blackmagiccraft

Preview

Little preview of what I just finished for next week’s video. My first mdf kit build. It went awesome!

Attn: New Fellowship Supporters

This is for anyone joining up between Aug 4th and Aug 11th.

First of all, thanks for your support! And welcome to the Fellowship! It means a lot.

Second, if you request to join th...

End of an era....

I typically don't put Tuesday videos up early for you guys to view in advance (mostly cause it usually takes every last minute to get them up), but this is an important one so I thought you guys sh...

Discord!

I have finally set up an official BMC Discord server which will only be accessible to Patreon supporters (of all levels). I have linked the accounts so you may have noticed yourself added to the se...

I'd like to take a moment to talk about mental health.

On Tuesday, Todd Harris, a member of RealmSmithtv took his own life. He leaves behind him a family, including two sons.  

I very recently lost my childhood best friend to suicide and I h...

YouTube upload issues

Hey guys,

You may have noticed there hasn't been an "early viewing" post for Friday's video yet. YouTube has been having some problems with their ingest/encoding and causing problems in vide...

Early Viewing: What's the BEST Glue for XPS Foam?

When I was doing my Frostgrave boards one of you asked if the PL Premium adhesive I used on the foam could be cut with the Proxxon after it dried. I wasn't sure and rather than test just that I set...

Behind the scenes

Living’ that unboxing life

Patreon glitches

Hey folks, Patreon seems to be very glitchy over the past few days. Pledges are taking longer than usual to process payment and it seems a lot of features are missing. If you have signed up in the ...

Build video....you decide

So this Friday’s video will be a bit of a retrospective where I compare my firtst build to a recent one and discuss the importance of knowing that it’s ok to......suck at something when you sta...

Rewards Update

Hey everyone,

I'm not sure if Patreon automatically notifies you when I change the info on rewards tiers so I wanted to make a post incase it didn't.

I have found over time that some...

Beacon of Plenty DM Journal Notes

As promised, here are the 3 pages of entries I had in my journal for running the Beacon of Plenty encounter. You will notice at the time I created it for my session I had just called it The Arcane ...

Advanced Screening: Beacon of Plenty - An Original Puzzle Encounter

Hey guys,

Trying something a little different this week. This is a room I designed for my last session that I thought was really interesting so I wanted to share it. Let me know what you thi...

Flesh Skinner Stats & Bexim's Bazaar

Hey guys,

When I made these crazy creature minis I never released any formal stats for it....but now they exist! I'm sharing with you guys my contribution to issue #1 of Bexim's Bazaar, an upco...

Attn: EU suporters

Hey guys,

I just received the following message from Patreon regarding VAT. I will copy what they have sent me below. You are likely to also receive a message from Patreon about this.

I just ...

Gallows preview...

Yup, that's me. About to get strung up by a mob of angry village people. I bet you're wondering how I got into this mess...

Patreon Vlog - Session Recap July

Hey guys, another behind the scenes Patreon exclusive for you. Played a game last night, check out the encounters I ran and how I made use of my terrain. 

Gallows Preview

Anyone wanna play a game of hangman?

Gallows build preview

Today’s project, one that’s been requested countless times. I chose this mostly because I wanted to do an episode focusing on using foam for wood/timber but didn’t want to just show technique wi...

Advanced Screening: Corpse Flower Mini Build!

Hey guys, episode 100 creeped up on me. I decided to get myself some flowers :)

I'm really happy with this build, but more importantly I'm really happy about this video. 100 episodes later, and...

Game Prep Pt.4

When running a bad guy that’s a spell caster this is how I manage spells. I make custom spell cards with very simple text so I know the spell at a glance. Red sleeves for spells that do damage.

Game Prep Pt.3

Behind the screen. Switching back to a DM screen for a bit.

Game Prep Pt. 2

This is going to be a serious encounter. The party will meet the Cadaver Collector (they didn’t make it quite that far last session).

Game prep Pt.1

I’m goin for a big encounters night. One of two major battle set ups for tomorrow’s game.

Build Sneak Peek

All that stuff I said about wanting ruins to not be static? Well sometimes you just want a ruined tower.

Advanced Screening: 5 Ways to Set the Mood for D&D

Hey folks,

I'm really proud of this video. It likely doesn't seem like it because there was no build, but this video was a LOT of work. I had to reshoot the thing 3 times because of failed ligh...

Takin' a risk

Working on a *very* different type of video for next week. It's something I've wanted to do for quite a while as I think it's pretty important, but have been reluctant because I know some will hate it...

Session 1

New group. New campaign. Fresh start. Where will the long road lead?

Pine tree experiment....

Mini modding

Sometimes you can’t find the right mini for a player character and you gotta mod something.