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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I just had to reinstall spotify mobile this morning, and it also made this change to when I try to add songs to a playlist. Since I am my RPG group's DJ, I add hundreds of songs to dozens of playlists all the time, and now they are in a random order.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Recently (for me at least) Artstation changed collections so that they are no longer organized alphabetically, but in order of last updated. I absolutely despise this change.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Back a really cool DnD supplement by my friend Robin, which I'm going to do some art for!! Play your cards right and I might even do a special ink drawing for you!

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Browsing the trending topics and seeing all the "if you do [extremely commonplace thing], you are complicit" posts, and friends, having taken a step away from social media these last few years, I can't tell you how nice it's been not to see that shit.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hey, people who release brush packs, stop making brushes that are automatically in multiply mode. If I wanted to paint a black brush stroke, I would have painted it fucking black. I don't need you to do it for me.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've gotten to the point now that I've posted most of my back catalogue of work that I can still stand to look at, so I'm going to slow my roll for a bit as I start posting my current work and ongoing projects. Thanks for liking and sharing my stuff so far!

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Here's some work I did for Planegia, an awesome stone age/prehistoric DnD 5e setting by @smrvl.bsky.social ! Here are Kho, an ape god, and a monster called the Night Thing.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm going to keep on rolling with one more Monster of the Week monster, a reinterpretation of the Giwakwa of Abenaki legend. I made the creature blind, but its eye sockets had grown into giant sound-sensitive membranes to make up for its lack of sight. More actual lore on the Giwakwa in a reply.

An illustration of a creature in a dark space. The creature looks like a monstrous quadrupedal human with long limbs. It has no eyes, and its eye sockets are huge and dish-shaped, and it uses them to help hear its victims.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Continuing on with the cryptids, here's an alpha chupacabra I painted for a Monster of the Week one shot I ran a few years ago. I jokingly called it the Megacabra, which actually just means "big goat."

Illustration of a giant Chupacabra against a dark red background. The creature has long limbs, bristles on its back, and a small bulbous head with a long tongue tipped with a sharp barb.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Hayyoth, the main monster from a Monster of the Week mini-campaign I ran back in 2021. I consider this one of my very best creature designs. And again, Monster of the Week is a banger of a TTRPG system, and you should give it a try!

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A sketch I did of the Van Meter visitor, a cryptid reported in Van Meter, Iowa in the early 1900s. Described as a gargoyle, or perhaps a pterodactyl, which used its beak to climb like a parrot, was apparently immune to gunfire, and perhaps most oddly, with a glowing horn on its head.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

40k Tyrannid cards I did for Magic the Gathering back in 2021!

Illustration of the Biovore tyranid from Warhammer 40k. An alien with a pale exoskeleton with purple armor plates and an organic cannon on its back, on Mars.

An illustration of Tyrannocete tyranids from Warhammer 40k descending to the surface of a desert planet, where a slimey purple growth has grown to cover a vast area.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

An illustration I did for @alzabosoup.bsky.social ! This was for Gene Wolfe's "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", one of my favorite novellas by my favorite author, so it was a true delight to get to do it.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Mew and Mewtwo! The Mew is still one of my favorites.

Realistic rendering of the pokemon Mew, floating in a dark void.

More detailed redesign of Mewtwo, in a sketchy watercolor style.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

An alien design I did for a project I worked on briefly with my good buddy Nate Abell. The sketches for it played with the idea that it was actually two symbiotic aliens linked together.

A green alien with six limbs and four scissorlike jaws, and a smaller beaked mouth between the jaws.

Sketches of the previous alien, exploring the idea that it's actually two symbiotic aliens, and a diagram of how its mouthparts work.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Here's some work I'm still very fond of! A battle from a D&D campaign run by my friend @zoerobin.bsky.social , done in the style of Darkest Dungeon. This was so fun to do, but an incredible amount of work to make all the faux icons and menus and such.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Rolling Blackout, a prologue comic I made for a session of Monster of the Week I ran several years ago. This mystery centered around a living blob of experimental GMO fertilizer that traveled through the sewers and destroyed power lines so that it could hunt in the dark.

One page comic of a utility worker investigating a destroyed transformer on a power line. Meanwhile, a creepy blob monster, never shown clearly, emerges from a nearby storm drain, and attacks and eats the worker.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Doodles and Dragons. Some heavily redesigned D&D dragons for my old campaign. The first one is Ladon, a highly redesigned bronze dragon, and the mount/guardian of the BBEG. Next is a gold dragon, which I made look like a Brachiosaurus. The last is a random gharial green dragon.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The Order of the Veil, an order of assassins in an apocalyptic death cult. More art from my old DnD campaign.

A trio of elite fantasy assassins in muted purplish outfits. One is a seemingly normal human with red hair. Another is a red skinned fire genasi who is floating. The last is a dark elf with a magic spear giving off some sort of vapor, wearing a mask carved like a draped face.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Sragh the Repentant and the Heart of the Deep. A major NPC and a major boss in my old D&D campaign, respectively.

An ancient Dungeons and Dragons dwarf with ornate robes and jewels sits on a stone throne. He holds a silver mirror in his lab and a dagger pierces his heart, dripping purple blood into the mirror. The scene is lit as if it is underwater.

A tentacled monster like a nautilus in the shape of a human heart. A small dagger pierces it and purple blood drips out.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A Bubble Crab I did for Teppen some years ago. This was my favorite of the many cards I did for the game, mainly because Megaman X and X2 are so very dear to my heart!

