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Using Blender For Crafting 2D Magical Cave Illustration R.A Marsh on how he uses Blender to create illustrations like this one. More of Marsh’s work .
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Kelmscott Mono . A free, open-source, monospace blackletter.
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Paged.js A javascript library to transform HTML documents into beautiful print-ready pdfs.
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The Hex Garden Encounters Three inductees in vivid butterfly robes, gardening. Brilliant, giant butterfly, fluttering above the chapel. Hex Priest. Two furred, swift, small humanoids, stealing figs. Giant caterpillar, feeding on the nearest green leaf. Poisonous to the touch. Huge, sleepy boar, drunk on fermented fruit, hungry for sweet potato. Small Garden Bed Freshly turned soil, covered in…
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The Butterfly House Antechamber Front door is broken. Door to main room is locked, key kept by the Butterfly Warden. A sparkling, ceremonial saddle of leather, gold, and gems is visible resting atop a high leaf in the main room. Main Room Humid, smells of citrus. Dense growth of large-leafed plants and oversized flowers. Three giant butterflies flutter above. The butterflies are agitated,…
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Some quick notes on our #Dungeon23 process/tools: Working digitally. We love notebooks too but we always have phones in our pockets. Writing in markdown into two text files. One is a dump for random ideas in no particular order. The other is keyed room descriptions. Using Blender to make very rudimentary isometric reference images, then drawing in Procreate on an iPad. Syncing files with Github.…
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Picture Book Gameplay by Dwiz. It’s funny because reviewers actually talk a lot about including “practical visuals” in RPG products. But usually they mean things like diagrams, flowcharts, or a really well-rendered and readable map, with the key directly on it. I think everyone agrees that illustrations of characters, monsters, and hijinks are expected to just be flavor, right? But… if the best…
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We’ll be editing this stuff on the fly. It’s fun so far. 2022-12-25 Stairs. If the iron cauldron is full, a player who walks to the top of the stairs and steps beyond will discover an invisible staircase that extends up to XXXX. 2022-12-26 Groundskeeper’s hut. Locked. Inside, a cot, candles, shovel, leather gloves, notebook, pitchfork. Filthy, dark, spiderwebbed, abandoned. Ladder to rooftop…
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The Enduring Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books by Leslie Jamison. The warning at the beginning of every Choose Your Own Adventure is also a promise: “You are responsible because you choose! . . . Think carefully before you make a move! One mistake may be your last.” It’s not just saying, You are in control , but also You will find yourself in pleasurable danger.
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This 1983 PBS television program (based on David Macaulay’s book of the same name ), is a fascinating mix of history, fiction, animation, live action, and tweed blazers. It also features Brian Blessed doing some wonderful voice acting in full Steven Toast mode. Recommended!
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Numbered Works No. 6, a one page goat tower adventure, is now available on Itch.io for two American dollars . HTML version will be posted here soon is now live! .
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Box Art Brut—The no-rules design of early computer games No conventions existed yet and everything was up for grabs. Were games sold in computer hobbyist stores? Book stores? Toy stores? Through mail-order? Was a videogame more like a book or more like a movie? Should the aesthetic be futuristic or familiar?
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Rise Up Comus: Hexcrawl Dashboards I’ve put together a proof of concept for something I’ve been calling the Hexcrawl Dashboard: a patchwork of iFramed tools cobbled together onto a single site for ease of GM access. The gimmick is that you have a single page for your map, your encounters, your random encounters, your dungeons, your monster’s stats - anything you need to reference during play. More…
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False Machine: WHAT IS FLOW CONTROL?? (AND WHY SHOULD I CARE?) most dungeon design is a complex synthesis between ‘game-ish’ and diegetic elements, treating the adventure purely as a game, or seeing it as in inhabited world, you can make good adventures from either polarity of course and like I wouldn’t mind (or don’t think I would mind as I don’t really play computer games) if I were playing a…
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At SXSW, A Pathetic Tech Future Struggles to Be Born This week, while at SXSW to speak on two panels about crypto-skepticism and algorithmic labor, I was able to check out if crypto, NFTs, web3, and the metaverse really were taking over Austin. What I found was a deeply underwhelming, mundane, and frankly pathetic series of demonstrations and setups that suggest if these digital technologies do…
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goblin manifesto by maya. a strawberry shortcake is not a goblin food unless it is stolen. slices of processed cheese eaten out of the plastic, that’s #goblincore, that’s goblin food.
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Welcome to the World of Playing Cards Playing cards have been with us since the 14th century, when they first entered popular culture. Over the centuries packs of cards, in all shapes and sizes, have been used for games, gambling, education, conjuring, advertising, fortune telling, political messages or the portrayal of national or ethnic identity. All over the world, whatever language is spoken,…
HTML Dungeons: Maps
Adventure maps perform multiple functions. For us, the two most important are communicating: Environmental and aesthetic flavour. Vibes. Concrete information about the imagined space so referees can give clear descriptions, and players can situate themselves and explore with confidence. So we like pretty, expressive maps, and we also like them to be usable and easy to reference. Linking keyed…
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Trevor Wishart Trevor Wishart’s publications, including a free download of his booklet of musical games, Sounds Fun .
HTML Dungeons: Links
This is the first in a probable series of posts as we muddle our way through publishing adventures as web pages. Today we will talk about H Y P E R T E X T . A web page is our second favourite format for publishing and using RPG adventures. Paper booklets are number one: they’re a superior technology for quickly navigating through a document, we enjoy the tactile aspects of gaming (rolling dice,…
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Flashlights and Spider Bites in Melbourne’s Maze Drain - Ex Utopia Sometimes people ask me what was the most stupid thing I’ve ever done. I don’t normally think long when answering, instead simply blurting out, “Maze Drain.” Darmon Richter crawls the drains of Melbourne, Australia. The city has a long history of underground exploration . Enjoy this excellent on-site dungeon map:
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Cave Life For Beginners Is it the dark, the smell, the disorientation or the discomfort? Why do hermits seek the solitary life within nature’s dark rooms? And what has this to do with art, myths & music?
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cita a feminist indie press publishing open-access books written by women.
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Web to Print by John Caserta. A series of projects that use the Web browser as a general purpose design tool; websites that output to flyers, posters and books.
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Drawings by Pia-Mélissa Laroche at Socks Studio.
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Protecting Our Spaces: A Response to Raggi at Legacy of the Bieth.
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Techniques to Write Adventures - Luke Gearing One general piece of advice for this is to cultivate boredom. Allow yourself time to be bored - this is when you start thinking.
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