This post first appeared in 2017, but I think a trotted out back in 2020 as well. The occasion of the double repeat is discovering a post on...

In Southeast Parsulan , the Karkharoth badlands are an inhospitable, monster-haunted region of gullies and ravines between low, barren, red ...

The youngest state of Southeastern Parsulan is at once ill-omened and favored with great promise. Morrgna, capital of the Republic, is fame...

My vacant in Hawaii last week got me thinking about the subgenre of pulp adventure fiction that dealt with tales of freighter captains or sa...

My earlier post on the new setting I'm working on drew some questions related to the uninvolved gods and how the cleric class would wor...

 I pitched the idea that I have been kicking around to my players after the last session, and they were into it. So into it they have alread...

 A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned a new setting I was thinking about for after my current Land of Azurth game comes to an end. I now thin...

With our Land of Azurth campaign nearing its conclusion, I've been thinking about what might come after. Or more truthfully, I've th...

In the Latter Ages of Earth , it is known that the scientist mages of more lucent eras spoke of an invisible, co-existing realm. Scholars kn...

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...

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...