Recent content by Shades of Eternity

A searing frontier of hoodoos, fossil cliffs, and broken horizons. Once the world’s greatest dinosaur dig site. Now? A portal-touched war zone where something ancient is pushing back. It all begins with this post - Presenting the Terrorsaur Badlands - Part 01 -...

After all this stewing, all that I ended up doing is making a whole slew of 2014 backgrounds for my rpg, and I don't think it was a bad thing.

I am trying to see if the way that the elder scrolls games does their species is a better or worse model then the current or previous editions of dungeons and dragons. Like giving humans special abilities based on region makes as much sense as doing sub species for dwarves and elves. Skyrim in...

Well, if we are writing it... MILF’s Legendary Spell List (Revised & Annotated) “These are not just spells. These are standards.” — Melfina Brightflame Charm Person If you are relying on magic for this, we need to have a much longer conversation. True charm is not cast—it is conveyed: in the...

Dungeonhub?

Because I can't let a bad joke die. MILF’s Guide to Greyhawk “Power, Presence, and Practical Magic from a Woman Who’s Been Around the Multiverse Twice.” These days, I answer to Melfina Brightflame, archmage of experience, which is what you become after you’ve watched empires rise, fall, and...

Alright… this is the one that’s been sitting underneath everything we’ve been poking at. We’ve followed the tornadoes. We’ve walked the Road. We’ve talked about returnees, loops, and the Emerald City weirdness. So here’s the uncomfortable question: If Oz is real… who built the system? The...

Never thought they had it in them. Good for them, I say. :D

https://breadthofpopsanity.blogspot.com/2022/11/revolutionary-planetological-geonomicon.html I did space byzantium, complete with cuthroat politics based on space chariot racing. :D

I'm surprised they have never been done in spelljammer. space vikings.

It is fun finding a culture you want to use in spelljammer and putting space in front of it. Show me your proficient use of this strategy for your game and to help others. :D

I blame the current climate, but I can't imagine a smart chaotic evil. Can somebody explain how your GM would pull it off?

New OzGate blog entry is up. This chapter pushes the series deeper into conspiracy horror: rural tornado disappearances, returned children with altered behavior, circular-symbol compulsions, and a darker interpretation of the Wizard as part of a larger control system. It’s built as a...

The newest article dives into Cold War weather experiments and how they could be reinterpreted as attempts to recreate the Cold War. If you’re looking for weird campaign inspiration or worldbuilding ideas, storms as dimensional portals might be fun to play with. 🌪 OzGate Part 5: Tornado Tech...

I’ve just published Part 4 of my OzGate series, a speculative conspiracy-style exploration of the Land of Oz as a hidden alternate realm. This entry focuses on the 1985 film Return to Oz and reinterprets it as a “leak”—a fictionalized account of events in Oz disguised as a failed sequel...