Lancer Homebrew: Art Updates
/The great mech-artist @Shadefish1 did amazing artwork for the current 4 GEM licenses. The artwork for each frame (Hawking, Dyson, Darwin, Kelvin) is below, and the previous links are being updated. Enjoy!
Lancer Homebrew: Kelvin
/New Lancer homebrew, the Kelvin! This frame was designed to operate for extended periods of time on subzero planets. It was then modified by GEM to house their experimental Absolute Zero technology.
Garal Exotic Materials (GEM) doesn’t ask whether something makes sense or is dangerous, they ask if it can be done at all!
Lancer Homebrew: Darwin
/New Lancer homebrew, the Darwin! This frame is an adaptable hunter, used as scouting frames in new planets. Their adaptability and self sufficient systems allow them to operate for long periods of time without needing to return to base.
Garal Exotic Materials (GEM) doesn’t ask whether something makes sense or is dangerous, they ask if it can be done at all!
Lancer Homebrew: Dyson
/New Lancer homebrew, the Dyson! This frame uses drones to redirect energy and create small structures.
Garal Exotic Materials (GEM) doesn’t ask whether something makes sense or is dangerous, they ask if it can be done at all! Dyson spheres are well understood and rarely worth the effort of actually constructing, but the original designers of this frame wondered how small you could make a dyson sphere, and have it be effective.
Lancer Homebrew: Hawking
/I’ve been working on some homebrew Lancer licenses. Check out the Hawking, a gravity-controlling frame with an internal black-hole engine.
Garal Exotic Materials (GEM) doesn’t ask whether something makes sense or dangerous, they ask if it can be done at all! Black-hole engines are dangerous and not as efficient as traditional power sources, but they were looking into miniaturized black hole technology anyway, so why not see if it works?
Yu-Gi-Oh Stats: Part 2
/Hello! While working on Ancestry Awakened, I took a break to work on some more yu-gi-oh designs for 5e. Here’s the continuation of the monsters from the yu-gi deck!
Yu-Gi-Oh Stats
/
When I was a kid, I loved the cards from Yu-Gi-Oh. The artwork was full of cool, interesting looking creatures and monsters. There wasn’t much info on the cards either, so my imagination was free to make up stuff on its own.
After playing Lancer lately, I’ve been rethinking how I design monsters. Simple monsters work as mooks, but having a role in combat is more fun. So instead of creating basic stat blocks, I’m trying out more experimental mechanics for monsters. And Yu-Gi-Oh cards seemed like a good source of inspiration.
So here are some new 5e statblocks, based on Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
Ancestry Awakened
/Hello everyone! I’ve been working on my next Kickstarter, a book for D&D 5e tentatively called Ancestry Awakened, a book of new and reworked ancestry options for 5e.
I’m still in the prep phase of the Kickstarter, but I wanted to share some of the ideas that are in the book.
Major/Minor Feature System
Ancestry Awakened introduces the major/minor feature system, a framework for designing and balancing ancestries. The inspiration for the system came from Ryan Langr’s Grazilaxx’s Guide to Ancestry on the DMsGuild. That book uses a similar system, but a different approach to it.
In Ancestry Awakened, every ancestry is built with 2 major features and 2 minor features. Major features are mechanically impactful traits or abilities, and minor features are less impactful. An example of a major feature would be a dragonborn’s breath attack, and a minor feature would be something like darkvision or a skill proficiency.
Best of all, each ancestry has CHOICES! You don’t get just one set of features whenever you pick that ancestry. Instead, there are always choices to make. Take a look at a preview of the gargoyle.
You lookin’ for a bruisin’? art by @OutlandIdol
Anyway, stay tuned for more information as we get closer to the Kickstarter launch!
Santa's Workshop Compilation!
/
Happy Holidays Everyone!
Some of the talented artists and writers in the RPG print-and-play community have gotten together to develop this special bundle straight from Santa's Workshop!
Santa's Workshop Compilation consists of:
Great miniatures from Printable Heroes, Darek Pages, Okumarts Games, Kev's Lounge, Decapitated Markers, and Trash Mobs Minis.
Holiday-themed paper crafting gifts and trees that are perfect for scatter terrain by Papierschnitzel and RPGPapercrafts.
Special winter-themed stat blocks by Pirate Gonzalez Games, perfect for those twisted holiday games.
We hope you find a lot of joy and value in this little collection of props, minis and stat blocks. We encourage you to reach out to the others on their social media to give them some love, and check out more of the great work from the contributors:
Darek Pages https://www.patreon.com/darekpages
Decapitated Markers https://www.patreon.com/DecapitatedMarkers
Kev's Lounge https://www.patreon.com/kevsloungepaperminis
Okumarts Games https://www.patreon.com/okumarts
Paper Realms https://www.patreon.com/paperrealms
Papierschnitzel https://www.patreon.com/papierschnitzel
Pirate Gonzalez Games https://www.pirategonzalezgames.com/
Printable Heroes https://www.patreon.com/PrintableHeroes
RPG Papercrafts https://www.patreon.com/rpgpapercrafts
Trash Mobs Minis https://www.patreon.com/trashmobminis
Keep the dice rolling, and thank you for your continued support. Happy Holidays!
