Recent content by Palliard

How can you not love bad kung-fu movies? Granted, kung fu doesn't really have a place in any Tolkein-derived world, of which there doesn't seem to be any shortage... But in a world with death rays and secret societies, the name of "Fu Manchu" must ring a bell. I'll grant you, Fu Manchu wasn't...

... if you want to talk about 19th Century mysticism, the Theosophical Society is an excellent starting place. A lot of what I'd call modern mythology (Lemuria, Astral Devas, etc etc) got its popular start there. For practical examples of that sort of mysticism in a semi-appropriate setting...

Well, let me start with something basic: races. I found it pretty irksome that in OGL Steampunk they basically tried to shoehorn your standard EDOT races (elfs & dwarfs & orcs & trolls) into a steampunk setting. I know, they do that with everything, but to me it doesn't fit. If you go back...