This post belongs to the #AtoZchallenge 2024, where I attempt to turn a word a day into something that can be used in Role Playing Games. A wentletrap is a family of sea snails which looks like a spiral staircase, and which are most likely carnivorous (and also not very well known). How to integrate it into your typical fantasy RPG? Spiral stairs are a staple in dungeons, have one be th...

This post belongs to the #AtoZchallenge 2024, where I attempt to turn a word a day into something that can be used in Role Playing Games. A volute is a spiral, scroll-like ornament, a compression spring or a curved funnel in a pump. How to integrate it into your typical fantasy RPG? Of course, as a dungeon ornament. Feel free to use it plenty, especially in Greek themed dungeons! It ...

This post belongs to the #AtoZchallenge 2024, where I attempt to turn a word a day into something that can be used in Role Playing Games. An unction can be several things: to sacrify something with a liquid, a kind of ointment (or salve), and an insincere show of emotion. How to integrate it into your typical fantasy RPG? An unction could be a cursed ointment, turing a character into a ...

This post belongs to the #AtoZchallenge 2024, where I attempt to turn a word a day into something that can be used in Role Playing Games. A twill is a certain weaving technique that creates durable, but still light and moveable fabric. Twill fabric usually sports diagonal lines. How to integrate it into your typical fantasy RPG? Dwarves or elves could have mastered the art of twill armo...

This post belongs to the #AtoZchallenge 2024, where I attempt to turn a word a day into something that can be used in Role Playing Games. A squall is a sudden increase of wind speed that lasts for a minute or longer (as opposed to a gust which only lasts for a few seconds). It is usually accompanied by strong rain, thunder, and lightning. Sometimes, it also brings watersprouts along. While ord...

This post belongs to the #AtoZchallenge 2024, where I attempt to turn a word a day into something that can be used in Role Playing Games. A rhizome is an underground part of certain plants that can either grow out to reach new places or up to establish a new plant. They often come along with tubers that save nutritients to ensure the plants survival, Many pesky weeds have rhizoms, if the weed ...

This post belongs to the #AtoZchallenge 2024, where I attempt to turn a word a day into something that can be used in Role Playing Games. Quipu can both be a knot and a knot-based recording system from the Andean South America, most famous for the Inca. It was not just the Inca who used it though, other cultures did as well. Meaning is conveyed through a combination of colour, type of knot and...

This post belongs to the #AtoZchallenge 2024, where I attempt to turn a word a day into something that can be used in Role Playing Games. A Pyxis can be many different things, originally, a shape of vessel – usually a beautifully adorned cylindrical box with a separate lid. It usually contained valuable small goods like medicine or (in Christian times) sanctified items. In astronomy, it ...

This post belongs to the #AtoZchallenge 2024, where I attempt to turn a word a day into something that can be used in Role Playing Games. In ancient Rome, the Ostiarius was doorman, porter or gatekeeper – usually a slave who was sometimes even chained to the door to prevent flight. Their main obligation was to keep unwanted persons out and regulate the entry and passage of wanted persons...

This post belongs to the #AtoZchallenge 2024, where I attempt to turn a word a day into something that can be used in Role Playing Games. A nadir is a low or downward point of reference, the opposite of a zenith. It can also mean a real or figurative low-point, the lowest measurement or lowest geographic location (for example the Nadir Crater at the bottom of the ocean). It also exists as acro...