#gorgas

[enddaysengine]

I am sorry, but can I inquire something in regard of new Pathfinder 2 content? The new AP #187 has released on AoN and among new monsters are Gorgas - fey embodiments of fear of dark in various forms. I imagine these could've worked interestingly in Karasutra for Planescape, since they are said to have not been originally evil, but I wonder what interesting ideas you could have for them (I am sorry if this comes off as too direct, I have no Tumblr etiquette skills yet)

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I think your instincts are right on the money. If you don't have a First World/Feywild equivelent (or even if you do), Karasuthra would be a logical play for Gorgas that aren't as malicious and are more just hungry. The Beastlands have a pretty long history of True Neutral (or using 4e's parlence since it really fits here - Unaligned) animals and fey on the plane, so even if they aren't actively good, I think there is a place for them. Karasuthra also has a history of hinting at dark and dangerous things lurking in the shadows, so Gorgas fit the bill quite nicely for that.

I'd also think about putting them on the Twlight realm of Brux, especially the temagyr with their cloak of shadows ability. Regardless of what plane they are on, I'd expect to find them in the courts of animal lords associated with shadows, Owl and Cat spring to mind.

Off the Beastlands, I think Pandemonium would make sense too. Caves, long shadows, fear of the dark, and paranoia just fit together way too well. And for bonus point, the Unseelie Court hangs out on Phlegethon!

[lpbestiary]

The Gorgades are a race of fantastic people said to dwell on a number of islands off the coast of Africa. Little is known about them, but their women are covered in hair and the men are incredibly swift.

In Pliny's Natural History, he claimed that a Carthzginian general discovered the islands inhabited by the Gorgades and skinned two of the women.

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Monster master list.

Suggest a spook.

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Donovia

Earlier this year I spent some time in Donovia.  Unless you're familiar with the US Army's Operational Environment and Opposing Force (OPFOR) program, or have read the Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE) manual, or can recite Army Regulation 350-2 provisions off-book, then you've never heard of it.

AR 350-2 dictates that unclassified training simulations must use fictitious countries to represent opposing forces.  As an act of compliance, the DATE manual is essentially an RPG campaign guide for the Army, wherein the geography, demographics, histories, and politics of five different made-up countries are laid out in 824 pages of meticulous detail.

My Donovia was located at the McKenna Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) training site at Fort Benning, Georgia - two hours from Atlanta.  The Donovian population complained about the brutal heat in remarkably good English, and with remarkably southern US accents.  They were role-players hired to sell wooden onions, plastic tomatoes, and rubber racks of lamb at the fake marketplace.  Two men playing belligerent drunkards clung to empty, unbranded vodka bottles as they stumbled through the concrete streets of the McKenna complex.  Later, they'd compete with a desperate woman holding a sick baby doll for the attention of an Army patrol squad.

The need for changing the country names for unclassified simulations seems obvious - let not the Iranians discover via Tumblr (...) that the US is specifically training for combat missions in Iran.  However, you might expect a few more liberties to be taken beyond simply changing "Iranian" to "Arianian".

Aside from the names of the countries, all other features of the stand-in countries are almost entirely unchanged.  City names, demographics, histories, and politics are identical to their real-life analogs. For example, the Army's brainstorming sessions for naming the capital of Donovia produced a city called "Moscow".

My Donovian experience oscillated between tedium and hyper-stimulation.  We got bored enough between scenarios to invent Donovian words and phrases.  We made our company's motion-capture-controlled avatars (as shown projected on the wall above) do the Whip/Nae Nae.  We used a rubber replica of a severed arm to showcase our maturity level as seasoned simulation professionals:

The DATE manual is available to the public for download.  Like most other official military documents I've encountered, it's chock-full of artifact-laden images from 7th-generation JPEGs, a garish color palette, and more acronyms than there are stars in the sky.  But if you have a twelve-sided die and a lot of time on your hands, you can use it to become the intrepid Dungeon War Master you were always meant to be.