Rolling with Difficulties and a breakdown of project creep

Rolling with Difficulty is a live play 5e D&D Planescape podcast. Sophia, who plays Dani (does the Moviestruck podcast and is Overly Sarcastic Productions editor/producer) made several jokes about precious moments figurines in Season 3 so I wanted to make precious moments figurines of the characters. I started that in January of 2023 when Season 3 was playing and I posted it on April 1 of last year.

Since I made those I thought I might as well make minis and since I wanted to reduce the number of packages I held off on sending the precious moments to the RWD PO Box. And since I wanted everything, other than the precious moments figures(because I showed them off while making them), to be a surprise I didn't post any of them. Austin the DM thought that Intellect devourers are too goofy with dog legs so he gave his spider legs which I though was cool so I made it and printed a few. @comicaurora, who plays Kyana, posted some concept art of an ancient drone that appeared for a chapter of Aurora and I was inspired by the one she labeled as dumb so I modeled it. I thought it would be weird to only send one concept and not the one that appears in the comic so I did those too. They got posted earlier and separately since they are not RWD.

By the end of Season 3 I had modeled the original crew and Dani's robot cat Plug and printed a mini of each(plus and extra Dani for season 1 red Dani) for their player and Austin. I though I should send a Plug in scale with the Precious Moments figures and that the rest of the crew would want them. So I printed one for every cast member.

And then between seasons 3 and 4 they did a Weird Little dude one shot giving official art for every crew member's companion. One of Finbar's pixies Old Bay, one of VR-LA's mechanical bugs Drone, and Kyana's pseudo dragon Sunny. So I modeled all of them and printed one for their player and one for Austin. I was trying to paint and send out all them before Season 4 started so I wouldn't have to model Vhas. Well Season 4 ended in September 2023 and I'm posting this now. Season 5 was announced to be the last about the crew of the Per Aspera and I was still procrastinating on painting them so I made peace with them not being painted and just sent them. Austin told me he opened the packages right before recording the last episode of Season 5.

And I ended up needing to send them in two boxes despite not wanting to send more than one being the reason I delayed sending them.

The Models can be Downloaded for free from

Printables: Crew, Weird Little Dudes, Intellect Devourer

Thingiverse: Crew, Weird Little Dudes, Intellect Devourer

If you want to help me keep making free models or to tell me what I should make next please check out my Patreon

the rolling with difficulty critical role crossover would be hilarious. and full of guns (@indigorithmic)

Tomorrow will be a week without the crew of the PerAspera. I am unreasonably attached to these characters and miss them horribly. Huge thanks to the crew of Rolling With Difficulty. You are amazing people. Whatever you decide to do next, your listeners will be listening with love.

(Side note: Thursday procreate glitches out on me and I lost this whole piece and had to rebuild it from scratch. Here's to procreate's time lapse video feature and tracing your own work.)

This is what Ashardalon’s Stride looks like to me

VR-LA's feeling just a bit targeted. He's just a lil guy.

gotta love RWD, the only DnD actual play to have at least three (3) confirmed ace player characters and one (1) man who was so UNace his exes were a significant plot point more than once AND he got married and left about it.

^Im fuck around. ^and im find out

@kathbunny here is your present for @emis-equivalent-exchange !! Everybody’s showing off their weird little dudes to their friends/partners, except for Vhas, who is very irritated about this. I hope you like it!! :)

Timelapse below the cut!

my favourite thing about the back half of Campaign 1 is that the crew of the Per Aspera at that point consists of: Kyana, who has a rare secret bloodline that gives her two souls and a never ending quest to fight evil, VR-LA, the actual chosen one of Mystra and someone who has made bargains with several other mystical beings, and Vhas, who’s divinely favoured by Ysgard, the chosen one of the Githzerai, and has been tasked with united the Githzerai and Githyanki under one sky. And then there’s Dani. A random orphan mechanic from the City of Brass who just happened to be in the right place at the right time to get her hands on a spelljammer. And the best part? Dani is objectively the most dangerous member of the crew.

just a quick light study with Dani

I did something with the colours here, don't ask what cause idk, but it turned out insanely well

also sorry if the image quality isn't great I had some trouble with the file while drawing :/

„oh i forgot that“

Last goodbye from the captain

oh just realized I can post this on Tumblr too

rolling with difficulty the crew of the per aspera you will always be famous

Even after she got madness it was still close enough to her regular madness

Reference photo used is from @adorkastock

Photo ID: Digital illustration of Kyana and Dani from Rolling With Difficulty. They both have elements from their S3 & S4 official artwork in their designs (Kyana has the S4 clothing & hair but also has the purple hairband & S3 lack of gloves under the gauntlets, Dani has the S3 clothing but S4 hair & hat). They are gently holding each other, eyes closed, and Kyana is smiling while Dani gives her a kiss on the forehead. End ID

rewatching RWD, gotta rep the party episode -

figured I’d sketch Dani’s Disaster Outfit that actually ended up working XD, this is in fact lore accurate, I drew it from the examples they were mentioning while they were describing it so….. yeah. The sleeves would have originally been shoulder pads and have been cut and sewn in place XD