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These are fantastic adventure models! I particularly love the Swamp Naiad who becomes a Hag by filtering the corruption. That is the perfect embodiment of what we are trying to achieve: a creature becoming a symptom of its environment. Real-world biology is often more terrifying than anything...

Excellent point! Those 60s-80s creature features are the 'ancestors' of ecological horror. The idea that 'we did it to ourselves' is exactly the nerve we want to touch with DFCB. However, where those movies often focused on the revenge of nature, we want to highlight the tragedy of it...

That’s a very insightful point. Using 'taint' or 'aberrations' as a metaphor for pollution is a classic and effective trope in fantasy. Where we try to push the envelope with the DFCB (Dark Fantasy Conservation & Biology) approach is by moving away from 'external' evil. Instead of an outside...

Greetings everyone, As a columnist for the DFCB (Dark Fantasy Conservation & Biology) project, I often wonder about the place of the natural world in our darkest campaigns. Too often, ‘Dark Fantasy’ boils down to an aesthetic of ruins and despair, forgetting that nature itself is a victim—or a...