Art
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Six month update
While we were in the dreaming stages for this adventure, we would routinely remind ourselves that we’d have a significant adjustment period, coming from living in a house. We guessed that our first six months might be full of fine-tuning and redirecting, possibly with some hard discussions and compromises. We reminded each other that we…
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Sundered Isles, part 2
Ironsworn campaigns get started with fairly straightforward character creation that includes a background vow. My character (Amarelle) is a young orphan who sells herbalism reagents and potions to scrape by an existence. She eventually wants to avenge the death of her parents, but prior to the campaign timeline she hasn’t been in a position to…
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Ironsworn: Sundered Isles
The creator of Ironsworn has published an addition to Starforged, their space-faring game, which sets the action in an age of sail. The new expansion is called Sundered Isles and I’m getting ready to start a campaign that’s based in a world of floating islands. I thoroughly enjoyed my prior game of Ironsworn, set in…
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Apothecaria Journaling Game
Apothecaria is the game that first introduced me to solo tabletop roleplaying games. I saw it recommended in a Reddit post and from there I went down a rabbit hole that resulted in my starting an Ironsworn game. Before too long though, I came back to Apothecaria and purchased it out of curiosity. The game…
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A small artistic breakthrough
I hope to have at least two main types of art practices while we’re on the road. 1) detailed botanical paintings in my perpetual journal 2) more loose landscape depicting places we’ve been. While I have a LOT to learn, I feel I’m on the right path with my botanical artwork. Not so much with…