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Spacer consciousness has been bleeding into material reality far before they returned. The Space Cases are born from humans but their minds have been touched. Those often...
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The Spacers are a lost tribe of indeterminately ancient humans who journeyed into the Noösphere, the realm of the unconscious mind. After being driven nearly to extinction by...
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"Australia has a lot of beautiful plants and animals and most of them are, frankly, monsters. The eucalypt is no exception. Its reproductive strategy is to drop those heavy,...
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The School of Simulacra is a specialized form of illusion magic that creates Turing-complete illusions, which are constructs of pure thought and will capable of independent...
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An NPC I wrote for my current Maximum Recursion Depth campaign, following up from my Jewels of the IndraNet post. A Synchronizer is one who combines principles of karma and...
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This was originally going to be its own team but it needed a few more members and I never finished the draft, then Semiurge's superb superheroes post reminded me of his...
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tl;dr What if Tsutomu Nihei did a take on something between Iron Man and Doctor Strange? So of course I use other artist and mangaka references in this post instead of Tsutomu...
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One day middle-aged middle manager Soren Skelton jumped off a bridge, landing on his chrome dome only to wake up 6 years, 6 months, and 6 weeks later alive and kicking...
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This is the first original game material I've written for my current Maximum Recursion Depth Campaign, up to now I've just been using the book or other materials I've...
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Recently watched the Paramount+ era Star Trek stuff (besides Strange New Worlds- waiting for that to wrap) and also The Orville. Felt mixed on Star Trek, but even the stuff I...
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1. Portal Gun: Like the game. It can be a wand instead for fantasy.2. Phasing Spear: It can stab through doors and other barriers as if they weren't there.3. Healing Arrows:...
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The dragons of this world are massive creatures dwarfing blue whales, amphibians that have evolved into a shape and ecological niche somewhat like sharks.Dragon tadpoles hatch...
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There's Natural Selection and Sexual Selection, and on this world, there is also Existential Selection. Beyond simply sex and survival, creatures on this world have innate,...
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Another "weird gender" writeupThis species comes in two genders, Factory and Worker, although for most of their history they identified as Nest and Dweller.A young Factory is...
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We burned through the global industrial-scale of fossil fuels faster than anticipated, the bodies of fresh water are shriveled corpses of their former glory leaking their...
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Rings of Power: The Inner CircleThe PCs are inducted into The Inner Circle, a secret society whose members are supplied with a ring of power.They scheme against The Body of...
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This is a Weird Worldbuilding game. You're provided with a set of tools to develop a near future world, like five years near, except there's been an Alien Invasion and that's...
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As jaded as we've become by notions like "innovation" and "progress" in this late stage of our capitalism, one should take a step back once in a while and appreciate the good...
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Dynamicland and Dynamic Reality OverviewAs someone who is interested in the intersection of STEM and the arts, I'm a big fan of Nicky Case's blog, and in their most recent post...
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Fire! Fire! Psycho Soldier!RerunsEpisode 1Episode 2Episode 3Episode 4It's Halloween season!...but I've got nothing seasonal on the mind. I have been watching movies...
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The PCs are breaking into Heaven because they couldn't make the waitlist, or are otherwise morally compromised, and now they want revenge for the eternity of bliss they didn't...
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The FlyBiotech scientist and social activist vigilante with a fly mask and a classic noir costume over superhero spandex. A small wiry man with a pet fly that sometimes talks...
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Their origins may have been functional (hunting, protection, pest control), but that's mostly not why people have pets anymore. We have pets because they are adorable and...
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I can't resist a provocative title. These aren't really "genders", but alternative dimensions upon which a species might be organized biologically, socially, or sexually....Linked by the ring
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As part of WORDS!: The July 2024 Blog Carnival hosted by Beneath Foreign Planets, I thought I'd revisit one of my favorite game mechanics of all time: Concept CraftingCredit to...
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Followup to Into Interodelia: A Probiotic Drug Cocktail Adventure [Campaign Setup]. If you see something with a *, it's a reference to the first post.Thanks to Dan of Lacrimis...
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This was drafted as far back as February, but I recently watched the original Wicker Man and it was really good and reminded me of this post. Also spiritually connected to The...
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Treasure table of grotesque items#7 and #8 were written by Beneath Foreign PlanetsAn Unkindly Face: The face of an orc warrior tanned into a mask. The face is pensive and...Linked by the ring
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The Law of Unintended Consequences is a competitive game played between two parties, managed by a single GM.One team are The Heroes, and the other team are The Outlaws.The...
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There are so many gods, it's inevitable that some get forgotten. We can forget gods, but let's not forget the people who made them. Contributors will be listed in...