Elden Ring Troll

This is a new introduction thread for myself. I'm Clayton Notestine ("note-styne"). I'm a learner, reviewer, and design writer in tabletop rpgs. I make tools and resources. This thread is my current list of favorite articles and projects on Explorers Design.

(reader turns over tarot card showing death) me: yikes reader: no it's okay it just means change (turns over the devil) me: oh no! reader: no no its inverted, so freedom from restrictions (turns over kitten card) me: awwww reader (white as a sheet): run. run and dont stop running

Reshare: Beyond the Pale deals with a complex situation around land, people, and persecution that's handled with enough care to render it both simple enough to understand and complex enough to give pause. Like the parables that inspired it. www.rascal.news/beyond-the-p...

Halloween with my oversized cardboard costumes. The paint had _just_ finished drying on Sussy Bird…!

Cardboard Derpy Tiger is painted and ready! 🙌 #kpop demon hunters

My Derpy Tiger #cardboard mask from KPop Demon Hunters is coming along! Missing teeth and paint…

My coffee dregs look like a sick heavy metal logo 🤘 #morktober #osr #ttrpg

Illustrations for a nautical TTRPG

Tentacle Pot 286

Exploded the floors for better legibility. A Mining Frigate schematic for the Derelict Graveyard in my game of #Mothership Dead Planet, using #SketchUp. #osr #ttrpg #rpg

Working on a Mining Frigate schematic for the Derelict Graveyard in my game of #Mothership Dead Planet, using #SketchUp. (will space out floors more for legibility)

Neighbor’s girl gave me a marker #tattoo. Do we approve? 💯!!!

🐸🍮 #lonely_puddings

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

My son is officially obsessed with Mothership RPG. Here’s his (early stages) model of his Raider ship. It’s SO COOL! #osr #mothership #ttrpg

Just ran coolest 1-on-1 session of Mothership with my son…! We played Dead Planet’s “The Screaming on the Alexis”, using a horseshoe crab exoskeleton as our Gaunt Crawler mini 😅 My son violently depressurized the cargo hanger to great effect! #osr #ttrpg #mothership

Just Tove Jannson drawing tolkien's Dwarves.

Mileships outtake no. 94

I loved @buehlmeister.bsky.social’s medieval horror “Between Two Fires” that my #osr #ttrpg #dnd feeds recommended, and now I can’t put down his friggin’ fun “The Blacktongue Thief”…. GO READ IT!

Girl with a Perler Earring

This reminds me of @weirdwonder.bsky.social’s Pilgrimage of the Sun Guard… 🤩 weirdwonder.itch.io/sunguard

#Portfolio day! Here it goes:

Drawing on paper feels guuuuuuuud fellas ♥

I wish eating didn't make you full

Heads in the ruin. E-ink sketch on Onyx Boox.

Game on #SoloSept ! All set up. Been meaning to sooner 🤷 Little bummed my laminated map is still curling. Got my solo oracle card, 4 old school PCs, 2 of the best resource books in the hobby, and my brain. Fetch a journal and let’s play a #SoloRPG

Also, to everyone else in #indie #osr #ttrpg: HIRE @dngnclub.itch.io for your graphic design jobs…! They’re ON FIRE 🔥!!!

Security detail for some bigwig from the House of the Worm

My current characters from a Tunnel Goons solo dungeon crawl I’ve been playing. I thought they were toast but they surprisingly did not die so onto the next adventure for them!

Messing around with some water-soluble oil this weekend. Kept the subject matter very self-indulgent and familiar 😀 The painting on the left was from yesterday, and I already see so many ways I could improve!

Uh oh, cleaning my home office floor and got distracted with crayons and colored pencils 🧙‍♂️

Finally made myself a dice tray / box! 🙌 Cheap-o pine box from the craft store, wood stained, then lined with black felt. Really pleased with the result! 😊 #ttrpg #osr #dnd #crafts #dice

Ged stood still a while, like one who has received great news, and must enlarge his spirit to receive it.

No RPGs or minis while on vacation in a remote location? No problem! Just butcher some old cereal cartons and bring out some pens! #ttrpg

Drew a witch knight last night

Stone Art.

We're all the same. We're all equal. No human being is worth more than another human being. We all deserve food and shelter and dignity and love.

I started to draw this elf.

When you strip away humanity

#dungeon23 12/31: The last day. One last little grove of mushrooms. ⚔️ Part of THE BLADES OF GIXA, available for preorder at paradiso.ooo/gixa

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

i'm also glad the avatar cycle of GMs was completed by katie, truly deserving to be among the greats! mark mercer - water. aabria iyengar - earth. sam riegel - pudding. katie marovitch - air.

A quick sketch I made to help me visualize some things for the RPG dungeon I'm working on :)

Spoons are a species of bowl. Knives are a species of plate. Forks are descended from a now-extinct dish that would be completely incomprehensible to the modern diner

Ambush at the White Forest Inn Half-Life 2: Episode 2 fan art from 2021