Ran a playtest for my WPG RPG con Dungeon Crawl Classics game today. Killed 7 peasants who dared to disturb the keep of the Chaos Lords. Including one named Brittany Spears.
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who knows how many we lost but it's good to know we've at least managed to track down 13 of the things
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Oh, this is fabulous! I didn't realize you did visual art. The tall and narrow dimensions of the piece are really successful in letting the heron serpent get a good LOOM in over the hero, and I love the contrast between the torchlit area (black outlines) vs darkness (white outlines).
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Kind of nuts that over 200 people have joined the #FakeTTRPGJam with still nearly a week left before it officially starts. Come on through if you wanna get esoteric with it itch.io/jam/you-cann...
Thank you!! @neotiamat.bsky.social DELIVERED, turning some scattered notes and ideas I had on what the gods of this setting would be like into some extremely compelling lore
one day i will have a finished LARP book. one day.
Screenshot of a page in A5 landscape, a deity entry for a god called "The Shepherd of Wolves." The page has a 2-column layout, one narrow column on the left with a black background and a second wider column on the right with a white background. Along the line between the two columns is an illustration of a shepherd with a crown of autumn leaves, surrounded by 3 wolves. The illustration is B&W with gold detailing, and the layout incorporates gold headers and borders into the text In the left column: OTHER NAMES The Shepherd, The Autumn Winds SYMBOLS Autumn leaves, a shepherd's crook, a snarling wolf, or a dark forest path CUSTOMARY DEPICTIONS Religious art and statues of the Shepherd portrays them as an attractive young man or woman with a shepherd's crook and a crown of autumn leaves, typically accompanied by a pack of wolves. In the right column: THE SHEPHERD OF WOLVES Divinity of Animals, Night, and Wilderness The shepherd is the god of half-tamed wilds, of things just barely outside mortals' grasp. He's the wood beyond the last field, the dark outside your window, the scream in the night that you hear but are afraid to investigate. He teaches mortals to respect the wilderness, and know that even the tamed beast might still bite. BENEVOLENT ASPECTS Many rural communities have priests of the Autumn Winds, who are tasked with ensuring mortality and the wilds coexist with minimal friction. Thy practice and encourage open range and sustainable methods of agriculture, feeding their communities and maintaining the natural environment. MALEVOLENT ASPECTS The Shepherd watches over those who do their business at night and away from civilization's rule. Bandits, killers, and other dark hunters make offerings to him, as well as those seeking safe passage through the wilds, beseeching the Divinity to shepherd his wolves away from them.
I was talking yesterday about doing laying out a personal project in A5 landscape and realized the preview ended up marooned on twitter w/o getting reposted
Writing by @neotiamat.bsky.social
Primary illustration by Shane www.instagram.com/sidlakangbab...
Leaf symbol by @acorviart.bsky.social
since needing to cancel on norwescon this weekend, i have now made plans to attend pax west. those off the rez frybread tacos WILL be mine
Masking works but we have known for years that there's a greater reduction in transmission when the person who is sick wears a mask vs when healthy people around them mask. There's only so much you can do or expect when you're 2 feet away from someone who's ill and sneezing for multiple hours.
ok so like if you absolutely must fly when you're sick can you at least wear a mask? I will probably not be at Norwescon this weekend bc I took a flight last week and, though I was masked, the man sneezing in the row behind me for the whole flight was not and now I'm sick too
July of last year; in addition to the age verification laws we see emerging particularly in UK and AUS, you can check out the current state of age verification legislation in USA here action.freespeechcoalition.com/age-verifica...
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Discord screenshot of jess speaking in a discord server. Jessica Redekop (she/her) ok I need to share a very cursed thought with everyone ruvaid and I were brainstorming names for his new fire creature, the walking oven dude, and then "chunger" entered my brain this is my historic high for cursed creature names
Discord screenshot of a conversation between jess and Ruvaid Virk Jessica Redekop (she/her) I'm so glad this isn't my creature, I get to release chunger out into the world and then walk away whatever happens from this point isn't my fault Ruvaid Virk (he/him) I can't believe you would do this, just drop this curse on me and walk away, as if I'm not now compelled to actually name it chunger It's late in the night and I rolled a low will save against suggestion Jessica Redekop (she/her) idk, I'm perfectly at peace now that I've expelled that terrible thought
Discord screenshot of a conversation between jess and Ruvaid Virk Ruvaid Virk (he/him) I'll give it a nice, normal, regular name. Like chimothy Jessica Redekop (she/her) Chimothy Chunger Ruvaid Virk (he/him) Please, Chimothy was my father. Call me Chimbo. (jess posts an image of a clay oven with googly eyes photoshopped onto it such that it looks like it's making a D: face)
Photo of page 127 of jess' copy of Rage of Elements, where "Im just a lil guy - Chimothy" has been written in sharpie by Ruvaid Virk next to the brochmaw illustration
HOWEVER a list of all my favourite parts of Rage of Elements would not be complete without Chimothy Chunger
"For me, exploring the Elemental Planes shares much in common with exploring different parts of my personality. I am a jann, a genie of the Universe who embodies all the elements simultaneously. They infuse my form, shaping my mind and body, and I can find aspets of myself within all of them. When I visit the Plane of Fire, I rediscover my passion and warmth. When I sail across the Plane of Water, I chart the vastness of my own heart. So too it must be for mortals, I think, who I've always imagined possess a unique ability to look into any plane they fancy and find a facet of themselves reflected back, a sort of universal empathy. If you journey across the Elemental Planes, I believe you too will discover much about yourself, as well."
