Chris Howard's Blog

The Trinity River, northeast of Houston, from 20-something thousand feet. #windowseat #texas

We’re at 43 degrees latitude and the Northern Lights are bright, even if they are competing with the cloud layer. #northernlights #auroraborealis

The maple in the side yard, showing up to the leaf color party late as usual, but always arriving with more fire than should be allowed.

Painting minis. #dnd #daggerheart #miniatures #wizard #rogue #fighter

Just hanging out with Chloe on her birthday, painting miniatures for D&D and Daggerheart. I don’t play Warhammer, but I love the Citadel minis, especially the Sylvaneth. (This is Druanti The Arch-Revenant from #Warhammer AoS). Imagine trudging through a dimly lit forest and this dude steps into your path. #daggerheart #dnd5e

One of my doodles from some sketching at lunch today.

I ordered whole bean coffee from Many Worlds Tavern, a couple different kinds, including “Yatamon Spirits”, which will go nicely with with a game of Obojima - Tales from the Tall Grass https://obojima.com It’s like playing Dungeons & Dragons in a Studio Ghibli inspired world. Very Spirited Away. #DnD5e #DungeonsandDragons https://manyworldstavern.com

The new Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set, Heroes of the Borderlands, just showed up. Over five pounds of gaming fun packed into one box. #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #dnd5e

Painting some scatter terrain–stuff your D&D players will want to rummage through, crates, locked chests, sacks of… who knows? Your characters are just going to have to open them up and see. This is one of those theater of the mind vs physical terrain and minis differences. In TOM you don’t know what you don’t see–and you’ll ask the GM what’s in the room. With minis, what you see is what you get, and if the room is empty–and unless you tell the party explicitly–the room is empty. So, now players are going to see one of these in the corner of the room and go “I’m going to dig through this pile of stuff, see if there’s anything valuable.”

The chipmunks are busy today.