Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️🌈
@mshades01.bsky.social
Expat American in Osaka, Japan. Teacher, calligrapher, dungeon master. He/Him
D&D Writing: https://encountereveryenemy.com/
D&D Writing: https://encountereveryenemy.com/
They're dead, but not gone - and definitely not forgotten. Put some Ghosts in your D&D game! #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE #MonsterManual #ghost #ghosts
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Dead But Not Done: Ghosts in D&D
Ghosts are everywhere — in stories, in stat blocks, and in our collective fears. But what happens when we look past the usual tropes? In this entry, we explore four ghostly twists that challenge yo…
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February 10, 2026 at 6:49 AM
They're dead, but not gone - and definitely not forgotten. Put some Ghosts in your D&D game! #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE #MonsterManual #ghost #ghosts
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So I suppose it's a.... good thing? When two characters you're writing decide to wake you up with a screaming match at 3:30 in the morning?
And I thought the cat was bad enough...
And I thought the cat was bad enough...
February 9, 2026 at 7:58 PM
So I suppose it's a.... good thing? When two characters you're writing decide to wake you up with a screaming match at 3:30 in the morning?
And I thought the cat was bad enough...
And I thought the cat was bad enough...
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There are 1 septillion stars in our observable night sky...and one Luna. 8.3 billion humans on this planet...one singular you. Dont you ever forget that a light and tidal force you may be to someone else in this lifetime. 🤍💫
February 6, 2026 at 5:08 AM
There are 1 septillion stars in our observable night sky...and one Luna. 8.3 billion humans on this planet...one singular you. Dont you ever forget that a light and tidal force you may be to someone else in this lifetime. 🤍💫
WIlliam Shakespeare. 400 years ago. Never more relevant, and never better delivered.
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 11:08 PM
WIlliam Shakespeare. 400 years ago. Never more relevant, and never better delivered.
Some monsters don't just battle your players - they battle themselves. Put a Chimera in your D&D game! #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE #MonsterManual #Chimera
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Chimera: Anatomy of a Conflict
The Chimera is more than just a lion-goat-dragon mashup — it’s a walking allegory for conflict, coercion, and unnatural fusion. In this entry, we explore how to turn the Chimera into a tragic symbo…
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February 5, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Some monsters don't just battle your players - they battle themselves. Put a Chimera in your D&D game! #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE #MonsterManual #Chimera
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You Can Kill Them, But Should You? Nobles in D&D
A Noble has CR 1/8 - weaker than a mule, easier to kill than a bandit. The problem isn't killing them. The problem is what happens after. This entry explores Nobles as systemic threats whose real power comes from resources, connections, and…
A Noble has CR 1/8 - weaker than a mule, easier to kill than a bandit. The problem isn't killing them. The problem is what happens after. This entry explores Nobles as systemic threats whose real power comes from resources, connections, and…
You Can Kill Them, But Should You? Nobles in D&D
A Noble has CR 1/8 - weaker than a mule, easier to kill than a bandit. The problem isn't killing them. The problem is what happens after. This entry explores Nobles as systemic threats whose real power comes from resources, connections, and consequences your party can't fight with swords. Plus the Noble Prodigy: what happens when you add 5th-level spells to inherited wealth and political power.
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February 5, 2026 at 12:29 AM
You Can Kill Them, But Should You? Nobles in D&D
A Noble has CR 1/8 - weaker than a mule, easier to kill than a bandit. The problem isn't killing them. The problem is what happens after. This entry explores Nobles as systemic threats whose real power comes from resources, connections, and…
A Noble has CR 1/8 - weaker than a mule, easier to kill than a bandit. The problem isn't killing them. The problem is what happens after. This entry explores Nobles as systemic threats whose real power comes from resources, connections, and…
One more look at everyone's favorite Giant - two heads, some very strong opinions. The Ettin! Put them in your game! #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE #MonsterManual #Giant #Ettin
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Ettins: Two Minds, No Masters
Ettins aren’t just two-headed brutes — they’re a study in permanent codependence. Whether you lean into comedy, pathos, or tactical chaos, these tragic giants offer more than a sack of hit points. …
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February 2, 2026 at 8:12 PM
One more look at everyone's favorite Giant - two heads, some very strong opinions. The Ettin! Put them in your game! #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE #MonsterManual #Giant #Ettin
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Monthly Monster Mashup 9: Empyreans + Seahorse
An Empyrean - child of a god, reshaper of reality - has been transformed into a seahorse with 1 HP and an attitude problem. Your players must keep this tiny, indignant divine fish alive while it learns humility... or lectures them about cosmic order…
An Empyrean - child of a god, reshaper of reality - has been transformed into a seahorse with 1 HP and an attitude problem. Your players must keep this tiny, indignant divine fish alive while it learns humility... or lectures them about cosmic order…
Monthly Monster Mashup 9: Empyreans + Seahorse
An Empyrean - child of a god, reshaper of reality - has been transformed into a seahorse with 1 HP and an attitude problem. Your players must keep this tiny, indignant divine fish alive while it learns humility... or lectures them about cosmic order in its wispy little voice. Three scenarios for putting god-children and seahorses in the same adventure, all of them ridiculous and wonderful.
