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Ten Go-olllldennnn Rinnnnnnnnnngs
The situation was tense and the choice was clear: go see Phobia and Eat The Living at Los Globos or stay home and run a game for Jez like he asked me to like days ago.We were on the guest list, but in...
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Using Carcosa Out Of Laziness
Here's a typical Carcosa hex description:Village of 430 Green Men ruled by “the Speaker of all Truths,” a neutral 5th-level Fighter._The tumbled ruins of an ancient castle squat sullenly atop a small...
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The (totally random) Barrens of Woe
The Barrens of WoeI generated these hex descriptions by starting with Ramanan Sivaranjan's Carcosa Hex Generator, then filling using the "find/replace" feature on a word processor to change the...
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Gods As Places
What god rules here?Well, first, why do you care?Gods are clusters of concepts. They are, in fact, clusters of most concepts deemed useful and interesting to all human cultures up until the present...
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So This Happened...
So it's the vampires' half of the initiative, right?Vampire A comes down as a bat, grapples the party's wizard from behind. Pulls the wizard away hostage style like "move and he's dead".So it's like,...
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Things To Know About Ferox The Incinerator
She is an ancient blue dragon of the largest size.She is a localized magnetic anomaly.She sky fortress looms above the sci fantastic jungles of the Cobalt Reach.She is indifferent to the warring...
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Things To Know About En Gorath Of The 10,000 Eyes
It Rules the Desert and All Insects.It lives inside the flesh of younger gods.It eats the hearts of men and the skins of women.It is worshipped by the Cursed Ones, the Jackal Men, and those who seek...
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Notes on Notes + Some Pictures
As soon as I got my physical copy of Carcosa, I did this. Another advantage to that book being small and thick rather than big-and-thin like most RPG books.Publishers--is it possible to get things from...
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Why Is This Picture So Good?
Realms of Chaos: Lost and the Damned, page 8.Now Adrian Smith was very very good. But, by definition, nobody does their best work every day. This is amazing even by his very high standards.I'll see how...
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Oozes, Monoliths and Clones
Connie said "I never know what to do in the day time"I said "I never know what to do when I have a headache that won't go away"So we got a game together.They were in the Blue Dragon fortress of Cobalt...
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Ideas Vs Tools
Ok, in looking at RPG stuffs: there's ideas and there's tools.Ideas are like "Ok, it's like a sphere with a big eye and an evil little mouth and a bunch of eyestalks and all the eyes have different...
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Generating Random Warbands Is Fun
1. Annihilus NeroxxExalted mutant championGoat headObsidian skinClawsStr: 20Despises elvesChaos armorWields 2 demon swords--a successful hit from either doing at least 6 points of damage slays a foe...
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Soup to Nuts Random Villain Generator
Base creature1. an unusually intelligent, independent eye of dread 2. pirate 3. mad king/queen4. witch5, drider 6. statue7. medusa8.(intelligent) flail snail 9. pudding, ooze, slime, etc10. insect...
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Joey called it "So Useful It Is Nearly Offensive"
...I hope so.So yesterday I posted a villain generator whose guts were derived from some old tables here and elsewhere plus the Random Warband Generation rules from the classic and nearly...
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Bookshelf Roulette
Here's one for cold nights in:Get comfortable and put a stack of RPG books next to you.Take the first one off the top...Dragon Lords of Melnibone(a d20fied compilation of stuff from Elric and...
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Meet Rangda
Rangda, The Widow, an alternate aspect of Lolth is worshipped in Drownesia, land of the dinosaur-riding princes. Like Chamunda, she haunts cremation grounds and fig trees.According to...
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Quick Blue Dragon Fortress SitRep
DEAR PLAYERS, Heres the situation: It's always nice to have a little extra time to make these, especially if you're gonna have players who weren't there the session before. Picture being worth a...
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Party: 1, God Dragon: 0
If you're like me, you often ask yourself, Why aren't my players all dead yet?Ferox the Incinerator is a fairly legit maximum-age maximum-size +49 to hit, 565-hit point D&D Type III blue...
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Night's Black Agents And Carcosa Cheat Sheets
First:Night's Black Agents (spies and spylike individuals vs vampires) character generation is dead simple but for some reason it is not designed in such a way as to make that readily apparent.For GMs...
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James Bond's Taxi, Night's Black Agents and a QUIZ!
Logic A)The man with the plutonium is getting away. James Bond needs a cab now. Does he get one?In a James Bond movie, this is usually a function of two variables:How awesome is James Bond at getting...
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