Very cool

Thank you

Looks good! Ive never really been into tabletop gaming, but recently joined a few people who play D&D via Roll20 to see what its about. Its a nifty little site!

i do hope you enjoy the experience. There are a few streamed games as well one can watch, but it's much more interesting to play. Feel free to ask questions if you have any. I would be glad to help.

It's nice to see Asheru again, but please give her more food, she looks so skinny!
Anyways, looking forward to the final painting ^^

She's always skinny. She's a small female for a lupin. Waya, (the other lupine) is taller. and thicker.

if I had more time I'd join that site. so far I have my weekly group, and one that gets together every few weeks for a weekend.

hm, Bushido? I've never seen the books for it here in germany. maybe it never made it over the big pond. I only know it exists because RalPartha used to sport two pages full of minis for it. including the cute and deadly daeshiru. :)

Asheru looks like timid isn't a word to be uttered in her presence. XD

Asheru is not the typical barbarian. She doesn't drink much, and actually tried diplomacy, and always remembers her manners (wht few she has), and while not fearful, she is cautious and quiet.

Bushido was written by Rob Charrette, and Paul Hume, for Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) the folks that published Harn, way back in the late 1980s' iot was a very "crunchy" but flavorful system. we had many adventures in Ancient japan, and yes we had the Ral Partha miniatures for it.

I see. not all barbarians are loud, obnoxious, and out for war. their culture... prioritizes differently, is all. :)

Rob Charette... didn't he write stuff for TSR as well? I have read that name somewhere in one of the more ancient RPG books I have.
sounds interesting. maybe more accurate than L5R, too? :)

I once played Harn, was interesting. too bad that game was always very rare here. maybe partially due to the name. "Harn" means a part of urine here. so they added a hook to it. it read now, "Hârn", later "Hârnmaster", but it didn't help.

I based asheru's tribe after how i portrayed her parents from the story (I have in scraps), so basically trade friendly, nomadic, but conflict averse... usually.

It's the same guy. in the old old days, FGU was a publisher of other game systems, so this also included Niall Shapero's "Other Suns", as well as Bushido, and Harn, and other games. basically anyone wwho had an idea the publisher thought might sella few copiees, got published by them. They threw their money into Harn, though, but soon went out of business, around the time Magicc the Gathering sucked all the money out of the table top game industry.

nice. :)

I do remember the hype around MtG. some RPG cons even started to forbid similar games for a while when suddenly everyone only broke out cards and occupied all tables, leaving the dice-rollers standing around. it normalized a while later when people (and some shops) organized card playing cons.
and a good number of small press games never took off... I have a handful of those books, played them once or twice.
at home we play a homegrown, simple system derived from L5R we call "MEGACHAOS". :)

"Lupines"?

As someone that's in one Pathfinder game that is nearing its end, I'm curious if there are any book rules for them, and if so where can I find those rules? Or is this a custom made race?

As for the art itself, I can't wait to see how it looks finished.

They were a very "light" custom race: +1 Con +1 wis(+2) -1CHA, +5 feet movement. Dark vision, immune to cold, and scenting. Alll other stats are normal. They are medium creatures.

resistant, to cold not immune

Thanks!

Appended the "real" Pathfinder Lupine stats at the bottom of these comments. if you are curious.

there used to be an article in Dragon magazine for D&D 2nd, later an updated one for 3e, shedding light on Lupines in appearance and society. could be helpful for giving ideas for your pathfinder game. :)
I have scans of the article meant for AD&D, in case you need it note me your email. :)

iwould be interested in other people's take on this, but I based asheru off of the story in scraps. I will note you my Email, then.

Really happy to see this awesome Girl Again !

are you gonna show this one and the one of waya on FA when they are finished?

Yes. that is the plan.

can't wait to see them both done

This looks great so far!

thank you!

I'm a frequent Pathfinder player, and I'm even an agent in their Organized Play environment. It's really cool to hear you're having fun with it Did you build a custom race for Ashiru, or just converted a preexisting race to a lupine?

