BW comic page, 6 panels. Our heroes Imura the Chainmail Chick, Boden the Sinewy Barbarian, and Lenser the Eyball finally reach the great treasure! But in her haste to get the gold, Imura doesn't see the wicked tomb guardian's wicked scimitar coming down... to split her in half!! Boden, enraged and heartbroken, hacks it up. In the end Boden swears to don Imura's breast armor in her honor.

#BlackPuddingZine #comics
"Split Second".... a tragic chapter in the saga of Imura, Boden, and Lenser.

I don't have any plan right now for Black Pudding Comics. I got siderailed on other stuff, including Hymla comics. She was gonna just be part of this, but damn she needs her own book. We'll see.

Black and white drawing of a skeletal warrior with armor and sword and very long, lush black hair.

Cover for Black Pudding Play Book, my personal house rules for running dungeon games. #BlackPuddingZine #OSR #TTRPG

Crude inked logo for Black Pudding Comics.

One of the projects currently fighting its way up the limited attention span bandwidth. I have some finished pages and a handful of finished scripts for short comics. Could be a lot of fun to draw the adventures of black knights, chainmail chicks, and skeletal warriors. #BlackPuddingZine

Old school D&D style character sheet featuring a huge snake and skulls.

Here's an old #CharacterSheet I did. It shows up in #BlackPuddingZine issue 4. Oh the wild west days of the 2010s. The tender innocence of being a grown adult drawing giant snakes.

Oh wait.. nothing's changed.

Color drawing of an elf girl in chainmail bikini leaping with axe going "Yiyiyiyiyyaaa!"

Grazy Fireflower, level 6 Chainmail Chick (Red Slayer)
AC 4 [15] HP 52
S 14 I 11 W 9 D 16 C 16 Ch 16
Having elf heritage, she can see doors to the faery realm. But she's kind of a menace and they won't open for her. "Cold out? I didn't notice."
#BlackPuddingZine
#ChainmailChick
#Pinupart

BW cover for Black Pudding Play Book. A skeleton in armor with long hair and a sword.

Black Pudding Play Book is live! You can get the PDF for PWYW, or get the hardback book + PDF option. If you ain't got no cash, grab the PDF for free. It's cool. Have fun out there! Play some games.

#BPPB #BlackPuddingZine

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Pic of Black Pudding Play Book in my lap. A long haired skeleton with a sword.

Pic of back cover, a dice drop oracle!

Print proof! Gotta adjust front cover a bit, but the rest is solid.

Black Pudding Play Book going live very soon...

#BPPB #BlackPuddingZine

Page showing a giant gator eating a dwarf and a weird mouth pillar. It's mostly text talking about various weird gods and monsters of the realm.

#BPPB #BlackPuddingPlayBook #BlackPuddingZine
Ok, I had a short pause but the book is moving along. I'll be ordering the print copy this week to make sure it looks OK, then a few weeks after that I should be able to put it all live.
64 pgs, black and white, stuff from issue 4 and 7 + 32 more pages.

Logo for Black Pudding Play Book rendered in black text based on Elsene font with embellishments by me.

Ok, I need to make some tweaks to the page bleeds on Black Pudding Play Book, then I can get the print copy in hand. We're making progress here at the Random Order Creations headquarters, working in tandem with satellite offices across the globe! #BPPB #BlackPuddingZine #TTRPG

Ink doodle of a weird friar smoking a pipe. Frog like. "Yes, it is true we friars of Foon Fom Gar toil nightly, utterly consumed by a lust to document every word and every deed the inscrutable one gives us. And it is... a lot. It speaks frequently and at length. There is rarely time for the friars to indulge our base distractions. But we ball up our habits now and then."

#Sketchbook page of a weird friar of Foon Fom Gar, a notorious cult. I drew this straight to ink with a brush just for giggles. Always expanding the immense lore of the world of #BlackPuddingZine. It's weird to draw without a sketch, but in weird in a good way. Risky and dangerous.

Black and white drawing with halftone screen. Black haired female face with dark, wicked eyes. Epic eyebrows.

Sister Zurri Sunglow, Cleric of Wisp the East Wind.
S 11 I 13 W 16 D 13 C 8 Ch 14
Small and intense, her supplicants think twice before testing her patience. Especially since they saw her calm and ride a pegasus. #BlackPuddingZine #Cleric

Color drawing of two-headed baboon demon (Demogorgon) holding a spellbound cleric he's about to eat. Did this for a Gary Con GM shirt.

Black and white drawing of a voluptuous, lovely, plump witchy vampire stepping out of her spider-webbed coffin. There's a black cat. I really like this one. Her name is Jubella Equinox.

BW ink drawing of a bearded warrior man with a big winged helm and big sword. Lots of images of swords and skulls. This drawing was inspired by Jennell Jaquays' classic drawing of Kos the God of Dooms from Deities and Demigods.

