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Also why change Monks from "Way" to "Warrior", especially when the Warrior of Mercy subclass shows Monks can do more than just combat, and "Way" sounded more unique, "Warrior" sounds like a generic Fighter subclass naming convention.

Hello, this is a recent character illustration piece Ive worked.

She's a tiefling necromancer named Morrigan, who lives in a small hut in the Twisted Tree forest. A place seen as eary and crawling with bad omens. However, despite the stories surrounding the forest, she calls it home and sees the critters within as underappreciated and misunderstood. She has a love for the spiders and other animals who also call it home.

She's a pale grey color tiefling wearing dark colors with a very witchy aesthetic minus the hat, due to her antlers that resemble a white-tailed deer and bat like wings. She's a host for a rare flower filled with inate necromantic magic called the necro bloom, allowing it to grow on her body and across her wings, spreading it's vines along her antlers, giving her somewhat of a floral crown. She always has a gentle smile and bright and joyful disposition, with her special shovel always close by.

She's not a traditional necromancer either, instead she uses the necro bloom to focus her magic and make the dead walk again. The flower, once planted, spreads it's bramble covered vines and roots throughout the body and acting as a driving force for it's mobility. (In the game, it's not considered an undead but a plant creature.) So any body animated in this way look like a walking flower bed filled with the bloom.

She has one special animated servant that she utilized multiple corpses and various plants to create a corpse hulk. A large plant monstrosity that's covered in large necro bloom flowers alongside other flowers she planted as decoration. His name is Briar.

Let me know what you think about the piece.

Thanks

If you would like to see more of my work you can check more of my work here.

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This is a commission I did a while back for real_neeko of his OC Tayminn. 💕

He’s meant to be very feminine and is often mistaken for a woman, which was honestly really fun to draw. I liked focusing on his body shape, the confident pose, and the playful expression.

The outfit design was by me and stance were especially enjoyable to work on, and I had a lot of fun bringing his vibe together. Thanks again to my client for trusting me with their OC 🩷

I’ve always struggled with naming my D&D characters.

Most name generators feel too random or modern, and it breaks immersion for me.

Do you come up with names yourself, use generators, or borrow from lore/books?

Curious how others handle this.

Disclaimer: the focus of this is the audio so SOUND ON :D

So for context, a couple of months ago I started a campaign where a friend and colleague of mine (we work in the movie and game industry as sound designers) is the DM.

I am playing a fathomless warlock named Or'Fey who lost the love of his life on a shipwreck at sea and screamed at the heavens, saying how he would do anything to have her back (he is an edgelord and I love him ok) and something answered, that something becoming my patron and sending me on a quest to free him so I can have her back.

So the day before the campaign started, out of the blue I get an audio file from the DM and BOY DID I HAVE SOMETHING TO HEAR. I couldn't believe it, it really felt like a love letter for a character whose journey is just about to start.

Needless to say, I barely slept from excitement for the upcoming game and neither could the rest of the party and this has definitely been the favourite campaign I have ever played.

He has made things like this during the campaign too, and it made moments feel soooo grand and epic, for example:

We reached the temple of the moon maiden, which is the goddess of our cleric. As she stepped in front of the statue of her, she felt compelled and got on her knees and started praying.

The DM reacted to this, describin how we all feel a weird sensation when her prayer starts, a closeness pulling us together.

We all slowly joined her in prayer one by one.

When we did, he asked us to close our eyes and started playing an audio similar to this one but on a much, much bigger scale.

It was a vision we collectively saw.

We heard a war happening, gods clashing, the moon goddess scorned by the hero whose trail we've been following, everything we've seen so far finally connecting....

As we opened our eyes we were all left speechless with what we just experienced.

AND THEN, AS IF THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH, he asked everyone to leave the room but me. And played the final part of the audio, revealing the hero we were following was long since imprisoned, and it was none other than MY PATRON. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Anyway, I just wanted to share this story and shout my DM out for his amazing work, I hope you enjoy it even a fraction of how much we did.

P.S. The video is a bit random, I just wanted to add captions to his work as reddit doesn't allow posting only audio.

Cheers!

Howdy Folks

Been drawing DnD stuff for about a decade now. Two things happened early in that practice.

One was that I realized the commissions I was making for people could be included as NPC character portraits for my home game. It lets me spoil by table with art of various npcs without doubling my workload. Two was that people started requesting portraits of their and their loved ones pets in these settings and roles. Which means my home game is filled with tabaxis and various dog and cat folk. This is one such tabaxi.

The client requested him as the proprietor of an alchemy shop, sitting aloft with his paws crossed in front of him and feet tucked. It actually took a round of revision to get his face appropriately snooty. As to the palette, my work is inspired by a lot of old print stuff so I'm always fond of limited color, and i think the teal evokes a Gameboy screen without adhering to it too closely.

I'd be curious if anyone has incorporated their own pets into their home games, as animal companions or shopkeeps like this.

Imagine a paladin with the classic backstory. A dragon burned down his village and he was the only survivor. Because of that, he swears an oath to hunt down and kill every dragon he ever encounters. At the same time, he swears in his oath that he must protect the innocent, especially children, NO MATTER WHAT. Years later, the paladin comes across a dragon egg or a newly hatched wyrmling. The creature has not hurt anyone yet. It has done nothing wrong and is innocent by any normal definition. But it is still a dragon. Now the paladin is stuck. If he kills the hatchling, he breaks his oath to protect an innocent child. But If he lets it live, he breaks his oath to slay all dragons. Either way, he is forced to break part of his own oath.

"After raiding a crystal spider's nest, Godofredo - the goblin - ends up wondering: what would happen if he put some energy into one of the little balls that were in the corner of the nest?"

So, what do you think will happen?

If you would like to see more of my work you can check more of my work here.

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- It's a compensation. Truestrike was a trap. Now it's good. It's deserved.

- It's still not worthy for classes with extra attack after 5th level. So it's not a panacea.

- It does nothing for your AC.

- Every class that used to dip warlock for hexblade now has truestrike, so no more warlock in every optimized sheet.

To sum up, it's very useful without being broken. I feel weird because I liked the challenge of making a gish before, but it's such a quality of life improvement I can't really be mad at it.

Last night we finished our campaign of Phandelver and Below: the Shattered Obelisk. The whole campaign took about a year and a half to complete, totally about 18 sessions with the group able to meet monthly.

The party consisted of 7 core members, with 2 others guest starring whenever we had a low roster count.

This is my 3rd completed campaign as a DM. I would be happy to answer any questions people have. Whether it be about the module itself and the homebrew changes I made to it. Terrain builds. Character art and table setup resources. Questions about the party members. Or other general questions you may have about DMing or D&D just ask!

Party Roster:
Cedric - human paladin.
Cirella - tiefling cleric.
Clawdio - lionfolk monk/fighter.
Euphoria - fairy warlock.
Faelora - firbolg druid.
Kualotl - lizarkfolk barbarian.
Raethum - human sorcerer.
Randurg - hobgoblin wizard.
Satin - halfling bard.