PakPak's ShopShop and Death of the Wizard Kings

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 It has been too quite over here. I have been toiling away on #dungeon23 but fell significantly behind on inking over my text and embellishing pages. As a result, I haven't had anything scannable in ages. After a holiday hiatus, the Twilight Age campaign itself is slowly coming back to life. The Demon Slayers from the Drinking Crow are working their way through a trial to prove their worth to the Dreaming Tree of the Lunar Elves. They started this quest back in December. Once that wraps up, I will be able to synch up game timelines and get things running properly again.

In the mean time, a pair of Twilight Age players are running Kickstarters at least somewhat-inspired by their time adventuring at the end of the world. There is about a week left to back both of them.


PakPak's ShopShop by Rob Armbrister



Rob A. brought his kobold PakPak to the second-ever session of the Twilight Age. Somehow, the scrappy fella has survived and continues to hatch schemes in Orm. Rob's grandest scheme for PakPak yet has been the opening of the ShopShop ( per Ben L.'s downtime rules) right in the heart of Orm near the Monument of the Old Gods. PakPak has been trying to unload glass jars, dungeon finds, and fey curiosities on other adventurers ever since. After a year or two of creating and illustrating clever inventories for the ShopShop, Rob decided it was time for PakPak to expand into a mail order catalogue business (i.e a 20+ page zine). 

A ShopShop inventory from the early days of the shop gives a glimpse into Rob's playful and clever imagination

I have seen some of that Rob has to offer. He has been cooking up a collection of amusing and off beat magical items that have a lot of charm. Some of them don't feel too far some some of the dungeon plunders from 'The Complex' PakPak has tried to hawk on his fellow adventurers. Rob is a accomplished illustrator (his art has been at the top of this blog for a long time) and designer so the book is going to look sharp!

Here is sample of what Rob has been dreaming up for this catalog of items.


Death to the Wizards Kings: DIY Vat Spawn Kit by Marie Enger

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Ever since Marie Enger played the vat-spawn Bucket in the Twilight Age's precursor campaign,  they have been obsessed with the magically created artificial life that is the vat spawn. They make stickers, patches, prints, comics, and more based on a vivid take their imagination has been brewing up around the simple idea of artificial life cooked up in the magical pools of wizards. 

The first page of their "Death to the Wizard Kings" story that appeared in Dagger, Dagger

I count this this Hate Pit "Death of the Wizard Kings" t-shirt as the second t-shirt I own from significant campaigns in my life. 

Through all these projects and daydreaming, Marie's vat creations have flourished into their own lore and concepts of this type of life could mean. Their latest endeavor on this front is an interactive comic/system neutral character generator for finding out about your own vat spawn character. The concepts in the book have been long simmering. Marie is bringing their formative cartooning skills to make them fully realized. The presentation is a format I have a long standing passion for and I can't wait to see how it turns out.

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