Hello dear readers!
Hot off the heels of my last post (if a week later counts as hot), here is another short issue of the Penflower Post.
I know these are usually biweekly, but I wanted to get back into the regular posting schedule.
As I write this on Friday morning I have been feebly wrestling with a cold for the past two days. One of the things I loathe most in life is having creative inspiration but feeling too ill to do anything about it.
Fortunately I’m beginning to feel a little better and have been able to put pen to paper.
Modular Fantasy RPG Project Update
Something I completely forgot to mention last week was that I have finally decided on a name for my work-in-progress modular fantasy TTRPG.
I’ve decided (about 90%) to settle on Chimeric Fantasy. The idea is that if I ever choose to make other genre variants, I can continue to use “Chimeric” as the main title. E.g. Chimeric Sci-Fi, Chimeric Horror, etc.
Obviously, with a name decided, I could not help but start sketching ideas for a logo and/or cover design.
The text document itself isn’t even finished yet… sigh. Either way, I’m sharing it below, mainly because I think it looks really cool.
I had originally toyed with the idea of using the Chimera of ancient Greek mythology, or another similar hybrid beast. However, as they all seemed a bit too aggressive or scary, I decided to make my own.
I don’t have an official name for them yet, but they include features from some of my favourite animals. These include mice and rats, pigs and boars, goats, apes and birds.
After a lot of fiddling around with fonts, I eventually decided to just design the text from scratch. I am particularly pleased with how “Fantasy” looks, and how the creature’s tail makes up part of the second “A”.
Halloween Adoptables
For the month of October, every day I will be creating a Halloween-themed creature.
After every six days, I’ll be publishing them in groups of six on my website as adoptables.
I’m doing this as a creative challenge, but also in the hopes that it will cover some of the hefty expenses I had over the past few months. Below are the first three adoptables:
Pictured above: The first three of October’s Halloween Adoptables. From left to right: Spoopysoup, the broth ghost, Fishbreath the Innsmouth Hound, and Gourdy the pumpkin goop snail.
Promoting this might be a bit of a challenge, but I will do my best with bluesky and YouTube.
If it’s your thing, mark your calendar for the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th, and 30th of October. Those are the dates when – hopefully – I’ll be putting each new set of adoptables up on my shop.
Media Spotlight
- A lovely video by Cezar Capacle in which he shares his story of becoming a full-time indie TTRPG designer.
- It was recently Chaoclypse’s birthday: as an incredibly generous treat he’s published a new game called Wayfarer and an adventure to go with it! Chao’s had an incredibly rough year, so if you can please do support his work!
- Check out this fantastic dark fantasy/comedy puppet short by Adam Murray, starring Erika Ishii: The Traveler & The Troll. It’s definitely inspired by the work of Jim Henson (particularly Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal), and all the stronger for it!
- And last but certainly not least, some Positive Leftist News from September!
That’s all for this issue!
As always, thank you so much for reading.
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Until next time,
– Penflower