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"Haruspex" - source change

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:17:02 +0000

Page: Haruspex (haruspex)
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Basic Information In history/mythology/religion, a Haruspex is a priest trained in the arts of haruspicy and/or hepatoscopy (also known as extispicy and hepatomancy respectively) - which are forms...

"Haruspex" - source change

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:15:48 +0000

Page: Haruspex (haruspex)
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Basic Information In history/mythology/religion, a Haruspex is a priest trained in the arts of haruspicy and/or hepatoscopy (also known as extispicy and hepatomancy respectively) - which are forms...

"Haruspicy" - source change

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:13:59 +0000

Page: Haruspicy (haruspicy)
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Basic Information Haruspicy is the divinatory art of reading entrails - also known as extispicy. The examination of the liver as part or whole of such divination may also be called hepatomancy -...

"Village Smithy" - source change

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:43:55 +0000

Page: Village Smithy (village-smithy)
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Basic Information Ye Olde Village Smithy is the place where the local Blacksmith manufactures and sells items of Iron and Steel. It's a common visit for adventurers looking to stock up, and may...

"Deep State" - source change

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:35:58 +0000

Page: Deep State (deep-state)
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Basic Information The Deep State is said to be a group of powerful, anti-democratic forces within Turkey, consisting of members of the Turkish intelligence agencies, military, security, judges,...

"Machine Politics" - source change

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:32:28 +0000

Page: Machine Politics (machine-politics)
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Basic Information Machine Politics is the phenomenon whereby a theoretically representative system of government is hijacked by a specific faction for its own interests. Normal methods include...

"Archetypal Character" - source change

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:24:45 +0000

Page: Archetypal Character (archetypal-character)
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Basic Information An archetypal character is a type of character which appears in stories around the world, even fairly isolated ones. Thus, such character types seem to resonate deeply with the...

"Crippled Smith" - source change

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:23:42 +0000

Page: Crippled Smith (crippled-smith)
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Basic Information The crippled smith is a mythic archetype consisting of a smith who is physically disabled in some way - normally lacking full use of his legs as exemplified by the Greek...

"Crippled Smith" - metadata changed

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:16:16 +0000

Page: Crippled Smith (crippled-smith)
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Basic Information The crippled smith is a mythic archetype consisting of a smith who is physically disabled in some way - normally lacking full use of his legs as exemplified by the Greek...

"Gong Farmer" - source change

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:09:59 +0000

Page: Gong Farmer (gong-farmer)
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Basic Information Gong-Farmer is a profession and term dating to the 15th Century in England. A gong farmer's job is to remove night soil (human excrement) from privies. Some castles had dedicated...

"Antimatter" - source change

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:51:52 +0000

Page: Antimatter (antimatter)
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Basic Information Antimatter is a bizarre form of matter that is often used in science fiction for fuel, explosives, robot brains, and other forms of applied phlebotinum. Each antiparticle of...

"Robot War" - source change

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:23:23 +0000

Page: Robot War (robot-war)
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Basic Information A Robot War is a setting where robots created by humanity rebel and attempt to kill or enslave all humans. The theme first appeared in the play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)...

"Robot War" - source change

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:21:55 +0000

Page: Robot War (robot-war)
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Basic Information A Robot War is a setting where robots created by humanity rebel and attempt to kill or enslave all humans. The theme first appeared in the play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)...

"Tea" - source change

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:30:47 +0000

Page: Tea (tea)
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Tea is like the East he grows in, A great yellow Mandarin With urbanity of manner And unconsciousness of sin; All the women, like a harem, At his pig-tail troop along; And, like all the East he...

"The Good, the Evil, and the -----" - source change

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:24:24 +0000

Page: The Good, the Evil, and the ----- (robots-and-rednecks)
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By goldenerasuburb Keywords Dualism Punch Clock Hero Present Day The Adventure Seed For time immemorial, the cosmic forces of Order and Chaos have clashed, their acolytes working their will...

