Illithids and Their Language
Mind flayers, and other naturally psionic critters with telepathy as their primary speech, have to learn spoken language as their second...
Daniel Sullivan
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The House That is a God
Like a genius loci, mostly. Â Adherents that sleep in the house lose 1 hp from their max each time they wake, to a maximum of 5 lost....
Daniel Sullivan
1 min read
Groundhog Day
Like Majora's Mask, or Groundhog Day, or The Eleventh Hour. Run a single apocalyptic scenario again and again. Seed the idea way in...
Daniel Sullivan
3 min read
The Gravity of the Machine
A complicated, whirling machine of brass and gemstones and glass hums as it draws blood up, and through it, and pumps it back out. Â Now...
Daniel Sullivan
2 min read
Goblins & Gremlins
Goblins, in much art from the Olden Days, are not the small green-faced guys we now recognize. Just as often they're small noblemen like...
Daniel Sullivan
1 min read
Glass Dome
A titanic glass dome covers a city. It's unbreakable by modern might or magic, and bears only a few small cracks where some terrible...
Daniel Sullivan
1 min read
Gimmick Fights
Chess Board (you have to move carefully because enemies threaten certain spaces via magic, martial arts, weapons, traps, etc.) Â Checkers...
Daniel Sullivan
1 min read
Ghost Ship
A ship sails into view on a lake that's barely deep enough to float the thing. There are no navigable rivers into the lake, or out. In...
Daniel Sullivan
1 min read
From the Society
Each player first notices a few strange things that occur around their homes, offices, or in their lives. Mostly innocuous, these small...
Daniel Sullivan
1 min read
Forges & Foundries
Dumathoin's Anvil: an ancient golem designed to build weapons of war. Churns out swords, armor, siege equipment at a crazy rate, given...
Daniel Sullivan
2 min read
In the Dark of the Night
The night isn't just a time when the day is gone, or when things get darker. It is an actual and very real presence, something that...
Daniel Sullivan
2 min read
The Box of the Deck of Many Things
This is such a pain-in-the-ass item to run, have, or be in proximity to. As a way to reinforce the danger and value of this fuckin'...
Daniel Sullivan
2 min read
Elven Forests
Everything is built to a more primal, ancient scale. The trees are impossibly huge, such that their branches don't even interrupt...
Daniel Sullivan
1 min read
Elf Hair, Elf Teeth
Elves live hundreds of years, and some grow their hair out for hundreds of years. Meeting an elf with a turban containing dozens and...
Daniel Sullivan
1 min read
Divine Obligations
Gods owe so many souls to the Prime Material. They collect them post-mortem, then essentially ante then back to reality, gambling to win...
Daniel Sullivan
1 min read
Depth
The most common wizard tower, alien prison, or etc. is a spire (probably). SEE: Ptolus, etc. The second most is a series of caverns, such...
Daniel Sullivan
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Demonocracy
Hell (THE hells) is strictly monarchial: Asmodeus wears the crown, and appoints dukes and princes and the like as he sees fit. All power...
Daniel Sullivan
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Crenthle's Calamitous Conundrums
A quiz show, run by a lich or similar (unseelie fey, a demon with a sense of humor...). Make a series of questions about in-game...
Daniel Sullivan
1 min read
Diamond Rings
Wedding rings are gold with diamonds not for appearance but as resurrection insurance: the gold goes to the priest, the diamond is...
Daniel Sullivan
1 min read
Come to the Party!
A cool, underground party where the invites are totally personalized: they're fake IDs. You can only get in with a badly-made fake ID....
Daniel Sullivan
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