Ink and marker drawing of Smurfette standing on the beheaded corpse of Gargamel. Papa Smurf lies next to her like those women in classic sword and sorcery paintings. She's got a chainmail vest and a winged helmet. Azreal is on a shelf behind them licking his paws. There's a skull with glasses... the skull of Brainy Smurf!?

I draw a lot. #Sci-fi, #fantasy, #comics, #pinup art, #weirdo. Whatever I want, dammit. And I make #TTRPG stuff. #ThePool, #BlackPuddingZine, #Supercalla, #GOZR, #Doomslakers blog. That's a lot of hashtags!

#BlackPuddingZine
#BlackPuddingPlayBook
#BPPB
#OSR
#Monsters
#Tables

I'm at the point where basically all I need is a cover and I can publish the Black Pudding Play Book. It is a combo of the Play Book from issue 4 and Gazetteer from issue 7, with extras.... a campaign book!

Ink drawing of a bearded man's face, grinning and missing a front tooth. He looks psychotic, drunk, or both. He's happy as fuck.

Dwarfs of #Yria, the world of #BlackPuddingZine, are rednecks. No bloody Brit or Scottish accents. They're fucking redneck as hell. They fight all the time, make beer, scream "Hell yeah", and skinny dip in mountaintop hot springs with nature imps. I'm from Kentucky. I have original source material.

Ink drawing of multiple adventurers in a dungeon battling two dragons with some troglodytes chasing behind them. Appears to be a cleric or wizard, a wizard, an elf warrior, a fighter, and a dwarf. All of these characters are based on the ones from the Basic and Expert D&D sets.

Before I settled on Black Pudding, I was going to call the zine Doomslakers. I completely forgot this. I was digging through archives and found this cover from August 2016.
#BlackPuddingZine #Doomslakers

Beefy barbarian ink drawing, bloody sword, long black hair... yeah it's basically Conan. This was the image from Black Pudding #1, Sinewy Barbarian character class. Doomslakers is not based on D&D, so there are not classes. But I am 100% borrowing Troika's treatment of Backgrounds instead. So this guy shows up as a Background you can pick.

#GameDesign! Working on #Doomslakers, the #BlackPuddingZine #TTRPG... kept going round and round about hit points and damage. Decided to experiment. I removed HP entirely. And haven't mentioned damage. Have a notion about how it will work... is "raw dogging" apropos to this ill-fated idea?

d66 BACKGROUND 11 Adventurer 12 Alien 13 Arcazian Wizard 14 Black Knight 15 Blind Guardian 16 Boola 21 Botten 22 Burglar 23 Chainmail Chick 24 Cottage Witch 25 Death Witch 26 Demodyne 31 Eyeball 32 Feral Knight 33 Goblin 34 Keeper 35 Kithix 36 Lazy Wizard 41 Lizz 42 Lucky Bastard 43 Medusa 44 Norg Wanderer 45 Orbi 46 Rat Bastard 51 Raven Heart 52 Rock Hardy 53 Seasoned Veteran 54 Shield Maiden 55 Sinewy Barbarian 56 Skeleton Warrior 61 Star Wizard 62 Summoner 63 Sword Slinger 64 Tower Wizard 65 Wee Savage 66 Werewolf Hunter

Here's the list of backgrounds for #Doomslakers, as it stands. Not final yet. There are 2 bastards on here, which is ok by me. But we'll see.
The astute #BlackPuddingZine aficionado will recognize most of these as classes from the zine.
#TTRPG

Drawing and stats of a skinny shirtless wizard with an outtie. Rinny. 2nd level illusionist, chaotic neutral. Doesn't like pipe smoke.

Rinny is from issue 2 of Black Pudding. Why is he carrying a ball of twine?
Yes, I kept the typo on Charisma. I don't hide from my mistakes. Usually. #BlackPuddingZine #NPC

Drawing of a halfling with sword and moon shield. Her D&D stats are given. She is Rosie Riverbop. She once wrestled a dire raccoon for her favorite rag doll. She is carrying her sword Stickim and her shield Mr. Moonie and some racoon jerky.

Never forget that #BlackPuddingZine offers the finest in NPC selections with deep-diving descriptions and engaging magic items.

Ink drawing of a wicked skull in black and white. Black ooze coming out of its eyes and nose. Pool of black ooze under it. Spider webs. "Black Pudding Adventure Journal".

This was the cover to the Black Pudding Adventure Journal, which was a little 24 page empty notebook that came with the Kickstarter for #BlackPuddingZine reprints and issue 7.

BW drawing of a city scene with a tall spire and castle on top

BW city drawing, wide. Lots of weird shaped buildings. Tall, conical, pointy, spires.

The city of Seapath is at the heart of the #Doomslakers #TTRPG. Though the whole world of #Yria is discussed and implied, the game is set in Seapath. Check out #BlackPuddingZine issue 7 for the gazetteer.

