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Aether Adrift TTRPG is Live on Kickstarter!
Posted 4 years agoI'm posting A journal too because I want to try to get as much visibility as I can on this project as fast as possible!
It's some time in the future - Humanity has sent out seed ships to colonize the stars. One such seed ship, the United Sol Albatross, has had a catastrophic failure near an uncharted world far from earth, causing the ship to evacuate in escape pods.
Upon landing on the planet, the crew and passengers of the Albatross meet the Mikwa - a peaceful race of bipedal rabbit-like creatures - that help them establish a home base. While investigating mysterious, technologically advanced ruins, they run afoul of another intelligent species on the planet - the Fulgori, and the Fulgor Empire.
King Fulgor wants the technology of the ruins for his own nefarious schemes, and humans need the technology to have any hopes of finding and restoring their ship.
In response, the Humans and Mikwa have formed an organization called the Voyagers to fight back the Fulgori, and discover the secrets buried in the ruins!
Join The Voyagers Now!
We've been working extremely hard on getting this ready for Kickstarter over the last couple of years. I'm afraid it will come off as pandering to say this, but we want to put minority and LGBTQ+ representation front and center.
The Mikwa, in particular, are very queer coded. They're outwardly affectionate and friendly, extremely colorful, and they don't have anything resembling traditional gender roles or... even gender, for that matter.
I'm having trouble organizing my thoughts into anything coherent, but I hope you'll take the time to give our kickstarter page a read. This has been a long journey, and I'd be honored if any of you want to walk it with us.
It's some time in the future - Humanity has sent out seed ships to colonize the stars. One such seed ship, the United Sol Albatross, has had a catastrophic failure near an uncharted world far from earth, causing the ship to evacuate in escape pods.
Upon landing on the planet, the crew and passengers of the Albatross meet the Mikwa - a peaceful race of bipedal rabbit-like creatures - that help them establish a home base. While investigating mysterious, technologically advanced ruins, they run afoul of another intelligent species on the planet - the Fulgori, and the Fulgor Empire.
King Fulgor wants the technology of the ruins for his own nefarious schemes, and humans need the technology to have any hopes of finding and restoring their ship.
In response, the Humans and Mikwa have formed an organization called the Voyagers to fight back the Fulgori, and discover the secrets buried in the ruins!
Join The Voyagers Now!
We've been working extremely hard on getting this ready for Kickstarter over the last couple of years. I'm afraid it will come off as pandering to say this, but we want to put minority and LGBTQ+ representation front and center.
The Mikwa, in particular, are very queer coded. They're outwardly affectionate and friendly, extremely colorful, and they don't have anything resembling traditional gender roles or... even gender, for that matter.
I'm having trouble organizing my thoughts into anything coherent, but I hope you'll take the time to give our kickstarter page a read. This has been a long journey, and I'd be honored if any of you want to walk it with us.
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Posted 6 years agoWe've launched the Aether Adrift Jumpstart on DriveThruRPG! If you like my art, you should give it a look - it has a lot of full color art that I haven't uploaded here before!
https://demonskunk-studios.squaresp.....t-has-launched
https://demonskunk-studios.squaresp.....t-has-launched
Whew. Finally done uploading 2018.
Posted 7 years agoOh my god, I'm finally finished uploading all of my art from 2018. That's a weight off my shoulders.
Soon I need to upload 2019's so I don't get behind again.
Gimme the comments!
Soon I need to upload 2019's so I don't get behind again.
Gimme the comments!
Aether Adrift Discord + Playtesting
Posted 7 years agoHey, I know I haven’t said much about it on this account, but I’ve been working on a pen and paper RPG.
The premise is that Human colonists have crash landed on a strange alien planet made of floating landmasses. They're too far from home to call for help, their ship is stuck in orbit and the escape pods containing colonists and supplies are scattered across the world. They form a coalition with one of the local peaceful alien species, the Mikwa, to help them fight back against an expansionist alien empire, the Fulgori. both Humans and Fulgori want the technology contained in the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. Humans hope it can help them help them repair or replace their ship. The Fulgori want it to further their military might.
As I mentioned earlier, it uses Savage Worlds Deluxe as a base and will build onto it with island/terrain generation rules and gear modification/crafting rules, as well as new Edges, Hindrances, Races, Gear, and a full bestiary. The game's focus will be on adventure and exploration. The core book and planned supplements will focus on wilderness survival in the environments and delving into those ancient structures.
