A great scene from Swallows of the South podcast.
Swallows of the South Fan Art!
She’s a Super Geek Fan Art!
Awww, Gippy looks so happy. It’s really a shame what’s going to happen to him.
Check out She’s a Super Geek podcast!
Redemption Podcast Fan Art!
Campaign & One Shot Podcast Fan Art!
Some fan art for Campaign and One Shot on the One Shot network!
Mailmandalorian, A Glorious Pun
Yet another piece of Campaign fan art, this one holds a very special place in my heart. A goofy bit about a male Mandalorian being a Mailmandalorian stuck in my brain and I drew the sketch below (heavily based on the mailman Jamie from Steven Universe – who may very well be my favorite character on that show).
Fast forward a bit and I’m commissioning the fantastic Beka Black to create an epic reinterpretation, drawing on the classic U.S. National Parks travel posters for inspiration. Add to that her Mando’a translation of the U.S. Postal Service Creed and you’ve got a recipe for the amazing image below.
Ne cin’ciri ra pitat nadala ra dha’ca ara’nov cuun verde teh iviin’yc bralir be val ake.
“No snow or rain or heat or dark night blocks our warriors from the quick success of their missions.”
No Thank You Evil – Origami Style
Reading No Thank You Evil made me feel like a kid again, and for good reason. It’s a tabletop RPG designed specifically to be kid friendly. It immediately put me in mind of using origami models as avatars for the player characters. Not necessarily in the sense of using maps and miniatures, but just to have something in front of them to see and touch.
That ended up being the precursor to many of the thoughts that have led up to beginning work on Paper Talisman, which I’ll cover later.
For now, it got me thinking about how to use origami models as props at the table. Traditional origami models (crane, frog, fish, etc) could all easily become characters in a world made of paper. Think Gumbo or Kubo (which is my JAM), only everything is made of paper. I started a write-up on a setting for a one shot game.
No Thank You Evil uses a pool of resources for your stats, and there are four of them, so what better way to represent that than an inverted cootie catcher / fortune teller? (Bonus points for the Castles and Crusades sourcebook I got at the raffle at AcadeCon in November!)
Since your players characters are traditional origami models, what sort of challenges would they face? That got the wheels turning in the usual punny directions…
- (Navy) SEALs
- An Emperor penguin
- A polar bear who tells awful jokes (wocka wocka)
- A trio of walruses named Coo, Kooka, and Choo
- An orca name Bill who says nothing in life is free
- etc
But the big idea I had for the villains was that the most terrifying thing a character might face in a world made of paper would be abominations… pieced together from the cut apart bodies of their friends. Dark, yeah?
So that’s where we get to the evil Lord Scissors, and his lieutenant, a Tape Sorcerer. And they’re the only humans anyone has ever heard of. They’re creating Frankenstein’s monster-esque chimeras using tape! I’ll admit that part of me is uncomfortable with how much this reinforces stereotypes about “real” origami being one uncut square sheet, but this was a first draft.
Anyway, I commissioned the awesome Quinn Wilson to draw up the two big bads, and here they are without further ado:
Dent! Maybe my favorite character ever.
What do you get on the last night of AcadeCon when you combine an amazing group of players and Darcy L Ross at the helm? A fantastic game, that’s what. Dent is a little modron warrior who prefers to avoid using violence unless necessary. You see, he’s a bit depressed. If only he didn’t have a huge dent on one corner of his drab cube.
PC Babies!
My home group started a Pathfinder campaign where the PCs started session one as kids. One of them was found out behind the tavern on the trash heap as a baby and it sounded so adorable I decided to do an Order of the Stick style illustration of the four of them.
The Droids I Was Looking For
Another piece for Star Wars themed work sprints.
It’s not his fault the guy with those droids was a Jedi…
Fenced In
Spare metal frame from work + leftover steel wire + paint = a goofball art project that turned a little sad.
