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.

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.

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.

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.

I found the majority of the project easy. However, for myself anyways, I struggled to find photos that were good quality or didn’t have watermarks on them. This was solved by using some of the websites for stock images that my professor provided.

I could have improved the cut and fold of the card. While it wasn’t too bad, there is some slight white paper left over on the top of the back side. This was caused by a fold that was slightly off. It isn’t too noticeable, but it still could be better.

I don’t think the project could be improved since we were allowed to do a different kind of card if we wanted to.

I could use Photoshop in the future as a computer science major when dealing with making a website. I could make my own graphics in Photoshop if I was helping in creating a website for someone.

I was inspired by a number of websites and articles. One of these was Jerry Uelsmann. I was inspired by the spookier images that were on the front page of his website. I decided to use this for the front and back of the card with darker images. I then contrasted this with a fun interior for the card.