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A dragonborn piece I finished recently. He's a towering black dragonborn paladin. Arrogant, fiercely confident, and almost always wearing a wicked grin. Brutish, standoffish, and quick with a sarcastic remark, he definitely looks more intimidating than approachable.

At first, I assumed he was some kind of barbarian because of the lack of plate armor and the massive greataxe. After reading the character notes, though, I realized he's actually a paladin. His design is heavily inspired by the BG3 dragonborn, so the more reptilian features are intentionally emphasized.

If you'd like to see my other works, kindly visit : Bluesky - Cara - ArtStation - Instagram - Threads

for inquiry, email me at: [rudiindra4art@gmail.com](mailto:rudiindra4art@gmail.com)

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.

A while ago, I had the pleasure of designing a character sheet for a special client.

Irene Amphrylos. She's a merman/sea creature. High Priestess of a cult that venerates sea deities. Her goal: to spread the word of her religion and forge bonds with the surface dwellers. Warm, kind, and brave are some of her main qualities. Don't underestimate her! She could give you the gentlest blessings, and the harshest, with a metallic taste.

I focused mainly on the design of her silver armor, adorned with gold details and waves that represent the movement of water, a concept I also applied to her hair. My favorite part will always be her beautiful face.

What do you think of my design? Have you ever played a merman? Tell me about your experience.

Artist: https://vgen.co/gabrielbari_art

I'm currently DMing a campaign of DnD 5e with a group of six friends, using the "Explorer's Guide to Wildemount" as source material. All characters are quite in sync with the moderately serious vibe I expected and all characters came with backstories I hooked easily with the campaign's story. Everyone except one of my players, which chose to do a drow ranger and invest all his stat points in charisma for a "presuasion/intimidation build".

Is my first time DMing and even if my gut feeling told me it would become a bad idea I didn't want to be a partypooper, so I said yes but warned he might not like it since the class is very dexterity and wisdom based. He said it was alright for him.

Going into the campaign, he starts to try bend every scenario I put them by "I want to intimidate X NPC so they do whatever I want" or "I try to presuade X NPC to do what I want". So I talked with him after the first session saying it was being quite annoying by trying put all my work and everyone's effort to waste with this "playstyle", as his answer was "Isn't in the book saying I can't do, so technically can do it" (which I higly disagree, but I know how stubborn he can be and wouldn't like to create a whole drama over this by kicking him out).

I decided to take some countermeasures by putting natural barriers: undead that couldn't be intimidated due to being in practically irrational, soldiers with high ethical and loyalty standards that doesn't change sides because someone said so and some more situations where he couldn't exploit this strategy easily. He got upset and said "I was cutting the whole fun of the game".

Am I wrong for punishing this type of player? Is my first time being a DM so I'm open to learn and have opinons from more experienced people. Thanks yall ^^

Edit: Thanks everyone for the tips and different approaches I can get with this. I will try to talk with him once more and see what I'll do next. As for our story, I'll follow thine I originally planned and scrap out the small event changes. Also will review again the rules on this part so both can try set things up.

Edit 2: For the people saying I'm making his character completely useless by the adds I mentioned, I didn't do it to every single thing they go by. Just tweaked some aspects here and there so it wouldn't be a thing he could use literally everywhere. He started protesting at his second failure. Also adding to this, the "I got a feeling this wasn't going to end well and still allowed" was because I honestly never thought he would be using it Every. Single. Encounter. Thought it was a more out of the box roleplay gimmick he was trying to pull out.

Onion Knight | Halfling Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) LVL 20 | Curse of Strahd campaign

Archetype: A cheerful yet brave halfling adventurer who uses both swordplay and magic to protect his allies and smite his foes.

Origin Story: Percival Greenfoot descends from an ancient order of paladins known as the Onion Knights, whose legacy had long faded into myth. Growing up in Barovia, Percy witnessed firsthand the suffering of its people under Strahd von Zarovich’s rule. One fateful day, an enigmatic man named Ben approached him, suggesting that he might have the power to change the fate of Barovia. For a year, Percy trained in swordplay and magic under Ben’s tutelage. Determined to rekindle the legacy of the Onion Knights, Percy adopted the title of "Onion Knight" and embarked on a quest to preserve life and light of hope in Barovia.

Art by @Artofz

Last night I dropped a super cool reveal on the table...that I absolutely had NOT planned.

