LORE - A Lord of the Rings Adventure Game Retroclone "I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a ...

Every year, I reread the LotR trilogy. This last year's reread amped me up and I started keying Middle-earth 12 miles at a time

Concurrently, without meaning to, I wrote a game to run the hexcrawl

I call it Lore - a Lord of the Rings Adventure Game retroclone

Here's what I think is fun about it🧵

Just finished the playtest draft of a new Desperation deck whose developmental title is BIG DEAD ALIEN SPACESHIP because it is about exploring a big dead alien spaceship. I think this is one of those GURPS situations where the place-holder title just asserts itself into inevitability.

illustration of what might be some kind of fantasy funeral rite. The illustration is two colors and stylized, in the foreground is a group of robed priestess holding hands over a long sword. In the background a bandaged corpse lays on an altar among arches shelves of bottles and detritus.

Thanks so much to @portablecity.bsky.social for being a great AD, here's one of two of the illustrations I did for Swords Without Master and you guys have no idea what cool shit you're in for. People have been cranking out the most gorgeous work for that thing

you got this!

I ran all the pamphlet triptych adventures and all I got was a fantastic time Review and play report with likes and dislikes. Plus what I'd change for a second play-through.

My experience running the triptych pamphlets by @bradkerr.net and @skullfungus.bsky.social spoilers: it was awesome 🎉

new @orchardmartin.bsky.social dropped in physical form!

i really need an easel

Exciting!!

a large book with the heading Awarding XP with text describing Dolmenwood procedures for awarding experience points.

Finally reading the Dolmenwood Campaign Book to prep for my home game. It is giant, thorough, and great.

I've created printable (and editable) pregens of all 20 Cairn 2e backgrounds. These took way longer than they should have.

drive.google.com/file/d/1lscZ...

I have always meant to but not gotten to it. Thank you for reminding me to pick it up.

yea i have listened to a bunch of stuff about Everest 1996 and read Into Thin Air a long time ago. I appreciate it though

I haven’t but it’s been on the list. My library doesn’t have it so I might have to interlibrary loan it.

I’m in a mountain book place: reading Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane and The White Ladder by Daniel Light. I have always been interested in mountaineering books for the same reasons I am fascinated by pilgrimages.

to be clear i am agreeing with the good Doctor.

Yeah this seems a bit, out of touch shall we say from a labeling perspective

As a person who writes for Cairn, I think this is a great insight into what makes it different as a writer

and if you need spot art for a project I have a huge free-to-use library that's available for subscribers on Patreon or comradery!
comradery.co/amandalee
www.patreon.com/c/ABestiarya...

i like bedtime stories also

but also yes this should exist

you might have to buy your flowers for yourself on this one

my spelljammer playlist was all prog rock

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Hi #portfolioday I'm Amanda, I make art for #ttrpgs
annabelleleefranck.myportfolio.com/work-1

little necklaces with hand painted ceramic beads
(I am gonna sell them at the studio sale next month)

a spaceship blasting off

a sinister castle ruins

star trek enterprise

[HEXCODE] a being summoning stars

Hi #PortfolioDay I'm Carly A-F, freelance illustrator from the UK making textured, dramatic covers, posters, game and ttrpg art and more! Booking projects for May onwards 👍

🎨 carlydraws.com
📧 carly @ carlydraws . com

my wife liked the starving saints

Undead squirrels in a tree hollow full of trinkets (b&w ink)

More spot art - my style tends to jump around a lot. This was an ink sketch but I switched to digital for the undead squirrels.

this is delightful