#passive perception

AAAND IT'S OUT!! :D Thank you to @gemshine for helping me every step of the way with this graphic novel! Everyone should check out her work — she is a fantastic illustrator and author, it was an honour co-writing with you!

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This is Chapter 1, here for everyone's viewing pleasure! >:) There are 7 more chapters in the full book, each one told by a different one of the guests on Thalin's more than reputable invite list, which you can read right now for $12CAD! :3 If you (or a friend hehe) like murder mysteries and comedy and silly fantasy characters, this is the book for you! A 120-page graphic novel where you too can figure out who-dunnit!

Get it here!!

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If you'd like a physical copy, I'll be doing an interest check, and if I have enough people who would like one, I'll be doing a print run ^w^ It's all or nothing, so I need to ensure there'll be enough orders before I can officially send it off to print! :D If your name is on the interest check, I'll reach out directly if there are enough for preorders

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Passive Perception is an indie dramedy murder mystery graphic novel, co-written by my dear friend @bubblyernie and I, and incredibly illustrated by her.

It is our debut novel, and we'd really appreciate your support! I truly believe in this book, it is such a fun read with unbelievable art. Cally says some nice things about me in the foreword, so let me just say that if you follow the graphic novel space, she will be a name to know.

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Amidst an evening gala of pomposity and splendour, one Aermund Swilling is killed — determined to sleuth out a culprit, Erril listens to the recounting of events from everyone present. Remember, perspective is everything! Passive Perception is an award-winning indie murder-mystery dramedy, where each chapter follows a different character's perspective. This 120-page graphic novel is co-written by @gemshine and @bubblyernie, with art by @bubblyernie. 

I’m happy to announce Passive Perception has physical book preorders open until August 2nd! So far, we have no other print runs planned, so this may be the only opportunity to get a physical book. I gotta say, the physicals are absolutely gorgeous and worth getting your hands on. You can even get them signed!

[Preorder physicals here!!]

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I wanted to thank everyone for the support we’ve been receiving since the book’s release. When you buy a copy, reblog, and tell friends it really supports us and we’re very grateful <3

I have a druid character with a homebrew race.

Lvl 3

Perception skill, proficient

Wisdom 16 (+3)

Proficiency bonus +2

DnDBeyond somehow came up with a whopping 18 for her Passive Perception.

Our GM (and thr other PCs) say it should be 15.

I can walk through a hall and mentally note every damn thing about it, absolutely astounding my family members with my “Hey, I’m looking for this thing.” “Oh, it’s in this other room that I happened to glance into for a half a second while walking by earlier.”

On the other hand, I’ve been sitting in a room for ten minutes and my cousin walked in, immediately commenting on a painting on the wall I hadn’t noticed. My family has been on vacation for the better part of a week now, and it took me three days to realize there is not two, but three bathrooms.

Handbooker Helper: Passive Abilities [source]

Percy (ranger): My passive perception is 14, I notice and I’m not happy about it.

Mary: Same here.

Steve: My passive perception’s 20, but I don’t care, I’m chaotic good.

Percy: She might have been supporting a family with that money!

Character cards!! I wanted to do some properly rendered art of them, so I made these!

(and paired em up with some ACTUAL character sheets over on patreon. Everyone is levelled to level 5, I got stats for em all!! There's one feat per character that I think is fitting! 2014 rules because I haven't accustomed to 2024 yet lol but yes, some basic NPC builds for anyone who needs something quick and archetypical!! Had a LOT of fun building them so if you're interested go check it out)

And if anyone can guess the class + subclass + race build off the dome for every single person then I'll give u a little prize uwu and its different from my non-comic versions of them so its really up to your intuition

BTW!! Interest check for physical copies still ongoing! Or you can read the whole thing digitally here! >:3 thanks for supporting the graphic novel everyone!!