Glaugust 2026: Non-Lovecraftian cosmic horror

So today's Glaugust prompt is from Semiurge, "Non-Lovecraftian cosmic horror". Hey I just did that like four blogposts ago or something! Well that's fine, I'll do it again. Here's an encounter, slot it in somewhere or use it as a short oneshot with whatever rules and setting you want.

I feel like this is implying that Weezer is a one-hit wonder and like they're totally not.

Session Report 1 - Mall Rats: Escape From The Depths Of The Burbank-Fullerton Supercenter: The Tabletop Game (Featuring Jack The Pack Rat And Her Traveling Shack) - A Journey Into The Core Of The Pre-Millenium For Levels 1-7 But Floors 1 To B1

So I'm running a new campaign with Mall Rats.

There's no response, it's just a heap of plushies.

GLOG Class: My Last Ninja Was Just A Fighter

Mall Rats are varied in kind and skills, but all serve only one master: the great god Greed. A Mall Ninja serves a greater power: Pride. In the service of Pride, you take a Lord. Your Lord is the best Lord, and protecting them is your purpose. Anyone who questions your methods is just jealous.

Thanks to Grek for figuring out how to get Unstable to work.

Also thanks to TitleKnown for ordering me to create this class.

Also I suppose this is a bandwagon Assassin class

A mall ninja, probably

GLOGtober 2024-6 Color

So I'm writing this on my phone. Hopefully that'll be fine. Ok I fought autocorrect three times writing that sentence, it's not fine. Whatever. The prompt is from https://spiceomancy.blogspot.com/

The future of gaming is color.

GLOGtober 2024-1

So it's GLOGtober again. Longtime readers know that every GLOGtober I participate in something called "October", which is a kind of month. Anyways whoever you are, if you're reading this you probably know what GLOGtober is but if not there's an explanation here: https://glass-candles.blogspot.com/2024/09/glogtober-24.html

I'm just gonna roll 1d76 every day for a prompt and post until I get tired/stressed/bored.

Today's prompt is from https://whosemeasure.blogspot.com/

It's true!

GLOG Class: What Sound Does A Dragon Make

So I was thinking about more 80s/90s cult classics to base 80s/90s cult classes off of, and I realized I'd never seen Buckaroo Banzai. And then I realized that I *had* seen Miami Connection.

Friends through eternity, loyalty, honesty, stay together through thick and thin.

GLOGtober 2023-15

So it is day 24 of October, but only day 15 of GLOGtober. Time has become misaligned with itself. Tomorrow will be yesterday, and the day after will be next January. Today I chose - and it is my choice now, I have broken free from the RNG that bound me - I chose a very simple prompt. Or maybe it's a complicated prompt and I don't get it?

"Random encounters on an ancient road," says Locheil. Well now I'm wondering why the road is specified as ancient. Must I take that into account, somehow? How old is ancient? El Camino Real is older than anyone I've met, or anyone they've met. Can I be an encounter? Maybe. Hopefully I'll figure it out after the page image.

I think this place is on El Camino Real.
It's complicated, I guess.

GLOGtober 2023-3

So I've been kinda running a vampire game in my Mall Rats "setting" for a few months. We've only had three sessions, but still, I've put a lot of thought into Mall Vampire.

But rather than posting about how that Mall Vampire works, I'm going to create a new Mall Vampire.

My third GLOGtober prompt is Vampires by the way.

Two maps.

This one isn't keyed in case you want to use it in a VTT or something.

Record of Encino War: Session 3

So last session I started playing 50s rock in the background, to simulate the 50s rock playing in the background in the hallways of the Encino Shopping Arcade. I hope my players don't find it annoying.

Sand... Witches?

Record of Encino War: Session 1

So I've been running Mall Rats with some friends, playing through my interpretation of the D&D 5e module CURSE OF STRAHD. I'm gonna try to write up play reports from now on, but here's the first session off of notes and memory.

The Encino Shopping Arcade

Secreter Santicor(e|n) 2022: d666 unexpected things to find in a corpse's pocket

so someone requested d50 unexpected things to find in a corpses pocket for secret santicor(e|n) and i didnt get that prompt but i felt like doing it anyways. heres a d666 table

it might not actually be a d666 table whoops

Class: Scrapmaster

 So this class makes stuff.

There's no response, it's just trash.

GLOG Class: Roller Knight

So this is a class that is inspired by a sport that I don't know anything about.

You use these instead of shoes.

Whoops! The Mall Rats Mall Remastered?

So I accidentally deleted the Tomb of Xzyzzyx. So here it is again, from memory and with probably some changes.

GLOG Class: Nikoniko Pretty Soldier

So I'm trying to make a couple more classes for Mall Rats that are less weird, or at least weird in a more normal way?

In the name of the... star, I guess.

GLOG Class: Monkey Man

So here's a class inspired by an old PC near and dear to my heart. His name was Mr. Special.

Hep hep hep

GLOG Class: Cool As Ice

 So I'm still making GLOG classes to fill out Mall Rats. Pretty much the only pre-2000s rap I really listen to is Rage Against The Machine and a couple Beastie Boys albums... And the only post-2000s rap I listen to is like, Death Grips, 100 gecs, and Eichlers.

Why am I making this, I have no cultural context for anything.

Inspiration taken from HEIMJING's Calligrapher class.

It's not even real gold it's just painted stainless steel.

GLOG Class: Secret Snake

So I'm trying to expand the class list for Mall Rats, and I like action movies.

Sneaky Snake

Mall Rats: More Monsters

Just expanding my monster list.

Mall Rats: Monsters of the Megamall

So I figured I should probably expand what I'd actually written on Mall Rats. I've got a decent amount of ideas, but they're all in my head - rendering the rulebook a bit underwhelming. So here's some monsters you can use in Mall Rats, hopefully giving people a bit of a better idea of what I'm going for.

It's a dude in a mall.