A list of everything I've published under Wizard's Wood Press, and where to find it, in a sticky posting.

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Beware backstory.

Poking around with a character's backstory and found it ramifying.
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It's not multi-person point of view that's a pain to work out.

It's the multi-purpose story, where the characters are pursuing different things

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Religions of Tibet in Practice by Donald S. Lopez Jr.

A collection of primary sources. Heavy on commentary. Includes epics and lives, instructions for pilgrimages including notes on what offers would secure what (flowers, a human birth; incense, pure moral disipline; the three sweets of honey, sugar, and molasses, the food of the gods); consecration rituals, and ones for non-attachment at meals, and also for fasting; an account of a visit to hell; rites against hail and against a malicious gossip spirit; and more

Some D&D magic would have uses even on the battlefield that it would be a bit interesting to adjudicate given the rules.

What are the odds of a red dragon's breath setting the forest on fire?
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Was reading a discussion of optimizing D&D characters.

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A prompt by lindahoyland , from here

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Was pondering the history of the Gamelit priests of nature, whom a D&D world would play as druids, even if it did require substituting wild shape with other nature powers. (There's more of a continuum between them and the ordinary sorts of clerics than in the game.)

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Religions of the United States in Practice, Volume 1 by Colleen McDannell

An array of documents. Seemed a bit of a grabbag. Hymns, prayers, services. Accounts of lives and visions. A witness to the Green Corn Ceremony of the Muskogees. Disputes about cremation, and the licitness of smallpox innoculation.

Took a while to notice that if the Gamelit world allows no shape-shifting of any kind -- that kind of puts a damper on the druid class.

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