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Gandalf flashes his big naturals at instant speed (by account @beanrob on Moxfield)
Picture of a book cover titled "The Castle in Transylvania", Jules Verne. "Back from the dead: the original zombie story"
Discord chat: TheDevTeam (he/they)|Patsia Also I like how Impossible Magic is arriving just in time for Anowah to add a Necromancer dedication and really complicate his relationship to the gods. Kaylar (She/Her) Amber: "Hoe don't do it." Anowah: [suddenly wearing those spare necromancer robes] "THE BONE LORD RISES" Amber: "omg..." any time he uses necromancy he rolls to see if the primordial flame burns him in protest John Latta I've already been turned into a green candle, just completing the transformation... It's well known that true necromancers cast purple/green magic, it's the designated flavor type for necro candy.
A bald, muscled male wizard in flowy red robes and cape (blue and black trim belt and shirt) with etched gold sigils and rune stone belt icons holds up their hand from which swirls a series of sigils in light aquamarine. These same sigils cover their face and arms, and their eyes glow the same color. Hands are covered in gemmed rings, and a sigil stone gauntlet covers their left forearm.
Cropped Photoshop window zoomed in on small furry brown alien in green power armor, a glowing power symbol hovering over their head - unlike previous version, this one has a series of mobile hip canister A2A heat seeking missiles (2 per side), and a shoulder mounted hover propulsion system currently on cooldown. The gun is gone, the alien now crossing their arms in front of them instead - no colors have been chosen for the additional elements yet.
Screenshot of a Photoshop window, gray canvas, with two floating characters - Top-Down, a cartoonish darkling shadow with a bulbous elliptical head, arms and legs and overhanging rodent/bunny-like ears, slightly cropped off here; the second, a muscular yellow skinned humanoid without a nose or ears, in cloth streetfighter gear; third, a brown furred alien with long pointy ears, tusks, (no nose) in green battle-armor, wielding an oversized energy weapon - a glowing green power emblem floats over their head.
Screenshot of a Photoshop window, gray canvas, with two floating characters - the first, a cartoonishly darkling shadow with a bulbous elliptical head, arms and legs and overhanging rodent/bunny-like ears; the second, a muscular yellow skinned humanoid without a nose or ears, in cloth streetfighter gear.
Cropped screen shot of Foundry Virtual Tabletop- environmental mist envelops the entire page; a series of dead tar-zombie tokens in the top left, the central token of my player character (hooded skeletal sorcerer) crackling with blue haste lightning, next to my character's huge animal companion, a grey and white megafauna roc. Cropped larger tokens at the top left corner and top center are two huge wolf companions.
A series of eight homemade template cards with text title, image, and numerical and dice values "PP, HP, AP, DP", and some additional feature text. L to R, Nephagra; Choppo; Ioao; Roppo; Nommo; Zeke; Moko; Miko's Weaponry.
A muscular, shirtless, saturated yellow-skinned alien floating in mid-air wearing pants, wrists and shin wraps and metal bead necklace. The alien has no nose or ears. Floating to the right of them, a darkling alien with nothing but slits for eyes on a perfectly spherical head without any other facial features whatsoever, two giant bulbous spherical ears, and an almost cartoon-esque tiny body.
bust of a dragon with huge purple neck and head-frills, a fanning dark green scale pattern, and a purple poison marking along the beadier underscales, lower jaw and eye socket. The dragon's mouth is open, and from their bright blue tongue drips green poison. Has dark green spines and outer plate scales.
Steven Furst as Vir Cotto from Babylon 5, waving goodbye to the offscreen staked-head of the Shadow's Mr. Morden.
An obsidian dragonborn barbarian in nothing but a cloth and leather belt and draping, with a large fiery great axe, one foot raised on a rocky outcrop. Veins of magma run across their scales, and their chest cavity is split, sharing the same energy.
A cropped screenshot of an open photoshop window with various angelic and devilish figures locked in combat, all at varying stages of line art through coloring progress.
screen capture of a Photoshop window crop with figures on a grey canvas in various stages of incompleteness. From L to R - line art in progress of a giant winged angel in stylized chest plate and pauldron with feathers sprouting out of the area where their eyes and nose are, roaring a battlecry while mid-swing of a huge claymore; unfinished line art of a similar angel tumbling backward as spiny devil lunges down at it weilding the blade of a broken spear; cropped off to the side, another angel with a spear rears back mid-air to smite a partially seen greater devil.
cropped headshot of "Professor Jiang", or Jiang Xueqin
Album cover for Bif Naked's "Spaceman", Bif in a semi-sheer skirt squatting by mossy rocks in front of a graffiti wall with an alien. The image plays up the scene in low saturated blue and green tones.
Terracotta pots with rolled chocolate cake beds supporting cacti decal macarons.
