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And yes, Belrathius, nearly full size. The dragon she is making is smaller because it was a test run but it is coming out so well she wants to go bigger. She is using legit trophy mounts and everything.
Glad I'm marrying her lol.
~Mae
CotM Selection Committee
Keelah Se'lai,
Keryth
"Shadows Over New York":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shadows-over-new-york
"2013 Campaign of The Year":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/2013-coty-shadows-over-new-york/
"Campaign of the Month July 2013":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/shadows-over-new-york-julys-campaign-of-the-month/
This is the pieces I have made in the last month, and my fiances dragon so far so you get an idea. I will be updating the page regularly with new home made stuff.
Preface: I'm 34 and been gaming most of that -- in one fashion or another.
* First game of any sort was Zelda (the original gold cartridge) when I was 6. Pissed my stepdad off because I beat it before he did.
* As a little kid -- about 6 or 7 -- I created a game using dice and a map made of playing cards. I don't remember much about how it worked, but I was entirely too amused with it at that age. Something about which card you are, plus a 2d6 roll (because that's what I had access to), versus a targeted wall (facedown card) to break through it...
* First tabletop was D&D when I was 12 -- mostly just messing around, but it was a LOT of fun, so I kept coming back.
* Created a homebrew RPG system (based, at that time, on Final Fantasy VI) when I was 15 that was modestly balanced -- then proceeded over the next 20 years breaking and fixing it. Still dust it off from time to time, but the scars show...
* I've played in D&D 2e, 3e, 3.5e, PF, 5e; both old and modern WoD (finally made my mage! and my ST both loves and hates me because I love putting together my spell levels like a puzzle to make one-off spells...); Anima (didn't care for it, too gimmicky); TOON (very silly but fun); and I used to do a lot of freeform (especially play-by-post Arenas) online before MMOs stole my soul
* I've run games in D&D 3.5e and am currently running a Hero System game (which is... different, but awesome!)
* Former MUD builder (The Mage's Lair)
* MMO addict -- I've invested easily over 1000 hours each in 6 different MMOs (CoX, WoW, SWTOR, FFXI, FFXIV, Aion)
* I stream MMO gameplay on Twitch (and provide commentary for a second stream in the same channel, which is usually throwback JRPGs)
* I used to play tournament-level M:TG in my teenage years, though I got bored of format play -- I'm also a former DCI judge
* I am obsessed with fictional languages in the novels I read; I once wrote a dissertation on the Tayledras language that Larry Dixon referenced at a convention on a panel about fanon modifications to authors' worlds
* I write sword-and-sorcery fantasy novellas, though none of them have been published because I'm usually too busy with my games to ever 100% finish them to my liking
...ok, I think that's it.
Just trying to help out.
Mychyl, welcome! You should share some of that homebrew sometime. I'd be interested in seeing a quality, FF-style RPG system. And from one conlanger to another, I'd also like to read that dissertation if you could send me a link.
_~Mae_
~Mae
CotM Selection Committee
!https://db4sgowjqfwig.cloudfront.net/campaigns/67984/assets/501870/IMG_0531.JPG!
I then tried my own creation out styrofoam, and liked the results much better. Styrofoam "ruins" nicely, breaking it with your hands (rather than burning a straight line with a wire) exposes the bubbles, which accept dry brushing nicely, and can make some cool realistic looking rubble very easily.
!https://db4sgowjqfwig.cloudfront.net/campaigns/67984/assets/501871/IMG_0532.JPG!
-bort
"Morwindl":https://morwindl.obsidianportal.com
"EIDL":https://eidl.obsidianportal.com
Campaign of the Year - 2018
I once built a set piece out of a styrofoam disc. That was when I learned the hard way that you don't use spray paint on styrofoam...
!http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/UselessTriviaMan/Campaign%202009-2011/188599_210734345606616_100000101555523_917129_788239_n.jpg!
Ptolus, City by the Spire - 2016 Campaign of the Year
"Please pay attention very carefully, because this is the truest thing a stranger will ever say to you: In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least TRYING to accomplish all your wildest dreams in life." - - Kevin Smith
I am 42 and have been gaming since middle school starting with the D&D Red Box. Though I have played/run many games I always seem to come back to D&D in some way and form.
* My longest running campaign was a Mage game that I was the storyteller for that ran for about 3 years in college. I was weekly/every other week for most of the time.
* I used to live in Atlanta so I have been to DragonCon 4 or 5 times and always loved it.
* Been to ComicCon here in Phoenix and it was fairly insane
* I Throughout the years I have run most major systems as well as less well known including things like:
** TORG
** Cyberpunk 2020
** Most White Wolf games from the classic lines
** Every version of D&D except 5th and that is only because I have not found a group
** Multiple Versions of Shadowrun
** Star Wars: West End Games, D20 and the current Fantasy Flight Version
* I have recently started playing Magic and Force of Will
* I am amateur Photographer
* I tend to run games in my own worlds with my own stories
* For the last twenty years of worked in Software Development as a Developer, DBA, Manager, Platform & Infrastructure Architect and Solutions Architect on Large Scale SaaS systems
That is me in bullet form.
Oh and I own Bumble Bee (A 2012 Camaro SS TF 3 edition that I bought new).
@berdman - Thanks for your input. I have also played all of the DnD editions, although dropped FOUR like a hot potato and switched to Pathfinder. I highly recommend it, and in particular its compatibility with Hero Lab and the Midgard Campaign Setting by Kobold Press. Bascially, it is like a vastly improved DnD 3.5. Saying that, I can also report that DnD 5e is pretty good.
Hope you find that new group soon!
twiggyleaf
CURRENT CAMPAIGN: "Mysteria":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/mysteria - set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: "Shimring":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shimring
To those who have not already done so, please have a read of the "Obsidian Portal Management Team Update":http://forums.obsidianportal.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=4019&page=1” and make your voice heard on this most important development. (Aug 2015)
"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member
I have run several campaigns using Pathfinder, realized I forgot to list that.
If you are ever looking for something different you might like "Way of the Wicked":http://www.firemountaingames.com/way_of_the_wicked.html#wotw1 . I don't normally run prebuilt campaigns, but this one is interesting and gives the players the opportunity to play evil characters. The group I was running it for had a lot of fun with it and thought the creator came up with some clever ways to deal with evil players and preventing it from turning into a murder fest.
Way of the Wicked looks pretty good, but to be honest, I have enough Midgard stuff mapped out to cover the next couple of years, so I doubt if I'll get round to it in a hurry.
twigs
"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member
"Ptolus":https://ptolus-city-by-the-spire-by-bryan.obsidianportal.com/wikis/main-page
Ptolus, City by the Spire - 2016 Campaign of the Year
"Please pay attention very carefully, because this is the truest thing a stranger will ever say to you: In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least TRYING to accomplish all your wildest dreams in life." - - Kevin Smith