Timothy S. Brannan
The Satanic Panic and the Secret Appeal of Forbidden BooksI am currently reading Manly Wade Wellman for my Witches of Appendix N. He has a lot of occult investigators and talks a lot about dangerous occult texts. There is a strange magic to being told a book is dangerous.Not real magic. Not the...
Timothy S. Brannan
Advanced Witches & Warlocks by Eugene Jaworski I have spent the better part of this week talking about my witch character, Larina. Mostly about where she has been and who she has been. Today I want to share the next Larina. A little bit like the cameo of the 12th Doctor in "Day of the Doctor."...
Timothy S. Brannan
The Witch Queen and the Girl in Homeroom: What I Learned from Forty Years of One Character I created Larina in July, 1986. That sentence feels simple enough, but it carries a lot of weight. It means she has been with me through six editions of D&D, most of high school, college games, new...
Timothy S. Brannan
I just watched the Season 4 finale of Critical Role's "Vox Machina" on Amazon Prime. Don't like Critical Role? Here's 50 cents; call someone who cares. I enjoyed the hell out of it. They set up their Big Bad for Season 5, The Whispered One. Or, as most of us who followed the stream, Vecna.Vecna is...