Wasted days(?)

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -e. e. cummings (1894 - 1962) One of the greatest highlights of my childhood was playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D). This and a few other role-playing games (RPGs) were the primary unifying factor among my closest circle of friends. So, perhaps that's why I… Continue reading Wasted days(?)

The frigid dungeon laboratory

Sobbing, shoulders heaving, Taison stopped running upon reaching the forest's edge. Those wretched ghasts were tracking him somehowโ€ฆ They had to be. But how?What had the lich done to him? Calming himself, the cleric struggled to think back through the fog of images to his imprisonment in the frigid dungeon laboratory; what was it that… Continue reading The frigid dungeon laboratory

Base stats, or: Experience points

An American sentence: If you reread this sentence, that will be another experience. What's an 'American Sentence'? Allen Ginsberg, inventor of the American Sentence, felt that the haiku didnโ€™t work as well in English. Ginsberg decided to remove the line structure of the haiku, maintaining the requirement of 17 syllables total. He felt that removing… Continue reading Base stats, or: Experience points

Dungeons, or: Dragons

A 'Magnetic Poem' tanka Wanna try? Click here. Dungeons & Dragons ~ I always liked that geek game which played in my head we interfaced with our brains war with evil never crashed Notes For this poem, I decided to make use of the 'Geek Set' on the Magnetic Poetry website;I am, after all, a… Continue reading Dungeons, or: Dragons