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What a pure delight this book is. This is Keeper Tips (2021): “Collected Wisdom on Running Games,” published in celebration of Call of Cthulhu’s 40th anniversary. The idea here is for a group of esteemed keepers and game designers to offer short snippets of advice. Those snippets were then organized into thematic groupings — Horror, Inclusivity, Monsters, Props and so on.
There is no attempt at uniformity. All the contributors run (and write) very different sorts of games, so their advice runs the gamut, sometimes one paragraph of advice being contradicted by the next. Better: all of it is uncredited in-line. They become, in aggregate, like Buddhist koans to ponder, puzzle over, embrace or discard.
Because that’s the thing, right: it’s all valid! Every group at every table has different needs and wants, so there isn’t a “correct” way to play or run any game, just the best way in the needs of the moment. That’s perhaps the wisest lesson of Keeper Tips.
#roleplaying game#tabletop rpg#dungeons & dragons#rpg#d&d#ttrpg#Call of Cthulhu#Keeper Tips#Chaosium
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and if I say grady is one of the most powerful characters in kotlc?
#im talking ability wise obv#this shouldn't even be a debate#what grady did in everblaze and nightfall is literally the TIP OF THE ICEBERG.#if grady is a villain and a part of the neverseen then yeah everyone is doomed#bc i don't think most of y'all truly grasp how scary a mesmer is#aka literally controlling people's movements without their consent. that's scary as hell#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#grady ruewen
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How do you draw the metal shine on your animatronics?
Oh geez
Honestly?
I have no frigging idea! Couldn't start to explain what I'm doing, as I just draw and add shine and shading as I work. At least if yer talking about my robot shine in my sketches.
But alright, let's see if I can try and make examples for this..
Fig. 1
As said above, I usually shade and shine as I go, so leaving this one mostly blank was bit of a toll on me.
But yeh, just a flat sketch of our favourite Sun guy just happy to be here
Fig. 2
Alright, this is a very simple example for how I do most shine on areas meant to be a light colour. Can't be too drastic and risk making it look like the casing is supposed to be darker.
Best way I can explain the "shine lines", hmmm.. I'm not smart enough to have the words, I guess. I just learn from observing art and things around me to try get an idea what gives the right effect with the tools given..
Fig. 3
Let's try with more detailing by adding soft shading.
I really do just add these things based on feel and vibe, as I go.
Do pay attention that whether it's metal shine or shading on non-metal parts, it rarely goes all the way to the art lines. Gotta preserve white space for effect, it helps giving the needed illusion of light when ye only got pencil to work with. Is the best way I can put any instructions on this.
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Of course matters on the shape and desired effect on what you are drawing. There are many ways to draw shading and shine on different materials, for the right feel. This is just some basic and simple examples I can think of to try and illustrate.
I'm sure you can find plenty of better tutorials out there to explain this concept in deeper detail than I'm able to.
I never really looked it up myself, I just experimented with my techniques as I went. Even trying to set it up in separate parts have me unsure if this gonna help ya understand how I do my work.
Best I can tell ya, is I mostly tribute the backgrounds of Hollow Knight some credit for my shading techniques today. Some arts done attempting to copy the style of the game's backgrounds and detailing gave me some pointers to work from.
(Moth character my old OC Grave Keeper)
So, yeah, that's the best I can give ya on the subject of how I do metal shine in pencil. Best I can offer is ya look up examples that work for you, to try draw from as you figure out your own technique and vibes for it.
I do hope that was any help!
Enjoy!
