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I recently had the idea of a domain themed around ducks.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but think about it: We have memes about murderous ducks! Lovecraft described ducks as eldritch monsters more than once!
Ducks have horror potential, and them usually being considered silly and funny can be used to generate the same effect as cursed dolls or killer clowns.
Now the question is: How do we get there? What darklord's eternal torment is to live surrounded by ducks?

TheArcaneWeirdo wrote: Wed Feb 18, 2026 3:07 pm I recently had the idea of a domain themed around ducks.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but think about it: We have memes about murderous ducks! Lovecraft described ducks as eldritch monsters more than once!
Ducks have horror potential, and them usually being considered silly and funny can be used to generate the same effect as cursed dolls or killer clowns.
Now the question is: How do we get there? What darklord's eternal torment is to live surrounded by ducks?

In all Chinese-touched cultures, mated pairs of the mandarin duck, Aix galericulata are considered to be one of the penultimate symbols of marital fidelity and happiness between couples. As such, attacking or hunting a mated pair of mandarin ducks is considered bad luck, partly because it's considering heinously cruel to eat such beautiful animals, and, because they're so symbolic of happy marriages, such hunters are liable to get cursed to never find true love, or, worse yet, get cursed to be saddled with bad marriages.

Lafcadio Hearn transcribed a tale about a hunter who found out the hard way why eating a mandarin duck is taboo.
[https://www.shelidon.it/oshidori/]

In all seriousness, Runequest has a race of duck-people, as does Dragonbane.

There might be something plunderable there.

Does this guy fit the bill?

Jeremy16 wrote: Thu Feb 19, 2026 10:34 pm Does this guy fit the bill?

When I was a kid, in the Albert Dock in Liverpool there was the Cosgrove Hall animation museum. It had a mock up of part of Castle Duckula where you could play a pinball game to activate the clock or sit on a couch and watch episodes of the cartoon.

I use to frickin’ love Duckula when I was a boy.

Then there's this guy. Not technically a duck, but he definitely could earned himself a domain with such destructive behavior! (I'm picturing a pocket domain within a small, out the way village in Mordent.)

I came to this thread expecting a reference to the duck heroes (or villains) from Glorantha, I'm deeply disappointed!
But really, Glorantha for BRP could unironically fill this requested niche. Anthropomorphic ducks have been staple of that game for pretty much as long as I could imagine.

doctornecrotic wrote: Sun Apr 19, 2026 2:44 pm I came to this thread expecting a reference to the duck heroes (or villains) from Glorantha, I'm deeply disappointed!
But really, Glorantha for BRP could unironically fill this requested niche. Anthropomorphic ducks have been staple of that game for pretty much as long as I could imagine.

I'm afraid video games aren't my strong suit.

TheArcaneWeirdo wrote: Mon Apr 20, 2026 2:12 am

doctornecrotic wrote: Sun Apr 19, 2026 2:44 pm I came to this thread expecting a reference to the duck heroes (or villains) from Glorantha, I'm deeply disappointed!
But really, Glorantha for BRP could unironically fill this requested niche. Anthropomorphic ducks have been staple of that game for pretty much as long as I could imagine.

I'm afraid video games aren't my strong suit.

Young sibling in shadows,

I'm gonna rock your world now, probably:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorantha

https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-online-play/

https://runequest-glorantha.fandom.com/ ... _RuneQuest

You like deep lore, like for Ravenloft - you're gonna love this one.

And the Darklord confronted the party of adventurers with his fierce battle cry, “QUACK!!” but they drove him off by exploiting his aversion to l’Orange sauce.

Manofevil wrote: Mon Apr 20, 2026 2:24 am And the Darklord confronted the party of adventurers with his fierce battle cry, “QUACK!!” but they drove him off by exploiting his aversion to l’Orange sauce.