Tiny Monsters: A Garden of Forking Paths

Brilliant!  Everybody needs a good cult in the neighborhood on whom to blame everything bad.  Guess what?  These are those guys,  They Gong late into the night, and even Gong quietly in the daytime.  If you know what I mean.

Surfing is big here in Solana Beach, and this living wave can crush you to death--I know from personal experience.    Thank you,  Arilyn for taming the beast.

Welcome to the first of the Tetrad of Elemental Sorcerers:  Arilyn, the Water Sorceress. OK, this was hard.  Not just because I used the UV Resin and Splash Gel from Green Stuff World for the first time (and things got sloppy), but that damn arm is just in the way of her left face.   I love a good detail shot--the Nautilus Shell altar for her weird arcane practices... At a certain point it was time to get on with my life, so I will be happy for now with this tiny vignette.

I have finally made a truly disgusting monster.  After showing it to some ladies, it is apparently more disgusting because of the teeth than terrifying because of the EyeThis is the "monster"  archetype.  All it wants to do is eat you. The Roper is terrifying, and embodies what children think of as a monster.  However, if you can manage to stay out of reach of his 20’ long tentacles and enormous toothy maw, you may realize it moves at a glacial pace, and can be avoided by just staying away from it.  Or, by never going into that stupid cave in the first place. Also, my first Parallax Roper video:

The ubiquitous Troll...an old school D&D monster you will see way too much in the early levels.  I feel like going back and putting some pinpoint white pupils in his eyes, like in the Monster Manual.  Found menacing outlying farms and ranches in the Western Heartlands at night...bringing a ravenous hunger that drives them to madness.  They stand at 9' tall and have near giant-like strength.  Trolls will grow their heads or arms back unless the wounds are seared with fire or acid. Bring your oil flasks and torches and stop the arms from growing back and tearing yours off.

The F-n Owl Bear has always seemed ridiculous, coming from the darkness of old school D&D original monsters.  He is created by insane wizards, not born, and I just don't think a human could take this thing without some magic or something.

They're cute, but I'm pretty sure those are the bones of their victims...