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Posted by Ravyn on January 26, 2011
Over the last couple of days I’ve dipped into mythology a bit, with a crew of anthropomorphized Deaths and a new legendary look at quicksilver. Now I’m going to look back and see where they came from—who’s up for a little myth dissection?
I find the best thing to do when toying with mythology is to [...]
Categories: Cultures, Death, Undeath and the Afterlife, For Roleplayers, For Writers, Thematics, World-building, stories |
Tags: death, five reapers, meta, myth design, thought exercise, world flavor | 
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Posted by Ravyn on January 25, 2011
They say, in the land with the five reapers, that quicksilver is the symbol of death.
It is liquid, and one cannot escape a liquid. What would stop a rolling stone, it simply flows around; what the air would not have the weight to move, it overwhelms. Quicksilver is captivating. Like water, it beads up, it [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on January 24, 2011
This was a thought-exercise I came up with while freewriting; I still haven’t come up with a decent world for it.
In this country, there are five Deaths. Each person—or each person’s heart—chooses one, to bring them to the afterlife.
The first is an assassin. His presence is not known, his footsteps not heard—there is only the [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on July 13, 2010
A snippet from the dream journal of my Call of Cthulhu character Morgan, not long after the Taser Tourist incident, written for the GM of that game.
It’s a restaurant. If that’s the right word. Wooden furniture, leather tankards, either it’s very period or I’m going and dreaming somewhere else entirely. The colors are warm reds [...]
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Tags: dreams, Morgan, stories, writing | 4 Comments »
Posted by Ravyn on March 30, 2010
You know you have too many characters when you can do this, with a specific subset of the game’s population, and most of the characters listed have at least one alternative.
A Loose Threads Heavenly Alphabet
A for Altair, a good place to begin;
B is for Brychan—did you recall him?
C for Calandra, you heard what she said;
D [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on September 18, 2009
Judging from the dragon inhaling for another breath above, the troglodyte with the whip making threatening gestures not far behind it, and the vampire they had been supposed to hunt decapitated on the ground nearby, something had clearly gone wrong, and figuring out what took second place to getting out of there alive.
They weren’t sure [...]
Categories: Concepts, For Roleplayers, For Writers, GM Advice, Plot, Technique, stories |
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Posted by Ravyn on August 25, 2009
For Mystery Month. Can you guess why?
Nighttime in the big city. The D-4 Detective Agency is on the case, and we’re pretty sure it’s close to the end. There’s The Dame, on the other side of the table with her piles of folders and that screen she always carries. And Clubs, plastic rattling between [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on July 14, 2009
For RPG Blog Carnival—you wouldn’t believe how hard it is to try to fit “D&D” when you’ve got a system-neutrality policy. You could also call this one “Why I Swore Off New Adventuring Parties”.
Walking into the tavern, for me, is like walking through molasses. It’s what everyone does. Only reason I’m doing it is that [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on May 8, 2009
Still working in coordination with the other villain-spotlighting blogs, though I’m starting on some new characters now; if I keep using mine, I’ll have no secrets left!
Gethin of the Ash
“What is the difference between alive and dead? I see so little of it…”
Once, in a town just large enough for literacy but [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on May 1, 2009
I got myself swept up in another coordinated posting event this week. This time, it was a small-scale villain showcase along with Mad Brew Labs, The Core Mechanic, and At-Will. I’m taking a slightly different format for purposes of maintaining system neutrality, but the overall idea is the same. [...]
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