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The World - A bit of a preamble.
🕑 Added 2019-11-19 23:50:43 +0000 UTCFor a really long time I've debated whether I should go into the more detailed bits about the world I tend to create things in. I didn't want it to feel like I was clogging the feed with things that some might find boring, straying and filling things with a feed of non-painted or illustrated images and writing.
In short, a feed where the 'D&D-isms' start flying.
I tend to constantly do what I call 'head-writing'. A way of exploring and escaping reality without sitting at a keyboard and while I'm doing a lot of other things. I even do this while doing art, imagining the odd story of people in illustrations that I post here. Sometimes they're just random people. Creatures made from wanting to practice and keep skills sharp, but often they take on a bit of a life of their own.
I also do a lot (and I mean a lot) of world-building for a bi-weekly game of D&D I'm tentatively running. Meaning much of the world suddenly takes on little statistics or seemingly obsessive little details that most folks who don't run or play in TTRPG's might see as just rambling statistics and acronyms that mean nothing to them.
None of this actually detracts from the work I produce, of course. I love art. I only tend to push it aside when my mind isn't quite clicking with a picture (its best to walk away for a bit and let your brain work on the problems rather than force it through). But I sat and thought about it today while at a fairly boring appointment and realized that adding 'world posts' would actually be additive, and not -as I had believed, take away from the feed.
So, I went about creating a quick banner that can differentiate the more dry posts to some folks. While the posts will usually have art in them: Maps, geographies, items and buildings, and even 'NPC' inhabitants of the world, it will allow folks who aren't interested in rambling diatribes of the 'number of cultists who infest this ruin or that sewer' to skip on to the more meaty arty bits.
It can also serve as a way for me to flesh out certain characters that do intrigue me. Taking the last picture (the doofy one with the 'Hill-Lorrnath' wandering into a pub) there were a couple characters that stuck out to me that I'd like to put a bit of detail into. Namely the gnome (a down on her luck bard and wandering performer), the braying dwarf she travels with, and of course, the Lorrnath that is apparently saving up for pants.
There are also a huge array of other characters I'd like to introduce through the 'adventures' they had gone through. From a woman dodging a group of Asmodeus worshipping lunatics from her home village, to Chime, the aarakocra (bird) woman who had the arduous journey to re-learn the song of her people. A prayer of sorts, that could appease the winds at her homeland, and give her people hope and strength again.
So, that's the general preamble on what I might try out here. I hope its fun reading, at least, and I'll try not to go too mental with all the little statistics, but the banner above will mean a more world-buildy post, and probably less about just one picture itself.
It might also mean a more active feed. I realize that it might seem that I go quiet between posts, often its simply due to being kept busy as a caregiver, but often its a feeling that I don't want to flood people with my geekisms. So I can let it all out in The World posts :)
More sketches to come tomorrow and the next day. Still working on getting the background for one sketched out.
Thank all of you, as always, for your interest in my mad, weird little world, and for your generosity.
-T.J.
Comments
Tygepc
I'm for it. I'd love to learn about those characters you mentioned and more. I constantly think up stories of my own, or at least ideas of what you mean from the few tantalizing snippets you've been left in past descriptions. Thank you!
Tim J.
I tend to err on most folks just being here for the art, though I guess the art is tied to the world itself, so one can't really exist without the other (at least in my case). I don't usually talk much D&D much online these days. I'm not entirely sure why, its just something I tend to run in the background and not really engage with in a social media sense. I've been playing it since I was about 11 or 12, which is decades ago now. But its always good to know there are others out there with a cast in their head that changes and speaks and morphs over time. Its one of those 'living world' projects that you hear about, but entirely internal until its put down on the page. For a very, very long time I never really put anything down on a page, but as my memory is on the cusp of the decline into eventually failing me, It might be time to get these things down in some sort of archival format. Your world is pretty amazing, so far. I remember being pretty stunned by how much of it was mapped out. So much so that I started to actually try and put together a world map of my own that's still in the early stages. As much as I wanted to draw it out by hand I found that my time is already limited and I finally had to give in and just use one of those mapping programs (Wonderdraft to be precise). But there's still so much to do, and so little time :P I was noodling around with Heroforge a little while ago actually. I was pretty amazed at how many 'critter' races they had, as well as Centaurs as well, plus the customizable aspect was pretty off the charts. Sadly they don't have equine characters, and likely won't ever have them as their models tend to follow D&D supplement/world materials that are released, and there aren't any 'horse' races in the D&D-verse. But it doesn't discount that its a pretty amazing array of custom figures/models that they could offer.
MountainGoat
This is really great, look forward to reading more!
Garry Stahl
You are worried about geekisms among a bunch of Geeks? Who do you think inhabits your Patreon? Well one is a guy that has been playing D&D since 1976. You draw, I write, obsessively at times, about the details of my world Thindacarulle. I am concerned with how Phoenixes and Centaurs work on the inside. I give every NPC at least a paragraph. Take on a life of their own? Oh yea. I love when that happens. When the character speaks in their own voice and tells me about themselves. I have slowed down over the years. The game is bi-weekly, not all weekend every weekend. I have a huge cast in my head of people and places that I am trying to write down, trying to get into electrons and hopefully print. A 43 year old world, I have never DMed a different one. So yes, tell us of Felworth. I love every detail. And nude horse girls are never refused. (I Love that Cinders is not a boob monster so common in Furry. You do small breasts very well indeed.) For us non artists I have discovered a marvelous tool. Hero Forge. the customizable miniatures are a great way to visualize your characters, and you can get them printed as well. I buy them as fast as my budget allows. https://www.heroforge.com/
Perfesser Bear
Personally, I'd love to learn more of you little civilization and read your tales of worldbuilding.
David J.
As someone who does his own share of "head-writing", I'm really looking forward to this.
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