Archons March On: August 2025

Friday, August 29, 2025

The Newer Index

Seven years & 600 posts - it is time for an updated index:

Adventures

The Imperial War-Beast: Lakedrummer

Twenty Minute Dungeons

Barebones Dark Urban Fantasy Scenario

Over Hungry Grass

Jennell Jaquays Memorial Game Jam Submission

Twelve More Module Ideas

Classes

GLOG:

Action Movie Hero

Ascended Baneposter

Master of Disguise

Monkey Breathing Δ Abilities

Necromancer Wizard

Pickle Wizard (+ Jarred Loot)

The Most Rangerous Ranger

Bloodsoulsekiro Ring Type

Eerie Knightly Orders - GLOG Δ Templates

D6x6 GLOG Class Seeds

Sacred Scorpion Dancer

Invisible Cannibal

The Semiurgic Sigilist

Maximum Recursion Depth:

Bottom of the Bottle Alchemist

Fluff

Cthulhury:

Move Over Lovecraft

D20x5(xA Lot) Lovecraftian Servitors to Summon for ????? and !!!!!

D20x8(+9) Lovecraftian Entities that Didn't Make the Cut

D6x6 Deathless Deep Ones

Ex Chetera:

D12 Reasons Why The Bookstore Nearby Which I Meant To Go To But Never Did Has A Heavy-Duty Lock And A Cardboard Sign That Says "DO NOT UNLOCK!!!" On Its Door

A Post Written Entirely With My Phone’s Suggested Words (Except For This Title); Or, The Most Impressive Thing In A World Of Human Flesh

How to Re-Colonize D&D in 7 Easy Steps

You Are Approached By An Upset Redditor

Neat Bits from Bill Hoyt's Old Campaign

Vulture Blogging

My Five Favourite Mangakas; Mangaka Meaning The Authour & Illustrator Of A Manga; "Comic Book" Being English For Manga

Fantasy:

All Thrones Were Trees And Stones

Architectural Parasitism

Beware the Werewolf

Build a Witch Challenge: Miss Mulberry

D12 Castaways, Maroons, & Shipwrecked Souls

D20 Mooncalves & The Dooms They Foretell

D20 Other Kinds of Peasant Than “Farmer”, D20 Other Kinds of Noble Than “Rich Asshole”

D20 Reasons Why This Flying Castle/Mountain/Etc. Is In The Sky, Though By Common Sense It Should Not Be

D100 Answers to the Question: What's the Deal with this Town?

D100 Things for this Weird Egg You Found to Hatch Into

Doing Names Backwards, With Devils; Or: A Method By Which One May Gain Inspiration From The Innumerable Subtypes of Monsters

GLOG-Style Dwarf Fortress Races (+ Horn Beetles)

How to Make a Magic Sword

More RPG Blogs As Fantasy Taverns

Mud Flood Dungeonry

Objects from Bebahidari

Plot Hooks Drawn from PCs' Families

Psychomatic Mini-Dungeons - Secret Santicorn

Quarter Hour Writing Challenge: Spice

'Round These Here Parts

'Round Again In These Here Parts

‘Round Once More In These Here Parts...

‘Round Trip Back To These Here Parts...

The Dreams of Trees are Awful Things

The Hunter's Rosary

They Are Hungry We Are Fat

Weddingcrashing & Random Tables for the Royal Wedding

What Is The Outrageous Deformity Of This Fashionable Lapdog? & Related Miscellanea

YOUR SOUL HAS CANCER

Indispensable Tools for the Modern Practicing Occultist; Or: Loot Which One Can Use To Stock A Wizard Or Wizardly-Type's Laboratory & Domicile

Toothpaste Brands That'd Make Good Fantasy Names

Who Is This: A Response to Dansumption

Githyanki Godflesh Gibbets

Giant Animal Bones Vs. Metals

D20 Reasons Why Werewolves, Devils, Wights, And So On Are Vulnerable To Silver

D20 Methods of Immortality A Wizard Might Use In Lieu of the Typical Lichdom

Big Bad Bigfoots

Ass Men, Tit Men, Feet Men

KUOTOA = CROATOAN

Diseases Are Undead

D100 Signs of the Warp Spasm

Places:

