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The Shades of the Grays: X Files Greys and Other Grays Invade Your Gaming Table (opens the original)
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“We dug the saucer out of the permafrost, half-buried in the glass-fused ash of the crash site. The hull didn’t have a seam or a bolt on it—just cold, wet pewter that felt like skin when you pressed your palm to it. Inside, the air smelled like scorched copper and formaldehyde. We thought the four-foot buggers in the glass tubes were dead until the big one hovering in the dark opened its eyes. It didn’t speak. It just tapped its staff, and Jaxon’s skull melted into green lard before he could coc
The Archipelago of Mu-Ta: The Isles of Celadon and Chartreuse (opens the original)
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“Damp wool, salt-stale ale, and the ghost of old sins—that’s what the air smells like when men start whispering of the green tinged mists. They look for maps, they draw lines across the Nykr Uyv with ink that’s dry before the ship leaves the dock, but the truth of it? The Isles don’t want to be found by those who seek it, and it clings far too tightly to those who stumble upon it by accident.”— Darmos Deep One hybrid, over a midnight pipe in Alantane (though some say he heard it from a salt flea
Creatures of Neverwhere: 14 Free New Monsters and Creatures for Your TTRPG (opens the original)
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“Listen to the rattling of your own breath, Initiate; that sound is the only music you will hear before the fear and the things from ambiguous deep time begin to stir in long abandoned places. You ask about the specimens? You treat them like entries in a catalog, like idle curiosities plucked from the back-alleys of the Red Sands of draining Martian bone littered moors. You are a fool. These are not mere beasts of the field or scrap scavengers. They are the shunned children of failed realities—t
Sidequests, Rumors, Wanted Posters, & News (opens the original)
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The Sunken Vault of the Flesh Taking-Pharaoh (opens the original)
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Here is a good entry adventure a GM/DM can drop a group of players into, set in my homebrew Veiled Echoes of Future Past in Neverwhere. This adventure is set around my setting’s version of Stygia, which you can read about here and here</
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