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My first thought was this: an octopid creature capable of dropping down upon unsuspecting victims from above? Sounds like there very possibly might be some genetic ties to the darkmantle, which does this very thing. Are the two races related? Might the gloomfetch be a particularly intelligent...

I finished the first book in the trilogy and am now starting the second, Twilight of the Gods II: Groa's Other Eye by Dennis Schmidt. It's pulp sword and sorcery with a Norse flair, and it does what it sets out to do: be a cool, action-packed pulp story with cool characters. I'm enjoying the...

Yeah, fortunately that was only a dream-figment of the Dreadful Flying Glove, not the real thing. And the human rogue has six levels of bard (as many as it took him to realize bards suck), and used it to inspire courage in his friends (the Blue Meanies were not at all impressed with his music)...

In today's "Dreams of Erthe" session, the PCs: Met up in the Dreamlands, and were told that a neighboring dream galaxy had skimmed by their own, resulting in a number of alien dream-fragments inhabiting a few of the dreams of the local residents, and the PCs, being dreamwalkers, were being sent...

Kaiju, Rabbids, Jigglypuff, Blue Meanies. Johnathan

Clown - This spell makes an inert duplicate of a creature, albeit one with an innate penchant for wearing greasepaint, rubber noses, and obnoxiously oversized shoes. If the original individual has been slain, its soul immediately transfers to the clown, creating a replacement (provided that the...

It's just a silhouette, so we can't really tell which way the figure in the foreground is facing. Maybe he's going home to tell his mom that the walking city followed him home and he wants to keep it as a pet, and he promises he'll feed it and play with it and clean up after it and take good...

"Hey! Don't be practicing your wild magic here in the cathedral!" "Why not? What's the worst that could happen?" Johnathan

That reminds me of the lyrics from the Art of Noise song, "The Holy Egoism of Genius," from the album The Seduction of Claude Debussy: … Debussy understood that a work of art Or an effort to create beauty Was always regarded by some people As a personal attack Johnathan

I actually do. I realized I'd probably never get to DM an Eberron campaign, so I ported the dinosaur-riding halflings into my current campaign. (It helps that I generally dislike halflings but make an exception for those who ride dinosaurs. The PCs are currently being led by a halfling ranger...

Ah, so they aren't acronyms then. Thanks! Johnathan

Could somebody define "AAA" and "AA" for me? To me, those are just battery sizes. Johnathan

I once had the party searching for a legendary longsword that had been the primary magic weapon of a deceased paladin. It was buried with him in his hidden tomb, and when they unearthed it, an avoral appeared and explained that the paladin's wishes were that anyone seeking to claim the sword...

Greg Bear has a novel, Hull Zero Three, that fits your qualifications. I recommend it only as a story about someone waking up on a spaceship with no memory - I didn't particularly enjoy it. Johnathan

I'm thinking that was meant to be posted in this thread. Johnathan

I guess my copies of Dragon #260, since I had a total of three distinct articles in it: Greater Drakes, The Ecology of the Aspis, and Arcane Lore: Dragondoom. It was my first (and only) trifecta. (I miss my freelancing days - never before did I have a hobby where I had more money coming in...

ADVENTURE 86: NAGA SAGA PC Roster: Alewyth Putterpye, dwarf priestess of Aerik 18 Thurloe Pulver, human fighter 3/wizard 3/spellsword 10/eldritch knight 2 Wakuren, half-orc cleric of Cal 9/paladin 9 Xandro Silverstrings, human bard 6/rogue 12...

In my current 3.5 campaign, I've tried incorporating a lot of different monsters that haven't gotten a lot of play in my prior campaigns, and dinosaurs are among them. So the latter half of this campaign has the PCs, who come from an Australia-sized continent, trekking across an Asia-sized...

The bad thing about being a retired drummer is if they ever pull you out of retirement, there will be...repercussions. (I'll let myself out.) Johnathan

I finished Stephen King's Holly (great story, featuring one of my favorite of his characters), and am now starting the first book in a trilogy by Dennis Schmidt: Twilight of the Gods: The First Name. So far, it's a standard sword and sorcery fantasy taking place in a Norse setting, with the...