Another map, a seaside fort and village.

And just for shits and giggles, me when I was 13 and won a camera.

Hordlings Project Update.

I am a little more than halfway through revising the stats/writeup for each Hordling. After they are done, I will write up a preface and introduction ( already mostly done), whatever administrative bumf that needs to be in the front. Possibly get an ISBN number. After the hordlings entry I'm going to include tables that list hordlings by size, a blank Hordling creation form, tables to generate your own Hordlings, and then whatever OGL bumf I need to include, need to create front and back covers and then lay it all out.

Some lessons learned:

Make the drawings less static. I.E. show the creature actually doing something like chewing on an orphan etc.

Make the projects shorter (say no more than 20 pages/creatures)

Make the projects have a cohesive theme, e.g. 20 Hordlings (or whatever ) that will only serve evil summoners.

Come up with a wider range of individual characteristics and abilities and focus on writeups that elucidate the uniqueness of each creature.

I'm sure I'll have a few more items to add to this list before I'm done.  At this point my optimistic guess for completion is end of June, but we'll see!

A city map. I used this for a Hawkmoon game.

This was the middle section of 9 sheets, the rest are long gone.

This stuff originally began as the back story for one of my characters I played in the mid 80's, Ketil Oafish a human ranger. The DM wasn't into world building so he let me make up the world and Ketil's background. We played in a huge never-ending mega dungeon.

An old painting. The red bird-dude is from a Hieronymous Bosch painting. I forget which one.

 

Another old area map. This is a page from a large map that was 8 pages wide and 6 pages high. The town on this map is called Koboken. I don't know what the village to the south of it was called. There's a well marked trail to a mountain dungeon with ambush spots at A and B, and a red dot to indicate the Dragon's secret entrance. Obviously this was the DM's map.

 

1003 page views! Woo-Hoo!

This map is a template I used for a Traveller game set in a Dyson Sphere made up of over 300 million "copies" of Earth designed by a superior Over-race to play out variations of Earth's history. The players managed to make it to two worlds, one where the Nazi's had won and one where Rome hadn't fallen before we stopped playing it. This is all that's left of the notes from that campaign. Played in about 1992 I believe. Maps seem to be the only thing I manage to hang onto.

This is a map of the earth with selective lowering of the oceans. I originally drew it on an assembled 20 sided "ball" then disassembled it and drew it larger on single sheets. I did this about 15 years ago, possibly longer. I just scanned all the separate pieces again and reassembled them in photoshop.

Horse-powered train.

I copied this from a library book a long time ago. I don't think it was ever built but I thought it would make a cool Dwarven infernal contraption.

 

 

Character Portrait Template

At least that's what I intended to use this for. I like the medieval illumination style. I may do a series of these for various classes. Yep that's what I need another project on my list!

The face is based on mine. That's why it's so pretty.

A couple of old pictures from my Amber diceless roleplaying days. These are the demonic forms of a couple of Lords of Chaos characters.

Wow I haven't posted anything since May 3rd! Allergy season has been kicking the shit out of me and I have also been hella busy moving stuff out of my church and getting it ready to sell (I mean the church I belong to not my own personal church). I am working away on getting my hordlings book into shape and also doing some research for upcoming projects. One thing for sure, every project I do from now on will be much smaller in scope, and all major undertakings will be broken down into small publishable pieces. In the meantime here's a couple of old doodles of mine.

Amoebae? based on vague recollections of illustrations in my high school biology book 40 years ago.

Two tables to create a "Skywalkerish" name.

Here is a Pantheon based on characters in the works of William Blake with my (mainly arbitrary) designations of alignment and domains. For more information on these characters see the Poetry of Blake or just read the wikipedia entries.

Just FYI, I like large bold fonts!

Found these in an old sketchbook. I think these were for a Rifts game or maybe Gamma World.