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🇪🇪 Author of SAKE ttrpg. I will primarily post about my work on the game and share interesting historical tidbits I see and news related to Estonia and Eastern Europe. Webpage: https://sake.ee/
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One of the seriously named clans of the feared Wolfkingdom of Morrwood. A bit of stupid names is an age-old tradition of mine and some of my friends. #ttrpg #maps #cartography #mapmaking #fantasy #magic #otherworld #sakettrpg

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... In 2021 I created a bunch of paintings for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. Here's one of the illustrations featuring Platecarpus hunting an Enchodus. #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Platecarpus #Enchodus #Mosasaur #Mosasaurus #Dinosaurs

It took over 5 years, but I can now proudly say I have done one thousand interviews! This has come a long way and I consider myself blessed to have met so many people and shared in their creative experiences. So to everyone who gave me a chance, THANK YOU.

Our project blog is BACK. Our new series focuses on #EarlyModern health experiences of enslaved and free members of the African diaspora. With thanks to Lexie Cook for our first post... www.mmor.co.uk/blog/sealing...

I am stressing a bit, do you think this campaign ends up getting funded or not? www.kickstarter.com/projects/leg...

Today we celebrate February 24, 1932 — the day Brazilian women won the right to vote. This historic victory stands for courage, resilience, and equality. We won't ever let them take this away from us. #WomensVote #Brazil

World leaders are arriving in Kyiv for the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President António Costa, and leaders from Spain, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia have arrived.

We live free here in #Estonia 🇪🇪 thanks to brave men and women who stood up to tyranny and declared all peoples have the right to self-determination. That’s why on Estonian Independence Day, as every day, we #StandWithUkraine. Got a moment? Let us tell you a story. 🧵

Today marks a grim milestone. For three years, Russia has brutally attacked Ukraine, trying to steal land that isn’t theirs. Right now, more than ever, we have to support Ukraine. Extract from my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓

Someone who is a part of the GM team at our local bar's "Medieval Tavern" #TTRPG nights made a suggestion. A combined world with multiple games run by multiple people with interconnected storylines. I had to tell him, that I'd done this very thing 8 years ago, and made a 1.5x2m map for the project.

#ttrpg designers. A (stupid) question. If Kickstarter is finished, everything sent out and clicked, it's sent out. Final update, etc. Do I have to do something else to "finish" the Kickstarter project? Click some extra buttons? Or that's just it? No extra fanfares or thingys?

PoD test copy arrived. Now check it over. With almost 600 pages, it should get its own description in the weapons section of the book.

PoD test copy arrived. Now check it over. With almost 600 pages, it should get its own description in the weapons section of the book.

#SelfPromoSaturday Meanwhile, Tauric Permaculture Villages of the Tauroc Mountainkingdom of Lothran. #ttrpg #maps #cartography #mapmaking #fantasy #magic #otherworld #sakettrpg

Immersion Art from this week's map drop "Fey Crossing"(27x27) Do your players hear a strange sound of laughter? Follow the scent of a bakery? On a quest to get their name back that was stolen by a butterfly? Who knows! It's the fey wild! #ttrpg #TTRPG #Encounter #Map

Meanwhile: "The Otherworlds of Tauria" - This may give some explanations why some of the places in the human world are where they are. For example, the Asteanic Seanecropolises in those weird small faraway islands. #ttrpg #maps #cartography #mapmaking #fantasy #magic #otherworld #sakettrpg

Meanwhile: "The Otherworlds of Tauria" - This may give some explanations why some of the places in the human world are where they are. For example, the Asteanic Seanecropolises in those weird small faraway islands. #ttrpg #maps #cartography #mapmaking #fantasy #magic #otherworld #sakettrpg

And map #5. Battlefield in the village center. It's small hexes and many of them, as SAKE has quite long ranges and each hex is 2m. I could cover the whole village with them but because its meant to be printed out in A3 size (my homeprinter max), there is no point. Could work for VTT. #ttrpg #maps