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#PuffBlog#MyArt#AChickenNamedCheese#Art Tips#Metal Shine#I have no clue what I'm doing#FNAF#DCA#Daycare Attendant#Sun#Hollow Knight#Grave Keeper#Old Art#Sketch#Traditional Art#Tutorial
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also uhhh. aghhh. linh! bigender!!
here he is!! bigender linh!
i had a lot to play with here, from different flag patterns to the perspective pose to the coloring style. also: it’s a bit hard to tell w/ the pose, but linh is wearing the masculine style of áo dài (formal vietnamese wear) while retaining her more femme long hair!
taglist under the cut
@make-kotlc-gayer @cadence-talle @impostertamsong @enbies-and-felonies @catboyruy @an-absolute-travesty @sameboats @steppingonshatteredglass @fanartofthelostcities @netnetnet135 @bianavacker-is-bi-as-hell @cowboypossume @dragonwinnie @solreefs @imaramennoodle @thesandsofdawn @pencilwritesshiz47 @alesbiancat @constellations-of-elixirs @daydream-draws
#if anyone has tips on drawing ao dai feel free to share#bigender linh song#kotlc pride 2023#linh song#kotlc#keeper of this lost cities#kotlc art#kotlc fanart
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Chicken (Squawkabilly) Mail!
• A few scarves, courtesy of Sword!
• Astronaut Ice Cream!
• A tacky statue of Regigigas!
• A set of plushies of the other Regis!
Oh this is perfect. Putting the astronaut in the freezer for someone else. I do not need to eat. Man that statue sucks.
-Keeper.
#pkmn irl#pokemon irl#pokeblogging#pkmn rp#pokemon rp#pokémon irl#irl pkmn#keeper speaks#// im imagining the danish astronaut because its the only one i know#// its slightly mid (but in the best way possible) and has a gummy bear frozen into the tip
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everyone shut the fuck up vic went to go watch one of our academy kids (josh keeley, keeper, part of our u21 setup) on loan at barnet to see how he is and how he’s getting on 😭🤍 josh kept a clean sheet in a 2-0 win yesterday!
#IM SOOOOOO!!!! 😭😭😭#vic cares abt the academy kids and esp the keepers sooooo much he’s constantly watching them & giving them tips when they’re at hotspur way#and now he consciously made the choice to go and see how josh is doing IM 😭#must have been so lovely for josh to see that show of support i’m dead
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actually not having abilities alter their users appearance was a missed opportunity
#I just think it could be cool!!#I know there was a post a while back about shades with like. Gradient limbs#But theres#more opprotunities!!#Hydrokinetics with scales/gills#In my luzia/vespera post a while back i mentioned it would be cool if over time flashers skin changed a bit#So like purple/red/green areas#Whatever color they use the most#Telepaths with like? Markings around their temples and finger tips maybe?#And same for empaths with their hands and hearts#Mesmers would have something with the eyes i think#Anyway these are very scattered ideas#If you think of anything lmk in the tags#I adore weird ass character designs#And keeper doesnt have enough of those#Kotlc
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doing all of systober today because I will forget if I try to do it daily and also we're 9 days in anyway so.
PRINCIPAL HOST - our hosts are mike and van, van has been hosting for 2 or 3 years now and mike has been for 1. they're also gay (together). mike is a fnaf fictive and is like 16?? and van is mostly brainmade (and a little bit factive) and is like 15?
PRINCIPAL PROTECTOR - our primary protector is michael, he's also a fnaf introject but this time is dead michael afton instead of the alive one. he's an adult of unknown age
PRINCIPAL PERSECUTOR - we only really have two alters we'd label as persecutors, and they're barty and tempest. barty is a harry potter introject and is like 17 or something? he won't give me a straight answer. and tempest is brainmade and unknown age. barty is mostly a protector and caretaker now (yay coping mechanisms) and tempest is still a persecutor but is nicer to us
PRINCIPAL GATEKEEPER - we only have like two known gatekeepers ?? one is aptly named keeper and is literally a cat. for some reason. and the other one is eval (evaluation) and I have no idea what they are. or what they do. hm.
A RANDOM HOLDER - uhh. hayden I guess is a trauma and anger holder that we discovered more recently. he's like 7 and a factive of someone we were very close to at that age who we didn't have a healthy relationship with.
