Everyone expects the power armor trooper and his trusty combat rifle, assault rifle, storm-bolter, etc.

The City of 10,000 dogs is famous for the variety of dogs bred there, and now someone has started stealing those dogs

The Skull of Golodh is the gold encrusted skull of the Dwarf Lord Golodh and it is cursed

Phantom Island is a small island beset by ghosts

Better known as Norby's Comet, Research Station Ktynga is a multi-layered deep space arcanotech habitat funded by the Atlantic Federation, the New Hanseatic League, and the Glassenheim Foundation

Summoning spells are typically cast or are tied to the basic magic item pack of jewels, rods, and so forth. Summoning devices take the same concept and tie the spell to a weapon, shield, or piece of armor.

A by the books dark and gloomy forest, but with an unlikely protector

No one is really sure what a Xamek is, or if they even exist

The core of the Carolinian Resurgence is the Ouvrage progam

The Ettin System is also known as a Dummy Head

Cyber-Satyrs are an uncommon but increasingly popular sexual/charisma based cyber and genetic modification profile

One of the biggest obstacles to life on a long duration ship voyage is boredom.

The Elemental is a well known and well established unit in the gaming universe, and they are invariably humanoid shaped hulks or amorphous blobs of the element they are composed of. This is lacking in imagination.

The definition of an ELMS and a sample one

The Food Riots is a generic plot for use in the Cosmic Era

Such a powerful and iconic figure from mythology cannot be reduced to a single entry for the Cosmic Era

The lich is a form of sentient undead who cannot be killed until the object containing their soul is destroyed. The Electric Lich borrows the concept and moves it into the CE

A practical, if extreme, cybernetic modification, for people who live in aerostats, space colonies, and on ships

Some people opt to combine the upper torso of a robot with the legs of a larger industrial vehicle, creating for themselves, a cybernetic centaur body.

Eye-Borgs are an expensive and rare form of cyborg/robot