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A digital illustration of a woman with draconic features; horns, miniature wings, golden eyes, and a large green tail. She's wearing a tabard and armour over a lace skirt, and wields a kind of fencer's saber in one hand. She looks a little self-assured.

Drew up a design I've had floating around for a kind of half-dragon princess. I just like the colours...

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A black and white drawing titled "It's Pumpkin Times". Below the title is a pumpkin-headed figure in a simple white-sheet costume, wielding a double-bitted axe.

Now for something quick and cute for the Holiday...

It's Pumpkin Times!

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Drawing of a bald-headed, robed man, his eyes lit with red pinpricks of light. There are deep shadows over the image as he reaches out through smoke to drop leaves into a large cauldron at his feet. Some sort of magic orb glows brightly on a stand on the left-hand side of the image.

Another bit of art! I wanted another moody piece for the season.
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An image of the gravekeeper, Nadia, standing in front of a mausoleum and several stacked gravestones surrounded by mist, drawn as pixel-art this time. There's some flowers in the bottom left. A cat and a raven are also visible. This version has softer colours, with purple mist and pink skies.

An image of the gravekeeper, Nadia, standing in front of a mausoleum and several stacked gravestones surrounded by mist, drawn as pixel-art this time. There's some flowers in the bottom left. A cat and a raven are also visible. This version has more autumn colours, with darker sky and orange mist, as well as yellow-orange lighting in general.

More Nadia, this time in pixels! A couple colour variants, too, since I couldn't decide. It's just fun to play with different styles sometimes to see if it's something I can do.

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I found the textbook. It wasn't written as "2d6-4". It was written as "1d6x2-4". And I definitely intended that to be multiplication, not two dice. For so simple a system, this thing is very weird.

Or, well, zero anyway. There WAS a 2d6-4 roll that did negative, though.

Oh, and for the record, the 2d6-2 wasn't a resolution roll. It was a damage roll. It was possible for Rogues to do negative damage.

I think about Ice Spike often.

I also think about abilities with vague descriptors like "If you succeed at the roll, perform an acrobatic feat". No examples or limits were provided with the ability.

Now, there's one thing I always remember from this game. At a certain level, classes would split into two options. One, the Wizard, had a spell called "Ice Spike." The Ice Spike was a spell in which the Wizard could, once per say, roll 1d6. On a 1-5, nothing happened. On a 6, it was an instant kill.

Random story. When I was a teenager, I designed an RPG in one of my spare textbooks. It was a bad but simple D&D clone with wildly imbalanced classes, and since I had no dice sets, everything was d6. Not like a dice pool, since I didn't know about those yet, but terrible equations like "Roll 2d6-2".

A drawing of a hunching hellhound that looks like something between a dog, a demon, and a reptile. It has sharp spines along its back, and puffs of flame emitting from its mouth and snout.

No detailed shading/colour on this, but here's a monster.

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Drawing of Nadia, a gothy woman with hair over one eye and a great big puffy ponytail. She is standing in front of a great, dead-looking oak with gnarled roots, reaching out with a trembling hand. An unknown figure reaches a pale hand out from a hole in the oak, unseen except for the lights of their eyes and long strands of dark hair. It is unclear whether it simply beckoning, seeking an offering, or some other motive.

Now that the best month of the year has arrived, I figured I might as well get a little more of that spooky Nadia goodness. Seemed right for the season.

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A map of a dark and gloomy fantasy region. There's a black sea called the Sea of Black Scales to the east, while the land makes up the bulk of the image, with mountains to the north and a lowland called the Blinkman's Bog to the south. The map is centered on the farmlands south of a big gothic city named Vilder, City of Spires, with a couple small villages nearby; Bedeshire and Drinkwater.

Just a random map from today.

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It doesn't need to be detailed. Even just a sentence or two can be enough, both for factions AND directions. It's good fodder for improvisation, and you can adjust it to anything, whether you're working just on a city and it's surrounds, or on a whole continent.

As a follow-up to this, one useful thing you can do for a map of any scale is to plan the cardinal directions. N/S/E/W, up, down. Whether that's vibe or physical space or both, for all those directions. Like knowing "Dark, spooky mountains in the north" is helpful, the same way knowing factions is.

