Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities will change the way you think about cities on a fundamental level, and I can't recommend it enough.
1 2013-10-30 14:10:05
Re: Wonderous/Awe Inspiring Fantasy Cities? (5 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)
2 2011-12-20 00:46:09
Re: Introduce yourself! (218 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)
Jim here, I was inducted into D&D just in time to watch TSR crash and burn, and 2e will always hold a special place in my heart. I love this setting, and am anxiously awaiting the day that my copies of Carcosa and Isle complete their crawl through the stars and arrive at my door. In the meantime, I'm hanging out here, soaking up the atmosphere - glad to be here!
3 2011-12-20 00:32:43
Re: What the hell is that thing on the table? (20 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)
What is all this talk of it being an idol?
“That… that THING has nothing to do with me, it’s pure evil, and I won’t have it! I just won’t!”, Alice sputtered, jabbing the table with her index finger with sufficient force to spill the beer and set the coins to jangling.
“Well what are you going to do, ram your finger up there and pull it out?” the Princess replied sarcastically, complete with a visual aid of the proposed action.
“I will not birth the child of that...", she shuddered and clutched herself.
Looking up defiantly, she repeated, "I will not!”
“Well you should have thought of that before you fell asleep on your watch! I mean, really, who falls asleep on watch? Especially in a dungeon! We’re lucky you getting knocked up was the worst thing that happened!”
“I WAS ENSORCELLED!”, Alice shouted.
The Princess snorted derisively, “Is that what the wenches are calling it these days.”
Seeing things about to get violent, the Magic User cut in. “I think we all need to settle down. We don’t actually know you’re pregnant, Alice. We know what you think happened, but even you say it happened while you were asleep – are you sure it wasn’t just a dream?”
Turning, she shouted, “Barkeep! We’ll have another round! And make it two for the pregnant one!”
Unseen by any of them, an enigmatic smile crept across the face of the Beast as the manifestation of its will cast a soft, psionic glow across the table. Inspired by the glow, the host and her companion yelled even louder, and its smile grew wider - the anger at the table was literally his mother’s milk, and he drank deeply from its cup. Soon it would see the light of day; soon all three of these bleating meat-sacks would belong to him. It looked forward to the day when it could rip free of his fleshy prison, and bring forth the terror this world so richly deserved.
Inside Alice’s womb, the creature’s tentacles quivered in anticipation, while the manifestation on the table made the sign of worship to Dach’noth’lan, Dread Whelp-God Who Screams In the Darkness.
Soon.