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I've noticed 'there's an issue and I want to leave, what should I do?' is kind of a theme here, so I wanted to share this recent (last night) experience because I think it was handled really well.

Last year a few of us, mostly in our 40s and 50s, decided we wanted to learn to play. We reached out through our local game store and were introduced to a guy I'll call N.

N DMd for us for about six months, playing for a few hours each fortnight. Great guy, really patient, we all like him and I think he likes us.

We took a hiatus for a few months but stayed in touch and agreed this year that we'd take turns DMing one-shots and short campaigns. This would let N have a go as a player, which was something he wanted, while other members of the group expanded into DMing. It also accommodated busy schedules so a couple more friends could join in when available.

But it just felt like it wasn't gelling. N's a great guy, but it always felt like there was a subtle personality mismatch between him and the rest of the table, and this became more noticeable when he was a player instead of DM. Again, he's a great guy and he didn't do anything *wrong*, something just didn't quite fit.

Last night after our game N sent me a private message (we also have a group chat but I act as a sort of admin for us all). He said he didn't feel like things were working for him, he wished us all the best, but he'd be stepping away from the table.

I thanked him for teaching us and encouraged him to stay in touch.

Shortly after, he sent an equally nice, if vaguer, message to the group chat before leaving the chat.

It seems like so often things end in drama. I'd like to think this way is the norm and we just don't talk about it. N, if you read this, I totally understand and you really are welcome back any time.

Im a concept artist and illustrator specialising in creature design
I have such a love for fantastical beasts, and was inspired by the classic OwlBear to design my own owl chimera!
Originally sculpted in Z Brush and rendered for a still concept image, I then thought why not 3D print my model and paint it!
I’ll share the render of it in this thread if that’s possible? Or I can share it in a seperate post.
I’d like to start designing and printing my own minis!
Let me know what you think 🥰
This actually had a broken tail and I thought it would be cool to actually add real feathers to it to elevate its look!

Art from the very talented natalie_corsair, my noble bastard swashbuckler, Andeth, has been so far my favorite character to have play as hands down. Was sold to a criminal organization by his step-father as a way to get rid of the "dishonor", eventually being paired with Nimalia, a Yuan-Ti pureblood that has been gaslit by said criminal organization into believing that only they would tolerate her "monstrous existence". Obviously, they were eventually proved very wrong. Art is depicting Andeth essentially giving Nimalia how he'd go about executing a honeypot trap if she was his target.

Hey everyone!

Here's one of the characters from our party from some time ago. An Aarakocra Kookaburra Rogue. Boi that's a mouthful.

I'm using our sessions to sketch out our party member's characters and also some events happening in them. DM doesn't love that, but hey, cool art!

This guy's a total menace, the guy who plays it made it so this guy sucks at stealth cause much like the bird it's based on, he's loud as shit, so he's a pretty sucky rogue, but makes it very fun throwing off the bad guys when he's about to attack (we're definitely the bad guys)

I'm always open for commissions, so if you want a piece, just hit me up via DM!

Hope you like this guy and here's much more to come!

Cheers!

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I return! with more paper work! This time it was a bit of an exploration. I thought i would test my dungeon battlemap without any colors, Ink line only. I received a few comments and messages about this in the past. I thought it was about time i test it.

I assemble the final with the kid, and honestly we thought it look pretty great!! Its pretty sharp..^^ I think we will use them as is for a few dungeons adventure ^^

In the future i think will provide a black and white variation for the next tiles release.

Also It could be a fun coloring project in a rainy afternoon ^^

Enjoy! I will be back soon with more! ^^

I could write 50 pages on this topic, but I think this metaphor perfectly captures it. I know this is such a controversial idea for anyone who got into TTRPGs from watching actual plays, but it seems important for people to know that it wasn't always this way. I also absolutely love actual plays myself and I don't think anyone is really to blame at all for the way the culture has shifted.

I'm 31 and started DMing when I was 11 years old. I was always the DM with my middle schoool friends and made probably every bad story decision possible in the many years before actual plays came out.

I never knew I was 'supposed to worry' about how good my DMing was - that was such an alien concept to me back then and still is to me now. Imagine talking about backyard football with friends like how we talk about D&D:

"Really concerned about my tackling form when on the edge of my yard - has anyone else dealt with this?" "My friend says he doesn't want to play football anymore if John is invited - what should I do?" "I'm so frustrated I threw a bad pass yesterday, I feel like I failed my friends - how can I get better at throwing further down my backyard to my friend?"

It's not that it SHOULD be inherently easy for you, it's just that it doesn't matter how good of a DM you are if you are present, kind, and being a good friend.

We're all just in the backyard tossing a football around - it's cool if someone throws a really good pass, but no one should have to feel pressure for how well they throw the football.

If I could flip a switch to change the culture of unneeded stress and pressure people have playing a game for fun (like pick-up football) with your friends, I would give a lot to do that.

For more than four years, I’ve been creating unique homebrew magic items, each with its own custom illustration commissioned from a human artist.

As the collection grew, I realized I needed a better way to organize everything. Digging through mountains of files in Google Drive wasn’t especially useful for me or anyone else who wanted to find an item for their game.

That was the original idea behind the Emporium. At first, it was purely a utility. It did its job, but it was ugly. After a few late nights rebuilding it, it has finally become something I’m proud to show people.

The Emporium now contains more than 480 custom magic items divided among 24 themed sets. You can search and filter them by name, rarity, item type, damage type, and other keywords. You can also browse all of the artwork, maybe something will inspire you to brew something up yourself!

To celebrate the new version, I’ve made 60 of the items completely free. You can view both the artwork and mechanics for those items without subscribing or creating an account. Just click on the Free Items tab.

Everyone can browse the full art collection, while Patreon members can access the mechanics for every item. I plan to make more items freely available as the collection continues to grow.

I’d love for some of you to look through it and let me know what you think. What features or filters would make something like this more useful when preparing or running a game? I’m especially interested in hearing how other DMs would use it.

TLDR: I made 490 magic items and built a website to host them all and I'm giving access to 60 of them for free!

Here’s the Emporium:

https://arcaneaffinity.net/emporium

This is a commissioned artwork of a Druid of Stars Tiefling I had the pleasure to work on! It's a very ambitious piece where I had to portray her as the focal point of the scene to stop the chaos and destruction around. Showing teamwork and mutual protection.💜

Using her powers to create a moonlight rainfall is a detail that I came up with along the process of this piece that fitted perfectly in the character I had to portray. I am more than happy with the final result after so much hours of work!

Hope you all enjoy to see this piece too.✨️