Hey, patrons, it’s me, Gabriel. Um, yeah, just finished my writing and my drawing for the day.
So today’s room, man, I had a really hard time coming up with today’s room because it’s a treasure room, and, you know, treasure rooms are just hard. Like, yeah, I want it to be interesting and valuable, but also, you know, it’s going to tell a story and it’s got to connect with the world and it’s got to make sense and there’s just a lot of things to do and you don’t want to, you don’t want to give away too much. Um, So, but I think we came up with a real, a real gem.
So Alyssa and I were kind of batting around like, what could you do with this, you know, room? Um, and I was like, oh, maybe it’s like an antique shop. And then it dawned on me, like, we’re in the land of the free dead. I was like, oh, what about like a haunted antique shop, like where everything is haunted?
And so that’s where we came up with Carlo’s Cursed Curios, an oddly shaped antique shop owned and operated by an Elven Ghost Carlo. His living captor had been a collector of strange objects, and Carlo was able to claim it all when he fell ill with the crystallaneous lung disease, which is now something I need to make. Most of the objects now piled high in the room are haunted by the free dead ghosts of their previous owners, a strange side effect of proximity to Carlos bonded object, something I haven’t described in this room. It’s going to be in the next room.
Roll in the Haunted Objects table to generate unique wares. Ghost adventurers are invited into the back room where Carlos keeps his most valuable and haunted items. 6.10. He is happy to part with any of the haunted items so long as the new owner isn’t a cleric or a paladin. The ghosts haunting the objects are friends of his by now, and he wouldn’t want them to come to harm because of some divine power and moral misgivings.
So yeah. Fun to write, fun to draw, I did a little drawing of Carlos the Ghost Elf kind of trying to sell some armour, I guess, give away some maybe some haunted armour. It actually reminded me of an effect that I introduced when I was running old school essentials where when a PC would die… Uh, a piece of their equipment would become haunted by them based on how they had died. And so, like, um, I think one of the PCs had been like stabbed through the back. And so, uh, The armour had, like a warning for like backstab. So like you kind of couldn’t be backstabbed. Anyway, uh, things like that. Just kind of cool, you know, like the ghost of your friend kind of goes, oh, I’m behind you, you know. I don’t know. I thought it was a cool idea.
Uh, and so now this is another thing I kind of need to do is actually go back through my little project here and take an inventory of all the places where I’ve said, oh yeah, just roll on this table. I did not have an actual table because this is one of them. So I have a little section of my book at the beginning where I am writing down, uh, the word counts, like how many words I’ve written each month. This is the 6th month or whatever. And so now I’ve added a little column there for I can, I can put tables I need to write and I’m putting them in there. Uh, which is pretty cool. So I’m probably going to start working on those tables here pretty soon. That was fun. So that was writing today. It went well.
The drawing today is from the form and flow female anatomy reference, 765 images from Graphics Studio. Obviously, uh, the 10 one minute gesture drawings. I think they went pretty well. I didn’t really touch the face in some of them, which is really something I need to become better at is just like letting myself like do the do the face. Um, But the one 10 minute illustration, I feel like it kind of landed despite me. I didn’t, I really was having a hard time. I didn’t feel it. I didn’t feel like it was going well. And then it just kind of, it kind of clicked and it started working.
So it was like right at the end where it kind of started working. So, um, yeah, that’s, uh, beautiful lady with great form sitting on a ball because, you know, yoga balls. So that’s what happened today with that project.
Also, I was able to finish the editing. I did another edit pass for Call of the Black Star. So that project is in the hands of the writer and he’s going to be doing implementing my last bunch of notes. And, uh, And then outside of that, I did some, um, I got approached for another project, which is really exciting. I think they’re going to announce it. Pretty soon, so maybe I shouldn’t say anything.
In fact, I won’t. I’ll say something tomorrow. Uh, if they get back to me and say, yeah, that’s all, we’re good. Uh, if they don’t, then, you know, all’s well. Um, I, you know, I didn’t mention this the other day when I got it, but I got my copy of Let Us Build a Tower by Caleb, uh, Caleb. You know, he didn’t sign with his last name and the book was over in the other room. Um, But it’s a Babylonian. I talked about it the other day, but it’s like a Babylonian RPG where you play, and not like Babylonian, like real Babylonian. It’s like mythic Babylonian.
So you go climb the tower of Babel and like Nimrod, the hunter king is at the top and he, like, he’s crazed. It great. Um, and Austin and Chelsea and I played it with the creator because he was like, hey, I want you to do a review of it. I was like, I only review things that I’ve played, and I don’t know that I’ll have time to run this. But if you want to run it, I’d play and then I could, you know, have a sense of it and I’ll be more equipped to do a review. And he did that, and it was awesome.
It was so much fun. But the book came. And so now I’m going to be recording the flip-through and review of that, which is really exciting. So look out for that. That’ll be coming probably right after my Dolmenwood campaign flip through and review. I did a 45 minute campaign book, flip through and review for the Dolmenwood book. Uh, so that’s gonna be coming in the next few weeks. But yeah. That’s what I got going on.
A bunch of irons in the fire. I was supposed to connect with Austin today about Blood Prairie, and I ran out of day because work was super honking busy today. So busy today. All right. That’s all I got. Tomorrow is his majesty of the worm. I will report how it goes. And yeah, stay awesome. Like,