Character Creation Challenge: Day 22, Katrina Katrina started with a very simple, now-familiar premise: "What would my witch Larina look like if she were evil?" She morphed a bit, as my witches often do, based on what I am reading or watching at the time. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 21, Aviva Aamadu Today's character is another child of my two OSE characters, Asabalom and Maryah. Aviva is named after a witch they both knew. Aviva's current quest is to find the witch she was named after. #adnd #witch theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 20, Saileach and Teamhair Yesterday, I posted one of my archwitches. Today, I want to compare and contrast an archwitch and a witch priestess. Who better than my favorite witch couple, Saileach and Teamhair? #adnd #osr theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 19, Feiya I will admit it. I love Feiya. I "adopted" her once she was released for Pathfinder, and I brought her over to interact with my other witches. It has been great to see how she works with my other witch types. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

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Character Creation Challenge: Day 18, Symgharyl Maruel and The Scaled Sisterhood I have been working on new Witchcraft traditions. These are not tied to real-world witchcraft myths and legends, but ones grown in my own writings and games. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 17, Aeronwy What if one of my normally good witches turned evil? That is the question I asked when I sat down to work on this witch. This witch is built new from the ground up, and is an interesting thought experiment. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 16 Rowan & Witches in Arms At the start of this challenge, I introduced the Gallowglass subclass, a sort of mercenary for hire for witches. Today I want to detail The Witch Knight, a different sort of armored witch. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 15, Marissia, Daughter of Zelligar A few years back, I found what I think is my earliest surviving written reference to a witch in my games: Marissia, Daughter of Zelligar, the wizard from B1 In Search Of The Unknown. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 14 Taryn Nix and Warlocks I have not talked much about Warlocks here at all for this challenge, which is an oversight of sorts. I have Warlocks I am using in my Occult D&D game, but they feel a little overpowered. #adnd theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 13 Jana & Sarana Today I want to explore two similar witches. Or more to the point, two witches who approach similar magics and traditions of faerie witchcraft from two different vectors. #adnd #osr #witch #character theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 12 Cirice One of the things I have been trying to do is find a good witch class for my current AD&D games. I am running one and my oldest runs the other and we both have our favored play-test GMPC/Play-test characters. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 11, Rána Today's witch comes from a night of rolling up characters with my oldest a bit ago. Rána is somewhat of a militant pagan witch. #adnd #osr #witch theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 10, Esmé Valethorn and The Magus Esmé Valethorn is a character I rolled up back in the summer of 2024. So, no deep history with her here. She is also a perfect Magus. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 9 Aisling (Dreamer), Nida and The Shade I have been going through stacks of notes from the days when I was playing AD&D. Most of it is typical gamer cruft. But every so often I find something rare. #adnd #witch #osr theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 8, Bess I want to talk about demi-human witches. Witchcraft, at least as it is typically portrayed is the the practice of witches, and human witches at that. So today I talk about dwarves and their witches. #adnd #witch theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 7, Skylla I am going back to another old favorite today, Skylla. My girl here has had something of a popularity resurgence since I began talking about her in 2013! #CharacterCreationChallenge #witch #adnd #osr theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 6 Amaranth & Moria Today I am experimenting with tieflings in AD&D. Both demonic and diabolic and seeing how they can work. Also I introduce the new Magus subclass for magic-users. #adnd #witch #tiefling #osr #character theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

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Character Creation Challenge: Day 5, Céline Something a little different today. Céline is a Gallowglass, or ancient line of fighters dedicated to protecting witches, druids and other spellcasters. #charactercreationchallenge #adnd #witch theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 4, Áine nic Elatha Today I want to revisit Áine nic Elatha from the 2021 challenge. Áine began life as a magic-user, but has switched over to cleric as a "Rules as Written" cleric. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 3, Branwen and Eira Today's characters are pretty close to my heart. They are my attempts to take my original Netbook of Witches & Warlocks for 2nd Ed AD&D and back convert it to AD&D 1st Edition. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Character Creation Challenge: Day 2, Eireann Welcome to day 2 of the Character Creation Challenge. Today's witch is a return from the 2021 Challenge. She is/was a witch from my D&D 4e games, now for 1st Ed AD&D. #NewYearNewCharacter #CharacterCreation theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/01/char...

Larina "Nix" Nichols for Villains & Vigilantes I have been meaning to do this one for a while. A recent conversation with my family gave me the idea I needed to make it all work. #vnv #supers #witch #character theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/lari...

