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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 11h

That'll do for a taster for now, I may come back to do more later!

Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 11h

#6 - Captain America - Cap does have a good classic costume recently released freeing me up here for a much sillier choice. Have you ever though Captain America would be cooler if he were a werewolf? No? Well it did happen and it'd be fun to include!

Captain America as depicted in his default look in Marvel Rivals - a futuristic battle armour kind of costume with armoured plates intead of his traditional scalemail and cloth looks.

Captain America as a Werewolf, bursting through his outfit, usually colloquiallu referred to as Capwolf.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 11h

#5 - Blade - imo the least successful of all the designs in game - he looks too try hard with his bad tribal tattoos and posery shades. I actually have two here.

His debut look - he needs his 70's outfit with the afro and popped collar!

Sleeveles movie look - let the man get his guns out!

Blade's default look in Marvel Rivals - a black man with cornrows wearing a black trenchcoat with red trim rolled up to the elbow revealing bad tribal tattoos on his right atm. He wears square black sunglasses and has a huge fantasy sword on his back.

Blade in his first ever comics appearance - a black man with a small afro and goatee, a white coat unbuttoned to reveal his chest, a bandolier of stakes and yellow shades poses dramatically atop some crates.

Welsey Snipes depicting Blade in the movies - a tactical jacket, small moustache and shades give the simple image of a straightforward no nonsense badass.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 11h

#4 - Black Widow - speaking of overdesigned black costumes... I strongly dislike the trend to give Natasha glowing lines all over on what is meant to be a stealth based hero.

To contrast, I suggest 90's butch Black Widow in her clean grey bodysuit with a popped collar you can't see here.

Black Widow's default costume in Marvel Rivals - a black bodysuit with red energy linges all over and a sniper rifle in one hand.

Black Widow in her 90's look - here she is a broad shouldered woman a grey bodysuit with short hair with a longer flick at the front. Her bracers are golden and there is a subtle spider insignia on her back.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 11h

#3 Black Panther - T'Challa is a man of style - it's hard to go wrong with Black, but I also kinda think that's where these things can go wrong - so much gold or silver trimming on MCU inspired designs, I'd kinda want a back to basics look that strips that all away for simple elegance.

Black Panther's default look in Marvel Rivals - a black bodysuit with some subtle inlaid designs is accented with a collar of golden claws, a colour that is also reflected in his actual claws and various accents throughout.

A relatively simple black panther costume - an entirely blue-black suit with white eyes and ribbed gloves and boots.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 11h

#2 - Angela's default look is going for barbarian-chic with an outfit designed to make you look at her positive excess of muscles. To complement this, it's gotta be Angela 1602 - dramatic curls and green scalemail give her an Pre-Raphaelite energy, or maybe just Florence Welch?

Angela's default costume in Marvel Rivals - a red headed barbarian like woman with golden boots and bikini top and colourful wrappings around her right atm, as well as a huge winged helmet and a skirt made of leather straps.

The cover of 1602 Witch Hunter Angela part one depicting the namesake character in a less revealing outfit of brassy gold, dark green scale mail and leather strapping giving an overall pre-raphaelite vibe.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 11h

#1 - Adam Warlock - Infinity Gauntlet is probably the most famous Adam Warlock story of all, and so it naturally has to be this; an absolute black bodysuit with thigh high red boots and shoulder high gloves, accessorised with the Infinity Gauntlet.

Ready for cosmic battle and the catwalk.

Art of Adam Warlock's default costume - a shirtless golden man wearing black trousers and a cape with oversized lightning bolt insignia running down the front of his otherwise bare chest.

Adam Warlock wielding ine infinity gauntlet in the comics - he wears an absolute black bodysuit, a cape which is red on the exterior and gold on the interior with a dracula collar clasped with a little skull emblem and thick high red boots and shoulder length red gloves.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 11h

As I'm back on my superhero nonsense a bit atm, one extremely nerdy thread: One Costume every single Marvel Rivals character should get except possibly for ones I haven't read any of their appearances.

Some will just be a major missing costumes, some will be fun.

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Kaidachu @kaidachu.bsky.social · 11d

For the people who think they are bothering the artist by commissioning them again and again

YOU ARE NOT!! WE LOVE YOU!! 😳💗
Biggest form of flattery in my mind!

