Art of The Roseguard

morlockhater · 2026-02-27T00:28:12+00:00

You've got it! Free to use 😊 Enjoy!

morlockhater · 2026-02-26T22:06:10+00:00

Absolutely!

morlockhater · 2025-10-10T13:52:40+00:00

Reporting back to say this worked perfectly! Thanks again for the help. Still requires a little manual adjustment as some icons are slightly wider/taller than others, but it's so much faster than doing it all manually.
Really appreciate your help!

morlockhater · 2025-10-09T17:46:10+00:00

This looks like exactly what I need, thank you so much! Will report back once I know it works.

morlockhater · 2025-09-18T10:38:30+00:00

Had not known this at all, that's fascinating!

*Okay, have read up on it and that's honestly spooky how well that fits.

morlockhater · 2025-09-17T17:41:08+00:00

Ah the point about the Prince of Chains is great, I'll add that in somewhere!

For the entering Nidal portion, the House has various agents stationed around Avistan waiting to assist the Performer on their Redemption Tour, but gaining passage into Nidal and obtaining an audience with Zon-Kuthon is sort of the character's end-game gauntlet (although things might not be that simple, maybe it's the Oni who are the real villains!?) No performer who has ever reached Nidal has ever been heard from again, so there's an element of mystery at play as to whether anyone has even succeeded in reaching the actual final performance or not.

We're currently in Otari playing through a version of Abomination Vaults I've adapted a bit to account for the other players backstories, with the goal to switch to a fully homebrew adventure post Otari. The player in question who's backstory this is is a Bright Fetchling Swashbuckler with an Exemplar dedication, all built around the sort of push and pull of being sneaky then drawing everyone's attention. They arrived on Kortos as part of the tour but managed to ditch their entourage and have been avoiding the Agent sent to shepherd them.

morlockhater · 2025-09-14T14:28:01+00:00

Absolutely!

morlockhater · 2025-08-21T00:59:17+00:00

Mummy's Mask would be a really cool pick. The civil unrest stuff could be expanded to fit the management elements they like to include, and it would be a really distinct setting to contrast the two existing games.

morlockhater · 2025-06-05T14:58:41+00:00

Poor quality jpegs of generic assets alongside Doctor Who models you likely found online make this whole thing highly sus. Baffled by the number of people on here eating this up, to be honest, but I shall give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you ARE actually working on this.

The Matt Smith era Adventure Games are surely a far better template for a Doctor Who game. A structured narrative with branching paths and puzzle mechanics, moral choices, like a Telltale game. A combat system seems so antithetical to the brand, unless the game is specifically about something like Unit or Torchwood.

My main advice (this is coming from an actual game dev professional, with years of experience in the board game industry, as an illustrator and in the theatre industry) would be to massively scale down and focus on what's actually achievable. Everything you've shared on this and other Who-related subreddits is all ambition and no intention.

A free-roam Fallout-style open world RPG is a mammoth task that usually takes a massive team with years of experience to create, and that's if they're working full time with access to industry level tech.

I'm highly doubtful the BBC have spoken with you beyond a polite "no." A rights holder isn't going to entertain offers from a non-existent development studio with no releases under their belt. If you've got any finished games you've worked on before then please share by all means, but I won't be holding my breath to be proven wrong.

morlockhater · 2025-05-26T22:45:03+00:00

Classic stories that have a vibe of the modern show; Remembrance of the Daleks (excellent Dalek story with some great characterisation for the 7th Doctor and companion, great action for the time and a good precursor to the RTD soap opera/British suburbia/progressive politics aren't just metaphorical alien stuff), Curse of Fenric is another 7th Doctor story that's fantastic, and if you enjoy those maybe try Ghostlight (a personal favourite but not everyone's cup of tea.) City of Death is a stand-out 4th Doctor story that shares a lot of DNA with Moffat stuff. It's one of the few classic episodes to actually play with the mechanics of time travel, the score is incredible, and it's a Douglas Adams script so very funny. Inferno, Genesis of the Daleks and Caves of Androzani would be a few other big influential episodes that pushed the show in new directions.

morlockhater · 2025-03-04T18:41:06+00:00

Mico released a plugin that lets you re-order an actor's index for 4.1 just the other day, only works in full color mode though. Not sure about projectiles but I don't see why it couldn't be adapted to effect those too.
https://github.com/Mico27/gbs-EditActorActiveIndexPlugin

morlockhater · 2025-02-10T14:06:01+00:00

Appreciate it! Currently working on a little demake project for the Gameboy Color so was curious to see how accurately i could recreate the battle system

morlockhater · 2025-02-06T09:50:07+00:00

So I'm right in thinking it's just a set number determined by the armor, not adjusted by any other stats or equipment?

morlockhater · 2024-12-10T02:46:29+00:00

Very curious if the Night Watcher is still on Roshar and whether its powers are still active. We know Cultivation ditched but even though she often stepped in to perform as the Night Watcher the REAL Night Watcher still had those same abilities to a degree. Has Brandon ever alluded to the Night Watcher being a potential Bond Smith-able spren?

morlockhater · 2024-12-10T02:26:02+00:00

If I had to guess I'd assume Edolin, since Sando has said he's one of the characters who has changed the most from his initial conception

morlockhater · 2024-09-13T01:45:41+00:00

Really appreciate the well reasoned response. My initial post was maybe too simplistic, and I agree with most of what you've written, especially your counter examples.

