This post originally appeared in May of 2016. It became relevant in last night's session of our Land of Azurth 5e game, so it seemed a g...

Don Maitz In the Latter Ages of Earth , people do not die completely, at least not quickly. As these things are understood by the Instrument...

The malefic Outsiders of the astral void beyond the Earth are myriad in the Latter Age , but few are as distinct from the hosts of horrors a...

 Contrary to the popular entertainments of the Latter Age, there is no cohesive group known as the druids. Rather, there are individuals and...

Our Land of Azurth 5e game continued last night as the party confronted the Wizard of Azurth and Morzengersturm over the fate of Roderick D...

In the Latter Age of Earth , magi are those few born with the Mark, a quirk or atavism of their genetic code, that supports full activation ...

  Lately, I've been thinking about my Scavengers of the Latter Ages idea, which is sort of a "hard" science fantasy setting, ...

Our Land of Azurth 5e game continued last weekend, with the Clockwork Princess Viola revealing the new plan she had come up with for defeati...

I got around to watching the series finale of Stranger Things this weekend, and it gave me the idea for setting combining elements of that ...

Yesterday was the 16th anniversary of this blog. If anybody's still reading from the early days, thanks for sticking around.  Looking at...

I may have never played an rpg with one, but I've long seen the appeal of the "bottled setting": a locale that could be the si...

I thought it would be fun to do the Space Opera in the style of presentation of the Known World (later Mystara) in Isle of Dread : A highly ...

Our gaming group spent our last get together of 2025 having dinner together at a local restaurant, as is our tradition. In addition to the c...

In discussing this recent Youtube video arguing Star Wars (1977) suggests a setting without FTL communication, my brother and I gradually ...

Often science fantasy as operationalizes in rpgs is just some flavor of rpg fantasy with ray guns or robots, or "ancient technology...

Our Land of Azurth 5e campaign continued last Sunday with the party concluding their brief trip to the Moon. The Bright Goddess of the Thric...

All the interstellar Science Fiction roleplaying systems and settings I can think of rely on faster-than-light travel (generic systems like ...

Technology vs. magic, sometimes even to the point of a war, in a feature of a number of fantasy works, though I'm not aware of a publish...

 Our 5e Land of Azurth game continued last Sunday with the party trying to get to the Bright Rabbit Goddess of the Moon to ask her for a par...

The original version of this post appeared in February of 2014, inspired by " Bit Rot, " a short story by Charles Stross. Neptune...