Explosion in the Alchemist's Laboratory, Justus van Bentum (1670-1727)

Greetings!

The magnificent rocky formations of the desert loom over our heroes. The arid wasteland where they now find themselves doesn't seem to treat them kindly and supplies keep dwindling with every passing day.

Despite all that, the party of adventurers embarked on an adventure that will take them to a cave where, according to rumor, there exists an old buried treasure.

They're now outside the cave and to their surprise a peculiar merchant has set up shop right next to it. Selling all kinds of exotic goods the party takes the opportunity to stock up before what is sure to be a long spelunking marathon.

But is the merchant just that? Could something else be hiding in those nooks and crannies of desert rock?

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Johan Egerkrans

Mr. Vampire III [ Hong Kong ] • 1987

Been awhile hasn't it

Commission for Adam!

The Notorious is a replica 15th century caravel. The ship took ten years to build, made entirely from reclaimed timber. She was launched at Martins Point, Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia, on Monday, 7 February 2011.

Woodcut by Melchior Lorck (1581); Germany

A soldier with lance and shield; whole-length figure, frontal view, head turned to right; wearing a skull cap and furry coat; on the shield the sickle and star and a hand holding a sword; from a series of 127 woodcuts.

Jusant by Andrey Surnov #1

Once again I am RPG posting 😎

From the article:

NASA has released a free, original tabletop role-playing game, and it’s one part educational experience and another part sci-fi/fantasy epic with magic and dragons. The crux of The Lost Universe, the organization’s first TTRPG,involves a mystery: What would happen if the Hubble Space Telescope disappeared? It’s a simple premise and one that hides the complex backstory underscoring the events of the role-playing game. Without getting into the weeds, the game takes place on a planet called Exlaris, which was once thrown into chaos when a black hole moved too close and kicked it out of its orbit. The planet has since gone back to some degree of normalcy and is now almost completely dedicated to academia. In one city, a scholar named Eirik Hazn made a spell to connect with Earth to study the Hubble Space Telescope, which has famously collected data on black holes. However, the spell and telescope are stolen by a dragon, and researchers working on the project have been disappearing, so the players — Earthlings who worked on the telescope at NASA who were brought through a portal to Exlaris — have to save the day. The official 44-page gameplay book is available to download for free on NASA’s website. You can play it in a party with 4-7 players, but you may need to fudge a few things to graft this narrative onto your TTRPG system of choice. The book says it’ll take around 3-4 hours to get through the adventure.

Andrew Skilleter

Boromir

夜の主

Shoda Kakuyu (Japanese, 1879-1948) - Ryokuin (Green Shade) (1933)

Zhu Yingchun, The Language of Bugs, 2017

Ornate kasthane, Sri Lanka, 18th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art