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Heya all! I just had a bunch of surprise expenses and I’m really struggling financially right now.

If you or anyone you know needs a ref, emotes, or just wants a nice pic, please let me know! It would help out so much.

Use my request form or just send me a DM! If you can’t afford anything, I 1000% understand!! Even just reblogging this post helps a ton!!

I’m also thinking about opening some cheaper sketch offerings. I’ll post about that in a bit tho.

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I don’t know why that affected me so strongly, but I’m watching a youtube video on disasters on Lake Huron, and the first one involves a coal freighter that was lost in the White Hurricane of 1913 called the SS Argus. Everyone on the ship was lost. But it’s mentioned that the captain’s body washed up later, and was found without a life jacket. So they thought, based partly on testimony of another ship that thought they saw them go down, that it just happened too fast for him to have time to get his jacket. But then another body was found, that of the second cook, and she was found wearing the life jacket marked ‘captain’. And that’s …

It didn’t work. It didn’t save her. But it’s so very possible that he spent his last moments alive trying to save someone else, one of his crew, and they probably both knew that it wouldn’t work, that there wasn’t a lot of hope in a blizzard on the lakes in November, but he tried … he tried anyway. Even if it did nothing but maybe make her body easier for her family to find.

You know that Mr Rogers thing of ‘look for the helpers’? How many times has someone, facing the end, done something tiny and fragile and maybe hopeless just to try and help someone else? Whether it works or not. How many people went to their graves at least trying?

That has to say something about us. As a people. As monstrous as we sometimes (perhaps often) are, so many times we were also …

Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.

And sometimes you can’t save one life, sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes there’s no getting out of this for anyone, but … try anyway. Because it matters anyway.

And maybe no one will ever know. But maybe also some day more than a century down the line, maybe some idiot will be crying into her coffee because of what you died trying.

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The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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my life has been so stressful lately

like both good stress and bad

two wolves

both with anxiety

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Mumble mumble

Maybe I’ll fuck around and paint something for myself…as a treat

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I love the Gardens of Ynn and have actually run a small one shot for my friends with it! I even made some art inspired by it: King caterpillar

i very much recommend it!!

The Gardens of Ynn is a point-crawl adventure set in an ever-shifting extradimensional garden. Each expedition randomly generates a new route as it explores, resulting in different vistas being unlocked with every visit.

The adventure is a perfect zero prep session or campaign for any party of fantasy adventurers, no matter the system or the sub-genre. We found most ‘zero-prep’ adventures to be bland and lacking in colour, so in Gardens of Ynn every room, encounter and monster is popping with vibes. It's a big garden full of whimsy and delight and surreal perils.

Gardens of Ynn is statted generically for Old School Systems, but you would have absolutely no trouble using it in a game of 5E if you were comfortable statting up some weird monsters.

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Posted these yesterday on my twitter but I wanted to go into a bit more depth about what the designs mean.

Sharindlar

While I like the idea of Sharindlar the position that she has to be a healer in order for her to be useful as a patron-deity to a player is garbage. Instead I capitalized on her fire and one of her titles Shining Dancer. I want her to be more about passion and virility than fertility and reproduction. She’s a goddess of Love and Passion, an inspiration to the bards and a beacon to star-crossed lovers. I don’t think there are spells to capitalize on the passionate frenzy i think she could grant, but it would be an interesting barbarian path that isn’t just animalistic grunting. Her garb is very sensual, only gold and gossamer plats, hiding as much as they show. She’s proud of her body and inspires all to love theirs as well. 

Duerra

We all know that I love duegar so I did a lot of thinking about Duerra. I like that she is very much a figurehead of the duergar’s rise out of enslavement. Not so hot on the “and in turn we enslave everyone else” seems a bit anti-climatic to me. However I do agree that she needs to be brutal, as emulated in her cloak and pauldrons of mindflayer bones and skin. But I think she could be looked on as more as a beacon of light in the darkness, the power to overthrow those who would ensnare, hence the lantern on her hip. She isn’t overly ornamented because that’s not what she is about, she’s about the power of the mind and the soul over oppression. Plus if she’s a deity she can have a third eye and thats just dope. 

Also I think they should kiss. And have babies together. They are spectral creatures, they can do that. 

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Attention Rolan Nation!!

I'm in a bit of a pickle and in need of some $, so I'm opening up slots for this YCH. I'd love to draw all of your tavs & durges snuggling up with our prickly wizard.

-Any Gender

-Any Outfit (super detailed will be an added fee)

-Custom Expression

-Small tweaks to our favorite tief can be made too

Line art + Flat colors start at $200

Line art + Flat Colors + Shading starts at $250

Holiday season is coming up and this would be a great idea for a Rolan-lover in your life!!

Dm or email me at: aecoggon.illustration@gmail.com

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Ok, those hoof hands look pretty neat and the tail looks so graceful and the paws are well drawn and both their faces are cute and the snoots look incredibly boopable.

Very nice picture. Hope those two read a good book together.

Awe thanks!! I’m sure they will!

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Cedar & Soft!

They are going on a cute little fall book date!

A gift for @sickpacman and @stitchy-face because they are some of my favorite people of all time.

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some actual watercolor cheebs of whiski, one post-sierra madre and the other post-zion. Needless to say she had a much better time in zion.

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Slapping some color on these cheebs. I think I'd rather watercolor them but it was a fun exercise.

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Hi, I don't even know the characters in the illustration you just posted but said illustration made me audibly go "D'aw! Look at the little dudes!" to myself in an empty room. Do with that information what you will.

aww thank you!! I'm pretty chuffed at the little dudes myself. I've been on a bit of a fallout new vegas kick lately, thats where they are from. also playing around with a more simplified style to get ideas out of my head faster.

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Hey!! Thanks for featuring our big pink book!

OK, so Into the Cess & Citadel (2022) isn’t exactly what most folks think of as a monster book. But it is. Sorta. Bear with me.

So, this is the companion to Into the Wyrd & Wild, which shares a similar format, organization and purpose. That earlier book was meant to make forests into something more dungeon-like, and provided a whole new weird ecosystem to support that, including a ton of monsters. Similar thing with C&C, a book that looks to present a city in more dungeon-like terms. (Why would you do this? Because unlike forests and cities, dungeons are constrained spaces; no matter how big they are, you only ever have a couple immediate choices, and this makes them easier to plan, run and play.)

The book has a bunch of rules for generating cities and material to support them in place (like a table of 100 interesting locations). Then there are five more firmly sketched city districts — the undercity, the spires and the foundry, cultivist and archivist districts, all of which have their own unique character, perils and monsters. Many of these place-specific monsters verge on NPCs, or, at least, give the sense that they in some ways belong to the ecosystem of urban civilization. A group of general monsters that can be found anywhere in the city is also provided. They are very cityish — garbage monsters, living cobblestones — creatures extremely adapted to their environment. The city is a dangerous place.

Which is why I decided to include this book in a week of monsters books. In the introduction, the book says to never forget that “the city eats people.” It’s true! And I think that provides some necessary context. All the creatures and maladies and traps and NPCs and items and architectural features presented by C&C make up one, gigantic, unbeatable, ever-hungry monster. Take that, Tarrasque.

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Lil Boone n Arcade