I while ago I wrote a class about being an elves stuck between the worlds of the Sun and the Moon. This class assumed assumed the standard ...| whimsicalmountain.blogspot.com
The Faerie Morgana Thank you to Orbit, Redhook, and Oliver Wehner for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In this atmospheric and bewitching novel, Louisa Morgan reimagines the story of Morgan le Fay, one of the most enigmatic and powerful women […]| Leah's Books
A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances.| The MIT Press Reader
Author Keith Miller’s latest book is acclaimed by award-winning authors DARTFORD, KENT – 28 August 2025 – Elsewhen Press, an indie publisher specialising in speculative fiction, is delighted to ann…| Elsewhen Press
Q: How Could Dragons Consume Rings Of Power? ANSWER: This is one of those questions for which there is no direct citable answer. In May 2025 a reader asked: I suppose my question is simple. When Ga…| Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog
…The Thousand Son [Space Marine] intoned words of power and an ellipsis of light burned into the deck plate. The Prosperine hieroglyphics on his staff flared bright vermillion. Spinning the staff around, Mhotep drove the scimitar into it pommel first and it became a spear. — Battle for the Abyss, Chapter 7| Dojo Darelir, the School of Xenograg the Sorcerer
I’m with Ann Edall-Robson today, with a post about how the first month of The Secret Dragon being out in the world has gone. Please pop over and say hello.| Esther Chilton
“I don’t get no respect,” comedian Rodney Dangerfield once said and neither does Lady Vesper Quill. Vesper may be a newly-minted aristocrat and head of her own prosperous company because she saved a ruler and countless lives, but you wouldn’t know it based on the disgruntlement from several interested parties that do not wish her […]| Books of My Heart
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A two-person ‘Rengay’ By Dawn and David dmb- I wake to morning chorus birds celebrate the new dawn while I hide beneath covers db- once more, I crawl through tunnels of childhood’s blanket fortress dmb- into imaginary worlds fairies dance, animals talk reality slips away db- wardrobe dark dissolves into endless winter woods … a… Continue reading Take flight, or: A rengay→| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Top Ten Tuesday: Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump includes a great list of middle grade books for readers of all sorts!| Literacious
It seems a friend of mine collects four-leaf clovers.| Go To Hellman
Hello friends, happy Monday! I hope you are all well. Today I’m posting my review of book two in the Scholomance trilogy, The Last Graduate by: Namoi Novik.| Meghan's Whimsical Explorations & Reviews
Maud and her five-year-old half-vampire daughter, Helen, join Arland on his home planet of Daesyn, where he is the Lord Marshal and his mother, Lady Ilemina, is the Head of the House, The Preceptor. Arland has proposed, but Maud has put his offer on hold until she knows that she and Helen will fit in […]| Books of My Heart
If you are down on your luck because fate, that fickle B, has worked you into a corner and it looks like there is nowhere for you to go and nothing you can do, well you might just be a great candidate for a new kind of magical school. This is not the Hogwarts letter […]| Books of My Heart
Q: What Were The Spirits Of The Watchers Of Cirith Ungol? ANSWER: Although Tolkien fans have discussed the nature of the Watcher for decades, there has never been a definitive answer to this questi…| Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog
My…tutelage with the mist began, in earnest, only after I loosened my soul and softened my piercing gaze. Until then my eyes did not allow me to see the magic of life around me. In time, however, I slowly came to understand that when approaching nature and spirit, one must enter these realms with a […]| Dojo Darelir, the School of Xenograg the Sorcerer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 12, 2024 MEDIA CONTACT: SF Public Defender’s Office | PDR-MediaRelations@sfgov.org **PRESS RELEASE** S.F. Public Defender’s MAGIC Programs Celebrate 20 Years of Service to Youth & Families […]| San Francisco Public Defender's Office
14. Heart Of The Beast: Cast this spell on a slain monster’s heart (or reasonably equivalent organ or portion), then consume it. At any time, you may take the devoured creature’s shape, once, for 10 minutes. You will retain some physical mark of this transformation afterwards.| Trollsmyth
