..and from the heaps of the fallen burst a nightmarish creature, sinuous death, like a snake with legs, the dying fires of the battlefields reflecting in its glittering scales. Mounted on its back, in dark, light-absorbing armour and wielding a lightning-wreathed lance, sat a monstrous knight, the horns on his helmet marking him as a Knight of the Locastrian Heron Guard.

He and his mount fell on me and my unit and from that encounter; I was the only survivor....

Excerpt from A Soldier´s Tale by Sgt. Amonar Trask (ret) of the Home Guard of Akral Tel

If ever you need a random-roll for what type of knight a character faces in tournament, or just new ideas, what follows is a great big list (some with further descriptions and nicknames) of different sorts of knights.

Some of the names of locations & faiths are from Midian, but these are easily changed to fit different campaign settings.

There are a lot of bad people out there. That is why we must torture you: to keep you safe.

Many and varied are the ways of extracting a confession or ending a criminal's life, and the one usually follows the other.

This is a quartet of low-magic rings that can be used separately or as a set.

"Gak! Cough! I just swallowed a bug."

This random-roll chart is designed for those times when a player unexpectedly misses a game session. What is their character doing while everyone else is out on an adventure?

No nose, hardly any body, a terrible wine, really.

Fear ye not the sorcerer's might / for ye be wreathed in Baunumdraung's light!

These lovely people had the unfortunate luck of living adjacent to a zenophobic bug race and a species that would defend their colonies

Get to it, you mealy boned maggots! That stone isn't going to cut itself!

Bloody-Beard Borsht

I'm gonna be somebody, someday!

Umo Cinzento

Synthetic Bioforms: (Syns, Synths, SBF): The use of synthetic people helps alleviate the manpower shortage and most real peoples' dislike for manual labor. They are also cheaper, easier to utilize, and easier to maintain than robots in most situations. Encyclopedia Galactica 2453ed

These groups were originally for use with the Project Underworld PBP game, to which I contributed the minor covens.

The living airships of Locastus, City of Mirrors

The crystal dragons of Sogth VII are strange and sinuous beasts, be they stalking across the land on their four legs, and swimming through the ammonia seas.

There it was, big as two horses and all scales and wicked looking head. thought we was alldead, we did. Then the beastie did the damndest thing. Instead of breathin fire on us, or cursin us with magic it started eatin one of the damned bushes.

Explorer Kurold the Hammer

While magic if full of odd associations, some are quite "pun-ish". By accident or on purpose, slips of the tongue are there.

Scale and bone and tooth and claw,
All are symbols of His law
Mourn not the fallen, sick, or weak,
They are His to claim and His to keep!

A system for samurai ranks. Still having trouble with the output of this one.

A short summary of the ranks used by the Gurkha Regiments of the British Indian Army.