Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦

@noah-the-bard

🇨🇦 ✝️ ⚙️ 🚲 📷 🚰 ⌨️ 🖋️ 🎻 🎸 🎲 📗 🧅 🍅 [He]'s writing an RPG, talking about bike lanes/urbanism, designing a keyboard, playing music, reading books, & studying engineering. These posts are 100% hand-crafted in BC, Canada.

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Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· 1d

Upside down smiley emoji 🙃 wearing the cowboy hat from the cowboy hat emoji 🤠

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· 6d

Version 0.2 of Book 1 (of 4) of the #TTRPG ruleset has been printed!

A rough printout of 40 pages printed double-sided with massive margins. The topmost page bears the hand-written title "Fantasic Adventures (Name Pending)" (typos included), and a table of contents.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· 18d

Y'ALL check out this knitting pattern my wife made!!! You can make a Fall sweater for IKEA's mini DJUNGELSKOG, and it's free to download! #knitsky

A hand excitedly holding a little Djungelskog in an adorable hand-knit sweater.

Cute little Djungelskog sitting restfully on a sofa beside a lantern and some dice.

Djungelskog contemplates the ever-twisting threads of fate as a mystical d6 rests in his paw.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· 25d

Organizational hack: 1. Go to a camera store and ask for "gaffers tape"; it's easy to tear by hand, not too sticky, and doesn't leave residue when removed. 2. Go to an art store and buy a white POSCA pen (+any other color you want). They're expensive outside of Japan but worth it. 3. Label away!

A reused jar with a homemade label that says "Hot Cocoa"

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· 25d

Good perseverance! As someone who's spent quite a while trying to learn Japanese on Duolingo, I can say it's... not great. I still keep the streak because it's good to interact with the language daily, but any time someone says they're learning a new language, I recommend they try Busuu instead.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Jul 3

#Calligraphy #Urbanism

Stylized gothic text that says "Take the Bus"

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Jul 3

Ah yes, spelling mistakes! (This is a test of using my phone camera to get scans of handwritten text for the RPG)

Handwritten text in a playfully uncial font that says "Fantasic Adventure".

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Jun 17

Trying trying trying to get better at this RPG art stuff

In a crowded notebook, the sections separated by gold borders, a circular centerpiece is subdivided into 5 equal slices of amateurish art:
1) a dark figure in a cloak holds readies their dagger.
2) an archer intently pulls back an arrow on his bow.
3) a lizard-folk poses in regal attire, some ominous painting behind their shoulder.
4) the tiny silhouette of a witch raising a triangular ornament towards a massive, smiling sun.
5) a weary barbarian rests in a chair with his longsword.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Jun 15

We turn a new leaf! The core rules for the RPG I'm designing are now ON PAPER for the very first time! #RPG #TTRPG

A stack of 20 sheets of paper, printed double-sided but each page has only a 5.5×8" half-page worth of content and thicc margins so I can make notes for changes.

The topmost page on the stack bears the title "Noah's Fantastic Adventure Mechanics", which is a placeholder name since I haven't yet settled on a final one.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Jun 10

Fictional self portrait

Within a busy notebook, a golden ring outlines the area of this drawing; a simple pencil sketch. A curly-haired author frustratingly trying to etch ideas into paper laid upon a wood table. His left hand supporting his forehead.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Jun 8

Learning to draw so I can make RPG art for myself, exhibit 3.

An amateurish inked sketch of a minstrel or bard playing a tune. He has a tall wide-brimmed hat with bells upon tips, and is playing some fictional relative to a lute or theorbo.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· May 24

Practicing...

A small section of a busy notebook page;
a drawing of a wizard with crooked fingers hovering his hand over an orb which radiates wavering azure lines.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· May 21

Figuring out how to draw so I can make RPG art for myself.

