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A huge thank you to my private client for trusting me with this amazing character and for coming up with such a fun and creative concept. It was a pleasure bringing their vision to life!

Their idea combined a bubbly, acrobatic personality with the flair of a stylish elf gunslinger. I loved translating every reference into the final design from the crimson-streaked hair, pointed elf ears, and engraved eyepatch and the custom rose-and-vine blade pistols.

It's always rewarding to collaborate with clients who put so much thought and personality into their characters. Thank you again for letting me be part of the creative journey!

If you have a character concept you've been dreaming about, I'd love to help bring it to life.

✨ Commissions are open! Feel free to send me a DM.

Hypatia Morthalis is an NPC from a homebrew D&D campaign where a plague is killing the entire kingdom of Dravenmoor. She ends up being responsible for investigating the origin and the reason behind the calamity afflicting her people. She is a character inspired by many others, with her name being a direct reference to Hypatia from Dishonored 2. Her appearance was heavily inspired by characters like Sylvanas from World of Warcraft, and her clothing by Dishonored, Darkest Dungeon, and Dark Souls.

Despite being Dravenmoor’s chief doctor, she was also a leader in the war between Dravenmoor and the neighboring kingdom of Veil Lake. She wiped out hundreds of people using chemical weapons, given that Dravenmoor has always hated its neighboring populace, a nation of tribal occultists and wild shamans. Currently, she is hiding in the city while working to find a cure for Dravenmoor's plague.

My commissions are open! Here are my portfolios with more of my work:

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TLDR: Played a session with friends who frequently make fun of my character. Got super emotionally triggered after a particular incident then a friend explained Dnd bleed to me and she was like yeah your brain did not take that as your characters bullying characters, your brain said wow my friends are bullying me and they dont even want me here. And so it messed you up because the barrier between real and not real doesnt always exist in emotional brain space.

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So I was playing a game with my friends and I've been playing DnD for awhile and I've Dm'd. I am a role player and I do get attached to my characters. Often times I do not make characters that are too close to myself, but this time I did. Its been a fun game but I have noticed recently that it sort of became a reoccurring theme that my character for my character to be made fun for any little thing that she did that wasn't perfect. Character is a bard so she puts herself out there a lot and is often time the ones trying to talk her way out of really bad combat and often does, so it doesnt matter how many times shes saved the others, if she ends up saying something silly in a moment that doesnt land, she gets heckled about it. I noticed it started to bother me but I was easily able to set it aside as a game and nothing personal. In fact DnD bleed used to be a thing I just attributed to people who took Dnd WAY too seriously or who maybe were struggling emotionally. (sorry!)

I used to have this attitude like session zero was really only important to discuss what topics people were okay with and post game check ins were just way too emotional and unnecessary.

That is until me as a player misunderstood something the DM said and made a choice that got her basically temporarily removed from the entire party. (context, I asked if BG was looking after they had already caught us once, he said she went back to working. So I thought that meant she was not paying attention to us anymore, so I dispelled magic on a door and Dm says she was watching you the whole time and she kicked me out of the castle and let the rest of the party stay) I as a player was frustrated and embarrassed at that moment and annoyed that I couldn't just recall it, but hey thats Dnd. So I let the consequences fall and I had my character resolve it.

However, the bleed happened when my character was ousted, the party was just like "oh that was awkward, oh well, play on" no effort to look for her, or help her. Then an npc asks about my character and the whole party just continued to make rude comments "oh she's occupied, oh she ran her mouth, oh she'd dumb so she's not here" and it was this very no love for this character-mean girl-bully moment. And when I finally rejoined the party I did have two players go omg how'd you get back in. but the rest didn't even acknowledge she had come back. It became this entire aura of "we don't care about this character and we think she's stupid and don't care that she's gone"

And it went STRAIGHT through me. It tore me up for the rest of the night and half of the next day. I did not understand why I was feeling such seriously painful emotion at the intensity that I was. Thats when a friend explained Dnd bleed to me and she was like yeah your brain did not take that as your characters bullying characters, your brain said wow my friends are bullying me and they dont even want me here. And so it messed you up because the barrier between real and not real doesnt always exist in emotional brain space.

I am a person who can pretty objectively look at emotional situations, so to be so wrecked by a game with friends was completely foreign to me. I just kept saying wow wtf there's something wrong with me? But she also explained Dnd bleed is the reason why there needs to be a everybody hangs out for 5-10 minutes afterwards to go back to being their normal friendly selves to each other so your brain knows oh ok I'm safe I wasnt real. And when the game was over and there was still tension and hurt and still no one checked on me, its like it never got a chance to not be real. Dnd bleed is wild ya'll. Blew my damn mind. As a person who would've blown it off in the past, I'm sorry, I've learned.

60:1 scale model of Red Larch from the Princes of the Apocalypse module. The floor has a grid carved into the rocks for easier measuring, and you can see some of our minis in the foreground (some 3d printed, some official). The base is foam covered in small pebbles and moss, most of the buildings are 3d printed in pieces and then assembled and painted. the white circle around the all faiths shrine is a Hallow radius. I have so many pics of this thing, it's so cool!

In the most recent session of my current campaign the GM has given me a wildly versatile item - a quill which let's you spend a charge to change one letter in the name of a spell as you cast it, creating a new one off spell that fits the new name.

The quill holds three charges and regains one per week. The effects of the new spell will be determined by the GM and will be roughly as powerful as whatever spell level was used for the original spell.

So far I have used this once to help the party sneak through trouble by casting Blink as Slink.

