Java 446
on May 28, 2026
at 5:00 am
For example…. “Kansas.” As in “We are definitely back in Kansas, Toto.”
Does this planet look sufficiently backwater? Less Coruscant, more Tatooine? I mean, wherever this place is, it has a broken moon like the one from the Thundarr the Barbarian cartoon.
Back when 3rd edition D&D came out and WOTC released the Open Game License, so that anyone could publish D&D materials, I was trying like heck to find out who owned the rights to Thundarr, because I wanted to make a Thundarr source book for 3E. Which, would pretty much just be Gamma World, but still. I think that would have been awesome.
Hey, a minolox!
A what now? Did your phone auto-correct?
Sorry, old usenet joke. Remember the Far Side cartoon where Gary Larson drew an elephant with a switchblade? Somebody got inspired to stat him up for a certain popular fantasy RPG. Minotaur+loxodont=Minolox. Which got us started on making a whole bunch more, most pretty bad. I’m certain the unimaginatively named rhinomen were the guards from the animated Robin Hood. But we did establish one truth. No matter the setting or time frame, a pissed off leaf eater will mess you up.
No matter where you are, there you are.