The Madman's Menagerie

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For Glaugust: Classic Monsters as Classes.

For Glaugust: Magic Amulets.

The Dragon, hated and hateful thing that it is, occupies a place of power in the mind; it is the ultimate adversary, a challenge which dynasties have proven or ended themselves against.

Some things are valuable for their use.

Joseph Mallord William Turner There are numerous powers which observe and rule over the world from on high.

George Frederic Watts THE world and this—whatever other name men have chosen to designate the sky whose vaulted roof encircles the universe, is fitly believed to be a deity, eternal, immeasurable, a being that never began to exist and never will perish.

A long time ago, kings were buried with the wealth of their lives, often including pets and servants, under the vain assumption that these material things would be carried on to the immaterial.

Demons can tell you a lot of things, and some of them are even true, but the one thing of which they will not speak is what comes after.

If there is any such thing as true evil in the world, it was the Dragons.

The Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q532 Col. 2 Frags. 1 - 6 2 [...] flesh [...] 3 al[l...] monsters [...] will be [...] 4 [...] they would arise [...] lacking in true knowledge [...] because [...] 5 [...] the earth [grew corrupt...] mighty [...] 6 [...] they were con…

I played Wolves Upon the Coast recently.

Lightning is the purest expression of strength.

In the choking vacuum of the Machine Space, there are islands: sealed pockets of material in the mechanism of the Structure, waiting to be cracked open and stripped bare by anyone with the tools to do it.

It's not what you know.

There is an empire broken apart, in flames, brother soon to be turned against brother in a war which will set the course of history forever.

Here's a sad story in six words.

The bandit is an underrated sort of monster, because it's a real monster.

Frankly, if we were all stranded on a desert island, we'd be eating each other alive before the boat even left the shore.

The Presbyter taught that there was no mercy in this world save but that which we gave one another, and for this, he was killed mercilessly.

The thrill-seeking gambling addict wizards of Level Die get a missive: To the sorcerers of Level Die A challenge: Come to Caesars Atlantic City and I will kill you.

The First and Last populated the world with many things, and set many people to rule them.

Another Glåugust Glogtember GLOGTOBER, post.

For Invisible Hands.

Here we are, back to my personal monster manual.

It was one of those ideas that seems good when you've been living on black coffee and Yonah white.