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Nobody knows anything solid about the Plain of Jars. It consists of countless, huge stone jars spread across 90 sites in Laos. Not as awe-inspiring as a lot of the stuff here, but I think it compensates by being bizarre and thought-provoking. Are they dwarven distilleries, vessels for dark...

One more. The Inverted Temple (20.20) Connected to 16.20 This flooded quarry looks innocuous, but adventurers who moor a boat at a certain crevasse on the southeastern face and step inside can explore a truly bizarre temple complex. The Inverted Temple's altars, pews, idols and shrines are...

Jar Town (16.20) (Inspired by this place.) The weathered and cracked remnants of colossal stone jars litter this stretch of grassland. They range greatly in style and size - some resemble cauldrons, others tea kettles, others vials. The smallest has a 5' circumference, while the largest are...

Everything I've heard about Unknown Armies sounds awesome. It seems like a dark, weird urban fantasy game with a good sense of humor. Who wouldn't want to play a character who gets magic powers from watching TV or getting wasted? It's also the only RPG book that starts the combat chapter with a...

Sladder, the Isle of Crows (44.17) (Expanding on Crowfolk of Blind Midshotgatepool) Centuries of violent earthquakes have twisted this island's topography. A rift valley with a bubbling mud lake splits the island in two. The peaks on either side of the valley are broken and rise like claws or...

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned The Talisman by Steven King and Peter Straub. It's a novel centered around an evil businessman's scheme to exploit a parallel fantasy world and a boy's quest for an artifact that will cure his mother's terminal illness. A lot of interesting concepts from The...

I love using huge, mysterious places to inspire players to explore, and form theories about, the world. 1) An ancient Eladrin palace complex that has been swallowed by jungle. The complex is built over a subterranean lake that, over the centuries, has broken the surface in many places. The...

I've always been inspired by Mediterranean-style settings because there's so many opportunities for a wide variety of adventures. It's easy to have swashbuckling on the high seas one day, navigating a bustling cosmopolitan city the next day, then setting out into the desert the next day to...

How do you make PC or monster races your own? More than just humans with different crunch and a gimmick or two? Other sentient species have the potential for mental facilities, biological processes and cultural behavior completely alien to humans. From my experience, going the extra mile and...

Athach = Armchest Stinkman Digester = Deathspit Skullchicken Rust Monster = Oxidizing Armadillobug Dispalcer Beat = Whipshoulder Dodgecat Rhinoceres = Stabbingface Plateskin Giant Constrictor = Slithering Squeezemonster

Gnoll = Laughdog Marauder Umber Hulk = Crazyeye Murderbug Cloaker = Surprise Landflatfish Choker = Longarm Stranglemidget Tiger = Blackstripe Terrorcat Lion = Curlhair Terrorcat Balor = Burning Scaledbatgiant Ettin = Clubmaster Doubleheads

Elephant = Legface Tuskmonster Centipede = Creeping Platebug Aboleth = Oozefish Slaverlord Cockatrice = Stonebeak Lizardhen Coutl = Righteous Rainbowsnake

Alienation: The Official Franz Kafka RPG (If you wish to purchase this role playing game, fill out our request form completely, place it along with a check and a copy of your birth certificate in an 11"x8" manila envelope and mail it to the hospital that you were born in.)

You Have to Break Some Eggs to Make an Omelette On an isolated archipalaego, the people decide their rulers every generation by a trial of ordeal. Young, healthy, clever representatives of influential families are chosen for the task of retrieving a dragon's egg from the remote, monster-infested...

The players fought a blue dragon while running down a narrow staircase that clung to the sides of a wide shaft. The party lacked serious ranged power, so they were forced to come up with creative ways to draw the dragon closer to the stairs. They had to be inventive with formations too, because...

Apparatus of Kwalish.