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Strange Days

a secret organization of villains… I mean An open grouping of well known oligarchs are taking over… Your mission is to overthrow… I mean survive. The three branches of government agree not so stop hunger, or war, or genocide, or the senseless slaughter of schoolchildren, but to ban a piece of social media, while the remaining outlets suddenly become welcoming to the kind of people who the…

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A pair of Kickstarters I like

First off is Todd Leback/ Third kingdom games Hex a Day Calender, which would probably net me some commissions- but never mind me, there will be a ton of art from others. back it here: Kickstarter Of course the other one with scant hours to go, and fully funded, is Douglas Cole’s Gaming Ballistic Kickstarter for the GURPS solo adventure Warlock Knight. if you like DFRPG pledge here

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BX Advanced Bestiary volume 2 in hand

now available post kickstarter on Drivethrurpg I have a lot of art in this one, which is full of variations on bog standard monsters much like Skerples’ The Monster Overhaul (here) I work for Todd Leback of Third Kingdom Games, so I am prejudiced in his favor, but I really like this one- here is some of my featured art: note that the smoke elemental escaping the Hookah is not in fact an…

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Riches & Ruins

Alan Bahr of Gallant Knight Games has released a rules light wargame inspired rpg called Riches & Ruins that I am the sole illustrator of. you can get them here on drivethrurpg as an aside, for a couple days more all of my other stock art is on sale as well, here

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Solo Play and a journey into darkness

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replacement parts successfully installed

Seven years ago I suffered a minor knee injury that never quite got better despite surgery and a bery of injections. Yesterday I got the mechanical upgrade., which hopefully leads to a better quality of life, but for right now, I am appreciating how uncomplicated my life was before. I was wearing a brace and walking with a cane for the past several months and for the next week or so , I will be…

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I am at a loss

Last week, after a protracted illness, we lost an icon of the RPG industry, Jennell Jaquays. Up until a few days before she got sick, she was regularly posting pictures of miniatures she had painted. She actually had tackled her pile of unfinished minis in a systematic way that gave me hope for dealing with mine. Hope is something she represented to me on multiple levels. She was an…

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Megadungeon musings

I spent the day listening to Ben Laurence’s Into the Megadungeon podcast, and catching up on some of the associated blogs, many of which I had lost contact with since the implosion of G+. I also have been reading Stu Horvath’s illustrated history of gaming, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground. It isn’t as detailed as Playing at the World, but it sequentially tags out just about every…

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Northport doings

it has ben some months and a mild bout of Covid since my last set of updates, but thi gs have slowed down due to the work related loss of the player who ran Ulo the trollmaid, Jednesa the wrestling ogress, Jareth Mooncalled the cultist of the Elder Gods, Dilandua the shadow elf assassin, Stenet Fjall the dwarven Holy Warrior, and Benny Morales the dungeon saint of Hermes. All are currently being…

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Ruins and portals 3 is live!

Get it here

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Down with the Sickness

after three years of dodging the virus since my initial infection at the start of the outbreak, Covid19 has caught up with me. Thankfully, after the death of a friend from this horrible plague, I was recently boosted (for a total of 5 shots), and the effects have been mild. No fever, no new loss of sense of smell or taste (I have some permanent losses from the fist time) and only a brief sore…

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Bad Guys (and good spooky stuff)

No, I don’t mean the corporate executives at Hasbro who tried to take away the OGL, I mean the kind of baddies that cultists and EHP’s get their altars all bloodstained over. If there is a moral quandary about murderhoboing your way through the Chaotic Caves because you have a conscience, it can be a relief to find foul foes that are unquestionably the bad guys. I have made stock art of these…

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Bestiaries and Kickstarters

I have been crowd funding a lot of bestaries lately, and two will feature my work. I recently picked up A Field Guide to Yokai (get it here) This slim volume withblack and white artwork is pretty neat and is like a more affordable version of Matthew Meyer’s book The Fox’s Wedding, which I also kickstarted a couple years ago. Next up was the big daddy for me, Douglas Cole’s Bestiary for GURPS…

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Hunting for reviews

While The Redoubt of Chandra is making a lot of sales, there has yet to be a proper review. Tim Shorts of Gothridgemanor did a very cool unboxing podcast , but I have yet to see or hear anyone else reviewing my little product. Onthe other hand, someone named discodadda is selling the PoD from drivethrurpg on both Bonanza and Ebay. They are selling a lot of PoD gaming products as new, with…

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Redoubt of Chandra in Print!

my first PoD copies have arrived! you can get yours here!

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The Redoubt of Chandra

Finally, the adventure I wrote during lockdown is live on drivethrurpg for $2.95! The Redoubt of Chandra, (originally the Redoubt of Hades) is set in Northport, my home campaign. This is a rescue mission set in a megadungeon under the city of Northport, but only shows a portion of the megadungeon that pertains to the mission. It is written for my publisher’s version of Basic Fantasy…

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Play updates in Northport

Play updates in Northport

As my play by post Dungeon Fantasy game is closing on 70k posts at this point, I thought an update might not be a bad idea. Currently I have about 11 threads running. There has been some upset lately, as one player with his fingers in most threads just bounced, and deleted all of his character sheets as he went, So that I don’t even have the ability to run them as NPC’s. The Black Tower. This…