I try not to review supplements or campaign settings, though both have made the list in specific circumstances. My primary standard for a Kickstarter campaign is whether or not that campaign is for a fully standalone role-playing game. So, instead of stretching to ten and doing a disservice to the readers, I’m going to pick a half-sized batch this month, and start 2020 talking a bit about how I go about picking Kickstarters. This was not a situation where there was nothing to review like back in September, even though I was never going to get to ten campaigns that I both liked and that follow my self-imposed guidelines. How many campaigns does that leave me? Very few. What are all the game designers doing? Getting ready for that. This was wildly successful, and inspired Kickstarter to throw Zinequest 2. Last year, Kickstarter threw an event called Zinequest, where game designers were encouraged to put out zine-sized games and RPG supplements in a recognition of the legacy of RPG zines from the 70s and 80s. Can’t wait to do the Ruby Dragon.Welcome to the first Kickstarter Wonk for 2020! Although January is often a thin month for RPG Kickstarters, with designers suffering the same holiday hangovers as the rest of us, this January, January of 2020, is likely to be the worst one so far. As such, it felt like they should exhibit traits and colours from both sides, so the hide is that of the chromatic lineage and the wings of metallic lineage. I painted the wings bronze because Gem Dragons come from a much older lineage than Chromatic and Metallic dragons and they are largely Neutral in nature. Finally paint a white dot on every single gem (this step took a while).Drybrush the wings with bronze followed by a light drybrush of metal (it makes bronze look more realistic I find).I then shaded the wings with Drakenhof Nightshade, which I normally wouldn’t do with a bronze colour, but with such a big surface it looked too flat.Paint all the gems emerald and give them a wash of Drakenshof Nightshade.I did this a lot as it gives some great highlights when you wash it with a shade. I will when I paint the Ruby Dragon, but in steps here is what I did: People have asked me how I painted it, but stupidly enough I did not take photos during the progress. I spent in total ~2hrs excl wait time while paint dried. However, when I learned it came with Gem Dragons rules and miniatures I was hooked and now months later, I have received the Ancient Ruby Dragon, The Topaz Wyrmling and this Emerald Dragon you see below, the first I painted.Īs with all my bigger monsters, I tend to speed paint them and this was no difference. Matt often makes a point of saying that his channel runs without ads so when he launched the kickstarter for his D&D supplement “ Strongholds & Followers“, I immediately decided to support it regardless of what it was, as a way to give back to Matt. I picked up D&D in Jan, 2018 (last year at the time of writing this) after a 20 year break and one of the first (if not the first) youtube channel I found with advice was “Running the Game” by Matt Colville – A really great, to the point channel of advice for DMing.
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