#bestiary — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bestiary, aggregated by home.social.
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Check out this awesome video from @[email protected] over on Youtube. SO fun to see my world through someone else's eyes! Check it out: buff.ly/JS3HUHA #dnd #strangehollow #fantasyart #bestiary #artbook #creatureart #folklore #fairytales #worldbuilding
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Check out this awesome video from @[email protected] over on Youtube. SO fun to see my world through someone else's eyes! Check it out: buff.ly/JS3HUHA #dnd #strangehollow #fantasyart #bestiary #artbook #creatureart #folklore #fairytales #worldbuilding
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Check out this awesome video from @[email protected] over on Youtube. SO fun to see my world through someone else's eyes! Check it out: buff.ly/JS3HUHA #dnd #strangehollow #fantasyart #bestiary #artbook #creatureart #folklore #fairytales #worldbuilding
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Check out this awesome video from @[email protected] over on Youtube. SO fun to see my world through someone else's eyes! Check it out: buff.ly/JS3HUHA #dnd #strangehollow #fantasyart #bestiary #artbook #creatureart #folklore #fairytales #worldbuilding
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Alright new month and new week! First entry for the month is getting my Kofi and Patreon posts, then blurbs continue.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/week-18-that-to-157477356 and https://ko-fi.com/post/Research-Log-The-Oracle-at-the-Reefs-Edge-G2G61Z15RG.
I've also started a monthly "Dev Log" or "Dev Blog" on my old portfolio site: https://www.gamersesoteric.com/2026/04/dev-log-1.html#more
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Image of a blemmyes (1557), from Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon.
Source: Wellcome Collection
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1475e9ca-a392-4167-a151-f21da80e32b7
#exploration #bestiary #faces #deformity #monsters #art #publicdomain
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Design Speculus [Restricted Access]
The Veil Ascetics don't decide your fate. They reflect it back at you.Recovery or dissolution, that outcome was already inside the climber. The Ascetic just makes it impossible to look away from.
Designing a creature that holds up a mirror is harder than designing one that holds a weapon.
#Bestiary #DesignLab #CreatureDesign #GameDesign #Lore #DarkFantasy #IndieRPG
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Archival Fragment 77-Alpha
At dawn, the Veil Ascetics leave footprints that glow cold and faint before the sun erases them entirely.Follow them and you'll find your way through terrain that should be impassable.
You'll also let every Ascetic on the summit know exactly what you're looking for.
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For #InternationalCrabDay 🦀
(plus #Invertefest! ) please enjoy some medieval #bestiary #crabs 🦀
1 Bib. Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 291 (De rerum naturis) f97v
2 Bib. Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 258 f25v
3 British Library, Harley MS 3244 f67r
4 Koninklijke Bib. KB KA 16 (Der Naturen Bloeme) f113v
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Ecological Interdependency Study IV-Delta: Shelf-Stalkers don't migrate. They settle where survivors have to go eventually — archives, outposts, salvage piles nobody got around to sorting.
The environment didn't create them. It just kept the conditions right.
Abandoned knowledge attracts desperate people. Desperate people don't check first.
The cycle doesn't need to be designed. It just needs to be left alone long enough.
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Mirmecophaga Maris / Sea Anteater by Codex Urbanus
2018-08-04 #Brussels#bestiary #Bruxelles #marginalia #codex #urbanArt #graffiti #urbex
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Metabolic Anomaly Report 00-Beta
Thermal scan: negative. Bio-signature: negative. Threat assessment: negative.It triggered 4 seconds later.
Our instruments weren't wrong. They just weren't measuring the right thing.#LexiconEntity #OutpostLog #Bestiary #Lore #CreativeWriting #GameDesign #TTRPG #FieldResearch
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Design Principles M-3: The Shelf-Stalker has no tell. No growl. No posture shift. Nothing that says "this one is different."
That's not an oversight in the design. That's the design.
The most dangerous thing in the room is the one that looks like it belongs there.#Bestiary #Lore #Lexicon #TTRPG #TabletopRPG #GameDesign #WorldBuilding #IndieCreator
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Design Principles M-3: The Shelf-Stalker has no tell. No growl. No posture shift. Nothing that says "this one is different."
That's not an oversight in the design. That's the design.
The most dangerous thing in the room is the one that looks like it belongs there.#Bestiary #Lore #Lexicon #TTRPG #TabletopRPG #GameDesign #WorldBuilding #IndieCreator
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Design Principles M-3: The Shelf-Stalker has no tell. No growl. No posture shift. Nothing that says "this one is different."
That's not an oversight in the design. That's the design.
