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I received a request from a player recently to paint their character, a human paladin. They emphasized that her figure be somewhat long and thin, although in full plated armor. I felt it was an interesting challenge to try and give her a strong armored look while maintaining the elongated aesthetic they asked for.

For this piece I decided to stylize her features a bit more than usual, which I felt would suit her tall and thin frame. The player didn’t have much of a preference when it came to the placement of her sword and shield, so I decided to depict the back/inside of the shield rather than the front, and paint the details of the arm and hand rests, as it’s something I don’t do very often.

Aside from the elongated and stylized proportions, I focused on simple and geometric shapes, as it’s a feature of most of my work, and elements such as the cape, I kept pretty simple, flat, and shapely.

It was a very fun piece to work on, and I am genuinely happy with how it all turned out. I look forward to doing many more pieces like this, in which I can stylize quite a bit, as I find heavier stylization much more fun and interesting to view and work on.

Inside the world of DND, how likely am I as a common villager to know about liches? Are they a myth? Does everyone know how they work, that they store their spirits in something so they can come back to life? Would only mercenaries know of them, or only wizards, or only kings? Would actual in-world liches be known as liches or would everyone think they were just very very old people? Would liches try to pretend they are some other kind of creature to throw people off their scent?

I'd like some opinions because I have no idea how well known they supposedly are!

In the scenario where someone had a child but the child was deceased (was stillborn or died tragically young for eg) ,what would happen if that person then promised their first born to a fae.

I'm imagining a scenario where someone unfortunately has found themself in a situation where they are dealing with a fae. The Fae naturally asked for the person's firstborn in return for something. Specifically their firstborn.The person agrees to the deal because they already lost their firstborn.

Also I imagine in this scenario, the fae may even ask the person "Do you have any children already?" .Technically they no longer have any children so the person could say no. They had a child but the child died.

Would some necromancy-like thing occur or would the fae own the child's soul?

Would the fae have to claw the child from the afterlife ?

I'm thinking of this as a character concept because I have a campaign that involves the fae and the undead.

From past experiences here are mines:

- "You hear a whispering voice from your bag of holding, do you want to reply?"

- "The walls are not breathing... yet."

- "Alright, the Moon rolls for initiative"

I recently arrived in a city my character had never been to before. There was a huge crowd because an event had just ended, and I had just woken up and gone to talk to my companions.

I needed new armor, so I approached an NPC and asked where I could find an armor shop. He gave me directions, but before I could walk away, he said something along the lines of:

“Nothing in this city is free.”

He then demanded money in exchange for the information and threatened to call the authorities if I refused.

My character didn't want any trouble. I wasn't interested in wasting time getting into unnecessary fights with random NPCs when all I wanted was to buy some armor and leave. So I simply used Command to make him walk away.

Later, after the session, we were discussing our characters' alignments. A player who had recently joined the table told me that my character's alignment was wrong and that, because I play a Chaotic Evil character, I should have killed the NPC.

I tried explaining several times that my character doesn't randomly murder everyone who annoys him. He chooses who deserves his violence and who is worth the effort. If killing someone would create unnecessary problems, attract the authorities, waste time, or otherwise accomplish nothing, why would he do it?

He's a Vengeance Paladin, so violence and mercilessness are absolutely part of his character. But that doesn't mean he's a mindless psychopath who has to attack everyone who inconveniences him.

Ps: later, on a second encounter I threatened him with my sword and he ran away.

My basic arguments were:

Chaotic Evil doesn't mean stupid.

Chaotic Evil doesn't mean “kill everyone who annoys you.”

My character is extremely violent toward people he believes deserve it.

He is willing to kill without much remorse when he thinks it's justified or useful.

But he can also be pragmatic and self-interested when violence would only create unnecessary problems.

Avoiding a pointless fight with the city authorities over an annoying NPC doesn't contradict his alignment.

In this particular situation, using Command to make the NPC leave was simply the most efficient way to get what I wanted.

I feel like my character can be both cruel and pragmatic without being an idiot.

So... am I misunderstanding Chaotic Evil here, or is the other player assuming that “Chaotic Evil” basically means “murderhobo who has to kill anyone who annoys him”?

Hey! I'm a relatively new player, and this is my first post here, but I'm pretty hyped about this new character for a future campaign (or if my current cleric dies).

This is Llwyd Greycot (Llwyd means grey in Welsh, but most people will call him Lloyd). He's a 3' 8" (small) Harengon Druid, Circle of the Moon. He has a full backstory where an ancestor of his family, Gethin Greycot, helped Archfey Oberon save a pack of unicorns from a hag coven in the Feywild generations ago, resulting in Gethin forming a pact as an Archfey Warlock. His unicorn friend Silene ultimately died and gifted her horn to Gethin, which was passed down the generations as a spellcasting focus and a marker of the now familial covenant with Oberon, granting the Greycots their nature magic.

I have a concept for Llwyd's wild shapes where, due to fey magic, his forms will be a mixture of hare and the target animal (mostly to justify using Rabbit Hop in wild shape), namely:\ • The Thumper (using bear stats and progression): a large, ursine creature with a hare-like face, ears, and hind legs for heavy combat.\ • The Jack-lynx (using big cat stats and progression): a large, lean jackrabbit/big cat hybrid for stealth and quick combat.\ • The Otthare (using giant weasel or similar stats): a slick, hare-like otter creature mainly for swimming.\ • The Wolpertinger (using owl stats): of course, a silly nod to Bavarian folklore for flying around.\ • A Rabbit: for inconspicuous travel and utility.

These should technically be allowed since it's just visual flavour, and Llwyd would have seen the target animals before, but it's just for fun!

What do you all think, does the concept check out? The art's pretty humble compared to some I've seen on this subreddit, but it was fun to bring him to life!

I've been experimenting with different tree visuals for VTTs. People told me they would prefer to see the trunk to better navigate on maps, while keeping the visual of the canopy.

The Solid one is probably the most visually appealing but obscures a lot of detail one would need in a battle.

The transparent ones are the most tactically informative but make a map loot cluttered when on a map with lots of things.

Which one do you prefer and why?

I feel like sandbox campaigns are becoming the norm in my DnD circle, and what was a bothersome feeling about this games is turning into something that makes me want to leave the table (which i will, we're just finishing a campaign and then i'm done).

Maybe the problem is my DM, the party, or maybe it is me (everyone else seems to be having a good time), but it feels like we spend about 2 hours in most 3 hour sessions discussing, trying to figure out what the next move is, then do it for the last hour and wrap it up.

I just miss the good old days when i had the clear goal of going into the dungeon and slaying the dragon. I'll focus on finding a group that shares my desire.

If you missed the last episode you'll probably want to start there.

Or if you're really confused, you could go back to the very beginning of the changeling's story arc.

Or even the very start of the series if you want to binge read and maybe laugh a bit.

Changeling-Kayra tells her story pretty thoroughly here... a construct of mud and sticks, assembled by the night hag Granny Dismal to replace the stolen child she intended to raise as a new hag. Granny gave the changling a real human soul, which she acquired through her haggish ways, and changeling-Kayra has been living her whole life masking as a human. (That stolen child is one of the main protagonists of this series... don't worry, she has a very happy life.)

She's been struggling for ages to tell her fiancé the truth about herself. Now that she's finally confessed.. this was not the reaction she expected.

Believe it or not, Love and Hex is a comedy, not a drama. It started out as a joke about my D&D campaign and turned into an ongoing rom-com/existential horror story. It's on Webtoon and, well, all over the internet. Also r/LoveAndHex. And you can find a version with a full transcript on my website.