Creature Feature (5e): The Queen of the Black Court
There are stories of an ancient and forgotten place, a demiplane 800 miles by 800 miles across. Here there are pure white mountains and forests with trees whose leaves are …
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Creature Feature (5e): Bishop
The Pieces worship the Game in exclusivity. They do not deny the existence of outside deities, nor even the possibility one such deity may have created their Game in the …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Blooded Samurai
In many ways, samurai are not unlike the knights of western lands. In their idealized form, they are honorable, dutiful, powerful warriors. Like knights, they are of noble blood except …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Bwoslodoon
The bwoslodoons drift through the astral sea, often seeming completely oblivious to their surroundings. Many make the mistake of believing they are nearly as mindless as the jellyfish of the …
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Creature Feature (5e): Da’no Ohn
Like a ghostly cross between a cat and a snake, many outsiders are quick to misjudge the Da’no ohn. They are mischievous, yes, but not at all as predatory as …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Dwarf Powderguard
Individually, a member of the powderguard is a lethal individual capable of devastating far larger groups of enemies if given only a few minutes to secure a distant position with …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Extremoturtur
Extremoturtur’s are an anomaly of nature and a rare one at that. These tiny creatures live in extremely hot environments on the prime material plane, appearing not unlike tiny turtles …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Gamble
The coin flip rules their day. The Gambles wander along, betting on anything and everything. Beneath their smiles and jokes is a sinister overtone: they want these wagers to be …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Human Derring-do
Humans are a varied and ambitious people. It is for perhaps this reason that some of the most heroic and most monstrous of mortals are often human. However, the elves …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Knight
The thumping of a Knight’s hooves is a frightful thing. The Board’s stone cracks under their step, sounding not unlike bone after bone breaking as they charge. The sound often …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Lildroc
Said to be the workforce of some long dead deity, Lildrocs are strange and industrious spirits. They exist to build, fortify, and repair, doing so from dusk to dawn every …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Ogre Monk
There are some who argue that ogres, by their nature, are doomed to chaos and evil. The question of whether one’s blood or one’s upbringing us what dooms them to …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Pawn
The Pawns exist only for war. Only for service. It is not theirs to ask questions, to disobey. They march to destruction in the ecstasy that is obedience. There is …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Powderbug Swarm
At first, powderbugs were heralded for their potential use as a black powder substitute. They required little food and harvesting them was a simple matter of leaving enough bugs for …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Rook
Outsiders are often struck with fear and awe at the Rooks. These mighty constructs are considered by many to be the grandest Pieces of the Kings; mobile fortresses that dwarf …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Sabtora Cat
They prowl the sands, large predators with unusually long snouts for cats. Even more for such a predator is their four eyes; these eyes are spaced just so, allowing the …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Shogunate Nothing
In the lands of the Dairi Shogunate, there exist an order of wandering monks known for their unusual dress. In the native language of the land, they are the Grey …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Skeletal Powder Keg
A nefarious combination of necromancy and black powder, a skeletal powder keg is a strange yet straightforward design. By taking a blindly loyal skeleton minion and placing within its ribs …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Slime-thing
In the darkest cesspools and refuse piles, chaos reigns. At the bottoms of dark, forgotten pits of the abyss, there swirls the centuries of filth and magical leftover from countless …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Stomo Mole
Stomo moles are often seen as disgusting by surface dwellers; eating dirt and bugs on one end and excreting a gross gel from the other. Underdwellers understand the moles’ value …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): The King in Black
King in Black’s creation marked the beginning of the Game, although it was very different back then. The Board was unscarred, with its hills and stone trees untouched by war …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): The King in White
White’s creation marked the beginning of the Game in more or less the form it is seen today. He was bold, innovative, and, although both will argue otherwise, equal in …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): The Queen of the White Court
Outsiders are often confused by the nature of the Queens. The Pieces generally chalk this up, probably correctly, to the fact that many outsiders are from lands where royal ladies, …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Walber Snail
The walber snail is thankfully a rare thing. While relatively small, it is notoriously hostile to perceived threats, commonly spitting a deadly sludge at any and everything that moves too …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Wanderlust
Some on the Astral Plane make the mistake of failing to value what time they have. In the near agelessness gained while traveling there, some forget that even there time …
Read More... Creature Feature (5e): Whirling Painter
The Astral Plane is close to both the divine and the most foul. Its silvery sea and whirling pools of color hide secrets the likes of which mortals were never …
Read More... Tuesday Potpourri (5e): The Age of Lead
It was the dwarves who mastered the amazing black powder. The gnomes reached some of the milestones first, of course, with their dangerous gung-ho experimentation, but where gnomish progress is …
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