The Chronicler's Notes - Shop updates and Chronicle 21 Preview Image

Greetings Chroniclers!

Things have been busy for me lately so I haven't been able to find you guys some choice links to click on.  But I do have a preview image of this week's strip. The action is going to be ramping up the next few weeks. So, stick around for some interesting developments.

Last week, I mentioned that there is a new Artist's Shop. This week I want to go over some of the new features with you.

First, I've added more Character Sketch options to the store as well, so make sure you check those out. There are lots of choices for a character drawing personalized just for you!

Don't forget to pick up your Rocket Jayne T-Shirts! More T-Shirts are on the way!

 Finally, I have added the Gnomes Pack of Virtual Tabletop Tokens. The Virtual Tabletop Tokens are a great way to add some variety to your tabletop RPG. They're optimized for virtual tabletop programs, but they will print as tokens for your physical game as well. I will have some new products in that vein shortly as well. Stay tuned for that.

Have a great week, Chroniclers!

Than

Fun Art Friday - Thoth, God of IT

It's Fun Art Friday! Sorry this is a bit late. I'm home with a sick kid. I'm working in my little studio space in our common room. I keep a little statue of the Egyptian god, Thoth here on my desk. Thoth is the god of writing, magic, and technology. So I keep him around as the god of Information Technology . In my other life, I work in IT and it's funny to me how people wonder at what you can do as if you're casting some magic spell! Maybe that's all the great wizards were, IT Support! Merlin was just Arthur's CIO!

So,  he is... Thoth, God of IT.

Character Codex - Round 15 - Halfling Barbarian and Bard

Greetings Chroniclers and welcome to the Character Codex!

We're working our way through all 77 race/class combinations in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook.  We're showing off the Halfling Barbarian and Bard today.  If you've missed any previous entries you can catch up HERE!

Now, I know, I'm skipping ahead by doing halflings, but I have a reason. After halflings then we'll do half-elves, half-orcs, and finally humans,

Virtual tabletop players, make sure to pick up some free tokens suitable for use in any virtual tabletop environment. 

Want to support the Character Codex? Have me draw your own personal RPG character!  RPG Character Sketches are inexpensive and a great way to show off your characters unique qualities.  You can find out more about that HERE!

Here come the halflings!

Halfling Barbarian

First up is the Halfling Barbarian. Halfling Barbarians have become a bit more common in the last decade or so with several tabletop RPGs having these wild halflings roaming deserts and plains. So I went in a slightly different direction and made her a sea reaver. I grew up on Dragonlance and there were sea barbarians in that setting. They were pirates, but more like actual pirates and less like swashbuckling Jack Sparrows. It was nice to see these barbarian pirates show back up in Pathfinder.

For her design I wanted her to wear flowing clothes that could breathe well on the open water. Also, halflings on Chronicle, called Caun, love bright colors, scarves, sashes, and patches. So I had to toss a few on her. She's very utilitarian in design. More function, less flash than other pirates. Her harpoon is actually a medium-sized one handed harpoon.

Halfling Bard

Next up is the Halfling Bard. The Caun of Chronicle are nomadic and they keep their history in stories and in song. Most Caun can tell a good story or hum a nice tune, but Caun Bards are something special. They are masters of their trade and one of the few classes of Caun that the dwarves of Jaxstein will allow into the dwarven capital.

As I mentioned previously, Chronicle's halflings love color. Patches and scarves add accents and this guy has already begun to accessorize his performance outfit. The green hair comes from their fey blood. We'll get more into that in the coming weeks. But one of the key differences between Caun and regular halflings is that they are fey, giving them that odd social disconnect that so many fey have.

That's it for this week! Next week we'll take a look at the divine side of halflings with the Halfling Cleric and Druid.

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The Chronicler's Notes - Biggest Month Yet and a New Shop!

Greetings Chroniclers!

Welcome to another week here at Chronicle!

Wow. May was huge. Seriously guys, I am humbled by the response my four-month old website has received. Whether you came here for the comic, the Character Codex, or my Fun Art Friday Drawings (or hopefully all of them!) I want to thank you so much for stopping by to check out what I have to offer. I hope you keep coming back and that you like my work. Comments are always welcome, I leave the comments on at the bottom of every page for you to leave your input, so feel free to do so if you have some.

Here's some quick numbers for you, to show how awesome you guys are. 17,794 page views total, 7191 of those were just in May. 8104 unique visitors total, 3162 unique visitors in just May.  719 page views just on May 22. We will pass out 10,000th site visit most likely this week!

Seriously. Thank you.

Now, onto new stuff.  

Preview of Strip 20

• The World of Chronicle kicks off Halfling Month with a look at Chronicle's spin on halflings, the Caun.
• The Character Codex moves into Halflings on Wednesday with the Halfling Barbarian and Halfling Bard
• This week we hit Strip 20 in the comic with some big revelations about our mysterious adventurers.  Make sure to come back on Thursday for that!
• Friday, we'll have another fun drawing! I got a LOT of great response from Rocket Jayne. If you haven't seen it yet, make sure to go check it out. T-shirts are now available in the Artist's Shop. 
• Which brings me to the NEW Artist's Shop! I've added more items and made navigation a bit simpler. Please consider purchasing something. We've got a great thing going and I want Chronicle to support itself.

Have a great week and thanks again!

Than

Fun Art Friday! - Rocket Jayne!

It's Fun Art Friday! If you don't know what you're looking at go watch Firefly and read Guardians of the Galaxy now! Both of these sci-fi properties are really worth spending some time with. I'm pretty excited about the Guardians movie coming out in August (right before my birthday!) A lot of my non-comic reading friends are scratching their heads at it, but, man it has so much potential to be one of those really fun sci-fi movies, like Fifth Element or Firef;y/Serenity (except for that part at the end of course). So I dressed Rocket Raccoon up like Jayne Cobb.

If you like this, you need to get it on a T-Shirt! I've opened up a Teepublic store and this is my first experiment with it. If it does well, I will put up more.

I also want to acknowledge the amazing Skottie Young, whose design of Rocket I used for inspiration. Go check out his stuff and send some love his wayl