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Monstober Day 12: Another one from @tiffbaxter‘s prompt list for a cryptid from French folklore, the Lou Carcolh. The description is of a serpent-like snail with long, hairy, slimy tentacles that can stretch for miles to grab unsuspecting passersby. I ended up not doing the hairy part and the tentacle shapes are vaguely based on a squid’s.  I’m rather fond of this goofy guy. Kuratake brushpen, Daiso felt tip marker, and Prismacolor fine line marker (01 & 03, which are starting to run out of ink) on Canson Mixed Media paper.

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川國芳, 1797– 1861)  

「誠忠義士傳　不羽勝右衛門正種　四」   Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane, from the series Stories of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai (Seichû gishi den)    

1847  

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On the 38th day sharing my #Numenera art, we “Break the Horizon” to find a place where gigantic striding creatures provide ‘islands’ of habitable safety above a molten surface! (also a mockup of the eventual cover, with filler text)

#scifi #scifisat #scifiart #sciencefantasy #rpgart #rpg #rpgartist #conceptartist #conceptart https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Ar24hjdbw/?igshid=161v06e98wd6c

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Irish megalithic sites illustrated by Paul Blades.

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St George and the Dragon by Briton Rivière

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Painted this for a patron last year, I really love painting antlers and I’m working on a new piece right now inspired by this one. Not all faeries are beautiful in the traditional sense… but all faeries have beauty, you just need to know how to see it. #faeriesofthefaultlines #faeriesofinstagram #iriscompiet #antlers #watercolor #watercolorpainting — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/nUFR6ty

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The Baron’s table is lavish, with a smorgasbord of gourmet dishes, exotic ingredients, and even an entire rosted pig.  The Baron does not even sample anything, instead only sipping his glass of wine.  After a long and satisfying dinner, you cannot help but question your benefactor on this.  His face splits into a smile, revealing his unnaturally long canines-

“Oh, child, my feast is about to begin!”

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Happy Solstice everyone❤️

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'Beauty and the Beast' by Arthur Rackham, 1915

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A Seven Headed Dragon (c. 1500-1600) - Formerly attrib. to Amico Aspertini, ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci

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The Columbia River Sand Squink is a fearsome critter from the folklore of North American lumberjacks. Said to live exclusively in the mountains of the State of Washington, it has been described as having the body of a coyote, patterned like a bobcat, with the tail of a squirrel and the ears of a jackrabbit.

The critter comes down from the mountains after dark to fish in the rivers. It is particularly fond of electric eels. The Columbia River Sand Squink appears to be a monotreme, as it is said to lay eggs rather than giving birth to live young.

Image source.

Monster master list.

Suggest a spook.

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Blue Book August 1935

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Impossible castles scanned from The Art of Ian Miller.

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Daily Drawing #90

another one with some of my own ideas, but largely based on the Wind Waker design. WW's artstyle is just so good.

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Getting back into traditional art with some Sabriel fan art!

My favorite fall tradition is getting cozy while listening to Tim Curry’s audiobook recording of Sabriel and drawing 🥰

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I have a potpourri of interesting fantasy RPG products from the first three decades of the hobby, starting with Fortress Ellendar (1979), for High Fantasy.

Jeffrey C. Dillow’s High Fantasy was originally self-published in 1978 and a second edition appeared in ‘79. I have the revised and expanded third edition, released by Reston in 1981. It’s a percentile-based system that is pretty simple and straight-forward for the time, but I don’t know. It feels rickety to me and didn’t make much of a splash back in the day, but has recently gained some admirers among the OSRish.

This is the first time I’ve seen a supplement for High Fantasy that was produced before Reston took over publication and it is a surprisingly professional seeming product for the time (this scenario is included in the Reston book, Adventures in High Fantasy). Tidy layout and organization, good paper stock. It’s slim, but no slimmer than G3. No illustrations beyond the cover, unfortunately, but lots of well rendered maps (all the visuals are by Bruce Jensen).

The idea is a little bit preposterous. The fortress has fallen and the original lord has tasked the players with taking it back. Weirdly, the lord had previously been beset there by a demon, who killed many of the inhabitants, including the lady of the castle, until a wizard managed to bind it. I, personally, would not want to live there anymore and would not go to any lengths to get it back once I was kicked out by men with swords, but maybe that’s just me.

The lord’s plan is to have the players break into the castle, figure out the binding spell and…unbind it. The demon will then kill everyone inside, and then the lord will come back with his wizard and re-bind the demon. That…doesn’t sound like a great plan to me. But it does seem like workable prequel to The Demon Pits of Caeldo!