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Once upon a time I made a lot of icons and it pleases me when people use them. 🏳️‍🌈 Currently making RPG things at https://thelorc.itch.io/ Sometimes posting things at https://www.tumblr.com/lorcblog
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Sebastien de Castell - Traitor's Blade Idealistic loyalist of an idealistic king surviving in a grotty world of pleasant people. This was written with such amazing sincerity. Just total and utterly fearless of cringe. And with constant forward momentum.

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Remembered this bit of silliness.

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I love fandom wikis.

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Been leaving a lot of books unfinished lately. I'm glad I'm not a *compulsive* book-finisher like I was when I was younger (and books in shorter supply), but it still makes me feel a bit guilty. Wasteful.

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Spent too long making too many (magical) weapons. But it's very hard to stop drawing them. There's just so many variations. Also I'm still settling on the right "tone". Meant to look magical/important without being Warhammer/Warcraft-fantastical Better to make too many and drop the worst.

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Did a more portrait-type closeup to complement the bulettes in motion. Rounded 3d shapes are rough in this style so I'm not sure how well the shape reads to someone who doesn't know what a bulette is, but I like the colours.

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I have strong opinions on giants. It bothers me when they have perfect human proportions. Not out of any sense of realism, we all know the square cube law is more like a guideline. But wonky proportions are a good scale cue, and also help indicate that they're actually a different species.

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Pincher is a truly unpleasant outcast giant who is nevertheless doing the world a favour by preying on all the giant-hunters. They're all living in fear and he's having a lovely time.

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Basilisks. If you blind them when they hatch, they're safe to use as beasts of burden. Just stubborn. Normally they only eat the petrified bodies of their victims, but it seems they can just eat the regular rocks around here. That's not alarming at all.

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"Mockjaws". Mimics as a worm that hides in cramped spaces and is just smart enough to operate a hinge. Back half is spiky, front half looks like a tongue. Tada - the illusion is complete. Nobody wants another new take on mimics, but I'm allowed to do things for me.

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If you see this post a knight

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Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. But not in a good way.

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This is fun. It's like The Witness without the open world - puzzles where you have to intuit the rules from examples. And it can be diabolical. store.steampowered.com/app/1299400/...

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A gibbering mouther?

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Transitions #gamedev #pixelart

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A problem with illustrating my own stuff. Sometimes I come up with ideas I love but have to cut because it turns out they're beyond my ability to draw.

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Only just learned that paleontologists went back to Mongolia in 2008 and found the rest of the deinocheirus skeleton! (Previously only known as a pair of massive arms). Also very proud that even after ~30 years I can spell deinocheirus right first try.

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Rob Hart - The Paradox Hotel. Irascible head of security at a hotel for time-travel tourists deals with murder and stroppy billionaires. Excellent, and manages to be a novel with time-travel as a necessary central plot device, where nobody actually travels through time.

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There is nothing so creatively inspiring as seeing someone take a really good idea and do it *wrong*.

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I don't think this is really a controversial opinion any more. But I think that the an RPG's dice-rolling/reading mechanic is... not the *least* important part of the design, but certainly the highest delta between prominence and relative importance.

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If you see this post an angel

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After drawing this giant, I felt I the pose needed something they were reacting to. So I drew them a curious friend.

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