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February 1, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Monthly Monster Mashup 9: Empyreans + Seahorse
An Empyrean - child of a god, reshaper of reality - has been transformed into a seahorse with 1 HP and an attitude problem. Your players must keep this tiny, indignant divine fish alive while it learns humility... or lectures them about cosmic order…
An Empyrean - child of a god, reshaper of reality - has been transformed into a seahorse with 1 HP and an attitude problem. Your players must keep this tiny, indignant divine fish alive while it learns humility... or lectures them about cosmic order…
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Everyone sing a mournful chorus of "Day-O" for a wonderful actress....
Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...
Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...
Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71
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January 31, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Everyone sing a mournful chorus of "Day-O" for a wonderful actress....
Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...
Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...
Let's remember one of the most seductive and dangerous monsters in the Manual - the Vampires, sucking the blood from our veins and the life from our worlds... #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE #MonsterManual
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Vampires: What Lurks Behind the Fangs
Vampires are one of the most famous monsters in the Monster Manual — but what if they’re not the villain? Or not even alive? This week’s entry offers four fresh takes on D&D vampires: as cursed…
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January 29, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Let's remember one of the most seductive and dangerous monsters in the Manual - the Vampires, sucking the blood from our veins and the life from our worlds... #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE #MonsterManual
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Tomorrow’s Necrohulk: D&D’s Fungal Ecosystem
Something shambles toward your party in the dark - a corpse wrapped in fungal growth, mindlessly hunting. The Violet Fungus Necrohulk is just one piece of a larger fungal ecosystem where Shriekers scream alarms, Gas Spores explode into deadly clouds,…
Something shambles toward your party in the dark - a corpse wrapped in fungal growth, mindlessly hunting. The Violet Fungus Necrohulk is just one piece of a larger fungal ecosystem where Shriekers scream alarms, Gas Spores explode into deadly clouds,…
Tomorrow’s Necrohulk: D&D’s Fungal Ecosystem
Something shambles toward your party in the dark - a corpse wrapped in fungal growth, mindlessly hunting. The Violet Fungus Necrohulk is just one piece of a larger fungal ecosystem where Shriekers scream alarms, Gas Spores explode into deadly clouds, and Violet Fungus waits to rot anything that gets close. Your players aren't heroes here. They're just food. Today's adventurers, tomorrow's Necrohulk.
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January 29, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Tomorrow’s Necrohulk: D&D’s Fungal Ecosystem
Something shambles toward your party in the dark - a corpse wrapped in fungal growth, mindlessly hunting. The Violet Fungus Necrohulk is just one piece of a larger fungal ecosystem where Shriekers scream alarms, Gas Spores explode into deadly clouds,…
Something shambles toward your party in the dark - a corpse wrapped in fungal growth, mindlessly hunting. The Violet Fungus Necrohulk is just one piece of a larger fungal ecosystem where Shriekers scream alarms, Gas Spores explode into deadly clouds,…
I feel personally attacked here.
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Man Unrecognizable After Full 8 Hours Of Sleep
BOSTON—Prompting exclamations of astonishment from colleagues and supervisors, local man Joshua Lingard reportedly appeared entirely unrecognizable Wednesday after enjoying a full eight hours of sleep...
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January 28, 2026 at 10:40 PM
I feel personally attacked here.
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I idly wonder if the anti-ICE protests could use a Dad Battallion and a Mom Brigade. Just the most quintessentially dad and mom-looking people with signs like "I'M DISAPPOINTED IN YOU, SLUGGER" and "WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BABY BOY?"
Every little bit of psychological undermining helps.
Every little bit of psychological undermining helps.
January 27, 2026 at 10:36 PM
I idly wonder if the anti-ICE protests could use a Dad Battallion and a Mom Brigade. Just the most quintessentially dad and mom-looking people with signs like "I'M DISAPPOINTED IN YOU, SLUGGER" and "WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BABY BOY?"
