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Quick question: as a DM, does this count as vent art? 🙃

I love my players dearly but boy, they do test me with their ability to come up with the most bonkers ideas that sends them in the complete opposite direction of what I had planned for them.

Forever thankful for mid-session bathroom breaks and random encounter rolling tables. 😭 And honestly, very interested to hear of what wild tangents other tables have put their DMs through lmao

a mid aged year woman with stands of grey hair who wears a blue chiton to contrast her with Hypatia's red. Being an immortal being, she is uncomfortable with the idea of death, and that someone life will be forgotten. She carries a deep emotional weight for being the last witness of the souls. She is always writing and cataloging the memories of shades that pass through on Lethe. She is energized by her work, almost manic, and deeply passionate about recording the memories of the shades (sneak peak of the character)

Semi-recent art I made of a character that I hope to play in a campaign one day, a drow oath of vengeance paladin who worships Tyr.

Here's a little excerpt I wrote about her:

"Virtue is not her name, only her title, and she will stop at nothing to vanquish all evil from this world and bring justice unto it. She belongs to a Paladin’s Order of Justice, sworn to an Oath of Vengeance. Throughout the years, she strengthened her body, and her sense of justice became more and more polarizing - reaching its peak when she was given the honor of becoming one of the Order’s Adjudicators. As one of the few entrusted with this title, Virtue now travels beyond the Order’s walls to hunt down criminals and evildoers, dispensing justice where the law alone cannot reach. She is intense and militant in personality, seeing most things in black and white and speaking in firm absolutes."

Fanart for a writer friend of his OC Geoffrey. Im in a group of fantasy artists and writers and every fall we do OCtober where we draw eachothers characters. Here geoffrey, a winged adventurer in armor delves downard before facing off with a skele boi and a crocodood. How will he fair? The big dice doesnt look to promising... this was a real fun drawing. coming up with environment u can tell i used alot of cube shapes. But its definitley in some type of cave.

Drawing was done in pencil on paper. But i def plan on doing some more ink focused works soon. I like the grungy monochromatic aesthetics of OSE/R. Ill have to do some studies to draw less anime type character faces xD

Does My Dwarf Paladin Look Generic?

For context, my character is a novice Dwarf Paladin.

I’m wanting to grow with the character and make him not look or feel like some already established badass character. So I’m not making him be draped in armor, but often when I make characters via Hero Forge (because I’m artistically terrible), I often notice that they seem generic or like I’m making similar looking characters all the time.

I was just curious as to what you all think? I want him to look like more than just typical fantasy character in a fantasy world.

Hi everyone! Here is an illustration of two characters I created for a client.

Basically, they are the mother and brother of the player's main character. This family of lizardfolk was being hunted by poachers; the father died during one of these attacks, and the brother, Arytiss, lost an arm and a leg. The mother, Baeshra, left Kuhri (the player's character) behind while she was still an egg, along with an old family drawing depicting the three of them—a memento so her daughter would know who they were upon hatching. Baeshra hoped that leaving her behind would protect her from those hunters. Consequently, her brother and mother were left on their own for years—the period in which this illustration is set—facing other hunters, until one day, they were captured and taken hostage...

Hear ye, hear ye!

Tales From the Tables is back with episode 64: Dead Men Do Tell Tales, part 1!

Our intrepid misadventurers had left the Undertakers gang behind then and continue with their exploration of Undermountain. What surprises await in the darkness ahead?

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I'm sorry it's been so long, but the break was much, MUCH needed indeed. We've traveled across half the continent to our annual shindig at TheForeverDM's place, and had a most wonderful time! Seeing our D&D gang in person is a treat and a blessing. If you're on our Discord, I'm sure you've seen the photos! ^^

I've had a handful of guest players in on my regular campaign lately. I run a intrigue-y espionage, at times narratively complex mystery game. I wouldn't count myself as overly-crunchy or complex game-wise though-- we don't track ammo or weight, money is doled out but we're often too engrossed in narrative development for downtime, I do expect players to track their own spells slots etc. and I do try to make combats challenging. I feel as though this is normal. (?)

Three guests I've had recently all "play in regular games and guest elsewhere sometimes", said they read through my lore background sheet, said they didn't need help making a character sheet. All three spent the first session fumbling with incomplete character sheets, were unfamiliar with even the basics of their chosen class (e.g. a monk who didn't know how ki points worked at level 14), didn't know where to find modifiers, and had only skimmer the first page of my lore sheet.

More that once, with more than one person, I had to put on my "that's not how that spell works, read the spell" hat-- specifically and memorably we had many many "I do XYZ thing with my MAGE HAND, haha!". The mage hand thing really stuck with me since like......if you knew anything about how this game works, you'd know that it's thing is that explicitly can't do heavy lifting/attacks. And the average person in a setting like this isn't going to act like a caveman seeing fire for the first time when you wave it in their face....

Anyways. A question one of them asked me has left at me wondering. They asked something like whether this was "more adventure focused or more crunchy or combat-y". I feel my game is pretty straight down the middle, with a solid balance between narrative gameplay and then narrative-driven encounters.

My experience these last few months though makes me wonder if it's more common that I realize that folks are playing something closer to Calvinball at their tables. I've now met a handful of people, all unknown to the other, that claimed to be "really into d&d" and seemed to not know how to play the game using the rules. This is absolutely no shade towards folks that run more light-hearted games or use it as a springboard for narrative, I'm just curious as this is my first experience with a wider player group than my immediate friends.