cecil howe

adventurer's almanac, a manifold journal of ideas, maps, drawings, writings and other trappings for the pen and paper explorer. ...

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quilt map

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been playing with public domain art in affinity photo lately to shave off some stresses

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have 5 maps i made with hex kit to blow off steam cause my friends the world is fuckin sweatin me out lately. you can get not-broken-resolution files by pilfering this directory: https://coneofnegativeenergy.com/free-maps/

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hey tumblr things are turbo shitty right now. if you can, please stay home. if you can’t, make it count and we understand! to entice people into staying home, i’ve cooked up a bundle of CONE products for you to enjoy. 10 bucks gets you 55 dollars worth of good times: Hex Kit + All Tiles, Cold Winter, and the quickstart for The Forest Hymn & Picnic ! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/306709/Cone-Of-Negative-Energy-Please-Stay-Home-Bundle

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there is SNOW in my front yard so as a treat i’ve put Do Not Let Us Die In The Dark Night Of This Cold Winter on sale, over at DTRPG. it’s a system agnostic survival minigame for whatever fantasy RPG you’re playing. more info here: https://coneofnegativeenergy.com/do-not-let-us-die-in-the-dark-night-of-this-cold-winter/

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Hi and Hello! Today the quickstart guide to The Forest Hymn & Picnic is ready for your pleasure and can be purchased here! TFH&P is a tabletop adventure game that uses the core dice mechanic from SotDL to deliver a fine gaming time in an odd, endless forest world of talking animals, witches, seasonal festivities, strange magic tricks, ghosts that enjoy reading quietly, secluded towns, and scary trees. If you're involved in any way with The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Over the Garden Wall, The Wind in the Willows, all the scary stuff lurking in the 100 Acre Wood, and the babes-in-the-wood genre of old fiction then this may be a thing you like. A Cursory Guidebook To The Forest Hymn & Picnic contains in its 52 digest-sized pages: a hasty version of the rules, character creation, tips for narrators, a character sheet and a narrator sheet, a minigame, and a level 0 adventure. It's also a coupon; anyone who buys the guidebook in between right now and when the full game is released will get a coupon for 5 bones off the full game PDF cover price(1). (1) You have to set your DTRPG account to receive emails from CONE to get this! I promise you I won't spamalam you with other nonsense.

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when traipsing about the Forest Hymn, beware the Spookwood!

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pie

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Old Cupboard is a free font I made for you to use in your good stuffs. I actually made it so screen readers could read the titles and chapter headings in The Forest Hymn, but you get a font out of it! https://coneofnegativeenergy.com/oldcupboard/

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long story short, there was a terrible credit card fraud done to a store i sell #rpg stuff through. i had to pay back the damages (shitty, i know) so i ran a crime pays sale and a bunch of people were like “lemme get that candycorn guy on a button” so here ya go: https://gum.co/JYAU limited to only 40 buttons, for sale TODAY and TOMORROW only, for #Halloween. ships inside the US only, 5 bucks.

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a Stilted Mal’O Wisp stalks a chocolate bog as a fog rolls in! gel/ink/marker/colored pencil on tan toned paper

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a Gumball Fiend spreads Plague Of Blood Licorice as they go.

an inktober study for a game i am going to release in 2020 called The Secret Battles Beneath Toothache Mountain What Rests Atop A Land Far Away And Covered In Sugar

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here have a city map i made with Hex Kit. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/227154/Hex-Kit--3-Tile-Sets-Collection

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Did you know that I released a set of hand made space tiles for Hex Kit!? I totally forgot to show this off on tumblr :-0 All of the maps in this photoset were made with it, entirely. Even the cool borders and lines! Anyways, Hex Kit now has a Spaceland Part One: Space tile set! This is over 1,000 sector, system, and navigation map themed hex tiles for all yer map makin’ needs and compaitble with the Hex Kit map makin’ desktop application. Find out more about Hex Kit by clicking here! Purchase Hex Kit and Spaceland, and other cool shit, by clicking here!

Watch a timelapse of my making one of these maps by clicking here!

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Do Not Let Us Die In The Dark Night Of This Cold Winter is a system-neutral mini game of terrible winter survival. It is also on sale for 7 bucks instead of 10 through Sunday, and now includes assets for playing on a virtual tabletop! Scope it here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/198895/Do-Not-Let-Us-Die-In-The-Dark-Night-Of-This-Cold-Winter

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drawll smawll