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Zi Mishkal

@zimishkal.bsky.social

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Geologist, cartographer, cartoonist, amateur astronomer. As a hobby, I do education science outreach. Father and husband. He/him until I perfect cloning, then they/them. Avid player of old school rpgs and painter of miniatures.

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Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · 7d

I haven't picked up a brush in awhile but my players need new #minis so #miniatures #minipainting #reapermini

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thank you for sharing your nightmares! Now we get to over analyze them.

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Aug 16

Yikes.

ALT: John Btb GIF

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Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Aug 16

Reaper 77990: Thunderfoot Behemoth. Aka - a very big trike. Sat half painted on my shelf for more than a year, reprimed and repainted in three days. #reapermini #miniatures #dinosaur

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Aug 9

Just finished the Bones V Dark Depths Sea Dragon for my group. (There's a Sea dragon off the Isle of Dread you know). #reapermini ##miniatures ##becmi

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Aug 9

Saw and replied! Excited 😊

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Aug 9

No pressure. If it works, great. Im willing to fill in whatever the group needs. And Friday nights isn't terrible. Im old and married, I dont party on the weekends any more lol.

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Aug 9

Vantage (by Stonemaier Games) is an incredible co op board / card / RPG mash up that you can also easily play solo. Loving it!! #Vantage #stonemaier store.stonemaiergames.com/products/van...

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Aug 9

Jeez. Had no idea. Sorry to hear that. And hey if you are committed to virtual, need an extra player id love to finish that with you.

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Aug 9

Glad to see you are back at the table.

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Jul 24

Wow. That's...

I need to start watching South Park again. This is gold.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 24

South Park is getting canceled after this lmao.

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Apr 28

Spent the evening looking at the stars #astronomy #telescope #darkskies

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thanks to Michaels I have a new way to display human sized painted #miniatures

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Mar 29

Finally back to mini painting for next week's game of #Mausritter. Did up one of the mouselings. #minipainting #reapermini #ttrpg

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Mar 15

Relative sizes of the grids of different battle maps. #ttrpg #dnd the "5e" one is the heavy cardboard map found in the Campaign Case.

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Mar 15

Working on a secret 3d print for my players

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Mar 13

Printing and laminating lets me write on it with white-board markers. (did it at office depot). Also put stickers on it. With that, it's pretty easy to go through a campaign.

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Mar 13

YW. Its something I could not have done in hexographer. The software just isn't capable. Moreover, even in history with my high end gaming rig it was struggling to work. So even at the time it was difficult to give out because of the complexity and etc...
I took mine and printed and laminated it.

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Mar 12

It was done in illustrator and I do not. That's all there is. Sorry.

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Mar 11

Throwing in a second pic of #jupiter tonight - this one showing three moons. From left to right they are Io, Europa and Ganymede. Taken with my ASI camera and my old Orion 128mm Mak-cas telescope. #astronomy.

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Mar 11

#jupiter tonight taken through the #telescope

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Mar 6

Map transfer complete. Definitely easier to work with 17x22 bristol board than a 6 foot roll of graph paper. Now to add more to it and flesh out my homebrew campaign setting some more. I kinda want to do some of this as a blog. That might be fun. #ttrpg #dnd #homebrew

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Mar 5

I just remembered that I had 17x22" Bristol board with the same grid on it, so I'm transferring by hand the huge map onto more durable Bristol board. I really wish they still made this board. #maps #ttrpg

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Mar 3

Sooo.. my WIP redraft of the top of the Temple in A1 Secret of the Slavers Stockade. #adnd #rpg #ttrpg #dnd #map

Zi Mishkal @zimishkal.bsky.social · Mar 3

I was planning on doing some of the old A1-A4 #adnd modules for my players but after reading them I've decided that they are so poor that they would require extensive rewrites just to bring them up to standard. I may do that because I don't expect to run them till the fall. #dnd #ttrpg