A World in 13 Items Challenge

D20 Cozy Cottages

In the Land of Nod

The City of Mounds

The Republic of Beards

The Silvertine Coast

What Cities Those Babies In

This House Has Many Walls

Snail-Barons of the Brayreyt Peninsula

The Maggoty Men of Mandle Maar

Planescapery:

A Diagrammatic Examination of the Great Wheel

The Elemental Evils

The Quasi-Elemental Plane of Steam

The Quasi-Elemental Plane of Salt

The Quasi-Elemental Plane of Lightning

The Quasi-Elemental Plane of Dust

Ravenloft Riffs:

Cultigens & Domesticates of the Lands of Dread

Religion:

Break Jesus Out of Babylon

The Cult of Mak Thuum Ngatha

Wizards as Clerics of Magic

Science Fiction:

20 More Questions for Your Sci-Fi Game

Some Planets & Their Pantropes

Speculative Evolution - Teegarden's Star B - Part I

The Alien Depicts the Alien

D10 Horrid Bats of the Speculative Evolutionary Future

D6 Post-Humans of the Antarctican Future

D6 Cyberpunk Games

Weird Modern:

D10 More Black Books

D12 Weird Radio Stations to Tune In To

D20 Additional Anomalous Media

D100 Answers to the Question: What’s In This Dude’s Car/Couch/Carrying Case? Or: Some Minor Modern Fantasy Loot

Ten More Fictional Modern Faiths

The Unfound Fathers

D6 Animatronic Selfmodificing Avantpop Martyrforms

D100+ Medications of Yestermorrow

Strange Aeonic Spellbooks

Dragulas; Or: Vampire Cars; Or: Fool! I Said A Pontiac, Not A Pontianak

D6 Social Media Services of the Near-Future

Some Artefacts - The First Dossier

D6 Texas Chainsaw Massacres

Car Gun Car Fun

D12 Prizes Awaiting You Behind The More Prizes Door

Generators

Alien Generators:

D20x5 Alien Abductees

D20x5 Alien Infiltrators

D20x5 Alien Invasions

D6x6 Apex Predators

D6x6 Alien Warrior Species

D6x6 Alien Parasites

D6x6 Space Elf Aliens

D6x6 Sexy Space Women Aliens

D6x7 Grendels from Outer Space

D6x6 Shapeshifting Reptilian Aliens in the Halls of Power

D6x6 Space Dwarf Aliens

Dwarf Generators:

D20x6 Dwarven Exiles

D20x5 Dwarven Mountain Halls

Elf Generators:

D6x6 Despicable Drow

D20x5 Eccentric Elves

D20x5 Elf-Knights

D20x5 Elven Forest Retreats

D50x3(x20x8) Fairy Nobility

D100+ Phantasmagoric Fey

D6x6 Pithy Pixies

Equipment / Loot Generators:

D6x6 Arcane Axes

D20x5 Bountiful Bows

D20x5 Comely Coinage

D20x5 Dubious Drugs

D66(xD10xD10) Fantastical Fires

D20x5 Freaky Fungi

D20x5 Grimoires of Forbidden Lore

D6x6 Haughty Hats

D6x6 Heady Healing Potions

D20x5 Headstrong Helmets

D20x5 Eldritch Idols

D20x5 Illustrious Intelligent Swords

D20x5 Jangly Jewelry

D20x5 Magic Weapons That Aren't Swords

D100+ Ominous Orbs

D20x5 Potent Poisons

D100 Irregular Rations

D100+ Saintly Relics

D20x5 Shocking Shields

D20x5 Wacky Wands

D100+ Winsome Wines

D20x5 Great Grails

D100+ Salubrious Sandwiches

D6x6 Lugubrious Locks

Encounter Generators:

D100 Encounters Along A Beach

D100 Encounters Along A Lonesome Road

Faction Generators:

