101 days of art!
Added 2018-01-08 20:34:15 +0000 UTCTime to pat myself on the back a little after 101 consecutive days of producing at least something - either sketching or drawing or painting! \o/
Have yourself a sweet little Maedhros. :)
I forgot that my sketchbook won't fill quite *that* fast, as I have some other image ideas and projects that I want to work on too. The next one is something I haven't done in years: An RPG character of mine! Plus an excuse to draw cool gnarled trees and rocks and standing stones and flocks of birds and use gouache in the background and ruin it all aaaaahahahaha. ;)
Do any of you do pen and paper RPGs? What do you love to play? I keep gravitating towards paladins... I can't help it. I love them. Getting the entire party into trouble with their attitude and then bravely getting them all out again in one piece.
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I always felt the MERP adventures had precious little to do with Tolkien's world. It was generic Fantasy that just inserted a Middle-earth name or two (and more often than not, they sounded awful).
Jenny Dolfen
2018-01-11 08:02:26 +0000 UTCThe more experienced a DM is, the more that works. I've been playing for twenty-five years, my husband for more than thirty - so we're extremely relaxed with these things. One RPG night I'll forever remember fondly - when barely a die was rolled - was in a Star Wars RPG, when my hubby's techie character got into a prank war with a member of the Y-Wing squadron on their rebel base. They got so creative with their pranks and retaliations that I just didn't want to stop it. It went on for the entire night, involved little mouse droids exploding with paint, and ended in the office of the squadron commander who, by accident, was caught in the collateral damage. XD
Jenny Dolfen
2018-01-11 08:00:27 +0000 UTCI just recently started playing DnD with my best friends. Two of them had already played with others and we've just had our second one-shot game last weekend. I'm now playing a Dragonborn fighter and I have to say, I really enjoy being a massive tank. Our DM has loads of experience with improv theatre too, so that's really fun when playing with the NPCs and she's just "Listen, I built a village and its characters and you guys can just go nuts. I don't care if you follow the "main questline" or not, just have fun."
Marjolein Bente
2018-01-10 15:28:13 +0000 UTCFor RPG systems I started with D&D and did some AD&D, Hero and Gurps. But mostly it ends up with some modified system and in the last time often very lightweight things (only a few rolls during an evening). The last two games where "Beyond the Wall" which was very nice (I played the witch's apprentice) and DS.A which I mastered. Both not so lightweight as some of the things I did. The worlds I played most in were Aventurien (but usually not with the connected rule system), some generic fantasy world built by our game master from scraps of other worlds and Victorian Britain (with or without supernatural influences). Strange enough I did play very little in Middle-earth.
Maksâtan
2018-01-09 22:43:22 +0000 UTCSee, we had the best solution to groups falling apart - we just grew our own. Had a few kids, waited thirteen years, and bam! It is a bit time-consuming but really worth it. XD
Jenny Dolfen
2018-01-09 20:14:54 +0000 UTCI played DnD for a while but sadly our crew fell apart and I haven't had a chance to play since. I played a halfling rogue and I still love him a lot ... :D
Steffi
2018-01-09 14:26:22 +0000 UTCWe're currently playing Pathfinder, too. My favourite system ever was probably the old D6 Star Wars system from West End Games - it felt the most natural and easy to adapt, and hardly about the dice. "Engel" was cool in that regard, too. I loved that setting! I actually illustrated a DSA adventure 13 years ago - that was my first industry job! :)
Jenny Dolfen
2018-01-09 10:48:11 +0000 UTCFunnily, I've never done LARP! I've just had ten years or so in which I didn't do any RPGs at all, because the group I was playing with was all about roll-play and at times, I felt I was back in High School Math. "I attack the ogre... I roll a 13, plus my attack bonus of 7, minus 2 for the curse the enemy shaman has put on me, plus 1 for the luck spell the druid cast - am I fighting uphill? Okay, minus 2, but don't I get a bonus of 2 because it's my favoured terrain? No? I'm flanking him, though, aren't I?" It was horrible.
Jenny Dolfen
2018-01-09 10:45:29 +0000 UTCI totally couldn't get into the mechanics of The One Ring! The descriptions of the system were so all over the place in the rulebooks that I was totally lost. I'd have loved to play it. Maybe I'll give it another go!
Jenny Dolfen
2018-01-09 10:41:07 +0000 UTCClerics are pretty much what every group needs and nobody wants to play, aren't they? I can't even remember if I've ever played one apart from that very first human female animist that I had to play because the DM said that a woman couldn't play a guy, he didn't like elves so I couldn't play one, and they already had enough warriors. So instead of the male elven warrior I wanted to be I ended up a female human cleric. It's a miracle I'm still playing.
Jenny Dolfen
2018-01-09 10:39:50 +0000 UTCGah, that's mean!
Jenny Dolfen
2018-01-09 10:37:20 +0000 UTCHaha! Poor bloke. Did he try to convert them?
Jenny Dolfen
2018-01-09 10:36:41 +0000 UTCMy favourite system and world is Das Schwarze Auge but I also like Pathfinder, Star Wars D20 and Numenera a lot and usually I'm all in for non-human warrior types
abi
2018-01-09 10:34:40 +0000 UTCMy fav system and world is Das Schwarze Auge but we play f
abi
2018-01-09 10:31:48 +0000 UTCOh, yes, long-time pnp RPG-er! Changeling: the Dreaming (from old World of Darkness) is my all-time favourite... It just contains everything. Darkness, light, hope, despair, struggle and reward, dreams and nightmares. It makes me want to create art. Recently, I've joined a game of DnD as a cleric, which is super fun! She doesn't have much idea of how to be one either. I did play DnD over ten years ago, but me and that group weren't compatible - they wanted roll-play, I wanted role-play. But thanks to "Critical Role" I've relearned! I try to play something that complements and adds to the group, that can give people nice experiences. I'm guesting as an Air Genasi Roge:Scout in another campaign, which is BRILLIANT fun (she's of a lower level than the main party, and very unused to being in a PARTY, and not just do things solo - fun times are had!). But I've played a lot, oh, so much. I missed it terribly for those years when my head said "NOPE". But in RPGs, I have to deal less with stupid people than I do if I go to larps, so recently I've swung back towards preferring pen and paper RPGs... Great to hear about your preferences and that you play, too! It must be a lot of fun to play :D
Ell
2018-01-09 09:44:15 +0000 UTCMy first pen and paper RPG was The One Ring, where I played an elf from Doriath and I just started a D&D campaign a few days ago with friends. I've played a few others in between as well. I love playing rogues and rangers, but I want to branch out and play a cleric or a paladin as well.
Evelyn Maire
2018-01-09 04:35:34 +0000 UTCUsed to play a lot of D&D -- mostly clerics because I liked the skill set but a lot of players couldn't stand to play it -- but now I just write and create all the characters. (love the sketch!)
Mary Catelli
2018-01-09 03:23:31 +0000 UTCMaedhros is my favorite character in The Silmarillion, so this lovely sketch is so welcome! I used to do RPG with a group of friends but not anymore. I liked to see it as a way of developing stories and characters but most of times things would go clichè so it was not useful, but still we had fun. My favorite type to play were happy-go-lucky guys and girls, but because of that most dungeon masters enjoyed having me in the middle of dire situations. Anything to wipe the smile of my characters' faces.
Laura Michel
2018-01-09 02:20:54 +0000 UTCVery nice sketch. I do a lot of pen and paper RPGing. Mostly rogue / adventurer types, but I had some paladins too. One of them ended up in a pirate crew. Not so easy to handle.
Maksâtan
2018-01-08 22:31:17 +0000 UTC
