A simple question, so perhaps out of context. What is the context? Decide for yourself, and then see what you may do with the provided 20 possible answers. This blog post has been inspired by Roll XX from Neoplastic Press. “Roll XX” was brought to you by The Sentinels of Meregoth (whoever THEY may be)!
Over at mewe.com, Samwise 7 had shared a post about an amazingly gigantic, now-extinct kind of bear from 11.000 years ago (the “Short-faced Bear”). If you think that a rearing grizzly is tall, than you will find this thing towering. Anyway, it sparked some post about “when in doubt which monster to use in OSR […]
Warsprites are murderous spirits that come into being on sites of great bloodshed, like battlefields, which they haunt. They have the appearance of androgynous naked humans with sinewy bodies but without genitalia. The face is frozen in a mask-like fierce or cruel expression. The being floats a few inch over the ground it walks on […]
A Hollow Crawler is a creature not form this world but born from a devouring void of darkness, desperation and desolation. They appear as a kind of fat and worm-like centipedes with a thin tail at the end of their body and no head at the start. Instead, there is just an opening into the […]
Somewhere hidden in a forest at the foot of mountain, there is a small stone structure. Small and angular, reminiscent of a shrine of Roman or Greek architecture. Several stone steps lead up to an elevated, open doorway. Anybody that approaches the steps will be meet by the guardian of the place: from the shadows […]
Katharina´s Erroneous Arrow was born out of an innocent-but-funny misunderstanding of an RPG Newbee who had some fancy dice with numbers instead of pips on them. Feel free to share -your- newbee mistakes in the comment section. I will relay them to dear Katharina. [DnD 5e]1st-level Evocation; Sorcerer or Wizard Spell Casting Time: 1 actionRange: […]
In the past I suffered from nervous breakdowns, burn-out and depression. Like a lot of people did and do. Everyone that ever went through therapy will at some point have heard an analogy where depression is described as a black dog that follows you around, that you cannot shake off, that gets in the way, […]
The Cait-Sithe are taken for fey folk by many a mortal. But while they are relatives, they are not the same. Some say they are cousins of a darker bend, others share rumors that they were close kindred by blood till something that the Cait-Sithe sought for themselves lead to them and the fey both […]
ScorchTwins are undead monsters and a curse. Their appearance is that of siamese twins charred by fire, fused at the side of the hip and torso, with one arm molten into the back of the other. They don´t stay like this for long, for as soon as they face to or more living, intelligent humanoids […]
Legend has it that Mahal was a famous slave master that has served a total of three different rulers in the palace of Baghdad, in the old days. Trusted and appreciated in his function by his superiors, the slaves feared him more than the devil himself. Not for the punishments he could devise (although those […]
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