A screenshot of a giant scorpion, but growing from it's head is the upper body of an orc arrayed in animal skulls and leather armor discards, the upper half of a young dragon's jaw arrayed like a huge pauldron over their left shoulder. They grip a clawed fist weapon in their left hand as well.
A gaunt, floating humanoid eldritch skeletal abomination, with tentacled "hair" and tentacles unfurling/uncoiling from their back, including seven main ones pulsating with a neon green light. The abomination also has extravagantly long nails on both hands and feet.
A screeshot of a giant humanoid skull with ram horns, snakes sprouting from eye sockets holding toothy snake eyes in their mouths; two giant muscular human arms with claws sprout from the skull's lower jaw hinge. Jaws are open, revealing a hived interior dripping with moisture. The entire creature rests on twelve massive spider legs. Tiny brood young scamper around on the ground, and hang within the cavernous maw.
Picture of a glass with text "looks like it's fuck this shit o'clock" sitting on a table.
Parks n' Rec Meme "believe it or not jail" template with Fred Armisen in his role as Raul from "Sister City" EP, but instead goes like this: Enemies weak to fire? Fireball. Bunch of enemies together? Fireball. Enemies in the camp? Fireball Enemies next to civilians? Believe it or not, also fireball. We kill a lot of giants. Because of fireball.
Joseph Ducreux's "self portrait of the artist, mocking" painting 1793.
Chad Kroeger holding a picture frame in the music video "Photograph" by Nickelback.
A sapphire dragonborn in black plate armor and tattered cape stands battle ready. Has a large coffin-shaped kite shield with a stylized death's head motif, and a longsword lit with a purple flame.
a screengrab of a desktop background, complete with taskbar - a cropped shot of a black dragonborn hexblade in wolf furs and leathers, their cloak opened to their cracked chestplates containing an infernal blaze. Two blades, a longsword and a scimitar, are held in each hand, swirling with flames. The Photoshop shortcut icon rests under their chin.
A bust of a hooded, mummified skeletal sorcerer with beaded necklaces and nose rope, shoulders sprouting a feathered mantle, sitting nestled in a gold token ring. Their eyes glow with an orange flame. "JOHN LATTA ART" appears as an overlaid text.
Downward pic of four custom design t-shirts lying flat on a table with a humidifier and drapes nearby. Heather shirt has a bunch of Muppets on it "Dungeon Muppets"; black shirt has a gnocchi with a fork stuck in it dressed as Loki "Gnoki"; blue shirt has the Golden Girls dressed as the traditional D&D party, "Cheesecake & Dragons"; navy shirt has Beaker from the Muppets freaking out at his head sprouting fiery pink tentacles, while dropping a bunch of fantasy equipment including a chest-mimic and green d20 emblazoned with a critical miss.
Slaps roof of car meme Car salesman: you can fit so much AI slop in there Car, labeled 'product'
A screenshot of a Photoshop window - a dimensional horror taking the shape of a horned, chitinous opened-mouth skull mounted on twelve arachnoid legs, immense humanoid clawed arms sprouting from its ear cavities; coiled snakes sprout from its eye sockets, their mouths holding eyes with pupils that separate to reveal tiny fanged maws.
Photo of a computer screen, browser tab open to page "Star Trek the Cruise X - a year of Star Trek celebrations at Sea: 2027 is packed with milestones as we celebrate 40 years of The Next Generation, 10 years of Discovery,5 years of Lower Decks, and 10 years of Star Trek: The Cruise! Join over 3000 devoted fans, plus a star studded Crew from across the Star Trek universe, for once in a lifetime interstellar moments aboard the Star Trek the Cruise X."
An anthropomorphic mushroom character in Georgian-era inspired pirate clothing with various food and cooking utensils tossing bits of themself to their wild floral spore hound. A 'The Wildsea' character sheet makes up the background
An ironbound Wildsea character - sketch and form blocking, over top of a Wildsea character sheet overlay.
Original release poster for The Mummy, 1999
Close crop of Jeffrey Combs as psi Corp investigator Harriman Gray on Babylon 5
Twitter quote post by not here @acutenausea May 23,2023 "I've never been pitched a wargame by a female". Oh that's weird! Because I'm pretty sure that I, Erin Escobedo, pitched a feature-complete prototype of Meltwater to AEG (and you specifically) at GenCon 2017. I've retained the relevant emails, if your memory is failing. Post by Ryan S. Dancey (he/his) @rsdancey May 23 2023 Replying to @elizhargrave I have taken more than 1000 game pitches since 2016. I would say that less than 10% of those were from female designers. Effectively none of them were games AEG would publish. We did a call for submissions from female designers specifically; we got one publishable design- show more
A picture of a pile of 14x17 inch pages piled on each other, the top one featuring a huge large mouthed monster chasing a snowman. "Blood on The Snow" appears in hand drawn text below, while a word bubble caption at the top reads "once upon a snowdrift".