Depends what I'm doing. Generally I just think up something as I go, but sometimes I have RPG tables and things like that. If I need something specific I'll have some planned details or a shape mocked up somewhere (which I will probably veer wildly from in the final version).

You ever just think, "Dang, I really want to draw a map of something" but then remember you've already drawn maps for everything you're writing? Like, excuse me, how am I supposed to make pretend cities and fantasy worlds if I've already done it? Truly this is the most important thing to worry about

Yeah, I was for sure SUPER into Digimon back then, so I imagine there was heavy influence in the back of my brain.

A crude child's pencil-drawing of a razor-toothed ghost with blades emerging from its sheet-like body. The page has creases and scuff-marks from being like, over 20 years since the time of its creation.

A more detailed drawing of a tattered, bed-sheet ghost, giving the viewer a wobbly, sharp-toothed grin. Blades emerge from its sheet sleeves like knife-edged fingers, one of which it raises to its mouth with a kind of coy malice.

Tried something else that's fun! I redrew a monster I drew in one of my first sketchbooks from when I was 8 years old, a lifetime ago now. I think I captured the... spirit of the thing.

(Also this was a really fun exercise to do)

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An undead couple. One's dressed in a red funeral gown with a veil, and the other in an old-fashioned patchwork suit with a tattered cape, and cloth over one of his eyes. The former of the pair has an enormous blade over her shoulder, while the latter is wielding a more modest pistol and rapier.

Trying something a little different! More cartoony proportions this time. I was sort of going for something more 1800s fantasy? It's a bit rough. Concept is a sort of undead couple who guard a spooky manor, like one of those old PS Resident Evil-like games.

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Image of Noir the bogeyman, laying in the dark. One of his eyes is winking open to stare at the viewer with a narrow pupil, and he is otherwise curled into a bundle of shadowy limbs. His hood-covered 'horns' are flicked like the ears of a cat.

Noir the bogeyman, getting some rest.

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A drawing of a woman with a friendly yet nervous expression, from the shoulders up. She has porcelain skin and silvery hair to match, as well as a pattern on her face that resembles a skull. Two horns like a rhino's stick out from the top of her head, and she has small wings over her shoulders.

Ack, haven't been posting as much the last little while. Here's the full-scale version of my display pic to fill some space; she's one of my older characters that I've used as a default for things like that for at least a decade if not more. Friendly demon hours.

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Image of a zombie-like boxer sitting on a stool in the corner of the ring. She has pale bluish skin, patchwork stitches, and an iron jaw. She's wearing chains around her neck and one of her arms, and her boxing gloves have skulls on them. One red eye meets the viewer, peering out from below a head of straight white hair.

A frankenboxer. Haven't yet settled on a name, but I'm digging the look.

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Added colour to an old pic. Left one is kinda dark but I have a variant that's a bit brighter.
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For the record, it was the fault of one of those programs that manages and controls a bunch of other devices. No clue why it decided to take up arms today, though.

Using another rare non-art post to wonder if I've been cursed at some point in my life because I seem to have a lot more unexplainable tech issues than a normal person.

In other news, apparently every peripheral device on your computer can just decide to revolt sometimes and demand reinstallation.

An image of a ruined stone building beneath a sky full of stars. The grass around it is overgrown and strewn with boulders, and a couple of stubborn trees grow over the remnants of the building's outer foundations.

An old ruin after dark. Just thought it was a good vibe.

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Drawing of a pale woman with bright blue eyes. She has fluffy white hair, one long shock of which falls over her eye in a peekaboo style. She wears old-fashioned clothing, and has a nervous, trembling look. There is a web-like pattern in the background.

Got a Nadia drawing I was working on while listening to Youtube videos for a couple hours.

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More Kylah and Jino. Trying to convince the jaded and brooding mercenary to join the party...

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An uncoloured image of an armoured warrior with a mushroom-shaped helmet, standing at the ready with one hand on their hilt. They have big puffy sleeves and pants, and have a broad-bladed sword at their hip. Their armour is segmented with sharp plates.

Been a little bit -- recently had to replace one of my screens. The new one is nice!

Anyway, here's a mushroom warrior.

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