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Handbook of Erotic Fantasy: Birthday, Part 3/3

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September Pinup: Lady Ninja

I really like doing pinups as a way to change and experiment with other styles than the one Handbook uses, and as of late, I've been falling in love with texture brushes again--I kind of went into this thinking I wanted to do a watery/onsen kind of feel to represent the Japanese heritage behind the class, and while I'm not sure I got all the way there, I really like how it turned out!  Fun...

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Monthly Poll, September 2020: Odd Couple

We've got A LOT of heroes in our cast of characters. Many of them haven't had an opportunity to hang out together. Which cross-party pairing deserves a little screen time? 

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Comic Preview: The Hangover

Colin ran a 'Hangover' style session once in an Exalted campaign, where we all woke up in various strange places and had to attempt to figure out what had happened the previous night. (Note to self, do not challenge Abyssal Exalts to drinking games) I'm a huge fan of it, if you have a GM willing to do something similar--it's a great way to bring characterization to the forefront for a session, ...

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Roll20 Token: Female Dwarf Cleric

This week, we get our first female dwarf!  Female dwarves and halflings are the same issue for me--a lot of what they look like is down to body proportion, which isn't very obvious in a portrait.  Hopefully she looks stocky enough to be a proper dwarf!

Downloadable version is available below as a 280x280 png, which is the optimal size for a token the size of a single grid square...

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Comic Preview: Constructive Criticism

Gestalt gets a lot of use out of that rack.

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Monthly Pinup Poll

Who's up for September?  I feel like we didn't get enough of the genderswaps, so here're some more options!

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Handbook of Erotic Fantasy: Birthday, Part 2/3

Session 40:

Dear Diary,

Fighter mentioned that her birthday was coming up, so I figured it would be the perfect time to confess my feelings. What better way to declare your love than with a perfectly-thought-out gift? The only problem was that I had no idea what to get her. 

Thank goodness I have friends like Magus and Inquisitor to help me out. They were...

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Comic Preview: Overconfidence

I support all traps using puns... as long as they're in someone else's game.

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Roll20 Token: Male Tiefling Rogue

Did you think I was done with Tieflings?  I'M JUST GETTING STARTED.

Downloadable version is available below as a 280x280 png, which is the optimal size for a token the size of a single grid square in Roll20.  If someone wants a larger size for an avatar, let me know and I'm happy to include that as well!     

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Comic Preview: Handicap

Pillow golem, I love you.

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Comic Preview: System Shock

I had the hardest time with Cleric!  1920's was not a time when facial hair was really in vogue, so I cheated juuuuuust a bit to slide him into the 30's because Cleric with no facial hair at all is just a circle with eyes.

Points for guessing the homage this comic is making!

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Roll20 Token: Female Tiefling Sorcerer

I can't resist the siren call of tieflings, I swear.  Drawing cute little demon girls is an addiction.

Downloadable version is available below as a 280x280 png, which is the optimal size for a token the size of a single grid square in Roll20.  If someone wants a larger size for an avatar, let me know and I'm happy to include that as well!     

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Handbook of Erotic Fantasy: Birthday, Part 1/3

I get the sense that Chippendales birthday parties are something of a tradition with Team Bounty Hunter. Bottomless cosmos, hunky guys, and plenty of woo…. What red-blooded, definitely-female humanoid wouldn’t jump at the chance? 

Of course, Fighter isn’t the only birthday girl ...

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Comic Preview: Setting Up the Charge

So, a few of our patrons who get our monthly mail packages got a weird sneak preview of Cavalier here--I'd been working on her design for a while, but I sent out the sketchcards of her without actually explaining who she was!  Oops.  While this pose and color scheme doesn't quite show off her design as well as I'd like, she and Brick the tortoise are being newly added to the cast so I...

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Comic Preview: Hit Dice

I had the hardest time with this one trying to find a page color for the book that a) was not too similar with wizard's skin and b) still showed the blood.

Oof. Artist problems are weird sometimes.

