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The Everlasting and WitchCraft are the only games I can remember that tried to compete directly by writing extensive lore, but they died out. Because of copyright law, I only really have the option to write my own lore rather than co-opting someone else's. I don't know if I said it before, but...

There was The Everlasting and WitchCraft in the late 90s that tried to compete with World of Darkness, but they sputtered and died. I find that really frustrating since they made a number of genuine innovations over the WoD formula, like writing a unified setting and using the same guidelines...

That and Opening the Dark, Night Shift, and others I don't know about.

Reminds me a bit of how in AD&D the vampires existed on both of the energy planes and preserved themselves by feeding energy back to it or something, as well as some internet theories about how all undead are portals to the negative plane or something. It's a pretty interesting concept, all...

Here are some more ideas for organizations and beliefs: The atoners: the flipside of the adversaries, the atoners believe they were cursed by God (or whoever they believe) and must perform good deeds to save their souls. Technophiles: a relatively young school that bases itself around the...

That’s a good question. To be honest, that’s an issue of linguistic drift. If Bunnicula is a vampire and Marceline is a vampire, then why not... whatever that thing you mentioned is? Here's a quote from American Vampire that may be relevant:

Okay, ideas for vampire organizations and bloodlines. So a bloodline is a group of vampires who descend from the same progenitor. Where progenitors come from is variable: a pact with Hell, a curse, stubbornness in the face of death, sheer bad luck, etc. That's assuming the vampires are...

Okay, thanks. I’ll start with vampires. What I wanted to do, inspired by Feed, was give GMs and players complete freedom in designing their vampire strains. Longevity, appearance, weaknesses, powers, etc. If you want to play the comic American Vampire, or the setting of the old RPG Nightlife...

Nightlife basically has the same premise as Vampire, but with more diversity in character options. They’re not all recycling the same quasi-Ricean template. I looked into Liminal. I like it, but I would like to explore multiple settings with different takes on monsters. Something in the vein of...

Opening the Dark is a retroclone of dice pool mechanics with a freeform magic system. I’m not tied to any particular system. I don’t want to any existing IP. Although The Strange’s concept of recursions is really neat. I don’t want to limit myself to any existing IP. I want to create my own...

Fair enough. I was thinking of going for a systemless setting and releasing modular fluff under the OGL to promote community content creation, similar to how d20 Modern released Department-7 under the SRD. The primary appeal of World of Darkness is the extensive setting, so to compete I would...

World of Darkness has a virtual monopoly over the urban fantasy tabletop space. I don’t like the game setting or the rules. I would prefer if there were alternatives, but there don’t seem to be any. What I would prefer is something like D&D, except for urban fantasy. Lots of different...

At the moment, I'm super lazy and more interested in Mythras Classic Fantasy. If anybody wants to convert statistics, I'm posting them in their own thread. First one was the aboleth subraces from Grim Tales and Slavelords of Cydonia.

And last but far from least, the true aboleth: The true aboleth is basically a giant aboleth whose slime turns its victims into zombies. Although it's called the "true" aboleth, the text doesn't make any comparisons with the aboleth in the MM/SRD. The true aboleth is interchangeably...

And here's the Shibboleth: The shibboleth is an aboleth subrace characterized by their unique slime. Whereas the standard aboleth's slime causes its victims to become aquatic, the shibboleth's slime rots the brain of low-Int victims and turns them into its zombie-like puppets who can...

Here's the rgleth. To summarize: the rgleth attaches to the host animal's spine, injects stimulants, and feeds on its host to boost its own nervous reserves. The hosted rgleth may use its psychic powers and tentacles in tandem with its hosts's attacks. They serve as brute muscle in the...

And here is the hosted nihileth template. Oddly, it is included in Grim Tales but not Slavelords of Cydonia. (Oh, and I forgot to note that there are some instances where a lethid is stated to have fire resistance. This is an error and supposed to be cold resistance. I have edited this...

And here's the statistics and abilities for nihileth: The nihileth is essentially an open game content substitute for the ilithid. When hosted (engulfing its host's head), it resembles the stereotypical squid-headed humanoid. The nihileth serve as lieutenants to the aboleth and coordinate a...

I bought a used copy of Slavelords of Cydonia a while back. I thought the lethid and sli'ess were kind of cool and I was surprised to see that, despite the rules being open game content, they weren't reprinted elsewhere. (They're open game counterparts of illithids and yuan-ti, respectively.)...

Chinese dragons are known to evolve from carp that jump the Dragon’s Gate. Serbian dragons are known to evolve from fish, birds, and serpents that reach the age of one hundred.