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Hypatia Morthalis is an NPC from a homebrew D&D campaign where a plague is killing the entire kingdom of Dravenmoor. She ends up being responsible for investigating the origin and the reason behind the calamity afflicting her people. She is a character inspired by many others, with her name being a direct reference to Hypatia from Dishonored 2. Her appearance was heavily inspired by characters like Sylvanas from World of Warcraft, and her clothing by Dishonored, Darkest Dungeon, and Dark Souls.

Despite being Dravenmoor’s chief doctor, she was also a leader in the war between Dravenmoor and the neighboring kingdom of Veil Lake. She wiped out hundreds of people using chemical weapons, given that Dravenmoor has always hated its neighboring populace, a nation of tribal occultists and wild shamans. Currently, she is hiding in the city while working to find a cure for Dravenmoor's plague.

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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.

Here are some examples of eccentricities unique to the culture of specific races in my DnD world for you to draw inspiration from:

From my last post. Dwarves only use parchment for keeping things like financial records and stuff like that. Boring stuff. But stuff that actually matters, history, culture, all that goodness gets carved into stone or metal.

The language of the Giants cannot be spoken by anyone who doesn't share the blood of a giant, because the Giant language will KILL any non giant that tries to speak it because of how powerful it is. Giants cannot speak to the small folk in the Giant tongue, because to speak directly to a small folk in Giant would injure or kill them. One can LISTEN to a pair of giants having a direct conversation with each other in their native tongue, but they would probably come out of it with tinnitus because the giant language is so magically charged.

Goliaths, though they are half giants, are still giants biologically which means they can speak the giant language without dying. And to suggest that they AREN'T "actually giants" is to invite the kind of ass beating that a forest gets from a landslide.

Spitting their elemental breath while talking in their language is to Dragons what certain vowels, consonants, and letters are to us mortals in our language.

In deep elven culture, and by that I mean among the populations of elves that live in deep forests far far away from any other civilization, androgyny is a beauty standard. The harder it is to distinguish at a glance whether or not an elf is of the male or female sex, the more attractive they are to other elves.

Goblins are so used to living in utter filth and squaller that sometimes when a goblin experiences a higher standard of living, their immune system goes haywire because it's become so used to CONSTANTLY fighting off infections and diseases that suddenly NOT having any disease or infection to fight is a genuine shock to goblin biology. This can manifest in a number of ways from shortness of breath to breaking out into hives, to random fevers that go away as quick as they occurred, but this goes away after their body becomes used to cleaner conditions.

You know how birds will gently nibble on you with their beaks to preen you and show their affection, or that they just generally are comfortable being around you and like you? Arakokra, Owlins, Kenku do that with each other, but they sometimes forget that it's REALLY weird when you do it to someone who isn't also a bird completely unprompted lol.

Tabaxi do not get offended by feline stereotypes. They purr. They like to knock stuff off tables. They jump up really high when they get scared. They are cats, but running on vaguely people shaped hardware. They are proud of this. They don't get embarrassed by it, and it's nearly impossible to insult them for it, because they see their feline qualities as the best parts of themselves.

In ork society, to fight someone with your bare fists is how you show that you respect them as an adversary. Weapons are for enemies you have no respect for, so for an ork to challenge another ork to a fight with weapons is to say "You are my enemy, there is no respect between us, our clans will be blood enemies from now until eternity, and I spit on your very name."

In my setting, your average hobgoblin would look at a hobgoblin like Dror Ragzlin from BG3 and feel the same way we feel whenever we read a headline starting with "florida man" Because in my setting most hobgoblins are actually like Blurgg from the same game, intelligent, civilized, and just normal people albeit a little weird looking.

Have any more suggestions? Post em. I wanna hear yalls ideas.

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.

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 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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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

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.

So I’m playing as a Cleric and the religion is based around food and that “you should feed the hungry before feeding yourself” and I want to show a big of my Mexican roots with the food the character would be making at random times but idk how to translate modern Mexican cuisine with the medieval one

Hypatia Morthalis is an NPC from a homebrew D&D campaign where a plague is killing the entire kingdom of Dravenmoor. She ends up being responsible for investigating the origin and the reason behind the calamity afflicting her people. She is a character inspired by many others, with her name being a direct reference to Hypatia from Dishonored 2. Her appearance was heavily inspired by characters like Sylvanas from World of Warcraft, and her clothing by Dishonored, Darkest Dungeon, and Dark Souls.

Despite being Dravenmoor’s chief doctor, she was also a leader in the war between Dravenmoor and the neighboring kingdom of Veil Lake. She wiped out hundreds of people using chemical weapons, given that Dravenmoor has always hated its neighboring populace, a nation of tribal occultists and wild shamans. Currently, she is hiding in the city while working to find a cure for Dravenmoor's plague.

My commissions are open! If you’re interested in bringing your characters to life, feel free to DM me. Here are my portfolios with more of my work:

https://www.instagram.com/decode_art/

https://www.artstation.com/decode_art