I love me an adventuring party fantasy. You are telling me you’ve got a crew of weirdos with unique skills who are all going to come together to save the world? Sign me up. I can’t wait to see all the extraordinary things they bring to the table as they save the world and bask…
Continue reading ➞ The Sword Defiant – Friendship Is The Sharpest Blade
For the last few years, I have spent a significant amount of my free time playing Dungeons and Dragons as a game master. As it eats into my writing and reading time significantly (though I still highly recommend it) I was searching for a way to turn my D&D experiences into content. Thus the idea…
This year, our cadre of Quill To Live writers decided to do individual posts in a “Media That Moved Us” series. The only rule: no books! We have plenty of those! Instead, we want to ruminate on the things we watched, played, and experienced that made an impact on us. When I thought about the…
Continue reading ➞ Media That Moved Me: Stories Within Stories
Die Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker, by Kieron Gillen, has a fairly simple premise. It’s about a gritty tabletop RPG that sucks its players into the game and refuses to release them until they win, die, or decide to leave as a group. The concept alone was enough for me to give the graphic novel a…
“I’m going to read the entire Dungeons and Dragons Player’s Handbook” turned out to be my greatest terrible idea yet. Or maybe it was a terrible great idea? I’m not entirely sure, mainly because I thoroughly enjoyed the 320-page deep dive into the world of DnD, but it also felt like trudging through a quagmire…
Continue reading ➞ Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook – Natural 20