PROBLEMATIC ALTER - skip
OLDER ONE - probably rai? they're a partial pokemon (raichu) fictive and split from when we went to spain at like 8 years old
RECENT ONE - I suppose an alter we found recently would be a guy that I'll call 'override' because using his name can trigger it out. it's pretty much a robot and thinks he's programmed. it will not be posting here
FIRST INTROJECT - I think the first we found was probably power/arson?? she's dormant now but she's a chainsaw man fictive and used to take care of one of our littles.
LESS FORMED ALTER - skip
MOST FORMED ALTER - skip
MOST EXOTIC APPEARANCE - idk do we want to talk about dj music man or like. keeper or kit? fucking springtrap? tip? literally anyone ever
MOST BASIC APPEARANCE - van. sorry y'all he's blond
A COUPLE - dj and matty. dj music man and matpat. being gay right at the front of headspace. fucking christ. stop. /lh
A FAMILY - shouta, zashi, toshi, and one of our littles. zashi went dormant though and things went downhill from there
STEREOTYPICAL ALTER - barty is probably the "evil alter" stereotype more than anything but he also takes care of a kid outside of sys so idk
ALTER THAT BREAKS STEREOTYPE - barty again idk
MOST ECCENTRIC ALTER - tip ? he presents as like. permanently drunk
DRAW HOW YOU IMAGINE YOUR OWN DISORDER - skip. might later
SYSTEMSONA - skip. don't have one
FAVOURITE ALTER(S) FROM EXTERNALS - skip
FAVOURITE ALTER(S) FROM THE SYSTEM - skip
ALTER WITH OLDER INTERNAL AGE - in terms of age I think our oldest alter is probably oedipus who is like. 52 ?? and a mechanisms fictive. he's just here I guess
MOST SOCIAL ALTER - absolutely plusle. he loves hanging out with this one particular friend but will talk to literally anyone if given the chance. not a pokemon fictive just stole its identity
ALTER WITH THE MOST STRANGE/CURIOUS ROLE - skip for now. can't think of one
FAVOURITE REPRESENTATION OF THE DISORDER - watched moon knight recently and that was pretty cool
A PLACE FROM THE INNER WORLD - y'all have multiple places ???
FRONT DUO ALTERS - deadpool and ennard will not front without each other and barely seem to exist without the other. what the fuck. why
MOST CURIOUS ALTER - skip. idk
RANDOM ALTER - went and picked at random from our sp and got rocket. they're an enderman fictive and only really front when listening to a song. hasn't fronted in months though
FREE - skip
#mike (he/him/they)#van (he/they/it)#michael (he/it/rot)#barty (he/him)#tempest (she/it/vamp/fang)#keeper (no pronouns)#eval (they/them)#hayden (he/him)#oedipus (he/him)#override (he/it)#power/arson (she/it)#dj (it/arachno/he)#matty (he/him)#shouta (he/they)#zashi (he/they/ze)#hitoshi (he/they)#tip (i don't remember)#rai (he/they)#plusle (they/pi/it/he)#deadpool (???)#ennard (???)#rocket (they/it/he)#yay#system#systober
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Good morning everyone~
I was asked a bit ago how bad the ponds get for the ducks, well it can get pretty bad during the summer.
This is About 3-4 days after the last pond change. This was full after being cleaned. It's emptied both due to quacker splashers, and some to evaporation. We're up to 100+ degrees Fahrenheit again regularly.
Dumped out and rinsed a lil. I use a scrub brush on a drill to scrub the ponds. Otherwise I'd be at it all day 😬.
The blue one, I forgot to take a pic of before, this one oddly was a lot cleaner. I would've thought it to be opposite as this one is a smaller pond.
Scrubbed up and being refilled :)
I didn't take after pics, partly cause I was out later than I expected for husbandry chores, partly I forgot to lol.
Also I had a lil visitor! :) I think I need to plant some more and provide another refuel station as ive begun noticing more of these lil ones popping round.
