Mr. Black

When I lived with my dad, my bedroom had two doors. One led to the rest of the house, and the other led to the basement and yardcare room (concrete floor room that has a door wide enough for a lawn mower)

Basements are inherently unsettling.

Pay attention to character wants vs. needs.

What they want drives the plot, but what they need creates the emotional core.

The gap between these two creates internal conflict and a powerful arc.

Easy for writers, but GMs should discuss both with players to find depth.

#WritingCommunity #TTRPG

If you're a writer, translator, editor, anyone who works in writing, then you should read.

Read novels, short stories, articles, non-fiction, anything. Just read.

I'm not sure it's what you are talking about, but this kinda sums up my writing project from the creator perspective.

It was supposed to be sword and sorcery, how did I end up with cowboys and magic radiation??? (not trying to plug, it just felt on point for my current thoughts)

This is what was previously the sole sketch of the Tokhila, demonstrating the bare bones concept of their polymorphic nature and the general idea for their body plan. They've been brewing in my mind without concrete visuals since late 2022 so they are way overdue for some TLC.

Bam, fantasy concept sketches in my sketchbook. Been working on this since Sunday, bit by bit. Not happy with them, but it's the first time in over a year that I've put pencil to paper for this specific race of beings. The Tokhila, or "Stone Folk"

A colourful few Fungi from the past few weeks. #fungifriday #fungifriends #norfolk 🍄🍄‍🟫🍂

As someone who is making a TTRPG specifically because the ideas I had couldn't work as a hack of 5e, this is truly evil and I love it.

As adult human beings, we have certain psychological aspects that are inherently not fit for all company. It's how we continue as a species after all.

It's only reasonable to separate these aspects to filter the company, and it's unhealthy to repress that side if it exists.

I think canonically all face huggers can work for any host, provided they can complete the implantation. There's stuff like whale xenomorphs, so its implied the bursters somehow make it work, without special designs and such. My theory is the bursters scale to the host, bigger host, bigger burster.

ive been here for one day and the tone is just so much nicer here. People actually talking about things other than politics and ongoing issues. So far no hate, no nonsense about this or that.

Just beautiful pictures and genuine hobby discussions so far. I shoulda came here sooner

So this is what self-indulgent art feels like. I can dig it.

Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.

Simply put, I'm an aspiring author and artist with lofty ideas.

Northera is my primary project, a fantasy setting that is really hard to describe in simple terms. My lack of focus consequently means i have over 20 other projects that i work on from time to time as well.

I like oatmeal :]

notheran magic has been a constant factor of reworking in the project. The ramifications of rune based magic and the lifeforce of a rathful god being the fuel has warped the setting from generic sword and sorcery to something id best describe as magitech cowboys in a rusting world.

Starting the account with sketches from a few hours ago, im working on a spec evo project and brain dumping body plan ideas.

Its official, I am here. Lets see how this goes.