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The sourcebook GURPS Goblins provides a fascinating variety of misfortunes that might befall player characters as a result of invoking random lookup tables. Some of these misfortunes have specific conditions, such as occurring only in particular seasons, or only to characters with particular traits; if such a misfortune is drawn while its conditions are not met, nothing happens, to the target's good fortune.

I've just noticed that one such conditional misfortune is that only male characters are at risk of being randomly struck by lightning. The "males only" tag is reiterated in several places, so it's probably not a typo, but at no point does the text see fit to explain why this is the case, or even to remark upon it in any way.

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root stickers i did for my cousins birthday!!!! havent played root but hes a huge fan and i drew his fav factions

i rrly like how they turned out, very cool critters

besides that he got a long markiplier replica (the only photo of it that i have was made via a ps3 camera) (sorry not sorry)

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Not to talk too much about D&D 5e, but in looking for the references for my diatribe on the "when to roll" rulings, I stumbled across this absolutely baffling passage:

[ID: Screenshot from the DMG that reads: "Rolling behind a screen lets you fudge the results if you want to. If two critical hits in a row would kill a character, you could change the second critical hit into a normal hit, or even a miss. Don't distort die rolls too often, though, and don't let on that you're doing it. Otherwise, your players might think they don't face any real risks-or worse, that you're playing favorites." End ID.]

The D&D 5e rule of lying to your friends??? Please don't do this. If the system isn't conducive to what you want from a game either play a different one or just hand-wave it openly. I cannot see a circumstance in which I would be happier that someone I'm playing with lied to me instead of just not rolling for the thing they clearly didn't want to do a roll for. This is beyond incompetence this is actively terrible advice

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The Prince of Death and his Death Knight

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finished mesohippus!! really happy with how it turned out, and learned a lot in the process. i might do more early horses in the future, really loved reconstructing that one. also, i usually I don't go for such detailed drawings, but it was fun (me when i think that almost 17k strokes in 6,5 hours is fun...) anyway! here are some parts up close

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200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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Lucey Longmurder! Defending the Warrens for days on end has left this gunslinging gal totally deaf! Lucey rigs areas to explode and scrawls out intricate maps for her comrades in order to help them navigate the woods without exploding into a billion bunny bits!

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi was born in 1720, in Venice, though he spent much of his working life in Rome and its environs, and died there in 1778. His etchings, which tend to be of architectural or archaeological subjects, were some of the finest of his day and are still astounding today.

For our purposes, his series “Carceri d’invenzione,” or “Imaginary Prisons,” is probably the most important in terms of its influence on RPGs — these 16 prints depict impossible subterranean spaces, part jail, part labyrinth, full of strange machines, hanging chains and baffling architecture. You know, like a dungeon. I believe, in some way, these illustrations have been absorbed into a kind of collective unconscious when it comes to the idea of an RPG dungeon. And, in the D&D cosmology; I think it is no coincidence that the prison plane is called Carceri, even if it doesn’t look like something Piranesi dreamed up.

Piranesi’s other work isn’t without influence, though. He was obsessed with ruins and underground spaces, the cavernous remains of aqueducts and other more obscure places. Many of his aboveground views have exaggerated scales, or fanciful elements. It all looms. This Taschen published book is a collection of all Piranesi’s etchings and flipping through, I dare you to not have dozens of ideas for adventures. I didn’t choose Piranesi as incidental illustrations for the appendix of my book by accident, after all!

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Blood Crypt

Artist: Rob Alexander

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A new illustration I finished up in between other things :)

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I was eagerly awaiting the release of Vision of the Hawk: The Art of Arik Moonhawk Roper for what felt like a very long time. I’ve been aware of his work for a long while thanks to my interest in stoner and doom metal, a scene in which he is a mainstay as a cover artist. His most famous image is no doubt the 2012 cover of Sleep’s Dopesmoker, which depicts a caravan of Fremen-like Weedians processing through an alien desert. I’ve got his art on albums from Earth, Kvelertak, High on Fire and more on my record shelf. I love them all and I was keen to see his work as body. Strange Attractor’s massive art book exceeded my expectations by miles (I’m pals with the fellows at Strange Attractor, but for real, that has very little to do with my reaction here).

Taken together, I was surprised at how quickly I stopped thinking of Roper’s art in the context of metal and started engaging with it as pure fantasy, and part of that genre’s larger illustrative tradition. I don’t know quite how to say it — it’s like his work has always been in the back of my head somehow. Page after page, I feel like I’m scraping past decades to the ur-source somehow. How does it seem so 21st century while also seeming to have been around since the ’70s? Is that the psychedelics making me feel that way? He’s out of time in the very best ways and while I bet most folks talk about Frazetta and Jone in the same breath, there’s a gnarliness here that reminds me a lot Bernie Wrightson, or at least reminds me of flipping through Wrightson’s A Look Back, where lurid color butts up against incredibly ink work. Unlike that tome, though, Vision of the Hawk is a gorgeously produced book. You really need to hold it in your hand to appreciate it — the matte paper gives Roper’s art a real richness that you lose in my copyphotos. A must own book for fantasy connoisseurs, no doubt.

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The Dark Side of the Moon is nothing to fear, she does not hide in Malice she faces the Universe head on to Protect us.

While making that insanely complicated robolady kitbash, I decided to work on something simple and I drew a tarot; and got The Moon, then proceeded to build something based on that. Might do more of these if they’re particularly inspiring, thankfully this one instantly conjured ideas in my head of a Moon Protector. She’s been sat on my desk for over a month half finished, did kinda rush the painting to just finally finish this but I think it’s adequate.

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The finished knights and jousting range, together with some DIY Tokens used for playing with the "Full Tilt" Rules =)

I really loved painting up all the different patterns and colours and crests!

Must...resist...urge..to build...Brettonian Army

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i miss you

— (hawke)

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been struggling a lot in general lately. life feels like a constant uphill battle, and after the end of veilguard i just feel more crushed and defeated. wanted to draw hawke to cheer myself up, but my heart still hurts, so i hope she can cheer you up instead. where she goes, the sunshine follows.

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painted some blood dripping down from behind his mask

my hunter of the left hand path for my pride court gang