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Hello, everyone!

So a bit of context: I am about a month and a half into my first campaign as DM. We're playing 5E over Roll20 with a group that I mostly recruited from there, so I don't know 4 of the 5 players IRL. The last player is my husband. I'm a female DM, which is probably a large piece of this puzzle. The other is that role playing is a central mechanic of our games, the guys spend a lot of time just hanging out in character.

A few sessions back, one of my players decided to flirt with an NPC. He wanted to go on a date with her, the guys were making those hilarious ooooh noises, etc. Up until this point I've been rather proud of myself for meeting my group head-on and challen

For any future seekers, sawhorses were created at the dawn of time. shrugs There doesn't seem to be much by way of origin knowledge, possibly because they're made of wood and would have deteriorated before archaeologists could dig them up.

"Sawbucks" are designed differently, and while I still haven't found any source that notates an origin in history, the materials they're constructed with are basic. var_mingledTrash: Sawbuck

The Viking Lady site has a brief description and image of a pole lathe, attributing it to viking times (though it doesn't clarify if it came before or after the migrations

I'll start by saying that I am not really a digital artist. It took me 3 days to get where I'm at with this image, so please forgive my horrendous lack of knowledge of color and values. I have been poring over every tutorial I could get my hands on just to get myself this far. I've probably put about 18 hours into this image at this point, and her arms are still just blobs of color in anatomically impossible poses, lol.

What I actually am is a writer, and I set myself off on a crazy adventure of trying to create a fully rendered digital painting of each character from my first novel. The character in question is supposed to have "golden eyes that almost glow, and skin as dark as the night

Hi! So as the title says, I'm really new to minecraft, I've got maybe a week of log time. Started up a server with some of my WoW buddies and um...this just sort of happened, lol.

The dolphins I built first, they were a sort of trial run.

Dolphins

Then she came along.

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Edit: Color change to something more striking. I watched a pixel art video and picked up a new technique that involves checkerboarding blocks to make colors blend better. It had an unexpected but awesome side effect of making her look like she is scaly. :D

So this is going to be a roller coaster, called the "Maiden's Voyage", and the coaster i

I've been playing League since beta off and on, and it wasn't until last season that I made an attempt to play ranked. I placed at Silver 2 and decayed to Silver 5 before I ever went back, and this season I didn't even start a ranked game until about 2 months ago, did all 10 placement matches in 1 night, and lost miserably, haha. Ranked Wood 1.

Next season, my fiance and I really want to go for gold together (so sad I missed Morgs skin), but we're not in the most grind-y friendly environment. We're balancing maintaining our household, his final year of college, separate job schedules, a very active animal rescue, a sizable DnD campaign, and a MTG night -- before we ever get an hour to dedic

What do you guys think? I just followed a tutorial from the cartographers guild to make it. I got a little lazy with the legend, but outside of that I think it came out okay.

http://i.imgur.com/HC9BcfX.jpg

Edit: Forgot to mention, the novel is based on Swedish vikings, so the map is heavily based on the outline of southern Sweden.

I am...ah, attempting, to create a personal book cover as a bit of inspiration to finish the title. It was going rather well until I tried to adjust the color on the bone to that of the woman. I just can't seem to get it right. Sometimes I look at it and it seems too blue, so I tried to make it more green, but then it just looked grey. If anybody could help me with this, I would really appreciate it.

If the image is too difficult to work with by itself, PM me your e-mail and I will send you the .PSD file with the layers. Thank you to anyone who wants to give it a whirl!

http://i.imgur.com/KZ7WQcK.jpg

Hah, okay, so my boyfriend and I are writing the first novel of a planned trilogy together. We've got an awesome viking themed thing going, the whole story is based around PTSD told through the eyes of some bad ass Scandinavian warriors. Sweet. Because it is a fantasy novel, we have planted the ever lovely Norse lady of the dead, Hel, at least, some visceral reincarnation of her in the middle of everything. So far, we're good.

Story starts out with a withered old viking trying to dispel a common misconception about this spooky Hel figure to another guy, and when he gets to the actual story telling bit, the tense changes. The story as the old man is telling it is written in present tense, wh

A war has broken out between two fantastical races, green skinned orcs that seem to have appeared from nowhere and the Hughin, their black skinned counterparts. Don't call the Hughin elves, or they'll cut you in half. With a battle raging across the Scandinavian front, and an unstoppable evil shredding the realms apart, the ancient Icelandic people are thrown into a war that will topple their entire civilization if they do not flee the lands. The history books are wrong. The Nordic people were not raiding for conquest. They were running for their lives.

WARNING: The story contains an unreasonable amount of cursing, violence, and gritty gore. Read: Adult Fiction Vikings.

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Does anybody become hopelessly attached to their secondary characters once they begin writing?

I'm having a horrible time staying on track with my main characters because the supporting cast is just as awesome. I have this concept that the secondary characters are just as important as the main characters, and are only sub-plot important because the story is not being told from their perspective.

I realize that the tale must remain focused, without letting the other characters fall flat or become less than fully realized, it's just...they're all fully realized, and I could probably write individual books about every character. I feel like I'm cheating on my lover with my lover!