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Roll20 Token: Human Male Druid

Continuing our human streak!  I just wanted to draw plants tonight <3

Downloadable version is available below as a 280x280 png, which is the optimal size for a token the size of a single grid square in Roll20.  If someone wants a larger size for an avatar, let me know and I'm happy to include that as well!     

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Question about Community

Hey everyone!  I've been mulling it over for a while and I thought it would be worth asking you guys--would people be interested in adding a discord channel through Patreon?  I've been waffling a little since I can be a little introverted, but if it's something people want, I'd be willing to try it out, and at least chat a little about Handbook and gaming while I work myself up to the...

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Comic Preview: Natural Habitat

You know how daunting it is when your script for the day says 'chandelier shop?'  Holy cow.

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Handbook of Erotic Fantasy: The Power to Crush Men

Inquisitor frowned down at her notes. She paid well for her intelligence reports, and they rarely failed her.  

Heart of Atom Isa, they read. Glowing green gem of extraterrestrial origins....

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August 2020 Pinup: Barbarian

Our big lady gets her turn in the spotlight!  And I kind of like the fang earring, I might add that into her design in the main comic.

The NSFW version is available for download below:

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Comic Preview: Spat

Uh oh, looks like Thief and Wizard might be having problems outside the HoEF timeline...

I also thought it was time we had another 'castle' background, and I'm super proud of how this one turned out!  Slowly but surely, I'm getting better at architecture.

Check out handbookofheroes.com tomorrow for the full post!

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Roll20 Token: Half-Orc Male Bard

I don't know what it was today, but I wanted to draw a fancy half-orc dude spying on people's letters and getting up to all sorts of schemes.  I think I'm living vicariously through these tokens for characters I don't have the time to play. 

Downloadable version is available below as a 280x280 png, which is the optimal size for a token the size of a single grid square in Roll20....

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Monthly Poll, August 2020: Sweet Ride

While experimenting with some character concepts, I've fallen in love with the design of an oread cavalier. The only problem is that I have no idea what her mount should be. So you tell us! What's our rock-person knight going to ride? 

Also, please feel free to shout out some name suggestions for your mount-of-choice down in the comments. 

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Comic Preview: Chewing the Scenery

This is the last of our collaboration posts with the Hypertellurians release, and I'm a little sad to end it--the characters are all so much fun to draw <3.  Ridiculous names are kind of my bread and butter (being an Exalted player/GM for so long), so I have to give major kudos here to Argencia--EVERY name should be created with the thought that some day, you're going to be announced at...

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Comic Preview: Technobabble

Second part of the Hypertellurians comics for the launch!  Science fiction is not normally a genre that I like to dip my artist toes into, so I'm having to stretch myself for this--which is always a good thing!  You don't get better if you don't try things that you're not comfortable with.

Check out handbookofheroes.com tomorrow for the full post!

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Monthly Pinup Poll

Who's next in line for cheesecake?

Poll will end at 6pm EST on August 25th.

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Roll20 Token: Female Human Warlock

I'm  worried that this one got a little too busy?  I was going to add highlights and then figured I ought to maybe calm down a bit and remember the Coco Chanel mantra of 'take one thing off before you go out.'

Downloadable version is available below as a 280x280 png, which is the optimal size for a token the size of a single grid square in Roll20.  If someone wants a larger...

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Handbook of Erotic Fantasy: Blood Orgy

Is a wolf whistle appropriate, or is that a little too on-the-nose? Just sayin’, if I had a rack like that I’d want to show it off too.

Any dang way, I hope it comes as no surprise that Miss Gestalt’s office is a torture chamber. When you’re BBEG’s second-in-command, the work is all about getting your hands / claws / talons dirty. Evil lieutenant is a demanding posi...

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Comic Preview: “Science” Fiction

Hi Guys!  This comic is a new thing for us, as it's our first partnership outside the webcomics world!  We're featuring the Ultracosm of Hypertellurians over the next 3 comics, which is an RPG that's releasing its new edition on August 21st.  It's all about retro futurism and science fant...

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