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randomencounters · 5 days
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Encounter: giant fanged frog from Paris
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"Crapaud Labyrinthodon" [Toad-like Labyrinthodon] from Paris avant les hommes (Paris Before Man) by Pierre Boitard
Published posthumously as a novel with updated illustrations in 1861, first published in Musée des Familles – Lectures du Soir, 1836-1837
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6416941b/f96.item
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randomencounters · 9 days
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Encounter: family of vampires that didn’t invest well three centuries ago and now shill hamburgers to make their coffin payments
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Burger Chef Goes All Out To Please Your Fangmily!: The Family Fangburger -- Count Fangburger, Mrs. Fangburger, Son of Fangburger, and Fangburger's Daughter -- promoting Burger Chef, 1974.
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randomencounters · 10 days
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Encounter: the Docent (?)
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randomencounters · 10 days
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Encounter: Allo the Anthro-Allosaurus. Please tell me he has a friend named Ace
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Allo - Dinosaucers (Glasslite)
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randomencounters · 12 days
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Encounter: the absolute worst shop you've ever been to
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randomencounters · 12 days
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Encounter: the Slu
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randomencounters · 14 days
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There’s the Bonnacon, the cow from medieval bestiaries that defends itself from hunters by spraying flaming shit behind it as it runs away; it’s sometimes described as a bull, but if there’s bull-bonnacons there’s gotta be cow-bonnacons too
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In all your findings, have you been able to come across cow beasts? Or beasts with cow parts? I've been looking myself and have been empty-handed so far.
The Minotaur is fairly popular, so I'm assuming you don't want any bulls in there? There's a lot of bull in mythology...
If you want explicitly "cow" or "cow parts", there's the cosmic ice-licking cow Audhumla from Norse mythology, the sea cows with inflated bladders on their noses from Iceland, sea cows in general, the Cuero or "Cowhide" from Chile, the Butatsch Cun Ilgs or "Cow's Stomach" from Switzerland...
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randomencounters · 14 days
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From the article:
NASA has released a free, original tabletop role-playing game, and it’s one part educational experience and another part sci-fi/fantasy epic with magic and dragons. The crux of The Lost Universe, the organization’s first TTRPG,involves a mystery: What would happen if the Hubble Space Telescope disappeared? It’s a simple premise and one that hides the complex backstory underscoring the events of the role-playing game. Without getting into the weeds, the game takes place on a planet called Exlaris, which was once thrown into chaos when a black hole moved too close and kicked it out of its orbit. The planet has since gone back to some degree of normalcy and is now almost completely dedicated to academia. In one city, a scholar named Eirik Hazn made a spell to connect with Earth to study the Hubble Space Telescope, which has famously collected data on black holes. However, the spell and telescope are stolen by a dragon, and researchers working on the project have been disappearing, so the players — Earthlings who worked on the telescope at NASA who were brought through a portal to Exlaris — have to save the day. The official 44-page gameplay book is available to download for free on NASA’s website. You can play it in a party with 4-7 players, but you may need to fudge a few things to graft this narrative onto your TTRPG system of choice. The book says it’ll take around 3-4 hours to get through the adventure.
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randomencounters · 16 days
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Encounter: Elves For The 80s (Even For The 90s): Fearless Fuddy (a super elf), Holly Happiness, Roger Moneybumps, General Hotstuff, and Shy Pie (he hides under a sack!)
Source: a piece of unused concept art by Jack Kirby back when he worked for Ruby-Spears
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randomencounters · 17 days
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The squares sure aren’t gonna save the day. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re talking to Anthony Meloro about Mystic Punks! This is Part One, because we got to gabbing so long that we got two episodes worth of chat. Within, we talk about the original Mystic Punks solo game, the imminent Kickstarter for the multiplayer Mystic Punks RPG, the majestic art of Benjamin Marra, trash culture, the healing power of reefer and so much more!
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randomencounters · 18 days
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Encounter: white turkey that is clearly charging some sort of beam attack
swelling
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randomencounters · 20 days
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Encounter: naked sorceress with a Wand of Change Species
Source: Louis Chalon, 1888: "Circe"
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randomencounters · 22 days
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Encounter: Ring-Tailed Wombat, apparently
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Source details and larger version.
Monsters of every stripe are collected here.
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randomencounters · 23 days
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Encounter: the Green Slime Girls, a group of beautiful gogo dancers that do promotional outreach for SPCO (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Oozes)
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Is It Something In Your Head? Will You Believe It When You're Dead? GREEEEEN SLIIIIIIIME!: Theater promotion, featuring babes in body stockings and go-go boots, for Toei's/MGM's "The Green Slime," 1968.
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randomencounters · 23 days
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Encounter: Mr. Turnip, the Children’s Favorite Homunculus Television Puppet
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Mr. Turnip
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randomencounters · 24 days
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Sidequest: outknit Saddam to win a free ringtone
I just realized that I could share this flash game ad I saved off of MySpace in like 2005 to tumblr.
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It’s so important to me. It makes me feel like I’m losing my mind even after 20 years.
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randomencounters · 24 days
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Encounter: fucked up suction cup cat thing
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Love this fucked up suction cup cat thing but I don't know what it's called when it actually appears in the book
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