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Buzzard Brain

@buzzardbrain.bsky.social
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RPG storyteller, world builder, fantasy cartographer, battlemap artist, consultant, & web developer. ☮️ May all People know Peace

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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 12h
Opened up a can of 28 year old survival rations/dehydrated apples and was surprised to find them in good shape. These are supposed to have a 25 year shelf life and I expected them to be brown and stale. Looks like they have plenty of life left in them.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New Mexico style red chile sauce on the stove, pork roast in the smoker... Carne Adovada for dinner!
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Recently received my latest crowd funding reward: Faerie: A Realm Wanderer's Guide by Dragons Vault. It's a beautiful book and I'm looking forward to incorporating some of this lore into my RPG stories.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New Stream Deck audio controller setup and configured. This is a great upgrade for my RPG Sound Tracks. Next step: setup sound effects & environments.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The new and improved Ehrto RPG Command Center.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Today I'm roleplaying a plumber. Installing a new kitchen faucet and reverse osmosis water filter. Let the foul language commence! 😄 It's been my experience that plumbing projects absent foul language rarely go well.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I love this gorgeous hand-made knife my beloved gave me for Christmas. It is definitely my favorite knife ever! What an amazing work of art.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Been working on the Firefly freighter #battlemap for #FoundryVTT again. Finally getting to building out the bridge. Made w/Dungeondraft and assets from @forgotten-adventures.net and Hellscape.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The next time I play myself in an end-world game I've got my character portrait and VTT token ready. 🙂 Fun with HeroForge...
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The quest to get it right is often brutal, messy, & filled with course corrections. WIP #battlemap for a Firefly-inspired #GURPS game. Built w/ #Dungeondraft & assets from @forgotten-adventures.net & HellScape.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
It's great fun living next to national forest. This morning we had a bobcat in our backyard. What a lovely creature! ❤️ Enjoy your breakfast my friend!
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Trying something new. Working on a #battlemap of a Firefly space freighter for an upcoming #GURPS game. This old girl is a bit of a rust bucket atm. With luck & elbow grease she'll shape up. Here's the Engine Room. #Dungeondraft Assets by @forgotten-adventures.net & HellScape.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Designing & building a #FoundryVTT interactive landing page for the new Wardlands Campaign in the world of Ehrto. I ❤️ working with Matt's Active Tile Triggers.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I vacuum seal our bulk dry goods in 1/2 gallon mason jars. You can even vacuum seal flour in mason jars if you are careful and patient.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Working on the new #GURPS Wardlands Campaign set in the world of Ehrto. Today I'm designing and building out the campaign Timeline at #Worldanvil. Set at the edge of "civilized" lands, this campaign will feature more Action and Monsters than my other ongoing games. I'm enjoying the darker mood. 🖤
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Oh, the horror and pain of wasting your critical success on a Cooking roll! 😆 #GURPS
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Making & organizing Macros in #FoundryVTT this morning to make running my #GURPS games more efficient. Also made some minor adjustments to the formatting of number labels on the Hotbar via custom CSS.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Happy office mate.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
One of our #GURPS games is more about politics, intrigue, mysteries, & exploration. There's a castle, followers, retainers, & businesses. It involves a fair bit of accounting & commercial RP. Tracking that stuff can be a challenge. Using #FoundryVTT inventory sheets & loot journals works well.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I think the new approach to dealing with shadows is going to work well. But it will require that I make some changes to how I build battlemaps to make it more efficient. Here's prototypes/WIP of the Eastwatch #battlemap. Made w/ #Dungeondraft & assets by @forgotten-adventures.net .
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I've been building a bunch of stock #GURPS NPCs for different types of soldiers and making multiple custom VTT tokens for each one at Hero Forge. All of this gets imported into #FoundryVTT and stored in a Compendium for quick use in the future.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Back to working on the Eastwatch #battlemap today. Getting ready to try a new approach to dealing with trees and shadows. If the results don't suck, I'll share more this evening. WIP. Made w/ #Dungeondraft & assets by @forgotten-adventures.net.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This handsome and healthy fella is 16 years old today. Happy birthday Lucius! He's the bright orange kitten on the top of the pile in the first photo. Born to Trinity, who left us some years ago. One of the few familiars I've known since their birth. ❤️
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I track time, seasons, sun rise/set, the moons, & weather. Knowing the phases the moons, length of day/night, and if the moons are visible greatly influences nighttime encounters. Weather can drastically change travel times, visibility, etc..
