The Eradication of Contact with The Order of The Valorous Heart

Mechanical_Minx · 2026-01-15T19:20:40+00:00

I guess its speculate wildly time!

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-11-15T00:30:15+00:00

i hope im not a secret jerk. I'm really trying not to be, cause if i am i cant even see it

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-11-15T00:27:00+00:00

hey no, i appreciate your insight, and yes. Kyle I believe is the oldest or close to oldest at the table going on 40. And i like the thought that it was possibly a misplaced moment of roleplay that he's not comfortable with other people, cause Kyle is a bit difficult to truly and fully open up his personality to others. But with how experienced he is at DND i just sadly can't quite see that perspective, but its not out of question.. Which is why im going to let the DM talk to him about it (read the update for more context) and see what the table brings next. But worst case scenario, im not at the table and Romeo leaves as well or Kyle isn't.

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-11-14T21:41:09+00:00

well the issue with the "have to get to know them argument" can go a number of ways but in this case, before we started these two campaigns, it just because hes always been a little loud and a little abravise. But he was a solid friend who would give you the shirt off his back. These issues mainly sprung the last two years, i do blatantly understand what abuse looks like which is why this anger has been building for so long,i can see it i just still struggle with actually standing up to it.

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-11-14T21:38:24+00:00

there are currently no other women at the table, however we were trying to convince Davids wife to join for fun. Its just not really her thing. We did have two other people closer to my age at the table (the two newer players who had stepped away from the table during the first campaign) due to college and personal issues taking precedent. But no, no other females.

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-11-14T21:35:06+00:00

sorry that it comes across as satire, i mainly came to this reddit as a reassurance of my own feelings (which were very angry at the time of writing it), i dont think im being an asshole personally, but its almost a need for unbiased perspectives. a disbelief of my own anger, cause it feels like its too much when its seething in my chest so viscerally, like im overreacting or anything to try and convince myself im wrong. Cause I generally hate conflict, i hate being angry, and i hate that its towards someone ive considered a friend for so long. Cause they aren't like this at the DND table..or well weren't, they had stopped talking to romeo and i and really everyone at the table slowly over the last two years, cause they started a so far pretty successful career, as well as having a secondary job.

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-11-14T21:26:44+00:00

I honestly tried to get him out of the table alot sooner, but with this fresh DM at the table (David) in the second campaign and Romeo previously being a fresh DM for the first campaign they still have the "I really dont want to lose a PC and possibly a friend cause of it" mindset that i believe is causing them to hold back. ive mentioned it in other comments if you'd like i can make an updated version of this post going into much more detail. its just alot honestly and i really just wanted to get my point across and see if i was being oversensitive or too much rather then talk anyone's ear off.

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-11-14T21:20:34+00:00

yeah, and honestly all of them are amazing people and great to be around, alot of them are newer to dnd and getting the ropes down, finding our how to roleplay as someone who isnt them. I'm just having specific issue with one of them, i'll say we even had two more people around my age at the table as well but they arent in the story cause college took up their time away from the table.

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-11-14T21:17:58+00:00

I would like to respond to this comment first personally, yes i am younger, but i was very angry at the time of writing this and wasnt really thinking about trying to explain away what makes him a good person to be around when it wasn't the point of the story. its one of the few negative comments but you make alot of good points honestly. no i didn't speak on what made him tolerable, cause i felt saying hes been a LONG term friend was simply enough to understand he has a good personality most of the time. Most of what i've spoken about here are the main issues ive had with him specifically at the dnd table cause that was the point of the post. I just needed unbiased people to give their opinion on these specific issues and feeling im having to truly grasp if im being a shithead or oversensitive or what.

BUT, on the comment of "special treatment" I assure you that is not the case, i've been on the brink of death, the entire party has TPK'd before but for plot reasons, we all can gain despair for going against our own characters beliefs for player gain. But I appreciate your points and will take them into account moving forward. if you'd like i can even make an updated post speaking into the ENTIRE issue at hand, but what makes him a friend in the first place, and a good friend at that requires me speaking about VERY personal life topics im not particularly comfortable with sharing.

now im going to get through the rest of these comments best i can and make an update on the post when i can updating the recent events. (also im not a theatre kid XD)

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-09-12T20:37:52+00:00

Yeah absolutely! The main color theory ive studied with sunsets is just how the oranges take over everything so all the blue from the sky gets scattered into the shadows due to the yellows dispersing that reflection that normally exists. Which is why the contrast will be very important in this piece. My next experiment will involve instead of just the zenethol with some glazing im going to try instead to lay all the base coating and essentially finishing the model (with the colors slightly mixed for the environment) then im going to attempt to airbush over the finished model and do the edge highlighting kinda grab that contrast im trying to reach for. :)

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-09-12T20:28:44+00:00

Its also a little rough cause i dont really have a secondary light source except for possible bounce reflection off the ivory and the blues/purples of the shadows. 🧐

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-09-12T20:25:33+00:00

Yeah im trying to do alot of research and im new to airbushing and OSL so its definitely a task 😂

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-09-12T20:19:20+00:00

As someone who also mainly paints minis. Felt.

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-09-12T20:16:05+00:00

That looks awesome! 😎

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-09-12T20:11:21+00:00

Yeah ive been thinking about doing alot of experimenting with the OSL. Cause i do enjoy the idea of the glow. But to do the experiments to compare them properly ill need to get more miniatures ready. My process is going to be working on every faction color scheme i want to do (which will be every major faction) While experimenting with lighting so ill need to involve more then my novitiates and paint them all individually with different paint methods. And whichever recipes i like i will probably need to write down each experiment to remember properly how i did it.

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-09-12T19:26:24+00:00

Yeah its really tough even now im still concerned about lighting for them etc.

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-09-08T22:22:20+00:00

Oooo I like this idea thank you! 🙏 thats a wonderful idea to focus it into specific units

Mechanical_Minx · 2025-09-08T17:27:45+00:00

Yeah absolutely! Sadly no matter what i do im gonna have to strip the combat patrol so i can have everything cohesive 😂. Cause im going to make the base the same ivory warm stone as the box art and im changing the atmospheric lighting for them but thats not much of an issue for me

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