A small town map from a couple years ago. This was inspired by some of the small towns in the lush desert canyons of Yemen. #art #fantasymap #map #fantasycartography #dnd #ttrpg #citymap #fantasy #city #desertcity #rpgmap #gamemap

Map #1 with player-facing descriptions of the landmarks/places of interest. #ttrpg #maps #cartography #mapmaking

This little bird survived a volcanic eruption! Buried by volcanic ash from Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago! Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy 📷 by me 2023 #Archaeology

A Russian soldier decided to become a hero. Showing his middle finger, he approached an unexploded Ukrainian drone. At that moment, a remote detonation was triggered. A lesson in good manners from a Ukrainian drone operator of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade. Kharkiv region.

Humans can't see in the dark. Cats can, and it's probably puzzling to them why we are suddenly so clumsy. (More scientific facts about humans later, in my list 10 things you need yo know about humans.)

'Three Egrets, Reeds, and Crescent Moon' - Shoson Ohara, 1934. #SwampSunday #JapaneseArt

Portraits, tokens, and thumbnail descriptions of the two goblin smiths in Katya's new bastion #ttrpg #vtt #tokens #hagswalk

#SelfPromoSaturday There is also maps and assets pack for SAKE ttrpg and Asteanic World. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpg #dnd #maps #cartography #mapmaking

#SelfPromoSaturday Published the new free Basic Edition. SAKE is a TTRPG with a touch of strategy. It is a crunchy game set in an early-modern fantasy world, with detailed systems for domain-building and overseas trading. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpg #dnd

#SelfPromoSaturday There is also maps and assets pack for SAKE ttrpg and Asteanic World. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpg #dnd #maps #cartography #mapmaking

#SelfPromoSaturday There is also maps and assets pack for SAKE ttrpg and Asteanic World. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpg #dnd #maps #cartography #mapmaking

#SelfPromoSaturday Published the new free Basic Edition. SAKE is a TTRPG with a touch of strategy. It is a crunchy game set in an early-modern fantasy world, with detailed systems for domain-building and overseas trading. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpg #dnd

It’s another historic day for European integration. #Estonia, #Latvia, & #Lithuania have now unplugged from Russia’s power grid. 🧵 Here’s how our new connection as part of #Europe will turbocharge energy security. (Also, check out Estonia’s nature-inspired pylons!)

Guys, maybe strange women lying in ponds distributing swords was a better procedure for selecting leaders than we previously gave it credit for

The Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have today fully decoupled their energy grid from Russia. At the moment they are running in an island mode, but starting tomorrow the energy grid will be reconnected with the European Union.

And map #4 is the Village as Mist Dungeon, with white hexes representing dungeon sectors and not-so-white ones landmarks/places of interest. #ttrpg #maps #cartography #mapmaking

And map #4 is the Village as Mist Dungeon, with white hexes representing dungeon sectors and not-so-white ones landmarks/places of interest. #ttrpg #maps #cartography #mapmaking

But, of course, the manor gets attacked and collapses. So, this is the battlemap version. #ttrpg #maps #cartography #mapmaking

Because Illustrator is also a vector, I can zoom into the Ol’Dun Manor and make a smaller map out of it. Of course, I just didn't make it from zero in twenty minutes, the layers were there from the start (first post ;) , I just recoloured and added text now. #ttrpg #maps #cartography #mapmaking

And with names and roofs in place, the map looks finished. And it is, in a way. This is the illustrative map I show to players. But that's just the first one from the same file. #ttrpg #maps #cartography #mapmaking

Only after that will I export it into Illustrator to add all sorts of other stuff. I could do it fully in 3D, but if I would change something then I would have to do all renders again, which is not efficient. So, Illustrator, it is. #ttrpg #maps #cartography #mapmaking

Only after that will I export it into Illustrator to add all sorts of other stuff. I could do it fully in 3D, but if I would change something then I would have to do all renders again, which is not efficient. So, Illustrator, it is. #ttrpg #maps #cartography #mapmaking