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Top 10 Real Life Dragons
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the term dragon means “A mythical animal usually represented as a monstrous winged and scaly serpent or saurian with a crested head and enormous claws.” These magnificent monsters have captured the human imagination for millennia. Cultures throughout the world have their own spin on grand, powerful, and mysterious reptiles. Dragons,…
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Fantasy Races and Peoples: Beyond “Pretty and Pointy-Eared”
I’m the kind of person who looks at fantasy games where you choose your character’s species/race and thinks, “Yessss.” Being human in real life is all well and good. But speculative fiction is all about breaking from the norm and trying something new. And for me, that means going really new. Skip the usual elves…
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Monstrous Monsters: Conflict and Natural Aggression
Open up any Dungeons and Dragons book about game monsters, and chances are good that you’ll end up on a page detailing either an evil entity out to ruin your day or a powerful and dangerous creature that may very well want to eat you. Even the less enemy-focused creatures have “stat blocks” detailing how…
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Massive Monsters and How to Sustain Them
Fantasy creatures come in all shapes. Some are basically existing animals but with special traits or abilities. Others are chimeric, with two or more species smashed together wholesale. And still others are completely bizarre monstrosities. They can be fishlike, insectoid, reptilian, mammalian, you name it. Many are very much like humans. But some fantastical traits…