Shouting Crow

What am I reading today? THIS:

Essay: Bookplay in TTRPGs An essay on how we play with books in ttrpgs, also SPINE the ttrpg

Here's a link to the original essay.

And if you enjoy this one, I recommend the essay that I wrote to conclude the series, which has had the most traffic.

A Defense of Reading (or Reading as Play)🔗👇🧵

An arrangement featuring a meditating mushroom with a green cap and a humanoid body sitting in lotus pose. A tarot card featuring similar colors and a many-armed, glowing being hovers over the mushroom's shoulder

REMINDER: WE'RE ON WINTER BREAK!

⚠️THE ONLINE SHOP'S OPEN BUT WE WON'T SHIP AGAIN UNTIL JANUARY 2026⚠️

(You can also find us IRL - our vending machine mini-boutique awaits you during TPK Brewing Co's regular operating hours, 5051 SE Hawthorne PDX OR)

My father is STILL, a year later, slowly playing and judging these games, but this was *my* favorite.

Cover for the solo TTRPG: This Frog is Ruining my Dungeon Crawl. Cute illustration of a frog wearing a pointed hat and holding an antique key

New to the #SoloRPG List: This Frog is Ruining My Dungeon Crawl by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social
You have to escape a horrible dungeon, armed with nothing but a magic frog!
CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.php?i...

Hell yeah, we love to see it.

What with all the universe slowly devouring artist’s work to feed angry robots, I have pulled most of my body of work off of the internet.
I should actually set up a proper portfolio.

By god, we've done it. That happened fast. You're all champions. Champions!

This aint about me

Don't like MY post, go like hers!!

Hey guys? For reasons, I'm gonna need you to go like the post I've quoted below. I need this adorable dragon.

Cover art for THIS FROG IS RUINING MY DUNGEON CRAWL, featuring said frog wearing a fancy pointed party hat. Probably because he’s expecting you to bring him cake.

DAY 1, GAME 7: This Frog is Ruining My Dungeon Crawl by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social is a silly and fun solo dungeon crawl game where you race to escape a failed dungeon raid, aided (and hindered) by a magical frog. A good quick play mix of story and strategy. @shoutingcrow.bsky.social

Tina started croaking about a year after I made that post, which means she is probably a he, so… we call him Tuna, now. But he’s still a miserable creature and we love him very much, thank you for saying hi!

A pretty blonde with a magician's wand sticking through their updo covers their mouth, looking surprised. They are wearing star-shaped jewelry and a high-necked tunic. The light is soft and warm.

Haven't been online much, but here's a doodle I did recently of a CATAPHRACTS character I'm playing. They're... a really different vibe, for me. Usually I play big old dudes.
Anyway, I swear I'm still alive!

Plato's Mech by Exeunt Press Skeleton Code Machine MECH WEEK coloring contest

For MECH WEEK last year, I teamed up with @shoutingcrow.bsky.social to release a Plato's Mech free paper doll coloring page. That's going to be hard to beat for SKIRMISH WEEK this year.

Suggestions welcome. Wrong answers appreciated.

exeuntpress.itch.io/platos-mech

#skirmish #wargames

This is brilliant

That vigil is maybe the best example of bleed I have, by the way. Reconnecting with my spirituality through the game, both Augustus and myself holding a candle for the safety of a friend at once.

I mean— there was a bomb threat in the middle of it. I was IN FULL DAD MODE, in that moment.

"In that moment, the immersion, the *feeling* of play, was unlike anything I could have imagined a month ago, when I let my buddy cajole me into trying out Cataphracts in Space."

OVER/UNDER: The Bleed Machine, a preview of thoughts to come. kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/overunder-th...

Picking up a pen and drawing something every day is a great way to build yourself up, especially when you don’t think of yourself as an artist.
One day, you’ll feel like you’ve earned the title. Eventually you’ll realize you earned it the moment you picked up the pen.
I’m proud of you, Exeunt.

Pirouette: A Solo Horror Ballet TTRPG by InnocentGoblin The show must go on, even if it kills you!

