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...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

The original version of this post appeared in December 2020... "Thinking beings of earth planet. This message was sent subsequent to th...

Maybe there's a game or setting I'm unaware of, but I feel like there's a missed opportunity for a dinosaur themed "incursi...

With my 5e campaign winding down perhaps (or at least switching to a new phase) in the near future and the Bundle of Holding I mentioned bef...

I wrote the original version of this post in 2014, then I updated it in 2019. It's probably time to check back in and see how the rpg la...

I was thinking about Leigh Brackett's Mars today (as I often do) and reflecting on how it isn't very science fictional at all, so th...

  Welsh triads , a historical form found in Medieval manuscripts where folkloric and mythologic tidbits are presented in groupings of three ...

Mogh's fortress is a ruin. Pigs root in the courtyard and roam noisily in his empty halls or drowse in sunbeams beneath a decaying roof....

Here's an idea for a campaign for an action/covert mission rpg.  Outgunned is what I'm thinking of, but it would work with somethin...

Art by Falmarin de Carme I came across this site a couple of weeks ago that compiles additional background material generated for a Finnish...

The original version of this post appeared in March of 2015... I've written previously about a world where the dungeoneering was an d...

I've been listening to the audiobook of A Travel to the Middle Ages , and its description of what, by the late Middle Ages, is essential...