Recent content by monarch71

Not long ago I ran a D&D 5E campaign I titled "Freebooters in the Star Lanes." It was strongly (shamelessly) inspired by Spelljammer. The mechanics of space travel were different. There were no crystal spheres, and instead of helms ships used magitech engines and gold-coated sails to catch the...

I like to differentiate the different spiritual undead by imagining that there's a whole unseen "ecosystem" ("thanatosystem?") going on in the spiritual world, and the spirits are products of that. Ghosts are a default, "natural," product of a sentient being dying. The process of dying while...