A lot will be happening over on my Itch page, including a ton of print at home foldable versions of my games inspired by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social

But until they are uploaded, from now you can grab a physical copy of Pirouette and Grotty Gobbo's Tea Grotto!

These are VERY limited, only 7 of each

A 14 panel comic, a top tier of five panels shows a drawing of me, and in each of the subsequent panels the drawing of me gets simpler and simpler, with a cartoony drawing, a crude cartoon, then a stick man, then a smily face then a simple blob. Each time I'm saying "Hi" Tier two, panel one, the smiley face is sad and saying "PJ! I can't draw!" "How can I make comics" Panel 2, me as a simple cartoon "Oh that's ok, comics work..." panel 3, me as a very crudely drawn figiure my head tilted at a funny angle and Im saying "No matter your skill level" Panel 4 more simplistic drawing of me holding a ruler "As long as you can (sorta) draw a straight line " "(I use a ruler)" Panel 5 even more simple drawing "And a bubble" next (final) tier Panel 1 A simple circle with two dots for eyes and a small line for a mouth and a balloon coming from his mouth saying "People can be quite forgiving about the artwork" Panel 2 the round simple face meets a spikey simple face, spikey says "I'm not - I like GOOD artwork" me - "Oh" Panel 3 me (still a smiley face, but straight line mouth ) I have two stick arms raised up with little stick fingers and I'm saying "...Sorry..." Spike says "Bah" Panel 4 (last panel) Me, slightly better drawn (but only just) "OK - not everyone is quite forgiving about art" "BUT I AM" "Good luck!"

A comic about making comics (the alt text took longer to write than the comic did to draw * I drew this a few years ago)

Print It Yourself - Collection by Shouting Crow A collection by Shouting Crow

Hi, Emi! I made a free zine series that is sort of adjacent to this subject, though it’s largely for black and white work: itch.io/c/5612213/pr...

But also, a thing I like to do is sit down with new folks in the industry and walk them through their first zine step by step over discord. DM me?

I wouldn’t have seen this if you hadn’t talked about it. Thank you! It looks rad.

Hell yeah, that’s what I like to see! Ink-lite QuickStarts are a great way to get a copy of the basics on the table for each player. Good design, mate.

I did, in fact, read the first post and think “how DOES a peahen walk when she needs to lay an egg?”
I was not disappointed by this thread. Thank you!

YOUR PORTFOLIO CRIT THINGS I'D TELL YOU IF I WERE LOOKING AT YOUR WORK IN PERSON 1 Violating the 180 degree rule makes this sequence hard to follow 2 A few more incidental overlaps will make this foreshortening clearer 3 Symmetrical compositions with a character dead center imply an important moment. Don't draw every panel like that? 4 This __ looks kind of fake. Take the time to look at reference instead of just making it up 5 An establishing shot will help the reader understand where this takes place. 6 Find a life-drawing session to attend, or practice from photos online. 7 Show these pages to someone who doesn't know the story and ask them to tell the story back to you. 8. Nudge this part over a bit to eliminate that tangency. 9 You flattened out the depth by rendering the foreground, middle ground, & background with the same values. Create depth and direct the eye by organizing them into overlapping planes of light & dark. 10 there are better ways to use your time than rendering every brick. 11 these characters look like they're floating (or falling). Draw figures and bg from the same eye level. 12 Unless this will be a wordless comic, leave more room for the lettering

Been a year. Time to repost this.

Oof, this one’s so heavy, I haven’t been able to commission art for it or finish the work myself. If you wanna feel some kinda way, check out this stream.
Good luck, Wyvern!

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I happen to be online, so here’s a link because since Richard mentioned it, I’ve become a fan:

www.podomatic.com/podcasts/gay...

So the short answer is: single-leaf mutations are uncommon but possible in certain species, and it’s often the result of a virus!
It is more likely that the nodule for that particular leaf was damaged or did not develop properly, resulting in unusual or incomplete growth.

I’m lucky, we have 3 ten gallon tanks and I can just move the brown-and-beautiful skramps into one of the others and spread the joy around!