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Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · Jun 17

I love working #ConceptArt. Re-designing things or exploring completely new ideas from scratch. The iteration process of it. Trying to explore an idea while tying to make it workable withing the art direction & style constraints.
It scratches the creativity & problem solving itch at the same time.

My re design of an ettercap

Exploring various ideas for a 'fungus moth'

Ideas for a fantasy animal pen.

A series of images showing the iteration process to develop ideas.

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 53m

Changing up the orientation for this campaign, now side on so I can move minis more easily (Still cant reach the far side of the mini tray, big table is big.
Soon...

My game rooms DnD/Wargaming table set up for dnd. Players have a bunch of space and there is a dedicated minis and maps fenced off area.

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 6h

I'll run a solo play test or 2 to work out any kinks before the players get involved. But I think it will be fun.

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 6h

Players run though the streets with a lead. Dinos come from behind.
The bigger ones knock you on your ass as they pass if you don't dodge.
Deinonychus are trained to attack, give you a nip, get thrown a treat, & move on.
Compsognathus are everywhere, if they bite you they hang on & slow you down.

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 6h

The dinosaur races in Port Nyanzaru are conceptually cool. But in practice dull. It's hard to justify the PCs being riders in a specialized event, never mind being good, & it boils down to a bunch of rolls.
Instead I'm having 'The running of the dinos' any fool can enter but can you get to the end!

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 14h

"HMAS Diamantina, named after the Diamantina River in Queensland, is a River-class frigate that served the Royal Australian Navy. Constructed in the mid-1940s"
I don't actually know much military stuff, I just like boats :P

HMAS Diamantina long shot from the rear 3/4

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 23h

Every time I look at starting a new DnD campaign, I bemoan my inability to source war band sized collections of DnD specific monster minis.
12-15 grung
A pack of nothics
A gaggle of fire newts on and off mounts.
Forrest of Tri-flower fronds
Forget about it!

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

My DnD purity test is if DMs can spell 'Otyugh' without looking it up. :P

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Folk drop me a line with the silliest of the stuff, as it plays out.
Damn enablers :P

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Sub category - Break glass if desperate.

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

As I work though Tomb of Annihilation I tend to transcribe locations and plots into my own shorthand for quick reference and because I remember things better for having done it.
Just got to a particular sub plot.
My notes:
Plot Fairy. Puts party on the path to answers if they are floundering. 🙄

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

It always makes me think of Buffy.
Xander: What!? How..? What!?
Giles: 3 excellent questions.

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

also...

Ad, meme 'why not both'

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

And it never ends. They flit from one fiction to the next oft contradictory one, with barely a moments pause.
It's entertaining to watch, but no one should ever take these clowns seriously.

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Its certainly a thing... that he wrote...

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

48 hours earlier he was saying "those are Asian, silly wokehammer." They turn on a dime.

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

There was so much more.
It has so many steps, conjectures, unknowable data points paraded as true facts, and ends with "I can't prove this but..."

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously this shit is better then daytime soaps.

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

New 40k fiction has dropped! Buckle up folks.
Trump Saved 40k!
The heads were fem!
GW planed to make FemSM/Custodes, but Trump saved 40k by being elected! It showed the unpopularity of woke, thus GW labeled them men & hoped we'd not notice!
Gav Thorpe was allowed to say otherwise, as a backup plan.

Conspiracy ork ties all the thread together.

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic!

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

To them, its seen as a sign of a franchise 'falling to the woke'
If something like this happens it opens the door to (insert bigoted conspiracy rubbish)
Its not a reasoned position, hence why they cant be reasoned out of it.

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Few more photos from the museum where I volunteer.
It's all about the big boat.

Gun slowly rusting away on deck

Depth charges? on launchers (I don't know weapons)

Looking down the ship from on deck

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Awesome!

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Made a youtube vid. It was from reading the transcript that found out about the 'they removed fem-custodes' merch fabrication.

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Its neat.
It much more genuine sand box then Princes of the Apocalypse (Although I did like having a base town)
And more genuine choice then Out of the Abyss (Although I still liked the start of that one a great deal)

Pantmonger @pantmonger.bsky.social · 1d

The deadliest adventure, may just kill me. :P