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New on my store: Modular Character Sheet Kit (printable)!

Build your own TTRPG character sheet with this printable PDF, containing blank boxes and sections to print out and combine into any configuration your TTRPG of choice needs. The kit also includes two pages of decorative fantasy RPG themed sticker designs (in both colour and black & white) to further personalize your sheet!

Yes, this is an adapted version of my original Modular character sheet that I made for the big dragon game: I thought it would be fun to convert it into something system agnostic.

I’ll most likely be making expansions for this in the near future, as well as a digital asset version (so stay tuned!)

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Commissions / My Shop / Insta / DevArt / Twitter

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The Silver Lining

Welcome to 2023 friends. We got this~

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Can confirm! I wrote a game on Caltrop Core and it was really easy to pick up. If you're just getting started writing games, you should check it out!

what kind of games can you make on caltrop core, a FREE OPEN LICENSE TTRPG SYSTEM?

over 200 games have been built on caltrop core, a d4-based system for making your own ttrpg (link: https://titanomachyrpg.itch.io/caltropcore)

you can find all of the existing games i know of here: https://itch.io/c/1922478/all-caltrop-core-games-ccexemerge8

and i wanted to go over a few of mine so you can get a feel for how flexible this FREE OPEN LICENSE TTRPG SYSTEM works. all images are linked to their itch.io pages

the very first game i ever released on caltrop core was NIGHTHAWKS, based on the painting of the same name by edward hopper. in it, you create a "diner" with your friends and then roleplay lonely people trying to connect with each other. i think to this day, NIGHTHAWKS is my most-played game by the community

you can also go totally goofy with your games on caltrop core! i made this 2-page drawfee ttrpg where you make an episode with your friends! i played it on stream once and it was a blast

also goofy: my free street sharks fan game i made for the cease & desist jam called ASPHALT AQUARIUM (which designer @cassimothwin loves, just saying)

and if you find that caltrop core isn't for you, i also have caltrop core EX, a streamlined "director's cut" of cc (https://titanomachyrpg.itch.io/ccex)

as well as EMERGE8, a d8-based system to make ttrpgs where everyone at the table is invited to be a game designer

(https://titanomachyrpg.itch.io/emerge8)

if you ever have ANY questions about my systems or games, please just ask! i'm always happy to support the people who are using my stuff. unlike a certain group of COASTAL MAGICIANS

#indie ttrpg #ttrpg #new to writing ttrpgs

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To reiterate: Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon and other such books, blocked me on Twitter for calling him out about his AI-generated cover.

Tor has admitted he approved this cover and they have been consulting him every step of the way. He is complicit.

It’s honestly so fucking frustrating that this is going to go forward. That the cover to Fractal Noise is gonna be published with AI art that has ripped off other artists. And neither the author nor the publisher give one flying fuck about it.

I don’t think a lot of people really understand what this means. Book cover art is already nearly universally shitty. You go look at fantasy art covers, and they’re all photomanipulations, generally a single girl on the cover doing magic or looking into the distance. There’s no variety. But at least people get paid for them.

With AI art, artists don’t get paid. You know who does? The people who made the dataset. The people who sold the “cover.” Even though it took less than 20 minutes to make.

If this isn’t infuriating you, I don’t know what the hell else to say. Machine learning is coming for everyone’s jobs, and corporate wallets don’t care if it’s safe or not. Certain areas are already experimenting with AI Amazon deliveries, and it’s been hinted that long-haul trucking is next.

This is unacceptable. PLEASE. I’m not going to guilt you into sharing this, but it is CRITICAL that we take a stand now and STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING. If you follow me, I am asking you as a friend to share this, and to find it in your heart to put pressure on people who publish AI art without paying artists.

Tor could change the cover. They’re not, because they’re using Fractal Noise as a test run to see if they can get away with it. Don’t let them. I don’t care how much you like Paolini’s work (although I think Eragon was a boring slog, so I had no qualms about calling him out), you HAVE to do your best to make this stop.

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though I still love Chronicles of Narnia the older I get and the more I learn the clearer it becomes to me why it would have driven Tolkien completely insane

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Robe of the Sunless
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) ___

The folds of this robe are virtually undetectable, as any light that touches it is mysteriously absorbed. Whenever you take radiant damage while wearing this cloak, you can use your reaction to reduce that damage by 1d10 + 10. If you have the Sunlight Sensitivity trait, you are unaffected by that trait while wearing the robe.

