Weird lore and gonzo mechanics for your RPG pleasure!
-Zoltar says-Make Your Wish. Another pull from Furtive Goblin. With predictions like: “You shall know glory in battle, but die from acute shellfish poisoning,” and “You shall slay the dragon, but you shall miss your daughter’s piano recital,” Yishel is the God of Uncomfortable Revelations. Every prophecy comes with a good and a bad, every […]
Literally Speed. Whoo! Drug Tables! What is this quack apothecary selling? What is this vagrant snorting? What is in the Marquis’ snuff box? What did Bob the Fighter just stupidly ingest from the dungeon floor? Roll Drug 1 Unicorn Glue 2 Pixie Poultice 3 Bottled Death Rattle 4 Chimera Seeds 5 Eldertree Sap 6 Catoblepas […]
More Royal mistakes to be made! So as you know the universe and everything in it is defined by its King. Now I’ll note real quick, if it wasn’t obvious, King in this case is a gender neutral title. A King exists as the ur-example and ruler of…well anything that an example can be made […]
Not this Or this Or this There we go When I was first able to get my wife to play RPGs, she played a conjurer wizard who was obsessed with snakes. He was a reasonably nice wizard, he just didn’t understand it was weird to keep the desiccated remains of your master in your basement, […]
Witches, amirite? So you are just doing your adventuring thing, having some fun in a bog or a dungeon or some random cave, and suddenly this ugly mug pops up and steals your name. Shit! You were thinking, oh yeah no way that could happen. After all, someone needs to hear you say it. Or […]
Furtive Goblin’s setting, tentatively called the ITU universe, is, for the most part, rather low magic. There is a mean old hedge wizard that we’ve met and there are some fantastical beasts such as the Blood Wasps and the Zood. However there is one place that has known the stench of truly foul magics, though […]
Aristotle held that there were four kinds of answers to “why” questions, these being the Four Causes. The Material Cause, the Formal Cause, the Efficient Cause, and the Final Cause. To fully understand something, one must understand all of its Causes. I’m going to take my limited knowledge of the topic, surely get half of […]
If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. At least, that is what people say. The truth of the matter is, if you want something done right, you usually hire someone better qualified at doing what you need doing. I’m not going to fool around with my furnace when I know […]
Hail to the King, baby! I was going to make this into an in-depth post about Creation and Royalty and fantasy religion. But then I realized that no matter how many times I tried to draft it, I was imitating without making it my own. It was YSUN mixed with Ymir or it was Zulin […]
Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, courtesy of lipatov I am an unrepentant fan of Perdido Street Station. Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, like most of China’s characters, isn’t the greatest beacon of morality you will find in fiction and this makes him feel so much more human as a protagonist. Furthermore I love The Scar, and its anti-hero/antagonist Uther Doul […]