That's right folks. Obviously, I don't update this blog frequently....if at all....so I've decided to shut it down.
I'll still be blogging about gaming, and many other topics, at my more personal blog:
Baronette Imaginings
Or you can visit my art website, where I'll be talking more about my work and how that all happens:
rachelillustrates.com
(or on DeviantART, if you would like to see even more than what's there).
Thanks to anyone who read this, ever, and I hope you follow the links provided and continue following me!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Brainstorming - Steampunk Gnome Bard/Tinker
Just a short post to jot down some ideas I had for a new character. One of my friends is planning a Steampunk campaign that he wants to run in the Fall, and since he's taking so much time to prepare, he's having us get started a little bit on our characters now. So here's what I have so far, after brainstorming with both him and my llady:
~ Female Gnome bard (dur!)
~ Also a Tinker (using the mini-template from The Qunitessential Gnome by Mongoose)
~ Likely then comes from a family of Tinkers, but decided not to just follow that as a profession and chose a life of Bardic Magic instead, since she showed the propensity for it
~ Sings and plays a Hurdy Gurdy *heart*
~ Hurdy Gurdy will not have a turny knob thing - instead there are buttons she presses to increase the speed of steam pistons or something that serve that purpose, and add a percussion of their own.
~ Has her hair in short dreadlocks, like the girl in my "Llamataur" piece. Decorates it with beads and cogs and things.
~ Plays two different kinds of songs - songs about the techonological changes, to boost her popularity, and songs about traditional fantasy quests and heroes and romance, for her own pleasure. Hopefully as the campaign goes she will merge these two things - creating songs that are about those kinds of adventures and romance, but truly Steampunk too.
~ Likes the fashion and certain cultural changes best out of what's happening, not interested in the technology so much per se - maybe embraces the idea of courtly love too, despite the Gnomish freedom about love, so maybe she worships Sheyanna Flaxenstrand? Ooh, in that case she might be adventuring to find true love for herself. That also might make her seem kind of prudish, since she doesn't sleep around, but she'd be free with herself with someone she loved enough for that.
....Yeah that's pretty much it so far. Will likely edit this, or make a new post, once more of her has developed.
~ Female Gnome bard (dur!)
~ Also a Tinker (using the mini-template from The Qunitessential Gnome by Mongoose)
~ Likely then comes from a family of Tinkers, but decided not to just follow that as a profession and chose a life of Bardic Magic instead, since she showed the propensity for it
~ Sings and plays a Hurdy Gurdy *heart*
~ Hurdy Gurdy will not have a turny knob thing - instead there are buttons she presses to increase the speed of steam pistons or something that serve that purpose, and add a percussion of their own.
~ Has her hair in short dreadlocks, like the girl in my "Llamataur" piece. Decorates it with beads and cogs and things.
~ Plays two different kinds of songs - songs about the techonological changes, to boost her popularity, and songs about traditional fantasy quests and heroes and romance, for her own pleasure. Hopefully as the campaign goes she will merge these two things - creating songs that are about those kinds of adventures and romance, but truly Steampunk too.
~ Likes the fashion and certain cultural changes best out of what's happening, not interested in the technology so much per se - maybe embraces the idea of courtly love too, despite the Gnomish freedom about love, so maybe she worships Sheyanna Flaxenstrand? Ooh, in that case she might be adventuring to find true love for herself. That also might make her seem kind of prudish, since she doesn't sleep around, but she'd be free with herself with someone she loved enough for that.
....Yeah that's pretty much it so far. Will likely edit this, or make a new post, once more of her has developed.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Not a "Real" Gamer
Hi folks. In real life news, I lost my job this week. Ugh. As a result, I'll have lots of time to blog and such, so we'll see how that goes.
In gaming news, something happened last "World of Darkness" session that is STILL bothering me. Its been a week, but it still makes my face go like AARGH!, so I figured I should write about it.
