Any creative hobby is welcome, I’d love to see or hear a description of what you have in progress.
Edit: You’re welcome to keep using this thread even if it’s not wednesday, lol
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I’m crocheting my grandma a shawl for Christmas! It’s green blue red. My first time ever using colorwork, and although it’s pretty I am dreading all the ends I will need to weave in.
Working on a dungeon for my Pathfinder 1e game. Hidden in the sewers underneath the city is an underground complex of insane Derro (little halfling sized purple-skinned insane humanoids) who have been capturing people for their experiments. I have some fun encounters planned, and I intend to make them really weird and alien. Derro alchemists with sentient tumors, psychic malformed derro babies held aloft in golden cages and used as living war banners, mutated and mind controlled humans from the city above used as muscle and servants, fungus monsters, suicide-bomber homonculi, etc etc. I plan for the big reveal to be that a character they met previously (an elven alchemist who runs a free clinic in the city) to be the mastermind behind the derro lair. He’s been buying slaves and experimenting on them for centuries (a la Nazi experiments during ww2) to further his medical knowledge which he uses to help people (and eventually cure death but thats mostly for him). He brought the Derro from the deep underground closer to the surface so he could guide their research towards something more productive (the Derros racial insanity makes it difficult for them to make any lasting progress). Oh also the Derro use their alchemical knowledge to wipe the memories of the people they experiment on before sending them back to the surface. Who knows how many hidden mutants are running around aboveground, and if the nightmares of the seemingly insane are actually resurfacing memories…
Amazing stuff! How do you find Pathfinder mechanically from a DM perspective? I played a bit of 1e as a player yeaaaaars ago but have only DM’d in D&D 5e (and this has reminded me I need to figure out the next session).
I started out playing DnD 5e years ago (almost a decade now I think) and I was quickly given the title of Forever DM. As I got deeper and deeper into the game and my understanding grew I heard some people online talk about 3.5e and how much better it was. I had started to get a bit dissatisfied with 5e and after reading the 3.5e Core Rulebook it was all over. Character creation was more in depth, way more content for players and DMs, every aspect of the game was better. I played 3.5e for several years until I heard about Pathfinder and things got even better. Pathfinder 1e is my absolute favorite ttrpg system. Its everything I want out of an rpg, especially as a DM. In 5e, whenever you try to make new monsters or adjust stats the DMG just tells you to guesstimate. In Pathfinder, everything is supported by math and easy to understand forumulas to help ensure balance. I can increase a monsters hit dice to make them more powerful, give them class levels, add a template (of which there are many), or change their stats around. I love Pathfinder, and if you’re still playing 5e I suggest you get out now. Wizards of the Coast is a terrible company that abuses their customers (see OneDnD fiasco and the MtG Pinkerton Incident) and Paizo, the creators of Pathfinder, create more content for the game in one year than WoTC makes for 5e’s entire lifetime. IDK if you can PM me, but if you can please do and ill provide you with all the basic Pathfinder books as pdfs. If you like it, then go buy the actual books. Oh also Paizos books dont cost 60 dollars each.
That sounds really cool! Are you designing it all from scratch?
Ive had a lot of help lol. Kobold Press’ Midgard setting had a few new Derro monsters (Fetal Savant and Dogmoles) and Pathfinder’s Golarion setting has a lot of good Derro lore to work with. The most time consuming part is gonna be building all the Derro npc stats and balancing all the encounters. Pathfinder’s Derros are also the closest to what their actually based on, which was a fascinating rabbit hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharpe_Shaver
I have 3 cross stitch projects I’m working on right now.
This first one is actually finished, but I need to get around to washing and framing it. It was a Christmas present for my father, so hopefully I can get it done soon 😅 It’s of Zion National Park which is in Utah, and is one of his favorites. The pattern is by Awesome Pattern Studio
This next one is a silly one that I started last pride month and has been sitting at about 80% done for a year, so I intend to finish this pride month - the bi pride opossum. Just need to finish the foliage. The pattern is by Studio Ansitru
Finally my monster WIP, the 2021 stitchalong from Modern Folk Embroidery. Hoping to get this one done within this year. Since it’s only 2 colors it actually works up pretty quickly. Pattern is by Modern Folk Embroidery
Those are all of my WIPs for now. I have the materials for another project on order and possibly arriving on Friday.
