Sam McGurran

@sammcgurran.bsky.social

Read in pursuit of escape, write in pursuit of the epic⚡️ Writer, Editor and TTRPG Designer: Draw Steel: Encounters(MCDM), Silverplate(DRS), Dragonlance Companion(Splinterverse Media) and others. 📧 Samwritesrpgs@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/sammcgurran

The middle is getting eaten alive in third-party D&D design. There are still lots of people self-publishing and making basically no money, and there are still opportunities for top freelancers, but it's getting harder and harder to move from the first group to the second.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2d ago

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

"The Coach", first personal #drawsteel related illustration in a while - was fun to get back into anatomy, I had been on an item kick working on Mythic Treasures - those are also coming along nicely! (If you want tokens of these guys, they're for free on my patreon)

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First of Six party portraits for the Draw Steel home game I run. Clementine Lisetta, high elven Elementalist, Acolyte of the Void. We’re switching to using the Codex VTT and I wanted to have unique portraits and pop-out tokens. Both I and Clem’s player are really happy with this one!!!

A young elven woman with gold streaking her skin in the midst of casting powerful void magic.

I also painted a bunch of the portraits for the NPCs in my #DrawSteel game! I might have gone a bit overboard on this to be honest, hah! These are a bunch of the local npcs the party will be interacting with at the start and I wanted something that really fit their tokens for playing in a VTT.

A series of portraits for fantasy characters.

Drawing Steel 277: Fossil Cryptic One of my favourite monsters because I'm going to be going on hiatus for a few months for reasons completely unrelated to this project. Nothing bad happened and I fully intend to return before the end of the year, but yeah, this break was always going to happen.

Draw Steel Fossil Cryptic Token