New Halcyon Art and Ascala Updates

Hello. C J here. I’ve got some new art for the card game Halcyon. I’m doing the food items first and here are some samples of the art style for the game. I’m also including some samples of what the text for the recipe and food item cards will look like. I want a lot of meat and some beverages for the food deck. Halcyon has a number of cultures it depicts and I want generic fantasy food rather than the comprehensive list of real life food Regency will have. Regency is hard to make and harder to draw by far so I’m doing this one for a couple of years to recover from making the core rules for it.

I’m also going to start doing some more art of Ascala in my line art style. I see no reason why Ascala shouldn’t be playable in both game lines. I’m going to stick with the characters I already have but add in some more about the city’s culture and magic. Also I have some characters for Ascala that I’ve named that haven’t seen print yet. Prophet, also known as The Digital Prophet Project, is a female sound mage. Balath is a mage black Regal Dragon, the four legged kind, who owns part of one of their manufacturing corporations. Allister Youngsun is William’s immediate superior and they are a mix of rivals and best friends. Ascala also has a lot of buyable magic items that I haven’t put into art yet.

C J Mcpherson

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Chinese Food That is Very Saucy

Hello. C J here. I read a lot of cookbooks. This is done mostly for fun. I’m currently reading a short but really interesting book about traditional Chinese cooking. The book was written by an Indian author who has clearly researched Chinese food very well but some of the translations of recipes or concepts get a bit strange. I’m currently done the soups and starters section and am onto the section labelled ‘food that is saucy.’ Cool? Is it also savvy? There’s a surprisingly large amount of ketchup in the recipes. No I don’t think I want a recipe for hot and sour soup that is thickened ketchup water with vinegar and a bit of cabbage. No I also don’t want to take a slice of white wonderbread, roll it into a tube, stuff it with canned corn, deep fry it and then top it with sesame seeds. What in God’s name do they eat in China? And why is it specifically an image of white wonderbread? China? Are you okay? I managed to take out the vinegar, water and corn starch that makes up most of the h...

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Let's All Be Friends, No Really - Part Two

Hello. C J here. I’ve updated my plans to make a Discord server for everyone here and on Facebook. Making a Discord server to my knowledge costs money. However, making a Facebook group does not. I’ve made a few of those over the years as well for various reasons. I’m going to look into this soon and then add the links here and in the menus here as well. I’m certain a Facebook group is what we need. I’m planning a number of chats within the group. So far my current plans are as follows. Art and Artwork Health and Wellness Food and Baking Magic and Spirituality Writing and Software NSFW I’m planning a private group but if I can get it open entry without a form or sign up page or anything. As for rules I’m going to reuse some from past of these I’ve done. Everyone is Welcome Be Polite Advertising is Allowed Follow the Content Ratings The Facebook group will take some planning but not any actual effort to build. It’s that simple. Thanks. C J Mcpherson

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