Here’s the first two board setups for the session of Backwaters of Mysticism I’m running later this month. Knowing our group, we won’t get this far. Due to PCRPD (Player Character Role Play Distraction).
I’m getting pretty excited!!!
I was going through all my gaming stuff (mostly Backwaters of Mysticism) and I found all my old character sheets. I’ve played a LOT of RPGs. Backwaters became my different groups’ go to system. . We mixed up the worlds with we played in. Some straight up fantasy (Rugnar was my Dwarven Priest if Thor), modern, modern fantasy, some space sci fi, Super heroes, Kung Fu, westerns, etc.
I really dig a lot of the character sketches I’d done for the characters, and no one has seen them. I thought I’d share them with you guys. You may see some of these guys show up in future comics, now that I’ve rediscovered them.
So the tokens match the character sheets. I’ve also made “generic” versions of the characters, so that when they are played, the player can do what they want, despite the comic canon.
I’m going to do some play testing, soon, before I run this against my gaming group. It’s been a very long time since I’ve GMed a game! YEARS. Should be fun, though.
As longs as I’ve played Warhammer 40k, I’ve wanted a city of terrain. And now I have one!! I downloaded files from https://www.toposolitario.com/workshop/tableros.html and built a bunch very quickly and it looks great!
The tokens are tokens for my game Backwaters of Mysticism, tokens I made of the Infected Colonies for One Page Rules (they were official for a bit, until OPR got 3d printing and lost interest in supporting 2d printed armies). The tanks and cheap but awesome Robogear tanks.
I’ll be using all this for the game I’m running next month of Backwaters. Should be fun!!
The first 3 encounters and general plot of the gaming module are worked out. Gonna playtest against myself, fore unleashing it on my group. Similar to “New Girl in Town”, but extra.
So, here’s a bunch of the token figures for my game. I have a bunch more to cut out, zombies, more monsters and gribblies, but it’s coming along. The player characters, have a bunch of designs to choose from, but the party will be 7.
Thi is fun stuff to work on.
Sorry about the lack of pages, recently. I went on vacation to see my family for 2 weeks and , while I have 2 pages pencilled, I’ve been working on stuff for the Role Playing Game. I am doing character sheets of all our heroes for a Game Module called “Terror of the Cthulhu Cult”. It will be play tested this August at our gaming group’s “Hutzcon”.
The Module, when done, will have lots of background, characters, scenarios, and printable tokens for the heroes and monsters. I’ve been wanting to do this project for YEARS. I’ll post stuff as I get it done.
Pages should be back posting, next week!
Just stumbled on this relic from days gone by. That time Combo Magazine reviewed our Role-Playing Game… favorably. Fun stuff!
The 2nd edition, Phineus Roleplaying Game is available for sale on Amazon!
Buy one here: Phineus: The Role Playing Game: Backwaters of Mysticism (Phineus + Magician for Hire)
Here are my actual character sheets of the comics heroes, that I actually played in game. Rugnar was actually a character in a fantasy world campaign.
I have a whole tabletop RPG, but I’d like to develop a miniature based tabletop game along the lines of a Talisman or Space Weirdos. I’ll continue to fiddle and test things out at a gaming weekend I have coming up this summer.
Phineus Beam
Sara Beam
Rugnar Grimm
Brother Maynard
Father Ben Billings
I’ve been meaning to work on the Phineus Sourcebook for our Role playing game. Here’s the first thing. Phineus’ character sheet. This is present day Phineus, not Cole era Phineus, so he’s not quite as buff.
The Phineus RPG can be bought on Amazon.
Here’s the game piece for Sara. I have ones for Rugnar and Maynard done already. Need to do up Ben and maybe Duncan. These will be usable in the RPG/ Tabletop game I’m developing.
I have been working on my One Page Rules Infected Colonies. I’ve based the army on the Cthulhu Cult I use in my comics. I’ll also be doing double duty with the figs, by using them as the baddies vs Phin, Sara and the gang’s figs for a special edition of my RPG set. So, finally back to doing some work. Comics are coming, as well.
My sisters are the first army I have ever finished painting, completely. I took some better lit photos with a better camera and here are the new pics!
Well, specifically, Role-playing shaped me.
It has grown me as an artist, an actor, a writer, a world builder and a storyteller.
I spent many years playing Dungeons and Dragons with my friends. We even played IN social Studies behind my teachers back. D&D flourished my imagination and ability to create characters.
I played D&D through Middle and High school. I played with a great group of friends in college, one of whom, John Burris, I collaborated with to flesh out his system, written on 6 note cards and created out own game that replaced D&D at Edinboro University.
When out of school, I played more D&D, more of our own game, named Backwaters of Mysticism, Call of Cthulhu, Feng Shui, Deadlands, Star Wars, Warhammer 40k (ok, not a RPG, but I use a lot of it in my comics). All these worlds they created for their games showed me what I needed to do to create the world in which all my comics exist.
And, yes, ALL my comics exist in the same world. Phineus, Kris Kringle, Creephunter, even Bastard Who. I’m kind of obsessed with doing that, for some reason.
Ironically John and my own RPG doesn’t have a world. We created it so that it would fit into any world you wanted it to.
Many of my Phineus stories came from those games. Rugnar and Maynard are both characters I played in Backwaters. The Kali Saga was based on a campaign run by John, in which I played Brother Maynard. And yes, he did get squished in that one, too.
Many comic creators are also avid gamers. Adam Black, creator of Locus is working on his own game. Brian Babyok, creator of Weirdlings also plays D&D, religiously.
I am toying with the idea of running some Skype based Backwaters games for my fans. As I gather interest and ideas I’ll let you know.
Games are good for comics.
Barry
This is a banner drawing I did for my Sisters of Battle army, the Order of Saint Maynard. That is Brother Maynard from the story Maynard and Grimm, fighting a naughty, naughty Daemonette. I always had such fun with the artsy side of the Warhammer 40k hobby!
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