Sean Does Games

  A Creative Retrospective A very many years ago, I was hyper focused on fiction writing. I wrote a lot of short stories and shopped them around. A few were published, which was always exciting. Life came along, though, and I had to focus my time on other efforts. If you've read about  my life as a gamer , you know that it was only a couple of years ago that I got back into role-playing games. (If you've braved my Off the Dice interview on Time2Tabletop , you know even more about me.) Lately, I've been thinking it's time to get back into writing as well. To that end, I recently did a little ego-surfing to see if I could track down my older works. I was pleased to see Bewildering Stories , a site that had shown me a lot of love and encouragement back in the day, is still alive and publishing. My bio for that site is still active. It lists all my short stories published there. Other markets that published my work no longer exist, such as  Planet Magazine (an online mag...

And So It Began For a number of reasons, I haven’t released any new material on the DMs Guild since the last update to my Epic Gnomish Inventing . As 2018 approached its end, I began thinking about what I might put together for a new product that was both fun and useful. I really enjoyed creating Absurd Accouterment s and Bracing Beverages , both collections of magic items that have been well received on the DMs Guild. I also like The WhatNot Shop as both a locale in my homebrew games and a fictional purveyor of the unique items I’ve created in my supplements. This got me thinking that it might be time to do another items supplement. But what? I really love the trinkets in the Player’s Handbook . I turn to that collection of 100 miscellaneous miscellany during character creation and for unusual rewards, purloined loot, or unexpected finds during the game. (See part 1 and part 2 of an earlier post on my blog for other ways I use trinkets in game.) I also love the c...