That game is being Storytold by a friend of ours, who became a friend of ours because he's dating another friend of ours who we're very close to (when I say we I mean me and my llady). He is a pretty typical gamer boy with first-person-shooter tendencies (instead of RPG tendencies). That said, the story of his game is still very interesting. The other players are also typical gamer boys - in a very "hit it until it stops moving, what is this 'roleplay' you keep mentioning?" kind of way. So my llady and I, who very much enjoy the roleplay aspects of any game, get kinda frustrated with them sometimes.
Anyway, last session, amongst the ADD, the game "Left 4 Dead 2" came up, since our Storyteller has been obsessed with playing it lately. My llady is very into zombies, but said she wouldn't be interested in playing it. This is because those zombies are not REAL zombies, not according to traditional zombie lore. But our fellow gamers didn't care about that. They assumed that she wouldn't want to play it because of all the gore. This assumption was quickly followed by the words:
"Oh, but that's because you're a gamer GIRL."
......wtf?????
This came out of the mouth of someone who is supposed to be our FRIEND, dripping with condescendingness and belittlement. Seriously. Apparently we're lesser gamers simple because we have VAGINAS. Gasp! How dare we venture into the big boys league by "dabbling" in gaming. Neverfuckingmind the hours I spend playing WoW every week, or the fact that we play WoD with them every week, or the fact that I've been playing DnD since I was in high school, or the fact that my llady has played video games her entire life, or the fact that I ran MY OWN CAMPAIGN for a good long time and plan on picking it up again when I get my life back on track!!!! Nooooooo, because we're girls, we have no frickin place there! We will never ever ever ever EVER be taken seriously about out gaming hobbies. All because we like the story aspects better than just shooting and killing, which MUST be because we have two X chromosomes. Bastards. What about gamer boys who like the story aspects more? Hmmmmm????
In case it wasn't obvious from that last bit, here's how all that makes me feel:
Seriously though, I see this everywhere in gamerdom. When I'm on WoW, since I play female Toons, I get harrassed with "Do you need help?" way more often than I feel a male Toon would. Whenever I walk into a gaming store, the many boys there are shocked and awed to see me, but quickly get over THAT so they can treat me like I'm an IDIOT.
WHY??????
*headesk*
Anyway, to cheer us all up now, here's a link to a blog by Cocoasweety, where she posts the most ADORABLE WoW art I have seen possibly ever:
SO CUTE GO LOOK NOW!!!!!
Off to pretend to be a productive adult now. Thanks for listening!
In gaming news, something happened last "World of Darkness" session that is STILL bothering me. Its been a week, but it still makes my face go like AARGH!, so I figured I should write about it.
That game is being Storytold by a friend of ours, who became a friend of ours because he's dating another friend of ours who we're very close to (when I say we I mean me and my llady). He is a pretty typical gamer boy with first-person-shooter tendencies (instead of RPG tendencies). That said, the story of his game is still very interesting. The other players are also typical gamer boys - in a very "hit it until it stops moving, what is this 'roleplay' you keep mentioning?" kind of way. So my llady and I, who very much enjoy the roleplay aspects of any game, get kinda frustrated with them sometimes.
Anyway, last session, amongst the ADD, the game "Left 4 Dead 2" came up, since our Storyteller has been obsessed with playing it lately. My llady is very into zombies, but said she wouldn't be interested in playing it. This is because those zombies are not REAL zombies, not according to traditional zombie lore. But our fellow gamers didn't care about that. They assumed that she wouldn't want to play it because of all the gore. This assumption was quickly followed by the words:
"Oh, but that's because you're a gamer GIRL."
......wtf?????
This came out of the mouth of someone who is supposed to be our FRIEND, dripping with condescendingness and belittlement. Seriously. Apparently we're lesser gamers simple because we have VAGINAS. Gasp! How dare we venture into the big boys league by "dabbling" in gaming. Neverfuckingmind the hours I spend playing WoW every week, or the fact that we play WoD with them every week, or the fact that I've been playing DnD since I was in high school, or the fact that my llady has played video games her entire life, or the fact that I ran MY OWN CAMPAIGN for a good long time and plan on picking it up again when I get my life back on track!!!! Nooooooo, because we're girls, we have no frickin place there! We will never ever ever ever EVER be taken seriously about out gaming hobbies. All because we like the story aspects better than just shooting and killing, which MUST be because we have two X chromosomes. Bastards. What about gamer boys who like the story aspects more? Hmmmmm????
