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You pry open the heavy earthen door that has been keeping you from the tomb's inner-most sanctum. You are buffeted by a thick cloud of dust that is almost as bad as the stench of fresh corpses that rushes out to greet you. Wait, why would the corpses be fresh? Supposedly none have entered the tomb of the praetors in generations. A shadow moves, defend yourself!

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With the final nothic slain, you are finally able to take in your surroundings. Piles of bodies, some of whom you recognize as the missing clergy, are in various states of decay. You doubt the bishop of Tyr is going to be willing to hand over that bonus now...

Im trying to get better at art, I still see a lot of errors in my art but I try to improve it everytime I draw again. This was an exercise into shading but I'm not very proud on it since it looks more like gold dragon instead of a yellow one. Maybe change the shading and the lighting in the future. I hope someday in the future I could draw monsters as part of my job for people and gain lots of commissions, but for today, I will try just to get better before gaining money.

But asides from that, the yellow dragon come to my attention from the dungeondad video. the lost chromatic dragon that is seen as a coward by other dragons. They are fast and have a salt breath, they will appear in the coast and hunt down outsiders, but if other dragons appear, they will flee.

I love D&D, and tabletop RPGs in general. They've made for some of the best gaming moments, and allowed me to meet amazing people.

I say this because the following often gets me accused of wanting a video game, or something that isn't D&D or tabletop RPGs. And I'm still not sure why.

I like rules. Enforcing spell slots, preparation, encumbrance, rations, ammo. But also the other things: such as making gear matter and not just hand-waiving it all, or enforcing some semblance of action economy outside of combat! It makes the game feel more real! And in the age of digital sheets, this has become mostly trivial.

What this looks like in practice is I try to know most of the rules for a game I'm playing. Where the rules don't cover (and this is particularly common in D&D), I can feel confident in my rulings because I have an understanding of what is covered. My understanding of the rules strengthens my ability to make my own rulings that feel consistent with the game!

I feel like a lot of applications of the "rule of cool" come from DMs and players who aren't too familiar with the rules -- either they missed some details or they don't care! This isn't necessarily bad, tables are allowed to play however they wish. But for those who do care about rules, it can take us out of the experience since stuff is happening just because it sounds cool or funny, with no basis in what is reasonable for a character or world.

A common example is performing a reaction to a surprise situation. Say an NPC assassin throws a knife at a friendly NPC. A player interrupts and asks if they can perform some action to stop the attack. But the entire point of the attack was that it was stealthy, unexpected, and fast. The rule of cool would allow the player to proceed, do a skill roll, and call it a day -- but I've seen this type of ruling turn into allowing any player to interrupt any surprising event with a skill roll regardless of how that stretches believably. The number of times a knife or other thrown option has been shot out of the air in one of those moments is too high to count!

I'm not saying this isn't cool, or that it can't create cool moments, or that DMs can't do what they want yada yada. I'm only saying that a simple decision can snowball and now you have players shooting down arrows out of combat but unable to do it in combat because... reasons!

This problem arises because a DM or player doesn't understand D&D's action economy (or doesn't care, which is likely), namely what a reaction entails. Reactions are extremely limited, and if you want to turn an attack into a reaction you have to hold your action -- essentially.

If the DM had an understanding of D&D's action economy, the DM could make the ruling that out of combat if you want to be able to interrupt thrown knives or projectiles, you have to make it known that you're preparing for it. This is a moment for the DM to be loose with what triggers the reaction, what they can do with that reaction, etc., so that a cool moment can be established within the bounds of the rules that exist. This also prevents the cascading effect of every player wanting to roll to hit the flying dagger because they just so happen to be around to see it and they are also conveniently nearby and they also conveniently have their bow out and..

This is all to say that knowing the rules gives DMs the tools to make more efficient and consistent rulings that feel like they are in the spirit of the game and aren't just DM whim. This isn't a call to strictly follow the rules (though I do recommend for a DM to give it a shot for a campaign to see the rules in action and to understand them better!), or to grind a session to a halt looking for a specific rule, or that you can never bend the rules. This is a call to try to understand the rules first before rushing to try to break them, because the number of times I've seen DMs implement "house rules," only to find out that they're the actual rules in the PHB is a little concerning.

Thoughts? I'm interested in a discussion and alternate points of view!

This is a commission I did for StMcalpine, and I really enjoyed working with them on this piece. Braxton is their character: a reanimated champion of the goddess of justice who returned after 500 years frozen in ice. Now awakened, he walks the world again to bring justice to the ghosts of the wrongfully killed. It was really fun bringing their idea to life and illustrating his icy armor and design.

Last year our westmarch table is having a big crossover event. Basically the DM made a parody (but not a funny one since it's quite dark) of basically North Korea. It's a mix of ba sing se, NK, but more brutal (generational starvation and systemic poverty, with some religious brainwashing and body horror experiment for some extra stuff)

I then got tasked to design the 4 BBEG under the Supreme Leader himself. It's quite challenging since I need to design the characters based on what they do in the political space too. I love how the design turned out.

Long story short, the PCs is going all out liberation arc for this nation, they took down the Repulsor one by one (Yea the name is inspired by Sword Art Online, the DM hates SAO so much), At the end, these 4 got different fates. Inquisitor got recruited, the Toymaker died, The Ascendant escaped to land of Thay, and The Scientist got hit by time ravage spell.

Good stuff, I'll remember this forever.

Painting artwork OC from my client :3 ✨
Piano was looks more cute and cartoony, but for this she is gonna be in a powered up version, her undead magic overflowing and unable to be contained.

Piano Fortessumo, a gnome bard who prefers to conduct rather than read sheet music. She seeks to perform dirges and haunting melodies that others would find to grim. Finding satisfaction in the darker side of music. Wishing to entertain both the living and dead with her charms.