Close-up of YouTube miniature painter Vince Venturella flicking a useless bottle of blue fluorescent paint off his desk.
I got some fluorescent paints to do OSL on miniatures, but I was struggling with blue. Why so dingy and flat? I'm laughing after watching a Vince Venturella video on fluo paints. "They're great," he says, "except blue," and he literally flicks it off his desk and doesn't mention it again.
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What makes us chuckle in that show is how any time something bad happens, while the characters are discussing it afterwards somebody brings up a statistic. "Did you know nearly 80% of nurses face an assault each year?"
What I find interesting is how effectively the film telegraph that there is going to be an utterly terrifying climax, but all that tense buildup isn't put to use. What the film does instead is very moving, but the threat of danger just dissipates as the emotional arc takes the foreground.
The poster could be for a Walking Dead spinoff, but other than a few jump scares, all of the conflicts all come from people looking for closure in different ways. The whole first act is about the aftermath of a massive tragedy, not an apocalypse, and it's very poignant.
Movie poster for We Bury the Dead, a woman with an axe faces a running zombie.
We Bury The Dead was very well done, but I can see why it did poorly, I don't think zombie genre audiences are expecting films about grief and closure. It's not the heart-pounding horror-survival most of the genre is doing.
I think one of the seasons of Slow Horses lampshades that some CIA folks work for the Orange Administration and it really takes the wind out of it. Oh yeah, you aren't all cool cloak and dagger folks, you work for Mr. Stupid.
You didn't ask, but my favorite simple way to handle a PC attempting to persuade an NPC is to:
1. Hear what the PC says
2. Decide what the most and least favorable reactions the NPC might have to that
3. Let the PC's skill check decide between those.
My ENnie-award winning book of illustrated fantasy adventures is being released in German as a deluxe boxed set! Pre-orders have discounted shipping, and are available until April 5. After that I think you have to fight Unclideon to get a copy.
Don't leave us hanging!
Image of a model ship Linus Napoleonic Shipyard's absolutely festooned with flags. I think there's like 24 on there! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4-6rtA6rH8
"Nearly done these ships, I should look up where the flags go."
<twenty minutes later>
"Okay, nevermind. How about 'the top'. That should be fine."
Thanks! It was the sails on these that pushed me to finally get an airbrush. They sails are the most visible feature and there are tons of them, but there's zero texture or detail on them. They're either quite plain or need craploads of blending as washes and dry brushing have nothing to latch onto.
Everything about the arrangement is trying to get every newton of the wind's force along the ropes, into the masts, and down into the hull to slice the keel through the water. Either that or making it sturdy enough not to blow apart like match sticks, or to make the constant adjustments possible.
But as the standing rigging on my tiny models starts to stiffen my delicate little masts, I'm realizing.. that's what they were for. This whole thing is a huge arrangement of kites and prayers, forces barely counterbalanced.
Ships have a truly insane amount of rope on them, they look like they were rigged by funnel spiders. I bet you could just glue thread to every of corners it would look pretty good (to amateurs like me).
I'm used to arcade-level ship physics - the wind blows from somewhere, but the whole thing moves forward in whatever direction it's pointing like a slow motorboat. But the more I learn, the more I'm getting a visceral feel of the forces at play. This was very unexpected!
My friend Kit has introduced me to Oak & Iron, 1/600 scale 'age of sail' sea battles. I'm trying to really go big on my first squadron, so now I'm at the step of adding rigging to these tiny ships. When I started, I had no idea how rigging worked at all!
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I legit laughed at this one.
10 The Cuirass of the Forlorn protects against a wounded heart
05: a piece of paper appears to all as a sack of gold
06: a horse that can do math by stamping his hoof so long as his owner is standing right next to him.
07: A pair of small lenses that, when affixed to the nose, transform blurry, unreadable glyphs into perfectly legible writing
08 a shrill flute that that repels nearby mice, other rodents, and small children when played, instead of summoning them
03: The emperor's clothes are BEAUTIFUL but are visible only to those with pure hearts.
04: The fancy boots are just that. The cat’s a shapeshifter.
(Am I doing it right?)
d100 Actually Non-Magical Items
01-02 The King's sword is reputed to only do harm to those with evil in their hearts
Splurged on an airbrush and now it's glowing heat sinks for everyone! This lance is lit up like a Christmas tree!
One of my personal favorites is Litany in Scratches. It's not my best-looking map, but the gradual increase in tension, the sudden serious danger and punchline of the barricade has worked both times I ran it.
The Lost and the Damned chaos gods were extreme, of course, but had these lovely contrasting aspects. Nurgle was disease, but also the spark of living zeal in the face of mortality. It's great when there's enough for two adherents to have very different motives.