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personally, whenever I join a table, I would like to know what classes the others are playing. Never want to steal their thunder or have too identical niches.

2 new players joined our already ongoing campaign and both want to play the exact same class as mine. It isn’t even a commonly played class. I understand that I have 0 right to ask them to reconsider, but it has removed a lot of excitement for me.

Am I overreacting or am I not the only one that thinks like this?

Photo credit to the talented @mrarcadra.

🦋 Wilhelmina Hollin, or Mina for short, is the Fey Princess of the Autumn Court. She loves insects, but has a particular fondness for butterflies and luna moths. She is an avid writer and illustrator with a big heart. However, she won't think twice about catching you in a tricky deal and stealing your name, and doing it all with a smile.

I love this character so much and am very happy to have finished her Autumn Court coronation gown. I'm hoping to do an outdoor photoshoot in the fall.

I Got a request from a player to paint their character, and I decided to try out a new painting process.

I’m building the figure up with shapes, and gradually working smaller as I go to render the more intricate details. It’s a fun experiment, as I usually start with a sketch, and then do line art, fill in the colors, and then move onto shading, highlights, and then finally more detailed rendering.

Working this way has been a lot quicker for me I’m noticing, and it’s also been more enjoyable as well. It’s fun, and I relate it to sculpting, and playing with shapes, instead of it feeling super technical.

I’ll definitely be working this way more often, especially when I need to get a few characters finished in a shorter amount of time.

Made this one page comic around a team of three .

Elias Jones a human Tactician fighter , Selene a human life cleric and Zoey a open hand monk, they were contracted to kill a troll and right to its treasures if it had any . Fortunately through teamwork and a bit of luck they slayed the troll and found treasure inside the cave .

One of those treasures was an " Amulet of Dead War God" the cleric examined it in detail turns out if activated the Shade of the dead God will try to possess the wearer and would attack anyone on sight and leave the wearer at 0 HP. But if the wearer can endure a high DC will save can receive the GOD's power for 1D3 rounds.

Our Zoey asks if 'anyone wants this" but they refused citing caution Zoey on the other hand wants to wear it coz it looks cool but the moment she dawned the amulet bam the Shade tries to take control or expresses anger but quickly subsides because the amulet was only worn not activated , hence Zoey relaxing for the moment.

Still working on this artwork! After learning traditional painting with acrylics, I honestly feel like it helped me so much in understanding how value and color really work together. This time, I got through the rough color stage way easier even with so many characters and all that complexity going on. I also intentionally added the painter in the foreground. When I play D&D with my friends, I often draw the scenes I imagine during our sessions.

"Body is just a shell, sword will keep life forever."

Game boss design: Deathless - weapon that grants immortality to its owner. Owner - half armor, half creature from another world.

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One thing I've come across a tremendous amount while playing D&D, running D&D, and talking within the greater D&D community, is a lot of the things that frustrate players, and a lot of solutions or cool ideas that DMs try to add, oftentimes only exist because there's a core misunderstanding of what the game is structured to be.

The overwhelming majority of action media is centered around solo power fantasy, whereas D&D, and nearly every other TTRPG, is team struggle fantasy. Those two things don't cooperate.

Solo. A lot of action media is centered around a singular protagonist. Even when there is a team around them, there's still a singular focal character. This person gets a ton of interiority, spotlight, and chances to shine. You can have a dark, complex, brooding loner, because you have plenty of time on that character and understand their inner conflict. The solo protagonist is always going to seem super cool, because everything is centered around them.

Team. In a TTRPG, you are part of a team ALL THE TIME. In a team before, you were always getting 1/4 the attention, 1/4 of the cool moments, and there's very little time for interiority at all. A dark, brooding, complex loner doesn't have the focus and interiority they require in order to be as cool as they are in a solo work. And a team player is always only ever going to be 1/4 as cool as someone who gets all the spotlight, and part of the game is being okay with that.

Power fantasy. A lot of power fantasy is actually quite monstrous. Naruto has a literal demon inside of him. The Hulk transforms into a gigantic muscle bound creature that destroys everything. A lot of the power is instantaneous, drastic, and allows them to overwhelm previously unbeatable foes. Even a normal human like John Wick is winning 1v100 battles against endless waves of goons. They dispatch low level threats with ease, and only other equally monstrous bosses can pose a threat to them, and that monster versus monster creates a tremendous amount of hype as you get to see too big powerhouses clash.

Struggle fantasy. Struggle fantasy doesn't come with monstrous transformations that make you much more powerful. You start at the bottom, weaker than nearly every enemy you will face. A couple of goblins can easily slaughter a level one wizard. The entire fantasy is structured around the idea that you get incrementally stronger over time, there is no deus ex machina coming to save you, you have to fight for every inch you get, and the threats you face are objectively much stronger than you. The fantasy comes from overcoming struggle. Facing impossible odds. Being a tiny little hobbit in the face of a towering dark lord capable of smiting armies. But maybe, just maybe if you do the side quests and the fetch quests: you can get the MacGuffin to the final location, and through relentless blood, sweat, and tears, just barely eke out of victory that should have been impossible.

Note: I'm using "power fantasy" differently than some people in the comments are. Yes, at tier 3 and 4, players are demigods, but that's not my point. My point is you START at lv 1. There is no lv 1 Hulk, for example. He goes from puny Banner to instant raging giant monster. Ichigo from Bleach is given Soul Reaper powers, and from second one is slaying giant fuck off monsters. The "power fantasy" I'm refering to is "I'm a badass the SECOND I get my powers", and D&D players have to level grind for it, because it's an RPG. The Hulk never has to XP farm goblins to get stronger. John Wick never goes on fetch quests to collect 10 gems. Hyper-badass action heroes from movies/TV/anime don't translate to an RPG experience, and expecting them to leads to dissapointment.

This is Agatha, or Aggie. She's my newest character for 5th edition game I'm joining! A Hexblood Witch, I took some heavy influences of general paganism/witchcraft, and green hags. She wears a veil when doing magic, and she uses her skin as a living spellbook - sort of. This Witch homebrew class gets a book of shadows, similar to wizard's spellbook, and she uses her skin instead, adding more and more runes to her skin as she gains more spells. Exciting to develop that later. She also has hag's eye implanted in her left eye, but surely that won't ever be an issue...