Gnomish Hunters and Fish Tanks
In a shocking, earth-rattling decision, Blizzard has finally allowed Gnomes to be Hunters. Maybe. Possibly. Probably. At least, this screenshot swiped from Twitter seems to indicate as much: I...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy XII: The Movie (Sort of)
Going through Final Fantasy XII again via this spiffy video reminded me how much I really love the worldbuilding and look of Ivalice. It’s a world that spans multiple games as well, in different RPG...
View ArticleCharacter Art Tutorial: Pirate Monkey
I’ve been meaning to recycle this article for a while, and I had a few minutes to work on it lately. It’s more or less a copy/paste of an art tutorial I wrote up for the player forums for YoHoHo...
View ArticleLibrary of the Lost: Free D&D 5E Adventure Module
I was recruited to produce an adventure for my local library’s teenage D&D event that will be running tomorrow, and while it’s taken more time than I thought, I’ve had the opportunity to learn to...
View ArticleInktober 2021, The Scarbots, Days 1-5
Inktober is an annual art project, intended to get people in the habit of drawing a bit with ink every day. I’ve never really had time to fully commit to such a thing, but I’ve been trying to do a bit...
View ArticleInktober 2021, The Scarbots, Week One
I introduced the Scarbots a bit last time, and have since produced a couple more of them. I’ll save today’s for next time, but these two get to join their brethren to finish up Week One of Inktober...
View ArticleOCD Mondrian Cube
The Rubik’s Cube was a Big Deal for a while when I was young. Nobody I knew understood how to solve it, but we liked trying, at least, until we got tired of failing. I think I managed to get the top...
View ArticleAuthenticity and Artifice
AI Art was all the buzz a couple of weeks ago. That chatter has died off somewhat, perhaps as people got tired of the shiny new toys like Midjourney and Dall-E 2, but it’s a Thing that will only get...
View ArticleDanger in the Desert Part 1 – Arches
Warmachine is a tabletop wargame that I’ve had my eye on for almost 20 years. I purchased some of the rulebooks and pored over them, thinking that maybe some day, I’d dive in and get some models,...
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