Ostensible Cat

 Kia ora koutou! I've just launched my Ko-fi page, so if you'd like to follow my work and perhaps contribute a few coins to help me continue creating art and gaming projects, go check it out. Here's a bit from the cheesy about me intro post: Kia ora koutou! Welcome to my Ko-fi page. This page highlights both my TRPG and non-TTRPG creations, offering a glimpse into my evolving fascination with medieval aesthetics, horror, and the esoteric. These themes—rich with mythic undertones—are woven into the fabric of my latest undertaking, Beyond the Bleak Forest, a tabletop role-playing game that melds ominous positivity with the eerie grandeur of medieval horror. I've added some royalty-free stock art to my page, as well as the digital versions of the first three volumes of my new art zine, Strange as Angels. I'll look into doing some special stuff for members that support me over there, such as comp copies of Strange as Angels, stock art, and more. I hope you check it out....

Wow, it's been three years since I’ve posted here. I’ll be honest, I’ve been doing a lot less gaming and a lot more art. Since my last post regarding gaming with my daughter, I think my daughter and I have found it very frustrating to make much progress in playing D&D 5e. Now, before this comes off as an old school gamer bashing newer systems, I think it has less to do with 5e and more to do with my evolving views on what works for me in gaming. It turns out that my preference in gaming is maybe moving away from class-and-race-based ttprgs as exemplified by D&D and its offspring. Now I’ve been playing TTRPGs since 1981, so none of these is new to me, but I think in that time, I have identified the aspects of gaming that really don’t flow well for me. Since I’ve been a late-life assessed neuro-spicy person, the masking and desire to just nug through things has just completely evaporated. Character creation seems to be a very challenging process for both my daughter and m...

One of the new images I've been working on for Ostensible Cat Design.  For old school gamers with a punk sensibility... ;).