A Pathfinder project, start to finish.

I asked officialpaizo about how they come up with a product and the steps taken. The response is now deleted (for what ever reason) but I was able to open the links that covered the making of their Dwarves of Golarian companion before that happened. Thought I’d share, The Ecology of a Pathfinder Product for a glimpse in to what happens from idea to done in the life of an Paizo RPG product.

Part 1: Hatching an Outline

Part 2: The Awkward Development Years

Part 3: An Outbreak of Art

Part 4: The Editor’s Compositional Fitness Challenge

Part 5: Layout

Part 6: Move 6d6 Tons, and what do you get?

So if you are thinking of wanting to make your own RPG goodies, this is a quick view of what a Paizo product goes through. If you are thinking of making something for Pathfinder, and aren’t looking to make money off of it, take a look at their Community Use Policy too. There is also a link there in case you do want to make money.

Wandering through the darkness, found this old post from 2015. Lets throw it out there again.

Don’t get too close to my fantasy...

Inktober 2019 (part 2) by Will Murai

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A private lookout tower near Whitefish, Montana.

Photos by @isaacsjohnston​

So I stumbled across this adorable audio a few days ago uploaded by @thisjenlewis and when this scene immediately popped into my head I had to quickly animate this.

Audio by: @thisjenlewis and nephew.

by  Shuichiro Yamamoto

by  Moxuan Zhang

Northern Cheyenne 1890, Portrait Bird Wild Hog; also known as Hedge Hog

Christian Barthlemess, in identifying a photograph he took of the son, wrote the name as “Hetch (Hedge) Hog.” Casey Barthelmess remembers him as an unusually expert dancer, much admired by women. His discharge, dated at Fort Keogh May 15, 1891, said he was born in Wyoming, was twenty-two years old, six feet tall, copper complexion, black hair and eyes, and by occupation when when enlisted (September 18, 1890) a hunter.

“The Wild Hog on the list of Casey’s scouts was Bird Wild Hog, whose father was one of the headmen under Little Wolfand Dull Knife, Mari Sandoz says that the senior Wild Hog was a ‘big broad man with a broad humerous face’, and that the son was named Little or Young Hog. Bird Wild Hog died August 31, 1940. His widow Lydia, daughter of old Little Wolf, was killed at Sheridan, Wyoming, in 1958 – when she was ninety –by an automobile.”

National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution Repository Loc.:        Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland.

Daily Life Of A Saloon Girl in The Old West

Most people associate saloon girls with prostitutes. While that went on, most saloon girls were there to simply entertain the men so they would stay and continue to buy more alcohol which meant they spent more money. Many saloon girls were widows who had no other means of support or young girls who were seeking something more than working on their family farm. The girls were to dance with the men and get the men to buy them drinks. The men would pay full price for the girl’s drink, not realizing that it was really just tea or colored water. The girls received a small commission on the number of drinks they sold plus a weekly salary. Many saloon or ‘dance-hall girls’ made more money dancing with the men than they could as a prostitute.

Read more http://curioushistorian.com/saloon-girls-the-soiled-doves-of-the-old-west

by  Bastien Lecouffe Deharme

Artist: Frank Quitely

by  Bangku An

This always makes me smile.

Reblog and spread some happiness.

I re-designed the map order worksheets during my time at WOTC as manager of cartography. Mainly it was just to make the worksheets completely digital and accessible for anyone who was to design maps for our game worlds. These are the final versions which were being used up till 2003 at WOTC.  The list of map symbols goes back to the dawn of role playing game maps and TSR.  Dave Sutherland and Dennis Kauth were the two people who really started all of the organized nature of making map orders easier to produce for the TSR RPG R&D design department.  

Dennis Kauth was originally from an engineering background, so he even made sure that all of the symbols had a corresponding number in case of the situation where someone was not able to draw things out in a competent manner, they could just simply write a number on the map reference and circle it, thus making “it” the object or feature from the master key.  The mapping standards is one of the first things Dave & Dennis showed me when I started work in the mapping department at TSR in the early 90s.  

In those days the whole thing was a large packet of stuff in a folder,  including several different sized blank map pages, the symbols list and a  blank fold-up poster map sheet printed with a hex grid for the old ‘gazetteer” style maps and a few examples of how to draw a proper map reference.  For the most part everyone in R&D used these map standards to create their map references,  however there were always a few that would come in on cocktail napkins and such but it was really worth it to have a standard  for the map orders.  Fun little bit of history,  Good times and Good gaming!