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Scottttt Parker
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Hi! I’m Scott and I’m here mainly to share my maps and engage in some tabletop gaming discourse. I’m also a theatre maker so might share some of that too 😊 Theatre kid 🎭, ttrpgs 🎲, maps 🗺️, ex-evangelical 🙌, queer dad 🏳️‍🌈 He/Him
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I’ve finished the full 4 levels of Rakshasa themed dungeon. As far as maps go, it’s a little overwhelming but I’ll take that as a lesson. I was working on drawing lava but I think I got better at drawing tigers too - the bathhouse tigers are SIGNIFICANTLY better. Question is… what do I work on now?
Thanks so much Evelyn! That means a lot. It really does kinda have a more cyborgy feel - colours need to be a bit more muted for Mothership probably (couldn’t bring myself to do it tho).
#over/under - I’m not winning, not close. But I did get paid a bit to remodel a dive bar called the Savage Dive. Good excuse to try my hand at a different type of map. #maps #ttrpg #mothership
Flick me a DM with your email and I’ll send you a hi-res version 😊
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I’m on! #over/under - kinda nerve wracking on the server, so much happening… I’ve sent my first message requesting work, let’s see how we go!
#ttrpg
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The best kind of adventures are the ones where the party can miss huge chunks of it if they don't pay attention. Like, whole dungeon levels, entire contexts. Flipping love it
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All a bit of an experiment really, isometric jungle - I had a 9-5 zoom meeting today so spent most of it drawing (helps me focus). Not sure if at some point an isometric map reaches a detail overload. Once I chuck it into photoshop we’ll see if it holds up.
Here my current WIP. Ancient witch hunter cult temple - feat. Rooms of punishment, judgement and prisons. There’s also an enormous alien spire in the middle (it goes down to a big ol subterranean jungle) #ors #maps #dnd
FYI - it’s called the Fracture Garden and it’s a decaying fairy realm. I might post some of the area descriptions if I can find what I wrote.
So I never ended up submitting to the one page dungeon contest this year. I did finish the map but wasn’t fully happy with the concept… I might use it as a fairy realm for my Dolmenwood campaign. With and without clouds. #osr #dolmenwood #d&d
Option 2 for one page dungeon 2025: it’s a castle ballroom with a big split down the middle… climbing thru the rift brings you into a dark reversal of the castle. I think this has to do with dark secrets. Like the ballroom opened up and all the aristocracy’s darkest dreams are on the other side.
Started work on my one page dungeon for 2025. I want to be a bit more traditional this year, so here’s option 1:
A dwarven dungeon (featuring kid’s paint smudge)… I like the vibe and the giant stone faces but not sure who’s in this one (also not sure how to fit this into one page!) #osr #dnd
😂😂😂 please! 100% will use it.
That makes sense. We’re playing Dolmenwood at the moment so getting to the various dungeons is definitely a task in itself.
Love it… last session we gave a boring excuse and the PC stayed and guarded the horses… but looking at some of yours makes me wonder if there are ways to seed some lore in there too (maybe they could come back to the table with a rumour of some kind)
Re: option 1… I’ve always avoided this bc of character sheet paralysis but I hadn’t considered that this is mainly a problem with crunchier systems and old school play is much simpler. At the end of the day, the stats for players are fairly standardised so this is a much more viable option.
Yeh! I saw these rules but figured they were more appropriate when you’re playing longer for longer blocks of time. My players are on discord for 2-3 hours a week and it would obliterate momentum to send them back to town at the end of each session!
True that - I think a DC20 is maybe the exception haha!
Question for the old school dnd folks - how do you handle player absence mid dungeon/wilderness? Do characters go back to town? Do you say they’re still with the party? In 5e I’d just hand wave it but we’ve been so precise with tracking rations, torches, time etc. it feels wrong to do that. #osr
Oh yep for real.
I recently stopped asking players to roll for actions their characters specialised in because with a +15 it was impossible to fail. Ie. Barb was like, I want to run and jump in thru the window of this collapsing building and rescue those inside, I was like… yes… that happens.