OK, so nouns are dungeon rooms and verbs are dungeon corridors. cryptickeyway.blogspot.com/2025/12/dung...

Take a random page from a monster manual, like this:
Nouns: Ritual, tomb, curse, organs, jars, markings
Verbs: Punish, embalm, wrap, preserve, imbue, seal

Imagine a player asks which species/ancestries players are allowed to pick in a new RPG campaign you're going to run and you just hand them this diagram.

Blade was so weirdly prophetic about using computers to translate ancient text. basically 25 years ahead of its time, predicting how computers could brute force translations that were beyond humans (or vampires). And of course the 90s techno-goth aesthetic doesn't get much better than this.

Imagine an RPG world with a population distribution like this. The adventuring sites are scattered all over... but if you want to buy the best armor or get a disease cured or hire a sage, you have to go to Ur or Mohenjo-daro or Thebes. Managing long-distance travel becomes a big deal.

I’m not going to tell you how to live your unlife but if you are a ghost do not just be a blue translucent version of your living self. Be a ghost like this Millennium Hand art. This is a ghost that gets results.

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