A Warlock player doesn't remember much of her past, aside from waking alone, hurt, and everything around her burning. She gave me a few things she wanted, and I built her a backstory around it...she doesn't know much. Part of it is that she was a member of a community in the past, and something bad happened there.

Last night they ran into a member of that community who stared at the Warlock like they were a ghost, and eventually came up and started talking to her. This member was saying things like "I buried you" and "I thought you were dead". The Warlock's first question was "did I have magic when you knew me?"

I have no idea why, but the first thing that came out of my mouth was "of course...every member of our Paladin order did". I've never seen a table be so shocked.

Luckily the Warlock had been asking about multiclassing, and Paladin/Warlock is a good multiclass. I did talk to her afterwards, and told her we could make a change if she didn't want a Paladin multiclass, but she went "no, that's what I had been wanting to do!"

Art by u/yaggoat

Commissioned by me

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Background: Ruined

STR: 10

DEX: 17

CON: 14

INT: 15

WIS: 12

CHA: 8

"A survivor of a ruined city destroyed in the midst of a revolution started by the whims of a bored noble, Adders grew hardened and world weary, becoming a mercenary who works for high bidder, selling himself on subtlety and efficiency with taking out a target. Gives no qualms about killing, but refuses to participate in what he considers unnecessary cruelty."

During a 1 on 1 session, I went through a dungeon to reclaim my character’s soul after an unfortunate TPK and an intervention from a less than favorable god. The mission was to get back this final, important piece of my body that connected me to the weave and made me whole again. As a part of this, the DM was running a disgruntled NPC who didn’t mind helping me to this item behind the absent BBEG’s back.

When we got to the treasure horde, I stated that I thought my character would only take their stuff, not some of the items he recognized from the other party members who died (I was afraid of the BBEG, and also felt more like it was stealing if I took back things that weren’t mine.) The NPC then said, “if it were me I’d take all of it. The BBEG only beat you all cause he got lucky. Fuck him!”

Now I found that argument convincing as the player, but I wasn’t sure if it was something my lawful good, very afraid character would do. So, out of habit of having just run a session myself a few days ago, I did a very DM thing as a player. I rolled a wisdom save, then asked my DM to roll persuasion with the NPC. This way, I left it up to chance if my character was convinced.

To my shock, the DM didn’t even question it. After an 11 WIS Save against a 21 Persuasion, my character walked away with heavier pockets and a feeling that they may have done something wrong. After the incident, I wondered what the implications were of being able to call for a roll from my DM…

Made a d12 x d12 map that combines Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, Moonshae Isles, the Dalelands, and Calimshan so that you can run Adventures in Faerun as a hexcrawl. Baldur’s Gate is in the center so you can also run this as a West Marches style game. Obviously this isn’t compatible with other locations/maps in Faerun and I don’t try too hard to get the geography right. If folks like this, maybe I will figure out a way to post a PDF as this is made to be printed on 8.5” x 11”.

Also, I accidentally put a lone mountain on hex 8J, so I guess it’s up to you whether BJ mountain is part of your campaign or not.

Maybe this is my personal interpretation, but it’s a fairly common one and a very logical one. In tales involving genies, monkey paws, one wish willows or shooting stars a common trope** **is to have the wish backfire in some ironic way to punish the wisher. This is not a universal rule of making a wish, nor is it always good storytelling.

In stories like Obsession, the Monkeys Paw and others a character is punished ironically because they deserve punishment. Asking for an unfair advantage in life that is unearned shouldn’t be rewarded. Asking for love without the work put in to make a relationship, asking for money without the attempt to better yourself or asking for power with bad intentions warrants being the victim of your own selfish desires.

If your player’s character uses wish to bring their dead spouse back to life, don’t have a zombie husband show up and crush their spirit. If an adventuring party is embarking on a dungeon raid to defeat evil on behalf of a god, don’t fuck them over when they use divine intervention to get out of a sticky spot.

Dnd is a storytelling game. It’s not good storytelling to be a dick to your players for no reason. It’s not good storytelling to ruin everything your players have been playing for because “It’S mOnKeY pAw RuLeS mAn.” Creative use of a monkey paw twist can enrich a story, make your players think twice about being selfish and otherwise benefit your story. But it is not a foundational rule of all wishes, you should not use it every time and a bad use of monkey pawing is a huge mistake. I daresay that if you spam that shit every time they act in character you are a very bad DM.

I hope this has been helpful and enriching and you can send this to your DM if you need to.