We keep a weekly blog that updates with information on the setting, artwork, and concepts for things to come.
We're still early in production, so it's nowhere near ready to purchase, but we're hoping to be on Kickstarter in April, so we're pushing to raise as much awareness before then as we can.
I hope you'll take a look, we'd love to hear what you think! You can click the cover image, or the link below this to check out our site where all of this is going on.
http://www.demonskunkstudios.com/aether-adrift
Additionally, we’re going to be opening up our Discord to the public. You can join via this link here: https://discord.gg/EeZMqQA
And we’re going to be starting playtests this coming Sunday, assuming everything goes according to Keikaku.* Also this discord is exclusively SFW, so not smut in there.
*Editor’s note: Keikaku means plan.
The premise is that Human colonists have crash landed on a strange alien planet made of floating landmasses. They're too far from home to call for help, their ship is stuck in orbit and the escape pods containing colonists and supplies are scattered across the world. They form a coalition with one of the local peaceful alien species, the Mikwa, to help them fight back against an expansionist alien empire, the Fulgori. both Humans and Fulgori want the technology contained in the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. Humans hope it can help them help them repair or replace their ship. The Fulgori want it to further their military might.
As I mentioned earlier, it uses Savage Worlds Deluxe as a base and will build onto it with island/terrain generation rules and gear modification/crafting rules, as well as new Edges, Hindrances, Races, Gear, and a full bestiary. The game's focus will be on adventure and exploration. The core book and planned supplements will focus on wilderness survival in the environments and delving into those ancient structures.
We keep a weekly blog that updates with information on the setting, artwork, and concepts for things to come.
We're still early in production, so it's nowhere near ready to purchase, but we're hoping to be on Kickstarter in April, so we're pushing to raise as much awareness before then as we can.
I hope you'll take a look, we'd love to hear what you think! You can click the cover image, or the link below this to check out our site where all of this is going on.
http://www.demonskunkstudios.com/aether-adrift
Additionally, we’re going to be opening up our Discord to the public. You can join via this link here: https://discord.gg/EeZMqQA
And we’re going to be starting playtests this coming Sunday, assuming everything goes according to Keikaku.* Also this discord is exclusively SFW, so not smut in there.
*Editor’s note: Keikaku means plan.
Wayfarer, Echo 6 and my Blog
Posted 11 years agoHey, I dunno how many people actually check my journals here, but I have a couple of quick updates.
First of all: Wayfarer has been put on the back burner. It's simply too big of a project to do as my first RPG, so I'm hanging it back until I get a little more experience under my belt. I AM NOT abandoning it, and it WILL get done, it'll just be a bit.
Echo 6 is the new project I'm working on.
Echo 6 is an action oriented game where you play as custom built androids, you have a large amount of freedom when creating your character, and when advancing your character. Expansion Modules let you do things like gain the ability to fly, resistance to damage types, turn invisible, or move freely in water, and are designed to be switched in and out relatively freely, so you're not bound into one role when playing the game, but if you want to marry yourself to a role, you can achieve that cheaper than having a lot of hot-swappable options. The game's currency for upgrades is the same for gear, so if you only need one gun, you can pour your earnings from missions into upgrading your bot - or if you're settled with upgrades you can buff your arsenal or your skills. The idea behind Echo 6 is freedom and customization.
I need to try to check back here more often to do stuff, but lately I've been caught up in a bunch of stuff - one of which was the metric shit-ton of art I hadn't uploaded that I really needed to, so I finally got that shit out of the way, and now I'm all done with 2014. I can't let myself get backed up like that again, or I think I'll just stop posting, bluh :T
Either way, my last point: My blog.
http://demonskunk.tumblr.com is my personal/business blog. It's where I usually post updates and shit about Echo 6, and any other projects I'm working on. I'm a little bad at keeping up with it, but part of the reason is that I don't really know if anyone follows it, so if you *do* follow it, and you have interest in my projects, I would appreciate it TREMENDOUSLY if you would comment on things when I post them, or answer any questions I have about that sort of thing.
Please please PLEASE show me your support vocally, I absolutely NEED confirmation that SOMEONE is interested in this, because every day is a constant battle with my self esteem about whether anyone gives a damn about these things or not.
