Nick Hendriks

I have a blog. I'm a terrible writer but I enjoy sharing tabletop thoughts anyway. nickdrawthing.bearblog.dev/blog/

Inktober Day Twenty-Six: Zip

Whew. that was a much closer race than I'm happy with but I'm very relieved people showed up to the polls and kept Bruh Bruhford out of city hall.

I'm looking for an artist who is very inspired by Tove Jansson. Let me know if that's you or someone you know/enjoy. Thanks.

Tomorrow night I will be running a session of my game which I haven't run since June.

My local election made it basically impossible for me to vote since they didn’t have any mail-in options & voting by proxy was a convoluted process involving getting a clerk to sign off on our identities anyway so I just have to scowl about my diminished voting rights & endure reminder to vote calls

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I’m Moby Dick for Halloween

I have decided to make a pauper commander deck and go to a pauper commander game night next month. I like commander and love building decks, but it's expensive and I want to make stuff out of all the cool cards everyone tells me are bad.

new castlevania good

Just got all my boys together to take on the wandering ronin who came to town. There’s like 15 of us and only one of him so pretty much the only thing that would give me any pause is if he was master of the devastating and lightning-fast iaidō style. But that’s not likely. Coward hasn’t even drawn h

Today in the corn maze my wife and I found a few instances of what I *think* is corn smut! Too far gone to eat, unfortunately, but still very cool to see.

I was talking to my brother about MtG yesterday and one of the disconnects between different sorts of players; specifically, how you might find some exciting mechanic and tell the Internet about it, only for people to tell you it isn't very good because the chances you'll pull it off are quite slim.

Mastodon. Can't centralize, won't centralize.

a wee bit sick and light on actual work today so I've decided to relax by designing a megadungeon inspired by the underground Eternal Cities of the Nox in Elden Ring, and also a bunch of monsters from Essential Enemies, the Demonic Grimoire, and elsewhere

Drop some muscles!

I am an alchemist!!! Behold my powders! I got a cheap second hand dehydrator. I am doing oranges and tomatoes, but I threw some orange rinds in as well. They got finished quickly so I pulled them out and pulverized them with sugar. I'll try this on tea, toast, and maybe make an orange simple syrup?

On today, this Thanksgiving day, I am thankful to finally have a day off while the weather is good so I can clean my (formerly) disgustingly filthy car.

Gotta install shelving and make a few other adjustments but I'm happy with how my new basement workbench area is coming along. It will be much nicer to have a separate area instead of taking up half my office.

Planetary Romance: what are the tropes I'd be a fool to not address in a TTRPG?

BALE SNAILS

A poorly composed photo, but the evening clouds this week have been truly spectacular.

Inktober day 2: 'relic'

Inktober Day Three: Miniature This was meant to be a quick exercise every day but I'm finding it surprisingly time-consuming? Hopefully I can stick it out for the duration.

Inktober Day Four: Cactus

Inktober Day Five: Smack

Inktober Day Six: Ogre Would have liked to tweak the wording a bit more, but I have a 10:30 hockey start and I'm out of time.

Lol the neighbour's new rooster escaped and found its way into our back yard. All is well and he has been recaptured unharmed. He did not like giving up his little hiding spot though.

playing too many rpg demos that ask me to choose stats before telling me what the game is. they clearly haven’t played my treatise on the issue computerjames.itch.io/path-of-the-...

Came home for a funeral where the dress code was "the colours of her garden." I did my best, but I have a pretty subdued wardrobe.

Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow Too Hot to Tango is coming OUT (intentional phrasing)

Mustered the energy to walk the dog and was treated to the bike-chain sound of katydids! Spotted one taking off and followed it for a picture.

I've been sick the last few days and I'm sick of it. I'm getting really bored of being cooped up in bed, but I also to have zero energy and can't do stuff.

I just heard my front door creak and my dog and I went over to investigate. It was quite breezy outside so I said to the dog "must have been the wind." I'm getting fus-roh-dah'ed, aren't I?

I hate when I start looking at reddit or youtube shorts and when I look up ten thousand years have passed and I'm sitting in the mouldering ruins of my castle. I like to think the algorithm can't fool me but obviously these tumbled heaps of mossy stone say otherwise.

I sometimes think about how many people are running home games with incredible house rules or full on homebrew systems that only one single table will ever experience. I bet there are tons.

The Witch-King of Angmar. My son's tatt is complete. I didn't do the needlework but I drew it. He loves Tolkien!

AW HELL YEAH!!! Fucked up stop motion movie night incoming!

The most exhausting part of making a game is definitely the part where you have to make the game