🦆🌱 Happy Homesteading and Critter keeping!🌱🦆
#homesteading#self sufficient living#thestudentfarmer#studentfarmer#self sufficiency#food#garden#gardening#low waste#duck keeping tips#ducks#duck keeper#urban homesteading#urban gardening#urban farming#be responsible animal keeper
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when you rework a years-old deck
#magic the gathering#mtg#memetg#trash remastered#i don't see mtgvault lasting long#so i've been looking over my old decks and porting them to deckstats#i looked at a kangee aerie keeper deck#to start with#it had 36 lands#24 of them were basics (and no rocks or ramp)#and that was just the tip of the iceberg#i'm gonna TRY to rework it without starting from scratch#but we'll see
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btw I finished the timeline and now have a complete map of the events in keeper with only a few uncertain spots. if you even care
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look at it. that’s the entire series right there (I have a polished version to post later dw, these are just my notes)
#kotlc timeline#keeper of the lost cities#if you try you could probably figure out my notes for yourself. but I’ve already got a polished version to post later so you don’t need to#(I’ll be posting a version with and without stellarlune)#sorry I keep posting about it but also I have put much though and many time into this#and it’s not a guarantee everything is correct because I did have to do some guessing math#and it may be wrong#(e.g. how long foxfire semesters are)#but guys I did it#I went through the whole series#and mapped it all out#does anyone wanna see my page of notes does anyone wanna see my page of notes#I think it would be fun to show you my page of notes#would you like to see them#<-actually I’m gonna add the picture to this post#I wanna share my page of notes#stellarlune spoilers#enjoys the tips of my fingers I suppose
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sokeefitz, but fitz is aro and so the triad is made up of queerplatonic keefitz, queerplatonic sophitz, and romantic sokeefe, and they all love each other equally in their own ways. that’s it. that’s the post.
#as a lovequeer aro. fitz has to be on the aro spectrum i know it in my bones#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#this reads like a shitpost but it's special to me ok#aro!fitz#sokeefitz#sophie foster#keefe sencen#fitz vacker#sokeefe#queerplatonic sophitz#queerplatonic keefitz#queerplatonic sophitz being a popular tag makes me happy. but we need to get queerplatonic keefitz up there too guys#i could scream about this for ages at the tip of a hat. they are everything to me
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Blue Guy, Big Guy (Patreon)
#Doodles#Osmosis Jones#Megamind#Drix#Minion#Also ft. Ozmina because she's cute <3#I'm gonna have to update my taglist so much lol#Unsurprisingly there is fanart of Ozzy and Megamind meeting up of course#Two blue dudes! It's an obvious match!#However - I haven't seen any of Minion and Drix :0#But they're the classic Big Guy Little Guy team up! And the straight man in the comedy duo! And they have round head shapes lol#It is funny to imagine them meeting up considering one's a villain and one's a cop tho lol - or PI since Mina's here#Would they get along? Ehhhhhhhh (?? lol)#Both the keepers just like ''Yeah that's my blue dumbass :/ Just let him get it out of his system he'll tire himself out eventually''#Ozzy's the odd man out here actually - everyone else has a 3D model#I've never tried drawing the Megamind crew but Megamind is cute ♪ I already knew that but drawing always picks up new details#Personally I was always partial to his pink ear tips - he's got red blood! - but the little crook at the tip of his nose is cute too :D#Oh yeah and both the blues have facial hair too lol ♪ It just suits them!#Minion's pretty cute too but there's so many moving parts to his design haha#Simplified fluff suits me best lol#I rewatched Out of Body Experience recently but I didn't grab any references of the undercover outfit Ozzy wears#I really should at some point! It's garish but she still pulls it off hehe#And of course I like the curls haha
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The theory that Keefe’s hair isn’t naturally blonde and that either he’s dyeing it or his parents forced him to dye it.
#BRUNETTE KEEFE MEANS THE WORLD TO ME OK#keefe with brown roots & gold tips >>>>#cerealposts#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#keefe sencen
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