In case it wasn't obvious from that last bit, here's how all that makes me feel:
Seriously though, I see this everywhere in gamerdom. When I'm on WoW, since I play female Toons, I get harrassed with "Do you need help?" way more often than I feel a male Toon would. Whenever I walk into a gaming store, the many boys there are shocked and awed to see me, but quickly get over THAT so they can treat me like I'm an IDIOT.
WHY??????
*headesk*
Anyway, to cheer us all up now, here's a link to a blog by Cocoasweety, where she posts the most ADORABLE WoW art I have seen possibly ever:
SO CUTE GO LOOK NOW!!!!!
Off to pretend to be a productive adult now. Thanks for listening!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
New name, new header, new start
Hi again everyone! As you see above you, I've a) put up a new header and b) renamed the blog. Since I'm not just talking about D&D anymore, this is now "Badger the Gnome's Gaming Tome." Huzzah for geekdom. Also, to your right, is a new profile image. Its my main WoW character, a Gnome fighter named Knuffig. Since I have to create backstory for ALL my characters, I'm sure you'll hear more about her soon.
That's it for now - the World of Darkness campaign is progressing interestingly, and the D&D campaign in which I play Tanisevania is still going on despite game-breaking decisions. Will write more when I have more to say.
That's it for now - the World of Darkness campaign is progressing interestingly, and the D&D campaign in which I play Tanisevania is still going on despite game-breaking decisions. Will write more when I have more to say.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Gaming Explosion, and resulting changes
Hi, anybody reading this! Its been roughly 5,000 years since I posted last, which is because life (gaming and otherwise) has been INSANE. Obviously, I'm going to be going on about the gaming part here.
As for DnD, there are two things going on (or rather, one thing that has been continuing, and one thing that is no longer going on at all):
First off - my campaign is on hiatus. That's the one with Gazit, and Neeta, and several other revolving-door high-turnover type characters. I can't seem to keep players long, can I? Anyway, the reason for this hiatus is that I need to focus on my carreer as an artist - one way or another I will be starting a webcomic soon, and I need to make sure I can commit to that before I can continue running my game. Since the comic (either way) will be fantasy-oriented, I will be posting about it here once it launches. In case anyone cares to go take a look :)
Secondly - my friend Heather's campaign, in which I play Gnome druid Tanisevania, is still going on. However, at the last session, a campaign-breaking decision was made - which I as a player know about but don't know what it was, and as a character have no idea - so I'm sure interesting things are to follow. I'm sure Heather will come up with something very awesome to meet whatever challenge that decision created. It will also probably include towers.
Now, for other gaming news:
World of Darkness - my girlfriend and I recently started playing in a World of Darkness campaign, that incorporates pretty much every campaign-setting WoD covers (Werewolf, Changeling, Mage, etc.). She is playing a Sin Eater, from Geist, and I am playing a Beast Runnerswift Changeling who is much like a deer. Its a totally different system from DnD (obviously) and I'm having fun learning it, so I'm sure I'll be posting more stuff about the game and my character as things progress.
Word of Warcraft - .....Yeah, I know. I have finally caught the WoW bug. There's actually a really odd/funny chain of events that led to it. I had been avoiding playing it on purpose, cause I thought I would like it too much and get sucked in and lose all other aspects of my human life. Anyway, here's what happened:
- Girlfriend and I watch "Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." Totally adore it.
- Girlfriend and I listen to "Commentary!: The Musical." Felicia Day mentions "The Guild" about 80.000 times.
- I look "The Guild" up. Totally adore it.
- I make Girlfriend watch it. She totally adores it. We rewatch all 3 seasons several times.
- Inspired by "The Guild," Girlfriend downloads the WoW trial. Wants me to play too, so I do it as well.
