Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Spew out Something Previously Absorbed

The Gods of Cubes are a thorny matter, theologically speaking. Does "cube", as some philosophers would have, partake of the divine in the very abstract perfection of its cube-ness? Or are cubes so by emanation from some immortal and godlike uber-cube itself? Of is cube-ness a mere accident of shape as the Dishevelists maintain? Some gods, notably the forbidden Drolb, are demonstrably cubical, but does that make them Cube Gods?

The God Cube

HP 20, Armor (special), Attack: 1d4+4 area, messy The God Cube takes only 1 HP of damage from any attack, no matter how powerful. Moves:
- Irradiate an area
- Absorb something, temporarily taking on its powers and attributes
- Spew out something previously absorbed


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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Ancient City of Forbidden Gods

More forbidden gods for you!
This dungeon apparently has a blender in it. That seems a perfectly sensible thing to include in a dungeon, and yet I feel I must slightly apologize for including such an un-dungeonish thing in this setting. Of course that assumes that what appears to be a blender to our eyes is, in fact, a blender. Perhaps it is some sort of astral antennae. On the other hand, if an object is handled and used by enough people in their daily ritual in our world, who is to say that this could not create the requisite resonance to cause a divine focus in some other world.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Haunted Tower of Forbidden Gods

The first of the Microdungeon 10: the Haunted Tower of Forbidden Gods. What makes a god forbidden? Is it enough that worship of the god is outlawed somewhere? Or must the god himself be somehow proscribed? And what manner of authority is required to achieve that feat? Or is there something ontologically significant about the state of being forbidden (at least where a god is involved)?

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Monday, November 22, 2010

Argument of the Gods


Dungeons don't just happen by accident. OK, some dungeons happen by accident. But some dungeons were brought about by something. Like when the gods start talking. Gods can't just talk, you see. Their words make things happen. When the gods really get arguing, all kinds of things come into the world, like the platypus (or the dreaded razor tooth giant platypus), the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or a plurality of bald Kings of France. Sometimes what comes into being is a dungeon.

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