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Claytonian

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TRPGs, elfgames, Oxford commas. 🇯🇵→🇺🇸 JTRPG fanslator. If you are a fascist or alt-reicht I will just block you, so.

  1. In the 90s, I took out an ad in Dungeon Magazine to do RPG character portraits. I got a handful of clients, some repeat customers. I HATED IT. I didn't want to drawn ANY of those characters. That's when I knew I wasn't a jobber. Here's one I did of someone's whole AD&D group. #OldBadArt

    Scratchy ink drawing of a group of 8 fantasy characters. Rangers, warriors, thieves, monks, drow, etc. Oh god it's so old and bad and I hate it so much. Why am I sharing this?
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  2. Musing on traps 🪤. A variant to @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com write rooms in pairs, write traps in threes- the last with a twist. The first is "ah!", the second "this is familiar", and the third is "Hmm, seems familiar but different". Three similar traps allow PCs to employ accumulated information.

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  3. #30 Fantastic picture of a Mind Flayer by Kevin Bulmer, in this issue's Treasure Chest column. The column listed readers' spells for AD&D, none of which had anything to do with mind flayers, but with a picture this good, why wouldn't you use it?

    Black & white picture of a Mind Flayer (D&D monster, a humanoid with an octopus head, attacks with fearsome psionic powers). It is facing towards the viewer, dressed in a flowing robe, a magic wand in one hand, and a malevolent look in its eyes.
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