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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?

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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.

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:
Portfolio

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.

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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*Translation from the image: she just woke up and her hair is loose... *

This is a commission I made for my girlfriend. It’s her character, a homebrew race from Ryoko’s Guide to the Yokai Realms.

Violet is a purple Fuyōren, raised by a red Oniborne who slaughtered her kin. Yet from bloodshed came fate: he claimed her as his own and forged her through war, yokai hunts, trophies, and honor.

Now at the dawn of her journey, betrayal has left her without a home. The Onibornes have turned their backs on her, the Fuyōrens have vanished, and with nothing left behind, Violet flees toward a distant guild—seeking rebirth through steel and resolve.

My new Ratfink style beholder by Danny “One Shot” Chan at Slave to the Needle in Seattle, Washington.

Eye of the Beholder was the first computer game I ever owned as a kid and my first introduction to anything Dungeons and Dragons, so this weird dude seemed like a fitting addition to the sleeve I am working on. It seems like just yesterday I was learning the difference between a fighter and a barbarian, and now I am DMing games for my son and his friends, and playing other games with my wife and our friends. It’s fun how life comes full circle.

Hope you enjoy it.

Last session, my bladesinger wizard (a 107-year-old ex-bandit who was just in it for the money, but slowly started to believe she could actually be a hero) was killed.

Mid-battle in the final fight, the DM had given us a warning/ultimatum that our macguffin (in another room, through a portal) was on the verge of being destroyed. I cast haste on myself and dashed through the portal (and ran even farther ahead while fighting) so none of my party were close enough to help. They and some badass elven rangers were busy holding off a huge horde of undead, to stop them from entering the vault.

In the other room, I found five named generals of the necromancer witch queen’s army. I held them off and dealt an absolutely stupid amount of damage over the course of three rounds via four fireballs, several misty steps, and with an armor class of 27. That wasn’t enough, and just as the closest party member coming to help me finally stepped through the portal, they saw me get finished off. First actual death that we’ve ever had as a group.

This session, on the LAST turn of the battle, with one undead general (the same one who had originally downed me) left standing and in bad shape, our cleric ran to me and cast revivify with only a few seconds to spare. I came back, basically said, “I’m too old for this”, then did an awesome combo of flinging a bolt of fire at the undead general that killed me, misty stepping into the air above them, then coming down in a final plunging attack with my rapier. The blade went straight through their skull and pinned their corpse to the ground.

My wizard symbolically left the rapier there, lived the next few months by the side of her oldest friend, and then died peacefully of old age in her sleep, happily schnockered on some raspberry wine.

This is a Commission I did for the_absent_minded_dm 🩷. I really enjoyed drawing Leon Blight, he’s a a commoner with big dreams of becoming a pirate and one day leading his own loyal crew. He proudly wears a pirate hat at all times and proudly wears the look despite not quite being one yet, thanks to an incredibly skilled seamstress from his home village. He can only go so far for now, but the ambition is definitely there.

For any fans of LEGO and DnD out there I've created this Wizard's Tower as part of the Bricklink Designer Program. The story is set where a group of adventuring companions seek out the wizard. The party includes a Paladin, Druid, Fire Mage, Rogue/Archer, and Dwarf Warrior.

The Wizard's Tower is full of traps, enchantments and secret passages. I feel like this would go quite well with the official Red Dragons Tale set and the DnD CMF minifigures!

The project is in the "Crowd Support" phase where people vote. With enough support, this could become a finalist and turn into a real LEGO set. Just click on the link below and select "Love it!" on the submission page.

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-10/4194/Wizard's-Tower

Would love to know what y'all think!