Against The Wicked City

 A year ago I posted tables of  72 encounters from the City of Spires , as a convenient means of recycling material from my ongoing campaign...

A few monsters who have turned up in my current campaign. I think my PCs have figured all these guys out well enough for me to safely list t...

In Zoroastrian tradition, Divs are spirits of evil, the children of the Druj , or cosmic lie. In Persian folk-tales, they often lurk around ...

Most of the land through which the Great Road passes is extremely barren, and as such its route is determined by a continuous compromise ...

Back to the random encounter tables! This one is for the deserts which sprawl to the south of the Great Road; some are hot and some are cold...

Frozen corpse of a Bactrian camel, Gobi desert, Mongolia. Image from BBC Natural History. Of all the regions through which the Great R...

Mongolian Death Worm. Image by Andy Paciorek. This isn't really mythology, as such: many Mongolians sincerely believe in the exist...

In this plain there are a number of villages and towns which have lofty walls of mud, made as a defence against the banditti,  who are very ...

The binding of Aži Dahāka (aka Zahhak), from the Shahnama of Baysunghur. One of the inspirations for the Wicked King was the Persian le...

The length of this Desert is so great that 'tis said it would take a year and more to ride from one end of it to the other. And here, w...

In the deserts to the south of the Wicked City, there are places where the sunlight becomes so heavy that it can almost be grasped. In ...