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I have long wanted to run Deadlands in the 1960s and 70s. Images of hopeful hippies battling Reckoner-backed false flower children, mad science flourishing in the days of wild innovation at the height of the cold war, surf culture burgeoning in the Great Maze, aging beatniks doing that vice...

I had the idea to stat up Hello Kitty mostly because one of my Beloveds is a GINORMOUS Hello Kitty fan. Well, okay, zey is actually a Bad Batz Maru fan, but guess whose merch is easier to find? So then I started thinking about a world called Sanri, a D&D setting I could slowly build up from...

Furthering Nidal’s theme of collecting long-lost knowledge, Pangolais features an entire district dedicated to recreating an image of what Azlant might have been like before the aboleth dropped a meteor on it. Called “New Calignos” as it is a haven for the caligno, it lies a good third of a mile...

Yay! We get an explicit mention of Nidalese foreign policy and diplomacy, as we are told that the Jadwiga witches who rule Irrisen have found some devotion for Zon-Kuthon among their ranks and so maintain an embassy in the “fairy tale mansion” (I naughty word you not, that’s right out of the text) in...

Pangolais’s main temple is a contender for the title of main Kuthite temple across the Inner Sea. Called the Cathedral of Exquisite Agony and built of marble and steel in the grandest Brutalist fashion, it resembles nothing so much as a plague-hallucination of a monster in a spiked carapace. We...

Pangolais, as stated, is a city of sophisticated, gracious pain, pain savored in all of its details and transmogrifications over time and the beauty it allows and the beauty of it. This is not the place where tortured screams rip the gloom, but instead where the exquisite food of the bistro is...

Ah, Pangolais! The city which hides away even from Nidal’s dimmed sun beneath the black leaves of the Uskwood! Where every sound’s reverberations are swallowed by those leaves til they whisper and that whisper can almost be heard above the hush! Glittering in a thousand grays, interrupted only...

Nidal is a country on the continent of Avistan on the planet of Golarion, which is the setting of Paizo's Pathfinder game. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have about it! But first! The next, very belated installment! Kayalhi, as you might be able to tell from the name, is a town...

Tiny content warning: there’s a bit of gruesomeness in the very last sentence that might be difficult. Please take care of yourselves. There’s a fortress in the southern Mindspins that seems made of shadows and probably houses velstracs performing strange rituals. It’s called the Hall to...

The Fields of Pain’s Forgetting grow a wide variety of narcotic and hallucinogenic plants, most of which commit the Nidalese sin of dulling or negating pain. All are addictive. Mushrooms are mentioned (of the luminous sort) and poppies (specifically white ones), too, but the most notable among...

Dauphenal Vineyard was founded in the Northern Plains during Shadowbreak by a disgraced scion of a Chelish noble house. We get another fun, immersive detail: Dauphenal grows a varietal of grape known as alvarno, which is probably not fantastical but a reference to alvarinho (a.k.a., albariño)...

Blacksulfur Pond is a pretty standard creepy pond. It has no visible inlet and sits in the middle of a hush. It even looks black from a distance, though that illusion is revealed as such with a closer inspection. It is not the water that is black, but the pondbottom itself, a shimmering...

The Atteran Ranches are an area of Nidal that has gotten a bit more attention than a lot of the shadow-hugged nation’s other regions. For one thing, it is set up to very easily produce the sort of good-vs.-evil conflict that appeals to a certain type of gamer, or the freedom-vs.-oppression that...

lbatross is a nice, little town, all cliffs and ports isolated in the mists of Conqueror’s Bay. Imagine the stereotype of the stern yet cozy English fisherman, and that’s kind of the image I get of the Nidalese in Albatross. At the moment, when I think of that image, the primary association I...

Sorry about the lateness of this reply; I've been caught up in editing a book. I am indeed that same poster, yes! Why do you ask?

We next get a list of the Great Kuthite Ceremonies, preceded by a note that everyone in the realm must find some way to join the public celebrations, whether it is performative or not, by dint of the generally oppressive atmosphere of the place. Which is a thing I’m certainly down with; my love...

Here's the actual next post: The Umbral Court, as with all groups of two or more people, has its divisions and its arguments. They work to hide them from their subjects and foreigners, hoping to build up an image of a cabal unified by their Kuthite devotion and their personal infusion with the...

Oops. Somehow my last post was a repeat of an earlier post >.< This post is my deleting of that one, btw.

The book continues on to remind us that Kuthite religion is not the only influence on Nidalese culture. It’s obviously a duh, but it needs to be said, both because in-setting, foreigners are likely to think that it is, and out-of-setting players always love to reduce settings to the simple...

A new chapter means a new, pretty opening page! In the obviously gorgeous art atop the two pages, we see a couple of wagons, brightly lit despite the general gloom in the image, decorated (though not richly) in white and red with flags and banners and awnings. A trail of about fifteen people...