Thank you SO MUCH if you take the time to comment on my concept art, and favorite things, I really greatly appreciate it.
Also if you want to show me monetary appreciation, you can support my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Demonskunk where I'm offering art packs and a raffle to subscribers.
thank you again c:
First of all: Wayfarer has been put on the back burner. It's simply too big of a project to do as my first RPG, so I'm hanging it back until I get a little more experience under my belt. I AM NOT abandoning it, and it WILL get done, it'll just be a bit.
Echo 6 is the new project I'm working on.
Echo 6 is an action oriented game where you play as custom built androids, you have a large amount of freedom when creating your character, and when advancing your character. Expansion Modules let you do things like gain the ability to fly, resistance to damage types, turn invisible, or move freely in water, and are designed to be switched in and out relatively freely, so you're not bound into one role when playing the game, but if you want to marry yourself to a role, you can achieve that cheaper than having a lot of hot-swappable options. The game's currency for upgrades is the same for gear, so if you only need one gun, you can pour your earnings from missions into upgrading your bot - or if you're settled with upgrades you can buff your arsenal or your skills. The idea behind Echo 6 is freedom and customization.
I need to try to check back here more often to do stuff, but lately I've been caught up in a bunch of stuff - one of which was the metric shit-ton of art I hadn't uploaded that I really needed to, so I finally got that shit out of the way, and now I'm all done with 2014. I can't let myself get backed up like that again, or I think I'll just stop posting, bluh :T
Either way, my last point: My blog.
http://demonskunk.tumblr.com is my personal/business blog. It's where I usually post updates and shit about Echo 6, and any other projects I'm working on. I'm a little bad at keeping up with it, but part of the reason is that I don't really know if anyone follows it, so if you *do* follow it, and you have interest in my projects, I would appreciate it TREMENDOUSLY if you would comment on things when I post them, or answer any questions I have about that sort of thing.
Please please PLEASE show me your support vocally, I absolutely NEED confirmation that SOMEONE is interested in this, because every day is a constant battle with my self esteem about whether anyone gives a damn about these things or not.
Thank you SO MUCH if you take the time to comment on my concept art, and favorite things, I really greatly appreciate it.
Also if you want to show me monetary appreciation, you can support my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Demonskunk where I'm offering art packs and a raffle to subscribers.
thank you again c:
Training Points Update - WayfarerRPG
Posted 11 years agohttp://wayfarerproject.pbworks.com/.....ining%20Points
I’ve updated the Training Points page on the wiki to include several new stats and training options, I’ll outline them briefly below.
Dodge Rank
Dodge rank represents your character’s ability to avoid damage. This is put into place because before it’s introduction, characters can get better armor, wield weapons better, and gain more magic, but cannot get better at dodging outsider of gaining more Dexterity or equipping magic items.
You can add points to your Dodge Rank to increase your dodge score, making it more difficult to enemies to hit you, but it costs 2 TP to increase it, and armor will reduce your Dodge score based on it’s armor check penalty.
Parry Rank
Parry Rank represents your character’s ability to redirect and deflect enemy attacks. This is similar to Dodging, but is more active. Dodge is a number, but Parry is a bonus.
When you parry, you essentially roll a ‘counter-attack roll’, comparing your result with the opponent’s. If you roll higher, you successfully parry, if you don’t, you are hit.
Some attacks will automatically break a parry, but a successful parry will allow for a Riposte attack, which I’m still working out details on - it will either be a free attack, a higher crit chance, or something that makes it more worth it than a regular hit, however.
Magic Skills
Magic skills are much like weapon skills, but the categories are broken up into the different magic schools. Each point you put into a magic skill of a certain school gets you a cumulative +1 bonus to attack rolls made for spells in that school, and a cumulative +1 bonus to caster level checks.
Magic Training
Magic Training allows you to further specialize in magic, allowing you to increase the damage of spells that use a certain element, or increase DCs to resist spells, meaning that if you want to focus in spells that have saves, you no longer have to cross your fingers and hope your target rolls especially badly.
There aren’t spells representing most of the magic schools yet, but that’s on my to-do list. I also went through and alphabetized the section, so things aren’t just in a weird jumble now.
I hope you’ll all take a look at the new section and let me know your thoughts.