I am building a budgeting webapp akin to Ynab and LunchMoney, mostly to learn Microsoft Blazor. If I can get something functional out of it, all the better.
Very cool. I’ve used YNAB for the past couple years and love it. Wish you the best luck in your learning.
Thank you!
I started sketching and drawing again. I am pleasantly surprised with what I have made. I’m also obsessed with flowers.
Edit: Leaves and I have a love-hate relationship. Let’s pretend they’re not there.
I love this! This might be a bit weird lol, but it kind of reminds me of the illustrations you’d find next to a poem in a poetry collection.
This makes me so happy to see. That’s such an amazing compliment, thank you sm! x
Those leaves look perfect for a cosmos flower. I relly like your style, it almost looks like a lino print
Thank you so much. I love line work and the style really speaks to me. Thank you for the kind words, I really doubted the leaves.
I’m working on painting up some things for Oathsworn (boardgame). I’m painting a huge monster, and I just finished painting some terrain pieces that my partner 3d printed, like a ruined building and some walls overgrown with moss. Haven’t had much time for painting lately so I’m happy to make some progress again. (now I just gotta figure out how to add pictures to a post!)
Edit: I think this should work?
I tried my hand at linoleum etching this week. Almost done with my first attempt and I really like it
This looks great! I’ve always wanted to try lino cutting.
Trying to get my AHK based virtual desktop management setup at work up and running. I have added numpad controls so it feels like the desktops are in a square pattern and it is working fine. Next up is making a small gui manager that pops up where it lets me rename the desktop I am at easily and I can see all the desktops arranged in a grid with their names. GUI is done more or less, now just to add some functionality. Then probably I need to get arrow key switching to work aaaand… I guess that’ pretty much all I need mostly.
I’m working on my story-driven farming game! The gameplay involves growing a bunch of magical crops to incrementally transform each biome from a “bad” to “good” state. I’ve had a ton of fun developing it over the last few years! Here’s the steam page (if curious): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2381040/Cirrus_Business/
This is so heckin’ cute!
Thanks so much!!
That sounds and looks adorable! I really like the theme.
I’m knitting a sweater! Taking my time with it, trying to get away from throwing myself at huge projects like I tend to do when I crochet.
This looks so tidy so far! I love cable knit sweaters.
I’ve been trying to get Midjourney to output vector graphics that I could trace to actual vector but it’s really inconsistent no matter what prompts I try. It just keeps adding details that don’t translate to vector graphics that I need to remove manually which essentially saves me no time in my workflow. There’s something here though!
I feel like AI is sucking the soul out of creative.
I disagree. I never felt creatively empowered as I am now. Removing the barrier of entry to creativity is amazing and AI didn’t change the ceiling just lowered the floor. I still spend a lot of time refining AI art to the final product just less time drafting and bootstrapping.
That’s great… I just feel something intangible behind it that is digressive or corrupting or fucked up, somehow. I can’t articulate it better than that. It’s a potent tool, though. Glad you’re able to use it in a positive way.
I totally get what you mean but I’m staying positive :)
If we fuck up handling such an amazing tool then I honestly don’t want to be a part of this society anyway.
I started a newsletter called Unzen a little while ago. It’s about building loving relationships with yourself and others (through the lens of psychology + zen buddhism). Mostly working on new articles and a distribution plan that doesn’t feel too much like my day job.
It’s no longer wednesday, but I’ve been working on getting my office set up. I’ve rented some space from a friend in the town I live in to run my IT business out of. It’s getting pretty cozy.
For the last month or two I’ve been building a set of cabinets/room dividers to hide my TV in (There’s a TV lift under there!). Construction has gone well, and I got a lot of the doors built this week (hooray! I was pretty nervous about them). But now I’m starting to butt my head up against learning how to stain wood, which I have very little exposure to… so… that’s been challenging. Hopefully I’ll figure something out… it’s turns out maple is pretty tough to stain.
Two things actually, im a basic bitch writer but im currently trying to create a 40k of an ork growing on a rune priest grave and thusly forming a new kind of ork and what havoc that may bring, im also a very amateur 3d “artist”, currently trying to create a prompt from my wafu “a medieval riot shield”
