A Feast For A Sphinx rewrite + print edition!

I am doing a kickstarter to finance a print edition of the rewrite that Sofia did of A Feast For A Sphinx.

We are passing from 8 pages to 30 pages!

Check the rest over there: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/abandonfarmland/a-feast-for-a-sphinx

Draconis 2024

 My illustration for the Montreal's TTRPG festival is online:

https://www.facebook.com/FestivalDraconis

More info on the convention: https://www.festivaldraconis.ca/en/home/

I think they are going to sell some merch (like t-shirts) that use my illustration.

I hope I will be able to go to the festival this year and play a few games. :)

My new Black Sword Hack Campaign

 

I started a new campaign of the Black Sword Hack using the Ultimate Chaos edition here is the map of the world that we generated together. 

the Crown World of Palar The stronghold of Balance is a caravan that circle the world. The path of Balance was broken when the Merchant Kingdom of Thyre sunk because of their greed! Which awoken the flesh pit and brought back the ancient monarch of chaos back from the dead. The ancient monarch used ancient technology to craft an army of misshapen bioengineered beasts!

Below is the map of the sea cliff village where we started the campaign. The player characters were hiding from their past here, amongst reformed scoundrels and criminals. They have to defend the village against mercenaries who want the monastery's relic.

I am trying to play the campaign as a series of short 1 or 2 sessions scenarios related to the fate of the world.

Update and Marchebranche is getting in print!

 Well my desire to post weekly vanished after only one post. I guess there is a big different between blog journaling just for fun while you play games and being a freelancer who need to pay rent with TTRPG work. I am just spread too thin over too many projects and commissions to have the energy to blog. 

But hey, a French RPG that I fully illustrated have been finished and they are getting ready to print the book. The book is in french but I share the link just in case some of you want to collect it as a nice art object: 

https://www.dystopia.fr/a/thomas-munier/marchebranche

Paper Huts

 Lettuce is kickstarting a zine for Forbidden Psalm using the bric-a-brac formula. It will contain some articles, scenarios, warbands, etc and most importantly some modular paper huts! 

Look how pretty these prototypes are are. What I love is that you can cobble them together to make all kind of different huts and with the right paper they are pretty sturdy. 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zodiolestes/face-psalm-3rd-party-stuff-for-forbidden-psalm

Alignment languages miscommunication

Inspired by KNOCK #4, I decided to try to blog weekly again. Here is a first post. :)

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I feel like the alignment languages are a fun way to emphasize the characters alignment without limiting their roleplay or actions. They provide characters with a vector of interaction, how they use this tool is up to them. 

Their broad use may seem a bit unbalanced, why learn speaking Goblin or Troll while you can just learn to speak chaotic?

A way to balance things is to make the alignment languages prone to innuendos and miscommunication. This could be due to these languages being similar to designed simplified languages like Toki Pona, having a limited vocabulary and needing a lot of contextualization with the additional complication of being mired in confusing double meanings.

When a character uses an alignment language, roll a d6 at the end of the discussion. 

Chaos:

1. Impy something is coveted or feared

2. Imply something is wretched or powerful 

3. Imply secrecy or connivance

4. Imply dominance or submission

5. Imply personal initiative must be taken

6. No miscommunication 

Balance:

1. Imply patience and waiting

2. Imply something is natural or cyclic

3. Imply something must be balanced or reciprocal

4. Imply two things are equivalent

5. Imply mutual help or trade

6. No miscommunication

Law:

1. Imply hierarchy, ranks or authority 

2. Imply a debt

3. Imply something is fixed, sealed, unchangeable

4. Imply judgment or a test

5. Imply unity or cohesion is needed or must be enforced

6. No miscommunication 

Don't forget to name each language, speaking the Changing Tongue, the Green Speech or the Silver Way is more inspiring than speaking chaotic, neutral or lawful.

Last promo for Goblin Mail

Join the crew, they so badly need help:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/abandonfarmland/goblin-mail

Goblin Mail Final Countdown

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/abandonfarmland/goblin-mail

Talking about my goblins zine :D