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So, Penny Farthing. Pretty much went down every session I played her up to this point; very meek, very indecisive. Party medic and woodsguide. The party was making its way through the goblin cave at the beginning of "The Lost Mine of Phandelver" adventure, and we weren't doing so hot. Goblins had beaten us back twice already (our first attempt, they flushed us out of their cave by breaking a dam inside; Penny nearly died). Trying to find a way around the main force of goblins that were giving us trouble, Penny decided to  ascend a stone chimney the party had found at the back of a wolf den; I thought it might lead to a small alcove or maybe even a back passage. What she found was the leader of the goblins, a huge bugbear and his beloved pet wolf, Ripper, waiting in main chamber of the complex. Penny went down immediately. Thus began a mad scramble by the rest of the party to save the little halfling. Battle was joined, and the Bugbear whooped ass. Beat the party like a cheap rug. On the plus side, one of the last acts of the bard was to heal Penny. She was able to get up and stabilize two other party members while the fourth (our Barbarian) fought the Bugbear. The bard stabilized herself, but it was a close call. Then the barbarian went down, leaving Penny the only standing party member against the Bugbear and Ripper. Cornered, Penny got desperate. Disarmed when she was first knocked down, she originally tried to use a piece of smoldering firewood to beat back the wolf; when that failed, she opted to leap upon its back and, with the aid of a hunting snare (and a few miraculous rolls on my part), managed to garotte it in an attempt to force the Bugbear's surrender, leading to the exchange pictured. It worked. The bugbear retreated, and took his wolf with him, allowing Penny to give the rest of the party some health potions and buying us a chance to regroup and make a comeback the next session. It ended up being her shining moment of glory. A few sessions later, our party's swashbuckler died, and Penny opted to transport his body home to his fiance with a promise to see the party again someday. Maybe she will; she was a lot of fun to play, and I liked her despite how often she nearly died. 

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Commissioned D&D party.

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Penny Farthing, the halfing ranger I just started playing in my weekly D&D game. I’m running her as a guide and as I level up, a non-magical healer/medic.  So far she’s been fairly chipper and ended up kinda motherly to the other pcs, but she’s also been utterly luckless. Nearly died twice in the first session; once in the first round of combat (goblin rolled a crit on an arrow that took her from full health to 0 in one shot), then again when a booby-trapped dam washed us all out of the goblins’ cave.  In 5th edition, a character gets a number of‘death saves’ at 0 hp before they actually die; succeed on three, you stabilize. Fail three, you die.

Both times, I got two failures before another party member was able to stabilize me with an untrained medicine skill check.

Ironically, *I* have the medicine skill as one of my main proficiencies. And also, a healer’s kit, which automatically stabilizes dying characters.

Point is, I like her and am afraid she’s not gonna make it past level 1.

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Recently commissioned group lineup.

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Tarot set commissioned around a fan-project of updating and expanding an old Scooby Doo movie Called “The Ghoul School.” Part 3, including a card ‘back’ plus alternate.

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Tarot set commissioned around a fan-project of updating and expanding an old Scooby Doo movie Called “The Ghoul School.” Part 2.

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Fan-commissioned set of tarot cards themed around the Ghoul School, an old Scooby Doo movie. Part 1.

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Thought I’d post some stuff I’ve been commissioned over the last year or so, all part of a fan-project to update/expand an old Scooby Doo movie called “The Ghoul School.”  Including a tarot deck, which I’ll be posting shortly.

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A recent gift commission.

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Recent commission done for a couple..

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New

New lineup commission I finished recently, plus a few old ones from the same commissioner which I forgot to post earlier.

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Had some time, so I drew up some adventurers of mine tha tI like. Then I also drew one of  my friend Stevie’s character because why not.

Lotta people walking, I guess.

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‘Tinker Won’t You Wait?” p.3 Here's hoping you all keep those 'brightly blooming things', whatever they may be, close to your thoughts today.

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Title page! Plus a cameo by Patrick Rothfuss! Yeah!

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“Tinker, Won’t You Wait” p.1 Been a while since I posted any comics; sorry ‘bout that. Got kinda caught up on a few things, including writing the song Lucinnia sings in this one. Finally decided to just start posting in hopes of moving things along.

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I keep forgetting how terrible tumblr is at displaying large images. Let’s see if this works any better...

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For a while I was stress-drawing superheroes, most of them from games of Mutants and Masterminds that I’ve played/run (which is why some of the expies and copy-cats are more shameless than others!) Sad part is, I could do more. Plus, I’ve got a list of super villains that’s just as long....