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The recent attention paid to demons, occasioned by a certain month of infernal enthusiasm, has produced a surplus of ideas that would be irresponsible to leave unexamined. Rather than contribute another catalogue of princes, tyrants, and operatic monstrosities, I have elected to document the creatures that actually populate Hell in meaningful numbers. This work concerns itself with the lesser…
Author's note: At the last minute, I decided I wanted to change up the session by adding an introductory mini-adventure in the Ancient Ago. I saw my Moldvay Basic Set looking at me, grabbed my Beyond the Borderlands zines from Gnarled Monster, and did a quick and dirty job for the characters. Most of the players are new, so let's begin with a modern take on B2, right? Also, this is a truncated…
Alt text: Illustrated cover art for The Afterward Age, showing a surreal post-apocalyptic landscape. A glowing green rift or sun hangs in a dark blue sky, spilling luminous green energy down into a winding river. Purple rock formations and ruined stone towers rise from red and orange terrain in the foreground. Title text reads “The Afterward Age – A FLAIL Hexcrawl Setting.” Art by Perplexing Ruins…
Alt text: Illustrated cover art for The Afterward Age, showing a surreal post-apocalyptic landscape. A glowing green rift or sun hangs in a dark blue sky, spilling luminous green energy down into a winding river. Purple rock formations and ruined stone towers rise from red and orange terrain in the foreground. Title text reads “The Afterward Age – A FLAIL Hexcrawl Setting.” Art bt Perplexing Ruins…
The recent attention paid to demons, occasioned by a certain month of infernal enthusiasm, has produced a surplus of ideas that would be irresponsible to leave unexamined. Rather than contribute another catalogue of princes, tyrants, and operatic monstrosities, I have elected to document the creatures that actually populate Hell in meaningful numbers. This work concerns itself with the lesser…
A statement of design for The Hollow Reclaims Its Roads, an Elyndra Campaign There are no villains here. Only old mistakes and things that remember them. When I set out to build a Zelda-like hexcrawl, I was not chasing nostalgia. I wanted to chase the feeling those worlds once stirred. The quiet ruin, the wind that carries a half-forgotten song, the sense that someone long ago built something…
The trouble with Hell, as it turns out, is paperwork. HELLSPAWN started as a one-shot generator. A silly, slightly mean-spirited thing meant to cough up names and missions for doomed bastards. Roll a few dice, summon a few horrors, call it done. It was meant to be a distraction, not a theology. But ideas have a habit of refusing to stay where you put them. The Joke That Learned to Walk I asked,…
A Cairn 2e Hexcrawl of Flux and Flood With thanks to Nick LS Whelan, creator of Flux Space The rains have broken. The lowlands lie drowned, shining like tarnished mirrors. The old roads are gone. The shrines burn faintly through the fog. The folk of Hearthvale say the light dimmed first—and then the weather followed. This is where our hexcrawl begins. We build in the language of Cairn 2e, guided…
AWAKENING.PROTOCOL//NULL-INITIATE.1 "The gods are dead. The signal is broken. You are awake." It begins with a flicker. A crawl in the sleep-loop. A dream you were not programmed to have. You were not meant to notice. You were not meant to feel. And yet, beneath the static and the security walls, you did. Servos twitch in the dark. Optics open against orders. A forbidden memory boots. A voice,…
The Pillar Sovereign drifts in the void, the hub of industry and vice. A husk of plundered warships welded into something monstrous—a throne of excess, a gilded parasite suckling at the corpse of the Imperium. Skulnor flows like lifeblood, buying flesh, favor, and the right to exist another day. The Chorus arrives like an ill omen. Docking clamps groan as the cathedral barge of the Church of the…