Tag: Issue 128

  • The Eyes Have It

    by Aaron Onyon in Issue 128, September 2022 Ferin was a thief. He was not a good thief. Not that it was his fault. The guild made life very difficult for freelance thieves. Before the Thieves Guild moved into Hearthstone times were good for a solo cutpurse. Ferin and his contemporaries had the small town…

  • 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.…