Hello -
So I’ve done a mockup cover which inspired me enough to take action into making this a post here, and start yet another project. This time it will be different.(!! - Will finish it)
An adventure for CAIRN called:
“The Lair of the Dragon Boar”
I’ve been digging this MSpaint aesthetic, and as of 2025 I started a couple of daily doodles in that style.
- The man with a wolf pelt picks up the golden fish head.
- 𝔾𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕟 𝕊𝕟𝕒𝕜𝕖 - 𝕀𝕟𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℙ𝕦𝕣𝕡𝕝𝕖 ℝ𝕦𝕚𝕟𝕤
I’ve been utilising the journal cards from my Kinopio space that uses the Dan Reisinger Perpetual Calendar:
Designed in 1987, this calendar can be configured to create over 44,000 colorful patterns. Roughly 18” x 15”
So each day give’s me a different colour set to pick from.
“Do not pass Go, do not collect $200”:
This will post will be a sort of development area as I progress this project.
[Aside]
I feel I’m everywhere on the internet, and not at the same time; lurking in the small corners of it, continuing with the reduction of social media platform reliance, and popping out of discord servers to say Hi with artwork. So why not also add to beginnings of using forum again.
[Aside End]
And so, back to the project.
Serendipitously this thought of a project also aligned to Zungeon, which Amanda P shared on discord. Zungeon, a post/manifesto by Idle Cartulary (Nova).
A snippet of the post I resonated with:
“Zines in TTRPGs in 2024 has come to mean “A5, highly produced booklet”, but that isn’t what zines have traditionally been. They were like earrings: local craft. I think that we should be embracing local craft in TTRPGs. The easiest way, is to make a dungeon.”
They’ve mentioned a Jam you can attach it to, which is always a good thing to catalogue into. I’ll also post about the progress on this. A commentary from start to finish is this post goal as well.
2025 Tony to-do
Make a Cauldron post
Put out a Cairn adventure (This is it)
Bestiary (???)
Update my CC-BY Cairn Zine with new art.
Using only free(ish) tools :
- Obsidian - Vault stored in Dropbox
- Paint.net with plugin Dynamic draw for custom brushes; I really just need a square brush that could increase in size.
I need to look into a free / open-source layout program… but.
That’s it for now, but will aim to get this done by end of Jan