May is Mental Health Awareness Month! I wanted to devote The Writing Desk towards that effort all month long, including Friday Fiction, and Veniamin Kovalenko Werebear Detective is a perfect candidate for this. Venia comes from a long line of werebears who traveled from their home country of Russia to Sitka, AK and finally to … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) Veniamin Kovalenko, Werebear Dectective #3
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(Fiction Friday) Veniamin Kovalenko, Werebear Detective #2
It's been a couple of weeks -- sorry about that. This time last week I was knee-deep in convention fun with other geeks! I had meant to write ahead so that the second part of Veniamin's story was up and done, but time, as usual, caught up with me. Today, Veniamin is exploring the part … Continue reading (Fiction Friday) Veniamin Kovalenko, Werebear Detective #2
(Fiction Friday) Veniamin Kovalenko: Werebear Detective
For Fiction Friday this year, I'd like to play around with a new setting or character every month. Chances are this will settle in to a rotating band of settings that I'll return to again and again, just to play around with various aspects of writing. One of the things that have been setting me … Continue reading (Fiction Friday) Veniamin Kovalenko: Werebear Detective
(Fiction) Sergei & Bunkin #2: The Glade
The Essex Freehold was on a large lot of land mostly covered by wild forest broken up by small clearing -- some of which had buildings and some of which didn't. The freehold itself was right at the front of the property behind locked gates; you either had to key in a five-digit combination or … Continue reading (Fiction) Sergei & Bunkin #2: The Glade
(Gaming) Meet Bunkin Johnson, the Devoted Squire
Last Friday I wrote up one of my characters for the Changeling 20th Anniversary Edition -- Sergei Kolov, the Silent Knight. Now, meet his Devoted Squire Bunkin Johnson! I've had these two in my head for a very long time now; I had a vague idea for a Changeling-based TV show called "Sleepwalkers", where faeries … Continue reading (Gaming) Meet Bunkin Johnson, the Devoted Squire
(Gaming) Meet Sergei Kolov, the Silent Knight
A friend pointed me towards Changeling: the Dreaming in high school when he was trying to sell me on the Vampire: the Masquerade game he was building. If you've got basic knowledge about the World of Darkness, you'll have some idea about how fundamentally incompatible the two games are -- the Kindred are active agents … Continue reading (Gaming) Meet Sergei Kolov, the Silent Knight
(Friday Fiction) The Wayfarer House
Now that the 20th anniversary edition of Changeling: the Dreaming has dropped, it's time to start re-establishing the setting! Hooray! C20 updates the Kithain for the modern world, progressing the story from the classic World of Darkness and cleaning up a lot of the squishier ideas that never quite got hammered out in 2nd Edition. … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) The Wayfarer House
(Friday Fiction) Changeling: The Talk
Our protagonist gets a name! I'm still feeling out how being a Changeling would feel in inner-city Baltimore. I think there's something distinctive about the idea and I'd love to try and capture it. Here, Mr. Foster takes our narrator to McDonald's for an explanation of what's going on. Or not. I don't know if … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) Changeling: The Talk
(Friday Fiction) Changeling: Emergent
It was my first day back in school after the mugging, and people were treating me surprisingly well. I guess word had spread about what happened, which was cool, but what was most interesting was how the story changed based on who told it. The teachers talked about how I nearly got away by telling … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) Changeling: Emergent
(Gaming) Finding My Path
The first game I ever ran was a Changeling: the Dreaming campaign way back in high school. My players were an eshu, satyr, redcap and sluagh, and somewhere in there I ended up crossing things over with The X-Files because I was young and didn't know any better. Do you remember those metal spikes they … Continue reading (Gaming) Finding My Path
From the Desk of Jakebe T. Rabbit 