Ad

#indierpgs #TTRPGs #DnD Castles. A castle will dominate the landscape around it for thousands of years, no matter what it is used for. Unintended consequences

#indierpgs #TTRPG #DnD Castles. Elf-lord touring buildings they made: "This tower I built in age of gold, To watch - -- 'Lord if it please you I shall kill a lamb.' "...Um. Well." Similar concept to @Judd_of_Kryos wandering Nazgul. How is that going?

#ttrpg #indierpgs #DnD Castles. Tiny island castle.

#ttrpg #indierpgs #DnD Castles. Repurposed great hall.

#TTRPGs #indierpgs #DnD Castles. Verticality.

#ttrpgs #indiesrpg Castles. Building a castle is an attempt to stop time. But it never works.

Of course, 'knight' usually indicates a social rank. Not all knights are warriors. #indierpgs A squire might end up as a sort of career intern in the entourage of a ceremonial official in local government. Maybe not the most exciting #ttrpg setting

"Are you coming?" A decision point in the career of a young squire. What will they do? #indierpgs

Yesterday i drew a pic of a knight, but i didn't tweet it because i hated it. #indierpgs I'd thought, knights are fighters. I'd better draw a fighting scene at least once - [sketch sketch...] and there he was: the hateful faceless murder-bot knight* 1/x [*not the guy below]

The old 'here come the PCs' joke when the party in a #DnD -like #ttrpg walk into the low-magic-setting village looking like WoW characters is a classic but when people saw a knight in full kit irl it must have felt like a visitation maybe knights and elves are the same thing?

Knights: ritual, precedence, protocol, hierarchy, tradition... also humility. Also, friendship. All these rules but also you are supposed to break the rules, or transcend them. #indierpgs What do you do when you just happen to meet another knight on a bridge?

#ttrpg #indierpgs Knights, squires, and bridges In drawing as in rpg planning, sometimes you get a grand inspiration, and sometimes ideas just bump around sluggishly like ice chunks in a slushy puddle. It all goes in the sketchbook, in the notebook - nothing is wasted

"Meleri, squire of bridge and ford Curious, flippant, temperate. No hurry to attend their lord: When life's this slow you're never late." Sometimes squiring is just lazing by the Avon watching dragonflies and dreaming. Boring, in other words (if you're 16) #indierpgs

"Fidgety, short, and pale of eye, Lilo came down from the North country; She reads and attends while she's at her lesson But then gossips recklessly about demonic possession." If I were running Pendragon the whole thing would be just about being a squire #indierpgs

Another Squire of October. #indierpgs #ttrpgs Classically, knights don't have backstories: they are just a bundle of heredity that runs into an adventure. Do they ever really get a voice? Maybe that's why they're always a little tragic

Knights can't have been full-chivalry all the time because they were basically child minders Knights and squires of October continues! @EricVulgaris do you mind me linking your knight generator when I post a sketch inspired by it?

OK I need better personality tag words for my squires #Ttrpgs #indierpgs Ones that will cause trouble for knights but also encourage formation of bonds @Judd_of_Kryos any ideas? Any good links people might know?

Here is an NPC based on a randomly generated character from @EricVulgaris cool knight generator on Perchance dot org. "Irascible" is an adjective for old people usually, but I like giving characters tag words with rough edges where you don't know quite how it will play

My next series of pics will be mostly (maybe) based around a knight-and-squire buddy movie #ttrpg #indierpg campaign that we will be starting in a couple of weeks. So, I have to brush up on #drawing #Horses !