Every little bit of psychological undermining helps.
Every little bit of psychological undermining helps.
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Your adventurers are trekking through the frozen north. What awaits them could be magical and strange - or just downright terrifying. Put a Polar Bear in your game next time! #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE
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The Winter Walks: Polar Bears in D&D
Something white and silent has begun to move. The North is changing — and a Polar Bear encounter can be more than just a beast fight. In this wintry entry, we look at survival horror, mystical terr…
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January 26, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Your adventurers are trekking through the frozen north. What awaits them could be magical and strange - or just downright terrifying. Put a Polar Bear in your game next time! #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE
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Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind.
It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty.
Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face.
Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.
It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty.
Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face.
Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.
January 24, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind.
It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty.
Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face.
Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.
It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty.
Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face.
Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.
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You can’t “detain” a two year old child. This is a kidnapping.
A roving gang of armed, unidentified thugs - who we THINK are federal agents, but who could literally be anyone at all - are kidnapping children and then abusing and trafficking them. ROUTINELY.
Don’t describe it any other way.
A roving gang of armed, unidentified thugs - who we THINK are federal agents, but who could literally be anyone at all - are kidnapping children and then abusing and trafficking them. ROUTINELY.
Don’t describe it any other way.
ICE Detains 2-Year-Old Girl Days After Using 5-Year-Old as Bait
ICE agents continue to target kids as they crack down on Minneapolis.
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January 23, 2026 at 10:25 PM
You can’t “detain” a two year old child. This is a kidnapping.
A roving gang of armed, unidentified thugs - who we THINK are federal agents, but who could literally be anyone at all - are kidnapping children and then abusing and trafficking them. ROUTINELY.
Don’t describe it any other way.
A roving gang of armed, unidentified thugs - who we THINK are federal agents, but who could literally be anyone at all - are kidnapping children and then abusing and trafficking them. ROUTINELY.
Don’t describe it any other way.
Let's revisit Dire Wolves in your D&D game. Remind your players what life was like before they were all Good Bois and Swell Puppers.... #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #monsteroftheweek #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE #MonsterManual #DireWolf
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Dire Wolves: Friend-Shaped, Not Friends
The Dire Wolf is the familiar made monstrous — a reminder that what we tame still remembers the wild. This post explores how to make your players fear the woods again: through stalking dread, bruta…
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January 22, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Let's revisit Dire Wolves in your D&D game. Remind your players what life was like before they were all Good Bois and Swell Puppers.... #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #monsteroftheweek #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE #MonsterManual #DireWolf
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It’s Just a Chicken: The Cockatrice Ecosystem
Statues litter the approach to the old abbey. Some new, some worn by time. All screaming. The Cockatrice Regent and its flock have turned this place into a hunting ground, and your players just walked into the middle of it. This entry explores…
Statues litter the approach to the old abbey. Some new, some worn by time. All screaming. The Cockatrice Regent and its flock have turned this place into a hunting ground, and your players just walked into the middle of it. This entry explores…
It’s Just a Chicken: The Cockatrice Ecosystem
Statues litter the approach to the old abbey. Some new, some worn by time. All screaming. The Cockatrice Regent and its flock have turned this place into a hunting ground, and your players just walked into the middle of it. This entry explores petrification as ecosystem engineering and gives you the tools to make "just a chicken" into something terrifying.
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January 22, 2026 at 12:37 AM
It’s Just a Chicken: The Cockatrice Ecosystem
Statues litter the approach to the old abbey. Some new, some worn by time. All screaming. The Cockatrice Regent and its flock have turned this place into a hunting ground, and your players just walked into the middle of it. This entry explores…
Statues litter the approach to the old abbey. Some new, some worn by time. All screaming. The Cockatrice Regent and its flock have turned this place into a hunting ground, and your players just walked into the middle of it. This entry explores…
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Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗
January 21, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗
These great, lumbering creatures were once thought to be gods. Soon your players will know why. Bring a Mammoth into your game! #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #monsteroftheweek #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE #MonsterManual #Mammoth
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Mammoths: Gods of Hair and Bone
What do your players see when they see a Mammoth? A beast to be hunted, a symbol of ancient power, or a god walking the tundra? In this entry, we explore how these colossal creatures can become pow…
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January 20, 2026 at 3:26 AM
These great, lumbering creatures were once thought to be gods. Soon your players will know why. Bring a Mammoth into your game! #dnd5e #dndencounters #ttrpg #monsteroftheweek #dndmonster #tabletoprpg #dndinspiration #EEE #MonsterManual #Mammoth
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
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