D20x5 Barefaced Banks

D20x5 Bizarre Barbarian Bands

D6x6 Capricious Conspiracies

D20x5 Kooky Cults

D100+ Factious Faction Names

D6x6 Feral Tribes

D20x5 Gonzo Gangs

D6x7 Gith Sects

D20x5 Grotty Goblin Groups

D100+ Idolatrous Cults & The Idols They Adulate

D20x5 Non-Standard Knightly Orders

D100+ Martial Arts Schools

D100+ Noble Houses

D20x5 Impractical Priesthoods

Monster Generators (D6x6):

D6x6 Abuzz Abeills

D6x6 Amazing Amazons

D6x6 Animated Armours

D6x6 Beholden Beholders

D6x6 Bigfoots, Sasquatches, Yetis, & Other Such Primatoid Cryptids

D6x6 Bodacious Bodysnatchers

D6x6 Killer Chimeras

D6x6 Circuitous Centaurs

D6x6 Disembodied Brains

D6x7 Brownies, Domovoi, & Other Domestic Spirits

D6x6 Giant Radioactive Bugs

D6x6 Bubbly Bullywugs

D6x6 Cats of Ulthar

D6x6 Capital Carnivorous Plants

D6x6 Creatures From Black Lagoons & Other Such Amphibious Humanoid Cryptids

D6x6 Crooked Crawling Claws

D6x6 Debonair Desmodu

D6x6 Dowdy Dohwar

D6x6 Debilitating Dracoliches

D6x6 Epic Epimeliads

D6x6 Eerie Ettercaps

D6x6 Evil Trees

D6x6 Ebullient Ettins

D6x6 Facinorous Firenewts

D6x6 Garbled Gargoyles

D6x6 Giddy Giff

D6x6 Frost Giants

D6x6 Furtive Men

D6x6 Gloomful Ghouls

D6x6 Gnarly Gnolls

D6x6 Gnomic Gnomes

D6x6 Galumphing Gryphons

D6x6 Grimy Grimlocks

D6x6 Handsome Hadozee

D6x6 Halcyon Harengons

D6x6 Harsh Harpies

D6x6 Horrendous Hellhounds

D6x6 Heinous Hobgoblins

D6x6 Hydrated Hydras

D6x6 Interesting Ibixians

D6x6 Indecent Invisible Stalkers

D6x6 Killing Spirits

D6x6 Kafkaesque Kappas

D6x6 Chthonic Kobolds

D6x6 Lonely Lake Monsters

D6x6 Lively Lizardmen

D6x6 Loopy Locathah

D6x6 Loaded Loxos

D6x6 Masticating Manticores

D6x6 Motley Martians

D20x5 Mercurial Merfolk

D6x6 Mingy Mind Flayers

D6x6 Misanthropic Minotaurs

D6x6 Mystifying Myconids

D6x6 Nauseating Nagpas

D6x6 Notable Nothics

D6x6 Ornery Owlbears

D6x6 Perilous Perytons

D6x6 Fabled Phoenixes

D6x6 Pungent Porcs

D6x6 Raring Ratatosks

D6x6 Ruddy Rust Monsters

D6x6 Savage Sahuagin

D6x6 Scornful Scarecrows

D6x6 Savoury Sea Serpents

D6x6 Simpering Serpentmen

D6x7 Saucy Sphinxes

D6x6 Swooping Swanmays

D6x6 Subtle Svirfneblins

D6x6 Sanguine Sirens

D6x6 Tawdry Tabaxi

D6x6 Tactual Takos

D6x6 Thriving Thanoi

D6x6 Thrillful Thri-Kreen

D6x6 Toddling Tortles

D6x6 Trifling Treants

D6x7 Trite Tritons

D6x6 Worrisome Wights

D6x6 Wily Will-o-Wisps

D6x6 Wrathful Wraiths

D6x6 Wriggly Wyrms

D6x6 Wanton Wyverns

D6x6 Unctuous Umber Hulks

D6x6 Unique Unicorns

D6x6 Varying Vargouilles

D6x6 Yummy Yurians

D6x6 Yobbish Yithians

Monster Generators (D20x5):

