Against The Wicked City

The other day, I saw some toys for sale in a local shop at a knock-down price; I thought my son might like them, so I bought him some. They ...

In the mythology of the Turkic and Altaic peoples, the Payna (or Baianai) were spirits of the woods, patrons of hunting and bringers of pros...

[Fair warning: insofar as they have plots to spoil, this post contains spoilers for all five Resident Evil films. And, no, I don't reall...

[This post started out as a rewrite of the Nerra, a 3rd edition monster which, like so many of the monsters from that era, contained a few g...

So, following my post on a dungeon description from 1843 , here's a hex description from 1844... There's a lady - an earl's d...

Back when I started this blog, Magic: the Gathering had just finished doing a Central Asian-themed set, Tarkir, which I promptly plundered f...

She said he'd been a bad man. She said he'd had it coming. She said the toad-men would be offended if she didn't. But mostly she...