Vera is a character I keep seeing differently with regard to the world she is in. Take Jackson, IL for instance. There you have Vera Rook ...

Strain is what happens before something breaks. In Jackson, IL, everyone is under some kind of strain. The students are trying to act norma...

Another Witchcraft Wednesday. Let's talk about my favorite witch.  In most versions of Larina, she has lost both of her parents. I have ...

Tact is not lying. That is worth remembering in Jackson, IL, where everyone is keeping secrets, everyone knows more than they are saying, an...

Jackson, IL is full of secrets . What small town doesn’t? There are the family, school, and church kind of secrets. The sort of things that ...

There is a certain kind of privilege in Jackson, IL and it comes with a name. Vale. Thompson. Morgan. These are old families, respected fam...

  Resolve is doing the thing anyway. Not because it is easy. Not because it is fun. Not because anyone is going to thank you for it. Someti...

Mercy is the hardest magic for a witch to learn. Any witch can curse. Any witch can hex. Any witch can call down fire, rot, silence, madnes...

Learning and dealing with occult magic is all about reach . It reaches across the veil, into dreams, through mirrors, down bloodlines, into ...

It is Witchcraft Wednesday, so let's make today witch-focused.  Every witch carries a burden. For some it is knowledge, either learned t...

Today we move over to Rowan's boyfriend, Andy. Anderson Thompson has Charm .  Not in the slick, silver-tongued way one usually associate...

Rowan Abigail McGowan has Poise . Not the finishing school kind. Far from it. Not the "walk with a book balanced on your head" kin...

 Stephanie Wren Vale is 5'5" tall. Not short, but not exactly physically imposing either.  Yet when Stephanie walks into a room, ev...

 Today's prompt is  Discipline . The daily discipline of writing mirrors the witch’s discipline of spellcraft, where one missed word can...

 I never met a blog challenge I could walk away from! And one of my favorites is back. Anthony Boyd of Casting Shadows and Dave Chapman of ...

What is reward , really? Is it gold? XP? Magic items? The thrill of leveling up and unlocking that next power, that new spell, that coveted ...

 Wow. Experience. What a loaded word. Are we talking about experience points? Game experience? Play experience? Player experience? Or what ...

Nothing in this game works without a connection. You can run the most finely crafted dungeon, write the most terrifying villain, drip suspen...

I love combat. I love magic duels, chaotic tavern brawls, dragons roaring from the sky while the players scramble for cover. There’s a thril...

Witchcraft Wednesday Edition Dungeons & Dragons, at its roots, is a game of tactics . It grew out of wargaming. Miniatures on a battlefi...