oshootwaddup(!)

Hi, I’m gwendolyn! • she/her • 🏳️‍⚧️ • (con)jecture artist • here there be game design • Ask not what I can do for you, and ask instead what you can do for me. Find me under my username on Bluesky!

[oshootwaddup]

Looking back at a lot of what I’ve posted here, cleaning up my timeline etc, I sure did write some nearly-blog-posts on here, weird. I don’t know how I feel about that, lol but I think my writing has improved somewhat. Now the question becomes: continue blogging here or make a website. I feel the website method is more about creating a landing page for your comprehensive work, which is useful to be sure.

[oshootwaddup]

Microdosing bottom surgery by shrinking my balls (I have a shrink ray)

[spewagepipe]

Dungeon23/01/16: Clay Golem

The Clay Golem represents a distillation of a lot of the best practices for rooms in Determined. It's a monster, but it's one that has no need to be wandering around the dungeon in search of resources, so it can have a dedicated room and lie in wait for the players. It's also a puzzle: traditional attacks only chip away at the golem's bulk, a process that takes too long to do it safely. The "intended" solution, however, is to either break the glowing crystalline phylactery that is suspended from the room's ceiling, or to crack into the golem's hollow head and destroy the spell scrolls inside. The golem is built too large to actually leave the room, so you can also just run from it – or even stand outside and attack it gradually from a position of safety.

[cannibalchicken]

[oshootwaddup]

My second section of #dungeon23

Much much happier with this, I don’t know where I’m going with the concept literally at all but everything so far feels cohesive.

I’ll have to come up with some kind of twist for the whole affair, maybe the defense bots are actually the corrupted ones and the experiment was a prized pet of one of the scientists?

[tropiyas]

[coiffeurdoiseaux]

[ID: stock image of a ginger root. Top text: "Love this root", bottom text: "The gender". end ID]

[belovedghast-deactivated2023101]

bark bark defend our community ✨💙

[belovedghast-deactivated2023101]

puppygirl panopticon

[oshootwaddup]

I’ve been workin on #dungeon23

It’s not going super great, I started with a map of my unified OSR front, basically just a physical grouping together of my fav ideas in the industry that show up at my table all the time.

Wish I had more to say about it, the dungeon proper part is on the next few pages and will be much, much more in my style.

[oshootwaddup]

Sorry I’ve been MIA, magic the gathering has taken over my life… I’m having…. fun! Very cursed shit

[bowelfly]

HAPPY SHREW YEAR

[zedecksiew]

PRISON OF THE MOON MAIDEN

A celestial princess trapped in earth, a suitor trapped in drink, a vizier trapped in profit.

26/12 - 1/1 #dungeon23

An actual dungeon, this time! But also a pirate port and an underground lake? What can I say? I don't know how to write a dungeon.

Wanted to draw Princess Pall in full body lying on the lake's surface. But I don't have the necessary skill ... Also I am fortunate that the map looks so clean, with all my shaky pencil strokes erased. Thank the moon for erasers!

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Now that #dungeon23 has begun to take the shape of a social-media trend, with people selling workbooks / worksheets for it; folks are talking about: "my dungeon23 project", like publishing is an inevitability---

The warm community spirit of Sean's initial ask seems to be giving way to the cold notion that a few "high-functioning creators" will have finished products by 2023's end, and others will be left out or burn out.

Social media is the market's handmaiden. And this turn in feeling is 100% the market exerting its pressure on us, to turn the things we love doing into work, into commodities.

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I'm keeping my #dungeon23 with no plan and no outline.

I'm keeping it in my notebook. I am not digitising the text. It must remain uneditable. It must remain as sketches and notes.

This way it doesn't trigger my brain to go: "Okay, you are writing (ie: working) now."

It remains un-instrumentalisable. Unseen and unable to serve the market. So it remains play, a way for me to serve myself.

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Interesting to track unconscious themes that develop over time.

Queen's Rest is turning out to be a town full of held beings, hoping for release: a locked-up parrot mutant; a demon used as an engine; an evil wizard kept at bay; a bunch of ghosts waiting for one last companion; an imprisoned moon fairy ...

Still having fun. One month down, eleven to go!

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#dungeon23 thing I loved this week: The Cult Of The Burning Tire, by Victor J Merino.

It's a parking-garage dungeon, hell yeah.

[bfleuterart]

We went to a fancy dress party.

[oshootwaddup]

This weeks map! An abandoned roadside insect and reptile attraction! And it’s a dungeon!

[wild-west-wind]

You know what fantasy writing needs? Working class wizards.

A crew of enchanters maintaining the perpetual flames that run the turbines that generate electricity, covered in ash and grime and stinking of hot chilies and rare mushrooms used for the enchantments

A wizard specializing in construction, casting feather fall on every worker, and enchanting every hammer to drive nails in straight, animating the living clay that makes up the core of the crane

An elderly wizard and her apprentice who transmute fragile broken objects. From furniture, to rotten wood beams, to delicate jewelry

A battle magician, trained with only a few rudimentary spells to solve a shortage of trained wizards on the front who uses his healing spells to help folks around town

Wizarding shops where cheery little mages enchant wooden blocks to be hammered into the sides of homes. Hammer this into the attic and it will scare off termites, toss this in the fire and clean your chimney, throw this in the air and all dust in the room gets sucked up

Wizard loggers who transmute cut trees into solid, square beams, reducing waste, and casting spells to speed up regrowth. The forest, they know, will not be too harsh on them if the lost tree’s children may grow in its place

Wizard farmers who grow their crops in arcane sigils to increase yield, or produce healthier fruit

Factory wizards who control a dozen little constructs that keep machines cleaned and operational, who cast armor to protect the hands of workers, and who, when the factory strikes for better wages, freeze the machines in place to ensure their bosses can’t bring anyone new in.

Anyway, think about it.

[wild-west-wind]

Construction wizards to turn back time to root out wood worm and strengthen old buildings.

A wizard tailors who transmutes cloth into fully made clothes without seems and leaving behind no scraps

A wizard who works in public transit, timing out teleports with detailed schedules, time magic, and enchanted communications, sending dozens of people to far away cities for a day or work or leisure

A team of wizard gardeners tend to trees grown far outside their native range, and ideal climate, encircled with runes and fed potions to grow none the less

A wizard sits in their office in the aqueduct, re-casting the spells that allow its precious water to flow to the city uphill

A wizard fisher casts water repelling spells on the sailors and the stairs, keeps the hoist on the anchor from rusting, casts balls of heat that keep everyone warm below decks. Their real job is to herd fish together so they can be caught in single huge nets, and keep them cold as the boat returns to land.

There are so many possibilities outside of “stodgy academic who wears ugly robes” and “Very good holy man who helps everyone and the fact they’ve never had a job is never brought up” and “evil wizard toiling away on great evils in his evil tower in the evil country.”

[ethanrayne]

Wizards who come out and ward your home for you, like the magical equivalent of a home security system.

[panelperday]

Some would call them mindless beasts, but they know enough to strike the unwitting… and strip them clean

[oshootwaddup]

One of my all time favs!!

[oshootwaddup]

Going through and uploading my past sessions that have art :3

This one was a one shot!