LUPINES

Standard Racial Traits Ability Score Racial Traits: Two of the following: +2 CON +2 WIS , -2 CHA

Size: Medium (0 RP) Type: Humanoids - canine subtype. (0 RP)

Base Speed: 40 (1 RP)

Languages: Lupine, Common (7 others to choose from if INT high enough - Dwarven, Elven, Gnome, Halfling, Orc, Draconic, Sylvan) (0 RP)

Defense Racial Traits Cold resistance 5 – Due to Fur CHA +2 when interacting with Lupine

Feat and Skill Racial Traits Skill Bonus (2 RP) - +2 Perception Skill Bonus (2 RP) - +2 Survival

Offense Racial Traits Bite (1 RP)

Senses Racial Traits Scent (4 RP) Low light vision

Hope this answers your questions suitably?

Quite! Seems like a good barbarian race actually, due to the natural energy resistance and the increased Con and base speed. Incidentally I like that your character is a bit atypical of a barbarian. I play a couple barbarians in Pathfinder Society though mine is a bit more stereotypical. One is a Drunken Brute Barbarian, who's a dwarf, and just likes to drink and party. the other is a half orc woman, a former slave to an orc tribe, who fought her way out and now fights to end slavery as a practice. probably the only atypical or ironic thing about her is her name, Serenity, given to her by her mother as a sort of wish for her life.

Given Asheru's atypical nature as a barbarian, I imagine she might like the Moment of Clarity rage power?

actually she's really reluctant to rage. basically she almost never rages unless she takes HP damage, or someone takes a swing at Waya, otherwise she's a slightly nervous tactical reserve for our war priest, or back up muscle for our tiefling rogue. (Waya loses her temper more than asheru does, but then Waya waws raised to be an alpha i.e. no shit taken,

However for her rage powers she has bloody bite. raging vitality, and power attack. further rage powers would be more in the direction of more movement, or more damage on target.

Generally she is played as young, quiet, and naive, and a bit wide eyed. she what 5'4", and not even 100 lbs. tiny, and looking undernourished, so here attacks are a bit of a surprise, and she tends to make all her acrobatics checks. AC 20 /18 when raged.

That's pretty cool! Raging is pretty overrated anyway, especially at lower levels, and I agree that even a not raging barbarian can be a very effective fighter, what with the bonus movement and a d12 HD. I find her relationship with the wizard interesting. It's an interesting reversal from how you would normally expect a barbarian and a wizard to act, and the fact that it's a barbarian and a wizard having such a close bond is also unexpected, but refreshing in it's atypical nature.

Rump.

That's a real pleasure to see again your chara Asheru drawed by your hand!
Really hope to see more soon!!!

Good action pose, you seem to know medieval weapons by the looks of it.
These comments have been enlightening. I've become interested in tabletop RPGs lately, and what is happening now vs. what once was (both in terms of the kinds of games made and "war stories") feels like the aftermath of some kind of Crash or Apocalypse.

Scott_Ruggels
[ Edit ] [ Hide Comment ] #link Posted: Mar 17th, 2017 01:12 PM
Actually, it sort of was AN APOCALYPSE, for the industry. It all started in the early 1970's when a small company in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Tactical Studies Rules, put out a supplement for their mildly popular Medieval Wargame Miniatures rule set, Chainmail. It was called Dungeons & Dragons, and it was originally a set of rules for wargaming the battles of Middle Earth, using Chainmail rules, but it grew into it's own thing, with Gaary Gygax, and Dave Arneson writing th rules, and it took off as a college fad in 1973. From there other people got the idea to try their hands at similar rules and the "culture" of sitting around a table with a character sheet, Dice, and drinks and Pizza, while a Dungeon Master sat at the head of the table, began. Soon other rules such as Metamorphosis Alpha, Empire of the Petal Throne, Runequest, and Traveller came into being. Gaming was going along fine and dandy, growing very slowly, with the total size of the industry about $20 million dollars. About the size of a Hollywood Blockbuster of the time. At Worldcon in San Francisco in 1993, Magic: the Gathering made it's debut. I was at that convention with some of the R. Talsorian folks, and Rabbi-Tom Rabbi-Tom. Since I was an industry guy, I got a starter deck and a couple of booster packs, and thought it was amusing, but I was looking forward to the Next Hero Games edition at the time. Well when the packs went out into the general public at the con, it became a craze, and tables and hallways filled up with impromptu games on the spot. Pretty soon almost all the discretionary spending of the consumers was sucked out of the other companies to feed the card addiction, and other card games soon sprouted up to take advantage of the craze. One by one, other table top game companies slimmed or suspended operations, or in desperation, came up with card games of their own (like Rage). For the gamers, the cards did keep game shops open, and Wizards of the Coast was able to purchase the D&D License from Hasbro, and the "Crown Jewels" of the hobby was safe, but other systems faded out, and the table tob RPG was supplanted by cards, then Warhammer and other miniatures based wargames (Ironically what D&D rose from in 1973), until many of the designers of table top games like Warren Spector, and others, who had moved into the computer game industry (as I did as well), made computer based games as compelling as the old table top games. Table top gaming didn't die, but it was a limited pass time, until a few years ago, when Kickstarter allowed people to resurrect products, and create new ones that sergviced that table top urge, and more importantly, brought in new players to a hobby that was mostly old blood at the time.

