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The OC featured in the illustration is named Astarea. All the elements in the stained-glass window are custom-made based on her backstory. I like it when my clients tell me about their OCs so I can better capture them in my art. In this case, Astarea, after being bitten by a deadly spider and saved by an arachnid deity, dedicates her life to helping vulnerable people whom she takes in at her nomadic caravan. All this after having fled a life in which she was expected to be sold as a priestess to a temple with dubious religious practices.

Okay, we all know how this goes. Sylvian hosts hold a feast for the mountain emissaries, and the sudden call of "But where's the meat?" issues from every stocky limestone licker at the table.

But I think this, is fundamentally incorrect. Let’s take a more forensic look at out two subjects.

Elves have lower bodyfat, they have good eyesight but also, they see in the dark (which means their colour vision is likely poor). Elves are nimble, they have better reaction speeds.

These are the traits of a housecat. Elves are very optimised for hunting (hence the bows). And they're thin, they can't be eating lots of carbohydrates. Like any predator they're lanky. Obviously, they're omnivores, but they live in a game rich environment, and they don’t have fat stores to live off of, so they need energy rich food.

And elves (on the whole) do not believe in land clearance, so any farming would be happening under a canopy, and unless they’re farming coffee and strawberries, that’s a lame farm. Which means most of their vegetables are gathered wild.

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Dwarves are a different story. Stocky, strong, enduring. They have the build of an Ox. Bodies which are hard to move quickly, but very efficient. They pack on fat and muscle. They have thick bones like iron. They also have Darkvision, but Dwarves live in the dark constantly, it's not a hunting advantage. They live like mole rats.

Dwarves live under hills and mountains, a protein scarce environment. Their main fare are likely mushrooms, roots, and tubers. Things you can grow in the dark. Dwarves are also resistant to poison, which is an adaption you would have if you ate mushrooms and potatoes. Not bacon.

We haven't even gotten into the amount of agriculture you need to produce good beer. Dwarves are good farmers. Most of their weapon’s double as tools. We’ve all seen Dwarf bury a pickaxe into a troll’s prison pouch. An axe too. Honestly, I think only sheer impracticality is preventing them from bringing a plough into battle. Seriously how would an Elf use a plough? The horses in the elven grove are unicorns, and they teleport if you try to yoke them.

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Now, it’s important to note this is all just physiology and the culture which proceeds it. Omnivores frequently crave food that's hard to find in an ancestral environment. Like how humans crave sugar, we're not supposed to have lots of it. But we want it badly because it used to take lots of effort to find.

By that same token. Elves might enjoy vegetables because they would taste very sweet (Cats like eating some vegetables but can’t handle the sugar well). Similarly Dwarves might enjoy meat because it has a lot of protein and calcium, which they likely crave due to their thick bones (This is horses sometimes eat birds). They would crave things hard to get when you eat mushrooms and tubers.

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So, the "Where's the Meat" exchange could happen. But only due to two tragic misunderstandings. The dwarves think "These cheap-ass knife-ears are havin' a feast and they're bringin' out what me wife makes when she's on a health kick". With the Elves are thinking "Oh these poor humble hill folk, they must be unused so such decadent fare. Have more sweetcorn."

Keefie Stormholt was expelled from his magic academy for attempting to infuse magic with rifles as his thesis. Instead of giving up, he's taken to adventuring as a way to fund his research, and an opportunity for first hand field testing!

I love the owlin so much, I've been wanting to play one for two years now. It sucks that they get basically zero official lore, but I'm super excited to play him anyway!

I run a homebrew campaign for my housemates, and I gifted them with a rundown abandoned skyship to get around. Truthfully I just needed a project to do, and creating a scale model that was 'somewhat' practical seemed like a fun idea. I also just had the image of this skyship stuck in my mind.

The first step was concepting out the design in PS. Took a good few weeks in-between work. Next was 3D modelling it in Blender. This was the real meat and potatoes, and took about a month. Then resin 3D printing it. About a week of 12hr prints. And then sanding, and gluing, and painting (I'm no expert at painting so don't come at me, it's like the 3rd thing I've painted).

All up it took maybe 4 months start to finish, and I managed to keep it a secret from my players until I revealed it in session (they knew I was doing something, just not this).