Will Jobst 2:49 PM today as charitable as I can be, I think this needs a complete rethink in tone, content, structure, and how it upholds the stated design goals. This has killing, gambling debts, coercing information, and is an endless check-fest for players. Would you want to play this adventure yourself? Remi Gateway 3:49 PM today This scenario presents Neopets as being about ruthless back alley doctors who kill thieves on behalf of bankrupt gambling addicts. The other scenario spends a lot of wordcount on what happens if the players are liars and thieves who side with the villains. I'm... confused.
A Photoshop screen cap of a greyscale image: a muscular dwarf battlemind in plate and scale armor leaning on a large maul. A crackling energy halo encircles their head, and their right eye is scarred, and also glows with the same energy.
A robed skeletal sorcerer with flaming orange eyes, rope necklaces and feather mantle, inset in a golden token circle. JOHN LATTA ART in font covers the bottom half of the image.
@brunodias.bsky.social: Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people. (Quote post of Zoë Quinn @unburntwitch.com) I know this because they tried to recruit me and I strongly considered it but they’re also a “do an unpaid writing test where you have to also make it playable” company so that’s not something I vibe with. Reply from @gwenckatz.bsky.social They made me do 12 interviews. Then they rejected me based on my resume.
A picture of a takeout tray. The front compartment is filled with rice, lamb and beef, perfectly flattened into a plateau with the sides of the container.
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A winged skeletal sorcerer with glowing orange eyes in ancient, tattered red robes wielding a flaming staff, shedding a bright orange silhouette.
The invention of the internet a few decades ago was a boon for knitting and hand-lettering. In a similar way, the growth of AI and the decline of social media will be a powerful stimulus for such uber-traditional forms as face-to-face storytelling, on-location sketching, and recitation. Whatever it ends up being called, I plan to be part of that cultural countermovement.
A red dragon bust with silhouette shadow and smoldering eyes. JOHNLATTAART.COM
A draconic sorcerer drow with long white hair carrying a magical full blade, dressed in blue scale plate armor, a blue hatchling straddling their shoulders. A bedraggled blue cape and tabard adorn the character as well. Half their body seems to have gone through draconic transformation, including a tail that flicks out from underneath their skirting. "JOHNLATTAART.COM"
A cutaway scene of a bare chested goblin barbarian in fur cape and stretched leather gauntlets and greaves wielding carved bone glaives and wearing a giant rat skull, wandering through a sewer tunnel that feeds into an underground runoff. "johnlattaart.com" is splashed across the image.
Posted by Mark Cuban @mcuban on X: Creators should LOVE AI. AI doesn't make uncreative people creative. It always creators to become exponentially more creative. Creative iteration that used to take hours, days or weeks, can happen in minutes. The different routes you wanted to take but didn't have the money or skill to do. Now you can do. The number of gatekeepers drops every day and will eventually hit zero. If you know how to tell a great story, you will LOVE AI.
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a ragged robed winged skeletal sorcerer with feather mantle and rope/feather necklace and nose piercing, holding a fiery ash staff of fire. The skeleton's eyes glow orange, and they cast an orange shadow.
A dark skinned smiling centaur paladin with rich curly hair, stag body and antlers laced with holly in full plate armor wielding a lance and shield stands among some birch trees in a wintery cutaway.
Screenshot of Foundry VTT, a small crop of a cave, with a general feat from my character sheet - ANCESTRAL PARAGON - UNDEAD EMPATHY - Your relationship with undeath gives you a stronger bond with other undead. You can use Diplomacy to {Make an Impression} on mindless undead or make simple requests of them. As long as there aren't living creatures nearby, they usually let you speak. If the undead creature currently is in the thrall of a creature whose level is higher than yours, you typically need a critical success on your Diplomacy skill check.
screenshot of the Forge VTT - a snow-covered map of a narrow chasm with a thin wooden bridge. Four character tokens are in observation mode on it, and a dullahan token + large mount stands nearby. My digital character sheet for "Anowah" is cropped on the right side.
a screenshot of a monstrous spiderlike creature with a skull-shaped carapace, giant humanoid arms, and snake-stalk eyes.
shirt with Waldorf and Statler dressed as fantasy RPG spellcasters (warlock and wizard, respectively) summoning a spectral hand doing "thumbs-down" signage, with the text "MAGE HECKLE" - a d20 replaces the central bridge of the 'H' in Heckle.
A photoshop window screenshot of a canvas with an initial sketch of a winged skeletal sorcerer with a blazing head and flames jumping along their wingspan and rest of body.
A mega-fauna winged sorcererous skeleton in tattered red robes, a fiery glow surrounding them and lights up their eyes. One arm is bent in supplication, the other grasping a fiery staff. Rope necklaces drape the character's head connected through a nasal pin, and feathers and small stones hang off them.