I got the Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon dubbed in Spanish for Christmas to help me with my Spanish. Now I just need some good Spanish-language D&D (or other RPG) resources. #dnd #spanish #español

You guys caught this too, right? “Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” ███████ noted some girl with a funny name “took me into a fancy hotel or building, that’s how it happened.” Also this: she was advised to call the police. But she replied, “I can’t, they will kill me.” 1/2

The Hex Girls: 25+ Years Later It has been a little over 25 years since The Hex Girls first appeared in Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, and I’m still comfortable saying this out loud: they are the coolest thing Scooby-Doo ever did. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/the-...

Inspired by an old article by @timsbrannan.bsky.social, I reflect on the blog today on the "best age" to encounter the things that will shape your geeky life & interests for decades to come: cowboyscapescowls.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... #hawktheslayer #ttrpg #starwars #comics #dungeonsanddragons

Blogsphere Links: Witches on Other Blogs, Part 5 Here is the last batch! I'll update my Witch Links page with all of these and any more I find in 2026. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/blog...

Blogsphere Links: Witches on Other Blogs, Part 4 A few more links to other people's witch posts today. As always, let me know if I missed yours. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/blog...

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Blogsphere Links: Witches on Other Blogs, Part 2 Here are some more links to other blogs, and the occasional message board, talking about things that interest me. Know more? Let us all know! #witch #ttrpg #blog #osr #dnd theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/blog...

Blogsphere Links: Witches on Other Blogs, Part 1 I love reading about witches from different viewpoints, even from the same sources—especially when the results are surprising! Part 1 of my list of links from other TTRPG blogs. #blogs #witches #ttrpg theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/blog...

Fantasy Fridays: Aventuras en español I have been neglecting my Fantasy Fridays. But I am still enjoying my AD&D 1e Forgotten Realms game. But what I want is to play a D&D BECMI/BX game in Spanish! #Español #ttrpg #dnd #becmi theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/fant...

Kristi Noem Caught Lying in Brutal Hearing + More Thursday Updates - 12/11/25 open.substack.com/pub/meidasto... Noem is a liar and her actions are criminal. She belongs in an ICC awaiting trial for crimes against humanity #CrueltyIsThePoint #NoJusticeNoPeace #NoemForPrison #TrumpFascists

In Search Of...Warduchess This is a bit of a different "In Search Of" since the topic, while related to the past of the D&D game, it is not actually part of it. Today I go In Search Of...the Warduchess! theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/in-s...

We did it first in Thirteen Parsecs with “Space Truckers” by @timsbrannan.bsky.social and @elflairgames.bsky.social www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Monstrous Monday: Monsters From the Other Side I have been working on monsters since the earliest days of this blog. I still intend to complete my Basic Bestiary someday. In the meantime, here are all the monsters I have created for my blog. #ttrpg #dnd theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/mons...

Returning to Jackson, IL: Midwest Murder Mystery! My wife and I re-watched all of Stranger Things and it got me thinking about my setting for NIGHT SHIFT, Jackson, IL. It also involved the best weird-things investigators I know; my brothers and sisters! theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/retu...

Mapping the Blogosphere - My Corner If you have not seen it, there is a great mapping of many of the popular OSR blogs put together by @elmc.at. It is quite the effort, and I have spent a lot of time reading over it. #osr #blogs theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/mapp...

Did you know I write TTRPGS? It's true! You can find my work over on my itch page; every sale gives the title a free community copy and helps me feed my beautiful wife! farmergadda.itch.io

Magic Backlash! In the AD&D rules a spellcaster can't cast a spell above their prescribed levels. As a rule of thumb, this is often a spell level of half their caster level. But what happens when a spellcaster tries to cast a spell of a higher level? #dnd theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/magi...

“Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda,” Carpenter said in a post on X.

Attacked! By a Python! Posting is likely to be a bit sporadic for a bit. I started a new job and while I have expertise in SAS, SPSS, Statistica, and enough knowledge of R to get me into real trouble. My new gig needs me to know Python. Like yesterday. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/atta...

Monstrous Mondays: Wyrdcat I am working on another piece of something that may or may not involve my "The One Who Remains." Think of this as a warm-up sketch an artist would do before getting into their main composition. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/mons...

WitchCraft Wednesday: The Hand Mirror of the Silver Witch Working on a bunch of ideas right now. This is one place where they intersect. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/witc...

Last week, I discussed the issues of AI in academia. What are your biggest concerns? www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

New Release Tuesday: Labyrinth Lord, Revised & Expanded Labyrinth Lord: Revised & Expanded, aka Labyrinth Lord 2nd Edition, is now out from Daniel Proctor with a new adventure from Pauli Kidd. I am looking forward to the future of this game. #osr #ttrpg theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/new-...