Tom Kilian

Album cover art for "The Toad Folk II," by Tales Under The Oak. Depicts a lantern-lit procession of toads in medieval dress towards a cave full of mystical turquois light.

My album cover art for The Toad Folk II by Tales Under The Oak

If you want to give it a listen, you can find the album on bandcamp at talesundertheoak.bandcamp.com/album/the-toad-folk-ii

Album cover art for "The Toad Folk II," by Tales Under The Oak. Depicts a lantern-lit procession of toads in medieval dress towards a cave full of mystical turquois light.

My album cover art for The Toad Folk II by Tales Under The Oak

If you want to give it a listen, you can find the album on bandcamp at talesundertheoak.bandcamp.com/album/the-toad-folk-ii

Delve 10 – Parlay?? A reduced party sets out for the Haunted Halls: Gimwort, Tansybell, Eldred, and Old Dolf. Sassaran has left on her journey with Taravol, and...

The solo game party hobnobs with orcs and their magic-user finally hits level 2

You can draw the line even if you’re just some asshole nobody‘s ever heard of. We’re all allowed to make moral judgements, you don’t have to cite an opinion poll first

I was reading and enjoying Douglas Adams at close to that same age and went on to spend my high school years trying to write dry authorial interjections in my English essays, so I think the problem with Lewis reminding me of his presence is that I just didn't think he was very good company.

A wizard in patterned robes and a seashell turban appears in a swirl of clouds, offering a magical feather.

A nearly featureless clay figure sits in a woven cage. A couple of platypus-squirrel hybrid creatures are investigating.

Heralds of otherworldly Powers, for Ben Laurence's zine "Through Ultan's Door #4"

"(I hope you know what I mean by a voice sounding pale)"

I've read several people besides you say that Narnia doesn't condescend to children. And in a way I agree, but also as a ~2nd grader I remember feeling strongly that the narrator was annoying for interrupting the story to talk to me as if I was a baby.

My milkweed brings the cocoons to the yard

I can believe it, because they let Mamoa do a little bit of Polynesian warrior-king stuff in SEE and the amount of passion he throws into it is almost jarring compared to the rest of the show.

If I’m being uncharitable I’d say that it’s because it was cut from the movies, but yeah I agree.

It reads like a deliberate contrast with all of the dung ages misery but for some reason nobody ever highlights this.

One of the things I find odd about how fans (and frequently Martin himself) describe ASoIaF is that it is also full of heightened glamor! The books are full of bright colors, gems, fabrics, smells, banners, heraldry, impossible castles, people fighting in bedazzled parade armor

I think it’s funny that nobody ever brings up Gimli and Galadriel, considering it actually happens on the page and of the chaste courtly romances theirs gets all of the good lines.

China Mieville, you’re on notice

“even I need something to work on. I cannot burn snow. But I could turn Legolas into a flaming torch, if that will serve: he would burn brightly while he lasted”

In one of the drafts while the fellowship is arguing about the snow on Caradras Gandalf suggests lighting Legolas on fire

That's very gratifying, thank you! It's funny and flattering that people are following along.

If it helps, I set this up to be as quick-start, no-thoughts as possible: an ok module, computer paper, and OSE open on my web browser. If I plan an RPG game too much it tends to never actually happen.

Warmup toad drawings while trying to solve some problems for a new assignment

This actually makes it sound fancier than it is, I got most of this stuff from reading fiction

Trigg really should've gotten her a wedding gift (which would become her property even if they separate) but he spent all his GP on the feast and their farmhouse so he's broke again. Life is a gamble as an adventurer's wife!

Wedding bands have not caught on amongst the commoners at this time.

The Forgotten Realms seems like a pretty sexually liberated place so the first year probably counts as a trial marriage wherein either member of the couple can easily have it annulled. After that Emelda has fewer options but she gets to keep the contents of her wedding chest no matter what.

Downtime in Eveningstar 9C – The Wedding! Hooray! The big day finally arrives! Trigg and Emelda, wearing crowns of wildflowers, meet outside of the abbey. The Abbot comes out to gree...

There was a long gap between writing and posting but I think the wedding described here is a muddle of Swedish, Polish, English, Irish, and West Asian customs.

Downtime in Eveningstar 9B – Tale of the Black Sword Week 2: July 11–17 The Inlows need some time to arrange the upcoming wedding. Trigg, Gimwort, and Emelda’s brothers Errol and Garlan spend t...

Darkness brews while our PCs busy themselves with wedding preparations

Downtime in Eveningstar 9A – The Return of Eldred the Enchanter He's back! And he still only has 2 HP!   Week 1: July 3–10 The victorious party returns to Eveningstar. Trigg brings the shattered fragments...

If anybody missed my solo D&D game reports, they're back! I lost some steam after hitting what felt like a decisive end of a chapter that resulted in a downtime session with so much bookkeeping that I had to split it into three posts!

Read on for a resurrection, a curse, a wedding, and a departure

He won the democratic primary.

No I get it, I was nervous initially as well

The only long-term consequence I’ve seen is they might add you to their quarterly email list. Other than that I’ve gotten one snide email and a bunch of form-letter responses.

I think it‘d be good to signal that “vote blue no matter who” cuts both ways, but I don’t think Jeffries or Schumer believe that it should.

Afterwards they get chicken tenders from a food truck, because you have to do something.