So, what spells have ripe potential for alteration? My current list of things to experiment with include:

- Cause Bear

- Chromatic Orc

- False Wife

- Bestow Purse

- Leomund's Tiny Hug

What should I be looking to add to my spell book to combine with this?

Edit: Seeing all the many wonderful and terrible puns people have come up with it's probably a good thing this quill has such limited charges, otherwise I would become incredibly annoying.

Some hand carved dwarves i just finished and wanted to share with folks.

I have a passion for woodcarving and attempting to entice others into the hobby. So my ulterior motive with every post is "how do I make this hobby more accessible" or "how do I inspire someone to want to give it a go."

Hopefully the picture did that, and now you're reading.

You need several things, a sharp knife, a leather strop with compound for honing your blade, safety gloves (A5 or better) and basswood (to carve like i do at least.)

Solid Knife brands, Flexcut, Badger State Blades (USA), Mstein (Europe) there are a lot of great knife brands. Stay away from kits on amazon of several knives. They're much much lower quality with inconsistently tempered steel. (What that means is its not hardened, and so it won't stay sharp easy, meaning you're fighting the knife and dont understand why its harder for you to carve when its easy for others.)

Why Basswood? Its softer than other hardwoods and holds detail well. Learning to carve with basswood is akin to learning to drive on an automatic. It simplifies and streamlines learning. Woods like Walnut and oak can be carved, but learning to carve with them as the starting point is like learning to drive on an 18 wheeler Semi Truck with manual transmission. Its needlessly difficult.

In europe, the equivalent is Linden, in Asia, Jelutong, and in south America Caxeta is a good substitute.

Tutorials abound EVERYWHERE. Youtube is your friend in that regard. You dont have to look up my channel, there are plenty that have easy to begin tutorials and one of them will be right up your alley.

Here are some examples of eccentricities unique to the culture of specific races in my DnD world for you to draw inspiration from:

From my last post. Dwarves only use parchment for keeping things like financial records and stuff like that. Boring stuff. But stuff that actually matters, history, culture, all that goodness gets carved into stone or metal.

The language of the Giants cannot be spoken by anyone who doesn't share the blood of a giant, because the Giant language will KILL any non giant that tries to speak it because of how powerful it is. Giants cannot speak to the small folk in the Giant tongue, because to speak directly to a small folk in Giant would injure or kill them. One can LISTEN to a pair of giants having a direct conversation with each other in their native tongue, but they would probably come out of it with tinnitus because the giant language is so magically charged.

Goliaths, though they are half giants, are still giants biologically which means they can speak the giant language without dying. And to suggest that they AREN'T "actually giants" is to invite the kind of ass beating that a forest gets from a landslide.

Spitting their elemental breath while talking in their language is to Dragons what certain vowels, consonants, and letters are to us mortals in our language.

In deep elven culture, and by that I mean among the populations of elves that live in deep forests far far away from any other civilization, androgyny is a beauty standard. The harder it is to distinguish at a glance whether or not an elf is of the male or female sex, the more attractive they are to other elves.

Goblins are so used to living in utter filth and squaller that sometimes when a goblin experiences a higher standard of living, their immune system goes haywire because it's become so used to CONSTANTLY fighting off infections and diseases that suddenly NOT having any disease or infection to fight is a genuine shock to goblin biology. This can manifest in a number of ways from shortness of breath to breaking out into hives, to random fevers that go away as quick as they occurred, but this goes away after their body becomes used to cleaner conditions.

You know how birds will gently nibble on you with their beaks to preen you and show their affection, or that they just generally are comfortable being around you and like you? Arakokra, Owlins, Kenku do that with each other, but they sometimes forget that it's REALLY weird when you do it to someone who isn't also a bird completely unprompted lol.

Tabaxi do not get offended by feline stereotypes. They purr. They like to knock stuff off tables. They jump up really high when they get scared. They are cats, but running on vaguely people shaped hardware. They are proud of this. They don't get embarrassed by it, and it's nearly impossible to insult them for it, because they see their feline qualities as the best parts of themselves.

In ork society, to fight someone with your bare fists is how you show that you respect them as an adversary. Weapons are for enemies you have no respect for, so for an ork to challenge another ork to a fight with weapons is to say "You are my enemy, there is no respect between us, our clans will be blood enemies from now until eternity, and I spit on your very name."

In my setting, your average hobgoblin would look at a hobgoblin like Dror Ragzlin from BG3 and feel the same way we feel whenever we read a headline starting with "florida man" Because in my setting most hobgoblins are actually like Blurgg from the same game, intelligent, civilized, and just normal people albeit a little weird looking.

Have any more suggestions? Post em. I wanna hear yalls ideas.

I've been trying to come up with an easy way to manage ammunition tracking at my tables forever. I've tried counting the ammo, which players seem to see as cumbersome and annoying. I've tried doing away with ammunition entirely, but as a DM I don't like that because it feels like a critical balance lever of ranged weapons. I've tried systems from other RPGs that abstract ammunition such as usage dice and weekly upkeep costs, but they seem a little clunky and illogical.

I just had an idea though. I haven't tested it, but it seems like it solves the problem of tracking ammunition really easily. Just give each player a cup of beads (any type of bead will do) in number equal to the pieces of ammunition in their quiver. Like, for instance, if a player has 20 arrows for their shortbow, give the player 20 beads. Then, whenever they make one or more ranged attacks, they just give the DM that many beads. It makes the whole experience tactile and visible even from across the table.

This feels like such a simple solution. We don't really need to abstract ammunition because our abstractions are often more complicated than just literally tracking physical objects. What do you think?