Forge of Ice 🔜 GARY CON!!

Their whole pseudo-Cenobite edgelord thing both irks and appeals to me… I could never quite sort out how I felt about that warband, but this paint job is excellent. This is the coolest I’ve ever seen this model look.

It’s gotta be religious, right?

It’s easier to get Evangelicals excited about war with Muslims than with Buddhists.

Proximity to the Holy Land is a factor, too, I’d guess.

I have NO love for religious wingnuts of any flavor, myself, but I’ve always been baffled by it.

Many fantasy settings have their own unique version of Atlantis, an advanced country that sank below the ocean. Numenor, Valyria, Lemuria, etc.

Here, that country was Tartessos, and, rather than sinking into the sea, they made the waters rise everywhere, drowning the whole world.

And I will have a TON of preview stuff, including a QuickStart guide, at Gary Con in a few weeks.

I’ve talked about it a bit, but I think this can be an Official™️ announcement: we’re nearly ready to launch our fantasy post-apocalyptic pirate Shadowdark book SHADOWSAILS on Kickstarter.

The first thing that happens when a D&D world floods? Every monster in every dungeon crawls up to the surface…

Jeeeeeeeeezus ka-reist.

I struggle to define “what is art?”, but I think this might qualify.

Rainbow!!! Hi!!!

Well, I WAS all excited about some cool Shadowdark stuff I just wrote but after coming back online after like an 18-hour break we’re apparently at war???

I’m so fucking tired of living in interesting times.

In a 24 hour period? Sure! No problem. Do the running first (sure hope a slow jog counts!), drink a couple beers, nap, eat & drink, nap, rinse, repeat.

This young fella ran out in front of me on my way to the post office today.

It felt like a suitably barbaric omen.

Good things are coming!

Art by @leafclaw.bsky.social , text from a game book I’m working on (slowly, pretty far in the background, sadly), called “The Piper’s Tower”.

my uncle runs a place in Anchorage that serves fish and chips, and he named the half portion the "Texas size" which is just an incredible troll

There must’ve been some sort of new update in the last few weeks, because it’s gone from just regular bad to almost completely unusable.

So awful it’s almost confusing. Like… WTF are they doing??

It won’t quite be done by Gary Con, but I’ve got a new thing in the works.

… well now I desperately want to read that story!

Oh yeah! I was an undergrad with some of the people involved. It’s been a hot topic here since it happened.

A youth even called me “based”.

Does this make me one of the cool adults?

I know that Fairbanks, Alaska, is a very VERY small population sample size - but I got UNIVERSALLY positive responses from people who saw this sign at my booth.

So that feels hopeful.

WTF??? Dude! Are you OK?

I’ve read Doctorow’s Enshittification book, but I’m still astonished at how BAD it’s gotten over there.

Who is paying for those 0 likes 0 posts “sponsored” ads? What are they getting out of it?

Why is the targeting SO off? If AI is so smart, why doesn’t it show me RPG KS ads instead of churches??

Just spent 20 mins on FB, and spent almost that entire time blocking ads from religious pages (often with 0 likes & 0 followers) & AI slop posts from groups I’m not in.

I still get a lot of positive use out of some of the private groups that I’m in, but, the rest of the site is basically unusable.

Wellp, I guess I can add “helped to measure a world record breakingly-tall balloon Godzilla costume for Guinness” to the list of interesting things I’ve done in my life.

Yes PLEASE.

All set up at the Alaska ComiCon in Fairbanks!

I agree completely.

I think I’ve posted about it here before, but a major expense in my “what would I do if I had infinite money” daydream would be some sort of connected film universe with a bunch of pulp heroes eventually teaming up. Tarzan, the Shadow, Doc Savage, the Avenger, etc.

I still think that a Tarzan movie *could* work today, but only if it leans HARD into the pulpy weirdness.

Give us a trilogy with Pal-Ul-Don, a secret passageway to Pellucidar, and a war between pirates and Mahars…

Give him Nazi villains to feed to dinosaurs.

Not that I do that many conventions, but I got a new sign to hang up in my booth.

If you enjoyed following my creation of this map, the finished adventure is now up for free on our itch.io page:

reverse-ettin-games.itch.io

New map, about ready for inking.