The Death Cookie

1. Monster of the Week: The Devil Monkey
(Columns/Monster of the Week)

Also Known As: The “Belt Road Booger” encountered by several people in Georgia in the 1970s was in all likelihood a devil monkey. The Nalusa Flaya of Choctaw legend bears a strong physical resemblance ...

2. Monster of the Week: The Hellhound
(Columns/Monster of the Week)

Also Known As: Devil Dog, Demon Dog Description: Hellhounds look like large black mastiffs with red or yellow eyes. They have foul breath that is often described as smelling like rancid meat mixed ...

3. Monster of the Week: The Ghoul
(Columns/Monster of the Week)

Also Known As: Sometimes spelled “ghul,” the Arabic word for “demon.” Description: Ghouls who are well-fed on human flesh are indistinguishable from normal humans. The longer a ghoul goes without ...

4. Monster of the Week: The Wampus Cat
(Columns/Monster of the Week)

Also Known As: Ewah or Ew’ah (Cherokee). Description: The Wampus Cat is a demonic creature that looks like a bipedal mountain with large yellow eyes. BMA Classification: The Wampus Cat is listed ...

5. Monster of the Week: The Enfield Horror
(Columns/Monster of the Week)

Also Known As: No other known names. Description: The Enfield Horror is described as bing 4.5-5 feet tall and grayish in color with large “flashlight-sized” red or pinkish eyes. The creature has ...

6. Monster of the Week: The Mongolian Death Worm
(Columns/Monster of the Week)

... here are for the Hex Ficton setting (where M-Force takes place). Mongolian Death Worm Also Known As: The Mongolian name for the creature is olgoi-khorkhoi, which translates as “intestine worm.” ...

7. Archetype of the Week: The Holy Man
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Finance, Fishing, Fund Raising, Gardening, Healing, Horseback Riding, Inspirational Speaking, Investigation, Latin, Literate, Occult Knowledge, Organ Playing, Quick Draw, Ruler-Fu, Sermons, Scripture, ...

8. Number Crunching
(Columns/QAGS Corner)

... leave that to somebody with a scientific calculator. Same goes for the Weakness Die idea. As usual with rules ideas in this column, none of this has been playtested. Will it work? Who knows? The ...

9. Archetype of the Week: The Warrior
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Air Cavalry Regiment Tag Line: "You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill ...

10. A Six Pack of Stagger Lee
(Features/Gaming Articles)

... Stag's been known to go by. Songs about Stagger Lee have been recorded by over 200 different artists, including Mississippi John Hurt, Lloyd Price, The Grateful Dead, and Nick Cave. The details vary from ...

11. Archetype of the Week: The Rookie
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... he's the tinhorn who doesn't know anything about life on the frontier; in super-hero stories, he's the kid sidekick who's got a lot of spirit but is still learning the ropes; in fantasy, he's the apprentice ...

12. The Rules: Robin Hood
(Features/Gaming Articles)

... but Ridley Scott already knows these, but just in case: 1) Robin Hood Is an Outlaw. Robin and his men are wanted by the authorities and are forced to live outside of regular society. While their default ...

13. Archetype of the Week: The Trickster
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

The trickster (often called the shapeshifter) archetype is closely related to the fool, but tends to be a more subversive character than the fool. The fool is (whether he knows it or not) is the object ...

14. Archetype of the Week: The Fool
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Weaknesses: Alcoholic, Bad Karma, Clueless, Clumsy, Communication Breakdown, Dazed and Confused, Delusional, Dumb As A Rock,  Gullible, Idiot Savant, In The Closet, Know It All, Lecherous, Narcissism, ...

15. Wednesday WWPHITM? Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser
(Features/Random Stuff)

... perfect sense.         Colin Farrell as The Gray Mouser Farrell seems to be on the smallish side as action stars go, and we know he can do glib rakishness with the best of them. Alternate: ...

16. The Rules: Sword & Sorcery
(Features/Gaming Articles)

... the profession to be considered an ability of the Job. Additionally, if a player can provide a reasonable explanation of how he knows how to do something not covered by his Words, he may use his full ...

17. Archetype of the Week: The Spook
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Knowles, Delroy Lindo, Lucy Liu, Carrie Anne Moss, Bill Murray, Al Paccino, Mitch Pileggi, Robert Redford, Zoe Saldana, Christian Slater, Will Smith, Gina Torres, John Turturro, Mark Wahlberg, Edward ...

18. Archetype of the Week: The Mentor
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... the younger heroes everything they need to know, but this is not strictly necessary in an RPG setting. Likely Stories The mentor is one of Campbell's classic archetypes, and appears in some form ...

19. Fratboy of the Week: The Dupe
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

...  M-Force are both tempting). If anyone has suggestions or requests, by all means let me know.    ...

20. WB101 Part 6: Son of The Big Picture
(Columns/World Building 101)

... (and therefore allowed easier use in windy or wet conditions—the high seas, for example) were developed at the beginning of the 17th Century. Since I know that The Sages (who I already know opened the ...