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Federations were a mistake.
In my most recent Stellaris game, I was doing fine. I was Galactic Custodian, my planets were flourishing, my Federation was magnificent.
Then, my Federation's partner, the Gorf Gorf, ended up dragging me into a Galactic War against a rivaling federation. It took years, but we defeated them.
THEN the Contingency woke up. I cursed, and managed to destroy ONE of their planets, but then AN AWOKEN EMPIRE DECLARED WAR ON THE GORF GORF.
It sheared through half of my empire, and I just decided that I was kinda done with that file.
Still. I wish that I could abandon my federation mates who were stupid enough to annoy my enemies into war with them. SERIOUSLY. It wasn't worth it, but I was stuck in a war I couldn't leave because of some war-hungry mushrooms. At least give us some influence on ending wars or leaving wars that don't involve us.
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A Howling Hoard Gnoll that I painted with a vaporwave color scheme.
No idea what to call her. But she's neat.
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Don't know why I'm on a DND kick. Anyways, my character Runt (Level 9 Hexblood Bladesinger) and her Mama, Auntie Loonette.
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My character Runt (Level 9 Bladesong Wizard) is in a bit of trouble. After a siege against an allied castle, it was revealed that her Mama (Auntie Loonette) was working with a group who wants to destroy the current pantheon.
Unfortunately/Fortunately, during an interrogation, our ranger Jorm asked the right question and got Runt to admit her hatred towards them and that she wanted her dead. This resulted in Runt's head nearly exploding, and the group sympathized with Runt for her minor treason.
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A picture I drew of my current party. Unfortunately we don't have a proper party name, but we have manage to survive from Level 3.
The Party Consists of:
Runt: A Gnoll (Hexblood) Bladesinger. She comes from the swamp lands and, up until recently, acted as a spy for her "mama". She's since left her mother's good graces, and is hoping to just survive. Also a dang-good cook.
Jorm: A ranger from the west. He's out for revenge after the Beastwitch killed his family. He controls fireflies!
Haylen: A partially-disgraced soldier and Paladin. He got in trouble with his commanding officer after his unit was killed due to bad bureaucracy. He's on sabbatical, dealing with his anger and his brother. The team's healer. (Played by @ak8star)
Adolphus: A stuck up elven noble, whose sold his soul to a celestial. He loves keeping things secret, even when he shouldn't.
Speaks of Hope: A Kitsune Gladiator from a far-away land. She focuses on keeping the balance, and scouting the battlefield. Her player unfortunately misses quite a few games, so our party hasn't been able to delve into her backstory as much.
Chentrix: A little-old witch of the forest. She's searching for more information on her mother's research, and is the only parent figure of the group.
Currently, Runt is in a bit of trouble. After a siege against an allied castle, it was revealed that her Mama (Auntie Loonette) was working with a group who wants to destroy the current pantheon. This group includes Ellis (Haylen's Brother) and the Beast Witch (Jorm's Nemesis).
Unfortunately/Fortunately, during an interrogation, Runt admitted her hatred towards her mother for killing her sisters, and that she wanted her dead. This resulted in Runt's head nearly exploding, and the group giving sympathy towards Runt for her minor treason.
The group is investigating portals to another dimension, shards of an ancient god, and blueberry pancakes. Runt has recently gotten obsessed with Goodberries, and is working on ways to improve their usage on the battlefield. (Explosive goodberries anyone?)
Their biggest sponsor is the Wizard Guild, the Order of Yotur. All of this setting of course has been homebrewed by our awesome GM. Overall, it's been going on for a few years and going well.
Our group seems to have the bad habit of starting fights with SIGNIFICANTLY stronger foes, but we haven't died yet. Runt just hopes she'll be able to rescue her sister Lilly and resurrect her other dead sisters.
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A picture of my current DND Character, Cousin Runt, eating some Christmas Cake (well, it's pavlova, but I'll call it X-Mas Cake)
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Cousin Runt, Level 8 Bladesinger Wizard.
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So my husband has posted several comics that involve the race I ended up running when I attempted Stellaris. I have yet to get to a game win cause it gets so complicated real fast compared to Civ games. I'm woefully behind on DLC for Stellaris so most of my little shroom guys (known as the Gorf Gorf) are simply another empire in my husband's games as he made a point to make a copy of the Gorfs so he could have them in his games.
The Gorf Gorf are a hedonistic Oligarchy empire that employs caterpillar aliens known as Shrek (it was a dumb at the time haha funny name that just stuck after changing what game gave as a name for the Syncretic Evolution race) as servants (among other things). The Gorf are fanatical spiritualists who worship the Great Gorf.
Fun fact: Since Gorfs mainly communicate in spores they usually need devices to translate these into speech. These devices come in a few forms such as below:
Ebony Wolfbane is a Gorf I played as for a Fate rpg game set in space. From streamer to spy they navigate the stars via their modified mobility rig of a chair and computer that has an on board AI named Archie. I had made this character with a running set of gags or puns to mystery novel detective Nero Wolfe. They acted as the party's main tech/hacker of the group using their gamer skills when needed.
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THE HAIKU BOT, HERE?
I'M SHOCKED AND AMAZED TO SEE YOU!
THANKS FOR THE REBLOG!
So, in Stellaris, there is a potential event where, when trading with a Pre-FTL society, they will make cute dolls of your race.
Typically, this event is ruined if you’re a Megacorp, as you ask them for a cut of the profits. However, given the new DLC, I was testing out a different origin, and as such was able to get the “Stuffed Toy” Empire Modifier.
It’s definitely one of my favorite events, alongside the Worm.
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A picture of Auntie Loonette from her youth. Back when she had both arms.
Auntie Loonette is a character of my own creation, and "mother" to my character, Cousin Runt.
The vest pattern, the library background, and the portrait frame are both in the public domain. The DND setting is the creation of my DM.
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Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.
This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)
If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!
Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...
Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!
You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!
Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!
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Three pictures of my current DND character's Mama, Auntie Loonette. The Former General of the God Tarshiv, she was eventually banished and exiled, forced to raise seven silly gnolls.
I did three versions of the picture, normal, flat-colors, and grainy.
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Oh hey! Thank you to everyone who got me to 1000 likes!
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I had an idea for a Stellaris DLC, but I didn't have the patience to really code it for a mod. If anyone wants to use the idea, feel free to.
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So, a few years back, my @ak8star played her first co-op game of Stellaris. I decided to help her through and tried to guide her as best as I could (while maintaining my OWN empire.)
After a while, she kept on complaining about her low energy output. I decided to play customer service. I double-checked that she was making energy districts, that her people were employed, and that her Global Energy Grid was up. Unfortunately, what I didn't realize was that, despite her nearly being in mid-game, she hadn't researched the tech for an Energy Grid.
I acted as if I was outraged and called her an Amish Mushroom.
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So, is it too late to do this joke?
I was looking at all of those Grimace Milkshake memes and realized that the bright purple drink seemed to be the same color as Irrigo, the Fallen London color of forgetfulness. Put two-and-two together and BOOM, Fallen London/Grimace Milkshake joke.
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So, in Stellaris, there is a potential event where, when trading with a Pre-FTL society, they will make cute dolls of your race.
Typically, this event is ruined if you're a Megacorp, as you ask them for a cut of the profits. However, given the new DLC, I was testing out a different origin, and as such was able to get the "Stuffed Toy" Empire Modifier.
It's definitely one of my favorite events, alongside the Worm.
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