I’ve updated the Training Points page on the wiki to include several new stats and training options, I’ll outline them briefly below.
Dodge Rank
Dodge rank represents your character’s ability to avoid damage. This is put into place because before it’s introduction, characters can get better armor, wield weapons better, and gain more magic, but cannot get better at dodging outsider of gaining more Dexterity or equipping magic items.
You can add points to your Dodge Rank to increase your dodge score, making it more difficult to enemies to hit you, but it costs 2 TP to increase it, and armor will reduce your Dodge score based on it’s armor check penalty.
Parry Rank
Parry Rank represents your character’s ability to redirect and deflect enemy attacks. This is similar to Dodging, but is more active. Dodge is a number, but Parry is a bonus.
When you parry, you essentially roll a ‘counter-attack roll’, comparing your result with the opponent’s. If you roll higher, you successfully parry, if you don’t, you are hit.
Some attacks will automatically break a parry, but a successful parry will allow for a Riposte attack, which I’m still working out details on - it will either be a free attack, a higher crit chance, or something that makes it more worth it than a regular hit, however.
Magic Skills
Magic skills are much like weapon skills, but the categories are broken up into the different magic schools. Each point you put into a magic skill of a certain school gets you a cumulative +1 bonus to attack rolls made for spells in that school, and a cumulative +1 bonus to caster level checks.
Magic Training
Magic Training allows you to further specialize in magic, allowing you to increase the damage of spells that use a certain element, or increase DCs to resist spells, meaning that if you want to focus in spells that have saves, you no longer have to cross your fingers and hope your target rolls especially badly.
There aren’t spells representing most of the magic schools yet, but that’s on my to-do list. I also went through and alphabetized the section, so things aren’t just in a weird jumble now.
I hope you’ll all take a look at the new section and let me know your thoughts.
Fighter and Healer fully uploaded to Wayfarer Wiki
Posted 11 years agohttp://wayfarerproject.pbworks.com/.....280773/Classes
I’ve finished uploading the Fighter and Healer character classes to the wiki now. you can get to them by clicking on the respective class names, and you’ll be taken to their main pages.
Feel free to browse through their features, and give feedback if you think something is missing, or looks like it may not fit or work.
I’m about to start the daunting task of putting up the Mage and the Rogue now.
P.S. how many people actually pay attention to these notes? I don't want to sound ingrateful, but I don't have any idea how many of you actually care about Wayfarer, and from what I've seen the number is very low.
Let me know in the comments? thanks.
[8:13:44 PM] Demonskunk: Ignore that.
I’ve finished uploading the Fighter and Healer character classes to the wiki now. you can get to them by clicking on the respective class names, and you’ll be taken to their main pages.
Feel free to browse through their features, and give feedback if you think something is missing, or looks like it may not fit or work.
I’m about to start the daunting task of putting up the Mage and the Rogue now.
P.S. how many people actually pay attention to these notes? I don't want to sound ingrateful, but I don't have any idea how many of you actually care about Wayfarer, and from what I've seen the number is very low.
Let me know in the comments? thanks.
[8:13:44 PM] Demonskunk: Ignore that.
Get my book for less than a dollar!
Posted 12 years agohttp://www.smashwords.com/books/view/297124
Well, 99c.
I'm not technically lying.
Seriously, though, you should check it out! It's a good read, it's well written, and features all kindsa slimes and goos.
Well, 99c.
I'm not technically lying.
Seriously, though, you should check it out! It's a good read, it's well written, and features all kindsa slimes and goos.
Published my Slime Pit story! only 3$!
Posted 12 years agothe finished version of Into the Slime Pit is now available in all of the most popular eBook formats on Smashwords for only 3$
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/297124
If you enjoy my work, Please support me and either spread the word, or maybe buy a copy of my book <3!
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/297124
If you enjoy my work, Please support me and either spread the word, or maybe buy a copy of my book <3!
Wayfarer RPG pre-alpha rules are on the wiki.
Posted 13 years agohttp://wayfarerproject.pbworks.com/.....g%20the%20Game
I've been sort of scrambling to get all this stuff into a usable state, but it seems I'm basically at a mental wall.
So, here's what I've got at the moment. Please, any of you who are learned and familiar with P&P RPG type dealies, please let me know what you think!
