I think I should better explain what D&D or TRPG is. So…
A tabletop role-playing game (typically abbreviated as TRPG or TTRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a form of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters’ actions through speech. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a set formal system of rules and guidelines. Within the rules, players have the freedom to improvise; their choices shape the direction and outcome of the game.
Thank you wikipedia.
D&D is a very famous trpg game and probably the oldest one. The game doesn`t need a monitor or a geforce 3090ti graphic card. All the dungeons, cities, the room you ordered in the inn, the monster you encounter and so on. They are all based on the players` imagination. Or emergent narrative.
I hope I used the term right.
So, Sword World 2.5 is similiar to D&D, but with a rather different plot, rules and more Japanese elements.
So elegant! It`s a scan file so the color are gone, but this style is still nice.
I guess it`s true that you can still be appealing once you got the right ratios even without color…
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Sorry I wrote too much useless texts. The point is, I am now playing a TRPG with my friends. In the game we are entering a huge city that is built under a way bigger ancient mechanic soldier.
The setting was, there`s a lost civilization which was able to build gigantic war machines to fight with the gods. They did something awful and destroyed themselves. But the machines left behind and after ages, humans came and build a city under it.
Sorry for my poor descriptive narrative. I hope you are starting to imagine the view, that`s what TRPG players have to do. Imagine everything from the text.
And draw it if possible.
This is the drawing I did when I was playing the game, so it`s before the ual session starts. You can see a giant and really rough drawing at the background. That shall be the ancient machine. And some dark age-ish towers as the main subject.
Well I can`t actually see how big the robot is if in this compositon so… I drew a little better digital work on a different point of view for the other players. It`s far from finished…so.
The buffering part on the right bottom corner is where the city should be located.
You can see that the there should be some vegetation on the groud. Like Moss or something. and the light is right behind the mountain, some of the light goes through the rocks and shines upon the city but the shadow casts by the machine still covers the most part of the plain.
I know it`s hard to see from my drawings, they are pretty bad. Sorry about this.
And I went to Luca`s 3D story world class, heard that we need to make a scene.
Well, I`m lucky that I already had something to do in my head.
So, without so much mind mapping or arranging the objects. I modeled this:
You can see a different color pattlet and a basalt landform. it`s because I CANNOT MODEL MOSS OR MOUNTAIN.
I`m too weak, I did some research and I failed. I wish I could minmize the details so I can finish this work in 4 days, but it seems like I minimized too much and everything looks too simple and naive.
Well it`s not the end but I guess the final output should be something similiar.
Next thing I`ll do is maybe try to add details on the city and try to change the robot to make it more…
I don`t know, more robot, maybe.