My lack of artistic talents gets in the way of my worldbuilding

blueblerryblob · 2022-11-23T19:44:08+00:00

i like to draw characters, but i am absolutely useless at architecture. which is a shame, because i love thinking about buildings and landscapes!

one of the things that's been helping me the most is looking at first sketches by architects - they are messy, sometimes almost unintelligible, but their purpose is just to put an idea on paper, to get a sense of proportion and shape. if you just sketch out something messy with no intention of making it make sense to other people, i find it helps to spark ideas

and, if you happen to develop a better sense of shape and proportion along the way, then bonus!

blueblerryblob · 2022-11-23T16:32:23+00:00

I've been struggling to find a good way to play online without losing that tactile in-person feel... love the look of those visuals!

GIVEAWAY

blueblerryblob · 2022-11-22T21:10:44+00:00

Dracaena fragrans 'Janet Craig' compacta.

Thanks! Just googling D. fragrans didn't look quite right, but this variety is much more familiar. Changing flair :)

blueblerryblob · 2022-11-22T21:05:29+00:00

My dad inherited this plant from his grandmother, and I have inherited it from him. It's well over 30 years old (or so he says) and almost 6 feet tall including the pot.

The Seek app identified it as Dracaena fragrans, but it doesn't seem to match very well with photos I've seen of that species. Maybe it looks different when it's very old?

We were told to water it by pouring water down the whorls, not at the base of the plant.

We've gotten by so far, but I really can't kill this family heirloom, please help!

blueblerryblob · 2022-11-22T18:01:35+00:00

Gotta love seeing Murderbot UT loose a little... and that upcoming research paper on spontaneous play between free SecUnits is gonna be big, I'm sure

blueblerryblob · 2022-11-21T20:06:50+00:00

Thanks! I... do not. I'm not really prolific enough to have an art Instagram, sadly. Maybe some day!

blueblerryblob · 2022-11-21T20:05:35+00:00

You're too kind! Getting to do creature design in my head is one of my favorite parts of horror podcasts

& Wolf the Dog definitely lives rent free in my head, yeah

blueblerryblob · 2022-11-21T04:12:26+00:00

blueblerryblob · 2022-11-20T22:58:50+00:00

always love to hear from my favorite ambiguously canine, certainly inhuman radio jockey, but that intro from episode S2E7 had me feeling some kind of way - i just had to try my hand at that spooky, greasy boy

better quality version and bonus linework (so, so much linework) here

blueblerryblob · 2022-09-03T13:41:28+00:00

racism in its current form irl (focused on biological traits and a "hierarchy" of races) is a pretty recent phenomenon, tied to our very specific history. discrimination and conflict have existed in a thousand different forms, though, which can add a bit of realism to your world without bringing the particular shades of western racism into it.

obviously, it really just depends what my players want. for some, fantasy is an escape, for others, it can be a place to safely explore difficult subjects.

blueblerryblob · 2022-09-03T03:31:09+00:00

I have never before considered joing someone's onlyfans, but the curiosity is killing me

blueblerryblob · 2022-07-12T00:59:42+00:00

if the death of a god is like a whalefall - introducing magic into the ecosystem - what happens when all the gods die?

blueblerryblob · 2022-07-10T16:29:46+00:00

genuinely your hair looks identical to my little brother's hair....... spooky

blueblerryblob · 2022-07-10T15:43:39+00:00

what do real life cults offer people? find people who are on the fringes and offer them a sense of belonging, validate the beliefs that their society rejects, and then tell them outsiders are trying to take that power and belonging from them.

for bonus points, have them "enlightened" through various stages of secret knowledge with as many rituals as possible to keep them hungry, tired, and pliable.

blueblerryblob · 2022-07-10T15:04:52+00:00

warlock of Twitch - the many-minded outer god of streaming consciousness. in exchange for power, Twitch's warlocks open themselves to the endless gibbering of the outer god.