D20x5 Accursed Ones

D20x5 Angels to Summon for Chastity and Humility

D20x5 Baleful Bogeymen

D20x5 Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers

D20x5 Chanceful Changelings

D20x5 Demons to Summon for Fun & Profit

D20x5 Demon Lords

D20x5 Foul Fallen Angels

D20x5 Genial Genies

D20x5 Genuine Giants

D20x5 Ghastly Ghosts

D20x5 Grotesque Gorgons

D20x5 Hellacious Halflings

D20x5 Horrible Homunculi

D20x5 Hungry Ghosts & Unclean Spirits

D20x5 Mischievous Mimics

D20x5 Nasty Nagas

D20x5 Odious Ogres

D20x5 Rash Rakshasas

D20x5 Ready Reapers

D20x5 Assorted Slimes

D20x5 Spooky Scary Skeletons

D20x5 Trendy Trolls

D20x5 Wizardly Abominations

D20x5 Variant Vampires

Monster Generators (D10x10):

D10x10 Cursed Dolls

D10x10 Deadly Dragons

D10x10 Calamitous Kaiju

Monster Generators (D100+):

D100,000 (Approximately) Goblin Churls

D100+ Gobsmacking Gods

D20x??? Hideous Hags

D100+ Mythic Monsters

Monster Blender Part I

Monster Blender Part II

D50 Necromantic Nasties & D50 Goofy Golems

D12x??? Onerous Oni

Some More Horsemen of the Apocalypse

D100+ Weighty Werebeasts

D100+ Devious Drakes

Monster Pieces - Towards the Hoard of a Hundred Horrors

People Generators:

D20x5 Arcane Apprentices

D20x5 Boisterous Bandits

D20x5 Brutal Berserkers

D100+ Busy Bureaucrats

D20x5 Calibans, Igors, Renfields, & Other Wretched Servants

D6x6 Cannibal Clans

D20x5 Clownish Clerics

D20x5 Dastardly Dandies, Ponces, And Rakes/More Expensive But Ethically Sourced Underlings

D6x6 Dapper Dhampirs

D6x6 Dire Dervishes

D20x5 Evil High Priests

D6x6 Regretful Fausts

D20x5 Fearsome Fighters

D6x6 Funky Fortune Tellers

D6x6 Frank Frankensteins

D20x5 Gratuitous Gladiators

D20x5 Hedge-Knights

D20x5 Humble Hedge-Mages

D20x5 Men With Guns To Come In Through A Door

D20x5 Marvellous Merchants

D100+ Metal Gear Characters

D20x5 Ignoble Nobles

D12x8 Onionless Italians

D20x5 Peculiar Peasants

D20x5 Pitiable Orphans/Cheap & Disposable Hirelings

D20x5 Outrageous Outlaws

D6x6 Particular Patrons

D20x5 Piecemeal Pirates

D6x6 Phantoms of the Opera

D20x5 Quixotic Questers

D20x5 Rival Adventurers

D20x5 Strange Sailors

D20x5 Scattered Scholars

D20x5 Truculent Time Travellers

D20x5 Worrying Warriors

D20x5 Wicked Witches

D20x5 Weird Wizards

D6x6 Former Wizards

20x5 Variegated Vikings

D20x5 Vampire Hunters

D6x6 Zombie Survivors

Place Generators:

D100+ Demiplanes

D20x5 Darkling Dungeons

D20x6 Dungeon Pubs

D6x6 Foundational Dungeon Fountains

D20x5 Harrowing Hells

D20x5 Haunted Houses

D20x5 Dungeon Markets

D10x10 Mysterious Megastructures

D6x6 Mousy Monasteries

D20x5 Forlorn Outposts

D20x5 Passages to the Underworld

D20x5 Schools of Sorcery

D6x6 Empty Shrines

D6x6 Suspiciously Spacious Sewers

D20x5 Sword & Sorcery City-States

D20x5 Atypical Taverns

D20x5 Tantalizing Trade Routes

D20x5 Terrible Towns

D20x5 Wondrous Wizard Towers

D100+ Vainglorious Volcanos

D20x5 Places of Pilgrimage

D10x10 Silly Cities

D100+ Pulp City Names in the Vein of Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and So On and So On

D20x5 Keen Kingdoms

D6x6 Obnoxious Oases

D6x6 Furtive Fallout Shelters

D6x6 Future Crime Cities

Science Fiction Generators:

