Rollin' d30

Heard a holy racket in the kitchen.

Max found my d30, and among its other applications, it makes a VERY satisfying noise when being batted across a wood floor. 

Richard LeBlanc would be so proud.

Crnobog's Well, a pointcrawl entry for the Slumbering Ursine Dunes

Chris Kutalik has a Kickstarter going for his Slumbering Ursine Dunes sandboxing region, a Slavik-flavored madhouse of a desert, complete with polearm-bearing bear-soldiers, alien artifacts, and lazy godlings.

He and his colleagues are past their 3rd stretch goal and several hundred dollars short of stretch #4.  Go ahead, throw him some coins.

C'mon, people - War Bears!

Anyway, last week he offered up some prizes for readers to add a few encounter areas to the sandbox (or as he calls it - a pointcrawl).

Sure - what the heck...

Quigh Caverns

Quigh Caverns

Up the coast a ways, where the cliffs begin to rise up, and the beach narrows to a sliver (often less at high tide), one may find the three entrances of the Quigh Caverns.

Marked by three stones jutting from the water, the caverns are accessed via a narrow beach.  The cavern network is tortuous and partially inundated.

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Cooking with Monsters...

Well, cooking monsters, not so much with them (they tend to use waaayy too much tarragon.)

Greg Gorgonmilk is accepting submissions for Edible Monster Parts for a crowd-sourced table for his next issue of Underworld Lore:

Submission Guidelines for the Edible Monster Parts table are as follows:

1. Name and identify a specific monster-derived food or beverage. Tell us where it comes from, how it's harvested and prepared.
2. Explain any special precautions or necessary conditions that must be considered before obtaining the Monster Part(s).
3. Identify and explain any special effects resulting from consumption of the Part(s). Provide mechanics if necessary.
4. Identify and explain any neutral or negative side-effects. Provide the % chances that these effects may occur.
5. If necessary, explain how long the part takes to digest and how it might affect a creature's urine, fecal matter or spoor. Will monsters be able to detect its presence via any of these markers?

Might as well make up a tasty dish...

100 posts, or, "I'm just going to keep doing worms."

Zowie, made it to 100 posts, which is approximately 80 more than I expected... Much appreciation to my three loyal readers for getting me this far...

Thanks for reading!

Anyway....

As I proselytized before, nature is apparently ahead of our own imaginations when it comes to the weird and potentially dangerous.  After all, she's got a head start of at least 3 billion years...

Speaking of which, within the Burgess Shale in northwestern Canada is a plethora of Cambrian fossils.  The fine-grained sediments allowed for preservation of the lifeforms occupying the ancestral ocean, many of which have no living relatives.  It was a time at which evolution was experimenting with body forms and functions, and the first segmented and shelled creatures began to roam about.  One of the well-known fossils of the Burgess is the appropriately named Hallucigenia:

A critter so odd that paleontologists are still debating if the spikes went down...

or up...

Hallucigenia was one of the organisms for which no living relative was suspected.  Until now.  Based on a minor detail of its morphology and body parts, the Hallucigenia, or at least a very distant descendant, still roams the earth...