- We drive to Walmart THAT SAME NIGHT, only a few hours later, to buy the game and subscribe. I consider it part of her birthday present.
That was in November, and we are still playing (only a few nights a week because non-gaming life is crazy too, but still). My main character is a Gnome Warrior, and my two alt characters are a Draenei Shaman and a Gnome Warlock. I also play a Human Mage with a specific party every Monday night. I am definitely having fun with it (and am so open for any WoW commissions, if someone would like one!).
So what does all this mean?
Most importantly, it means that this blog is going to be changing from a specifically DnD blog to a general gaming blog. Sorry DnD-only-folks, it had to happen sometime. Or at least I'd like to think it had to, considering how much fun I'm having. Sometime soon I will be changing the name and the header, though it will still be under Badger the Gnome first and foremost. It also means that I'll be trying to post more often here, as I have more gaming-related things to talk about. I apologize if that doesn't happen as often as you think it should.
So anyway, thanks for reading, and have fun gaming too!
As for DnD, there are two things going on (or rather, one thing that has been continuing, and one thing that is no longer going on at all):
First off - my campaign is on hiatus. That's the one with Gazit, and Neeta, and several other revolving-door high-turnover type characters. I can't seem to keep players long, can I? Anyway, the reason for this hiatus is that I need to focus on my carreer as an artist - one way or another I will be starting a webcomic soon, and I need to make sure I can commit to that before I can continue running my game. Since the comic (either way) will be fantasy-oriented, I will be posting about it here once it launches. In case anyone cares to go take a look :)
Secondly - my friend Heather's campaign, in which I play Gnome druid Tanisevania, is still going on. However, at the last session, a campaign-breaking decision was made - which I as a player know about but don't know what it was, and as a character have no idea - so I'm sure interesting things are to follow. I'm sure Heather will come up with something very awesome to meet whatever challenge that decision created. It will also probably include towers.
Now, for other gaming news:
World of Darkness - my girlfriend and I recently started playing in a World of Darkness campaign, that incorporates pretty much every campaign-setting WoD covers (Werewolf, Changeling, Mage, etc.). She is playing a Sin Eater, from Geist, and I am playing a Beast Runnerswift Changeling who is much like a deer. Its a totally different system from DnD (obviously) and I'm having fun learning it, so I'm sure I'll be posting more stuff about the game and my character as things progress.
Word of Warcraft - .....Yeah, I know. I have finally caught the WoW bug. There's actually a really odd/funny chain of events that led to it. I had been avoiding playing it on purpose, cause I thought I would like it too much and get sucked in and lose all other aspects of my human life. Anyway, here's what happened:
- Girlfriend and I watch "Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." Totally adore it.
- Girlfriend and I listen to "Commentary!: The Musical." Felicia Day mentions "The Guild" about 80.000 times.
- I look "The Guild" up. Totally adore it.
- I make Girlfriend watch it. She totally adores it. We rewatch all 3 seasons several times.
- Inspired by "The Guild," Girlfriend downloads the WoW trial. Wants me to play too, so I do it as well.
- We drive to Walmart THAT SAME NIGHT, only a few hours later, to buy the game and subscribe. I consider it part of her birthday present.
That was in November, and we are still playing (only a few nights a week because non-gaming life is crazy too, but still). My main character is a Gnome Warrior, and my two alt characters are a Draenei Shaman and a Gnome Warlock. I also play a Human Mage with a specific party every Monday night. I am definitely having fun with it (and am so open for any WoW commissions, if someone would like one!).
So what does all this mean?
Most importantly, it means that this blog is going to be changing from a specifically DnD blog to a general gaming blog. Sorry DnD-only-folks, it had to happen sometime. Or at least I'd like to think it had to, considering how much fun I'm having. Sometime soon I will be changing the name and the header, though it will still be under Badger the Gnome first and foremost. It also means that I'll be trying to post more often here, as I have more gaming-related things to talk about. I apologize if that doesn't happen as often as you think it should.
So anyway, thanks for reading, and have fun gaming too!
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