Assorted Cyberpunk Tables

D20x5 Cyberpunk Megacorporations

D20x5 Post-Apocalyptic Scenarios

D20x5 Post-Apocalyptic Raider Gangs

D6x6 Rebellious Robots

D20x5 Street Samurai

D20x5 Supreme Space Marines

D20x5 Uplifted Animals

D6x6 Memetic Viruses

D6x6 Xeno-Swarms

D20x5 Sinister Space Churches

D6x6 Fanciful Forms of Faster-Than-Light Travel

D20x5 Staristocrats of the Faufreluchean Future

D20x5 Evil Space Empires

D6x6 Ascendent A.I.s

Superhero Stuff:

D66x6 Speedy Superheroes/Villains

D100+ Superhero Names

D100+ Supervillains

D20x5 Supervillain Hideouts

D20 Sinful Supervillains

Assorted Superhero Stuff

Uncategorized Generators:

D20x5 Astounding Alternate Histories

D20x5 Abhorrent Apocalypses

D1,000,000 Answers to the Question: What Do This Wizard's Magic Missiles Look Like?

D100 Answers to the Question: Where Did This Wizard Learn Magic?

A List of the 1,000 Most Common Names on Earth

D10x10 Canty Cosmologies

D100+ Company Names

D50x2 + D20 Conditional Invulnerabilities

D50 Dire Diseases & D50 Curious Cures

D20x5 Exquisite Eels

Five Tables of Medieval Dog Names

D20x5 Horror Movie Premises

D20x5 Horses (& Some Not-Quite Horses)

D100 "I Search The Body" Complications

D100 Lucky Charms

D6x6 Murky Miasmas

D100 Morbid Miscasts

Odd Job Mash-Up Generator

D100+ Mutations

D8x2xD20x6 Cryptic Prophecies

Random Racist Political Pamphlets

D20x5 Radical Religions

D100+ Surreal Sodas

What Does This Goblin Smell Like?

D6x6 Capable Cars

A Generator for New Words, Or: Automatically Grafting Prefixes and Suffixes Garned from Wikitionary

D100+ Fragrant Flowers

D6x6 Evil TV Shows

D100+ Drinks at the Alien Space Bar

D100+ Fresh Fruit

D6x6 Lovecraftian Cults

D6x6 Unaccountable UFOs

D100+ Slainey Taunts

D100+ Strains of Marijuana

D6x6 Maddening Mascots

D6x6 Based Breads

D6x6 Chaffy Cheeses

Mechanics, Loot, & Similar Gameables

Loot:

100 More Miscellaneous Magic Items

D10 Cursed Codpieces

D12 Ensorcelled Scabbards

D20 Miscellaneous Magic Items

D20 Extraneous Miscellaneous Magic Items

D12 Flaming Swords

D10 Culinary Curios

D10 Goblin Goodies

D20 Magic Rings

D50 Shitty Potions from Hack Alchemists

Some Three Word Swords

Ventriloquist Dummies of the Nine Worlds

D6x6 Rings to Rule Them All

Mechanics & Suchlike:

D20 Fates Other Than Just Dying When You Reach <0 HP

Another Way to Identify Potions

Knowledge is Power; or: Magic Without Spells

Language Slots as Flexible Spells

Traps & Rooms:

D100 Tricky Traps That Might Not Even Technically Be Traps

D12 Obvious Traps with an Unexpected Twist

Twenty-One 21-Word Dungeon Rooms

Miscellanea

Advertisement:

I'm Writing For A Centipede Zine

Advice:

Lessons in Running Horror from Six Idiots in a Dental Office

Book Reviews:

Pathfinder Bestiary 5 vs. D&D 3.5 Monster Manual V

Revisiting Lords of Madness

The Thawing Kingdom

Dicember 2021:

Days 1-5: Ammo, Ice, Child, Rage, Blade

Days 6-10: Shame, Daemon, Present, Night, Skull

Days 11-15: Forest, Help, Food, Ooze, Snow

Dungeon 2023:

Preliminary Notes

More Preliminary Notes

Index:

The Original Index

The Previous Index

The Current Index

Interview:

Interview with False Machine

Movie Reviews:

Movie Reviews 6

Picture Pong (with Phlox):

