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Go read Zak’s Six Questions From The Iron Cobra – also, Gelatinous Cubes
Long ago dnd with porn stars did a survey of all the monsters with ideas for what to do with them. Go read it if you haven’t. Here’s a high point from the I monsters: The imp… can provide six answers...
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Formless spawn of Azoth
Part Cthulhuvian horror, part alchemetic elixir, the Formless Spawn of Azoth is an intelligent black oil, which can shape itself however it chooses. It is also caustic – touching it inflicts 1d4...
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World’s geekiest possible dissertation proposal
Why is space in D&D only divisible into 10′ cubes? This thesis explores the development and universality of those methods of mapping, describing and producing space that are characteristic of...
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One sentence adventure pitches
1. To fight the shoggoths you have to become one… and then find a way to get the humans to work with you. 2. Your dad built an empire but now he’s been assassinated, so you, the dissolute playboy, are...
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How brightly-coloured should Carcosa be?
Edit: Robert Parker’s essay on Carcosa = Masters of the Universe is here. It is better than mine, and it was he who first got me thinking on these lines (although at the time I wrote what follows I had...
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The only trainspotting post I will ever write. Probably.
Looking at the trailer for the latest film in which Johnny Depp’s makeup upstages the titular character, I realise that what I really want to watch is a movie all about disruptive technologies. Or even...
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On the proto-history of Mecha, or Golems for Genus
Successive waves have washed back and forth over the line between sorcery and technology in Tartary. Right now the mood is decidedly technurgical – something unexplained may make the giant run, but its...
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