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Legendsmith

@legendsmith.bsky.social
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I make art and video games. TTRPG apostate.

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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Flow field pathfinding in godot. #gamedev
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silence_sheep.art @silencesheepart.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Let's run on the edge. The @zentreya.bsky.social fan art is done!!!! I hope you all enjoy, and good luck out there, choom~ #zentreart #fanart #cyberpunk #illustration
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milk 🧪💫 @miikpal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
fugi for @beepers.bsky.social Disco Elysium streams ^__^ rly rly fun to work on
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I strongly recommend most things by Vanguard Sound Studio. Hikari www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj7NzKv3VEw Under Dimension: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzlQ... The Twilight War www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMUg...
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
That's unfortunate.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
How does it compare system-wise to Mork Borg?
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
> the GM doesn't have to prepare a session every week It pains me that was always the intent from AD&D1e and that didn't continue forward with new games and editions.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
It's not redeemable! I reckon you were onto something. I think if you slightly shrink the hand and forearm then move 'em to the left and down it could work. That is assuming your layer setup allows it.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Oh that's cool, yeah I rate that.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
It's almost aggravating how good the French are at animation. What's actually aggravating is how long it's been that way and that nobody has caught up except Japan and Japan only caught up recently.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I genuinely have to ask how this improves the playing of roles. If I made my players play out their morning routine every time I think they'd garrote me.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
2025 backlog (June) Final Boss Fufu
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
2025 MotherV3 art. The first one is from August and the last 3 are September. Noticeable improvement! (All text in the images are quotes)
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
2025 backlog featuring radiaactive. Online Reactor and Rise Above
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
More 2025 backlog, more obkatiekat.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Featuring obkatiekat
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Time to start uploading the art I did in 2025 starting with Highlight #squeakart
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Honestly yes, it sounds like it. I don't blame you though because TTRPGs have just thrown this (and other things) at people without enough explanation for like 40 years. Some people figured it out but MANY didn't.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Music and looking at other people's art but especially music.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This is why I try to hammer into my fellow artists to LIST YOUR RATES. List the damn prices, not just "ask me lol." Commission sheets let people start decision making.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I've been absent from here for a long time but I've been busy. With what? Learning art. @fufuvt.bsky.social
FufuVT escorted by her Gary Troopers. She looks extra villainous.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is a fae.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I ignore it. The people who support you were already doing so and will continue to do so. Glaze/Nightshade doesn't work "outside the lab."
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I'm not kidding when I say it doesn't work.
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Rashaki @rashaki0.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Yeah a good GM can make a poorly designed game fun, but if you only have poorly designed games it's going to be a lot harder to produce good GMs.
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
"ANY #TTRPG game book can be run with total freedom and range, if the GM is good." Sure. But some books will help the GM and be useful for that, while others will set them up for failure and make it hard. This is the scenario version of "the rule isn't bad because the GM can change the rule."
Dennis Detwiller:

TTRPG players use the terms “railroad” and “sandbox” when what they mean is: “poorly run game.”

ANY #TTRPG
 game book can be run with total freedom and range, if the GM is good. 

A skilled GM makes any game in any direction possible, while a poor GM can make the best game book ever, crud.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
Many TTRPGs should just be supplements for existing systems. Especially ones that are just reskinned D&D. In fairness, the OSR guys at least do this with making their stuff somewhat compatible with each other. It helps because it's an open system. TTRPG is better as a hobby network than industry.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Yeah, if he was good at magic he'd be able to do some shapeshifting just like in the myths gottem.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
One of my players once played a catgirl who could cast gun arts magic with Dexterity. She had to move to cast it, hence dexterity actually mattering. if she was restrained, she couldn't cast. She was the deadliest party member by far, and the party included a 10 meter tall giant. (It wasn't D&D tho)
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I care so much about this because that group of uni students, I got that group at the start of 2018. Rather quickly I noticed they had some odd behaviours I hadn't seen in any players before. I wondered why since it affected how I could run the game. I eventually realised it was their 5e experience.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
One guy was so glad to be playing something else but it took him over a year, and some lengthy discussions for him to get out of the 5e "combat is a DPS contest" mindset. Over a year while actively trying to not be 5e-brained!
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My experience is the 5e players willing to find something else are the exception, not the rule. I usually look for players who are expressing dissatisfaction with core aspects of the game. I have found some but even when they try other systems they struggle to escape the mindset of 5e.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I had a group of uni students until they moved away after graduating. I wanted a new group in 2022 and looked around saying "I want to run this system because it does XYZ really well." The response I got to my face was "There's no point learning another system, the GM can make it up for 5e".
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
You are a rare exception, and I'm glad to hear it.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
5e is its own bubble, it's not part of the wider hobby, and that's the problem I have with it. Anyone who has learned 5e has a harder time learning anything else. 5e the system deserves to be dunked on.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Yeah, one day we'll get some new GM advice books that don't treat RPGs like storytelling with extra steps. At this rate I'll be writing it.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 15/09/2024
I like to play good games so people can be bad DMs.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I've had people tell me to my face when dice rolls start, roleplay stops.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
If I was in a project like this a critical component would be avoiding over-gamification. In short, the system should be able to adequately "describe" relevant entities and concepts (such as a character, and actions) without needing builds. Basically: RPG, not MTG.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I don't do this and I encourage people to actually run RAW first!
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This subset is the majority now thanks to modern Rule 0 and the like. I am against it. The tinkering isn't the problem it's the fact it's immediate. It's the naivety. There are many people who have never run RAW, and never understand the intent behind a design, or any design. They run games wrong.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
If the GM did do this properly and the player just isn't taking the game seriously... Well that's a player problem. OR It could be the player is bored because he expects this. He expects the game to be violated and is basically shit testing the GMs. That player is likely used to bad GMs.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I'm against GMs doing this. Something has gone deeply wrong when it happens. Why is the rogue stealing? Is the campaign boring? Are the player characters not allies? If the GM hasn't given guidelines for chargen that includes a goal for the PCs to orient their motivation this is the GM's fault.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
What's the bsky equivalent of "send tweet"?
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Limited palette is so powerful, these look great.
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Karma 🍉 @karmacores.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Limited palette nintendo fanart from earlier this year 💘 Corrupted/Gothic versions of Rosalina and Zelda!
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
There's a significant vocal portion of online RPG space that insists applying these different labels is "gatekeeping", yet also says that the other styles are bad or outdated, because TTRPGs are really about storytelling.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
What's "OC" here?
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Slander. Gary said murderous campaigns are a nadir of the hobby.
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Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Many people run games wrong. and thus good advice is incompatible. Colville meanwhile has objectively awful advice that includes "lie to the players."
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