A cultist being attacked by a maw demon, illustrated in the style of a 14th century illuminated manuscript.
The Illuminator's Guild is a major power in my underground city setting, so I'm trying to adopt a style reminiscent of 14th-century illuminated manuscripts for the illustrations. Apparently, a secular, assembly line process was prominent in Paris at the time.
#digitalart #gothic #ttrpg
A screenshot of a drawing being made in Sketchbook, showing the Steady Stroke tool.
Im a pretty amateur artist who developed what modest skills i do have before #digitalart was a thing...so apps like #sketchbook are both amazing and frustrating. Long story short, I just discovered the steady stroke tool, and it's a godsend!
Some of these “manipulators” are immediately disintegrated. The pattern is not obvious. I’ve found some players really respond well to this test of how curious they are and how much they’re willing to risk their character.
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In the intervening time, the name itself really stuck with me, and I built up a little #ttrpg encounter inspired by it. In my Five Dials, the town is built up around five literal dials of unknown provenance. Visitors can set the dials and pull a lever.
I first encountered the place name “Five Dials” in John Bellairs’ The Face in the Frost, a wonderful book about a couple of wizards on a road trip. If I recall, the name is in reference to a clock tower. I didn’t know until recently that there was a real place with that name.
Can't believe i made the same typo twice. Sorry to disappoint, there are no boars in this game.
First version years ago was a #ttrpg, but the map of the battlestar became too important mechanically. A #boargame version means I also have to make a bunch of hexagonal cards to replace the tables.
I've been promising for months to debut a playable draft of my Battlestar Galactica-inspired #boargame at the guys' weekend coming up in two weeks. Guess I should get working on it.
As a player, I think I'd pick a feature over the PHB origin feats for a lot of characters. As a DM, I'd much prefer a player to show up with Guild Membership or Discovery than Lucky. Is there a cleaner way to bring them back than simply porting them over as origin feats?
Something I really miss from 2014 #dnd as both a player and DM is background features. Maybe a little less mechanically useful than origin feats, but way easier to build an encounter from. I'm thinking a #homebrew feat that gives False Identity or Retainers would be a very attractive option.
This tyrannical imperial enforcer leads armies of trooper bots. To solve the "dozens of weak enemies against the PCs" problem, I us some tables to boil all of their attacks and saves down to a few dice rolls...also convenient for goblins and skeletons and other favorite #dnd baddies.
An amateurish sketch of a heavily armored and masked dark space sorcerer gesturing menacingly.
The #BBEG for my space-opera #spelljammer campaign is dark space sorcerer Mørke Far. Father of the princess, of course, and all about using telekinesis in combat. I threw in some Dr. Doom, too, to make it more interesting.
PCs in possession of a spelljamming vessel can find themselves convinced to help these NPCs return to their resistance base while avoiding the watchful eye of Imperial hunters, alternatively, less goody-goods might be incentivized to become hunters themselves.
A bugbear wears a bandoleer and carries a crossbow.
The trio of heroes is rounded out with the hirsute sidekick Akabwech, a bugbear barbarian. Yes, I frequently resort to using reversed names even when the reference is obvious. It's become a sort of game with the players to see if I can sneak one by them.
A D&D gunslinger leans casually against the wall. He wears a mustache.
Notorious gambler, rascal, and ladies' man Ace Olos doesn't want to come off as a sentimental sap, but he's not-so secretly devoted to the princess. I gave him the assassin rogue's ability to avoid conflict by shooting first.
Sketch of a space princess with an extravagant hair-do.
A space-opera setting for your spelljammer campaign simply has to start with the rebellious princess, rejecting her father’s tyranny and now leads a rag-tag resistance movement. My version is basically a bard, with a devastating remark for any situation.