Magic, politics, drugs, comics, and music: Arthur magazine mixed them all together and set the result to newsprint.| The Beat
Toss out the technobabble and do this instead.| Mythcreants
Why should wizards cast fireballs when they can use machine guns instead?| Mythcreants
To bring back the magic, today's necromancers need fresh ideas and great execution.| Mythcreants
“How strange,” murmured Riya, eyes still fixed on the pages in front of her. “What’s your fairy godmother up to now?” Sana asked from the other end of the room, not bothering to look up from her book. Her voice carried the usual teasing tone, playful but familiar. Riya smiled faintly. “Nothing. I was just … More Nothing Strange| Void Thoughts
Image credit: WordPress Free Media Library Wandering Among Words 7: Gramarye If, as Alice Hoffman is everywhere quoted, “Books may well be the only true magic,” then she is only followi…| Calmgrove
Take learning about the Tooth Fairy to the next level with these fun and helpful facts and tips. We have a free activity to try, too!| Homeschooling Preschool
Lately, I’ve returned to a series I haven’t touched in years so I have been delighted to participate in Series on Sunday which helped get me properly motivated. The Dragons Saga, a Young Adult fantasy series caught my attention back in 2012. I read the first two books when they released and […]| Books of My Heart
Maggie Stiefvater has been one of my go to authors for great stories since I first listened to The Scorpio Races over a decade ago. She was one of the few YA writers I stuck with after moving on from most YA. The Listeners is her first shot at an adult novel and while much […]| Books of My Heart
A company lab tech knows something she shouldn’t about the crash of the company’s new prototype ship and this lands her a one-way ticket into a war zone between the Regals and Tech-wavers and a conspiracy that leads straight to the throne. Jennifer Estep is a long-time established author of urban fantasy, fantasy, and sci-fi […]| Books of My Heart
Art by Lindsey Crummet| Tales of the Lunar Lands
There is so much about magic that is similar to writing – the timing, the paring down to create suspense, the need to dig deep in order to create a meaningful effect. Not that I make any clai…| The Heart of the Matter
A great, immersive read that will leave readers anxious to see what happens next.| Teen Librarian Toolbox
This post describes the thinking and feeling behind our new zine Plural Tarot (and Plural Tarot Companion). It takes the form of an interview between the self who created it – Fox – and another self – Ara. If you haven’t read one of our plural blog-posts before and aren’t sure who these people are, […]| Rewriting The Rules
Psychology of Cults, Golden Dawn, Magick| www.cultnews101.com
Magic: The Gathering takes the spell name system from Final Fantasy and turns it into a new mechanic that fits perfectly with the existing colour identities of the card game. You may not know... Der Beitrag How Magic: The Gathering Perfectly Adapts Final Fantasy’s Spells erschien zuerst auf Language at Play.| Language at Play
Issue 48 of my Dungeons and Dragons zine, d12 Monthly, is out! This is the second of a 3-part series on treasure. Don’t miss Issue 47 (Treasure & Loot), and Issue 49 (Beyond All That Glitters) – the latter due in July 2025. Issue 48 is the Treasure & Loot issue. It features articles on: … Continue reading "d12 Monthly – Issue 48 – Magical Treasure" The post d12 Monthly – Issue 48 – Magical Treasure appeared first on YUM/DM.| YUM/DM
Material components for spells in D&D are annoying, but the idea is a flavorful one. A wizard throwing a handful of magical powder into a spell feels right. Unfortunately a lot of attempts to fix this are more complicated than I’d like.| The End Of All Things
Wizard| The End Of All Things
"I bin trawlin' these waters since I was a wee little scamp, even younger than you, ya grimy landlubber. I thought that nothin' could shock ...| anxiousmimic.blogspot.com
Whales are weird | Anxious Mimic
About Duryan the Gardener | Homebrew Homunculus
A strange mummy wanders the sandy wastes, not bound to a tomb | Homebrew Homunculus
Go to part 1. We continue on the track started by Jackson Malloy's post about hybrid classes at Sword and Scoundrel. This is a separate post because it's a bit more out there than the first, and is hungrily eyeing a couple sacred cows.| Homebrew Homunculus
Check out my book review of Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston to see what she thought of this romance book with magical reaslism between a songwriter and rock star.| She Reads Romance Books
"Cosmic Tree (Pochote)" by Jesús Lozano Paredes| 1999 A.D.
