You know, I see a lot of posts out there about dumb shit that players do and while all of those posts are incredibly valid, I feel like this is dumbass DM erasure. I dearly love every story about bards who seduce the final boss and warlocks with sugar daddies and all that BUT I think DMs are greatly misunderstood to all be these serious controlling entities who just want their players to follow through with their perfectly planned scenerios. Here’s to all the dumbass DMs out there who:
- forget their NPC names and constantly make up new names for unimportant recurring NPCs when the players see them in hopes that they wont remember
- plan a whole dungeon around one (1) spongebob reference that they really wanted to fit in
- accidentally give two NPCs the same name bc you just pull from a list and you forgot to cross it off
- choose to homebrew everything bc they have an Artistic Vision but the vision is just that you want there to be three gnomes in a trench coat selling sketchy magical items somewhere in the setting
- use the same dumbass voice for every NPC but with different 90s surfer slang for different characters
- make just awful items and make their players buy them (I’m currently working on the “Ross From Friends” tramp stamp of +1 AC)
- realize they only have 28 minutes before the next session to plan and instead make text posts on tumblr.com
Anyway if any DMs want to add onto this with some dumbass shit they’ve subjected their players to feel free
I once ran a horror mystery story arc in our Call of Cthulhu game that was set in a struggling night club and entirely structured around an episode of Kitchen Nightmares. The players didn’t notice until I played the theme tune as the closing track and then they all shouted at me.
A series of ten watercolor illustrations portraying night Tokyo streets that I started painting in 2017. Painting in between other projects and commissions it took me more than a year to finish this project.
Instead of going for the obvious - cool looking, new built high rise offices I wanted to depict the night scenes of Tokyo that are not so widely seen - back streets, empty alleys, tall buildings and empty parking lots. Mostly brightly lit (even the sky is never just black) with no people, those places have a weird eerie atmosphere that I wanted to recreate.
We walk a lot with Kana - especially in the late evenings when it’s cooler and we finished the day’s work. I took a lot of reference photos of interesting night scenes when we were still living in Tokyo’s Waseda and used them to make this series of paintings.
This series follows a path from Kudanshita to Waseda through Kagurazaka.
This series is accompanied by making-of videos available on my YouTube channel (HERE) showing the painting process and the tools I used.
Technical details: * Paper: HOLBEIN Waterford natural 300g/m cotton paper * Sketch: Mitsu-bishi Hi-Uni pencil grade HB * Line: COPIC Multiliner SP 0.5mm * Colors: my main Schmincke set (see the tools section)
Additionally, I used the airbrush in some of the later pieces to get some additional depth and shadows. I’m showing more about this technique in the making-of videos.
All the illustrations from this series are available as prints on my Society6 store in multiple sizes and with some additional options (frames, printing on canvas etc.).
Settling on an aesthetic for a low poly horror adventure game and I love Clock Tower’s aesthetic. The maps are like dioramas looking in (saving modeling time and rendering power) but being in 3D allows cinematic and disorienting camera angles.
hello! I recently found this rad app called “CamScanner”, a mobile app for android and iOS
what does this app do? well, basically it imitates a scanner, so even if you don’t have one, you can take real cool pictures of your drawings!
for this to work, i suggest you take a picture of your entire paper / sketchbook / etc. The app will automatically crop your picture and come out with something like this:
(sometimes it wont be too accurate, but that can be easily fixed by moving the frame yourself)
once scanned, the app will make it so your drawing looks like this:
(the app will have some presets, so you might want to mess around with those. OR you can mess with the settings yourself to get a look you desire)
this can be really helpful if you plan to color your traditional piece on a computer, or something similar.
this can even work with colored drawing, if you’d like!
original:
edited with CamScanner:
if you mess with the settings yourself, i bet you could get the picture to look better, as i did this with the presets.
anyway, i hope this helps!
Not webcomic related, but useful for those of you who self-promote via Instagram.
Have to try this out considering I did an entire write up on scanning and cleaning pages. This could save a lot of time.
