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Some hand carved dwarves i just finished and wanted to share with folks.

I have a passion for woodcarving and attempting to entice others into the hobby. So my ulterior motive with every post is "how do I make this hobby more accessible" or "how do I inspire someone to want to give it a go."

Hopefully the picture did that, and now you're reading.

You need several things, a sharp knife, a leather strop with compound for honing your blade, safety gloves (A5 or better) and basswood (to carve like i do at least.)

Solid Knife brands, Flexcut, Badger State Blades (USA), Mstein (Europe) there are a lot of great knife brands. Stay away from kits on amazon of several knives. They're much much lower quality with inconsistently tempered steel. (What that means is its not hardened, and so it won't stay sharp easy, meaning you're fighting the knife and dont understand why its harder for you to carve when its easy for others.)

Why Basswood? Its softer than other hardwoods and holds detail well. Learning to carve with basswood is akin to learning to drive on an automatic. It simplifies and streamlines learning. Woods like Walnut and oak can be carved, but learning to carve with them as the starting point is like learning to drive on an 18 wheeler Semi Truck with manual transmission. Its needlessly difficult.

In europe, the equivalent is Linden, in Asia, Jelutong, and in south America Caxeta is a good substitute.

Tutorials abound EVERYWHERE. Youtube is your friend in that regard. You dont have to look up my channel, there are plenty that have easy to begin tutorials and one of them will be right up your alley.

A dragonborn piece I finished recently. He's a towering black dragonborn paladin. Arrogant, fiercely confident, and almost always wearing a wicked grin. Brutish, standoffish, and quick with a sarcastic remark, he definitely looks more intimidating than approachable.

At first, I assumed he was some kind of barbarian because of the lack of plate armor and the massive greataxe. After reading the character notes, though, I realized he's actually a paladin. His design is heavily inspired by the BG3 dragonborn, so the more reptilian features are intentionally emphasized.

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Her name is Gabriel de'Noir and she's a Celestial Warlock/Paladin. She used to be a male tiefling villain, was slain and then got reincarnated by a merciful angel with a second chance to live her life as a hero. They are a swan-themed character (though not an anthro or a furry, more like a swan-angel). Facial features they are on the fair side though not completely pale, they have a 'swan mask' style make up (heavy eye make up stretching down to the sides of their nose from the edges of their eyes) with black-orange (fairly bright orange, color like a swan beak) ombre lips with a black line down the middle. They have black feather wings with some white creeping in in some spots. They are a paladin and wear plate armor with a sort of feather or bird-esc theme to it, though no helmet. Their weapon is a two-pronged spear. Their holy magic tends to be a mix of black and white light. They have bright orange eyes. They are meant to be very beautiful.

A while ago, I had the pleasure of designing a character sheet for a special client.

Irene Amphrylos. She's a merman/sea creature. High Priestess of a cult that venerates sea deities. Her goal: to spread the word of her religion and forge bonds with the surface dwellers. Warm, kind, and brave are some of her main qualities. Don't underestimate her! She could give you the gentlest blessings, and the harshest, with a metallic taste.

I focused mainly on the design of her silver armor, adorned with gold details and waves that represent the movement of water, a concept I also applied to her hair. My favorite part will always be her beautiful face.

What do you think of my design? Have you ever played a merman? Tell me about your experience.

Artist: https://vgen.co/gabrielbari_art

3rd edition had a few manuals for it. 4th edition added some classes for it. But I don't think it was ever really popular. I think it first appeared In darksun 2nd edition? (Might be wrong) . I know the 3rd edition psion manual added the thri-kreen which is definitely from darksun.

Theories:

Too much like sci-fi. D&d has always been fantasy and trying to add a magic system that's "definitely not magic " is gonna make people squint.

Inconsistent themeing: is it magic or not? The monster manual gave some monster "psionic " powers that literally just created spell effects. If I remember right, the 3rd edition psionic manual told the dungeon Master to pick from 3 options for how magic and psionics should interact in the game. The soulknife class wasn't even a spell caster, they're just a dual wielder who can't lose his weapons. The manual tries really hard to make the theme different from magic, but psionic stuff literally behaves just like magic. They even had clear equivalents to wands and staves, just with weird names " it's not a wand, it's a DORJE " .

Shoehorned in: Greyhawk, forgotten realms, planescape, and ravenloft just dont have room for psionics in their lore. Adding psionics to an existing work will make fans mad. I think Eberron had a bit of room for monsters using it, but not players. I don't think WOTC really did any good worldbuilding to justify psions in a campaign.

Confusing to new players: most people are generally familiar with fantasy archetypes. If you hand them a class they don't even know how to pronounce, and doesn't really have any thematic point of comparison to help them understand, they're not gonna be interested. If a new player asks "what's a psion's role in society?" There wasn't really an answer for that. Telling a newbie " it's like magic, but definitely not magic even though you can do pretty much all the same stuff as the wizard " will just leave them confused.

I think it can work in a setting that actually has a place for it, and if it actually behaves different from regular magic.

Hot take: Vancian spellcasting sucks and power points were a step in the right direction.

