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A detail from Kaldath's Friday Night Fights prize.
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Posted in Sketch of the Day
(From "Feature Comics" number 29, 1940.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
This is a cheat -- I did this almost ten years ago for a military guy in California who wanted a tee shirt design for a motorcycle veterans' rally he was putting on. I can't remember why they wanted time traveling World War II alternate history guys (eventually posed with a hoplite holding binoculars), but he was the client so he got what he wanted. Note I didn't say "got what he paid for" because I didn't charge him; I'm a sucker for veterans, what can I say.
Anyway, yes, this is cheating, since I didn't draw this today. In my defense I did an awful lot of drawing today and just didn't have the gas to do another. So basically I suck, but this is all I've got.
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Posted in Sketch of the Day
One of the challenges I have seemingly every day is explaining myself to people. In my case it's usually trying to tell them what I do for a living ("I sit around in my underwear and draw super-heroes all day" is what I've settled on) and the blank stares in response are priceless.
But that pales in comparison to the difficulty of trying to explain why you play an RPG, or even what one is in the first place.
So I ask you, how do you reply when someone asks what an RPG is, what you do at a session, or why you want to play them in the first place?
I've tried analogizing it to a jazz band, where you all agree to a common theme ahead of time, but exactly how the session plays out depends on each person's imagination, and everyone riffs off of everyone else. Or describing it as writing a group story on the fly, like an improv troupe. "We like to get together and pretend to beat the snot out of things while consuming orange food and beer" comes sort of close. I even tried "Imagine we're getting together to watch a football game and don't worry about what we're actually doing."
None of that worked all that well though, so I'm up for new ideas. Let 'em rip!
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Posted in RPG Corner
(From "Uncle Sam Quarterly" number 1, 1941.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
Hammerknight once again has a nifty guide to custom item creation in HeroMachine 3, this time a cool looking magic book. Thanks HK!
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Posted in Recipes, Tips & Tricks
I decided to take suggestions from the HeroMachine Facebook page folks as to what to do for the Sketch of the Day today, and they came up with some doozies. I went with the request to use the Seventh Sanctum Joke Grimoire spell name generator, and the first hit that came up was "Unbelievable Transfiguration of Saliva". The next suggestion from the Facebookers was for "Abe Sapien", so I combined the two into this:
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Posted in Sketch of the Day
(From "Feature Comics" number 29, 1940.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
The Kanji characters on this either mean "male werewolf" or "at least this gaijin is caught up on his sketches of the day". Regardless, I wanted something more cartoony.
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Posted in Sketch of the Day
Somehow, some time, I got behind by two days on these. So I'm going to try to catch up. First, Angel.
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Posted in Sketch of the Day
Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
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