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The words of Kabutroid
Kraid: Do I see anything on first watch?
Kabs: You hear a loud, angry, heavy breathing almost right next to you.
Kraid: Perfect, perfect...
Also, Mother Brain sent them to fetch rope, if that wasn't apparent.
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Oh wow, there's all kinds of stuff to talk about. First up, what is with the font?!? So Linux apparently did an update, which apparently decided to COMPLETELY obliterate Deja Vu Sans as a font option, so we're hovering with Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal, after scrolling through like... everything, so no complaints about the font name in that regard, but... maaan, I wish Arial just existed. Why they destroy Deja Vu Sans why?
Secondly, apologies for the over-a-month delay in updating. There was the whole Christmas/Yule/New Year area of the year where I didn't want to update and then right after that... oh my goodness ART UPDATES! I have been pushing like... 12-14 hours a day every single day off since the new year into making stuff. What have I been making? Why I'm glad you asked :D
So, I finished reading the Dungeon Master's Guide, which led to me needing to make several random-draw type items! First off... waitaminute waitaminute, what were the last noted updates *checks* Oh wow, there's been a lot. All of it D&D lol.
Random draw stuff! We have a page for the Cube of Summoning! No physical item, it would just be a jack-in-the-box, which I'd have to buy, with tokens inside of it, and on top of that it just summons aberration, construct, beast, just summon something from a category of creatures, so the DM would need to select a monster anyway, kinda... reduces the appeal of having a physical object at the table. Secondly for random-draw-page-only items is the Efreeti Bottle, which is a one-time use item kinda, so making... I dunno even, a bottle with sticks that you draw one of in it? I mean that'd work, but... eh, for a one-use item, it can just get a page.
Physical items! Here's were we get into the (vegan) meat and potatoes here. I mean, making the digital pages took a few hours in themselves, but for the next pile, we're sitting around 100 hours combined so far. The first to be fully finished was the Rival Coin, a magical coin that will either harm your target, or yourself, depending on the flip of the coin. A bit silly, a bit fun, let's make it! The coin must have two bitter rivals on either face, so we selected the most well-known, the most bitter of rivalries known to man... Snakes and Ladders. One side the glorious ladder of attack, the other the violent snake of bite. Carved into a wooden coin :D
Next, and still being worked on, the Wand of Wonder! I was talked into physically making this by Bubz in the Discord, and so... it was (in the process of) made. Presently, it's 90% complete, just needing beads on the surface and a paint job. Also a wand case, because I don't want the prongs on this thing banging into and denting the objects around it, or said objects and books bending the prongs. Many, many layers of glue and fabric-glue (though not as many as the cases) on top of a coathanger-wire frame, and the wand is nearly done! It's come a long way from the bent coathanger that it started as lol.
Lastly, it had to be made, it *HAD* to be made. The Scroll of Titan Summoning. A scroll that could summon a Tarrasque? Or Colossus or a Kraken? Oh we HAD to! And, knowning that this is being made, I pondered it in my head... how would I, as a DM, handle the most likely scenarios with this scroll. A) They summon it right then and there, let 'er rip! Result: Some portion of the map is destroyed, and like a week later an emergency gathering of like 50-100 retired and active adventurers come together to wipe it out. An investigation into whodunit follows, knowing divination magic exists, thus followed shortly by the great supermax prison escape arc lol. Or however that plays out. B) The players decide to score some brownie points with the upper plane deities, and summon the thing into some lower plane like gehenna or hades or something, off you go lil fella! Result: Some brownie points may well be obtained, but more likely they make a powerful enemy from the lower plane, who turns into the next bbeg or joins with them or something. Not that good for our troupe of heroes. Brownie points tho, and could make an epic battle between angels and devils or something, with our hapless heroes caught in the middle. C) Screw it, let's just summon it on the BBEG's lair! Just drop it onto their castle or mountain or whatever, there, go do our job for us lol. Result: Unless there's some reason the BBEG is stuck in that location, they just teleport out or otherwise flee, and are extra pissed off at the heroes. This... is again followed by option A, where it rampages and destroys some portion of the map, and the leaders of the land are likely displeased with the heroes again. At least they have a reason for summoning it this time. And D) Nobody must use this, let's bury it or Stone Shape a rock around it and huck it into the ocean or something. Y'know, the *boring* option lol. In either case, we had to make this, we had to, we had to! And so we did! The scroll itself is 100% complete, and we're only working on the case at this point, which is 90% complete! The form is done, the caps are done, I just need to solidify up the outer linework with hot glue, which I paused to update the comic lol, and which I will return to next weekend and possibly tonight, but I need to catch up with uploading progress pics for the above.
So, it's been quite busy, OH, also I've got 2024 random-draw pages for the Bag of Beans, Wild Magic Surge table, Deck of Illusions (OH, I also made a new physical deck for that too, since it's entirely different), the Deck of Many Things (13 and 22 card versions), aaaaand I think that's all the things that needed an update to 2024. Don't worry, the 2016 version of those are still available in the All the many things page. So yes, lots of updating. Aaaand now let's go do some progress updates to those few pages above, and then see if I can finish hot-gluing those shoelaces to the scroll and wand cases lol.
Kabutroid
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