I meant the fireball itself! Object source lighting is tricky, and while I dabble in it, I don't feel comfortable giving tips about it.. But the yellow on the fireball can at least give it the effect of looking like it's glowing :)
These minis look great, and I love the writeup of exactly how you got them this way!
I'm a huge fan of the skin of the Spined Devils, that's pretty perfect. What kind of purple did you use as a base there?
Also really love the peg leg devil, such a clever way to deal with a failed print! And at least in the picture you really can't tell it wasn't supposed to look that way at first.
And about the fireball: my advice would be to get bright/light yellow in the recesses. LIke a wash, but then to lighten it instead of darken. It can be a bit tricky depending on what's underneath it, getting the light colors opaque enough. But for me, that works wonder in giving glow effects.
I like it a lot! I don't have experience using such mechanics in TTRPGs, though I feel the same way about the disappointment of rolling low. However there's a few boardgames that come to mind that use similar mechanics, which are great. In Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood you have lots of tokens that you can use to buff your rolls/draws, but if you fail you get back everything you spent and you get to pick a new one on top of that. It actually has an extra sort of luck mitigation on top of that; random results are determined by custom dice, but all dice have a deck of cards equivalent that has all dice sides 3 times. You don't shuffle them in between draws, so as you go the results get more and more predictable. Would really enjoy having more games with such (bad) luck mitigating mechanics!
I'm not opposed to crowdfunding tabletop games in principle. Even bigger companies might need some guaranteed cash up front before ordering a huge print run of their product. In that respect, it's basically a preorder.
However, there's a lot of habits surrounding kickstarters that I could really do without. Arbitrary funding goals and contrived stretch goals ("we can make a game if we get funded at 40k, but now that we have 2m we can give you the game as intended all these extra bits!"), preying on FOMO, overpromising and underdelivering, launching half baked and undeveloped ideas as a kickstarter, etc. All of that just screams to me that their main goal is taking my money, instead of creating an awesome game and being solvent while doing so.
I don't really do crowdfunding games anymore. Instead I wait until it hits retail, pick up a second hand copy if it doesn't, or just don't buy it. There are exceptions to this of companies I trust to deliver, but they're few and far between.
That said, I kind of like what Cephalofair is doing with their current Gloomhaven campaign on Backerkit. It's basically a preorder for a bunch of new products that'll go in production soon, clear information, no extra FOMO bullshit, lots of content creation and events around the new products, and a really good deal compared to MRSP (and historically, their crowdfunding campaigns have been by far the cheapest way to get their products).
I did watch some anime as a kid (Pokémon springs to mind) but I think the first one I really watched as an adult was JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. A friend recommended it to me, and boy was I in for a wild ride! I still feel very fond of it, though I'm not enjoying the last season(s) as much. I don't think I've actually finished watching the last one. But the earlier parts will forever hold a special place in my heart!
Yeah it's been really fun so far! I mean we're only 2 sessions in so I don't know much about where it's gonna go yet, but so far it's a really different experience. I'm excited to play on, just gotta wait for people to get back from their holidays..
Hey! Unless there's a tabletop game named Stray that I'm not aware of, I think you might be in the wrong community (this is Tabletop, not !gaming@beehaw.org).
(Although now I'm secretly hoping there's a tabletop game just like it 😁)
D&D 5e (1x 4p): We're taking a bit of a break from our main campaign that's been running for 5 or 6 years, and one of the players is DMing a few sessions of something from the Wild Beyond the Witchlight book. We're enjoying the very strange Witchlight Carnaval! I play a Fairy druid, and as I discovered as we started playing, my character has ADHD. I'm really enjoying the silliness of the setting, and the DM is fantastic at doing silly voices which fits so well!
Bonus question of the week: one game I recommend to almost anyone is The Crew. Cooperative games are enjoyed by almost anyone, the rules are so simple to explain and fit pretty much everyone's attention span, games are short but you can play it for hours too, and depending on experience and skill you can dramatically adjust the difficulty. And it's cheap and small and easy to bring places. Great game all round!
I don't play solo RPGs myself either, but just like solo board games, there's loads of people who enjoy them (such as OP). Just because they don't appeal to you, that does not invalidate someone else's game experience and enjoyment :)
Anything you want to share about Risus and what makes it fun in your opinion?
I'm not sure, to be honest. I feel like only very few crowdfunding projects constitute "news" (and how do you decide what to include and what not?), and there's plenty of people who don't care for crowdfunding at all.
Perhaps better, the person who did an excellent weekly crowdfunding roundup on r/boardgames is also on lemmy. Perhaps we could include their posts here?
I've been trying to cultivate my home as a place my friends feel comfortable showing up to. There's a bunch of people (too many) in my life who are going through tough stuff, and lately more and more they just show up for a chat, reading a book in peace and quiet, or sleep over and have a night away from home if they need it.
It's not so much them being welcome that feels like an accomplishment (because that's just a given), but rather that they seem to have internalized that it's OK to ask for help/support and feel comfortable enough with me/us to come here.
As I'm typing this out I'm not sure if this fits in the "betterment" category, but it's a positive change in my life I've noticed and worked on lately, so submitting it anyway. 😊
Interesting question. I actually had a conversation about this with friends recently, one of the group had just gotten an ASD diagnosis and we realised we were all neurodivergent--except, did I count? We quickly concluded that that didn't really matter, but now I'm curious what y'all think.
Due to a medical event years ago, I suffered brain damage. It didn't really "break" functions, but since then I've had trouble with concentration, energy, mental planning, and perhaps most importantly I get overstimulated really easily. I can't handle a conversation while the radio is on, I wear ear plugs when I need to go into a shop, I can't watch busy/flashy tv shows, if someone is fiddling with something in their hands I get an urge to run away, etc. It might not sound like much to some, but it's left me unable to work (there's more than I described).
I realise that neurodivergence is mostly used for differently developed brains. But mine also don't function "typically". What do you think?
(And just to reiterate, it really doesn't matter, I know how I am and how my brain works now and a label isn't important to me, I'm just wondering if the general public would find it strange if I said I'm neurodivergent).
I have a similar thing for checking spelling! Don't write it in the air, but if I need to figure out the spelling of something, I just write it down and see if the colors are right. Works better in my native language than in English, especially because for some words the colors are "right" for American spelling, and for others it's the British...
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Oh nice, I love Gloomhaven! (and other massive cooperative campaign games.) Which class are you playing? (let's keep it spoiler-friendly.)