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A list of everything I've published under Wizard's Wood Press, and where to find it, in a sticky posting.
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snow, snow, snow, snow, snow
Jan. 16th, 2019 10:56 pmand more snow!
Not me, not yet, though Friday may be interesting, and the weekend worse. No, what is happening is that I concluded some events will take place during winter.
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Not me, not yet, though Friday may be interesting, and the weekend worse. No, what is happening is that I concluded some events will take place during winter.
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time for the spell list
Jan. 13th, 2019 09:42 pmSent the party into danger. Had the heroine thinking about how she has no useful spells for the combat she thinks they are about to face. . . .
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I'd Rather Be Reading
Jan. 13th, 2019 09:10 pmI'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel
About reading itself, not the contents of the books. Like, the effect of living by a library; staying up too late; what book turned you into the voracious reader; the perils of recommending books, and more.
About reading itself, not the contents of the books. Like, the effect of living by a library; staying up too late; what book turned you into the voracious reader; the perils of recommending books, and more.
Gamelit and humans vs. non-humans
Jan. 12th, 2019 11:59 pmHappened on a discussion of D&D and why on earth are humans powerful and dominant when they are so much shorter-lived and so can't be so powerful, having less time to grow in power in their lives.
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Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook by Daniel Ogden
A heavy book. It includes hundreds of translated passages from ancient sources about magic. They range all over.
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A heavy book. It includes hundreds of translated passages from ancient sources about magic. They range all over.
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The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey
Jan. 12th, 2019 10:51 pmThe Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey by Peter S. Beagle
The original draft. Interesting for people who want to see how things can change. It's a dragon that tells her she's the last in the world, at that, and her interactions with the butterfly seem to convey more. (Hard to tell, it's incomplete.)
I think the plot and characters did not jell as well, partly because some elements in incongruous. But it has charming moments that had to go
The original draft. Interesting for people who want to see how things can change. It's a dragon that tells her she's the last in the world, at that, and her interactions with the butterfly seem to convey more. (Hard to tell, it's incomplete.)
I think the plot and characters did not jell as well, partly because some elements in incongruous. But it has charming moments that had to go
pondering sorcerers and blood
Jan. 12th, 2019 06:56 pmLooking at rolling my own sorcerer bloodline type for GameLit. Third time I've done, because it's the third time I've had an idea with a major sorcerer character. . . .
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orchestrating characters in GameLit
Jan. 10th, 2019 11:55 pmIn one thing, the novelist must be bound by the rules of writing and not by the rules of the game. Whatever homebrew rules he has to declare in effect for it.
Familiars? Animal companions? Intelligent swords?
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Familiars? Animal companions? Intelligent swords?
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family -- or not
Jan. 9th, 2019 11:22 pmAh, ideas. It's all very well to throw as many as possible into a tale, but sometimes they don't stick together. I was thinking at one point that the heroine would mention that she doesn't think that a crime lord is her father. To which the hero would say with some surprise that of course she isn't, he remembers when her father sold her to the crime lord.
The idea evolved. That crime lord became a woman -- fine, we can flip to mother -- and then a lion-folk. . . .
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The idea evolved. That crime lord became a woman -- fine, we can flip to mother -- and then a lion-folk. . . .
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crime lords and class
Jan. 6th, 2019 08:43 pmSo, if a D&D/Pathfinder game, or a GameLit novel, has a crime lord, what class should that character be? Hmmmmm. . . . hmmmmm. . . .
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magic weapons
Jan. 5th, 2019 10:09 pmShould I give the main characters magical weapons? They're high level, on one hand; on the other hand, they have other magical objects; on the third hand, they had a good opportunity to provide themselves with them in the origin story. . . .
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Siege Tactics
Jan. 5th, 2019 09:45 pmSiege Tactics by Drew Hayes
Book 4 of Spells, Swords, & Stealth and not really a stand-alone. Spoilers for earlier volumes ahead.
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Book 4 of Spells, Swords, & Stealth and not really a stand-alone. Spoilers for earlier volumes ahead.
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emerging characters
Jan. 4th, 2019 09:18 pmPoking at the Gamelit story -- knew we had a sorceress/rogue and a rogue. Let the other characters in the party emerge with the plot, so that they mold to what is needed by the story. . .
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rolling your own
Jan. 2nd, 2019 08:09 pmLooks like character generation is not done. As in, the spells that I can give the character do not cover what the characterization requires.
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