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Lolth priestess. 🕷 Started painting this like a month ago and finally got around to finish it. Watercolour and some gouache. :>

#drow #forgotten realms #spiders

ccattnipp

i love that chitin armor is a thing in the dynasty, but pretty quickly realized Essek is way too fancy to be just a bug.

so he’s a moth now.

#critical role #essek thelyss

leidensygdom

Nary, a changeling wild magic sorcerer, for @/astropathicart !! I made this one a while back but forgot to post it~

#changelings #sorcerers

mesopelagic

having horns would be incredibly impractical in day to day life but theyd be sexy so does it matter…

#tieflings

vintagerpg

The Mucklands Sandbox Campaign Setting (2025) is the real centerpiece of the set. It’s a massive 434 pages exploring, hex by hex, the massive Mucklands map. There are years of adventure in this book, all arranged around emergent play (that is, players decide to do something or interact with someone and their choices and the random tables unfold a story on the fly).

The bulk of the book is divided into Regions, which are further carved up into Settlements, Sites, Points of Interest, Zones and Lairs. There is a little bit of squishiness in these categories (what is the difference between a Site and a Point of Interest again?) but for the most part the divisions are workable. All the details, along with NPCs, rumors and vibes are all laid out in prose, which is nice to read but maybe a bit harder to parse on the fly. There are three main categories for quests, too, which is helpful. Hijinks are silly, Doom and Gloom are not and Derring-Do jaunts split the difference (I like how the overall brightness of Eem tends to make the dark bits darker, but also more accessible in a way). Quests are mostly seeds or hooks that work with local features, but some have more elaborate structure, which is nice.

My favorite bits are in the back. I love the Special Quests. Two allow players to cross paths with characters and events from the Rickety Stitch comics (see tomorrow’s post). The third is an over-arching, campaign length quest to stop the resurrection of a serpent god. I love the way they approached structuring this in particular and would have welcomed a dozen more of these. To a certain degree, the Factions section, which I also thoroughly enjoy, provides this by detailing what they’re up to and what they want. I like the openness of the main wilderness guide, but these sort of narrative maps or webs are really helpful in drawing material out, especially in something so massive.

But that’s a quibble. So long as the GM reads a bit before the session, exploring the Mucklands will be smooth as mud. The slippery kind, not the getting stuck kind.

#indie ttrpgs #the land of eem

eerivee

My newest air genasi harpy Echo (they/them) They're Evil. We support evil enbies.

Camellia 💐

My zamani stargazer oracle, Nyota!🔮⏳🌙

More Neon Odyssey character designs! Sundial alien was simply too cool to not make!

#genasi #clerics #oracles #neon odyssey

ccattnipp

shhh they’re yapping about magic

#critical role #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #shadowgast

kitattack

drew this after i watched tm9 tv show back in nov and was hooked and since then ive watch all of c2 and im now currently watching c3 and c4 🤭

#critical role #essek thelyss

vintagerpg

When this thing showed up at my house, I thought it was a joke. The Land of Eem Deluxe Edition (2025) is the most massive RPG product I own. The slipcase is 5.25 inches deep! Of all the posts this year, this one is the one I have struggled most in tackling. So, owing to its size, we’re going to go through the whole thing, bit by bit, starting with the stuff in the Deluxe that aren’t books.

First, there’s a box labeled “Meeples, Dice and Adventuring Supplies.” If I bought the dice, they’d be in there, but I have enough dice. I did get the cattypillar patch and the meeples, though, so that’s where they live. The meeples are delightful? They aren’t something I would have sought out, but I am pleased to have them. I don’t know if there were plans for more stuff to stick in here, but the large empty space makes for a nice dice tray. Next is the screen, which is…surprise! A screen. It has all the stuff you expect on the screen, including a painting of a jaunty expedition into the Mucklands. Finally, there is the Mucklands Map. It’s a big fold-out board hex map of the Mucklands sandbox (see Thursday’s post) and it is a nice thing to have. I kind of wish I could get a Forbidden Lands map like this.

Here’s the thing about this massive slipcase that merits a whole post: my kid couldn’t ignore it. It’s giant! He saw this thing sitting on the table in my office and just had to know what it was. He pulled the whole thing apart, spent hours looking through it. His most interesting reaction was to the map, which for a couple of weeks kept disappearing because he was using it. For what? One spring day last year, I found him and the neighbor kid sitting under a tree with just the hex map, making up stories about the various features. When his journal came home from school at the end of the year, I found several drawings of Mucklands adventures. It got into his seven-year-old head.

This is the power of Land of Eem.

#indie ttrpgs #the land of eem

triggerhippie3

so I finished it, it’s Lethe’s end-of-campaign look

#knights #paladins #pathfinder

geekmeup-scotty

A new cloudy, silvery chonk going up in the shop this weekend. My neighbor's rooster approves.

Geekmeupscotty.etsy.com

#dice

theresattrpgforthat

Kids On Bikes 2e Character Playkits

Kids on Bikes is a game by Hunters Entertainment, about kids solving mysteries in a small town full of big mysteries. The 2nd edition is out, and I've made some character sheets for them!

Hunters Entertainment has some pretty strict copyright on stuff inside their books, so I included only information that is available on their publicly available character sheets. However, I've included the steps of character creation on the World & GM Sheet, and there is space for GMs who have the book to add their own material on the Dice tab!

And of course, I've also included a standard safety tools tab!

You can check out this play-kit here, or you can take a look at my full public library!

If you want to commission a custom play-kit for yourself, check out my Google Sheets Commission page, where I have a range of options and prices to fit your needs!

#indie ttrpgs #kids on bikes #resources #PCs