I’ve actually had this article cooking for quite a while (early September 2013), it was one of those that could just never have a home found for it. I shopped it around and eventually it made it’s way into Pyramid #3/82: Magical Creations. The writing was actually fairly easy and I’d knocked it out in […]
Writing “How Very Tempting” was among my easier articles – about 27 hours (most of that spent revising – I wrote the whole thing in about 3 hours) total. I knew what I wanted and I went for it. I’d been fooling around with a system for some time in my own campaigns (which this […]
Note: Rat-Thing’s are from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Rat-Thing Swarm Rat-Thing swarms are a writhing mass of normal rats and actual Rat-Things (which “control” them) – they are the epitome of fear for a musophobe. Eight or more Rat-Things (and hundreds of rats) constitute a swarm. Any Campaign Setting… ST: 8 HP: […]
Rat-Thing Rat-Things are large (about a foot and a half long from head to tail) rodent with a human faces that are twisted with hate. Despite their size they are fiendishly strong and can bit off the finger of a grown man with a single bite. Any Game System… ST: 8 HP: 10 […]
“Dog – do you still think I made all my effigies? Why not say preserved? You know by this time the strange places I’ve been to, and the strange things I’ve brought back. Coward – you could never face the dimensional shambler whose hide I put on to scare you – the mere sight of […]
The Night-Dimmed Day – Part II – Game Session 4 July 3rd 2000, Monday 6:00 pm Undisclosed Island in Michigan Lake The PCs get to rest for a couple of hours while the scientists work out the next series of equations, but once they’re finished they get marshaled back up to the Saucer (the main […]
The Night-Dimmed Day – Part II – Game Session 3 (The following is the subjective date – to the players it appears to have stopped) July 3rd 2000, Monday 1:35 pm (The following is the chronological date) November 6th 1614, Sunday 5:00 pm Unnamed Village at Akumagajikko Mountain Pass, Ishikari Mountains, Japan The PCs, along […]
The Night-Dimmed Day – Part I – Game Session 3 July 2nd 2000, Sunday Gelar Ohanzee & Hachiko Koga (Part I) 9:00 pm Undisclosed Island in Michigan Lake Gelar and Hachiko are both briefed by Commander Islington. [Neither of the players for these characters showed up and were thus moved into the ‘background’ for this […]