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I’ve been wanting to make The Yawning Portal for a while now but it seemed like such an undertaking; decided to just buckle down and do it this year and so far I've been progressing at a steady clip. I’m taking some liberties with the design and layout. I calm my guilt at changing elements by considering the Yawning Portal has canonically been rebuilt several times. Finished the bar and the stage yesterday, still lots of big and little touches to add; adding a side room and working on the infinite tunnel effect for the well this weekend. Materials include lots and lots of XPS, clay, 3d printed assorted furnitures (including the badass wench) acrylics and found bits.

So often we run into characters / stories that try to be super dark and non-PC and non-advertiser friendly or whatever with their source material, only to completely fall flat on their face and become notorious "Edgelords".

Edgy and dark stories have their own niche when it comes to storytelling, but the important thing is that they are actually substantive. Like ok, your character is an orphan whose family house burnt down and had to cannibalize their sibling just to survive. Usually an edgy character begins and ends around here. Nothing of their suffering or traumas ever matter, because they only present it with talking about being broody and vaguely antagonistic.

You decided to add all that context to your character and not even think about how it would realistically affect their psyche and relations besides "being f-ed up and mysterious"? This is the equivalent of a comedian tickling someone to make them laugh instead of telling a funny joke.

It's even worse with more broad worldbuilding, because it always boils down to rape, slavery and torture. Those are all very horrible and still very evocative storytelling themes to form a meaningful, satisfying, and even symbolic narrative around. That is, if most of the people using those subjects actually treated them like serious, nuanced, and deep topics. But no of course it almost always ends up being shock value for shock value sake to make people pretend the story is actually serious and mature. Literally the 2000s creepypasta concept of just mentioning a dead child or exposed entrails to try (and fail) to appear scary.

We can always do better than that. What are the consequences of a character enduring all these horrible things? What kind of world is it, where these heinous acts are so ordinary? How do in-universe moral guides oppose or excuse these actions? Do these things just happen constantly and all the time? Because then it will very quickly lose its initial shock value and reveal that it was always nothing of substance, just a cheap gag.

this was a character I recently worked on, wanted to go for a chitanous armor of some sort and since I was watching critical role campaign 2 I just took inspiration from Cadeucus' armor, I wanted that look but for a character who can still do melee combat,

Not really sure what class this character would be, seems like a monk/ranger combo if going with swarmkeeper,

I wanted to try and keep the colors as muted as possible and more warm.toned to get that old DND art aesthetic, I still wanted to keep that Beetle shell shine,

the colors weren't directly painted on, I actually painted the entire character in greyscale and used gradient maps in Photoshop to try and get the right colors and shades I wanted.

Personal illustration for a character who entices wanderers to taste the power offered by the liquid inside her chalice. What begins as a fleeting surge of strength, clarity, or resolve slowly reveals a hidden cost. The power lingers longer than expected, binding those who accept it to unseen obligations they never agreed to. She does not threaten or persuade openly, instead allowing curiosity and desperation to do the work for her. Whether she serves a patron, a lost wanderer, once the cup is raised the choice is already made...

This is a drawing I did of Alva, she’s a shadow elf Light Cleric. This artwork was created as a commission for additional-menu4748 🩷. She’s designed for a D&D setting. I had a great time working on this artwork and I think she’s a beautiful character. I’m glad I had the opportunity to work on this piece. I don’t really have additional information about her since she’s not my character, so I can’t add lore or story details here. Thank you for checking out the artwork.

a Dragonborn who’s basically a genetic experiment gone wrong. He was built by this warmongering country to be a living weapon, but he managed to break out.

He’s an Ancestral Guardian Barbarian, and I definitely ripped some heavy inspo from Warframe for his vibe. He’s got these red tattoos that start glowing whenever he rages. Honestly, putting a Warframe spin on a fantasy setting is just such a cool look. Next step is to learn shading

Hey all, I'm the DM for my group and I've been working on creating a secret language for my players to decode. In-game it's a dead language that has been banned by the immortal king, so reviving the language will prove to be extra difficult but satisfying for the players. The message also reveals some high-stakes effects of magical items already introduced. Would love some feedback if anyone gets the chance. I'm curious if anyone is able to crack it.

FYI my party has already received a number of clues to aid in the translation, I'm mostly curious if those who have a hobby of deciphering codes can crack it.

Bonus points if you're able to identify the novel my campaign is based off of.

I just ran a combat encounter where my players tracked some bad guys to a safehouse. They were initially sneaking up to the house so I pointed out some windows on the outside of it. After a few stealth rolls and investigation rolls they managed to find out how many bad guys there were by spying on them through the windows. So combat starts when the paladin and rogue run in but the druid and wizard decide to stay outside and cast through the windows. The wizard casts magic missile and I ruled that the first missile broke the window and the next two hit their targets. Then later the druid casts moonbeam, I was about to say he needs to break the glass but we stopped combat to argue the spell description, and we decided that since the moonbeam appears at any point in range, he could cast it through the window without breaking it. So the rest of the fight was the druid frying the bad guys while being completely safe outside.

Something about this feels off but I can't find clear rules on it. Some people say glass technically provides total cover which prevents casting spells through it. Some people differentiate "concealment" and "cover" i.e glass doesn't conceal a target so you still have line of sight. Then you get into the line of sight versus line of effect. So in the aforementioned encounter, the magic missile needs line of effect and line of sight but moonbeam only needs line of sight assuming windows don't prevent line of sight.

I'm curious how others would have ruled this, my gut is to say we ruled it right during the session since clear windows don't conceal anything, but even though windows are clear does their physical nature prevent the casting of spells like moonbeam inside the house while you are outside looking through a window?