#taz amnesty designs

[twomystdunstans]

national radio quiet zone

[yourbelgianthings]

the most waterparks per capita in the country! (click for quality, id under cut)

id: a vintage postcard illustration style design, the background is an image of the green bank telescope in a field with a cloudy blue sky it has an oil paint texture, the text says Slide into and the Slippery City! in script font with a white drop shadow above and below the main larger text that says KEPLER, the back outline is muted robin's egg blue and the bottom outline is orange with gray halftone, each letter is filled with a different image: the K is a snow covered mountain with trees, E is a pine tree in the mountains, P is a waterpark slide and pool, L is a road curving through the autumn woods, E is a large wooden lodge in the forest, and R is a road curving into the horizon of trees, the entire image has a grain overlay end id.

[hydrategea]

local man buys out kepler's eggnog supply, predicts your death; more at seven.

[pinetreevillain]

Day 7 of asking the @mcelroyfamilystaff to hire me to make their Amnesty comic

[roxyrockles]

taz amnesty relisten driving me crazy. cant get jake coolice off my mind

[sketch-cat]

Kepler cryptids

[catsandbats13]

Figured I should make a separate post for Aubrey, she deserves it after all lol

Finally trying to finish the amnesty arc, I only made it to episode 17 last time which is a shame cause I really enjoyed it

I can’t decide who my favourite of the main trio is but I had to draw Aubrey cause who doesn’t love a punk magician with fire powers?

PS I am open for art commissions! If you are interested you can check out my commission info sheet pinned at the top of my page and feel free to message me if you have any questions at all 😊

[minart-was-taken]

I may not be a famous artist known across the globe but I have caused small trends in small fandoms so that's pretty epic 👍

[orykorioart]

Some old TAZA sketchies from Feb 2021.

I miss Hollis my bestie :-(

[thecheshirerat]

Happy taz sapphic week!!!

Just a quick danbrey doodle for today :)

[equalseleventhirds]

it is so late and i am so tired and i haven't even been online much lately, but i've been ruminating abt ttrpgs (as i have endless rumination time at work and on the train, which is 80% of my time anyway)

and abt the like, unreasonable mindset ppl get into abt dnd 5e due to Marketing and also Actual Plays. u kno, that it can Do Anything, that u don't gotta know the rules, that the dm should plan a conventional narrative and u gotta stick to it, that it's for cute queer found families, roleplaying rollplaying bullshit, etc.

and sometimes there's posts from ppl who are outside of that mindset like, wow try another game, but also pls don't bring that mindset to other games we love. u kno.

and maybe i simply spend a lot of time in podcast & streaming circles and also circles of ppl who learned ttrpgs from podcasts & streaming, but, crucially, i don't play d&d

so i meet a lot of ppl who have moved past d&d, right. but. still have that mindset abt their new favorite game(s).

like, 'oh unlike d&d this is actually a queer found family narrative' they say abt a heavily pvp game where u can be queer but it's not about queerness.

'oh unlike d&d you can create a real story' they say, as the gm ignores the handy Make Situations sheet the game comes with and plans a 5-act narrative years in advance.

'oh unlike d&d this game is about ROLEplaying not ROLLplaying' they say, ignoring the social mechanics of the game in order to draw out talky scenes. for character work. for realism. for the story.

'oh unlike d&d this one is so easy to learn' they say, not reading huge and relevant sections of the book until halfway through the session.

i could go on. once i played a kinda weird and poetic indie game with folks whose primary game was motw, and the amount of 'hey this weird and poetic mechanic doesn't make literal sense to me as a character action' haunts me.

and it is immensely frustrating, bcos like.... on the one hand, god i'm glad you're playing something that's not d&d!! that's so important!! on the other hand, you likely learned about this game through an actual play where they (hopefully) used the basic mechanics for stuff, but mostly ran the story like a 5e actual play.

like, i love the adventure zone, but my god you're gonna come out of amnesty or steeplechase with a WILD misunderstanding of the themes and story even a lot of the mechanics of motw or bitd. (both games i like very much. but don't play them like the mcelroys.) or like, god i'm glad the d20 folks are having such fun with kob-adjacent games. but do NOT learn kob from them.

and listening to famous ppl do that to a game i like is one thing. a frustrating thing, to be sure. but participating in a game like this, or even hearing my friends & acquaintances play like this? hateful. makes me grit my teeth and cry. makes me make weirder and weirder game mechanics, which hopefully i'll make into coherent games someday.

anyway, this is all to say, before you start your found family motw game where u will team up with the monsters to save everything and maybe also bigfoot is there, a. stop listening to taz amnesty, b. read, really REALLY read apocalypse world and get a handle on THAT, c. go reread motw and think hard abt it, and d. watch buffy and supernatural a bit. yeah i know they suck. think rly hard abt that scene in buffy where xander chooses not to tell buffy that angel will get his soul back so buffy has to kill her and then no one ever finds out abt that and i HATE that scene but also it's the kind of thing motw was built for, you see.

also play weirder games and adjust ur expectations but whatever.

[tqtc-art]

Doodles from a bit ago

[kermit-coded]

meet me in the woods tonight

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[artsyriv]

Working on my TAZ Amnesty designs! Here’s Hollis!

[autocorrection]

Aubrey <3