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Psitras Squawkenspiel al'Zephyr, parrot aarakokra. A quick painting of a D&D character I made for a one shot some years ago.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A quartet of villainous characters from the Dungeons and Dragons 5e book, Descent into Avernus. I wasn't stoked when I got normal human characters instead of monsters, so I compensated by painting them as hard as I could, and they became some of my favorite pieces I ever did for D&D.

A skinny and unwell man in aristocratic fantasy clothing inspects a sinister puzzle box artifact.

A huge brutish man with a half burned face wields a club.

A dapper but villainous man in dark aristocratic fantasy clothing holds a dagger behind his back.

A stern older woman in aristocratic fantasy clothing. She is brawny, and pulls up her sleeve from her clenched fist.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Some more art from my old DnD campaign! This is Hidimba the Necrosphinx, a major boss from that campaign, and to this day I think one of my coolest designs.

A monstrous mummy sphinx made of multiple wrapped hands and dark masks, draped in orange cloth and with wings made of cloth.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

That 6 fanart thing that was going around years ago, but for prehistoric animals instead of fandom.

6 drawings of dinosaurs and other extinct creatures, in a mechanical pencil style.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Some nasty witch humunculi form my old dnd campaign.

A grotesque froglike monster with a toothy mouth, a long tongue with hands at the end, and an eerie human face on its snout rampages towards the viewer. There are also some smaller monsters like shrunken human heads and spinal columns with wings. Ink hatching style.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Some Critical Roll fanart I did several years ago! Kvarn the Beholder, Umbrasyl the Black Dragon, and the Iron Woe from the werewolf one shot they did. I like the typography I did with these also.

Ink drawing of K'varn, a corrupted beholder with a spiraling horn.

Ink drawing of Umbrasyl, a crocodile-like ancient black dragon, tumbling through the sky and exhaling acid after getting wounded.

Ink drawing of the Iron Woe, a skeletal undead werewolf, emerging from her tomb.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Empress Myrressh, a yuan-ti queen from my old DnD campaign. This isn't my favorite style of inkwork that I attempted, but I'm still fond of this design.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Already posted these ladies in with a bunch of my other old ink work, but what the hell, I like them enough to give them their own post! A trio of sea witches.

A trio of sea witches with seaweed hair. One has a crown of coral and a sharkskin shawl. The second one is covered in seaweed. The third wears a giant grab shell on her back and uses a dead pipefish as a staff.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Some illustrations from the mid-late 2010s of Veparus the Reviver and Baalduhm the Harvester, major villains in my old dnd campaign.

Digital illustration of a serpent-themed lich with green robes and gold jewelry, floating in an otherworldly space with stars and moons.

Baalduhm the Harvester, a sneering giant in dark armor and red robes, holding a scythe.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Some beasts for the Glorantha Bestiary from back in the late 2010s!

Various animals, including some prehistoric ones, in a pencil drawing style.

The rubble-runner, a small but voracious armadillo-like animal with armored bands and a big mouth.

Pencil drawing of a winged bull in front of a billowing cloud.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Some prehistoric beasts I did for the Glorantha Bestiary back in the late 2010s!

A fantasy entelodont, an omnivorous prehistoric mammal related to hippos.

A fantasy triceratops decked out with ceremonial armor, with some dragonewt warriors riding on top.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Some dwarves of various types I did for the Glorantha Bestiary back in the late 2010s.

Five different types of dwarves with different tools, skin tones, beard styles, and dress.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Some chaos monsters I did for the Glorantha Bestiary back in the late 2010s!

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Some giant bugs I did for the Glorantha Bestiary back in the late 2010s!

Pencil style illustration of giant beetles.

Pencil style illustration of a giant solfugid.

Pencil style illustration of a giant velvet worm.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Many more sketches and ink drawings for my old D&D campaign.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A few more pieces from yesteryear, this time from Volo's Guide to Monsters.

Flail snail monster, a giant snail with feelers tipped with spiked balls, and a prismatic shell.

Death's Kiss Beholder, a round pale monster with a single red eye and bloodsucking tentacles.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Here's some work from one hundred years ago that I'm still pretty fond of! Sketches and ink drawings for my old D&D campaign.

Some goblins roast a dead plesiosaur on a spit.

Some goblins roast a dead plesiosaur on a spit. Closeup of one of the goblins inspecting the plesiosaur's jaws.

Ink drawing of a desert troll with ape-like features and an extra arm.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I've been laid off for quite a while now, and I'm finally emerging from my cave to actively seek out work. I'll be posting a bunch of my old stuff today to fill out my gallery on this site.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 24/01/2026

Holy crap. This is the most damning video yet. It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face. Murder.

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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 Animate! Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Remember: - they DO NOT CARE about your arguments/rebuttals - they DO NOT CARE about your dunks - the person running the accounts was specifically hired to drive engagement BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY; it’s the algorithm they’re catering to This is a game, and to them you are data to be manipulated.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Does anyone have a recommendation for the best app for making form fillable PDFs? Specifically for custom RPG character sheets. Right now I use InDesign, which does everything I want, but feels clunky and unwieldy. I'd love something more streamlined, like Procreate is to Photoshop.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

You know, thank goodness we steal an hour of sunlight from a time where everyone is up and about, and give it to a time where most people are asleep and those that aren't are just getting ready for work. Thank even more goodness we still do that years after voting to stop!

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

When you spell the name of your chaos god in such a metal way that I don't realize for years that his name is just Corn.

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Cory Trego-Erdner @corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

All this build up to the true ending in ng++ in AC6, and it was the worst ending of all of them with the worst character arcs. After the high of the Liberator ending, that sucked. I hated it.

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