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Meet Sasha Evenbrand, and her wife who has become soul-bound to her after dying in her arms, subsuming the usual shadowy copy.

Sasha is a captain of the Hellriders, and lost her wife Bella, another soldier, in the defense of Elturel during its descent into Avernus. For reasons unknown to her, after her death her wife's soul attached itself to Sasha, replacing her usual echo. The echo no longer perfectly copies Sasha's movements, and sometimes even looks to her wistfully, or tries (and fails) to communicate in moments of strength. Sasha has left her city and the guard, on a quest to bring her back, or die trying and join her.

Amazing art by Kristina David! u/Specialist-Drink6014

It was a pleasure working with her on this and other commissions. <3

I was planning to draw an Owlin for my challenge to illustrate all the races of Dungeons & Dragons, but at that moment SevenDice shared an idea for his "Bestiary" series: a fierce owlbear with a cub - and I just couldn't resist. I tried to create a little story featuring a cute but timid cub and a ferocious mother ready to do anything to protect her beloved child. I hope I managed to convey that :)

Looking forward to your comments and feedback!

Also, for February 14th - Valentine's Day - I'm already working on an artwork that will surely charm you with its concept. What do you think - which two races would be interesting to combine?

I'm a huge nerd and did some number crunching. I wanted to learn which official D&D 5e adventures are the most successful. In lieu of sales data, I used subreddit data as a rough proxy. Raw subreddit size or just weekly visitors heavily favor older books because they've had time to grow a fanbase, so I adjusted for age by dividing total members by days since publication (rough growth rate), and looked at weekly visitors vs total subs as an engagement ratio (how active/sticky each community is).

What I found is no matter how you slice it, the same adventures keep winning: Strahd is the undeniable king, with Frostmaiden, Dragon Heist, Witchlight, and Avernus almost always also at the top. Tomb of Annihilation and Tyranny of Dragons are close runners-up. Strahd in particular absolutely dominates across the board. Every slice: raw size, growth over time, engagement, you name it, Strahd outperforms basically everything else on the list combined.

Eat your shriveled heart out Vecna, Strahd is the true big bad of D&D.

Speaking of Vecna, Vecna: Eve of Ruin is the only adventure released since Witchlight (2021) that cracks the upper half of the list once you adjust for age. Pretty much everything else post-2021 trails the older stuff, even with generous normalization.

At the bottom, Princes of the Apocalypse is last across almost every metric (sad for me, since it was my first campaign as a DM).

Hopefully this is as interesting to you as it was to me!

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Raised within the secluded Monastery of Uru’Ten, Lyrin became the vessel of two ancient spirits bound to her arms. The spectral serpent embodies discipline, subtlety, and lethal ki, while the storm dragon surges with wrath, lightning, and overwhelming force. Caught between serenity and destruction, she roams the world in search of the Monoliths of Equilibrium, hoping to unite these rival powers and master the balance that could either elevate her beyond mortal limits or shatter her completely.

I had so much fun working on this commission, hope you all enjoy it!

If you liked it, here are my social media profiles, feel free to check out more of my work here 🤝

Ain’t gonna lie, I’m very new to D&D, and I only recently discovered the Forgotten Realms. That’s where I came across this guy—Drizzt Do’Urden. I genuinely love drawing elves, and the fact that he has a panther as a companion is so cool to me. So I decided to make a little illustration of him.

I also wanted to share a bit about his story, but as I read more, I realized that would take way too long to type, even if I tried to summarize it. Still, I did read it, and I’m honestly very impressed. From his time in Menzoberranzan to when he went to The Surface and beyond it was really enjoyable.

-Logging, as in lumber carrying and transportation like horses or wolves on a sleigh.

• emotional companions, elephants are known to bond, and less intelligent creatures became more welcoming with time so whos to say Gaints havent Dog-ified Mammoths into being loving.

• water detecting given their immensely powerful sense of smell they could very likely lead a wandering band to water, likely with minimal training.

• night watch. Most non-flying species big or small would have great trouble contending with a mammoth, and they could be trained to trumpet upon dangers sight.

• construction, this isnt completely grounded in reality but elephants helped build bridges in Vietnam, so imagining mammoths trained to build fortresses is really cool to me (Imagine a vacant fortress created out of muscle memory like old circus animals reinacting old tricks)

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Sienna has a bold confidence that only comes with experience to justify her swagger. She’s unafraid to speak her mind when she wants to and isn’t hesitant to support her argument by violence when she has to. While some may be off put by her robust personality, she is also a staunch friend to those who are willing to join her on her hunts. There’s little else she loves more than the thrill of a chase and the hard earned victory that comes afterwards. Caution for her own wellbeing means nothing to her; she will gladly hunt something or someone down until either they fall or she does.