Maybe this is my personal interpretation, but it’s a fairly common one and a very logical one. In tales involving genies, monkey paws, one wish willows or shooting stars a common trope** **is to have the wish backfire in some ironic way to punish the wisher. This is not a universal rule of making a wish, nor is it always good storytelling.

In stories like Obsession, the Monkeys Paw and others a character is punished ironically because they deserve punishment. Asking for an unfair advantage in life that is unearned shouldn’t be rewarded. Asking for love without the work put in to make a relationship, asking for money without the attempt to better yourself or asking for power with bad intentions warrants being the victim of your own selfish desires.

If your player’s character uses wish to bring their dead spouse back to life, don’t have a zombie husband show up and crush their spirit. If an adventuring party is embarking on a dungeon raid to defeat evil on behalf of a god, don’t fuck them over when they use divine intervention to get out of a sticky spot.

Dnd is a storytelling game. It’s not good storytelling to be a dick to your players for no reason. It’s not good storytelling to ruin everything your players have been playing for because “It’S mOnKeY pAw RuLeS mAn.” Creative use of a monkey paw twist can enrich a story, make your players think twice about being selfish and otherwise benefit your story. But it is not a foundational rule of all wishes, you should not use it every time and a bad use of monkey pawing is a huge mistake. I daresay that if you spam that shit every time they act in character you are a very bad DM.

I hope this has been helpful and enriching and you can send this to your DM if you need to.

I'm currently DMing a campaign of DnD 5e with a group of six friends, using the "Explorer's Guide to Wildemount" as source material. All characters are quite in sync with the moderately serious vibe I expected and all characters came with backstories I hooked easily with the campaign's story. Everyone except one of my players, which chose to do a drow ranger and invest all his stat points in charisma for a "presuasion/intimidation build".

Is my first time DMing and even if my gut feeling told me it would become a bad idea I didn't want to be a partypooper, so I said yes but warned he might not like it since the class is very dexterity and wisdom based. He said it was alright for him.

Going into the campaign, he starts to try bend every scenario I put them by "I want to intimidate X NPC so they do whatever I want" or "I try to presuade X NPC to do what I want". So I talked with him after the first session saying it was being quite annoying by trying put all my work and everyone's effort to waste with this "playstyle", as his answer was "Isn't in the book saying I can't do, so technically can do it" (which I higly disagree, but I know how stubborn he can be and wouldn't like to create a whole drama over this by kicking him out).

I decided to take some countermeasures by putting natural barriers: undead that couldn't be intimidated due to being in practically irrational, soldiers with high ethical and loyalty standards that doesn't change sides because someone said so and some more situations where he couldn't exploit this strategy easily. He got upset and said "I was cutting the whole fun of the game".

Am I wrong for punishing this type of player? Is my first time being a DM so I'm open to learn and have opinons from more experienced people. Thanks yall ^^

Edit: Thanks everyone for the tips and different approaches I can get with this. I will try to talk with him once more and see what I'll do next. As for our story, I'll follow thine I originally planned and scrap out the small event changes. Also will review again the rules on this part so both can try set things up.

Edit 2: For the people saying I'm making his character completely useless by the adds I mentioned, I didn't do it to every single thing they go by. Just tweaked some aspects here and there so it wouldn't be a thing he could use literally everywhere. He started protesting at his second failure. Also adding to this, the "I got a feeling this wasn't going to end well and still allowed" was because I honestly never thought he would be using it Every. Single. Encounter. Thought it was a more out of the box roleplay gimmick he was trying to pull out.

Had the best time working on this custom commission.

Meet Captain Rizzo, a late middle-aged Ratfolk swashbuckler who’s seen plenty of sea battles. Loved playing around with the rich navy coat, the intricate weapons and intense amber eyes effect under his hat. Big thank you to my client for trusting me with his design! My commissions are currently open, so feel free to hit me up if you want your OC illustrated in my style :)

I've recently started to consume forgotten realms novels, mainly searching for elf lore but ended up gravitating towards the drow, even if i'm mostly interested in good-aligned characters.

After reading the Lady Penitent trilogy i wanted to make a good-aligned drow character, one who was inspired by the darksong knights and priestesses of Eilistraee.

Qilintra sworn to uphold the teachings of the dark dancer with such passion and devotion that her promise became divine, and she channels the silver light of the Goddess to help and protect those in need, while also seeking to inspire other drow to step out of the dark and into the moonlight.

I used to love so many things in D&D 1e that I would find vexing now. Mapping the dungeon, square by square, by verbal back-and-forth with the DM. So much fun, then. Such a time-suck, now.

• I used to love the "hurry or wandering monsters will come" mechanic. I even loved fighting them when they did pop up. Now, I feel like "What's the point? They're not important NPCs."
• I used to love tracking XP and encumbrance. Now, I won't play a campaign unless it's milestone XP, and a Bag of Holding is sure to be found somewhere in the early levels.
• It bothers me that I do not understand my own sense of fun, what defines it, or what causes it to change slowly over the decades. But it surely does change. Attempts at "going back" have resulted in acute unfun, followed by "abort, abort!"
• (Related: Loved the early Infocom text adventures. Burnt away endless hours on them. Can't last more than 5 minutes with one, now.)

Am I alone in this shift of what qualifies as D&D "fun?" Any insight as to what become boring and what doesn't? I eagerly await any wise insight.