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Encounter Table Publishing, a startup tabletop RPG publishing company founded by RPG author Robert Brookes, is proud to announce the launch of the Aethera Campaign Setting Kickstarter! Robert Brookes is a former finalist in Paizo Inc's RPG Superstar competition, regular contributing author to...

Encounter Table Publishing, a startup tabletop RPG publishing company founded by RPG author Robert Brookes, is proud to announce the launch of the Aethera Campaign Setting Kickstarter! Robert Brookes is a former finalist in Paizo Inc's RPG Superstar competition, regular contributing author to...

More options for tieflings beyond the exclusively devil-blooded description of the PHB race and finally an acknowledgement that yeah, they aren't all linked to Asmodeus. Then they go ahead and link two of the options thematically to devils anyway...

No scientific reason, other than the current body of literature looking at the interplay of genes, epigenetics, and hormonal flux during fetal development and how they influence sexual orientation and gender identity prior to birth. Try again. The fine details are still in development, but it...

The Paradox of Tolerance as Popper termed it is a real thing and very useful to keep in mind, but there's always the difficult point of where to draw the line in defining what speech is intolerant at what point and where we place restrictions. Just direct threats of violence? Any speech that...

In an instant their world had become agony. Suspended in acid eating away at their flesh and drowning at the same time, only a moment later did the corrosive liquid begin to boil, compounding the hell which Taba had prepared for each and every would-be pursuer. Arms flailed and legs kicked...

Except that it does appear to be the case, much to the lament of certain schools of sociology. The notion that somehow, in the absence of any empirical evidence to show it, that sexuality is a product of social interactions is a throwback to a century or more ago. It's the same unproven and...

Unless you alter the underlying way in which biology and the brain structures responsible for sexual orientation work, yes, it would still be the standard if religious morals vanished. That's not a value judgement whatsoever, it's just the (incredibly complex) science underlying the issue.

I appreciated seeing 5e make some moves towards inclusivity, but IMO WotC is still catching up with where the industry has been going for years now in that regard. I'd like to see the inclusivity push reflected in modules and sourcebook material, otherwise it risks being somewhere between...

“F*ck!” Florian screamed as Clueless’s lifeless body fell to the ground like a beheaded rag doll discarded by a yeth hound. Cackling in her moment of gory success, the nightingale that was Taba burst forth from the branches of its elm tree bower and rocketed across the meadow. In the confusion...

It varied slightly depending on what plane they encountered Taba on (same for any of the major archfiends). The PCs were at that point in or around level 15? Maybe slightly higher. Taba was CR 20 something, with some amount of plot armor given to the PCs so they'd have an encounter, realize the...

Three rounds followed by a death attack are the sweetest three rounds in a GM's life. :D

A few moments of confusion passed swiftly and Tristol teleported them all up to Alex’s level, relieved to at least find someone not wishing them dismemberment, eternal slavery, or swift death. As odd as it might seem to find an apparently friendly face in the depths of Baator, the fact that the...

Already in there, but he isn't aware of it. Two more plot arcs for that. I have this all outlined, no worries. :) Because God knows there's so much that I'd never be able to keep it all straight unless I'd done that outline years prior when I started writing this (nearly a decade ago at this...

I'll have another update in not too short a time, given that I'm working on it right now. I split this into two posts just based on the length I was at versus good points for dramatic pause. This is, if I recall, the first time we've seen the General really mentioned much since the original...

Taba cackled with delight as she reared up on the spiked, metallic insect legs newly sprouted from her body. As she laughed, a half dozen other mouths formed across her morphic flesh like physical echoes to express the same blasphemous exclamation. “Scream in the name of Lord of the Crawling...

I'd love to work on the setting again, even in a small way. I'll be sure to make my silence conspicuous if that ever happens.

King of the Crosstrade. Not Crossroads.

I was rooming with WizO_Clueless at the time, so I heard in passing about some of the folks trying to make the best of the situation, and some of the drama as well. I still have nightmares about that eye-bleeding green color scheme though. *shiver*