RPG on Greg Moore

Tue, 26 May 2026 10:05:33 -0400

Quality time with other humans all pretending to not be human.

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:59:20 -0400

Every time a D&D campaign ends, I get a miniature of my character printed and paint them. This campaign was the sequel to an earlier one so I got to dust off the same character and upgrade him. It’s so fun to develop him in new directions.

Both campaigns take place in the frozen north so I used our recent snowfall to photograph him.

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:12:33 -0400

Our current D&D campaign is wrapping up soon so I kept the tradition of painting my character’s mini, only this time I also foam-crafted him a fantasy library scene to live inside. (He’s a bit of a bookworm.) I’m really happy with what I was able to craft from leftover stuff.

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:14:44 -0400

How it started vs how it’s going.

Trying to construct a scene scaled with my new D&D mini. He’s a bit of a bookworm so I’m making him a 4" high bookcase. Lots of teeny foam work.

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:26:33 -0400

In the current Dungeons & Dragons campaign, my character is a try-hard with an obsession on getting good grades. He’s made his dorm into a small library so I designed the sign he uses to advertise anyone willing to become a study buddy.

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 21:44:09 -0400

Every time I play a D&D character, I draw their character art on my iPad. Today, IKEA was clearing out some tiny photo frames so I bought as many as I could and printed the art for every character I’ve playeded up until now and framed them.

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 23:44:31 -0400

At last fall’s ren fair, I was able to find a mini that matched my current Dragonborn character as he would have hatched. I finally painted him up and, because it was cast in transparent red resin, added an LED to give the embers around his egg a fiery glow. Really happy how he turned out.

The Sad Ballad of Captain Keeves

Thu, 11 May 2023 07:48:43 -0400

There once was a captain who had skin like the sea
And his beard was as white as his spirit was free
He came to meet creatures who hailed from the land
And convinced them to join him as a sea-fairing band.

He bartered a pearl for a ship with no name
A fine home for his crew they could sail into fame
They set sail for glory
Spirits high as the water
When some dumb monster cult
Got their poor captain slaughtered

Keeves was his name and the sea was his lady
He now spends his days in the locker with Davey
Missed he will be and remembered so dearly
As the crew sets their sails to the horizon clearly. Hey ho and up he rise-ed
Hey ho and up he rise-ed
Hey ho and up he rise-ed
Saving all his crewmen

The characters I play in role playing games are not me. I create them to be fictional people I can fill with fun attributes and desires distinctive from myself. However, they always end up as the embodiment of important milestones from my real life. Captain Keeves was no different even though I only got to play him twice.

I created him to embody the traits of the sea: A boisterously indefatigable Triton who’s strength came from refusing to ever stop. That was, until he was stopped, at the end of our very first session, to stop the reaching tentacles of a mad god. The captain had to die and leave his crew just as, in real life, I had to leave my friends and our game for a cross country move to Michigan.

Even though I wasn’t there to play, the DM got clever and had me make recordings of “Captain’s advice” from beyond the grave that he would play for my friends in key moments. I tried to make them extra silly and really lean into the fact that I had no idea what was happening. Like internet messages, it was a fun way to hold my presence with far away friends.

This past weekend, I finally managed to arrange an in-person visit with these friends and, as a treat, our DM held a special session. Captain Keeves returned from his watery purgatory for one final visit with his crew. It was more silliness, more fun, and a meaningful ending to a character too quickly cut off.

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:20:27 -0400

Spent the evening building a level 10 character for a D&D one-shot game. His character sheet (plus spells) is 10 pages long!😅 No idea how I’m going to play such a powerful character but at least I’ve got his character voice down.

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:44:14 -0400

Don’t normally share my art here but I’m super happy with my little Dragonborn, in his freshman Silverquill uniform, practicing his beginning Inkomancy.

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 09:41:31 -0400

My thoughtful brother in-law gifted me some vintage 1980’s Dungeons and Dragons metal figures. Their numbers aren’t even stamped into the bases, they’re hand carved! Now I have to figure out where I can find more information about them.

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:05:06 -0400

A new D&D adventure begins tonight and Trinket is ready for his first day of school at Strixhaven!

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:57:36 -0400

The D&D campaigns my friends and I play take about a year and a half to complete so I celebrate them by drawing a poster of everybody’s characters and having them printed. I don’t usually share them here but they are the two most important drawings I’ve ever made. (So far.)

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:29:51 -0400

After 20 months and 83 sessions, my group ended our third D&D campaign. During that time, one member got his drivers license, I moved across the country, another sold the house he had built, and our DM became pregnant with her first child. It’s more than just a game.

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:39:35 -0400

I’ve spent over 40 hours drawing a poster to commemorate the conclusion of my D&D group’s year and a half campaign. It’s our DM’s first major campaign and she’s done a stellar job. I can’t wait to get the prints to them.😆

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:23:00 -0400

My first try at foam modeling. I made this bookshelf mountainside to display my D&D character minis on something more fun than clear acrylic boxes. Flocking is fun! Each of these minis are my past characters or hand-painted gifts from friends.

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 18:05:12 -0400

Learning how to turn foam into mountains because it’s a much cooler bookshelf display for my character minis than a clear box. I’ve made it to the black-wash stage. Dry brushing is next and then I can figure out where to put foliage.

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 09:15:53 -0400

Creativity begets creativity. It started with drawing my D&D characters, then I learned to paint their minis, and now it’s progressed to me carving places for them to live.

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 07:48:10 -0400

My office once held a multi-year D&D game that quickly became the most popular way to create community between teams. It brought more disparate people together than all the sports and drinking events ever did. Sadly, COVID abruptly ended it and my office is lesser for it.

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 22:37:05 -0400

All of my D&D characters get “trophies” so I spent the afternoon painting their minis. They’re a small accomplishment (literally) but it feels so good to be doing something creative again.

Tue, 11 May 2021 17:11:40 -0400

Drew and printed a new D&D character for a one-shot and then we ended up having some “craft time” before the game painting them onto wooden figures instead. It was a ton of fun.

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:58:00 -0400

📷 mbfeb Day 25 | Code

When you’re on an adventure, you’re bound to encounter a secret code or two.

Sat, 13 Feb 2021 13:34:25 -0400

📷 mbfeb Day 13 | Make

I recently used the character drawings my daughter and I collaborated on to make a poster for our D&D group.

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 17:38:44 -0400

🥳 Woo, my D&D mini prints came in today! Going to paint these guys, add them to my others, and make a character trophy case.