The Death Cookie

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

... of the world. Although several ghouls have been captured in recent history, the two most widely-publicized American ghoul case involved the Sawyer family, who are believed to have killed over 200 ...

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

...  While Wampus Cats have been sighted all over the world, they seem to be most common in Appalachia, especially in the area between Knoxville, Tennessee, Roanoke, Virginia, and Greensboro, North Carolina. ...

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

... will of course need weapons and armor in order to smite infidels without getting smitten themselves. Where You'll Find Him: Some holy men lock themselves away from the world in order to commune with ...

4. Number Crunching
(Columns/QAGS Corner)

... hours on character creation. We never really intended for it to be a "real" system used for "serious" games (the "real" game system was Anyworlds, the overly complex system I'd written in college). ...

5. Archetype of the Week: The Noble Savage
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

...  enlightenment despite his barbaric nature. His simple, straightforward way of looking at the world allows him to point out the irrationality of many of modern society's most treasured rituals and beliefs.  ...

6. Archetype of the Week: The Boy Scout
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

...  The Name Game Because boy scouts often inhabit stylistic worlds where a person's name says a lot about him, most boy scouts will have names that sound heroic or at least clean-cut. Names that suggest ...

7. 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 ...

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

... release of death was if he redeemed himself and was allowed to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. In order to redeem himself, Stag has tried to become a force of good in the world, using the magic of his Stetson ...

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

... wearing a hood. 3) Robin Hood Is a Hero of the People. In the real world, people who operate covertly keep a low profile. While Robin and his men do in fact do a lot of medieval cloak and dagger stuff, ...

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

... Showman, Street Performer, Televangelist, Traveling Salesman, Wizard, Writer, 'Zine Publisher Suggested Gimmicks: Almost Famous, Bag of Tricks, Born Salesman, Citizen of the World, Cool Toys, Cult ...

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

... come up with several ground rules for running the type of Sword and Sorcery game that you rarely get with D&D or its clones. Since the world needs another fantasy RPG book about as much as we needed ...

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

... Liaison, Man In Black, Monster Hunter, Observer, Operative, Provocateur, Sector Seven Agent, Shade, Spy Master, Troubleshooter Suggested Gimmicks: Car-Fu, Citizen of the World, Clue Magnet, Contacts, ...

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

... of the World, Friends In High Places, Godlike Powers, Good Judge of Character, Grizzled Veteran, King of the Road, Knows Everybody, Lifetime of Experience, Powerful Kung-Fu, Reputation, Second Sight, ...

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

...  Technobabble The last column finished up by discussing magic. According to Clarke’s Law and RPG tradition, the next logical subject to tackle is technology. I want the world I’m building to have slightly ...

15. Con Report: Egypt Wars 1
(Features/Convention Reports)

... zombies). They made a brief stop at an S&M bar, where Pepper was unexpectedly reunited with Cotton. While at the bar, they tried to get news of the outside world, but the only show still broadcasting ...

16. Interview with Broken Toy's Letia Clouston
(Features/Interviews)

... to Los Angeles to begin her education in film. After working on numerous movie and television productions, Letia directed her first feature, In The Dark, which won "Best Low Budget Feature" at WorldFest ...

17. The Rake
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... the world won't overcome a douchey personality, so a high Nerve score is also desirable. Some people claim that intelligence is sexy, but those people are usually lying. Suggested Jobs: Actor, Adulteress, ...

18. The Squint
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Criminal Psychology, Firearms, First Aid, Fortean Studies, Gambling, Google-Fu, History, Investigation, Math, Ping Pong, Research, Roller Coaster Trivia, Self-Defense, Video Games, World Traveler, Writing ...

19. The Grizzled Veteran
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Soldier, Space Marine, Smuggler, Warden, Whore    Suggested Gimmicks: Age and Cunning, Citizen of the World, Friends in High Places, Friends in Low Places, Hard Boiled, I've Seen Worse, Lifetime of Experience, ...

20. WB101 Part 5: The Big Picture
(Columns/World Building 101)

Welcome back to World Building 101. It’s been a while, but now that the holiday season is behind us, I’m going to try to get back to a more-or-less regular monthly schedule (at least until convention season ...