A small sketch of a soldier with a polearm, taking up a small space in a busy notebook.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Apr 12

I've recently learned of a Japanese phrase, お花見 (Ohanami), which refers to a picnic you have under a cherry blossom tree while looking at the flowers. 🌸

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Apr 7

Cloods

A large plane rendered miniscule as it passes through the empty space 'neath some colorful clouds lit just before golden hour.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Mar 21

Sound sources I had prepared for running last night's D&D session: - mandolin (necessary) - African djembe - medieval sounds synthesizer - little brass bells - modular synth program (controlled by wireless keyboard) - Spotify - D&D ambient sounds app - gavel ... folks, have I gone too far?

A mandolin (Seagull A8, made in Canada) has become my primary music source when running D&D.

The djembe (made in Mali) is great for scaring players.

A Teenage Engineering EP-1320 "Instrumentalis Electronicum" medieval synthesizer (made in Spain)

Just a lotta buttons and Latin, big learning curve on this thing.

VCV Rack, a free modular synth program that's great for dreamy soundscapes.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Mar 11

Nooo, I wanted the 503, or the 555!

Your Result:

The 99

Lawful neutral. Governed by virtue and principle. You're a fierce competitor, you expect everybody to be better than who they are and you expect yourself to be better than everyone. "Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised." Chill out dawg, we love you regardless of how you act around Broadway and Main.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Feb 15

About to start on a new notebook, this time with a fun new cover.

Three Midori B6 Slim Blank notebooks, the middle one has a Midori paper cover, the third one is still in its packaging and overlaid with a Siwa navy blue paper cover.

These are not the only notebooks I've filled out (not pictured are two A5 craft paper notebooks and two passport-sized notebooks). However, the two leftmost notebooks in the picture are where I really found my stride with notebooking as a creative process, and I look forward to continuing that with this new one which shall be named "#5"

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Feb 9

Amazing. After finding my spot on the map, I tap on a random point in the TTRPG community to see if it's someone I would recognize, and sure enough the inimitable @hodagrpg.bsky.social shows up. He's everywhere!

A cloud of hundreds of points, collectively labeled TTRPG Creators & Community.

On the top left is a point named @noah-the@bard, closer to the centre is a point named @hodagrpg.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Jan 21

Looking at Google Search Trends (not a great metric, but it helps make a point); Threads indeed looks to be doing increasingly well over Bluesky globally, but that's largely thanks to popularity in Asia. Within English speaking / western countries, Bluesky may still be doing better.

Google search trends map showing the relative interest of Bluesky (blue), Threads (red), and Mastodon (yellow, nonexistent) from each country over the last 90 days, overlaid on a world map.

Graph plotting the relative interest of Bluesky (blue), Threads (red), and Mastodon (yellow) globally by year for the last 5 years.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Jan 10

Your path lies ahead, traveler. [Taken near Buntzen Lake, BC Canada]

A path winds along the border of a dense forest and the misty clearing of a power transmission line. Far in the distance, a mountain rises above the fog, radiantly lit by the golden glow of the sun.

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Dec 11

The [2d10+mod → 3-tier table] approach is quite neat indeed, though I was nerding out over a far more minute detail... d100 rolls!

Text from the website steelcompendium.io which reads as follows:

D100s

Some tables in the game call for a d100 roll. To roll a d100, grab two ten-sided dice. Decide which die represents the tens digit, with the other die representing the ones digit. For instance, if you roll a 5 for the tens digit and a 3 for the ones digit, the number rolled is 53.

Some ten-sided dice are numbered 0 to 9, while others are numbered 1 to 10. For the latter type of dice, a 10 counts as a 0 for the purpose of rolling a d100. For instance, if a 10 is rolled for the tens digit and a 9 is rolled for the ones digit, the number rolled is 09, or 9.

If both dice rolled show a 0 or 10, then the number rolled is 100!

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Nov 5

Breakfast.

Baked beans in a pot resting on an oven mitt on a kitchen table.

Recipe:
- Heinz Original Beans in tomato sauce
- Worcestershire
- Maple Syrup
- Fresh ground pepper
- Hot sauce (optional)

Noah [ノア] 🇨🇦@noah-the-bard· Oct 22

It seems all the locals are posting their photos of the sky this morning. I, too, couldn't help but grab my camera as soon as I looked out the window, so here's my contribution!