...and the locals were scandalized The Doclopedia #60 Strongholds: Murkhold When the King Of All Orcs decided that the Orc Nation needed an impregnable fortress, he set his people to work building it in the middle of the Murkwaste Swamp. It took 22 years, the lives of 2,785 orcs, a couple of dozen … Continue reading Mrs Wangdoodle Wears A Red Dress Into Town
Author: Doc Cross
I'm Doc. I live in Sacramento, California with my wife, Grace, and two dogs named Yoyo and Duke. I've been blogging for 22 years. I'm a TTRPG gamer, a gardener, dog lover, cook, and unrepentant scalawag. I write things that I think people might enjoy reading, especially if they are roleplayers or just strange. I hope you enjoy reading my stuff.
Bob, The Incredible Macaroni Man
...he could shoot cheese sauce from his fingers The Doclopedia #59 Strongholds: Hard Luck Station Located on the jungle planet Ks'rrk, Hard Luck Station is where they send the toughest and most expendable Space Marines. It's cramped, poorly supplied and the next nearest Terran Alliance outpost is 68 light years away. It's also … Continue reading Bob, The Incredible Macaroni Man
The Donut Hole At The Center Of The Universe
...it's honey crunch coated! The Doclopedia #58 Strongholds: The Castle Of Uul Zadir It is written that when the bandit sheik Uul Zadir ek Zadaffa decided that he finally wanted to settle down, he found that his legions of enemies (including the Caliph, whose 5 daughters had all been relieved of their virginity … Continue reading The Donut Hole At The Center Of The Universe
Sunflower Soup
...I'm pretty sure it's not real Hey, let's take a break from 365 posts and read some STUFF! 1: Happy Birthday to Robin D. Laws! 2: My dogs are clean, sweet smelling and huggable after baths last night. They will stay this way for about 3-4 days, then will get less sweet smelling and huggable, … Continue reading Sunflower Soup
I’ll Have A Vodka Martini Shaken, Stirred And Slapped Around A Bit
...take that, James Bond! It's Strongholds week! The Doclopedia #57 Strongholds: The Ultimate Safe House The actual name of this place is Field House, since it resides in a 10 acre field not far outside a major city. The people who live nearby know it as “the old Higgins place”, since it was … Continue reading I’ll Have A Vodka Martini Shaken, Stirred And Slapped Around A Bit
Junior Muskrat Gets All Confused
...after 2 beers down at the Dew Drop Inn Here's the final post for Things That Blow Up Real Good week. Next week, the theme is: Strongholds The Doclopedia #56 Things That Blow Up Real Good: Jadrian Love Bombs About 11 thousand years ago, the extremely violent warrior species known as the Jadrians … Continue reading Junior Muskrat Gets All Confused
The Book Of Marvelous Adventures For Daring And/Or Foolish Young People
...which would cover most of them. The Doclopedia #55 Things That Blow Up Real Good: Geeberite Boom Discs Until the Solar Alliance scoutship James T. Kirk landed on the planet Geeber 2, the native sentient race had fought their wars with fairly conventional early gunpowder era weapons. But after the Kirk left, they … Continue reading The Book Of Marvelous Adventures For Daring And/Or Foolish Young People
Bionic Tongues
...you can have one for 2.25 million dollars The Doclopedia #54 Things That Blow Up Real Good: Ixote Fruits On the planet Velshan 4, in the area known as the Great Savoon Valley, you will find Ixote trees growing in vast numbers. The trees have a fairly columnar shape and grow to an average … Continue reading Bionic Tongues
The Rare & Beautiful Pole Dancing Lemurs Of Potawango Island
...the male lemurs love to watch them The Doclopedia #53 Things That Blow Up Real Good: Ruduborian Heat Bombs The first thing that the Sol Alliance team found out when they met the Ruduborians was that the centauroid amphibian race did not think like humans or most other races when it came to science … Continue reading The Rare & Beautiful Pole Dancing Lemurs Of Potawango Island
Don’t Make Me Stop This Reality And Come Back There, You Kids!
...do you think I'm kidding? The Doclopedia #52 Things That Blow Up Real Good: Halfling Fireball Eggs There have been very few halfling wizards over the last couple of millenia, but there is one whose name will forever be remembered: Poldo Farmer. Born the 3rd child and second son of old Nodwell “Noddy” … Continue reading Don’t Make Me Stop This Reality And Come Back There, You Kids!
