The thrill-seeking gambling addict wizards of Level Die  get a missive: To the sorcerers of Level Die A challenge: Come to Caesars Atlantic City and I will kill you. I have a spectacular Roman cage cup dating approximately 100 years before the fall of the Republic. Its value is incalculable. Since I only charge using vessels I make myself, you are welcome to it. Come to the Toga Bar. I will be waiting there to take your skulls. If you survive the goblet is yours. -Your buddy, Three Bear The danger is self-evident. And for the Entropomancers of  Level Die , so is the appeal: Tarma , the racer, is fixated on the thrill of the near-miss, the feeling of death rushing past you. Played by me. Caroline , the robber, wants to rob dangerous people and get away with it. Played by Magnificentophat . Klayman , the gambler, is there to do exactly what you think he's there to do. Played by Lithobraker. Vanessa , the brawler, just likes a good fight and expects nothing less from the sk...

 The First and Last populated the world with many things, and set many people to rule them. The first were the bright-eyed djinn, born of fire, but God does not work with fire alone. The most populous are the humans, and perhaps the most beloved, but they have not filled every space and set foot in every land. There are more people than you could count, more types  of people than you could count. Lost cities, brutal desert plains, sunken continents, phantom islands; they call these places, and many more, home. Arragousets  It's an old story, but not so old as you'd think. In isolated places of the western coast, they tell of the little men of the sea, cruel raiders with barbeled faces and needle teeth who come marching up from the waves with whalebone spears and shell-bladed clubs. They kill those who fight and make spouses of the survivors, and they stay for a generation before marching back into the sea when old age bids that they should die. Their children are human i...

Another Glåugust Glogtember  GLOGTOBER, post. From the famed  Archon's Court : a small regional hexcrawl. Ilya Zankovsky  Maybe you found a ring , and thought yourself a more legitimate ruler than the average freebooter. Maybe you're just ambitious and own a map. Regardless, up the river from Merara Wiha , the throne of Dahay lays empty. The old king Dawit  died three centuries ago, his firstborn Eskinder  got an arrow through the eye socket, and his second was busy making deals with the DEVIL  in exile, his name wiped from the record. Nobody came back to take up the scepter, the taxman got what he was due, and life went on. Captain Natsinet  came back from the war with a mind full of blood and sharp angles, if you define "war" as running an organized crime ring in his Imperial post on the isle of  Yonah , moving poison, slaves, and embezzled arms across the eastern channel. When the meteor hit, he took it as a sign to get out of foreign territo...

For  Invisible Hands . Texas is burning.  Dust Bowl, Alexandre Hogue When it all went wrong, it went very wrong here. All the violence and fear and hatred that could accumulate in that largest of states went off like a loaded gun, along with all of the actual  loaded guns that were just sitting around.  The earth shattered, bleeding black from open stone veins, and what was once dead was made living again; a grand parade of dead men and dinosaurs, all dripping with petroleum. The Crude Sea , dark and thick and reeking, parts the state into islands, the earth's memory of the interior sea that once cut the nation in half. Lift your eyes over the horizon, if you're able- s moke columns rise in every direction, pillars holding up a white-hot sky where the Lone Star blazes big and bright, a cruel sun which permits no nightfall. When the weather isn't bad, it's worse. When it's not hot, it's pouring down sheets of rain and pitching hailstones the size of baseballs to ...