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 21h

Ooh, my Mum posted about it too elsewhere and she recieved a strong contender: a tooth from a "road milling machine" - not something I was familiar with!

Metal teeth from a road milling machine - large hardened silvery metal caps mounted on black metal bases.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 22h

Do these help at all?

The metal object viewed from the flat end displaying a hollowed interior.

A close up of the tip end of the metal object displaying the different material at the tip.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 22h

Don't suppose anyone has an idea what this object is we found in the recently expanded paths in our local woods. The protrusion on thr top seem to be some kinda broken weld maybe?

I'm somewhat concerned it looks like a small shell or something?

A metal object held in Alex's hand possibly resembling a rusted piece of ammunition.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 1d

I find it fascinating that although whales are the largest animals on the planet there's a ton of species we just don't know much about.

There are 24 species of beaked whales and some have only been discovered in the last few decades.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 2d

So, the D&D spell Transport via plants requires a "large or larger plant" is normally ingerpretted as trees but I'm trying to work out strategic options that could be kept on our airship.

Prize winning marrow? Giant lilypad? Giant rhubarb? Mass of algae? Kelp?

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, these ones were actuslly very good! Like, an 8.7/10 - not transcendent but the best I've had in quite a long time!

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 4d

I don't have carveries often, probably less than once a year, but I think owners don't understand what it means when they say"help yourself to roast potatoes"

A stacked high carvery meal with obscene quantities of roast potatoes

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 4d

I decided to have another go at Mass Effect: Andromeda this morning and man am I out of practice at 00's style cover shooters mindset wise after a year of Marvel Rivals 😅

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 5d

A D&D character who I'd been playing for a year was recently disintegrated by the Big Bad. She was a reporter who'd ended up with the group to hide from a cult, and been unlocking her fire giant heritage. She stole a mysterious orb from them, but was hit by disintegrate as she tried to disengage...

Ingrid - a blonde woman wearing a shirt, large round glasses and a cropped jacket is hit with a disintegration spell mid movement, her left side crumbling away in black ash edged with toxic green energy, dropping her sword and a pink orb in the process.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 5d

A D&D character who I'd been playing for a year was recently disintegrated by the Big Bad. She was a reporter who'd ended up with the group to hide from a cult, and been unlocking her fire giant heritage. She stole a mysterious orb from them, but was hit by disintegrate as she tried to disengage...

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 5d

Was thinking about character who I'd like to play in Marvel Rivals, and then just decided to draw some - starting with Bishop cos a guy who absorbs damage from other attacks to unleash it could be a very fun mechanic.

I'm very much team big long hair when it comes to Bishop designs.

An illustration of the X-men member Bishop - a stern looking black man with a beard, intense red eyes and long hair with grey streaks - he's wearing a deep blue uniform with yellow accents, as well as some dented metal plates on his chest and a bright red scarf.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 6d

So because my long time home game D&D character is called Urania, and there was that delightfully cringe-inducing scene in @erikaishii.bsky.social's "Hint" series involving a statue of the Muse Urania in @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social, I'm afraid I had to design her a cursed costume...

Alex's D&D character Urania - a young and full figured caucasian woman with massive moose like antlers, her hair in a long braid phasing from brown to green and wearing a vaguely Grecian dress in a bronze colour except on her breasts which the fabric shifts to a bright brassy gold.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 9d

Bonus: If you'd like a short "capstone ruleset" to test it with, I can type up Valkyrior Blade - a game about being the owner of of an unbeatable cursed weapon and the burden and corrupting nature of power.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 9d

It's extremely a work in progress, but if anyone wants a FREE early draft copy to peruse, use, toy around with, critique etc, let me know and I'll ping you a link!

Any feedback would be incredibly useful!

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 9d

AdHoC (Adventure Homebrew Core) is essentially a foundation RPG - it has just 10 skills which can have up to four d6 each, and basic rules in place for all the mundane stuff for a rules lite adventure game.

You have a game design mechanic you wanna slot into a low combat game, AdHoC is that base

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 9d

Now, pretty pleased with how that went BUT if you would like to help me test it more got two options for you!

1) If anyone wants to play my first test module and give me some feedback that'd be great!

2) WoF is built on top of a TTRPG base system I'm calling AdHoC, and that is open for testing!

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