Introduction Throughout history, storytellers and philosophers have grappled with the concept of evil, seeking to understand its nature and its impact on humanity. In the mid-20th century, a group of influential authors - J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell - explored different facets of evil in their works, creating a fascinating tapestry of ideas that continue to ..read more

 Elthos RPG Key Mechanics General Resolution Matrix (GRM): The GRM is the core mechanic of the Elthos RPG system, used to determine success or failure for all actions in the game, including combat, skill use, and mystic powers. It involves comparing an Attack Level (AL) or Skill Level (SL) against an Armor Class (AC) or Difficulty Level (DL). You always have a chance to succeed and a ..read more

The Unspoken Rules of D&D0. The Referee's Word is Law in the Game. 1. GM: RPGs are either shared stories about amazing heroes doing glorious deeds, or wargames in which bad luck can derail everything, and often does. It is statistically impossible for them to be both. 1a. GM: if playing Story Game then assume players have taken reasonable actions.1b. GM: if playing Wargame then, Players, if ..read more

Captain "Sam" Samwise stared out the Mech's forward window into the blackness of space. In the distance, towards the brilliantly shining quarter moon, a thin yellow-orange plasma streak betrayed the presence of the Mech that Lexi had hijacked two hours earlier. Below them, the Earth's atmosphere was illuminated along the horizon, with wide streaks of space debris glinting above dark clouds of ..read more

Ling's beautiful eyebrows furrowed with unhappy thoughts. The plan, as her two heroic colleagues devised it, was truly unsatisfactory. First, she remarked to herself, they want to go off on the first adventure outside the solar system for any human being ever, and leave her at home to tend the refugees! Ayahh! Second, they are splitting the team, once again! She thought this was a terrible ..read more

Conan gripped the worn leather steering wheel as his pickup grumbled down darkened streets, somewhere off North Broadway. Towering slabs of concrete and steel lined the avenue, lit windows peering down, sentinel eyes watching over the roads like dreary ancient gods. Ahead, the rising sun blazed orange, skimming first light over rooftops, banishing the shadows before them, but not the fog in ..read more

Captain "Sam" Samwise stared out the Mech's forward window into the blackness of space. In the distance, towards the brilliantly shining quarter moon, a thin yellow-orange plasma streak betrayed the presence of the Mech that Lexi had hijacked two hours earlier. Below them, the Earth's atmosphere was illuminated along the horizon, with wide streaks of space debris glinting above dark clouds of ..read more

Mutagenic EntityThe Shadow Hawk heroes sat in the Medical Bay, under the protection of Ling's Mind Shield, telepathically debating what to do about the terrible Mutagenic Entity lurking in the ruins of Eisenhelm. They reviewed the situation again.  As far as they knew, there was one and only one Shard remaining, and it was imprisoned inside the Hermit Jar on Shadow Hawk.  A far ..read more

A second chrome-trimmed blue and white Mech had punched through Earth's upper atmosphere a few minutes ago. It was moving at twenty-five thousand miles per hour, making a graceful arc in the direction of the first Mech which had emerged from the cloud cover an hour or so earlier. Ling and Vallnam were observing from Shadow Hawk's cockpit through the forward green-tinted diamond-glass window ..read more

In the beginning, long before Arda was created, there was only the Void - the great and terrible Nothingness that existed before good and evil manifested in the world. Within this Void, a being arose, or perhaps was the embodiment of the void itself, a darkness infinite and unfathomable, who would in time come to be known as Ungoliant. She was the embodiment of that which first stirred in the ..read more