Under the Dome: Running a Chaos Beholder
Encounter Design, Tactics, and a 5e Stat Block A Chaos Beholder is not a normal boss fight. If your players walk into a room, roll initiative, and trade damage—they’ve skipped the most important part. This creature is: An environment A pressure system A perspective that overwrites reality Run it...
The Little Iron Zoo (animal crime noir TTRPG)
A Living Small-Zoo Sandbox for Zoo Mafia In Zoo Mafia, our noir animal mafia tabletop RPG set inside a living zoo, small zoos aren’t just tighter. They’re personal. Everyone knows everyone.Every grudge has history.Every favor is remembered. Welcome to The Little Iron Zoo—a compact, aging zoo where the enclosures...
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...
Too Small to Hide; Zoo Mafia (a animal noir crime TTRPG)
Running a Zoo Mafia Campaign in a Small Zoo Where Every Loss Matters In Zoo Mafia, our noir animal mafia tabletop RPG set inside a living zoo, scale changes everything. In a large zoo, crews disappear into the noise.In a small zoo? There is no noise. Every enclosure is...
The Video Games That Every Dungeon Master Should Play for Inspiration
Great Dungeon Masters know that an idea is seldom based on a single source only. Surely, monster manuals, fantasy books, and campaign settings are great sources of ideas. However, many very original and interesting ideas for your adventures can be taken [caption id="attachment_47433" align="alignright" width="300"] In...
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...
Running the Information War – Zoo Mafia (an animal crime noir TTRPG)
How to Use Intelligence Factions in a Zoo Mafia Campaign In Zoo Mafia, our noir animal mafia tabletop RPG set inside a living zoo, information isn’t just part of the game. It is the game. Crews don’t rise because they’re strongest.They rise because they know things first—and act...
Aether Storms in Aether Skies (TTRPG setting)
Navigating the Most Dangerous Weather in Aether Skies In most worlds, storms are something you wait out. In Aether Skies, storms are something that can erase you. They don’t just bring wind and lightning. They warp reality, destabilize the engines that keep entire cities afloat, and press against...
The Ones Who Know (Zoo Mafia – animal crime noir TTRPG)
Information Broker Factions, Spy Networks, and Intelligence Wars in Zoo Mafia In Zoo Mafia, our noir animal mafia tabletop RPG set inside a living zoo, power doesn’t just come from territory or muscle. It comes from knowing something first. Who moved.Who met.Who lied.Who’s about to fall. Some crews fight...
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...
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...
The Knife You Didn’t See (Betrayal in Zoo Mafia, a TTRPG)
Deep Betrayal, Hidden Agendas, and Weaponized Trust in Zoo Mafia In Zoo Mafia, our noir animal mafia tabletop RPG set inside a living zoo, the most dangerous moment in any job isn’t when things go loud. It’s when something feels… off. A pause that’s too long.A signal that...
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...
