Tag: extraplanars

thedurvin:

Indulging in a random interest in sword-and-sorcery, I wound up reading synopses of some early D&D modules, and this early Big Bad really stood out: somewhere in Greyhawk, deep underground, lives the Eye of Coot, a Lawful Evil fleshy grey egg with psychic powers, and in addition to the usual eldritch horror business of mutating and enslaving the populace, it also uses its abilities to enjoy “scrawling obscene words and phrases on the walls
of latrines and garbage cans (to show it’s “power”), sky writing, pulling
the wings off of flies, etc.“ Many suspect it was making fun of Gary Gygax, but everybody denies it now.

Encounter: this is more of a “multiplanar campaign setting” idea than a “random encounter” idea, but what if the 80s Satanic Panic was true, Dungeons & Dragons was a recruitment tool for black magic, and Gary Gygax was the Earthly manifestation of this thing, escaped from Greyhawk to our plane to build an army of dark witches