The Scientific Inheritance: An ancient power many seek for the sake of evil. Hidden in Dungeons across the world are the Dungeon Cores, remnants of the Scientific Inheritance, terrible devices that keep the Dungeons active by feeding off the corpses of the foolish who dare enter the Dungeons for glory, fame, and riches. A select …
Articles by Oscar L. Schmidt
“TIGEEERRRR!” You hear your gunner scream. You swing your head forward and see not the square silhouette of the dreaded Tiger, but the slopes of a… Panther? Still pretty bad news, but thank God it’s not a Tiger. Your shining new M26 Pershing, fresh from a General Motors factory in the United States, is a …
Global warming! A terrible way for civilization to go. A thermonuclear war would have been a frightening death, but at least it might have been relatively quick. But global warming, pollution, and negligence, now that’s a slow, painful, undignified demise as nature proved to mankind that it could not be tamed. An apocalypse that went …
Chaos! “Who is responsible for this!?”, you shout at the unfortunate messenger who brought you this rail schedule sheet. On the sheet are trains and their numbers misaligned, their names misspelled, and their destinations! Horror upon horror, they’re a mess! The wood train to Stuttgart is heading to Warsaw. The vacationing passengers on the Corncob …
“When they came out of the battle, what a pitiful sight they were. Their expressions seemed frozen by a wisdom of terror; they sagged beneath the weight of horrifying memories.” – Marshal Petain, after inspecting soldiers from the Battle of Verdun War! A gentleman’s game. Or at least all of you have been taught. War …
The Elven Springwardens, Humans of The League of Order, and the Orcish nation of Wilderburg once were hateful foes. While none of them were truly what could be considered evil, politics and old histories caused them to feud and fight and wage war against each other endlessly. At least until the skies fell on their …