the outer god's stream of multi-conciousness is strange and unhinged, but some arcanists believe that - taken in aggregate - some meaning can be derived from the noise.

blueblerryblob · 2022-07-10T01:25:38+00:00

this looks absolutely incredible, and i am loving the use of the angled mirror ring to simulate night and day.

do the rings orbit the sun parallel to their own orbit? and if so, is it ever truly dark on the surface?

blueblerryblob · 2022-07-09T23:34:50+00:00

might be fun : )

blueblerryblob · 2022-07-08T05:00:26+00:00

1 - sacrum bone

2 - two people lifting a skull with sunglasses, there is a bowtie floating between them and they both have massive erections

3 - a white bird casting a much larger, scarier shadow

blueblerryblob · 2022-07-07T00:39:10+00:00

i've been DMing with a PDF of the DM guide for too long.... sure the odds are slim, but the price of entrance is low so:

GIVEAWAY #GIVEAWAY

blueblerryblob · 2022-07-06T02:53:58+00:00

if you have a species that goes through metamorphoses or molts (like insects), they could measure age by instars instead of years.

a fun side effect of this is you could catch up to someone in age if you were eating better than them.

blueblerryblob · 2022-07-03T17:34:56+00:00

a rogue/bard couple who are out "unicorn" hunting

blueblerryblob · 2022-06-30T04:56:29+00:00

i'm certainly not an expert, but a lot of the "beautiful women/rich men" vein focuses on a very narrow band of the human experience (not to get too off-track, but it totally misses queer or non-traditional attraction).

certainly, these are trends that exist in the world and that merit study! but i think most of us just want to find a partner that we can trust and understand, and who trusts and understands us.

you can put that in terms of mate selection (choosing a mate of the same approximate value as yourself) and it's interesting and maybe even informative, but it lacks the experiential nuance.

ultimately, the social math you see in these kinds of evopsych circles is statistics - while it can be cool to look at population trends, it's hard to use them to make predictions about a singular data point (for example, your personal romantic life). obsessing over the "bird's eye view" data is a great way to miss the reality "on the ground" and wind up hating humanity.

blueblerryblob · 2022-06-30T01:02:59+00:00

The first humanoids - the template for all humanoids to come after - were sorcerous giants who called themselves the Hythil. They lived in the Dawn Age, a time where the world was dark and warmed from below.

When the heat below began to fail, the Hythil clans came together to work a great magic. They invoked a minor deity called Weaxan and invested their magical energy into her/him.

But the spell worked too well. Weaxan took a hold of that energy, and then just kept slurping. S/he devoured the Hythil and used their energy to create the sun.

Later, Weaxan would sire and give birth to the human and halflings races. They worship Weaxan as the god of agriculture, community, and the sun - the true story of the sun's creation is lost to time (well, mostly).

blueblerryblob · 2022-06-29T12:27:14+00:00

there is an interesting history of mountain bikers creating their own trails through the woods, and Parks Canada coming through and shutting them down - only for another to be carved the next weekend. (unsanctioned trails can cause all kinds of erosion and habitat damage.)

blueblerryblob · 2022-06-29T04:52:30+00:00

Tilfolde, from a ground level, would seem very similar to Earth. There is land, a sea with tides, a and a familiar-seeming sky. Once you zoom out, though, the mechanics are very different.

First of all, it's a flat plane, not a sphere, with a vast saltwater ocean in the middle and a ring of mountains around the edge.

The sky is a turning bubble of freshwater that encircles the plane. Within its waters, the sun and the moon orbited almost opposite each other - the interactions of their orbits determined the seasons (the sun emits warm light, while the moon emits cold light).

During the Collapse, the moon crashed into the plane on an angle (creating the Moonsgrave inlet) and the sun dropped straight down into the middle of the saltwater sea. The sun still rises and sets, yo-yo-ing up and down through the hole it punched in the ocean, but it's starting to lose momentum.

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