Continuing the  account of diabolic temptation ... 4. Gluttony. The concept: Six imp chefs, cooks and butlers throw dangerous and t...

Continuing the account of how I tried to tempt players, characters, and NPCs on the last two Nights of the Devil ... the tale of Night th...

How do you represent spiritual temptation in an adventure game? Well, you could play Pendragon RPG , a system that explicitly rates each c...

Closing out the season of sinful undead, we awake from Samhain revels to find the biggest undead, liches, and the biggest sin of all - the o...

Vampires embody the sin of lust. Do I need to say more? All right, then. Besides having the most attractive appearance of all the undead c...

Wrath (ira) is a hard sin to attribute to any undead. I originally thought "hey, the wraiths of wrath" but beyond a stupid not-eve...

The sin of avarice would seem to be a natural one for the undead guardians of grave treasures. If this sin is a desire to possess more than ...

The animated shadow is by definition a being of lesser standing, an envious follower, dependent on light and an intervening body, aspiring t...

Beyond the titular Latin-to-Arabic pun, ghouls embody gula (the cardinal sin of gluttony) in an obvious manner: they feed on the bodies of t...

The medieval sin of accidia (acedia), or sloth, refers to a condition that today we treat as a mental illness: depression. But more generall...

I'm thinking more and more that the right approach in monster-ology lies between Flame Princess' "do it yourself, do it all you...