{"id":51,"date":"2020-02-13T22:21:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T22:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/calkinsa\/?p=51"},"modified":"2022-03-14T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T16:35:04","slug":"austin-calkins-project-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/calkinsa\/2020\/02\/13\/austin-calkins-project-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Calkins – Project 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For my first project, I decided to focus on a hobby I have grown to love, table-top roleplaying games (TTRPGs) such as Dungeons and Dragons and Starfinder. However, the hobby didn’t start as one at first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A variety of dice. The first one is a one to represent the unfortunate start of my hobby. The other dice sets belong to characters from then that I love, but they never got to their full realization. I have a different dice set for each character I have played.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I started playing TTRPGs a few years ago with a group of people from the Fusion gaming club at Canisius. I did have a good time with it in the moment. However, I learned that some of the people who introduced me to the games were not the best of people. After that, I didn’t think I was going to play much anymore. The games had associated themselves with these people and a bunch of my friends and I stopped playing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the “hardware” of TTRPGS that I have recently gotten for my own games.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I still wanted to play the TTRPGs, but no one else really wanted to. So I made the decision to take it into my own hands. I wanted to dissociate it from the people from before and make it fun again. I bought myself the Starter Set for Dungeons and Dragons and rallied a group of friends to play. We loved it. They thought I was a good DM, and I loved doing it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are things that represent my reclaiming of TTRPGs for myself and my friends. The top row contains two character sheets for two of my characters and the pawns I used for my first campaign. The second row contains a map for the new campaign I created and two commissions of my character, Fulgur. He was originally from the time I played TTRPGs with those from the past, but I have also reclaimed him as my own. He’s my favorite character ever.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’m now currently writing and DMing a campaign with the same friends that I have made myself. TTRPGs have quickly become one of my favorite hobbies that I cannot wait to play with my friends every week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned how to use Photoshop and InDesign to touch up, color-correct and resize photos and scans and organize them into a document. The project was not that hard, only tedious. I did enjoy doing the levels and curves on the pictures, especially for the Fulgur drawings. They look so much better and brighter than the scans of them were by themselves. I think I did the best that I could with the assignment. I did improve it from its original by changing the picture of the dicebox. I think it can be improved by making the amount of pictures smaller, but forcing the theme to be more strict. Some people’s projects might have way too far of a spread to have a “theme”. I think a smaller set of pictures with a more strict theme requirement would be. Overall, I did enjoy the project. I was happy to show off my love for TTRPGs and my characters, specifically Fulgur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my first project, I decided to focus on a hobby I have grown to love, table-top roleplaying games (TTRPGs) such as Dungeons and Dragons and Starfinder. However, the hobby didn’t start as one at first. I started playing TTRPGs a few years ago with a group of people from the Fusion gaming club at … <\/p>\n

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