In addition, you can use an action to cast either the "pass without trace" or "unseen servant" spell from the robe while wearing it. The “unseen servant” created by the robe appears as a shadowy figure in dim and bright light, but is invisible in darkness. The servant remains for the duration of the spell or until it’s reduced to 0 hit points. If the servant is destroyed, the robe can’t be used to cast the spell again until the next dusk. Once the robe is used to cast "pass without trace", it can’t do so again until the next dusk. Any spell cast from the robe ends early if you remove the robe. ___

✨ Patrons get huge perks! Access this and hundreds of other item cards, art files, and compendium entries when you support The Griffon’s Saddlebag on Patreon for less than $10 a month!

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Swordtember 2022

Day 13 - hidden

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highlight quotes;

“… she returned to eating meat after learning that the soybean and corn monocultures that accounted for much of her vegan diet were wreaking havoc on the environment.“

“When we first opened, people were surprised at the prices,” he said. “But our costs are much higher than what a giant company pays. We are paying to have control over the quality of our animals, what they are being fed, how they are being treated, transported, slaughtered and cut up. Once people understood that, the business took off.”

“As soon as I started eating meat, my health improved,” she said. “My mental acuity stepped up, I lost weight, my acne cleared up, my hair got better. I felt like a fog lifted.”

“You can’t be healthy unless the animals you eat are healthy,”

“Rather than being passive and just not supporting an industry I don’t like, I’m taking an active approach by taking thousands of dollars out of it, “ he said. “When people come to me, they aren’t going to Costco for meat.”

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[ID: Six unrelated sketches of Hardison, Parker and Eliot from Leverage. Top left is Eliot standing in the foreground with a boody nose and a cut on his cheek, glaring ahead, while Parker and Hardison are behind him smiling. Top right is Parker standing slightly behind Eliot, and both of them smiling at each other. Middle left is Eliot leaning forward to talk to Hardison, and Hardison turning to look at him over his shoulder. Middle right is Eliot standing with his arms folded, smiling slightly while he watches Hardison typing at a laptop, looking serious. Bottom left is Hardison leaning in towards Eliot so his face is right by his hair and smiling, making Eliot laugh. Bottom right is the three of them standing looking seriously, with Hardison seated and the other two standing, as if looking over his shoulder at a laptop. End ID]

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Trying to get out of chaos-induced art slump by random sketching, so here are some random sketches.

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i love it when movies don’t allow the audience to be omniscient.

like, if a character isn’t in a scene, we usually assume they’re not present. but maybe they were there and we just didn’t see it.

what if the visuals were unreliable?

there is a common flexibility in interpreting the staging of live theater, even famously for shakespearean works. for instance, is this really a private soliloquy for hamlet alone, or is ophelia listening in behind a pillar? does the audience know if ophelia is there or not? the script doesn’t say what a production HAS to do, but the existence of that choice means there’s a HUGE difference in the story the audience gets depending on how it’s staged.

in contrast, movies don’t do this very often, so we as viewers get used to “what we see is what actually happened” when we watch them.

for example, if someone in a mystery movie witnesses a murder but then tells a different story of what actually happened, an audience is likely trust what we were shown first over than what’s said.

we trust the visual over words in movies. out of habit.

it’s so rare for a movie to use this against us. and yet it’s so satisfying to me when a movie only lets us think what it wants us to think until it’s relevant to change the perspective to the truth.

a limited, unreliable perspective audience is so underutilized in visual mediums. when was the last time a movie pulled a live theater move and let you interpret something? when was the last time you were allowed to draw a conclusion that was wrong and that was the point?

yes this is about the glass onion i’m still on about how good a job it did with this exact thing

#glass onion spoilers #glass onion

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ive been rewatching glass onion over and over again and there are. a lot of things i keep thinking about. one thing i did appreciate -- and i apologize if this isn't my place to comment on it -- but the anger of a Black woman was not only justified and righteous, it was often rewarded by the narrative.

helen and andi both get mad. a lot. they yell, insult, throw around the furniture and break shit. and not only is it completely understandable, even before the Big Reveal, but it's often rewarded by the story. andi finds out that miles counterfeited her note to cement her out of her company, and she's so mad she knocks over her bookcase. but then she finds the napkin. helen blows up after miles' disruptors speech, and then she gets vital info about the others. and when she is furious at miles and the others for gaslighting her so casually, she is not only given full permission by blanc and the story to destroy miles' bougie home, but her rage allows for miles' comeuppance, and gives the others the power to stand up to him.

andi and helen are not treated like monsters for being angry at their situation. they're validated and rewarded.

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hot take: Pippin is the only one of the hobbits who is ‘team Arwen’ in the ‘who is the most beautiful woman in the world’ argument

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Something to lighten the mood today