I figured I'd also explain some design decisions, given there are things specific to the homebrew setting. And it might be fun to add a little lore to it for you guys.

The Ferrous Drift, was once a luxury air-yacht. Owned by a Lord Halvric of Thelonamar. A small border town of the Paxinan Kingdom, and a place intended to be a beacon of Mystech development.

Unfortunately, hope would be cut short, when a magic consuming plague swept through the town, rapidly killing the residents. Including Lord Halvric. The only surviving member of the town was a single porcelain automaton named Claymore. The personal guard of Lord Halvric, gifted to him by the Paxinan King. This automaton sealed the entrance to the Ferrous Drift's dock tower, following it's last directive. Let no one escape, lest the plague spread.

Now our adventurers rock into town (a Kobold Fighter, a Human Mystech Engineer, and a Noble 'Human' Ranger. Discovering the fate of this town, they eventually find this automaton 'Claymore' blocking the way to the skyship. And instead of fighting him (what I planned for), they decided to try help him be free of his programming (oh shit I see where this is going, sick ideas forming). They eventually find a way to make Claymore break free from his own programming, the first time this has ever happened to an automaton. In doing so Claymore gains free will, becomes the settings first Warforged, and joins the party as an NPC.

The party then board the rusty malfunctioning Ferrous Drift, and hobble to the capitol of the Kingdom, Nathil.

While in Nathil they earn a ton of gold, and fix/upgrade their skyship with the following:
- New Mystech Engine. Now they don't have to let it cool every few hours.
- New Sails and Sail Gyros. Giving the ship a boost to Dex.
- Manipulator Conduits. A once a day ability that allows the skyship captain to control four large magical hands that follow the ship and essentially behave as a Bigby's Hand (these are the silver 'knuckles' on the model. ten hand knuckles for 4 hands).
- 3 'Impulse Windows'. Magical veils that boost the distance of ranged weapon attacks made through them.
- And a Thaumacite Rapidcannon. A wood and white porcelain (thaumacite) big gun with a gunner seat for the Kobold. This takes up a sizable portion of the small ship interior space, and the Kobold has to sleep in the gunner seat. (I didn't put this on the model cause 4 months was long enough haha).

And lastly the party renamed the skyship to the "Zero Dawn"

Thanks for listening to my rambling. I hope it inspires you guys or something. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer.

Edit: Here's a little link to some additional photos. https://imgur.com/a/vK0t55P

My returning client once again gave me an absolute banger of a character concept. This is The Magus, the first mage and the deity of magic (or presumed to be at least). She exudes a calm authority, with a welcoming yet powerful presence. I made use of negative space for this one, playing with a slightly different style to my usual. I always have a great time with these pieces.

If you're interested in my work, I post a bunch here on Reddit and my other socials are linked in my profile! I hope you enjoy my work, happy Monday!

I'll go first.

20 minutes of research and discussion about if "Create/Destroy water would remove the liquid from a barrel of Coconuts

Hey y’all! I use a lot of different playlists for different kinds of combat in my sessio sessions e.g. Dire, Epic, Scary, Turning the Tide, etc for tone

I want to make a playlist for a fight that the party don’t want to happen, that’s a tragedy e.g. an ally turns on them and it’s heartbreaking b it they are still fighting

I exclusively use instrumental songs - I would love some recommendations for this playlist! (I use Spotify)

Edit: probably the best example of what I’m looking for is

The Last Agni Kai from ATLA

I’ve only ever played 5e but I saw this while looking at the board game section of my local Goodwill. Looking at the art in the box I thought it was much older but after checking the back I saw that it was 4e and published in 2010. With a cursory inspection in my car in the parking lot it looks like the only thing missing is the D20 from the dice set. It even has an unused character sheet. All and all not bad for 9 bucks.

This is a traditional illustration i made of my D&D group, the "Men Eaters", in a poster like composition. This campaing its been so far my favorite I've ever played and I'm having so much fun with it! We are now at Yon.
Our party members are:

Floyen, the sorrowfull

Elisia, the heir

Rosa, the mighty

Anna, the serious

I challenge you all to guess their classes! Hint: Two are marcial classes, two are spell casters.