Encounter Guide: Creatures
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- Creatures: Animals
- Animals in Encounter Guide: Creatures
- The Chaotic Mist and the Dry City
- The mist and the city are loosely inspired by some of the writings of Stephen King, some of the comic book work of Grant Morrison, some science fiction novels by Frank Herbert, and the Alice books of Lewis Carroll. In some places, the mist is a permanent fixture that none dare enter. In others, it appears and disappears on a regular basis, once every hundred years, or according to the stars. The chaotic mist is aimless chaos, wetness, swamp,…
- Creatures: Demons
- “Know that there are two worlds of life and death: one of which you now behold, but the other is underneath the grave, where inhabit the shadows of all forms that think and live, till death unite them and they part no more.”—Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
- Creatures: Dinosaurs
- From Skull Island to the Land of the Lost to Jurassic Park, prehistoric creatures tiny and titanic hold a special place in our fantasies.
- Creatures: Dragons
- “Where there have been dragons, there have always been dragon-slayers, and the story of their struggle runs as a thread through the narrative of all cultures.”—Jonathan D. Evans, “Mythical and Fabulous Creatures”
- Creatures: Faerie
- NEED A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT ARE FAERIE.
- Fantastic Creatures
- Need some notes on fantastic creatures.
- Creatures: Giants
- From time immemorial, mankind has feared greater versions of themselves. Giants share all the foibles of man, taking mankind’s faults to extremes. For civilization to proceed giants must be expelled from the lands of men. Remnants of giants, such as giant’s causeways, precarious boulders, and monolithic towers, remain scattered about the edges of civilization. Their passing is marked by the rivers they’ve dug, the mountains they’ve carved, and…
- Undead and Other Creatures of the Night
- Different kinds of undead come into being for different reasons, usually centering around the circumstances of the creature’s death.
