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The Shatterminds: Reimagining Illithids for a Post-Apocalyptic Chaos World

Few monsters in Dungeons & Dragons are as iconic as the dreaded Mind Flayer. The image is timeless: purple-skinned psychic tyrants with writhing facial tentacles, lurking beneath the world while feeding upon sentient brains and building empires of enslaved thralls. But what happens to Illithids when...

Echoes After the End (Aether skies a steampunk horror D&D setting)

Running a Post-Barrier Campaign in Aether Skies Most campaigns end when the world is saved. In Aether Skies, some campaigns begin after it fails. The Barrier held reality together. It stabilized the skies, contained the unknowable, and allowed civilization to exist within predictable rules. Entire cultures were built...

Under the Dome: Chaos Beholders (post apocalyptic D&D setting)

When Reality Starts Believing Itself Before the storms, beholders were aberrations. After the storms, they became something worse: Anchors of unstable reality. Out in the wastelands beyond the Dome, there are places where the chaos doesn’t just distort the world. It organizes around something. In those places, you don’t find ruins. You...

Under the Dome: A Simple Delivery (Post apocalyptic D&D adventure)

An Adventure About What Happens After the Hard Part The job is done. The party went beyond the Dome.They survived the storms.They extracted the Grind. They made it back. That was the hard part. What’s left should be simple: Deliver the Grind. Get paid. Move on. Under the Dome, nothing that involves...

Smugglers of the Aether Lanes (Aether Skies TTRPG Campaign Setting)

How Goods Move Between Cities in Aether Skies Trade keeps the sky cities alive. Food, fuel, parts, and information move constantly between floating civilizations, carried along carefully mapped aether currents and tightly regulated trade routes. Entire economies depend on the reliability of these exchanges. But not everything moves...

Creature-Touched Heroes: Fiends (D&D & RPG Guide)

Mortals Marked by Sin, Flame, and Infernal Bargains Some power is taken.Some power is offered.Fiendish power is negotiated. In Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop RPGs, fiends represent temptation made manifest—demons of chaos, devils of tyranny, and entities that promise certainty in exchange for obedience. In the Creature-Touched...

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Under the Dome: 10 Grind Dealers & NPCs for Your Campaign

Faces Behind the Chaos Economy Under the Dome, Grind doesn’t move on its own. It passes through hands.Through deals.Through people willing to risk everything for power, profit, or survival. Some are respected.Some are feared.Some are barely holding it together. All of them are dangerous in their own way. These NPCs...

Black Markets of the Sky Cities (Aether Skies TTRPG setting)

Trade Beneath the Law in Aether Skies Every sky city runs on rules. Regulated trade lanes. Licensed aether tech. Controlled resource distribution. Carefully monitored imports and exports designed to keep fragile systems stable beneath the Aether Barrier. Above the clouds, order is survival. Below the platforms? So is breaking it. Because...

Under the Dome: Grind Dealers & Power Factions (D&D campaign setting)

Who Controls Chaos in Your D&D Campaign? Under the Dome, Grind is survival. It fuels engines.It powers magic.It stabilizes the unstable. And because of that, it is never truly free. Every grain of refined chaos passes through someone’s hands—and those hands belong to people who understand a simple truth: Control...

Voices from Below (Aether Skies & undercities A D&D campaign setting)

Rumors, Myths, and Urban Legends of the Underside Every city has rumors. In Aether Skies, they don’t just spread through taverns and trade routes—they travel through metal beams, along tensioned cables, and across the hollow spaces beneath the world. In the underside, stories aren’t just told. They are passed...

Under the Dome: Grind (A D&D resource from a post apocalyptic fantasy setting)

Fuel, Currency, and Control in a Post-Apocalyptic D&D Campaign In Under the Dome, survival runs on a single substance: Grind. Every light that flickers back to life after a storm.Every engine that roars across a broken district.Every desperate deal made in shadowed alleys. It all traces back to the...

The Underside: Life Beneath the Sky Cities (Aether Skies TTRPG Setting)

Shadows, Survivors, and Stories Below the Platforms Every sky city has a face it shows the world. Gleaming towers. Docking spires. Carefully maintained markets and controlled aether systems humming with purpose. And then there is everything beneath it. The underside. A maze of hanging structures, exposed beams, forgotten maintenance corridors,...