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I drew this like a year ago but forgot to post it whoops.

minor typo, argument invalidated. "ebon fost". what comedy, what foolishness. you claim to represent the lupines of the ebon forest, yet you cannot spell their name. Curious is it not? furries and doggirls cannot stand up to the might of the federal government.

I CAST

298 BANTAMS!

Big woof.

BOOF

So pretty! Must remember this if I ever end up running a game in that setting.

Syngorn Map Yo

Made one for my campaign in Tal'dorei and wanna share with anyone who may need one for their games. Enjoy!

Oklahoma National Livestock

Ashnarey daughter of Ackon Druid of the Moon, brass Dragonborn “All in this world is connected by invisible strings. Sometimes those strings die and rot - that is how all eldritch affect them. My duty is to heal the nature from it and thus preserve the Balance.” Art made for my friend Azura Thunderclaw

DnD Campaign characters. Lillienne belongs to the amazing @fwumpkin she's so talented, give her love. Arabella is my hellspawn. 👍🏌️‍♂️

I've started hitting the gym again

Meat and Poultry - Meghann's Chicken Scallopini Chicken breasts are pounded thin for quick cooking. Top with a rich and creamy onion sauce, and they're a dish your whole family will love.

It begins

A courier Comes up to you and hands over a scroll, you break the seal and inside you read...  

fuck warlocks. i hate them. make them more different

Quick survey!

The world might be on fire, or it might not, let's play battleships anyways

This is your board, and I have just the same:

[ID: 10x10 grid. Numbers (on top) left to right 1-10. Letters (on left) top to bottom A-J]

And these are your ships, and I have just the same:

[ID: 1st ship: Aircraft Carrier—1pcs—size: 1x5

2nd ship: Battleship—1pcs—size: 1x4

3rd ship: Cruiser—1pcs—size: 1x3

4th ship: Submarine—2pcs—size:1x2

5th ship: Destroyer—2pcs—size1x1]

Rules:

• Your ships cannot overly

• Your ships have to be placed horizontally or vertically (no diagonally)

• If opponent sinks a ship, you have to tell which one it was

• If you hit something, it's your turn again

• If you want to stay anonymous, please identify yourself with a code name (it can be as simple as an emoji)

• Please don't cheate

Gameplay:

~ the first turn is yours, send a call out in the ask box

~ I will tell you whether or not you hit something and then I will call out (if you didn't) {all o' this in a posted answer}

~ It's your turn again, first tell me whether or not I hit something, then call out (if I didn't) {in an ask}

~ this goes on until one of us sinks all of the other one's ships

~If you are unfamiliar with the game itself here's a link to an in depth explenation

Good to know

+ I'm using a different board with every player

+ The gameplay or the rules might be modified if I get bored of them

+ Planning on drawing my own ships and board instead of the current ugly ones

When you decide to do your own thing and miss all the cool stuff your party does

Hello friends! I’d like to direct all of you to the following link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1367347179/dead-in-the-west-a-tabletop-rpg-set-in-the-mythic?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=dead%20in%20the%20west The past year and a half or so, I’ve been working hard on creating my very own pen-and-paper tabletop RPG (think Dungeons and Dragons if you’ve never played one before). The game is set in what I like to call a “Mythic Old West” setting - think old cowboy movies and pulpy novels - the kind of place made up of tall-tales and larger-than-life characters. Setting out on an adventure in Dead in the West should feel like your party is a group of modern-day scribes, stitching out the tapestry that is the first Great American Folklore! The Kickstarter is not asking for very much, and will go towards creating both a digital and physical edition of a beautiful rulebook, filled with gorgeous artwork by tumblr users like yourselves, all paid a fair commission.

Please do consider contributing to the Kickstarter! Dead in the West is an incredibly fun game, and I’d love to share it with as many people as I possible can.

Also you get the bonus of seeing my ugly mug in the dieo up there.

Thanks everybody <3

First ever Tumblr post! Wanted to show off some drawings I made in college. Hope you like them.

Not an odd parallel at all

So here's the thing. Well, two things.

I'm one of those filthy tabletop game people. (So is my spouse; she has been since before we met, too.) After college, well, we needed to create a new group of people to get entirely too interested in the fall of oddly-shaped pieces of plastic and the lives of fictional elves. We are also, it must be said, on the old side. We remember the Before Times. And in the Before Times, and even a bit after that, game groups were invariably largely male. Indeed, it wasn't at all uncommon for a group of gamers to have *at absolute most* exactly one female member. (Take a look at some of the classic game-related comics-- take a look at the gender groupings in Knights of the Dinner Table or Order of the Stick. These are pretty typical; many groups had zero female members.)

But our post-college group kind of wavered, shifted, stabilized-- and suddenly, we had, and to this day, still have, a majority-female gaming table. There wasn't anything to it, honestly. It just... happened.

So here's the other thing.

The industry I work in isn't really known for progressive politics in many ways. It's one of those things, not restricted to any one company-- it's the entire industry. (It's not just politics, for that matter-- my industry can be incredibly reluctant to, say, upgrade technology. We don't like change much.)

But the specific company I work for? At one location, one particular division-- and not one you'd expect this of *at all*-- is currently majority trans.

That's even more surprising than the first one; I don't know what the current math is on the percentage of trans people in the population as a whole, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's less than, oh, ten percent. So if random chance was involved, what are the odds that we'd have one job category at one location be 57% trans?

So how did that happen, anyway?

I'm pretty sure that it's the same reason in both cases.

In our gaming group, as we formed, other women in our community who were tabletop gamers saw that we had multiple women in our group, that we didn't treat them like romance objects or second-class players, that they were comfortable and happy hanging out with us. And the female members of our group, of course, were happy to tell other women about how fun it was. So more asked to join our group. And now our table is so big we can't even fit more people in, and still majority-female.

And, well, I'm not trans, and I'm not in that community, but I'm going to guess that since we started hiring other trans folks, and treating them with respect, word got out that that's what we did-- treat them with respect-- and so other people came to us over some other employer where, say, they might be taking a chance on how they'd be treated.

And I'm glad that it's worked out that way, for them, and for us.

And... I don't know. I think that it illustrates a truth that gets overlooked by some people. If someone says "[Group] isn't interested in [Hobby/Vocation/Activity]," maybe what they aren't seeing is that people don't necessarily feel safe or comfortable or welcome in some spaces, and that if it's clear that that the space is welcoming, then the demographics suddenly start to reflect the people who are really out there instead of the stereotypes.

Or something like that. I don't know. I'm not a sociologist.

But what I do know is that I have a really cool tabletop gaming group.

And I do know that we were able to hire enough people in a location and position that had been pretty painfully understaffed.

And both of these things are good.

And, just between me and all of you, I think that basically treating people with respect got us there.

Formal Living Room in New York An illustration of a sizable, enclosed, transitional living room with white walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace, and no television.

Made a Warhammer table once, it was pretty fun. I think it was like 3 foot by 5 foot or something.

Here's my Space Wolves army

I made a comic, a minifigure recreation of Moss controversy by @pocketss

Fantasy stuff