The secret to making me love your story is to tell me just less than I want to know. As the writer, you of course are welcome to know all that stuff. But don't tell me all those details, keep me wanting, keep me looking for everything. Make me want it so bad I start making up my own stories.| the Little Red Reviewer
Originally intended to be GLOGTOBER content, but that ship has long since sailed, ho-hum.| Craggenloch Tribune
The common man has infinite options available to them, and like the diffuse rays of the sun their will presses itself only lightly upon the World. The true master prunes his will, aligns and collimates it, as a lens focuses light into a narrow point - and the World burns beneath it.| Craggenloch Tribune
Why not just take one spell from DCC and turn it into a whole GLOG wizard? Yeah, lets do that.| Craggenloch Tribune
Over the past few weeks I've been running Greg Gillespie's Dwarrowdeep for two separate groups, one online and one in-person. The guts of the system we've been employing is Basic Fantasy, precisely because it is so basic that it provides an excellent framework for me to hang a bunch of ideas off. Also because as a Brit of a certain age it reminds me a lot of Kwik Save's No Frills own-brand, which I have nostalgia for in an internalised traumatic way.| Craggenloch Tribune
It is well known that spells employed by wizards are a form of semi-sentient solar spirit, somewhat less known is that the miracles called down by clerics are manifestations of the host of angels that invisibly accompany them.| Craggenloch Tribune
Here be a selection of spell charms for theisticGilthoniel's Hypogeum magic users, in turn inspired by my old post of MtG: Arena wozerd-duellists. Spells being tangible items is cool and fun and you should use it wherever possible.| Craggenloch Tribune
A worthy, gritty task- thwarting human traffickers- and an equally challenging opportunity at romance awaits stern, disciplined Richard Mar. I settled in to enjoy this last of the series. Though The Edge series are standalone paranormal romances, there are enough ties of characters and plot connecting the books for it to read best in […]| Books of My Heart
I am in the lucky position that I live close to the wonderful island of Siquijor, in the Visayas region| Pacificklaus – Pacificklaus
Hi friends, happy Wednesday! I hope you’re all doing well. Today I’m posting my review of Naomi Novik’s novel, A Deadly Education.| Meghan's Whimsical Explorations & Reviews
I don’t know if I can get away with this or not but let me try. Talking with our latest guest inspired me. Here goes: Andrew Mayne is A-Mayne-zing! Still with me? I sure hope so. Wynne and I …| The Heart of the Matter
It never looks anything like this. Credit Greg Rutkowski| Meandering Banter
Delighted to say that tonight at 8pm I will be presenting a 60 min BBC Radio 4 programme on mind magic, focusing on the amazing David Berglas. After being broadcast, it will be available on BBC Sou…| Richard Wiseman
Galen recently wrote a wonderful response to my “Fool’s Gold” essay, trying to pinpoint where he and I disagree about when it comes to pragmatic theories of representation. This letter won’t make much sense unless you’ve first read his salvo. Epistemic status very much “Fumbling around in the dark”—lots of ideas and discourses invoked that […]| Suspended Reason
(Photos: Patrick Stuart, Scrap) Attention As Devotion In Nottingham we visited the Museum Of Curiosities. It boasts “haunted items from around the world”, gathered via its owner’s “paranormal investigations and his contacts within the world of the macabre”. Mummies, tools from Victorian morgues, dybbuk boxes. Basically: goth Halloween kitsch. Besides a shelf of “spell kits”, I took no photographs, inside. I have to admit I was unnerved. Back home, a collection claiming to exhibi...| Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours
Series: The Notorious Virtues #1 A glamorous media darling, a surprise heiress, and the magical competition of a lifetime. At sixteen, Honora “Nora” Holtzfall is the daughter of the most powerful heiress in all of Walstad. Her family controls all the money–and all the magic–in the entire country. But despite being the center of attention,… Continue reading ARC Review: The Notorious Virtues by Alwyn Hamilton| Down the Rabbit Hole
Title: Lovely Dark and Deep Author: Elisa A. Bonnin Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Published Date: March 25th, 2025 Genre: Fantasy, Magic, Boarding School, YA Source: Netgalley and the Author Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ .5 Goodreads Summary: Hidden off the coast of Washington, veiled in mist, there is an island that does not appear on … Continue reading Lovely Dark and Deep by Elisa A. Bonnin | Book Review| Reading With Wrin
