The Adventurous Psion is now available on DriveThru RPG!

The Adventurous Psion presents the superior option for playing a Psion Player Character in your 5th Edition-compatible Tabletop Roleplaying game

The Adventurous Psion is now published by Midnight Moth Publications, and available for purchase on DriveThru RPG. I began work on it on as I was traveling on May 27th, within the scope of the Gemini New Moon, and finished up design, illustrations, and layout, and submitted The Adventurous Psion to DriveThru RPG on the late night / early morning of the Sagittarius Full Moon of June 11th / 12th.

Prior to this, I had conceived of presenting my take on the iconic psionic Player Character class, but had creatively stalled out in my attempts at working it up. For some reason, as I was engaged with making my way to Flagstaff, Arizona for the first time (and contending with the frankly awful reality of American air travel), I was inspired to make another go of it.

Strangely, I discovered that Wizards of the Coast, who publish Dungeons & Dragons, released an Unearthed Arcana on May 27th, featuring a playtest version of the Psion. I felt momentarily discouraged, but, feeling the odd and truly psychic nature of the coincidence of my decision to design my Psion the very day they released their playtest Psion, I resolved to go ahead and complete my version of the preeminent psionic controller Player Character class.

To be honest, I did look at their version, but find their playtest design of the class to be too crunchy and complicated for my taste, and really not at all like my version of the class. I intend to write up a design comparison in a follow-up to this post, so keep your eyes open and on this space in the blog-o-sphere, and your brains peeled for it when I do.

NB: If any TTRPG reviewers are interested in receiving a complimentary review copy of my Psion, please contact me here.

Om Shanti. đź––

slips slips blips blips quips clips

Multi-hyphenate Publisher Jeff Lewonczyk holding aloft the first issue of slips slips, “Dispatches”

I mentioned here not so long ago that my poem “Aubrey Beardsley” is now published in the first issue of the new print-only literary magazine, slips slips, by the stalwart trio of Hope Cartelli, Kristen Leigh, and Jeff Lewonczyk.

They are slow-drip releasing Q&A quickie profiles of slips slips contributors , and today is my day. You can read the profile now here. And you can arrange to get your own hard copy of slips slips here.

Om Shanti

Command Night Creatures: Art Process

Detail of “Command Night Creatures”
from The Adventurous Vampire
by Timothy McCown Reynolds

One of the benefits of working with the ProCreate app on my tablet is the Video Replay feature, which shows the sped-up process of every stroke of my digital paintbrush.

Thanks to my lovely video editor, the 14 minute video (of a 14 hour process) has been reduced to a mere 8 minutes and 49 seconds, and over which I lay some audio musings on concept, inspiration, and goals of my art process with this piece, “Command Night Creatures”, from The Adventurous Vampire.

Enjoy:

Art process video of “Command Night Creatures”