A Paddle Stirs the Water, A Paddle Strikes the Ball

About to Go Forrest Gump on this MFer

One Ponged Over the Pingpong Table

If We Dream of Plastic Sheep Are We Ping Pong Balls

Picture Pong (with Rememberdismove):

The Rememberdismove Strain

Swift & Silent as Lightning Before the Thunder

Things Have Learnt to Ping that Ought to Pong

The Endinning of the Begend

Session Reports:

Beyond the Bizarre Armoire 1

Beyond the Bizarre Armoire 2

Beyond the Bizarre Armoire 3

Beyond the Bizarre Armoire 4

Beyond the Bizarre Armoire 5

Beyond the Bizarre Armoire 6

Beyond the Bizarre Armoire 7

Beyond the Bizarre Armoire 8

Beyond the Bizarre Armoire 9

Beyond the Bizarre Armoire Extras:

Religious Primer

Monsters

5 Monsters Inspired by Old-Timey Halloween Costumes

5 Further Monsters

D12 Answers to the Question: How Does This Monster Move?

D12 Answers to the Question: How Does This Monster Perceive You?

D20 More Soulslike Bosses

Monsters in Collaboration with Filth Pig

Five Monsters in the Style of Throne of Salt

Grugach & Cooshee

Here There Were Dragons

More Inverted Monsters

One-Eyed King Anemone

Some More Animal Name Monsters - From French This Time

Some Non-Threatening Cosmic Monsters

Virtuesome Lilies & Lily Maidens

Some More Monsters

Yet More Monsters

Slush Piles

Zines

What Causes That Strange Black Lightning

Sinister: A Roleplaying Experience About Queering Handedness

No More Roleplaying

Those Which Go About In Pity For Themselves

D6x7 Delightful Doomsday Weapons

D6x6 Battle Royales

Electro-Magnetic Pulse: The First Beat

D100 Allegations Against Foreigners/Minorities By Superstitious Sorts

D20 Things That Might Go Wrong If You Have Too Many Hirelings

Two Species, Two Systems; Or: Race-As-System

Drinkin' The Game Away; Or: The New Year's Resolution Mechanic Challenge

4D6 Wild Hunters of the Wild Hunt

Big Gay Orcs - Solo Play

D6x6 Putrid Pandemics

Character Creation Tables for an RPG Which Doesn't, & May Never, Exist

D12 Weapons in the War on Christmas

GLOGust: Post With No Text, Only Images (Excepting This Title & Introduction)

Those Lost In The Shuffle Of Heaven's Papers

D100+ Musical Genres

D100+ Culinary Cuisines

D100+ Two Sentence Horror Stories

20 Tattoos Indicating The Guy You're Talking To Is A Were-Creature

An Adventure of Edmund the Great

D100+ Snazzy Snacks

Ultraman to Dungeons & Dragons to Ultraman Lifecycle

Those Veiled By Black Velvet

GLOG Grimoire: Swearing-Book of the Opaline Order

Dreams in the Witching Hour

My Taxonomic Kingdom for a Gorse

Ain't No Fun (If The Fungi Can't Have None)

Notes on Notes on Watching Twin Peaks in a Dream, Recorded First Within Said Dream and Then Reproduced Within the Waking World of Slightly-Less Transient Appearances

D100+ Forgotten Founding Fathers

D20 Zombie Apocalypses

A Market All In Sable

Youtube

Why Is The Subtitle of Transformers 3 "Dark of the Moon" and Not "Dark Side of the Moon" - An Investigative Video Essay

Why Do Fish Have Ash In Their Milt - An Investigative Video Essay

GLOGtober 2024

GLOGtober Challenge: A Connection Between Disparate Worlds; Or: The Public Universal Bathroom

GLOGtober Challenge: A Fate Worse Than Death

GLOGtober Challenge: A Monster Described Only Through Conflicting Folklore & Rumour; Or: The Granfalgroo

GLOGtober Challenge: Esoteric Orders & Creeds; Or: Cthulhu Cults of San Francisco

GLOGtober Challenge: Physical Game Pieces; Or: A Method By Which One May Loosely Generate A Ruined Wizard's Tower Floor By Floor Through The Rolling And Stacking Of Dice

