#flip through

[catsolari]

Interrupting my usual fare to celebrate BG3’s anniversary 🎉

This is the flip thru for my favorite piece, Astarion and Shadowheart being gossiping besties ✨

[beatrizjournal]

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[artbookie]

CLAMP Exhibition Official Art Book COLOR KURO

Watch the video below for the flipthrough review. If you like the artbook, please support the artist by buying a copy ^_^

[sn0otchie]

[s-u-w-i]

Originally, I thought I'd post a flip-through, but my camera is far too bad to do that. Here are at least more photos and some of my favorite pages :^) The book can be bought here! It's a tree atlas for children 🌲🌳

[thieleafsjournals]

mmmmm actually triple post! sorry 𐔌՞ ◞. ﹏ .◟՞𐦯

mostly i just wanted to have a place to share this from, and to show all the pages that definitely haven't been shared here. also my thoughts on the notebook itself under the cut

this notebook is just the plain 30 page a5 grid notebook from muji, the one that's £1.50. its fantastic for fountain pens, honestly! it doesn't show as many properties as tomoe river, life or midori md (+ cotton), of course, but it shows a surprising amount considering the price! it doesn't have any bleed through or even much show through on my heavy applications of inks for my dates- and those put more ink on the page than you might think. it doesn't even feather with diamine cinnabun (scented) when i use it in fine sailor and kaweco pens!

it has a lovely tooth, especially feeling fantastic with my sailors, the grid is faint and thin enough to not compete with my handwriting, and the colour is an interesting soft white- definitely more cream that white, but also slightly greyed. similar to the midori md cotton, but just slightly... darker, not more cream.

i admittedly have been struggling a lot with glueing things in and warping the pages pretty nastily, as i'm sure is visible, but that isn't actually the paper's fault; it's mine for being bad at using the coccoina paste glue. with a gluestick or glue pen, everything is fine.

mmm okay that's it i think? i've had a good time in here, but also my life threw a lot of nastiness at me, and i became lost to the throws of developing a new special interest too, so i spent much longer in here than i expected to- and so i'm very glad to be moving on and out into a life pistachio (grid, of course) next!

[yanika717]

[cassimothwin]

Hellwhalers Tabletop RPG: Hunt a monstrous leviathan in Hell's ocean

Come all ye sinners... ⚓

During a recent Twitch stream, I had the divine pleasure of flipping through Hellwhalers, a tabletop RPG designed by Moss Powers and Thomas Vorderbruggen.

You can watch my flip through here! 👇

As damned souls brought to life through evocative yet simple playbooks, players follow their captain's orders, collect souls, and repent in hopes of finding their way to heaven. Only once enough souls are fed to the Hellwhale's heart can players attempt to fell the great beast and earn their path to redemption.

What I really love...

Gambling as procedural generation: Players can bet souls on a custom-designed sic bo board, and the GM (or captain) uses that to build out how the next day's challenges will come.

Character playbooks overflowing with flavor: Building a character is quick and doesn't require rolling any stats. The inventory selection for each playbook is precise, with any item offering a wealth of opportunities for backstory.

Clever use of custom and public domain art: The book's layout captures the essence of The Divine Comedy, passing on the gloomy and forbidding tone of its inspiration.

The strong writing: Distilled vignettes, hints of lore, glimpses of setting, whispered voices, and variety haunting epilogues make this game a pleasure to read. It's easy to see how the playbooks, setting, and captain rules can work together to create a focused and thematic game.

The text provides methods for creating a one-shot, few-shot (a few sessions), or full campaign!

The game also inspired this fantastic video essay!!