The most dangerous thing in the room is the one that looks like it belongs there.#Bestiary #Lore #Lexicon #TTRPG #TabletopRPG #GameDesign #WorldBuilding #IndieCreator
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Design Principles M-3: The Shelf-Stalker has no tell. No growl. No posture shift. Nothing that says "this one is different."
That's not an oversight in the design. That's the design.
The most dangerous thing in the room is the one that looks like it belongs there.#Bestiary #Lore #Lexicon #TTRPG #TabletopRPG #GameDesign #WorldBuilding #IndieCreator
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Design Principles M-3: The Shelf-Stalker has no tell. No growl. No posture shift. Nothing that says "this one is different."
That's not an oversight in the design. That's the design.
The most dangerous thing in the room is the one that looks like it belongs there.#Bestiary #Lore #Lexicon #TTRPG #TabletopRPG #GameDesign #WorldBuilding #IndieCreator
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Environmental Survey A-7: It doesn't move. It doesn't signal. It looks exactly like everything else in the pile.
That's the problem.Unbound Lexicon Entities have been confirmed in Sector 12 salvage zones. Interface Codex use is now mandatory before handling any found objects.
Read before you reach.#TTRPG #Bestiary #GameDev #DarkFantasy #CreatureDesign #IndiDev
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Observation Log 001: The biological persistence of Lexicon entities presents a major challenge to everything we know about biology. Their resilience suggests a cellular autonomy far beyond mere repair, hinting at a self-organizing drive that overrides systemic damage with unsettling efficiency. This isn’t evolution as we understand it, but a deep-seated structural defiance against conventional decay.
#TTRPG #Bestiary #GameDev #DarkFantasyArchivists #DarkFantasy #IndieDev
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ARCHIVE_SUBJ: Barnacle Weaver // Design Notes
Environmental horror that blends the organism itself and the setting. Being a part of my Weaver concept, this creature isn't just a resident of the drowned world, but a biproduct and a construct of what happens when nature reclaims things. One of the things that is unique about this and any of my other Weavers is that it tends to absorb things into itself, either for survivability or for other, "nefarious" reasons.
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ARCHIVE_SUBJ: Barnacle Weaver // Camouflage Analysis
In the sunless depths of entropic wreckage, the Weaver thrives. It doesn’t just hide; it integrates. Low visibility and ceaseless tides act as extensions of its form, rendering its predatory networks indistinguishable from decaying derelicts. In these submerged voids, obscurity is a weapon.
#HiddenDangers #DeepSeaResearch #BarnacleWeaver #TTRPG #GameDev #Bestiary
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From Der Naturen Bloeme (ca. 1350).
Source: National Library of the Netherlands
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/84da8220-6431-4dc2-b0a8-02c0ed6b685b
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From Der Naturen Bloeme (ca. 1350).
Source: National Library of the Netherlands
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6b4c2044-6f6e-4063-9a3d-1fd7b11e58e5
#animals #bestiary #hybrid-figures #art #publicdomain
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From Der Naturen Bloeme (ca. 1350).
Source: National Library of the Netherlands
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c1bc1c46-ebe7-4db1-8fbe-6ee895c189ae
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The 'Nesting Maiden' moniker comes from their internal architecture. The outer shell is a lacquered ceramic composite—brittle, but beautiful. Inside? Smaller, fully functional units. It’s a literal representation of redundant systems disguised as traditional art. This has some inspiration from various movies, anime, and manga that I'm sure you can identify.
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Spidermoth. This hybrid is one of the creatures roaming the Caverns of the Sacred Fire: https://lemos.itch.io/caverns-of-the-sacred-fire
#ttrpg #osr #artwork #rpg #illustration #mastoart #roleplayinggames #bestiary #art #draw #creaturedesign #nsr #artist #artistsonmastodon #illustrator #juegosderol #sketching
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Bonnacon (ca. 1450), from The Hague, MMW, 10 B 25.
Source: National Library of the Netherlands
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/874939de-b92c-42b0-8535-356ab30611a8
#myth #bestiary #excrement #defecation #smell #legend #swords #shields #art #publicdomain
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New action-RPG with 93% positive rating lands on Steam with launch discount in tow
Pictured – an in-game screenshot from the game Wicked Seed. (Image source: Steam) Wic…
#NewsBeep #News #Technology #benchmarks #bestiary #CA #Canada #graphicscard #horrorgaming #indiegame #laptop #netbook #NewGamePlus #notebook #ParasiteEve #processor #randomizer #reports #review #reviews #SteamDeck #steamgame #survivalhorror #tacticalRPG #test #tests #weaponmodding #WickedSeed
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/434048/