EDIT – Individual images: I’ve decided to keep this page for the mile stone updates, making collages. If you want to see the individual images, please see here LINK

I bought this broken down, split spine, board separated, sorry state AD&D 1e Monster Manual:

The idea is that I’m going to colour my way through it. A bit of meditative self time. At the moment I’m doing A to Z, but I may just mix it up as I fancy. 

I’m going to use coloured pencils as I don’t want colour to bleed through the pages. As you will probably spot, I’m not an artist! I should probably work out how to take better photos! 

Call it sacrilege, but I figure this book can have a second life, albeit under my amateur hand.

I’ll update this post as I meander along.

EDIT – I’m not necessarily following the colours mentioned in the description of the MM (I’ve only got so many brown pencils), I’m just going with whatever I feel like on the day. It’s also fun just to reimagine the monsters. D&D is a fantasy game amIright? 

Collages: A to B, C to D (except Demons, Devils, Dinos and Dragons), Demons, Devils, Dragons, E, Giants, Golems, G (other), H, I to K, …, L (Lycanthrope), L(other), M, (cont…)

                               (in progress)

Slide show (up to  F, missing the Dinos):

Ever wanted to play a table top war game (like Warhammer Fantasy Battle) solo, that is against an army commanded by A I General? Well, this is attempt to do that, using a Hex Flower as that A I General

PDF on DriveThruRPG – LINK
PDF on Itch.io – LINK

The idea is that you can use this Hex Flower as an analogue A I for solo (fantasy) battles – that is, you play your army and you use the A I to move the opponents units in the battle.

The idea is that the A I can surprise you, whereas if you play the other army yourself, you can never suspend disbelief and so totally surprise yourself.

The A I and especially the indicative actions are there to help guide the units’ choices.

This A I has been ‘flavoured’ for Orcs. But, believe it or not, I looked to Sun Tzu’s art of war for inspiration, and grouped actions into the four categories. So, you can repurpose this for any army (reject the flavour and embrace the essence of the AI’s instructions). I might yet make a similar product for other standard army types … Humans, dwarves, elves, ratmen, undead etc.

Historical Note – way-back-when in the G+ days, when Hex Flowers were still a thing that we were brainstorming about, I think this ‘A I General’ was first suggested by G+ user Neuzd: IMAGE. I think Neuzd had a lot of good ideas about HF, but with G+ gone it is hard to remember all of it! 

Hex Flower background – what’s a Hex Flower anywho? A Hex Flower (HF) is like a random table, but with a memory.

Hex Flower Cookbook – where I discuss the theory and design of Hex Flower Game Engines and some background and possible uses. But, you can also read some more about Hex Flowers on my Blog: LINK

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Me on DriveThru; at the moment I’m mainly pimping my procedural:
:: High Seas ‘Hex Crawl’ – In the Heart of the Sea,
:: Wilderness Hex Crawl – In the Heart of the Unknown,
:: Dungeon/network generator – In the Heart of the Delve & Dangerous