Tag: tabletop gaming

snapshot

Along with the hologram of the andalite Tyrlieon that Kioshi found at the construction site, the young Japanese teen also discovered an old snapshot that looked well worn. It was inexplicably of his father, and himself as a baby. They looked happy. 

Kioshi is still not clear on exactly what this means or how it came to be stuck behind the andalite’s hologram.

I included both the undoctored image and one using a texture to give it the look of a piece of paper that was folded and unfolded many times. 

*Want to learn more about this campaign?! Check out this awesome new website. It has everything you need to follow the action! You can listen to the sessions on soundcloud, read the summaries, and find out about rules, characters, and players! You can also see the other artwork I have done for the sessions so far. The website and adaptation for tabletop was created by scratch by Falseprophet and it is all VERY amazing. 

The Big Three

‘The Sharing: Building a better life’ 

A group who I have started calling ‘The Big Three’ in our Animorphs tabletop campaign. This is mostly because we have only seen the Visser once and aside from him, in our first three sessions, these controllers have become our first major enemies.

On the left, Tom Renoir, Gillette’s older brother.

In the middle, Mrs. Jamie ‘Crazy Eyes’ Burns, too chipper for her own good.

On the right, Marcus Lee Kendrick, Principal of Monicon, the high school many of the group attends.

Tom and Mrs. Burns work for The Sharing, a Yeerk front organization that touts itself as a youth/charity/activist group. Principal Kendrick worked closely with them during the sponsored weekend retreat to end school violence where our group of animorphs met.

This moment, as well as being a portrait for reference’s sake, happened in session 3 when Katherine and Everett rounded a corner, about to execute their plan and came face to face with the three controllers.

*Want to learn more about this campaign?! Check out this awesome new website. It has everything you need to follow the action! You can listen to the sessions on soundcloud, read the summaries, and find out about rules, characters, and players! You can also see the other artwork I have done for the sessions so far. The website and adaptation for tabletop was created by scratch by Falseprophet and it is all VERY amazing.

A request image from the Animorphs Initiative tabletop campaign. Kioshi inspecting and pondering the hologram image that he picked up from the construction site as an owl. Tyrlieon, our first andalite ally standing in a field of yellow grass waving. A striking image we would also all see in our dreams that first night. She seemed to have a specific interest in the young Japanese student as she also handed him the medallion from hew own suit before the group fled.

I asked if the players wanted to see anything specific and Kioshi’s player wanted a shot of him back and the cabin looking at the hologram holding the button/medallion he was given.

Also a detail shot because the hologram was surprisingly fun.

Interested in the campaign? Check THIS out! Here you will find info/descriptions, rules and guidelines to this mostly original system, and links to the audio of the first 2 sessions!

More tabletop Animorphs art (now the campaign has a name Animorphs Initiative!). Here, finally, our Andalite first contact: Tyrlieon-Cabiliac-Jortii. She crash landed grievously injured, but moreso burdened with the knowledge that her end was near (not necessarily related to her injury). She would soon be followed by yeerk forces.

Here she is with the morphing cube about to offer the group our new powers. 

Many people have done andailte redesigns, but this is my take. I tried to make biological sense (as much as possible) but keep the air of grace while being a little off-putting.  

For more info on the Animorphs Initiative tabletop campaign, go here!

A small scene also from the first session. As the group begins to attempt their first morphs – barred owls – we realize that our clothes were not coming with us when we transform… Everett, who doesn’t change right away, realizes a very important small disk that was given to Kioshi (by the andalite) would be left behind on the ground. He hands it awkwardly to his sister….as an owl, who, at that moment, was trying to figure out HOW to owl. It is a strange interaction.

My magnificent husband will soon be running a homebrew tabletop (dungeons and dragons type) game that will revamp the interesting, nostalgic, dark world of the Animorphs! A world brimming with potential and just screaming to be realistically modernized.

We rolled up characters and ended up with an amazing mix, if I do say so. I was inspired to do a group shot.

From left to right:

Kilohana: native Hawaiian loner, 15 y/o, into extreme sports.

Gillette, or Gil (soft G): French, athletic private school student, 17 y/o, very strong and strong-willed

Everett: Jewish forensics enthusiast, brother to Katherine, 15 y/o, Autistic, on the short side for his age, speaks with a bit of a stutter

Katherine: Jewish pre-med student, sister to Everett, 24 y/o, has a lot to prove

Tyrel: Gender non-conforming engineer, ‘sassy’, 23 y/o, vested interest in ‘recreational medicine’

Kioshi: Japanese high school student, 17 y/o, not much is known about this student   

Tiny Tiefling sorceror I am about to play in an adapted Discworld campaign! (I know nothing about Discworld but a friend of mine who is an expert is running it. He is allowing tieflings since demon summoning used to be a thing)

His name is Nyx and his shadow friend’s name is Nox. He doesn’t know he is a sorceror, just that his shadow friend can do things for him if he asks. He doesn’t really know how old he is, but is probably between 7 and 8. 

He has a ‘spellbook’ full of sketches and scribbles of things Nox can do.