Tabletop games were at an odd intersection where industry and mechanization allowed enough people enough leisure time to blow a good chunk of the weekend to play, but before the Web, so that the creativity and math skills of many many player was able to come together to play a cooperative game, that had no victory conditions, but was sort of a dice moderated , shared story, amongst friends.

I hope thise clears up some of the history

Thanks. I knew about Chainmail and roughly how the hobby started, but wow hearing about Magic dropping hard on at con like that. Brutal, dollars and cents-wise! For my part, I have found Magic players (in my area at least) rude, and unhelpful. 'Show me your deck and I'll beat you!' does not compare to the 'Oh this is my favorite game, let me show you how it works!' I usually get out of board game players, and thus does not make me want to buy the expensive cards.

For my part, I have found settings of the 80s, '90s very thoughtful and immersive (old World of Darkness, old-school Shadowrun, and now Traveller most recently - but have yet to get my hands on a manual) but the ability to plop the old game down with a group and have at it a vintage board game offers, isn't there in tabletop (at least in my circle of friends & family).

The whole "Old School Revival" movement (OSR) is the reason we are seeing things return to print like that project I just worked on for  Patpahootie, with the Starships & Spacemen supplement "The Lucari Drift". If you poke around some of the PDF Game archive company sites, you will find a lot of the old rules. You can also dig up the old rules on game store web sites occasionally as sale items. I myself am partial to the hero Games rules, but I will play Pathfinder.

I suggest if you are looking for the table top experience, but don't have anyone local to play with, join Roll20.net, because it's free and robust for players. poke around that site and you should find something you can try. but My suggestion is to pick something with an older set of rules, as that will most likely have an older and more experienced GM. Read the Looking for Players notices very carefully, and you should find something worth your time with some care.

I cant believe that you are still drawing! I still have a separate folder with you stuff from 2006-07

Really? I don't think even I have that stuff any more XD> Was this from Artspots?

Oh dont remind me of that place, were applying for a gallery there when they had that review procedure...
Oh and I was asking you back then if I can use your pic as refs, and you told me to get some Loomis books instead Xd

Here are them in a zip:

them http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.ph.....19366497231821

Ooh, thank you.

As to the review process, that was part of Yerf as well, Artspots was started, sort of as a follow on to Yerf, after it folded. But it got folded in with Jaxpad, which was the non-reviewed site maintained by the same guys, and I left at that point.

And I still pass out links to Loomis PDFs for people asking, XD.

Np.
I was deviant art based that time, and on the long run DA seems to be the stablest choice.

Such a fate that all the tutorials and books does not helped me at all, but whatever not everyone can be helped.

Your version of anthropomorphic wolves has always been my favorite one.

Glad you like them. Would love to do more with them at some point. Still sketch them on occasion.

Very nice sketch.

And if you're still looking for TTRPGs, and you're in the LA area, depending upon where you are, I can make a few suggestions. The PS has an ongoing TRAV campaign, as I understand, and I've been running three campaigns (all on hold thanks to the pandemic): A UYRPG (1st edition), A "Cyberfur" campaign (quasi-cyberpunk with modified OS rules) and OS. If I could get a few players interested, I'd be running a Cyberpunk RED campaign...

The Cyberpunk Red Rules are very slightly modified Cyberpunk 2020 rules, of which I am intimately familiar with. I like Traveller. However, I have sinces moved away from L.A. and back in my ancestral Northern California, but now out in the boonies. So my gaming now is entirely online, using Roll20, and Tabletop Simulator. Thank you kindly for the offer, though.