Blogs
My WorldCon Seattle Schedule
Heya, I will be presenting at World Con: Seattle this year. I’m pleased to share a draft schedule with you. I may have additional panels or other events, but so far these are confirmed. |
Love Tarot? And Writing? I’m Releasing my Tarot for Storytellers Draft to Patrons!
In just a few days, at the Gen Con: Writer’s Symposium, I’ll be running my popular Tarot for Storytellers writing workshop. I’ve ran this workshop at Gen Con and online through Clarion West and the Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers. I’ve had a great response and wonderful fe… |
Returning to the Gen Con Writer’s Symposium 2025
FlamesRising.com’s Monica Valentinelli is returning to the Gen Con Writer’s Symposium for 2025! She’ll be presenting two workshops, a coffee klatsch, and multiple panels. Events are selling out fast, so be sure to sign up! I’m really excited to come back to Gen Con. This yea… |
My 2024 Publications
2024 has been a wonderful year to rebuild, grow, and produce my own game. I’ve re-established a wonderful baseline for my writing practice, presented at the Gen Con Writer’s Symposium and Game Hole Con, taught an online workshop through Clarion West, and began blogging again here at FlamesRisin… |
Reviews
Review of The Citadel: A Fantasy Oracle
Fen Inkwright is a folklorist and illustrator who has designed The Citadel: A Fantasy Oracle, a deck of sixty, copper-foil embossed cards inspired by fantasy myths and legends drawn from novels and tabletop roleplaying games. |
Dragon Delves Adventure Anthology D&D Review
The Dragon Delves Adventure Anthology for Dungeons & Dragons (2024) is a collection of ten dragon-themed adventures highlighting ten unique colored dragon types. The 192-page supplement can be run as a campaign, taking players from level 1 to level 12, or as individual adventures that can last… |
Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual 2024 Review
The final, updated supplement for the trilogy of Dungeons & Dragons 2024 core rulebooks has been released. The Monster Manual 2024 debuted as a 384-page, full-color hardcover book with standard and premium covers. D&D Beyond and Roll 20 offer a VTT version of the Monster Manual, too. The … |
D&D 2024 Dungeon Master Screen Review
The new Dungeon Master’s Screen (2024) is now available! Priced at $20, the screen is compatible with the new Player’s Guide (2024), Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024), and Monster Manual (2024). The screen is packaged in a sealed envelope made of cardstock for protection. Inside, is a… |
News
Paizo Partners with Titan Forge and MyMiniFactory to Offer Premium STLs and Print-On-Demand Miniatures
In advance of Gen Con 2025, Paizo, Titan Forge, and MyMiniFactory announced a partnership to produce STLs and print-on-demand (POD) miniatures for Pathfinder and Starfinder. These miniatures, sculpted by Titan Forge based on art from Paizo Inc., will be available for purchase as STLs on My Mini Fac… |
Paizo Inc. Names Industry Veteran Christian Moore as First Chief Growth Officer
Paizo Inc. today announced the appointment of Christian Moore as its first chief growth officer (CGO). In this newly created role, he will be responsible for driving worldwide revenue growth through his management of the sales, ecommerce, marketing, and licensing teams. A data-first brand architect… |
D&D 2024 Dungeon Master Screen Review
The new Dungeon Master’s Screen (2024) is now available! Priced at $20, the screen is compatible with the new Player’s Guide (2024), Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024), and Monster Manual (2024). The screen is packaged in a sealed envelope made of cardstock for protection. Inside, is a… |
Paranormal Freelancing: Sprint Projects in a Co-op
Paranormal Freelancing is an action-oriented urban fantasy game by the Far Horizons Co-op that is currently on Kickstarter. Players take on the role of assistants to supernatural creatures, letting you play the renfield, a witch’s acolyte, a shapeshifter’s family, and more. This guest b… |
Interviews
Interview with Rob Heinsoo 13th Age Second Edition
In this TTRPG developer essay, FlamesRising.com contributor Monica Valentinelli sits down with Rob Heinsoo, the developer of 13th Age Second Edition from Pelgrane Press. The new edition was successfully crowdfunded, and you can pre-order 13th Age Second Edition on Backerkit. 13th Age first debuted … |
Through the Gates with Onyx Path Publishing
At the Gates is a high fantasy tabletop roleplaying game about burgeoning heroes struggling to survive, fighting for what’s right, exploring dangerous places, and saving the world. Onyx Path Publishing is currently running a crowd-funding campaign over at BackerKit.com. We had a chance to cat… |
Return to the Realms of Pugmire with Eddy Webb
Onyx Path Publishing and Pugsteady have just launched a Kickstarter for a new edition of the Realms of Pugmire RPG. Realms of Pugmire is a fantasy game about evolved pets and other animals with a strong connection to humanity, with dogs as the central characters. These characters live in the ruins… |
Enter the Cyclops’s Cave…An Interview with Matthew Dawkins
They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave! sees characters ranging from heroic swordsmen and cunning sorceresses to charming minstrels and agile scoundrels, embarking on quests designed to evoke the majesty of fantasy movies and television shows from the 1940s onward. Whether you’re looking to chan… |
Fiction
I DISAPPEARED THEM by Preston L Allen Novel Excerpt
I Disappeared Them is a brutal, boy meets girl love story that delves into the Periwinkle Killer’s childhood to confront the age-old question, is a serial killer designed or destined? Like Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho and Joyce Carol Oates’s Zombie, Preston L. Allen‘s imm… |
Design Diary: Tales of the Changing BreedsWhen I was first approached about writing a story for an anthology covering the Changing Breeds, I was intrigued by the possibilities. Changing Breeds refers to White Wolf’s Werewolf: the Apocalypse game: more specifically, Changing Breeds are all the other were-creatures besides wolves: tige… |
Read a Full Excerpt of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is an epic novel that follows Kira Navárez, who, during a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, finds an alien relic that thrusts her into the wonders and the nightmares of first contact. Epic space battles for the fate of humanity take her to the farthest rea… |
Pre-Order and Excerpt for The Devil’s Guide to Managing Difficult People
Flamesrising.com is pleased to present you with an exclusive excerpt of the upcoming book by author Robyn Bennis. The Devil’s Guide to Managing Difficult People will be released on Kindle. You can buy the book before it debuts on May 21st or you can pre-order it now! If you like the author… |
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