Looking through some old photos and found this from 10 years ago - one of the very first AI photo manipulation things.
Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
The Dungeon Book - Chapter Art
Ch 2: Bait with the Coins
"She was especially fascinated by one of the coins, her fingers tracing the outline stamped on it over and over."
(2/17)
#thedungeonbook #tradart #bookillustrations @mytholder.bsky.social
🚀 NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!🚀
We're absolutely over the bloody moon to be making the Children of Time RPG!
Mina, Grant and Elaine have been sequestered away with author Adrian Tchaikovsky, building a new Ark to take you to the far reaches of space.
But what (or who) is waiting for you out there?
I am emotionally bracing for when, based on no research or planning of any kind, Elon Musk tweets he's going to fix this problem with a Hyperloop and TSLA shares jump 27%.
I've just had an amazing idea
(When we were planning our kitchen, I shouted “that’s a whole bloody trilogy” out loud when they quoted us on granite countertops.)
Doing a bunch of house bits - new front gate, plumbing repairs - which is always weird when you measure things in word count. ”Ok, adding a key lock… that’s another 2,500 words. And the new water expansion tank, that’s a TOR Landmark or so…”
*raises a glass to the late Steve D*
From @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social ‘s Spire…
The Dungeon Book - Chapter Art
Ch 1: Nithscalpa and Bait
"He smiled a smile five feet wide, mirthless
and razor- sharp."
(1/17)
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I’m glad you liked it!
All journeys must end and all stories have an ending and while some stumble near the finish The Sword Triumphant is a terrific capstone to this wonderful trilogy. I encourage anyone who loves fantasy to give these books a read. Love the your 📚 @mytholder.bsky.social #landsofthefirstborn #booksky
Happy Mario day!
SLOPPELGANGER
I currently hate poetry because I’m reading a book on the Waste Land which has forced me to buy another book on modernism in the hopes of remembering who’s who and honestly it’s all getting a bit like reading the Silmarillion must be for non-nerds.
Because I could not stop for Death -
We played some D&D.
The GM’s screen between ourselves
And Eternity.
There was an orc. I cast haste
And smote Him round the head
I looted the body too
Finding 1d6 GP
Lo, 'tis THE DUNGEON BOOK cover!
The Jungle Book meets Dungeons and Dragons with a dash of Pan's Labyrinth in this gleefully fun standalone fantasy narrated by a sentient skull, in which a small girl is thrown to a dungeon full of monsters, who decide to raise her rather than eat her.
11th August!
My pretentious version is “I’m the set painter in a theatre moonlighting as a dramatuge”
So, an rpg is a game where you make up a story, and an adventure is suggestions for how the story might go. Yes, with elves and dragons. No, not a computer game, but it’s sort of like that. Sort of a computer game meets improvised theatre.
Yes, people pay me for it.
- conversations with my aunt
… and a sense of change and evolving context for that core idea, which is one of the virtues of a campaign. You take the main activity of the game and recast it to keep it fresh.
I don’t think they’re contradictory impressions (and again, it’s years and years since I read it), but what the PCs are feeling is downstream to my mind from what they’re doing. You could still have misery and hardship in my setup; it’s just giving them a clear reason to face that misery…
So you’ve still got the core gameplay loop, but there’s another layer of the PCs having to protect their home base and find a way out before everyone dies/goes mad.
Bearing in mind that I‘ve never played Torchbearer and haven’t looked at in years - start off standard. There’s a village, there’s a dungeon, go delve.
Then - magic earthquake, village ends up falling into underworld. Now the challenge is to find the route back up to the surface…
My interview with Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social about @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social upcoming Metadungeon for DIE RPG
“Goth Jumanji” will forever stick with me.
How Die RPG's Metadungeon Celebrates 50 Years of Gaming Evolution | Interview with Gareth Hanrahan
youtu.be/XV8U1JUja58
"conciousmess" #typoOfTheDay
The NYT thing - On one hand I’m just speechless at the crass misunderstanding of what makes good writing. It’s such a wild self own, it’s so bizarrely reflexive, this pride in such ignorance.
On the other hand, if that’s what people want? We’ll be over here doing something different? Same as ever.
