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Hello! wanted to share an art commission i did for my client's campaign!

"The world's first lich and the original creator of blood magic. Long before his soul was bound to an opal skull for 50,000 years, he was a living formidable saurian humanoid manipulating the life force of the fallen."

Sadly there is not much to say of his name.

If youre interested, youre welcome to send me a message!

https://vgen.co/Kylene

https://www.artstation.com/kesyaar

This character art was drawn for me by Milosz, you can find their socials here!

Up until a year ago, Rachel Duval had a life she was very content with: a wonderful husband, a lovely daughter. A farm to call their own in the rural town of Pasir, with fertile soil and quiet pastures. Axedia, however, can be a cruel place. Even for the innocent. Or perhaps especially for the innocent. A party of marauding mercenaries killed Rachel’s family while she was away and put her farm to the torch. After spending months in a grieving stupour Rachel decided to end her life and join her husband and child. Fate had different plans. She happened upon a pendant that mysteriously connected her to an ancient warrior called the Silverbird. This connection gave her the strength to live with renewed purpose. Now, Rachel seeks to track down the mercenary company that ruined her life while her connection to the Silverbird deepens, ignorant of the grand designs that got her into this mess and envelop her still.

Hey, so I'm at a bit of a loss about what to do. Our group consists of five friends, most are some flavor of neurodivergent, and we've been meeting for about 2 years.

One player in particular has had a lot of trouble paying attention to the story and honestly seems like she's not really interested in the game. She's on her phone more often than not and even naps during sessions. Two of our players really feel disrespected, especially when a lot of time and energy is put into the story. We've tried speaking with her and trying a few different ways to help but it's starting to split the group and make sessions really tense.

We've all tried speaking with her at one point or another to ask if she actually doesn't like the game but just wanted to play to be social with us, which is totally fine. None of us have a problem if she just wants to be at the table eating snacks and making jokes without having a character. She insists she likes the game and wants to play it's just confusing for her to follow along. But it makes things very difficult when she hasn't read the book and still can't find her AC after 2 years, you know?

I've tried starting a separate group with just her and family to give her a different environment but it hasn't really helped. We've tried a few different types of character sheets to see if it makes a difference and we haven't found something that works. Currently the DM doesn't want to prepare the next session if she's not going to put in effort.

We're going to be giving it one last shot with the next session and I'd like some ideas to try and make it fun for everyone and easier to manage for her.

I'm also very bad at explaining things and tend to either give too many or not enough details, so I'm sorry if I'm all over the place.

Due to a player leaving, and a replacement player not being available until the end of the month, I planned a short session abreast of the main story, focused around hunting a Werewolf terrorising a village.

Cut to the main fight: our Paladin, a Goliath, successfully grapples the Werewolf. The fights been really protracted, as to balance action economy I ad-libbed resistance to physical attacks (the party were given silver knives, but didnt use them or even ask what they were.)

Ive implemented a house rule of Called Shots (specific attacks to body parts or targets to get a unique outcome). The Goliath had grappled the target from the front, like in a giant bearhug. Declaring an Unarmed Attack, he said he'd bite the Werewolf on the neck, aiming for the jugular.

And Critted.

The damage was enough to kill the Werewolf. Describing the attack, he explains how he tears out the throat and windpipe with his bare teeth, his mouth filling with the werewolf's blood and he accidentally swallows a bit in the heat of the attack.

*Lightbulb moment*

After the session, I ask him to roll me a Constituion Saving Throw away from the other players, and because he swallowed blood ive said its at Disadvantage. Due to his Con score, hes got a high modifier, and i set a mid-low DC of 8, and he fails it. Cue, a Goliath Paladin with lycanthropy, who doesnt know he has lycanthropy (the player does, but hes a great player of acting the part so hes really excited about having his character discover his new-found curse.)

We've discussed how it's going to manifest, if he ever rolls a Crit Fail or Crit Success it pops off. We'll describe it as emotions bubbling up or rage of an attack triggering it (idea came from a DnD Beyond thread)

TL:DR; my Paladin PC reverse chuck-norris'ed a Werewolf, bit it and became a Werewolf himself.

This beautiful character art was created by yappacadaver! You can find her on Tumblr and BlueSky under the same username (I'm having difficulty adding a link via mobile, but I will edit when I am able).

Nym is a Circle of Blood Druid and will be appearing in my table's upcoming Mythic Odyssey of Theros campaign. She is a 48 year old mother of three adult children from a small and hidden community called Ptelastros, which is situated between the dense forests surrounding Setessa and the Katachthon Mountains. This village worships Karametra in the Old Ways, with their druids offering their personal blood as sacrifices for good harvests and healthy flocks.

She is built to be a support and control character, and will probably end up being the group's mom. It's what she does best. She will probably do *some* harm... but will absolutely take NO shit.

During my last session, a player privately dm'ed me asking me to kill his character because they thought it would be funny. I obliged the request and his character got consumed by the big boss slime. That player now seems upset that their new character doesn't get their own seperate rewards for their other character dying on the quest. Their new character would be introduced at the same level as their previous character and receive 5d6x50 starting gp as a house rule.

The quest reward was the big loot pile the big boss was guarding, 17,900gp and a couple of magic items. The remaining party proceeded to civily divide the loot amongst themselves, absolutely no arguments. The dead player left before the boss was killed, so they weren't present to put in their claim. I explained to this player that they can still have a discussion with the rest of the party and stake thier claim on a portion of the loot, and we can write some silly narrative as to why their new character is getting a portion. Problem is, this player views this as begging the party for scraps. Again, they haven't even tried having that discussion with everyone. My table is super chill and would totally be in on giving him some loot, they straight up told me they would. If I give their new character some separate loot, that would make dying actually more rewarding than surviving the quest. I don't want to set a precedent at the table that dying is a net positive.

The player is telling me that they wasted hours of their life over this, which kind of hurts. Thats telling me that all the fun and laughs we were having with everyone was a waste of time. Was the session I crafted and the story we were all making together so insufferable that only loot made it worth it? I really enjoyed how this player interacted with the game world. I would hate to lose them because I think they're a great benefit to the team and developing the narrative. Am I being overly harsh? Suggestions are welcome.