"Sleights Unseen Mortal minds are filled with cute understandings of air. I suppose you wish for me to separate the truth from falsehood, but asking this of a creature of air would misunderstand our nature. When you see a vessel and think it empty, air is always within. We flow so cleverly around all things that some elemental traditions consider us only a space between. In Tian Xia, mortal elementalists believe in a cycle of five elements eternally feeding each other: fire, wood, metal, water, earth. Unlike those five, air has no solid form; this is the true distinction understood in our exclusion from the cycle. Other elemental philosophers do call us an element in "equal" standing. This discrepancy is ideal, I say. Thrive in the inconsistency and keep the mortals guessing- as unable to grasp us conceptually as they are physically. Air is everywhere, always; it is the space between all spaces, the energy moved through the cycle, and the barrier laying between the Universe and the Great Beyond. Air is flexible, mutable, and invisible- an ideal element for spells and magical tools. Pomp and show have no purpose in my work, and elemental air is perfectly suited for slipping by while drawing minimal attention. Do you breathe, mortal? Air can give life with but a breath, or strip that life away with the same ease."
FLOATING TENT, ITEM 1+ Bulk 1 This diamond-shaped tent is designed for sleeping in planar environments without gravity, such as the Plane of Air. Weights are attached at each of its six points, carefully balanced against each other to prevent the tent from leaning too far in any one direction. The tent has an anchor, which can be used to moor the tent and prevent it from floating away from the object or location it is anchored to. Type: floating pup tent; Level: 1; Price: 10 gp A floating pup tent is large enough for one person and their supplies. It contains a hammock suspended in the center of the tent, large enough for a Medium or smaller creature to comfortably sleep, in addition to a net beneath the hammock where gear can be stored. Type: floating four-person tent; Level: 2; Price: 25 gp A standard floating tent is large enough for four creatures and their supplies, containing four hammocks in two rows suspended in the center of the tent and large nets near the top and bottom of the tent for gear.
In my sections: 'universal empathy' in the introduction, the reader being threatened by the air elemental narrator in the air intro, & the floating tent in the air items (a nod to this kinda goofy but iconic planar tent found in D&D3e Planar Adventures that will live in my head rent free forever)
The Astral and Ethereal collect and reflect the outer and inner planes like prisms, shining them into the Material and creating a rainbow kaleidoscope realm where you see and have and understand and feel all the infinite possibilities. The Material Plane the most beautiful plane in the Multiverse.
In the blog, you'll see a passage ending in:
"So too it must be for mortals, I think, who I’ve always imagined possess a unique ability to look into any plane they fancy and find a facet of themselves reflected back, a sort of universal empathy."
The Material Plane is a nexus of understanding.
You can preview the book in this post from the Paizo blog, which features material I wrote for the introduction section of Rage of Elements paizo.com/blog/brave-t...
Rage of Elements is 50% off in the Paizo store for the next 3 days. I wrote 30,000 words for this book and it fills my heart with joy.
RoE will take you on a tour of the inner planes and is, to me, the elemental book Planescape needed but never quite got store.paizo.com/pathfinder-r...
whenever folks talk about harry potter and separating artist from art they always have this indignant 'OH SO IM A BAD FOR BUYING THESE BOOKS?' but thats not the real issue. the reality is that many will BELIEVE you are bad, and that is VALID. its not your choice what others think of you
mahathallah is the pathfinder demigoddess of reddit atheist debate bros. her cultists have been awoken to the darkest truths of reality, the deceitful veils of so-called "SoCiEtAl ObLiGaTiOn" lifted, and they need to be BRUTALLY HONEST with you about the BRUTAL HONEST TRUTHS THEY KNOW RIGHT NOW
For anyone else mourning the loss of Ritz Bitz S'mores, Oreo S'moreo limited edition cookies are... maybe not quite the same, but still good and fairly close.
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I apologize for yet again running for help, but the problem with being on a ledge is that there's no breathing room. Every emergency is an emergency.
I heard that when they moved the Mall of America Rainforest Cafe from the first floor to the third floor they recreated it exactly as it was, changing nothing and preserving its strange, decrepit allure.