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Loretober 12: Cuisine Cold chocolate soup originated in La Vache Brune of the elven House of Claude, and spread from there to other eating houses along the south coast of the Kingdom of Vinland. It's possible, if unlikely, that Gaelvar Claude was inspired to invent the dish by the writings of...

Loretober 11: Nature According to the writings of the mad wizard Tim of Atland, the otherworld of Trion has much the same plant life as does Gold-Home or Earth. Likewise birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates are very much the same. Mammals are different, however, with the...

Parrots: Sonic

Loretober 10: Dragons The dragons of Gold-Home are actually all were-dragons: Humans and lizardmen from the otherworld of Adobe Colony whose magic includes the ability to shift into a draconic form. This can be a gift or a curse, depending on the level of control the were-dragon has. At its...

Loretober 9: Occultism "Occultism" is the name given to false or imaginary forms of magic, or at least to magical forms deemed imaginary by respectable wizards, sorcerers, and other mages. Examples of occultism include kleptomancy, non-Paracelsian alchemy, and the curse- and blessing-rituals of...

Loretober 8: Myths & Legends The Bear With Five Legs is an ancient Myth of Gold-Home, with different versions told from the Demontooth Mountains to the North Forest, and from the Northwest Isles to the Prodigious Plains. The goblins of the Demontooth Mountains have a version where the...

Loretober 7: Villains "Mooserider" is a favorite villain character in the Tanner cycle of stories and sagas told by elves in the north. He is also found as a villain in stories told by certain tribes of the Western Cap. The name has been adopted by various real-world villains as well. Perhaps...

Loretober 6: Heroes In appearance, Cyrano de Bugerorc might be mistaken for a villain, or at least for a charming rogue: He's an orc who wears the costume of a dandy and bears the nose of a roc. He commits poetry in public, with the saving grace of having the style, wit, and talent to pull off...

Loretober 5: Psionics For all the years that he had lived in Ylide, Master Seztrim was not a native of the city, or even of the world. Like nearly all lizardmen, he hailed from the otherworld of Colony Adobe. And like most of the lizardmen seen in the world, he possessed mental powers that he...

Loretober 4: Music "The Fool of Ovalmere Faire" is the tune played by over half of the music boxes crafted in the Principalities, north of the Kingdom of Vinland and the Meadborn River. It's a traditional aire, sometimes also known as "The Fool (or The King) of Bengate Bridge." And in the...

Loretober 3: Prophecy Lady Torishar of the House of Broktus had invited Master Seztrim of Ylide to her Doomsday Party. This was a daring and even scandalous move, not because Master Seztrim was a scaly lizardman with psi powers, but because he was a slave dealer. The men of the House could and...

Loretober 2: Nightlife Wednesday nights are Dart Nights at the Anvil and Barrel in the halfling village of Broadstump. In truth, darts are played there every night, but on nights other than Wednesdays they're played "for funsies." Wednesday night darts, on the other hand, are played for a pair...

Loretober 1: Old Gods Gwayb is the One Who Has Not Yet Been Born. Some say Gwayb is older than the world, and ought to be counted as a sixth among the Golden Ones who created the world. Others claim that Gwayb is an invention of the mad goblin poet Kiovort Egob-son. All concede that Gwayb's...

And I'm going to respond with an old USENET post. Not by me, but I agree with it. ==== RPGs and video games differ from most ordinary board games in that there doesn't have to be a loser. I think it's reasonable that they attract mindsets which aren't very interested in losing; and a lot of RPG...

And that's one reason why I used the Norse gods as an example: Idun's fruit, and what happened when they lost access to it, makes them a closer precedent to your idea. :)

Actually I see that as an example of a perfectly legit off-beat take on a Loretober theme. Any of the themes could be played straight, played mostly straight with an unusual detail or three, or played thoroughly twisted. And in Norse mythology the gods have to eat Idun's magic fruit to keep...

I'd use non-cresting/peaking waves or wavy lines for water on a dungeon scale, along with shading. Here's a crop from one of my maps where a water wells out of a, well, well, and flows off in a rapid stream, at the 1 square = 5 ft scale.

I'll suggest a second change: Villains is misspelled as 'Villans' And text form because some people find that handier: Loretober 1. Old Gods 2. Nightlife 3. Prophecy 4. Music 5. Psionics 6. Heroes 7. Villains 8. Myths & Legends 9. Occultism 10. Dragons 11. Nature 12. Cuisine 13. Weapons 14...

I have lots of worlds. Some are game worlds, and some are worlds for my read-only fiction. So I'm left uncertain as to how this Loretober is supposed to work. Can we put a spotlight on an old, well-established example in one of our worlds for the theme of a given day, or should all the themes...