Timothy S. Brannan
One of the central design ideas behind Advanced Witches & Warlocks is something that, in retrospect, seems obvious to me.The Witch is not a Magic-User in a black dress. She is also not a Cleric with better eyeliner.I have joked about that distinction before, but there is a real design issue...
Timothy S. Brannan
With Advanced Witches & Warlocks, I have had in mind a certain goal: to give the witch traditions the weight of actual occult practice. I do not want it to be a matter of "this witch has fire, that one has healing." There is more to it than that; it is about how one comes to terms with magic...
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 picked up a new Forgotten Realms game over the past weekend. Sorta. It is actually the same game I have been playing in, just with some new characters. In reality, I am worried less about the setting or background and more about the playtest. I am using this game to try out some more ideas from...
Timothy S. Brannan
Candy and Denise, in trouble again.Jackson, IL is a place where 1980s horror rules apply.I just finished watching "In Search of Darkness" on Tubi, and it was wonderful. It is about 4 and a half hours long and covers movies from every year of the 1980s. There are some fantastic movies, wonderful...