Drinkin' The Game Away; Or: The New Year's Resolution Mechanic Challenge
It's January - for me, it is Dry January. This is my Ramadan, except it's Ramadan for like a mostly-secularized, deracinated Muslim, who prays maybe once a week and eats pork sometimes (though never...
View ArticleD6x6 Thriving Thanoi
Thanoi are walrus-men. Official D&D. Ain't that grand.Click the button below to get your thanoi:GenerateSpecial thanks to Spwack for the generator generator here:...
View ArticleSlush Pile 9
Previously, on slush piles:Slush Pile 1Slush Pile 2Slush Pile 3Slush Pile 4Slush Pile 5Slush Pile 6Slush Pile 7Slush Pile 8Sci-fi concept: "Commiserators" are paid to share customers' worst memories,...
View Article20 Tattoos Indicating The Guy You're Talking To Is A Were-Creature
A belated Christmas gift for my dear computer friend deus ex parabola:1. Werestag(collab. between deus ex parabola & Phlox, inception of this'n here post)2. Werefish3. Weredog4.Wereshrimp5....
View ArticleGLOG Grimoire: Swearing-Book of the Opaline Order
Here's another grimoire for the grimoire bandwagon. Previously:Caster Beware!The Short-Lived BookSome Spells, Mostly SummonsA GLOG GrimoireGrimoire, And Custom FireballsGrimoire Bandwagon + Mage...
View ArticleDreams in the Witching Hour
Can't sleep, so I will finish some drafts:Groups of Animals(Fluff in the vein of "making mundane animals more magical")A Murder of Crows:The king of all crows is dead, struck down by celestial fire....
View ArticleJennell Jaquays Memorial Game Jam Submission
A very influential lady on stuff that was very influential to me. May she rest in peace.Per this: https://itch.io/jam/jennell-jaquays-memorial-game-jam
View ArticleWiki-Diving
Been reading D&D wikis lately. This one: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page and this one: https://dungeonsdragons.fandom.com/wiki/Dungeons_and_Dragons_Wiki mostly.I feel like a...
View ArticleBakseo
50 years ago today, on the anniversary and origin of the Feast of Salted Petals, god died.Not God, of course, but god. For there were other gods in other lands, but in Bakseo there was only god, who...
View ArticleD100+ Pulp City Names in the Vein of Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard,...
Friend of the blog and co-conspirator deus ex parabola asked me to make this at some point some time ago. Here it is (click the button):CitizeShow tablesSpecial thanks to Spwack for the generator...
View ArticleEerie Knightly Orders - GLOG Δ Templates
Inspired by this: https://whosemeasure.blogspot.com/2023/05/35-eerie-knight-abilities.htmlBy James ZapataOrder of the Errant CulverOfficially charged with retrieving the emperor's homing pigeons, and...
View ArticleD20 Reasons Why Werewolves, Devils, Wights, And So On Are Vulnerable To Silver
1. Silver is the metal of the moon, a mistress who brooks no beastly stain on the lullabilic rapture of her night.2. Undeath, devilry, and were-beasts are all fundamentally expressions of sickness,...
View ArticleAn Adventure of Edmund the great
Friend of the blog Phlox drew this adorable hedgehog wizard:& from it I was inspired to draw one of Edmund's no doubt plethorous adventures:I hope that in time more of Edmund the great's adventures...
View ArticleA Generator for New Words, Or: Automatically Grafting Prefixes and Suffixes...
Special thanks to friend of the blog Rook for coming up with this idea. Caution: some words generated may already exist.If you'd like to do some combinatorialization of your own, click the links...
View ArticleMy Taxonomic Kingdom for a Gorse
Special thanks to Eldritch Eternity for help brainstorming this post.Something is amiss in the dungeons. Things have learned to sprout mushrooms that ought to grow flowers - fungi do not exist.From the...
View ArticleD6x6 Ebullient Ettins
Click the button below to get your ettin:EttinizeSpecial thanks to Spwack for the generator generator here: http://meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/2018/10/automatic-list-to-html-translator-v2.htmlD6This...
View ArticleNeat Bits from Bill Hoyt's Old Campaign
"In 1974, Bill Hoyt, part of the original Blackmoor Bunch, started playing Dungeons & Dragons, which he'd got at Gary Gygax's house. Soon after, he began his own campaign. These are rare maps and...
View ArticleD6x6 Former Wizards
The idea for this came to me in a dream last night - a dream about a worldwide migration, the migration itself the thing people were migrating away from - a dream about people living on the roads and...
View ArticleD20 Methods of Immortality A Wizard Might Use In Lieu of the Typical Lichdom
1. Removing their own brain and sticking it in a jar full of preservatives. A replacement made of glass, vital fluids, and clockwork ticks behind their eyes now, letting them control their body from...
View ArticleD6x6 Heinous Hobgoblins
Click the button below to generate your hobgoblins:HobbleSpecial thanks to Spwack for the generator generator here:...
View ArticleD6x6 Tactual Takos
Takos are D&D's octopus-people, except they've only got one eye for whatever reason, and they're not humanoid, they're just octopoid.Click the button below to generate your takos:TakoyakiSpecial...
View ArticleD6 Bug-Bears
Not bugbears, but bug-bears - half-bears, half-bugs:1. Cicadiak: Hibernate as cub-grubs beneath the earth for decades, possessing nearby lifeforms with their dreams. Squirrels and suchlike will hide...
View ArticleNotes on Notes on Watching Twin Peaks in a Dream, Recorded First Within Said...
I have been watching David Lynch's hit TV series Twin Peaks lately - it's pretty good. I have apparently been watching so much of it that last night I dreamed that I was watching Twin Peaks, while...
View ArticleD20x5 Vampire Hunters
Click the button below to generate your vampire hunter:HUNTSpecial thanks to Spwack for the generator generator here:...
View ArticleD6x6 Simpering Serpentmen
This post is dedicated to friend of the blog purplecthulhu, who came up with the idea.Click the button below to generate your serpentman:HISSSpecial thanks to Spwack for making the generator generator...
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