Planar Adventures for Dummies

A collection of my ramblings on fantasy physics, game mechanics, and planar adventures as they apply to Dungeons and Dragons and its retroclones.

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Friday, September 27, 2019

Faun, incubus, and satyr?

According to the Malleus Maleficarum , the faun , incubus , pan , and satyr are different names for the same demon. Medieval Christianity d...

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Adaro: ghost, merman, and sprite of the Pacific islands

The adaro is a malevolent ghost in the folklore of the Melanesian. When a person dies, their better half or aunga passes on whereas their w...

What do you call a mermaid with an octopus half?

Years ago I wrote a post about how the neologism "cecaelia" commonly used for octopus-mermaids on the internet is actually meaning...

Monday, August 19, 2019

Of ogres and orknies

Ogres and orcs are standard monsters in fantasy gaming, drawing from their depictions in Tolkien's Middle Earth and European fairy tales...

Sunday, August 18, 2019

Genies of the lamp

In Arabic folklore, genies were incredibly powerful beings. They had incredible riches and magical powers. King Solomon bound a number of th...

Demons of the katardi family

So I had an idea for a monster. The premise of this idea is that the "wendigo" mentioned in Stephen King's Pet Sematary (the ...

Saturday, August 17, 2019

The sa'ir, a forgotten monster

The sa'ir is a weird monster that appeared only briefly in 2e as part of the lamia’s ridiculously convoluted ecology (ridiculously con...

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