drmhigginson
@drmhigginson.bsky.social
🔥It's dangerous out there, sit a while🔥
Arts & crafts. Coffee. TTRPGs & tall tales. No AI.
He/him
Studied illustration a long time ago, OSR has reignited my want to create so treating this like a journal back into that. Mainly Mörk Borg & Shadowdark.
Arts & crafts. Coffee. TTRPGs & tall tales. No AI.
He/him
Studied illustration a long time ago, OSR has reignited my want to create so treating this like a journal back into that. Mainly Mörk Borg & Shadowdark.
Trying to keep up the daily drawings post Mörktober with 30 min sketches.
Lil' snowed in cabin. Come and warm your feet.
Lil' snowed in cabin. Come and warm your feet.
November 4, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Trying to keep up the daily drawings post Mörktober with 30 min sketches.
Lil' snowed in cabin. Come and warm your feet.
Lil' snowed in cabin. Come and warm your feet.
#Mörktober 31 - Pumpkin - Riddleworm Farm
November 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#Mörktober 31 - Pumpkin - Riddleworm Farm
#Mörktober 30 - Star - The North Star
In times of certain apocalypse, what does it mean to be a guiding light?
In times of certain apocalypse, what does it mean to be a guiding light?
October 31, 2025 at 7:25 AM
#Mörktober 30 - Star - The North Star
In times of certain apocalypse, what does it mean to be a guiding light?
In times of certain apocalypse, what does it mean to be a guiding light?
#Mörktober 29 - Hole - Twinned Scrholes
An object the size of a fist or smaller can be forcibly pushed into one of the scrolls. In 12+d12 hours it is birthed from the twin scroll stinking and smeared in biles, blood, and phlegm.
(sorry for this one)
An object the size of a fist or smaller can be forcibly pushed into one of the scrolls. In 12+d12 hours it is birthed from the twin scroll stinking and smeared in biles, blood, and phlegm.
(sorry for this one)
October 30, 2025 at 6:09 AM
#Mörktober 29 - Hole - Twinned Scrholes
An object the size of a fist or smaller can be forcibly pushed into one of the scrolls. In 12+d12 hours it is birthed from the twin scroll stinking and smeared in biles, blood, and phlegm.
(sorry for this one)
An object the size of a fist or smaller can be forcibly pushed into one of the scrolls. In 12+d12 hours it is birthed from the twin scroll stinking and smeared in biles, blood, and phlegm.
(sorry for this one)
#Mörktober 28 - Bloat - The Bloated Templar
October 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
#Mörktober 28 - Bloat - The Bloated Templar
#Mörktober 27 - Ice - The Inquisition’s most Crucial Exonerator
October 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
#Mörktober 27 - Ice - The Inquisition’s most Crucial Exonerator
Text missing off the bottom, corrected here. Also added the missing alt text.
October 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Text missing off the bottom, corrected here. Also added the missing alt text.
#Mörktober 26 - Torch - Glim
A Glim is an amalgam of dead things formed around torches & lanterns left by passing travellers and treasure seekers.
A Glim is an amalgam of dead things formed around torches & lanterns left by passing travellers and treasure seekers.
October 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
#Mörktober 26 - Torch - Glim
A Glim is an amalgam of dead things formed around torches & lanterns left by passing travellers and treasure seekers.
A Glim is an amalgam of dead things formed around torches & lanterns left by passing travellers and treasure seekers.
#Mörktober 25 - Hermit - Let sleeping Gog Magogs lie
October 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
#Mörktober 25 - Hermit - Let sleeping Gog Magogs lie
October 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
October 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
#Mörktober 21 - Beak
A vial containing three doses of white powder. A portion can be snorted once a day for an effect.
A vial containing three doses of white powder. A portion can be snorted once a day for an effect.
October 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
#Mörktober 21 - Beak
A vial containing three doses of white powder. A portion can be snorted once a day for an effect.
A vial containing three doses of white powder. A portion can be snorted once a day for an effect.
October 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
#Mörktober 20 - Fennickshagen
Busy trade is tempting, not just to merchants. It has been razed and scorched countless times, even in living memory, but somehow it always springs back. The old sailors say that it is bound to a phoenix, but we know that to be myth.
Busy trade is tempting, not just to merchants. It has been razed and scorched countless times, even in living memory, but somehow it always springs back. The old sailors say that it is bound to a phoenix, but we know that to be myth.
October 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
#Mörktober 20 - Fennickshagen
Busy trade is tempting, not just to merchants. It has been razed and scorched countless times, even in living memory, but somehow it always springs back. The old sailors say that it is bound to a phoenix, but we know that to be myth.
Busy trade is tempting, not just to merchants. It has been razed and scorched countless times, even in living memory, but somehow it always springs back. The old sailors say that it is bound to a phoenix, but we know that to be myth.
#Mörktober 18 - The Crows
In the reaches of influence around the obelisk the only thing has not yet withered is the crows, slowly migrating outward with the decay.
