Post by Von on Jul 14, 2017 2:57:30 GMT -5
Over the last couple of years I've collected a number of visual resources (what we call 'pictures' when we're not thinking teacher thoughts). Since I've run games in the medieval Balkans (with vampires), a kind of Ravenloft affair (taking the ethos of Ravenloft as A Place Where Bad People Go and leaving out most of the TSR fiddle-faddle) and the Warhammer World's Sylvania (with yet more vampires) I've tended to collect some dark forests and the castles that occupy them. Here are a few from the collection:
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What I like about this one is the proximity of the forest to the walls. It emphasises that "we are at war with the land itself and there is a firm line between what is Ours and what is Outside" effect that's so characteristic of, say, WFRP.
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A whole bunch here. The 'lookbook' in question is for my Vampire: the Dark Ages game, by the way.
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This one was quite influential on Titan's aesthetic (it's the peaks poking through the clouds that do it for me, every time).
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Small, but perfectly formed. The castle of Laird Edmund, whose murder of his wife and daughter earned him a place in Ravenloft. No woman to whom he takes a fancy lives more than a week, as player character Caitlin was appalled to discover. She'd already died once in two days...
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Far beyond the black horizon / beyond the fields we know / everybody got a destination / everybody got a place to go
68.media.tumblr.com/697f4b2961477b7f87341cb3d83e1117/tumblr_n37q0wPhJ01r89gcuo1_500.jpg
What I like about this one is the proximity of the forest to the walls. It emphasises that "we are at war with the land itself and there is a firm line between what is Ours and what is Outside" effect that's so characteristic of, say, WFRP.
constantinoplenotistanbul.tumblr.com/post/121789625967/socialpsychopathblr-bonsai-paean
A whole bunch here. The 'lookbook' in question is for my Vampire: the Dark Ages game, by the way.
68.media.tumblr.com/f975bfa5324aecc99b44303bd98c85fe/tumblr_ni8r0aPhh71r51oypo2_1280.jpg
This one was quite influential on Titan's aesthetic (it's the peaks poking through the clouds that do it for me, every time).
68.media.tumblr.com/f68d8d725ab4655739e9de4ffa700733/tumblr_ni8r0aPhh71r51oypo5_1280.jpg
Small, but perfectly formed. The castle of Laird Edmund, whose murder of his wife and daughter earned him a place in Ravenloft. No woman to whom he takes a fancy lives more than a week, as player character Caitlin was appalled to discover. She'd already died once in two days...
68.media.tumblr.com/047f026413cc9c9c8047b4b040b636a2/tumblr_ni8r0aPhh71r51oypo3_1280.jpg
Far beyond the black horizon / beyond the fields we know / everybody got a destination / everybody got a place to go