Also: I know that this system is remarkably similar to D&D/Pathfinder, as that served as my basis (Wayfarer started out as a WIP campaign setting for Pathfinder, actually), so keep that in mind, but feel free to critique any way!
Edit: the rules aren't extremely well organized right now, because I'm not sure how to catagorize them and stuff. as soon as I get things more worked out, they'll be a bit easier on the eyes.
I've been sort of scrambling to get all this stuff into a usable state, but it seems I'm basically at a mental wall.
So, here's what I've got at the moment. Please, any of you who are learned and familiar with P&P RPG type dealies, please let me know what you think!
Also: I know that this system is remarkably similar to D&D/Pathfinder, as that served as my basis (Wayfarer started out as a WIP campaign setting for Pathfinder, actually), so keep that in mind, but feel free to critique any way!
Edit: the rules aren't extremely well organized right now, because I'm not sure how to catagorize them and stuff. as soon as I get things more worked out, they'll be a bit easier on the eyes.
Art questionaire meme~
Posted 14 years agoStolen from Toxico :V (YOu're not getting it back either!)
Just want to know what you guys like/dislike about my arts :3
PROS
01. I like when you draw: ___.
02. I wish you drew more: ___.
03. I wish you drew more fanart of: ___.
04. I wish you drew more original art of: ___.
05. I wish you drew a comic of/about: ___.
06. I wish you made a tutorial about: ___.
07. My favorite part of your work is: ___.
CONS
08. I dislike when you draw: ___.
09. I wish you drew less: ___.
10. My least favorite part of your work is: ___.
OTHER
11. If I had to describe your work I’d say: ___.
12. If I had a question to ask about your work it’d be: ___?
13. The main strength & weakness of your work is/are: ___ & ___
Just want to know what you guys like/dislike about my arts :3
PROS
01. I like when you draw: ___.
02. I wish you drew more: ___.
03. I wish you drew more fanart of: ___.
04. I wish you drew more original art of: ___.
05. I wish you drew a comic of/about: ___.
06. I wish you made a tutorial about: ___.
07. My favorite part of your work is: ___.
CONS
08. I dislike when you draw: ___.
09. I wish you drew less: ___.
10. My least favorite part of your work is: ___.
OTHER
11. If I had to describe your work I’d say: ___.
12. If I had a question to ask about your work it’d be: ___?
13. The main strength & weakness of your work is/are: ___ & ___
Wayfarer Wiki Goin' up!
Posted 14 years agohttp://wayfarerproject.pbworks.com/.....arer%20Project
I've decided to make a wiki type database of Wayfarer so I can be a bit more transparent.. and organize my ideas a bit better. As of now it's sort of limited to the awkward folder hierarchy on my computer, and some widespread files here and there.
Now I'm gonna be putting mostly everything online, so you can see how things are progressing :3
I've decided to make a wiki type database of Wayfarer so I can be a bit more transparent.. and organize my ideas a bit better. As of now it's sort of limited to the awkward folder hierarchy on my computer, and some widespread files here and there.
Now I'm gonna be putting mostly everything online, so you can see how things are progressing :3
New avatar
Posted 14 years agoF5 to see plox~
COMMEND GOD DAMNIT :O I like your opinoins o3o
Posted 16 years agoif you have ANYTHING AT ALL you want to say about ANY of my art, I'd appreciate a comment. whether it be negative or positive, criticism is always wanted and welcomed. just don't be a jackass o3o;
I write these descriptions and post these pictures ont only so you can see them, but also so I can have some feedback or some input. after all, most of the stuff going into this account is going to be for Wayfarer, my "furry" pen and paper RPG, and I want to know what you all think about my ideas for it.
SO CONTRIBUTE PLZ KTHX
P.S. "Hot" and "Murr" don't help me much, so if you could elaborate as to why, and maybe how it could be moreso, I'd be a li'l happier. K thanks~
I write these descriptions and post these pictures ont only so you can see them, but also so I can have some feedback or some input. after all, most of the stuff going into this account is going to be for Wayfarer, my "furry" pen and paper RPG, and I want to know what you all think about my ideas for it.
SO CONTRIBUTE PLZ KTHX
P.S. "Hot" and "Murr" don't help me much, so if you could elaborate as to why, and maybe how it could be moreso, I'd be a li'l happier. K thanks~