"Gyrojet Weapons" - source change

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:20:52 +0000

Page: Gyrojet Weapons (gyrojet-weapons)
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Basic Information The term Gyrojet refers to a class of firearms invented and manufactured in the 1960s. These guns were noteworthy because they fired gyroscopically stabilized rockets, instead of...

"Personal Satellite" - metadata changed

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:16:29 +0000

Page: Personal Satellite (personal-satellite)
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(This page is nothing to do with space hardware) Basic Information The personal satellite is a piece of equipment which floats around the user under its own power - either orbiting or keeping...

"Demilitarized Zone" - source change

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:15:12 +0000

Page: Demilitarized Zone (demilitarized-zone)
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Basic Information A demilitarized zone (DMZ or DZ) is an area, line or boundary in which military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel. This often...

"Ogre" - source change

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:05:32 +0000

Page: Ogre (ogre)
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Basic Information Ogres are gigantic, brutish, often man-eating humanoid beings of great physical strength in European legend. The term "ogre" is originally French, but the legends are...

"Mine" - source change

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:29:58 +0000

Page: Mine (mine)
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Basic Information A mine is a location at which the primary industry of mining takes place - that is, a place where some mineral is dug out of the ground (however, stone and aggregates are...

"Asteroid" - source change

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:29:20 +0000

Page: Asteroid (asteroid)
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Basic Information An asteroid1 is a small rocky body that orbits our Sun (and presumably other stars as well). They are larger than meteoroids (so, larger than 10 meters in diameter), but smaller...

"Mine" - source change

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:26:16 +0000

Page: Mine (mine)
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Basic Information A mine is a location at which the primary industry of mining takes place - that is, a place where some mineral is dug out of the ground (however, stone and aggregates are...

"Abbot" - source change

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:23:48 +0000

Page: Abbot (abbot)
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Basic Information An Abbot (male) or Abbess (female) is the title given to a leader of a Christian monastery, such as an abbey, or nunnery. They are the superior over a group of monks or nuns, and...

"Houseboat" - source change

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:13:50 +0000

Page: Houseboat (houseboat)
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Basic Information A houseboat is a watercraft which has been designed or modified so that it can be used for permanent human habitation. These may be mobile - especially in the case of those that...

"Campaign Setting" - source change

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:24:49 +0000

Page: Campaign Setting (campaign-setting)
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Basic Information Campaign Settings are settings in which role-playing occurs, ideally over the course of one or more campaigns, whether they were invented specifically for RPGs or are based on...

"Magical Weapon" - source change

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:05:58 +0000

Page: Magical Weapon (magical-weapon)
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Basic Information Unsurprisingly, a magical weapon is a weapon which involves magic somewhere in its function. These seem to come in three broad varieties: Enhanced weapons: these are those where...

"World War I" - source change

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:56:32 +0000

Page: World War I (world-war-i)
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Basic Information World War I was a global war that mostly raged in Europe. It began with the declaration of war by Germany against Russia on August 1, 1914, and ended with an armistice on...

"Fowler" - source change

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:29:09 +0000

Page: Fowler (fowler)
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"In vain the fowler's net is spread in the sight of the bird" 1 PRO 17 Basic Information A fowler is a hunter of wildfowl, whether on his own account or as a huntsman for someone else....

"Bogeyman" - source change

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:54:52 +0000

Page: Bogeyman (bogeyman)
Current revision number: 18
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Basic Information The bogeyman (also referred to as the boogyman, bogyman, boogieman, boogey monster or boogeyman) is a folkloric monster, tales of which are often used as a kind of behavioural...

"Rug" - source change

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:13:26 +0000

Page: Rug (rug)
Current revision number: 5
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Basic Information A rug is a piece of soft furnishing, typically used as a floor covering. In many ways, a rug is a smaller aspect of the carpet - there is a point where the two merge into one...