Backstory: Sienna was born and grew up in the southern region of the Sword Coast to a nomadic family who could never truly call a single place home, partially due to their general rowdiness but also to their inherent wanderlust. While she enjoyed her childhood being rough and tumble with them, she soon struck out on her own as a mercenary further north. Along the way, she found her true calling as a free lance bounty hunter, and while she one day wishes to reunite with her people, she wouldn’t give up her current lifestyle for anything else.

Goals: To be the most well-known and respected hunter in the region and beyond; Sienna wishes to build a reputation where if someone has something or someone for her to kill or capture, she’s guaranteed to do it - for a price. Of course, she has stipulations and limits as to what or who she’ll go after, but if her target is a monster or a known criminal, she’ll certainly take the mark.

After years of trying to get into this world without much success thanks to the small size of the DnD community in My Hometown, i finnaly got to make My first character. Albertian, a dragonborn folk hero paladin wich im building up from level 1. He used to live in a really isolated dragonborn village overshadowed by his father and brother both proficient artificers, so after saving the Town from a very Big crocodile that was eating their livestock he ditched the family name and replaced his lastname with his mom's after she passed away (shortly before he left the Town) and joined a paladin order "The order of the Golden sword" (Bahamut's paladins subfaction from My own making, i of course Made it with permission of My DM maybe i'll post about it later) where he met his Best friend Ulric (the other paladin from our party) Im not good at drawing so I'm gonna be making things on heroforge until i get good... Or forever

This is a personal illustration that started just as a soldier/knight portrait, but I got carried away and added a bit of history to it. A fallen soldier, found in the woods. Who once swore to protect the realm, now just slashes everything that comes in its way. Hope you guys like it.

If you have any questions about commission, feel free to reach out to me through DM.

You can find more of my work here:
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Hullo I've been playing D&D for 8 years and I've played numerous characters, (I've counted and I've had a total 15 characters I've played) so for me lately starting a new character in a game or 1 shot or whatever has been boring without diving deep into homebrew, so lately I've been purposely nerfing my characters so that its a problem i can adapt to or learn to overcome. In a long term game that was started I've decided i wanted to play an Orc Druid but he cant shapeshift and he refuses to use an arcane focus.
an immediate worry of mine was that this was going to eventually bore me and tire me out as i do know some of the components are weird and hard to gather, but honestly its been great. I love the flavor that as a spell caster you are a weirdo. I love the act of my character collecting dirt, charcoal, and yew twigs. I love asking my DM if there are any bats or signs of their dung collected on the wall. It is no where near as difficult as i thought it'd be and most of these components do not disappear after use. I love trying to get ahold of these items by being forced to interact with my DM's world trying to talk to local hunter for the location of nearby caves or finding a alchemist that has phosphorus and having that weird interaction or looking for a obsidian composites in the land, or going to a jeweler for a crystal.
This is also not mentioning the fact that a lil under half the spells in the game require literally nothing. Most of these components weigh next to nothing and i think it really gives off the strangeness of magic. Idk i feel like having a reason to go explore the world and meet these weird shop owners you never would've interacted with before. Honestly I've enjoyed this so much that for all future spell casting characters i will not use an arcane focus. It feels like a cop-out item of a mechanic that allows you to basically ignore a feature that i feel would add positively to your experience.
At the end of the day its your character and i have 0 control but i wanted to talk about it because genuinely playing a druid that literally interacts with the land for his spells really makes me feel like a wild creature communing with nature. and if you don't like it, its a pretty easy fix just tell your DM you wanna go back to using an arcane focus.

For future character challenges for myself i think i might wanna try (i talk to my DM about this btw)

- cant use spells as rituals unless i have silver lined chalk

- cant use gold and must naturally acquire all my items

- playing with Variant Encumbrance

- only using gear i can craft

- if I'm playing a martial class, only using daggers, sickles, whips, clubs and any weapon that does 1d4 damage.

- as a wizard only using "evil" magic ex. Necromancy, Enchanting, and Evocation (whichever type of magic is most looked down upon)

(EDIT: i do talk to the other players and openly communicate and see how they feel about it, i always take them into consideration, by no means has my druid ever been not useful and has never been a deterrent to the party, however yours might be different.