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drmhigginson

@drmhigginson.bsky.social

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🔥It's dangerous out there, sit a while🔥 Arts & crafts. Coffee. TTRPGs & tall tales. No AI. He/him Studied illustration a long time ago, OSR has reignited my want to create so treating this like a journal back into that. Mainly Mörk Borg & Shadowdark.

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 17m

#Mörktober 13 - Web - Major Caddisfly Larvae

In the absence of big fire breathing lizards that hoard treasure, you find Major Caddisfly Larvae. Squishy in the middle, they spin their webs to construct a shell out of rocks and anything hard or pointy.

Caddisfly - www.google.com/search?clien...

A black and white illustration of a very large insect, coated in boulders as protection, is awaiting a grappling hook that is been thrown in frame from the bottom. There are various bodies and weapons caught in the webs.
There is textboxes with webs drawn between them. The text reads: 13 Web
Major Caddisfly Larvae (Piss Dragon)
In the absence of big fire breathing lizards that hoard treasure, you find Major Caddisfly Larvae. Squishy in the middle, they spin their webs to construct a shell out of rocks and anything hard or pointy. Some, choosing to stay as larvae for longer grow for centuries into gargantuan beasts. They become enchanted, intelligent creatures with the collected artefacts from lost adventurers in their armour.
Age: d4. Add to HP, armour and damage rolls
1. Young -2
2. Grown 0
3. Aged +3
4. Ancient +7
HP:11, Rockybody -d8 Pincer: d6 Acid piss: 2d4, ranged, Morale: 10
Special - All out: In times of desperation, the larvae will go into rapid metamorphosis. Emerging a large dragonfly (age dependant). Can fly, HP is reset and modifier added again. Needs to mate in d2 days. Dies after.

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jouste @jouste.bsky.social · 17h

Day 12 of #MÖRKTOBER is Binding! Morbid runes are scrawled violently on the brute! The wretched creature is doomed to guard-dog for the remainder of his days at the center of the catacombs. A rattling chain and rusted collar are his only possessions amongst the awful darkness.

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 1d

#Mörktober 12 - Binding - Dryachnid

They hold their egg sack in their arms as they succumb to their self administered Hardening Venom. Once hatched, the brood sustains itself on the mummified adult.

A black and white image of a mummified drider type creature lying on it's back, its legs curled upward like a dead spider. The text reads:
12 binding
DRYACHNID
The size of a cat. Most often found in swarms of 2d4.
After mating and satisfied that their brood will soon hatch, they self mummify using their own webs. They hold their egg sack in their arms as they succumb to their self administered Hardening Venom. Once hatched, the brood sustains itself on the mummified adult. Flammable.
• HP:5, Morale:- Hardened Chitin:-d2 Ankle Biter:d4
Hardening Venom: Able to spit short distances. Test DR14 TOUGHNESS or be rendered immobile for d4 rounds.
HATCHLINGS
• HP:1, Morale:- Ankle Biter:d4
They just keep coming. Weak to fire.

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait for the sequels; caves of wud, and caves of shud

drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 1d

Got all the maguffins and made ourselves an ooze slaying hammer only to roll a 1 on the attack and lose the dwarf carrying it all to the ooze. ShadowDark in brutal, 10/10 would roll again.

drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 2d

#Mörktober 11 - Scales - Krimadon, the teeth of judgement.

Known locally as ‘the Teeth of Judgement’. To those that believe in an afterlife, it is thought that the Krimadon is a guide and passage to the beyond.

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 2d

finished up this bad boy yesterday! commission piece for @thegeoffskinner.bsky.social in their upcoming project about titans

mountain city, in fog, large winged creature in background

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MÖRK CY_BORG @morkborg.com · 2d

Make something for MÖRKTOBER you coward

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 2d

Also my first con. Exciting

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 2d

Going to finally get to be a player in Shadowdark tomorrow at @birconberlin.bsky.social

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Black Engine Studios @blackenginestudios.bsky.social · 3d

#MÖRKTOBER Day 10. Beetle.
#MORKTOBER #MÖRKTOBER

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 3d

#Mörktober 10 - Beetle - Staff Quartermaster Sgt. W. Eevil

A black and white illustration. It depicts a fancy wooden picture frame with a plaque, hung on a wall. The plaque reads; 10. Beetle - Staff Quartermaster Sgt. W. Eevil, YEAR 879.
The portrait in the frame is of a beetles face, with mandibles and bulging eyes. The beetle is dressed in formal military wear, such as you might see in an official portrait.

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 3d

Its a toss up between bollard and Amygdala

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Nicolás. @el-pollismo.bsky.social · 4d

#MÖRKTOBER
#Mörktober

DAY VIII - WIZARD

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Scott @scarvis.bsky.social · 4d

Day 8: Wizard - the King of Nothing. The last and current king of ghouls. He’s wandered the endless halls of the Underworld for years beyond count and has lost his name, his people, and his kingdom. But now his time has come.
(art by @perplexingruins.bsky.social)⬇️
#MÖRKTOBER #MÖRKBORG #TTRPG

art by Perplexing Ruins of a horned skeletal humanoid. Mostly black in gray; the skull has glowing white eyes and is surrounded by a red aura streaked with black tendrils. From his Mork Borg art pack.

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 4d

#Mörktober 9 - Thorn - The Thaun

While the majority of the woodland fauna sleep, the Thaun watches the forest through the night to ensure it exists for those that will return from their slumber come daybreak.

Black and white illustration. A tall faun walks through a moonlit forest with its hand behind its back as if it is inspecting.

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 4d

How your emails find me

ilias (Lee) iovis @leeiovis.bsky.social · 4d

HELLTÖBER Day 8: WIZARD
OMEN LAORA, the First of the Magi.
Words that learned to wear a body.

#HELLSPAWN 's Kickstarter page is below!

#mörktober #mörkborg #ttrpg

drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 4d

Wow!! This is incredible!

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 4d

Spent far too long rendering the hands and had no time to think about a decent layout so I wasn't sure. Very much appreciate the kind words

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 4d

#Mörktober 8 - Wizard - Self Prognostication

Once per day you can commune with a version of yourself from the not too distant future. The medium the message appears as is your disembodied ghostly hands.

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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 6d

[David Lynch looking awesome in sunglasses] i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 6d

#Mörktober 7 - Shard - Shard en Froid

A shard of black glass encased in permafrost.

This pendant protects the wearer from cold, shifting it to anyone nearby. Useless to those that travel alone.

Black and white illustration of a pendant. The pendant is made of a long, vertical shard of black glass. Surrounding the middle part, leaving the top and bottom of the glass to poke out, is a layer of permafrost made to look also like a jewel. Both are hanging from a chain.

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 6d

Crazy good illustration!

Eli@BLK Mkt PX 🔜 PAXU @blackmarketpress.bsky.social · 6d

#Mörktober Day 6: HUSK

Maize Alux

HP: 1
Morale; 6
Armor: Thick Husk d2
Kernel teeth- d2+1

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drmhigginson @drmhigginson.bsky.social · 7d

A rabbit hole I didn't know I need to go down until now. Plemty ammo for a later Mörktober prompt.

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