Paul

Thanks Syl! 🙂

Cheers! 🙂

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Happy birthday, Andy! Have a good 'un! 🙂

Cheers mate! 🙂

Cheers mate!

You're very kind, Neil. Cheers! 🙂

Cheers mate!

Cheers mate! I try (try being the operative word) to sort of half-tell a story, at least imply an idea of what's going on - but not too much. I like an ambiguity in the relationships between my tiny characters 🙂

Why do I draw so much?

- I rarely sleep well (so extra hours)

- I started drawing late in my life (so I'm driven AF)

- It feels bloody marvellous to make things. I love it. I love drawing.

That's it!

🙂

A cheeky repost for the morning shift. Quite pleased with this one.

An adventuring party engages in discussion beside standing stones.

adventurers

#digitalart #RPG #fantasy #D&D

Cover of Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay

I've only a few books by @guygavrielkay.bsky.social over the years, but I started Written on the Dark yesterday and am already a glorious 100 pages into it.

Just brilliant 🙂

Had my eye on M-Space for a bit myself!

If I can manage to do ‘Davokar-ish’ I’d be very happy 😀

Honestly, seeing Symbaroum’s art (ten?) years ago - I can remember being absolutely gobsmacked by it - and that’s before I ever even dreamed about trying to learn to draw! 🙂

A robed figure considers a horned giant deep within the woods

last of the old gods

#digitalart #rpg #D&D #fantasy #weird

You wouldn't expect to find magic in a little hardware shop, but it's there if you keep an eye out for it 🙂

Chap in the shop, searching for a new ferrule for his stick. Didn't have one the right size, sadly - but he did tell me the tale of how he was fishing one day, and a branch - the branch that would become his stick - just floated downriver, and stopped right in front of him.

Knew it was for him.

It's been years since I dabbled in KCD1, but I remember I found combat difficult.

It's still difficult in KCD2, but I've rather warmed up to it. Sword and shield for me, play very defensively. I win a fair bit, but then I get clobbered quite often too - but it's fun!

There could be a longer thread here (a largely inconsequential thread, I might add) where I ramble on about prep that the players never see but you do it because its the framework that the game hangs on, but that's more likely a reflection of my own prep foibles so I'll not bother you 🙂

Vaguely related note, dipped my toe back into Destiny 2 last week. Found myself marvelling at all the detail in the Tower, how lovely it was.

Realised that players (myself included) probably just run past all that, onto the next quest marker or whatnot.

Made me think about GM prep!

Last night in KCD2: overencumbered, horse packed out to the limit, I walked very slowly for a good 20 minutes across medieval Bohemia because I was absolutely *not* leaving all that looted armour behind in the bandit's camp.

I trudged through forests, wide fields, along leafy paths,

Lovely 🙂

Over the last week, I've been staggering by on about 3-4 hours of sleep a night.

I managed 8 whole hours last night, and this morning I'm not even sure what planet I've landed on.

Not complaining, though! :)

YouTube video by Hangwire HANGWIRE - "WITHER"

Treat yourself on a Friday morning. I'd not heard of Hangwire before a couple of weeks ago, but I like their current stuff quite a bit.

youtu.be/F4IseLgbYwY?...

I've read Neuromancer many times over the years - I should probably revisit it this year!

So, world book day! Rather than ask what your favourite book is, how about a book that you just really, really like?

Way less pressure 🙂

A couple really stood out for me last year - King Sorrow by Joe Hill, and The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. Just fabulous reads, enormously enjoyed them both.

Take it steady, mate!

Yes please, Scott!

Dad (then aged mid 30s, not a gamer, but he did appreciate the idea of war games) was a player in the first RPG I ever played. He wouldn't have had much of an idea of what an RPG was, but he was quite up for adventure!

That game was RuneQuest, run by my uncle at Xmas, about 1983/4 🙂