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Lighting design & wall/door definition for the Firefly Keep #battlemap in #FoundryVTT. Next up is building the smart tiles for stairs & travel between levels. The tower is 5 levels above & 2 below ground. Over 50k sq ft of space. This is a major setting for one of my stories.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Working on a #battlemap scene for the Chapel of Sorceros, the god of magic & knowledge, at Firefly Keep. A small pyramid in the center of an ornate, sacred garden. Made with #Dungeondraft & assets by @forgotten-adventures.net
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Spent some time designing the Gallery at Firefly Keep. This feels like a suitable place to display the discoveries of a young Mage of the Arcane Order. Made w/ #Dungeondraft & assets from Forgotten Adventures.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Today work continues on the Eastwatch #Battlemap [80x80]. While building this scene in #Dungeondraft, I got tons of new lore on the Rangers that call this place home. Ranks, names, workers, animals, and some operational details. This will be the setting for some upcoming #GURPS 1-shots.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
My current WIP: East Fort #battlemap. At the eastern edge of the Faewood forest, this Ranger outpost watches over the Newhome Road to ensure that vital trade route remains safe and open.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
We finally got a bit of snow overnight. I don't expect it will last long. Sure is pretty while it lasts.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Wrapped up an epic fight & chase in a sprawling mine tonight. 2 dozen combatants in a fight that lasted over 60 rounds... which in #GURPS is really long combat. Took 3 game sessions to complete. This scene was built inside #FoundryVTT w/ tiles from Gabriel Pickard.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Going back to update and refresh one of my earliest #Dungeondraft #battlemaps today. The Blue Dragon Inn, built in the summer of 2021 with the older version 2 assets from @forgotten-adventures.net.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I buy a lot of map assets, #battlemaps, & tokens for use in #FoundryVTT. They often come uncompressed & their data size is larger than I need. Optimizing 1000s of images would take a long time without #AffinityPhoto Batch Jobs. Converting to webp saves 90+%. Smaller files = faster loading.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The heroes survived & defeated the massive stone golem and 9 uber-fast skeleton warriors. The first few seconds of the combat looked bleak, but the heroes held their ground and fought well together. Thank goodness for #FoundryVTT and the #GURPS Game Aid.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Back to working on updating Output Templates in GURPS Character Sheet to the new Go Templates engine in GCS. And while I'm at it, I'm working to expand the documentation and provide some much-needed usage examples.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Writing #FoundryVTT macros for #GURPS this morning. I'm particularly happy with this Group Perception Check macro. It's going to be a huge time-saver.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Me too. Digging back into it this morning. I've got the logic for sun rise/set based on latitude working well (enough). I went to bed with the moons vexing me. Hopefully this mornin' there be clarity. Lunar phases are a little jank and that tells me the math isn't quite there yet.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I'm using OpenOffice docs to plan/log my TTRPGs. Weekly planner style w/in-world calendar. Days have sun/moon rise, weather, holidays, and space for log entries. Works great for 1 machine. Seeking a tool that makes the log accessible to multiple machines at once.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Setting up automation on the Ruins of Raithneach #Battlemaps in #FoundryVTT via Monk's Active Tile Triggers. Doors that trigger sounds and tile overlays to show doors open or closed, automated traps, and links between scenes to allows PCs to navigate stairs, etc..
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Doing updates to the interactive #FoundryVTT Landing Page for the Willow #TTRPG on the world of Ehrto. It's built in Foundry with Tiles so that it can be changed and scripted. I try to adjust the desktop every few sessions to keep it fresh and related to what's currently happening in-game.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Ceremorph Brain Barn 20x20 #TTRPG #Battlemap. #Dungeondraft with assets by @forgotten-adventures.net.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
My attempt at rendering an overgrown pyramid for the Ruins of Raithneach #TTRPG #Battlemaps. #Dungeondraft with assets from @forgotten-adventures.net
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Back to working on scene overlays for the Ruins of Raithneach #battlemaps. This is a pit trap overlay that I think turned out pretty well. Made in #Dungeondraft with assets by @forgotten-adventures.net.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Working on updating Output Templates for GCS to use the newer and more powerful Go Templates system. Making some minor improvements to include Conditional Modifiers and streamline things like Natural Attacks to make good use of the limited space on a 3x5 card. #GURPS
Screenshot showing an example GURPS 4e NPC Card generated from GCS via an Output Template.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I've been working to improve my overlay tiles. This is an excavated staircase overlay for the Ruins of Raithneach series of #battlemaps I've been working on in #Dungeondraft. Assets by @forgotten-adventures.net
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Today, work continues on the overgrown ruins of Raithneach, a forgotten temple complex at the edge of the Faewood forest. #Battlemap #Dungeondraft (assets by Forgotten Adventures)
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Work continues on the deities of Ehrto. Today I'm focusing on the ancient and primeval powers, whose influence wanes but still persists. These are the gods of the elder races who ruled over the realms before humans had mastered fire. Some perhaps older than existence itself. #WorldAnvil #GURPS
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Working on deities of the Common Pantheon of the world of Ehrto today. Revising descriptions and finalizing the #GURPS Cleric Templates for each deity. It's a lot of spells to review and select for the 28 deities in this pantheon.
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Buzzard Brain @buzzardbrain.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Ancestry/Species articles for Ehrto are getting prepped for publishing. Goblins and Dwarves are just about there. Still want to make a few design revisions to the layout and work out the buttons/links to the GURPS GCS Template Libraries for each ancestry.
Screenshot of the Species article for Goblins of the world of Ehrto.Screenshot of the Species article for Dwarves of the world of Ehrto.
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