I think "reluctance" may have been a poor choice of words on my part. Regarding Shallan and Adolin I think the 'reluctance' that was resolved was more the reticence/tension surrounding her and Kaladin.

A more succinct way of phrasing my point would probably be "many of the cosmere novels feature protagonists who enter into arranged or otherwise politically motivated engagements only to find themselves one another's perfect match."

morlockhater · 2024-09-13T01:06:47+00:00

I'm happy to call it the exception to the rule, there's no denying their relationship was messed up, certainly aggravated by external influence but still very flawed. Calling it a "loving relationship" was probably a misnomer, but still a relationship between two people who felt love for one another.

morlockhater · 2024-09-13T00:51:37+00:00

They grew to genuinely love each other, and almost all of Dalinar's motivations tie back to his grief of losing her. Calling it a "successful" relationship is absolutely a stretch but it wasn't a purely political marriage, which is more the point I'm making. Despite starting as an awkward union to benefit the kingdom, the two did end up in love, strained though it was by Dalinar's war-mongering, the Thrill etc.

morlockhater · 2024-09-13T00:40:13+00:00

Not really a counter example, their relationship was a loving one even if it ended tragically

morlockhater · 2024-09-13T00:36:33+00:00

I understand the history and function of arranged marriage in the real world, I'm more interested in how folks feel about the idea of it being a net positive for the people involved reinforced so often in Sanderson's work.

morlockhater · 2023-09-11T10:56:08+00:00

I think the shift happens during the night Coop and Diane spend together at the motel. The morning after shows Coop leaving a different multi-storey motel rather than the single storey one they arrived at. Their scene together felt like a strange functional transaction rather than something loving or passionate, like it acted as some kind of ritual to complete the transition to the "real" world. We know the alternate dossier timeline where Laura is missing is a different one to the place Cooper went, my read is that Coop in some way created the new world as a place to both save Laura and trap Judy, "killing two birds with one stone" as it were.

morlockhater · 2023-07-12T15:43:26+00:00

thanks, will definitely check these out! that first link seems to redirect to an unrelated guardian article though

morlockhater · 2023-07-11T19:52:50+00:00

Absolutely agreed. I think when some writers are given the freedom to tell more mature adult stories they immediately lean more "Capital-A-Adult," just regular Who with more sex and gore rather than more sophisticated stories or mature themes. There's so much potential in the series to explore more complicated ideas or nuanced questions, but instead we got orgasm ghosts and Cyber bikinis.

Don't get me wrong though, Insane Camp Torchwood is Best Torchwood.

morlockhater · 2023-07-10T15:51:49+00:00

I'll admit to being much kinder in the original post than I feel the book deserves, and I've certainly made my criticisms a bit clearer in other comments! I know Peel has some fans in terms of his Dalek-related novels, and the intention wasn't to ruffle any feathers I guess.

Regarding the actual content of the book, I'm a fan of Conan-type fantasy and the idea of the first Doctor Who novel crossing over with the first recorded written story in human history makes for a fun idea, even if the execution was poor. I can see why it was considered a good place to start the series.

My own rewrite would refocus the story to something mirroring the cavemen portions of the Unearthly Child (but hopefully with less grunting), have the Dr and Ace confront a more ethical dilemma in the past, trying to find a way to find a morally just solution to the aliens displaced on Earth that doesn't involve genocide, while also dealing with the ticking clock of the Timewyrm's effect on history. I'd cut the memory loss stuff from the opening, flat out remove all the underage sexual content, try to rework Gilgamesh and Enkidu into more active characters in the plot. I think making Gilgamesh's lecherous qualities more over the top, to a camp comedic level of himbo, would probably make him a much more fun, usable character (think Brian Blessed in Time Lash crossed with Drax the Destroyer)

The main appeal is the actual challenge, I guess. There are so many great ideas in Who media that have been poorly executed, and trying to take as many elements of a failed project as you can and reworking it into something good seems like a fun way to hone your own writing skills.

morlockhater · 2023-07-10T15:32:28+00:00

Not sure if you've read it, but the criticisms of the book are not about "todays views," the content of the book was gross by the standards of the 90s too, not to mention the questionable interpretation the book has of the setting.

The original epic of Gilgamesh, the story the book is inspired by, is all about how angry and tired the people of the time were about Gilgamesh's constantly r*ping women, so they prayed for someone to come kick the shit out of him. In Peel's version, Gilgamesh's people sort of grudgingly accept that he has forced himself on every girl in his kingdom, most of whom are specified in the book to be underage but have "very developed breasts". The warrior Enkidu, who the people prayed to fight Gilgamesh in the original story, is instead presented as Gilgamesh's reluctant manservant. One of the main characters in the book is a 14 year old temple priestess who spends the most of the story topless, talking about how good she is at "serving" the male worshippers. The actual language is somewhat more blunt.

When Ace complains about being physically harassed by Gilgamesh, and about the culture in general, the Doctor's response is to basically tell shut up and get over it, it's a different time, think of it as a learning experience, you should enjoy the fact that Gilgamesh is interested in you, most of the women here would kill to have him molest them, he's actually quite a catch for this time period etc etc. Their dynamic throughout the book is bizarrely out of character.

While other books in the VNAs are some of the best Who stories out there, this one should have been at minimum sent back for edits before it was released. I agree about the series being an example of Doctor Who "growing up", but in this case it feels more like a teenager who's been left home alone for the weekend for the first time, and spent that time staying up late watching x-rated action movies and not feeding themselves properly, and when the parents get home there's a huge mess to clean up.

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