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A Spell Called Catherine

When a wizard named Mendalus develops a spell that summons an obedient woman named Catherine--exactly like any other summoning spell--it creates chaos in the wizard-metropolis of Meltheria, as many in…

Garashino

The City of Strangers. The Beautiful City. The City of Gold. The City of Sharks.

Vodai, the White Child

There are some types of evil that are not easily recognizable as such. Much like the mountain-top ascetic or the cloistered saint, there is no obvious sign of the darkness that lurks inside Vodai.

Ghorion, the Weaponmaster

Ghorion was once one of the Three Troll Kings of the Cloudsteeth Mountains. Undeath has only made him crueler, and much, much more powerful.

The Awakened

'We're nothing new. We've always been here. YOU're the newcomers. You're the animal that forgot that it was a man. Stop crying, you animal, you sleepwalker! If you opened your eyes for only an …

Non-Euclidean Architecture: Part 2

In which more methods are expounded by which one may refine a dungeon to more sublime levels of confusion. This isn't nonsense--this is logic!

Hagula

I try to avoid them if I can. I see them sometimes herding their flocks of flabby grey creatures into and out of Boston harbor, and it always gives me the chills. Briano tells me that they brought m…

Psuedo-Imaginary Dinosaurs

We were crossing a ridge when Corgan was lifted off the ground by something. 'Shoot it! Shoot the tyrannosaur!' he screamed as blood streamed from the puncture wounds that had opened up in belly. I…

Catbooks

After the sorceress Rigalene died, those going through her estate were puzzled. Where were all her books? And how would they find homes for all these cats?

Tumble Melon Tree

A tree that sends roaming fruit on a singular quest.

Anophelite, Male

a.k.a. Mosquito Man, a.k.a. Stirgili, a.k.a. Mansquito.

The Hollows of Teragaius

A dangerous, alien plane where glowing frog-slimes slither and slurp, metal-skinned bird people rebuff diplomacy, and only the endless subterranean tunnels are safe (just mind the gravity-bending m…

How I Vote

When photons bounce off your subs and into my retinas, this is how my headmeats give me numerals.

Just in Time

So you’ve finally done it. With the best of intentions all around the table, your PCs have finally blundered into the blender like curious gerbils, and now they are hopelessly outnumbered an…

Mountain's Coin

How the Clerics of Stone cheat death.

Time Zombie

Death is the fate of every birth, and life is only a brief loan of light before the eternal darkness swallows us. The remaining years of life have been stolen from the creatures known as Time Zomb…

The Lavei Family

A family of semi-retired doomsday cultists, just trying to live a quiet life while tending an apple orchard in the country. Except with complications.

Non-Euclidean Architecture: Part 1

From Innsmouth to Cthulhutech, a common phrase is “non-Euclidean architecture”. But what is it, and how can it be included in your games in a way that is interesting and fun?

Ogrish Thundergun

Everyone knows that firearms are weapons only fit for orcs—smelly, loud, and unreliable. But there are guns made for ogres, too, and the largest of those are called Thunderguns.

The Gentle Beasts

The cries sounded like some misshapen creature being devoured alive. Or a stillborn baby deer, somehow struggling back to life in the filthy grove where it had been abandoned, crying in infinite p…