Dragons! They're hot right now! Everybody and their aunt has one! And if you're going to have a dungeon, you might as well have a dragon. In this companion of Oddities for a Treasure Hoard, we present unusual objects, encounters, and oddities to populate a dragon's lair, from the...
If there is a plan to avert disaster, the aliens operating out of a subterranean base in Antarctica didn't get the memo. As much as they'd like to help, that's not their job. Instead, they go through the motions at work and do what they can to find a hint of meaning in their otherwise monotonous lives.
An extraterrestrial presence is real. They watch us strip-mine the planet to fuel the growth of populations and economies. Will they intervene to help us avert disaster? And what's with all the anal probes?
If there is a plan to avert disaster, the aliens operating out of a subterranean base in Antarctica didn't get the memo. As much as they'd like to help, that's not their job. Instead, they go through the motions at work and do what they can to find a hint of meaning in their otherwise monotonous lives.
There are any number of elements from "The Alchemist," H.P. Lovecraft's second published story, that I could have tried to put into game terms, the most obvious being Charles le Sorcier. In that he would have to be both exceedingly complex and, like "The Beast in the Cave," exceptionally feeble, I decided...
Presented here is a page of notes written on an unfolded envelope by H.P. Lovecraft for his 1931 novella "At the Mountains of Madness." Rarely do we see a primary source document that would be more useful as a LARP or tabletop RPG handout and that has prompted us to make this available here for anyone inclined to do so; it could serve nicely for games actually tying in with the Antartica-based ...
Humakt has long been one of my favorite Gloranthan deities. The first character I played (back in about 1980, was a Humakti) and the cult invariably figures in my games in some way. The cult is described in ...
