Ten Thousand Worlds @tenthousandworlds@wandering.shop

Greetings, habitués of the Wandering Shop. As Mick Jagger likes to sing, "Please allow me to #introduce myself…"

I'm the #author / #illustrator of a tabletop role-playing game (#TTRPG) who enjoys posting the odd pencil #sketch, #ink outline, or full-#color #illustration that eventually became #art for the game —plus a few that never made it in.

I also like to share whatever #book / #podcast / #artwork is currently filling me with #RPG #inspiration.

Émigré from another instance.

#introduction

Time for another #throwback, Joe the human farmer, companion to: https://wandering.shop/@tenthousandworlds/103268948863333819.

Enjoy the full-#color version of one of the shape-shifting Rakshasas from the world of Haven.

#Art #MastoArt #Illustration #RPG #TTRPG

Time for another #throwback. This time it's a #sketch of a human-tiger centaur-like chimera that never made it into the game.

#Art #MastoArt #Illustration #RPG #TTRPG

Enjoy the #ink version of of one of the Rakshasas from the fantastical world of Haven. On Haven, these shape-shifting beings are cursed to never again return to their original forms. Most of the world thinks they've gone extinct.

#Art #MastoArt #Illustration #RPG #TTRPG

Version 1.5 of Ten Thousand Worlds, a free, #CC-licensed #RPG, has just been released.

Tighter; Smoother; Better looking.

Enjoy.

This coming year will hopefully bring a mix of new #TTRPG titles, plus classic titles updated for version 1.5.

Happy New Year and Happy Gaming!

http://www.tenthousandworlds.org/titles/ttw001/

While I'm not thrilled that the show seems to be trying to out-Grim-Dark "Game of Thrones", I do like how it handles knowledge. Short of experiencing something directly, characters depend on histories, legends, even bard songs to learn about the monsters they'll face. Unfortunately, those stories can be incomplete, wrong, or straight-up propaganda & lies. They only learn the full truth of their version of that monster in battle.

#RPG #Inspiration

I'd like to see a Star Wars series where #Lando Calrissian, Jannah, & #Finn hop around the galaxy reuniting former Stormtroopers with the families from which they were stolen —& run into plenty of trouble, of course. #Rey could even pop in once for a Jedi Ex Machina.

I'd also enjoying seeing a series set when #Poe Dameron worked as a "runner of spice" with Zorii Bliss.

...or I could just work all that into some future #TTRPG session.

Pssst.

I hope to make an announcement on 1 Jan 2020 about Ten Thousand Worlds, the game.

The nature of that announcement will depend on how much I can get done between now and the end of 2019.

#RPG #TTRPG

For my latest #throwback, here's a pencil #sketch, #ink outline, and full-#color #illustration of human farm woman.

She doesn't swing a sword nor cast spells, but she's the reason your fantasy heroes are going to have a hot meal when they get back to civilization after their latest dungeon crawl.

#Art #MastoArt #Illustration #RPG #TTRPG

So ... this Double Trouble character: #theater #geek, #drag #queen, theater queen, or all-of-the-above? I kid; s/he's a lot of fun to watch.

I suspect I'm not at all the intended audience for this show, but I find it to be charming, effortlessly inclusive, and full of #RPG #inspiration. I particularly like how most —perhaps all— of the magic in the story is really just very advanced technology.

#SheRa

Here's another #throwback, an early pencil #sketch of airship captain that never made it into the game

#Art #MastoArt #Illustration #RPG #TTRPG

Enjoy a pencil #sketch of one of the Rakshasas from the fantastical world of Haven, shape-shifters cursed to never again return to their original forms.

An excerpt:

"...Even those depicted in the artworks of other species have all been replaced by blank spaces on canvases, gaps in bas-reliefs, and empty lines in songs. Just about everyone on Haven is certain the Rakshasas went extinct during the same magical catastrophe that gave rise to..."

#Art #MastoArt #Illustration #RPG #TTRPG

Ready for another #throwback? Here's a pencil #sketch, #ink outline, and full-#color #illustration of Sophie. She's a woman from Berlin, who in her younger and much angrier youth, earned the name "Menace" —and she's in no hurry to correct anyone who calls her that.

http://www.tenthousandworlds.org/titles/ttw040/

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Have a pencil #sketch, #ink outline, and full-#color #illustration of a very rare being in the fantastical world of Haven: a ghost.

Only humans, who lost their connection to Mother Haven, and cannot become one with Her after death, can get trapped in this strange "un-dead" state.

Dealing with ghosts has taught some of Haven's strongest psychics how to create "ghost blades", and other constructs, from their own minds.

#Art #MastoArt #Illustration #RPG #TTRPG

Enjoy another #throwback, a drawing which never made it into the original game, but which I might use in the next version.

#Art #MastoArt #Illustration #RPG #TTRPG

Enjoy a pencil #sketch, #ink outline, and full-#color illustration of one of the Wakyambi people from the fantastical world of Haven. He is swaddled in a treatment known as "new skin" as he attains a mental state which translates into "very beautiful intent/consciousness".

http://www.tenthousandworlds.org/titles/ttw027/

#Art #MastoArt #Illustration #RPG #TTRPG

Enjoy another #throwback: the original pencil #sketch, #ink outline, and full-#color drawing of a Sidhe (Elf) Archer from the world of Haven.

#Art #MastoArt #Illustration #RPG #TTRPG