Shrine of the Desert Dragons

 

Who is Molock, Demiurge of the desert dragons?

1. Proud and distrustful, requests that you bring the Agate Rose 

2. Old and kind, welcomes you as the fullfilment to an ancient prophecy

3. Reptillian and alien, accuses you of being agents of the Velociroptoron

4. Scared and on the move, needs help transporting dragon eggs

Who is Thodus the dragon monk?

1. Excited to meet you! He hasnt spoken to anyone aside from the king in 327 years

2. Golemnist guarding the Demiurge

3. Grand master of the royal battle monks

4. Ex-templar who fled the Grand Equiton to be with Molock

5. Rogue spirit weaver from the Arcanum granted asylum by the Demiurge

6. The coolest and most popular of the Demiurge's entourage

Whats in the pit?

1. A broken toad-folk digging machine whos pilots are now stranded here

2. Energy parasite from another dimension

3. Illusion of a giant anemone and clownfish hiding a summoning shrine to an elemental water god

4. Flaming gates beyond which stand the demon prince Bezohmut who welcomes you to the world of monsters

5. Portal to the mega-planet Anaxiot filled with air-kelp

6. Meteor that bends all nearby reality!

7. Enormous living diamond crystalline growths that act as a library of magic spells

8. Locked elevator that takes you to the slumbering dwarven city-beast 

Random encounters

1. Goblins with laser guns

2. Bug-kin hauling cactus fruit, bones or worm kebabs

3. Spider golem from the Age of the Great Empires before great reconing 

4. Desert dragon ghosts, monks or great warriors

5. Cougar-dragon

6. Fey desert creatures looking to play pranks on the ghosts that haunt the shrine, or anyone else they run accross

7. Large jumping scorpions

8. Razorbirds

9. Desert dwarf youths exploring the Shrine

10. Wizard's minion looking for magical components: heart serum leaf or digging beetles

Random treasures

1. Spindle of gold thread

2. Cactus fruit essence - grants the ability to commune with ghosts

3. Goblin gang stash

4. Minitature bird golem in a small box

5. Ancient necklace

6. Bundle of heart serum leaf and dried digging beetles

7. Excellent chemistry set

8. Bag of several small gaming tablets

9. Ornate key ring

10. Bundle of letters

11. Large bronze disc depicting a mythic scene

12. Heavy triangular short sword

Genres & Dragons

Planets & Monsters was a game that I spent a couple years writing but never finished. I was in a group that met for a regular campaign playing the game and the "book" was a frankenstien monster of different sci-fi and fantasy games that I had edited together into one big pdf that was constantly changing. Usually I would take notes during our sessions and incorporate everyones ideas into a new pdf every few months. A couple years ago, I put the campaign on hiatus to rework it as a hack of the popular Blades in the Dark. Not too long after that my computer crashed and I lost the work I had done on Planets & Monsters. 

Instead of trying to remake it based on the pdfs that my group had saved, I started doing game jams and posting games to itch.io and I forgot all about Planets & Monsters for a while. This blog is a tribute to that game, I'll try and explore it's idea of weird and campy sci-fi fantasy.