GLOGtober Challenge: Magical Hotspot Patterns

GLOGtober Challenge: Patrons; Or: 6 Alien Vampire Patrons For Yon Party

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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

GLOGust: Post With No Text, Only Images (Excepting This Title & Introduction)

As per here: https://nothicseye.blogspot.com/2025/07/g-l-u-g-u-s-t-2-0-2-5.html

Courtesy of Gokun: https://spiceomancy.blogspot.com/

D6x6 Obnoxious Oases

Click the button below to get your oasis:

Special thanks to Spwack for the generator generator here: http://meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/2018/10/automatic-list-to-html-translator-v2.html

D6	This oasis's sand
1	is piezoluminescent crystal - whitish, with footprints left in it glowing.
2	is green, olivine, comprised of lava flows which eroded nearby.
3	is a brilliant pink, formed from an ancient coral reef which thrived in a prior eon when the region was a sea.
4	is a vivid orange, worn out from similarly-orange limestone deposits in the area.
5	is a deep red thanks to its iron content.
6	is a shimmering black due to its mafic origin.

D6	This oasis's water
1	is muddy, home to mites, worms, and brine shrimp - it needs to be filtered before it can be comfortably consumed by humans.
2	is clear as fine glass - sometimes appearing to not really be there at all.
3	is chartreuse and lively, full of flitting fishlets and wavering seagrass.
4	is dark as night, and goes way, way down.
5	is tinged scarlet with algae, and bitter on the tongue.
6	is turbulent, constantly spritzing from pores in the earth - toothsome bivalves clamp away at the nutritious detritus thus stirred up, and are pried in turn by strong-beaked ibises.

D6	This oasis has
1	a ring of stelae carved by inhuman hands - even through the wearing of time, their claw-marks are still visible.
2	a grove of fig trees growing on its shore - some of the fruit hosting deadly fig-wasps.
3	the ruins of a caravanaserai eroding beside it - the walls still good for shelter against the wind, but who knows what else might be sharing them.
4	the fossilized hulk of an ancient war-ship lying just beneath its surface.
5	a pair of hump-like hills marking its northern end.
6	a little island in the middle of it, with a giant palm tree on it - & that palm tree has a tower carved up in a spiral through its bark, up to its canopy, where a reclusive wizard dwells in a hut made from a giant coconut.

D6	This oasis is known
1	to be haunted by the ghosts of a pair of runaway lovers who committed a lovers' suicide in its waters.
2	from a popular folk-song which uses it as an erotic symbol.
3	as a sanctuary where enemies must not spill each other's blood.
4	as the site of the last stand of a group of pagans.
5	as a remnant of a once-larger and more hospitable body of water.
6	as a key point along a once-prosperous trade route - shifting political and environmental factors made another way more lucrative.

D6	A hazard of this oasis
1	is a canny old crocodile who extorts passers-by in exchange for not eating them.
2	is a pack of jackalweres that use the place as a hideout when the heat gets to be too much elsewhere.
3	is a huge enemy crab hibernating beneath its waters - sufficient agitation will wake it to a rage.
4	is a clutch of sea-urchins, but they're more like oasis-urchins, and also they can fly around and shoot their envenomed spines like arrows.
5	is a half-buried brazen lamp, the vacation home of a very lazy and nearly-senile genie - he will fulfill anything vaguely worded like a wish spoken within earshot in a half-assed, possibly hazardous, manner.
6	is the idol of a thankfully-destroyed cult half-buried nearby - its malign power infects the dreams of those who sleep nearby.

D6	This oasis is frequented
1	by a clan of giant snail-riding slowmads, whose passage through time is as slow as the pace of their mounts, making them long-lived and tougher than stone.
2	by strands of pilgrims on their way to a holy site.
3	by a circle of politically-problematic poets and philosophers who use it as an inspirational retreat.
4	by warrior-renunciates who gather here to test their martial and theological attainments against each other.
5	by a wealthy and eccentric camel merchant who comes here to get away from his nagging wife.
6	only by those who bear a special sort of compass which holds water drawn from the oasis - it is enchanted such that no one else can find it.

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