Showing posts with label Beastiary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beastiary. Show all posts

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Sniper vs. The Hounds of Tindalos



Several of the other things on this page could be Exhumans or other abominations.


Wednesday, October 8, 2014

The Great Martian War



Tagged as "steampunk".  But is WWI really steampunk?

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Chthonians in Guatemala


Cement Surroundings are no defense.

Via Boing Boing, via the Guatemalan government's Flicker feed.

Character sketcher: Doll Divine

Bear with me here . . .

Doll Divine  is a website that has a vast array of little engines for creating virtual dressup dolls in various genres.  Some may be too cartoony or "pre-teen-girly" to really set the right tone for certain role-playing gamers tastes.  But, the wide variety of templates available can still provide a quick, go-to utility for trying to visually portray a character.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

In Praise of Great Worms

There seems to be a small trend in worm-based flash games these days. Cases in point:

  • Effing Worms - An evolving worm trying to devour the area's technologically advancing inhabitants.

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Friday, July 16, 2010

Gone to Sleep

Moby and Kelli Scarr make a song based on this picture by artist Phil Toledano.


The video about their creation process (and the song itself) gives a great vibe of eerie desolation.




Author's note: the first night I watched this it inspired a fascinating nightmare about Changeling: the Lost's "Gentry", so I'm considering it prime fodder for that game at least.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Metatron

I'm not a huge fan of the idea that the Gentry of Changeling: the Lost must be completely inimical to humanity. But there is a certain appeal to a portrayal of the fae as juxtaposing concepts in a way which does not make sense to the human mind:

A realm of darkness and cold metal populated with horrifying mechanical creatures and devices. Yet strangely the existence of this nightmare relies on the fact that a lone woman peacefully knits at the heart of the machine.
Print by Ray Caesar.

Decemberists Poster 5

Steamech Bibliophile Chimera.

Via Gig Posters.

Decemberists Poster 2

The great Forrest Whale chimera.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Friday, May 29, 2009

The Protean Swarm


It's movement unnatural as it slid across the sky, growing, contracting, throwing out amorphous limbs of animate specks. But it seemed to us that what we saw was only the smallest extremity of a thing whose bulk remained housed in some strange sub-dimensions.

Video.