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Sentient Ooze is a little fold-up zine (I think it is riso-printed?) about…you guessed it, the sentient ooze. The writing is brief, a short run-down of the creature’s features, history and strategies. The art features a limited palette that spotlights fluorescent pink. I love it. This is bite-sized RPG art-zining at its best.
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Actually this is the final page. #artist #art #artwork #instaart #illustration #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #dnd5e #draw #drawing #inked #ink #sketching #doodles #doodle #dnd #roleplay #rpg #character #dungeondrawingdudes #lineart #linework #fantasy #fantasyart #adventure #dnd #slowquest #games #game (at Perth, Western Australia)
Mushrump is a mid-sized zine dedicated to one of Bodie’s favorite recurring critters…the Mushrump. They’re weird little helpful mushroom people. As with the other zines I’ve described, this one contains a whimsical, though brief, rundown of everything you need to know about the little critters. The primary appeal is the art, through. As you can no doubt tell.
BodieH’s A Guide to Fantastic Folks is probably the most ambitious of his zines I’m looking at this week. Where as the other four inform or inspire material for RPGs, their primary function is as a delivery vector for whimsy and art. This one is explicitly intended as a utility for RPGs, and a novel one at that.
The idea here is to give ideas. Specifically for character creation. Play long enough, the uniqueness of player characters tends to recede and they become collections of attributes more than personalities. This guide is arranged as a sort of brainstorming book, to give the reader lots of new notions or even just slight shifts in perspective in order to inspire players to lean into the character of their characters instead of the numbers on the sheet.
Bodie does this with a combination of thoughtful text and evocative images. I said on Monday that his work naturally creates a world I want to know more about; here you can see that in action while getting some practical use out of it in character creation. I think it helps that his art style is naturally…I don’t want to say at odds with D&D, but it is extremely different from the sort of heroic fantasy the official products visually codify. I love that. Its both cozier and stranger, and consistently makes me want to play a different kind of D&D.
When I started this Instagram account, one of the first artists I found through it was @BodieH and I just fell in love with his work — I used his art, including like half a dozen of original watercolors, to decorate my finished wood-paneled basement, and it is a perfect match.
Anyway, it is hard to talk about Bodie’s RPG work under the Slowquest name with any sort of specificity, because so much of it is dependent on feel. The feel of his art, which is extremely stylized and cartoonish, but also the feel of his zines, many of which are handmade and use unusual materials or assembly methods. The art is particularly interesting, because if you look at enough of it, you start to get a glimpse at a compelling fantasy world, one built largely through the interplay of images and their implications. It’s huge part of the appeal, and greater than any individual product.
Those individual products are pretty great on their own merits, too. They all remind me of treats you might find at a bakery — the small ones petit fours, the larger ones cakes, all of them taste explosions. This is one of the larger zines, A Guide to Creatures of the Forest, a little monster manual of sorts. Remember, though — Bodie’s creatures may look cute, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous. In fact, the majority of them are pretty horrific! I particularly like the carnivorous grass that creeps over sleeping campers like a blanket. Eeek!
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Swamp Goblin, like Bodie’s other zines I’ve discuessed this week, is about what it says it is about — swamp goblins. Goblins, in general, are a longtime artistic obsession of Bodie’s — his last Kickstarter (as I write this in 2022) was all about them. This feels like a tiny test run. Like Sentient Ooze, it is a fold up, possibly risographed zine that primarily uses dark green as a focus color. It’s delightful.
I find that Bodie’s take on goblin’s pairs well with the Goblinville game and has, along with that zine, gone a long way toward encouraging me to question the default D&D play loop of fight/kill/loot. I don’t want to fight these goblins. Are all goblins like this? I don’t want to fight ANY goblins then. Can we fight less then?
This is the last page to draw for Slowquest adventure 2! What do you think is going on here? #artist #art #artwork #instaart #illustration #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #dnd5e #draw #drawing #inked #ink #sketching #doodles #doodle #dnd #roleplay #rpg #character #dungeondrawingdudes #lineart #linework #fantasy #fantasyart #adventure #dnd #slowquest #games #game (at Perth, Western Australia)
The city gates, one of many security checkpoints of Menari City, maintaining the strict trade laws of the area. #dungeonsanddragons #zines #illustration #dnd #sketch #drawing #slowquest #rpg #artwork #artists #games #fantasy (at Perth, Western Australia)