Ink drawing of a knight in black armor with skull on chest and big sword. Below it is "Level XP Title HD"

From issue 1 of #BlackPuddingZine, the Black Knight. I recently converted most of the classes from BP to the #Doomslakers game system. Fired up right now to work on this game. I hope I can see it through to a complete game before losing steam. Got a slot coming up in my group to run it. #TTRPG

Boola old school character class from Black Pudding 5. LOTS of text. But basically she's a kind of den mother to animals who lives in the woods. She is nimble and can learn secrets from animals.

#Doomslakers I'm in the middle of converting most of the #BlackPuddingZine character classes to the new game format. I left many of them out of the roster because they don't line up very well with games I actually run. But the Boola is going in. I just like her. Non-combat, animal-loving, weird.

Table of Botten Names. Ice Born Fire Born Round Top Bolt Hand Steel Cast Wolf Image Dawn Mist Iron Boot Rust Glove Wyrm Face Clank Jaw Red Eyes Light Hand Sky Wise Gold Stack Black Blade Pig Iron Bronze Tooth Crystal Sand Jitter Top Borg Fist Green Foot Double Up Mob Trick Brick Head Onyx Maw Frost Face Oak Bolt Star Fight Screw Top White Dark Silver Back Thought Crank Rust Face Clank Jaw Whir Star Acme Mode Jack Joint Animat Bolt Droid Emotor Head Helix Sand Heart Prox Pulse True Mind Sky Vision Ice Alloy Flame Link Fire Axis Drill Down Moto Servo Tang Top Carbon Brain Lead Love Metal Yaw Flight Force Steel Heart Rake Saw Jade Hand Pitch Rack Hard Case Copper Top Vein Clamp Free Fit Low Bit Shim Up Actuator Rod Oil Vein Gear Node Teach Wise Iron Gage Ocular Twist Lathe Lode

The botten are machine people in the world of #Yria, from #BlackPuddingZine. But if you need any kind of construct or robot name, you might find it here on this #NamesTable.

Hand written character class for B/X D&D: Blind Guardian. Drawing of a woman with no pupils in armor (a bit of it) and a sword and stuff. XP table.

The Blind Guardian from #BlackPuddingZine issue 2. For these classes I tended to give them little abilities that worked within B/X, tweaking or breaking certain little rules and using what was there to create something new. Like this one stating that you attack like a MU when using the wrong weapon.

My favorite piece of Hodag art appears on the back cover of Black Pudding issue 8! #BlackPuddingZine

Digital painting. Desert with big yellow sun. Figures in foreground with sword and a strange lizard pet. Background is a big opulent city seemingly made of sandstone and glass with towers and round forms. This was the cover of Million-Colored Sun by Hex Games.

Bw ink drawing. Fantasy tavern scene with many figures mingling. Barbarians, bunnies, wrestlers, puddings, chainmail chicks, etc. All the characters on this drawing appear in issues of Black Pudding zine.

Color digital drawing of a beat up robot in a tattered cloak holding a big honkin' rocket gun.

Circular digital drawing of a wizard. He's in an office chair, from behind. He's bald. He's using a magic spell (Bigby's Hand or something) to get doritos chips out of a bag. His computer is an old Tandy style "compy". Cobwebs. AD&D books on shelf. Funko Pop Gary Gygax. Rust monster toy. This was drawn for Gary Con.

I draw a lot of silly fun stuff, and sometimes rude bad stuff, and sometimes I do it on commission and often I don't. Depends on my mood. I also do #comics and I make #TTRPG stuff. #ThePool #GOZR #BlackPuddingZine #Doomslakers
Be well and do what you can to make the world better.

Pic of a fold out sheet, about 11x17 inches, loaded with little comic book panel type sketches and doodles.

You might know Matt Hildebrand only as the guy who does TONS of layout and ads for Goodman Games. But did you know he's also quite a fantastic cartoonist? I love his doodles. His work also appears in #BlackPuddingZine in a couple of places, such as the Luchador class.

Ink and marker. Woman with red hair. Her face over a purple hot rod with yellow lightning bolt.

Pentagram with goat head. Evil and Satanic. Made of swords. Blood behind it. Totally metal.

Blue card with black drawing of a black bird. Wicked.

Black ink drawing. Riffing on 1981 BX D&D box set art. Dragons in a dungeon. Wizards, fighters, dwarf. Trogs in background.

I draw a lot. I do commissions sometimes. I do #comics sometimes. I make #TTRPG stuff. #ThePool #GOZR #BlackPuddingZine #Doomslakers
I wish you well.

"An idol to Oru, Sperpent of the South Wind" Ink and gray drawing of a craggy, scaly lizard type head with some jungle leaves behind it. Leaking eyes. Appears to be stone.

Oru, Serpent of the South Wind, has many idols hidden across the land. If you find one, kiss it for luck.
#Yria #PanGea #BlackPuddingZine #Doomslakers #DRAT

This is a sketchbook piece using brush pens with black and gray ink. I think I was inspired by a Richard Corben painting.