Happy release day to Lovely Dark and Deep by Elisa A. Bonnin!! I have been a part of the street team for this book and have loved collaborating on ideas with the team. Book Synopsis: Hidden off the…| Reading With Wrin
JUDGEMENT IS A BLADE She is a good sorcerer, but a poor disciple. She finds it difficult to concentrate. When she arrives the bell has been struck—the lesson has already started. The teacher looks at her sideways. The teacher sighs, closes his eyes, and continues. “Judgement is a blade,” he says. “When you judge another,” the teacher says, “you thrust a dagger at their chest. It may be that you cause a wound.” She sits on her meditation cushion, and tries to settle. “When you ...| Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours
Installment Immortality is the fourteenth book in the Incryptid series which follows different members of the Price family as they try to protect the cryptid community from The Covenant of St George and others that might hurt it. This story focuses on Mary Dunlavy, part of the Price family, even though she is a former crossroads […]| Books of My Heart
Imagine, if you will, a brighter reality. One where auras glow, souls shines, and magic winds blow ethereal sparkly motes across reality, energizing the cosmos. Imagine this reality to be more permeable and transparent. The winds of magic care little for matter as they blow right through it, and bright souls and glowing auras can […]| Lost Pages
Previously we exhumed and revived some mystic rituals, with the added details of where they might go wrong if performed by those not fully practised in their execution. This time we're going to look at sorcerous rituals, accompanied by an appropriate image:| Alone in the Labyrinth
revised magic rituals, with fail states including weddings ending in possession or the priest becoming psychically bonded to the happy couple| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
PROABLY NOT BALANCED! (suggestions and feedback encouraged) Before I write this post, I think it is important to recognize and contextualize...| explodecorpse.blogspot.com
My last post has been around 2 or 3 years ago, those that frequent the secret gathering places of gretchlings will know I never really went away, I just went from a participant to a lurker. Likely becouse I have been playing recently I have had ideas about what to write. I don't want to promise anyone more consistant posting, but I do have a class for you today.| The Whimsical Mountain
The purpose of a wall is deny access to a location, the purpose of a tunnel is to allow access to a location, the purpose of a door is to do both. Ironically many of the thaumaturges who devote themselves the most to doors must blind themselves to this fact if they want to practice the secret Arts of Key and Lock.| The Whimsical Mountain
Recently I ran a "Exquisite CΔrpse" on the Phlox GLOGscord. It's like the game of Exquisite Corpse, but instead of drawing we're writing abilities. You can read the rules here. Special thanks to SunderedWorldDM, Locheil, Phlox, Lexi, Spawk, Squigboss, Owlbear Chickenhawk and a Random Wizard for participating. As well as Hawk-Moth for helping with coming up with a name for this thing.| The Whimsical Mountain
It's been a while and I kind of stopped blogging out of shame over half-assing the Ink-tober post with the cat and general malaise. But now I'm back and I found a brand new RPG thingy that I'm going to make content for!| The Whimsical Mountain
Spells By Any Other Name Would Cast As Harsh. POWERS ENUMERATED:OLDTECH & FANTASCIENCE These are the accepted and known secret sciences, indistinguishable from magic, that promise mastery over worlds of matter and mind. BY SOURCE UVG 2E What is a spell?* Is it an old ritual for jump-starting an autogolem? Handed-down sacred physics? Or actual…Continue readingPowers Enumerated I| Wizard Thief Fighter
There is but one rule to not miserably fail at your 2025 goals in January. I know about this rule because I’ve tried it and it has never failed me. Is there an unwritten rule to succeed at your New Year resolutions? I only know about one. And it’s so simple, you might consider me […] The post The One Secret To Not Screw Up Your 2025 Goals By January 31st appeared first on Gabriel Iosa.| Gabriel Iosa
