Love the space-homage-to-1ePHB-cover (intentional or not) ... pretty sure Pigeons from Hell did not contain any barbarians, green demons or bronze lingerie damsels ... remember vividly the weird, doll-eyed trio from that Basic D&D ad.
Re Thayyam: "Why are his eyes covered? Because if they were not, when he opened them he would unmake the world."
See also the chapter on Khun Daeng, "Outside, eyeless, and on fire" in Ros Morris' otherwise not entirely awesome In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand. That chapter alone is worth getting the book for. Ummmm... here.
More Slippery Time ...
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I have 2 D&D campaigns running post-End of Time event: Wilderlands 5th
Iteration and the shared Psychedelic Deadlands / Dreamer of Dreams (co-DMed
with D...
like an influencer, but stupid
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Among the new releases from James Edward Raggi the Fourth's dark fortress
in Finland is *The Music of Ericha Zann,* Jimbo's misanthropic take on the
bard...
James Raggi introduces the Nebulith
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James describes it as "Zak's best work". Also as something that you, the
audience, should buy as soon as possible.
And here's why.
RIP OFF YOUR SKIN AND KILL YOUR GOD.
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Out of game. Kind of.
I don't care about Fun. I'm not competing in the Funlympics because it's a
participation trophy and if your table isn't having Fun
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I'm Zak, I live in Los Angeles. Most of the people I know here are women I know from being a porn "actor"--so they're porn stars and strippers. So that's who I play Dungeons & Dragons with.
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Hey Zak, you wouldn-'t happen to know the artist who did that last once (Pretty lights). I always loved those spaceship designs (70s+80s I think)
dan mcpharlin
Love the space-homage-to-1ePHB-cover (intentional or not) ... pretty sure Pigeons from Hell did not contain any barbarians, green demons or bronze lingerie damsels ... remember vividly the weird, doll-eyed trio from that Basic D&D ad.
Evocative imagery - though you generally post the most interesting pictures.
If one hasn't yet - do a search for 'Theyyam dancers' and literally hundreds of versions of the red dressed Balinese fellow(?) above will come up.
The wikipedia entry on Theyyam is also a good read - dance based Hindu folk 'cult' that's thousands of years old.
Re Thayyam: "Why are his eyes covered? Because if they were not, when he opened them he would unmake the world."
See also the chapter on Khun Daeng, "Outside, eyeless, and on fire" in Ros Morris' otherwise not entirely awesome In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand. That chapter alone is worth getting the book for. Ummmm... here.
Broo!
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