That's great, it starts with an earthquake...

Birds and snakes, an aeroplane, Lenny Bruce is not afraid...

How might the world be predicted to end in your game? It’s the sort of thing player characters often find themselves having to stop, usually because a) the prophecies are bang-on and/or (b) someone is actively trying to make them come true.

Unclear predictions are more common than coherent ones, with the advantage that they can be re-interpreted at later dates...

But what if someone like Newton published a very scholarly warning, and it became widely known? That might affect public policy and cause real mass concern, in a way that the magic omen-laying chicken probably wouldn’t.

(Although if I’d known about the magic omen-laying chicken when I was running The Watch House, you can bet I’d have done something with it.)