A post in response to this month's RPG blog carnival: beyond Vancian magic| Alone in the Labyrinth
I recently shared a revision to the curse of the spirit-touched, tying curses in PARIAH to PC inventory, in a nod to Cairn & Eco-Mofos. Continuing my ambition to publish revisions to the game as a series of modular zinis, I compiled the following curse "templates" (they can be applied as a lateral progression/impending doom track to any character) into the four-side format and published on itch:| Alone in the Labyrinth
Last year I returned to the untied loose end of the Dawn Realm (crudely, Pariah's equivalent of the feywilde) with this slightly long, sketchy post. It's been fermenting since then with a great deal of reagents added following conversations on this blog and elsewhere, of which many were with Max Cantor of Weird and Wonderful Worlds. It took watching Scavengers Reign for me to take this pot of potent brew off the flames and let it cool, let the residue crystallise, and then snort a big hefty o...| Alone in the Labyrinth
I might have mentioned before that I'm not typically a fan of graphic novels. I like creating my own mental images of characters and settings and so I don't usually choose graphic novels. BUT, holy cow, these two new ones have such interesting story lines and the art work is SO compelling, you have to look for them!| The Book Search
Happy birthday for a 2nd time On Christmas night, the first night of Hanukkah, and my sister-in-law Karen's birthday, we light a bunch of...| Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Magician Steven Frayne killed off his alter-ego Dynamo in his last TV special, now he's back to his old tricks.| Big Issue
I did it. The brand new (yet old) 63-chapter, 160,000-word fantasy book featuring magic, dragons, wizards, gritty heroes, and lots and lots of lore is done. I finished the project within roughly six months of leisurely writing (for the most part), give or take a few weeks. On its own, this wouldn’t be a major feat, except … I have tried to “rewrite” this idea three times already, unsuccessfully. But now, I finally succeeded.| The Lost Words
Three hundred years ago, a colony of miners vanished off the face of the earth.| Anxious Mimic
In honour of the Halloween season, we are focusing on the icons, signs & symbols related to witches and witchcraft.| Psychic Light
I wrote a way back about a hidden problem in 5e with advantage. I've recently become aware of another, perhaps more insidious problem: the flavor/fluff writing and the mechanics *do not match*.| Of Slugs and Silver
Following a discussion on the OSR Discord... I made this in 15 minutes. You've been warned.| Of Slugs and Silver
Magic resistance in AD&D is not very precisely defined, although it’s not too bad compared to some rules. It is initially covered in the Monster Manual thusly:| Nagora's Corner
Do you judge books by their cover design? It’s very hard not to. Books are colour-coded these days. Pastel colours suggest a light beach read. Especially if the cover art is an actual painting of a…| Dowsing for Divinity
As you can see from the costs and spellcasting level required, making a mummy is obviously something reserved for higher level players (or N...| savevsdragon.blogspot.com
What is L.A.R.P.? A little historical context for one of our favorite activities at New York Society of Play!| New York Society of Play -
I’ve highlighted what I consider to be a discipleship crisis, where we separate discipleship from ‘life’ and we struggle to live Christianly. I’ve then tried to outline five reasons why our faith h…| nuakh
“By a Love So Much Refined”: An Alchemical Reading of Power and Desire in the Art and Thought of Charles Williams by Emily Pearson Emily Pearson is an attorney and a writer of fantasy stories with …| The Oddest Inkling
Whenever I go to a new country, I’m always researching local cuisines and speciality alcohols to indulge in. Before my trip to Latvia, I was intrigued to discover that their drink of choice was Riga| Third Eye Traveller
Creevykeel Court Tomb is a cursed Neolithic site. Ghosts haunt its stones, said to be the resting place of giants, and strange lights have been seen at night.| Historic Mysteries
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692, a dark chapter in American history, saw 200 people… The post Shocking Myths About the Salem Witch Trials (Video) appeared first on Historic Mysteries.| Historic Mysteries
If your interest was piqued by news about my forthcoming Jewelspider RPG last time, there's more today. Much more, in fact. I've been worki...| fabledlands.blogspot.com
