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(i dont have a confirmed name for them yet, but im thinking Mashiro !! any suggestions would be appreciated too!)

they are a homebrew insectoid class and a fightertheyre based off of madagascar hissing cockroaches

and their exoskeleton is white because, when cockroaches molt, they are light colored while their exoskeleton hardens

i also am going to be playing them with a lisp/elongating S sounds to mimic the hissing !!

im so excited to start playing as them!

My new dnd character, Rune! She is a grave cleric tiefling, in a world rules by vampires. She is in her mid-twenties, self-sufficiant, independent, opportunistic.

Her horns, tail or rune covered skin aren’t her only strange traits though - she sees, hears and on occasion, speaks with the dead. A skill that that the monks at the monestary she was left at as a newborn didn’t necessarily appreciate. While they did teach her the basics, they expected her to follow their path and learn the funeral rites and protect the dead from resurrections.
Never really fitting in, Rune decided to become more of an … independent contractor. She picked up skills and traits from everywhere and anyone, letting parents speak to their dead child, finding the family heir loom that a grandfather took to his grave and removing the haunting present of a jealous ex-lover from the house. For a pretty penny of course.

"She attempted an old forbidden ritual to summon an entity into the Material Plane, driven by ambition and a desire for power beyond what the Underdark would grant her.

The ritual worked — it brought a draconic spirit into her world, manifesting as a fragile black egg in her hands. But something else answered the call that night, something ancient and starving.

Now she shares a life-bound connection to the dragon she summoned… and a hunger that was never part of the spell. The creature grows at her side, bound to her soul, while the price of her ambition slowly reshapes her into something else..."

I still have to draw her companion, but wanted to do a portrait for her first!

"The shadow lashed the earth when his grief fell into melancholy."

It’s been a year-ish since I started the Curse of Strahd campaign with my friends. Here is a summary written mostly by my DM. All our characters started near Waterdeep, some were already traveling together before being dragged to Barovia. (They did the Dragon Heist campaign).

PD: yes, i'm the artist

PD2: I'm one of the players; this is a gift for my DM. This campaign has become something special for me, and I'm drawing a lot about our adventure. We're almost finished, and what you see below and the artwork I post are the result of what my DM has accomplished and the rp of my friends. If he has a Reddit account, I don't know lol. Love you man.

Senna (center): Human, Evocation Wizard. As children, she and her brother were adopted by Van Richten, a master who taught his pupils everything about magic while traveling the world in his wagon. Senna has always been gifted in the arcane, her connection to the Weave is almost natural. Since she was a child, she’s had visions of a woman, as if remembering another life. She only knows one name from these dreams: Tatyana.

Lucien (right): Human, Artificer, and Senna’s older brother. A metallurgical genius, though he could never fully master the Weave. However, he has the ability to see magical residue in inanimate objects. Growing up, he realized he had to stop studying as a wizard and forge a new path to become strong. Currently, the siblings parted ways to search for their sister, Ezmeralda.

Tathrin (left): Drow Elf, Rogue/Fighter, follower of Eilistraee. We know little of her past. She fled from Menzoberranzan and is a resident of Waterdeep. Tathrin abandoned her home to find peace away from the conflicts of her former culture. Quiet and observant, she usually has something to say but prefers to keep it to herself to avoid being hurt (we love her, we’re "fixing" her lol). She is the group's strategist and the tactical mind in every fight.

Leah (up-left): Elf, Wildfire Druid. Her father sent her letters through the mists of Barovia. He fought the lord of those lands but couldn't t defeat him; as a Paladin of Argynvostholt, he had an oath to fulfill: destroying the devil himself, Strahd. Leah left her mother behind and decided to find a group to enter the mists, seeking the man who took her father's life: Vladimir Horngaard.

Fye (my PC, the red-haired one): Human, Paladin of Lathander – Oath of Redemption (well, not anymore. she’s a Spellfire Sorcerer now lol, her god abandoned her ;_;). A knight from Cormyr, trained from an early age. She has a soft, warm voice but carries deep scars she hides from the world. She possesses a dangerous level of empathy: sees the broken even where she shouldn’t, pushing her to protect, forgive or carry guilt that isn't hers. She doesn't seek glory or redemption, Fye walks this path because she feels someone must uphold mercy when no one else will... as if she is still paying a price.

This is M.A.D.D.I.E. my warforged artificer! My DM doesn't mind the design but I was just wondering what people thought about a non-traditional looking warforged design?

My in lore reason for the design is that she was specially built to be a part of a knightly order of warforged called the "Order of the Steel Griffon". Her order was disbanded after most of the members died during The Last War and now she's looking for new purpose in life.

Me and my friend are making a one shot campaign where the players are tasked with finding some lost goats. I came up with the idea of the G.O.A.T, a monster who pretends to be a goat and then attacks anyone who gets close.

(Art by me and I came up with the stat block, it’s for a level 2 campaign with at least 4 players and at max 6-7)

I’ve never made a stat block before, so critiques are welcome

Hey everyone, I'm a DM and just had a dragon fight. Just wanted to get a second opinion, because my players are a bit unhappy.

We are playing Tomb of Annihilation and the party took their ship into a bay near the dragons lair. I decided that the dragon, having 23 passive perception, would notice a large ship in the bay near his home and came to investigate. (the PDF even has a 100% encounter with the dragon when camping in a valley 60miles away, so its clear that he is out hunting over the day)

After a few rounds of cat and mouse, a fog cloud and miscommunication, the dragon ended up underneath the ship, shredding its hull. Three players attacked it in melee; the wizard did cast a major image of a witch 120ft away in the air yelling insults and threatening the dragon.

The dragon that was currently underwater, fighting with 3 combatants. The dragon with 60ft blindsight, who can't see an illusionary witch 120ft away in the fog. He later flew up to drop two people he had grappled, and never investigated the illusion, which by that time was 180ft away because the ship kept moving forward. The illusion was static and the player never used his Action to move it. Even if the dragon would have flown there, it's Blindsight would have revealed the optical illusion for what it is, without having to waste a Study Action to make an INT check.

The wizard player is unhappy, because his high level spell had no effect. His logic is that it's a high level spell and should get some payoff.

Any advice? I try to play adversaries in character to the best of my abilities, acting like I assume the creature would do; but I don't take player emotions or payoff into regard when it comes to combat actions by the opponents. I do enjoy player creativity outside of combat and there I'm more lenient with the rules, but in a game system like DND which is 90% combat rules, I like to stick closer to RAW after Initiative is rolled.

I want to get better at DMing, any critique or advice is welcome. :)

EDIT: Thanks for the comments so far. Seems like my interpretation of Blindsight is a bit off; I based it on the fact that it sees through invisibility, greater invisibility, blur and mirror image, which are all illusion spells; but apparently it doesn't see through all illusions. Not relevant for this specific combat, but good to know for the future. :)

EDIT: Wizard player wrote me, he wants to change subclass and spells now. Which is fine by me, as long as he has more fun with other spells in future.

As promised, an animation of the Decaton. I'll see if I can add the 3D files to my Cults3d page somewhere this week.

Design inspiration was taken from different artworks depicting it from several editions (mainly 5e and AD&D 2e), as well as some personal flare.

Up next I'm planning to make the Nonaton, which can take anywhere from a week to a few months depending on how much time I have. I don't know yet what it's gonna look like, since the artworks of it vary wildly. All I know is: it's gonna look very interesting.