Tag: 2022

  • Guarantees in Three Silvers

    by Jay Requard in Issue 128, September 2022 Chapter I: Conditions Galamzar dozed as dawn breached his tower’s windows, the city of Burq-Tinnin buzzing hundreds of feet below his spire. The smooth pillars holding up the dome, cut from the finest green marble veined in ocher, had lulled his attention away from the large book…

  • At the Sign of the Prancing Pony, or, Is This the Place to Start Our Adventure

    by G. W. Thomas in Issue 128, September 2022 Every fantasy role-playing adventure, many sword & sorcery tales, any number of heroic fantasy comics, all seem to begin in a tavern in an inn. It is one of the traditional tropes of heroic fantasy, right? I have to wonder where this traditional starting point originated.…

  • The Library of Vadargarn

    by Rab Foster in Issue 127, August 2022 Jaydar Skenthorpe gawped at the tabletop. Though the men swigging furtively at the tavern’s other tables were unlikely to see it in the smoky candlelight, he couldn’t believe what his companion had placed in front of him. A book. Hoarsely, he demanded, “You want me to transport…

  • Mordock’s Daughter

    by Tom Howard in Issue 127, August 2022 The moment Izak the Traveler saw the girl’s violet eyes, he knew he had to save her.  He’d stopped before sunset at an inn on the King’s Highway. The place was simple but clean. The long common room held wooden tables situated around the giant hearth in…

  • The Gem

    by David Starobin in Issue 127, August 2022 It was no ordinary wizard’s tower. But then again, he was no ordinary burglar. At nearly six-and-a-half feet in height and nearly eighteen stone, it was an improbable occupation for him. But he had held many improbable occupations in his young life: master sergeant in His August…