Wandering Adventure Party

50+ monarchs either released or currently brewing from the tiny patch of milkweed in our yard. This one took off today#insects #butterfly

I made a typeface, it's called Flexflex I've been working on this project on-and-off for many months. Very happy to finally release it!Flexflex is a typeface that responds to spatial requirements rather than imposing them. Built on a modular system, each letter can fit inside any given rectangular container and transforms continuously if its ratio changes. In theory, it's infinitely flexible.For more information and interactive demos, see the website: https://ronikaufman.github.io/flexflex

Once this land was barren & we built a city on it out of pure HTML. Those that came after thought the city had always been here & that another could never be created but this was wrong. We built it. We can tear down & rebuild.You can leave substack. You can leave twitter. We can make new things.

Working on details#art #WIPWednesday #WIP

This morning I spent 20 minutes sitting with my kid on the back porch just listening to caterpillars chew leaves and then we watched two monarch butterflies eclose and we talked about kid's goal to see every stage of the monarch life cycle (missing: egg laying/hatching) and it was a good morning

The other day a taxi driver asked where I was from and I said I was Canadian but lived in #malaga He asked what I liked most about the city and I said it was hard to choose just one thing, but if I had to choose, it would be that everyone who arrives at my local bakery greets everyone else in line. He said: once you’ve had a civil war, you learn that it’s harder to kill people you say hello to every day.

Wrapped this one up yesterday, just need to trim and scan it. Really enjoyed the whole process.Pencil, watercolor, colored pencil, gouache and a splash of gold ink on 12x16" hotpress paper#art #frog #painting

Includes stat blocks for 20 original monsters in multiple game systems, with design notes, and accompanied by splendid old-school illustrations by @jencmars.Make your players go "NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE"!

In The Monsters Know What They’re Doing and MOAR! Monsters Know What They’re Doing, I reverse-engineered hundreds of #DnD monsters to help DMs plan their combat encounters.Now, in Making Enemies, coming Oct. 7, I explore everything that goes into creating #TTRPG monsters from the ground up. #bookstodon

First of our urban garden butterflies took off this morning after making a brief stop

It's D&D night

Few things are as disappointing as seeing a popular #DnD YouTuber publicly endorse the use of AI.No sir, it's not "inevitable , so might as well use it". AI might have a handful of legitimate uses, but supplanting human creativity is not one of them. It sure as hell does not belong in #TTRGs.