In the reaches of influence around the obelisk the only thing has not yet withered is the crows, slowly migrating outward with the decay.
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#Mörktober 18 - The Crows
In the reaches of influence around the obelisk the only thing has not yet withered is the crows, slowly migrating outward with the decay.
In the reaches of influence around the obelisk the only thing has not yet withered is the crows, slowly migrating outward with the decay.
#Mörktober 16 - Heedful Beacons - Weathered statues of winged women
HP:60
Solid Stone:-d8
Cannot attack
Special: Any town guard or Inquisitor in direct sight of a Heedful Beacon is granted d2 extra damage on their attacks and Solid Stone armour.
HP:60
Solid Stone:-d8
Cannot attack
Special: Any town guard or Inquisitor in direct sight of a Heedful Beacon is granted d2 extra damage on their attacks and Solid Stone armour.
October 20, 2025 at 6:53 AM
#Mörktober 16 - Heedful Beacons - Weathered statues of winged women
HP:60
Solid Stone:-d8
Cannot attack
Special: Any town guard or Inquisitor in direct sight of a Heedful Beacon is granted d2 extra damage on their attacks and Solid Stone armour.
HP:60
Solid Stone:-d8
Cannot attack
Special: Any town guard or Inquisitor in direct sight of a Heedful Beacon is granted d2 extra damage on their attacks and Solid Stone armour.
#Mörktober 16 - Obelisk - Monumento Mori
October 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
#Mörktober 16 - Obelisk - Monumento Mori
October 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
October 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I love the time pressure I give myself for #Mörktober, an hour and a half or so top to bottom, sometimes an hour either side if it's a good one. It forces some cool ideas.
That said, I wanted to go back and redo this a bit with a less rushed eye.
That said, I wanted to go back and redo this a bit with a less rushed eye.
October 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I love the time pressure I give myself for #Mörktober, an hour and a half or so top to bottom, sometimes an hour either side if it's a good one. It forces some cool ideas.
That said, I wanted to go back and redo this a bit with a less rushed eye.
That said, I wanted to go back and redo this a bit with a less rushed eye.
#Mörktober 13 - Web - Major Caddisfly Larvae
In the absence of big fire breathing lizards that hoard treasure, you find Major Caddisfly Larvae. Squishy in the middle, they spin their webs to construct a shell out of rocks and anything hard or pointy.
Caddisfly - www.google.com/search?clien...
In the absence of big fire breathing lizards that hoard treasure, you find Major Caddisfly Larvae. Squishy in the middle, they spin their webs to construct a shell out of rocks and anything hard or pointy.
Caddisfly - www.google.com/search?clien...
October 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
#Mörktober 13 - Web - Major Caddisfly Larvae
In the absence of big fire breathing lizards that hoard treasure, you find Major Caddisfly Larvae. Squishy in the middle, they spin their webs to construct a shell out of rocks and anything hard or pointy.
Caddisfly - www.google.com/search?clien...
In the absence of big fire breathing lizards that hoard treasure, you find Major Caddisfly Larvae. Squishy in the middle, they spin their webs to construct a shell out of rocks and anything hard or pointy.
Caddisfly - www.google.com/search?clien...
#Mörktober 12 - Binding - Dryachnid
They hold their egg sack in their arms as they succumb to their self administered Hardening Venom. Once hatched, the brood sustains itself on the mummified adult.
They hold their egg sack in their arms as they succumb to their self administered Hardening Venom. Once hatched, the brood sustains itself on the mummified adult.
October 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
#Mörktober 12 - Binding - Dryachnid
They hold their egg sack in their arms as they succumb to their self administered Hardening Venom. Once hatched, the brood sustains itself on the mummified adult.
They hold their egg sack in their arms as they succumb to their self administered Hardening Venom. Once hatched, the brood sustains itself on the mummified adult.
Got all the maguffins and made ourselves an ooze slaying hammer only to roll a 1 on the attack and lose the dwarf carrying it all to the ooze. ShadowDark in brutal, 10/10 would roll again.
October 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Got all the maguffins and made ourselves an ooze slaying hammer only to roll a 1 on the attack and lose the dwarf carrying it all to the ooze. ShadowDark in brutal, 10/10 would roll again.
#Mörktober 11 - Scales - Krimadon, the teeth of judgement.
Known locally as ‘the Teeth of Judgement’. To those that believe in an afterlife, it is thought that the Krimadon is a guide and passage to the beyond.
Known locally as ‘the Teeth of Judgement’. To those that believe in an afterlife, it is thought that the Krimadon is a guide and passage to the beyond.
October 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
#Mörktober 11 - Scales - Krimadon, the teeth of judgement.
Known locally as ‘the Teeth of Judgement’. To those that believe in an afterlife, it is thought that the Krimadon is a guide and passage to the beyond.
Known locally as ‘the Teeth of Judgement’. To those that believe in an afterlife, it is thought that the Krimadon is a guide and passage to the beyond.