Trans Awareness Week, One Year After Coming Out

So this is a departure from the usual content on the blog. In honor of Trans Awareness Week (November 13th - 19th), I wanted to write up a quick look at the last year since coming out in later October 2020. A helluva lot has happened, good and bad, and I can safely say that …

Dungeon Cookbook: Fighter’s Special Chili

When you've been adventuring for as long as I have, you get pretty good at what you do. I'm handy with a sword, I can start a fire near anywhere rain or shine, and I can butcher almost any creature if it has a corporeal body. Most importantly I know how to improvise, a skill …

Adventurer For Hire: Will Work For Coin

A fellow adventurer recently said “By the deeds of the pen, a sword is earned.” Thanks to a job I recently wrapped up, I’ve got some spending money on hand. Enough to finally buy a sword, something I’ve always longed for. But this girl wants more than a sword - this girl has bills to …

Dungeon Cookbook: Cockatrice Egg Omelette

Oh, the cockatrice. A hybrid between a snake and a chicken with the temperament of an angry goose. Domestic specimens rarely get larger than a turkey, but some wild cockatrice can grow up to 5 feet tall. Like geese, they have beaks with teeth - teeth that can cut through steel - and a preternatural …

Dungeon Cookbook: Fondue, Charcuterie & Cocktails

You may be confused at the thought of having fondue and a charcuterie board in the depths of a twisting dungeon filled with deadly traps and monsters. Who has the time and supplies for that? Why bother when something could jump out and interrupt your meal with fangs and claws and acid spray? My answer …

Blog Update: Death Of A PC & Setting Up Shop

Howdy readers! It’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted, but for good reason: I’m currently working with a group of trans and gender non-conforming folks in my area to open up a cafe and community space! It’s called Cafe Euphoria, and you can find more info here: https://www.cafeeuphoria.org/. We are accepting donations through a …

Dungeon Cookbook: Pantry Killer Stew

I picked up this recipe - if you can call it that - from a seasoned mercenary up north, who was working part-time as a cook to save up for some armor repairs. He was an interesting fellow: rail thin human with hair like the smoke from his clove cigarettes. He used to work in …

Lamentations of the Warlord: A Look At Martial Support Classes

My first ever D&D character was a sexagenarian human warlord for 4e who helped save his home town from a war band of goblins. He led the defenders and rallied a charge against the goblin chief's entourage, barely surviving the attack. While the town survived, his home was destroyed, and so he set off on …

Keep Dungeons Weird!

You know that Dungeons & Dragons is weird, right? Think about it: You've got massive underground complexes designed to funnel adventurers through fights with monsters that exist because "a wizard did it" to find some gold and gain experience. The denizens of the dungeon ecosystem are strange and alien to the surface world, and they …

Dungeon Cookbook Special: Fortle Carrot Giardiniera & Jockey Sandwich

This recipe is a shoutout to Sam Mameli, the artist behind Better Legends and a member of the Indoor Playground. In honor of his ongoing Fortle quest, I decided to whip up this recipe. If you don't know who he is or what a fortle is, check out his site here: https://betterlegends.com/ For the illustrious …