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I shared another illustration of this character last week, so I figured I'd post this one too! This time, she's exploring some ancient ruins alongside her trusty cauldron familiar.

These characters are part of the Toad Magus Coven, a group of witches I've been developing for my own fantasy setting. I've been having a lot of fun exploring their designs and personalities, and I'm hoping to flesh them out into a proper faction for an upcoming D&D campaign!

Sometimes when working on these spells I can get really ahead of myself and start drawing something without first glancing over the spell's description. I knew that I wanted the veins in the hand to be visible to help convey the sort of energy transference. But the spell description actually states: "The touch of your shadow-wreathed hand can siphon life force..."

I did attempt to draw the arm with all kinds of shadows, but I thought it took away more than it helped so I opted to keep the original idea.

I prepared this spell only once as a Wizard because I thought it was thematically cool, but could never find a optimal time to cast it. As a spellcaster, you typically want to avoid being on the front line in the first place, so I struggled with how to best leverage it. I'm curious what others think about this one from both a thematic and tactical perspective.

You can get this spell as a print from my Etsy store.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TarikHavoc

ALSO! The Havoc Bound Illustrated Spellbook will be launching soon! Follow the project to get notified when it foes.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/havocbound/havoc-bound-an-illustrated-collection-of-dnd-5e-spells-0

Shanda is a skilled archer from the deep woodlands. Raised near the outer borders of the realm, she learned early on to rely on her keen senses, quick reflexes, and knowledge of the terrain to survive.

She avoids heavy armor that slows her down, preferring complete mobility on the battlefield. Her bow is custom crafted from reinforced ironwood, designed for long range precision. For close quarters combat, she relies on the dual shortswords strapped to her waist.

So this is the work-in progress for drawing my party of seven for the new Neon Odyssey settings.

There is T1N-C4N aka Tin Can, my anitron juggernaut (barbarian) he was originally a deposit security bot, but after getting severely damaged, he was dumped in a junkyard. One of the other players, an Oozoid Mechanist, eventually found him, pulled him out of the junkyard, and reprogrammed him.

We also have Mold the Oozoid mechanist my friend's character who created and reprogrammed Tin Can.

Theweapon dealer, Beetle BJ Juice the nematoan gridrunner.

Saurian oracle, Yu Long

And the Zorbrak tracer (I forgot his name)

There will be two more characters added later, being: nilari disciple and amanite cryiptist

This is an incredibly special commission for me as its one my DM commissioned me to do for our campaign
From top to bottom we have:

Riven Survivor of Hrathiir, the human Rune Knight Fighter
Karesh theh Ghost of Hrathirr ,The orc Circle of thhe Moon Druid
Justice , the Haniwa Shrine Warden Cleric
Wuquium, the Cyclopian Wizard of the Order of Scribes
and Bo Kalk, the Gobboc Tamer Infuser with his faithful pet Slaghund : Tenders

Going against the red dragon Ashenscale

This campaign was heavily inspired by and heavily features classes, species and items from The Loot Tavern's supplements : Heliana's Guide to Monsters and Ryoko's Guide to the Yokai Realms

and for anyone who'd like art of their characters , DND or otherwise :) commission info and my links are down below, feel free to contact me here or in any of the links below if you're interested or at art.of.azrael on discord

Commission Base Prices

Portfolio - Azrael (all of my art and socials)

Bust -$120 sketch, $150 lineart, $170 flat colours, $200 fully shaded

Half Body -$170 sketch ,$200 lineart, $220 flat colour, $250 fully shaded

Full body - $200 sketch, $230 line art, $250 flat colour, $300 for fully shaded

• these are the baseline prices, if the requested piece has a lot more details than normal additional charge will be discussed depending on exactly how much extra work it would entail.

Backgrounds - extra depending on how complex. A simple single colour background is included for free if you don't want a specific background. +- $250

Manga (Half Toned) - See flat colour rates above

Spice is fine, but might cost extra depending on what's being asked.

Payments are to be made up front using PAYPAL.

Feel free to contact me here or at art.of.azrael on discord:)

Anything that is not another generic tavern please...

Thay as a setting was once a lush, immense and varied country. From 4th edition was reduced to a stereotypical barren wasteland where everything is undead. From a vibrant multicultural society full of mystery, to "Lich and skeletons only".

The Maztica setting based on the unconquered americas seems to be completely abandoned and unsupported after 3rd edition. There was a pantheon, there were classes such as Eagle Knights and Jaguar Knights. There was unique spellcasters and spells. All those abandoned. We can play stereotyped European paladins which don't even fit mechanically (wearing heavy, steel armor etc)

Osse, a land based on aboriginal Australia. Completely abandoned as well, haven't seen new content since 2007. With the extreme volume of content produced (even stuff like MTG conversion guides), I find that truly disheartening.

What I have seen in stuff as Thay only they become "planet of hats" but absurd rules such as "this place is ruled ABSOLUTELY by [POWERFUL MAGICAL ENTITY]", to absurd degrees such as that Red Wizards are now said to be above the law in all respects and even the lowliest of them can kill city-state rulers without consequence.

Even stuff in the main campaign setting, not only faraway lands, suffers from this...

Skullport is originally conceived and published as a city ruled by competing crime syndicates and trafficker guilds. That was key to say law enforcement was rare, lax and partial, and gave a dark edge. Justice was a man's interest and their buddies. Then it was invented that there Skullport really the tyrannical police state of some immortal godlike floating skulls, and everyone is afraid if being observed at any time and put on trial by these allmighty beings. This is rather more like "divine justice" and takes away from the cultural element. And even later the whole city was reinvented as Xanathar-land where everything is Xanathar (I guess having more than one nominal divine ruler wasn't simplified enough?)

And many others, too many to list. [actually I had more to say but I forgot, I'm old like that ;) ]

Most players and DMs will not be aware of the older, more "realistic" settings since they are really old (90's, early 90's in some cases), and they are not in newer editions, which I find a sad fact.

Image is my interpretation of Kara-tur, another of the suffering settings, with no content since 1990.

PS: Yes I'm aware some of these still had bad orientalism tropes. I think the correct thing is revise it, in no way it seems to me "everyone is zombies and liches" or "doesn't exist and you can't play it, be European or out" is less racist than trying to develop it. Also that doesn't explain Skullport and others.

For me, I was in a party with newish players (Im someone who is relatively newish myself but could hold my own) no big deal. The thing was, no one knew how to read their sheets. The dm, who helped the newer players how to read/make sheets taught how to do it session zero. I’m not trying to sound rude, but please my advice to new players is to research how to read your character sheets.

I'm running a short cursed dnd campain where things are just not quite right so if you have any silly encounter ideas you've never had the chance to use I'd love some inspiration :D