Back in 2017, I launched my first Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) campaign called The Crepusculum. It was an electric, addicting, anxiety-fueled rush serving as the dungeon master (DM). No matter how much you prepare for your games, you’ll find yourself forced to improvise as your players breeze past the quest givers, unveil the Big Bad…
🚨 News alert: THE LAST GODDESS is officially out on submission via my fabulous agent, Amy Collins at Talcott Notch! For aspiring writers, searching what “going on to submission to editors” entails is like trying to figure out what happens in the basement’s fight club. For most authors, you don’t know until you enter the…
If you’re applying to become Jupiter’s next high priest (flamen Dialis), you best get rid of your dog and pick up a swear jar now. Because either Jupiter was an extremely fussy god-king with undiagnosed OCD, or he must have loved to stack taboos on his priests like Jenga blocks. Here are ten of the…
Contrary to common assumptions, alcohol and biting on a stick were not the only solutions to withstanding surgery in ancient times. Evidence of herbal anesthetics date back to the Roman period. In 800 AD, a Benedictine monk in Southern Italy scribbled down his recipe, which involved opium, henbane, mulberry juice, lettuce, hemlock, mandragora, and ivy….