The Adventure Of The Laughing Cheesemonger
...one of Sherlock Holmes' strangest cases The Doclopedia #51 Things That Blow Up Real Good: Woolongi Lizards At around 16 inches long, chubby of form and colored brown & tan to look like a rock, the Woolongi Lizards fit right in with their Australian outback home. They eat a wide variety of insects … Continue reading The Adventure Of The Laughing Cheesemonger
Wild Musk Oxen Destroyed My Herb Garden
...I chased them off with a flaming newspaper The Doclopedia #50 Things That Blow Up Real Good: Canadian Time Bombs On another Earth, in 1990, Canadian scientists working at a top secret lab found a way to make a bit of very rare crystal resonate in such a way that it altered the … Continue reading Wild Musk Oxen Destroyed My Herb Garden
Dice Addicts Anonymous
...my name is Doc and I'm a diceaholic Here now, the finish to our first Retro 365 week. Starting tomorrow: Things That Blow Up Real Good Week The Doclopedia #49 Dogs & Cats Living Together: Weenie and Bill Weenie is a fat female Miniature Dachshund and Bill is a scroungy looking male cat … Continue reading Dice Addicts Anonymous
Chapter 60: In Which Our Hero, Disguised As A Trollop, Invades The Castle
...thank goodness for horny nobles The Doclopedia #48 Our pair today live in a fantasy type world, where they are quite the spirited pets. Dogs & Cats Living Together: Abigail & Charmaine Abigail and Charmaine are the pets of a powerful sorceress who lives in a castle deep in a very dense forest. Abby is a … Continue reading Chapter 60: In Which Our Hero, Disguised As A Trollop, Invades The Castle
Six Redheads In A VW Bug
...talk about your recipe for disaster Today's Doclopedia post! Late, but not too late! The Doclopedia #47 Dogs & Cats Living Together: Delbert Dogge & Conrad Catt Delbert is a rather obese Basset Hound. This stems from his obsessive love of human food. Although he might look a bit dim, Delbert is a pretty smart … Continue reading Six Redheads In A VW Bug
The Rather Creepy, Yet Strangely Educational, Story Of Mostly Purple Patty And The Magic Booger
...featuring her trained pigeon, Hazel The Doclopedia #45 This pair of vagabonds serve a higher power. Dogs & Cats Living Together: Mittens and Scruffy Scruffy is a Border Terrier. His coat is brown with a few dark patches on his ears and the tip of his tail. Mittens is a medium sized, black with white feet … Continue reading The Rather Creepy, Yet Strangely Educational, Story Of Mostly Purple Patty And The Magic Booger
Blortsquaffle
...not a real word Yes, I'm behind again on the Doclopedia thing. Two posts tomorrow. Really.
Doc Tempest And The Vanishing Children
...from the March, 1939 issue Yo! Homies! I gotta question... A spiffy PDF with 70 or so of my 365 entries in it, expanded and maybe revised a bit...divided into sections on People, Places & Things...plus maybe 14 all new entries...no art cos I can't afford it unless it is totally 100% free (and, of … Continue reading Doc Tempest And The Vanishing Children
You Got A D20 Stuck Where?
...tonight on: Embarrassing Gamer Stories I am now caught up! YAY ME! The Doclopedia #44 Dogs & Cats Living Together: Thomas and Candy As we all know, there are people in the world who can assume animal shapes. We call them shapeshifters or lycanthropes. In the animal world, there are those who can assume human … Continue reading You Got A D20 Stuck Where?
A Wading Pool Full Of Beer
...how else can you do beer wrestling? At long last, I begin the next theme week...and it's a blast from 2006 (expanded and revised). The Doclopedia #43 Dogs & Cats Living Together: Spock & Bones Spock the Rottwieller and Bones the Russian Blue are the pets of the Abernathy family, most of whom are die … Continue reading A Wading Pool Full Of Beer
Appearing For Three Nights Only: The Flying Spanaducci Sisters
...two drink minimum WHEW! This entry took awhile to write. The Doclopedia #42 Steampunk Grrlz: Andromeda Andropoulis On Steampunk Earth #6, Professor James Moriarty was the Napoleon of Crime. Note the use of the past tense, because on a very early spring morning in 1889, Moriarty and several members of his gang were … Continue reading Appearing For Three Nights Only: The Flying Spanaducci Sisters
Attack Of The Atomic Zombie Women From Planet X
...in 3D! Gaaahh! Such a couple of days I've had! Here are two 365 posts, which still leaves me behind on posting. May do a third tonight or do two tomorrow. The Doclopedia #40 Steampunk Grrlz: Professor Elisa Sandoval At the Spanish Paranormal Research Institute, no Field Investigator is more respected or feared … Continue reading Attack Of The Atomic Zombie Women From Planet X
Green Meatballs And Blue Spaghetti
...kids love it! May not get the second post up today, but here is one. Don't judge me! The Doclopedia #39 Steampunk Grrlz: Captain Pari of the Solar Service Employee Name: Vanindala Parinomiritikul Country of Origin: Olpudarabilux Prefecture, Mars Date of Birth: October 11, 1920 Race: Human/Martian Sex: Female Age: 41 Height: 6'10” … Continue reading Green Meatballs And Blue Spaghetti
How To Eat Fried Watermelon
...it's trickier than you might think Ok, only one Doclopedia post today because it's my early night for hitting the sack. Two posts tomorrow or I'll refund your purchase price! The Doclopedia #38 Steampunk Grrlz: Molly O'My First off, Molly's last name is not really “O'My”. She took that surname partly to distance herself … Continue reading How To Eat Fried Watermelon
Not In This Post: Gooseberry Jam, Hemerocallis thunbergii, newts or wheat gluten
...but there might be a few soybeans The Doclopedia #37 Steampunk Grrlz: The Amazing Little Sindy It was the summer of 1889 that the noted scientific team of Walter Morell and Kendall Bellflower found themselves confronted by two terrible facts: Kendall's daughter, Sindell was dying from a terrible form of skin cancer and … Continue reading Not In This Post: Gooseberry Jam, Hemerocallis thunbergii, newts or wheat gluten
