. In his […]

I included a female oni as a prisoner in an adventure, held by evil giants. The idea was to see what Eric and Patrick would do with her. To my surprise they freed her and invited her to join them, and to my bigger surprise I rolled extremely well in the reaction roll. So Renki […]

On Dragonsfoot forums Stuart Marshall challenged others to re-write AD&D monsters for OSRIC. I took up the challenge. Then a few years later I wrote this pastiche for publishing in & Magazine.     Jannalanga, the Rathian owner of the tavern, asked Trajan a question as she handed him a mug of wine. “The other […]

As noted I the introduction, this was the first pastiche I wrote. The idea of Trajan and Etjar being childhood friends, and meeting up with Marissa on the road made sense. But they needed some shared trial to bond them. Being tracked for hundreds of miles by carnivorous monsters seemed like a good idea.   […]

My brother and I created dozens of variations on the original gas spores from AD&D. Nearly thirty years later I wrote this pastiche – because I felt the need to write another one and gas spores popped out at me when I perused my monster notebook.     Hal was in rare form and it […]