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...

Mostly discussions about alignment (probably since time immemorial) seem to circle around 3 opens about it: it is just a suggestion for role...

In the post-industrial fantasy,  The   Gutter Prayer , by Gareth Hanrahan, gods are essentially strange loops of magical energy, powered by...

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...

I originally posted these in 2016... These are model sheets for the Sectaurs cartoon. The items depicted here should had a little post-apoc...

The Revenger Trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by Alastair Reynolds. In a future millions of years hence, there is a spacefarin...

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

Tsutomu Nihei The following suggestions for dungeon adventure rpgs may not be entirely novel, but they certainly aren't common in publis...

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 2016...  Jack Shear brought to my attention an idea Kreg Mosier proposed of a Southern Gothic...

Finding the audiobook of Simon Green's Deathstalker free on Audible until next week, I decided to revisit it. It's a book I read in...

This past weekend, I visited my mother's family's old hometown of Panama City Beach, Florida. I got a chance to show my kid one of t...

 The recent blast of Rifts related Bundles of Holding  had me not only spending a bit of money (with 5 bundles one was bound to get me!) bu...

I originally posted these maps in 2018, but I came across them again and thought they were worth re-sharing. For those of you not familiar w...

Not too long ago, I made the case for Planetary Romance, and particularly its Sword & Planet (sub-)sub-genre, as good fodder for role-pl...

Need a campaign idea or at least a prompt to develop your own? Just roll on the following table based on the AD&D "Appendix N"...

I've mentioned before how the original Fiend Folio (as compared to the Monster Manual) seems suited as inspiration for sci-fi creature...

To my mind, the these works and works provoke an impeccable  Spelljammer vibe: Don Lawrence ( Storm ) Al Williamson Magnus ( Milady 3000 ...

Earlier this week, Anne reminded us of an old post where she discussed her earliest, fantasy inspirations. It reminded me of my own fantasy...

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...