So, I am writing my new book, but it’s a little different from previous books. This one still has main characters and a main story, but I’m writing the book as a collection of short stories so you get to experience the plot from about 20 different points of view, and we explore some of […]
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Dungeon Age short story: “Outlaw”
(This is story #5. Previous: “Paladin“.) He waited until the wizard was alone. The woman might have been his first choice, but then he saw her eyes. There was something dangerous about her. He couldn’t say what exactly, just that it put him off wanting to be alone with her. And he didn’t want to […]
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Dungeon Age short story: “Paladin”
(This is story #4. Previous: “Ghost“. Next: “Outlaw“.) “We’re all gonna die!” Amos grabbed the young soldier and hauled him back toward the flickering torch. “No, we’re not. Now run, for Gideon’s sake!” The soldier scrambled back up the steep rocky tunnel, his bloodied sword clanging dully against the walls as he stumbled and gasped. […]
Having conquered his upstart cousin and acquired the soul-devouring sword Stormbringer, young emperor Elric sets out to explore the world to learn wisdom and justice so he can transform his people from amoral decadents into virtuous paragons. But his journey does not start out well. This is the second book in the linear progress of […]
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Dungeon Age short story: “Wizard”
(This is the first in the short story series. The next story is “Dusteater“.) “Do you have any idea who I am?!” Malachi teetered on the edge of the wall. Behind him, the desert floor spread out to the horizon some hundred feet below. In front of him, thirty blue-cloaked soldiers raised their spears and […]
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Dungeon Age short story: “Ghost”
(This is the third story in the series. Previous: “Dusteater“. Next: “Paladin“.) Jude floated above his skull. He always floated above his skull, unable to drift more than an arm’s length from the brown, spotted bone. Not that he had arms. Or bones. Coyotes made off with most of the big ones, and vultures took […]
Elric of Melnibone is often introduced and discussed in contrast to Conan the Cimmerian, so I will bow to that most noble tradition now. Robert E. Howard‘s Conan is an American fantasy hero of great strength and courage, powerful mirth and brooding, who wanders the world in search of adventure and fortune, critical of decadent […]
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Review: Koshchei the Deathless (Mignola)
I’ve always had a soft spot for eastern European folklore and mythology. I grew up on Norse and Greek myths, and later Egyptian and Celtic. But Slavic myths were harder to stumble upon (when I was young and you had to look in books at the library), so references to Baba Yaga and the original […]
Hey everyone, I have created an OSR version of my Dungeon Age adventure “Saving Saxham“. This basically means I removed all of the D&D Fifth Edition (5e) mechanics from the setting, monsters, and treasure, and created new creature stat blocks similar to those found in other OSR-friendly content. “Saving Saxham” is Pay What You Want […]
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Dungeon Age short story: “Dusteater”
(This is the second story in the series. Previous: “Wizard“. Next: “Ghost“.) “A wizard comes.” The rasping voice faded into the throbbing shadows as Damaris glided forward into the endless night. The soft vapors of creation churned around her ethereal limbs. She watched a pair of enormous blood-red tendrils undulate through the clouded void, far […]