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This commission ended up being the longest piece I’ve worked on so far, taking around 29 hours in total. It was also my first time properly drawing landscapes, which was a challenge since I don’t have much experience with them. I painted the environment on the left side myself, while the right side uses an existing landscape. There were points where I wasn’t sure I’d be able to finish this piece because of how complex it became, but I’m glad I pushed through and completed it.

And most importantly, my client was happy with the final result, which honestly means everything to me. 🩷

Lady Blood, one of the Pirate Lords of the Avelier sea. This bloodthirsty orcish leader of the Blood-eyes corsairs is the most bloodthirsty and the most powerful of the pirate organizations in the region. She's known for her ruthlessness, persistence, fairness and above all, her thirst for blood. Ever since the death of one of the Pirate Lords, Mordecai Rindbreaker, she has sought to increase her dominion and influence over the nearby islands, aiming to control all of Faux Siren Isles.

HELLO! This is Maria Sinclair, once a normal human cleric. Some details are unclear to me, as her story was entrusted to my hands rather than lived, but she formed a pact with her God and gained immortality so long as she bears pain in the name of others. Each wound is an act of devotion, suffering turned into mercy, and she walks on endlessly, carrying agony so others may be spared. Definetely a great character Im glad I got to work on ❤️‍🔥💪

Hi everyone! This is my draconic sorcerer centaur, Pashina Filippovna. She was born to a tribe of centaurs, and when she was young a powerful magical event happened to her (and the rest of my party, it effected us in various ways) that transformed her horse half into a dragon and gave her the draconic bloodline. Due to their centaur tribe detesting dragons, her parents and tribe shunned her away. She also began having evil thoughts that she couldn't control so she began a life of hermitage/isolation to try and learn to control and understand her powers and suppress her dark urges. This drawing took me AGES, I hope you like!

How would you feel if your DM was expecting you to track arrows? I wanted to introduce such mechanic, but I can tell it'd be somewhat annoying

Hi there! It's been a while since I posted anything here but I did a recent redraw of my thri-kreen bladesinger, Lycaste. She's based off an orchid mantis, and her name even comes from a genus of orchids. Her backstory is that she wanted to learn new skills that may help her people, so she traveled to the Feywild (or Dreamscape, as it's known in the setting of the game I'm playing her in). While there, she learned the art of bladesinging. When she left, however, hundreds of years passed. Now she has to grapple with that fact and find her place in the world.

Because we take care of a rural property we don’t have many people to play with, but I think we make it up with the views, the homemade hot chocolate, and sounds of a real campfire.

Paper and pencil is still a great way to play. Though I do love my notes app on my phone.

Last night my wife’s Bard navigated a thieves guild feast in her honor (under the impression she was a top guy from a larger, sister guild in another city.

I think we both learn a lot about the RP part of RPG when we do these solo games, I seem to get a lot more practice with voices. I also take way more notes than ever before.

If anyone has any tips on small parties or recommended one shots for the times we have more people over we’d love to hear it!

Hi everyone,

Like many others recently, my friends and I finished Baldur's Gate 3 and absolutely fell in love with the world and the mechanics. We decided to take the plunge into actual D&D (5e). Since I was the one organizing it, the mantle of Dungeon Master has fallen to me!

We are all generally new to Tabletop RPGs. I have a basic grasp of the rules thanks to BG3, but I know the video game automates a lot of things and tweaks certain rules.

I’m looking for advice from experienced DMs on how to handle this transition:

1. **Mindset:** What should I focus on most during our first few sessions? (Rules accuracy, fun, storytelling?)

2. **Mistakes to avoid:** What are common pitfalls for new DMs coming from a video game background?

3. **Preparation:** How much prep is "too much" or "too little"?

Any tips, resources, or "things I wish I knew when I started" would be greatly appreciated. I want to make sure my players have a great time without getting bogged down.

Thanks in advance!

So our level 4 party has been try to figure out about the location of some bones. So we went to where the suspect works to try to find them. Unbeknownst to us there was a fight that was for a party 2 levels higher than our current strength. Due to the gimmick of an aasimar bladesinger we managed to win. Then Strahd showed up. He asked for the bones and our cleric stepped in. HE PUNCHED A HOLE THROUGH HER. She died instantly. Seeing that our rogue got a bit tricksy. She offered the bones to Strahd, burning him and pissing him off. So he immediately killed the kenku thief and our bladesinger aasimar. Finally he kills our human paladin and provided my warforged with a trolley problem. He showed me 3 revivify scrolls, forcing me to pick which party member stayed dead with the promise that I could inhabit their body. I tried 3 different ways to get out of it. My character blowing himself up? Counterspelled. Taking me and sparing my companions? He didn’t want my body. Helping him to learn how my programming worked to build mechanical slaves, which could be the front of his evil while appearing to be a benevolent ruler? He wasnt interested because he already thinks he is one. Then he got fed up and started counting down to choose for me. So I picked our paladin. THIS MAN HAD A FOURTH SCROLL ALL ALONG! He just wanted to screw with my character to see what he’d pick! Needless to say our entire party is traumatized and our paladin is likely unhappy with me. We are so dead. Our DM was awesome tonight!

Super fun tanky paladin build!

We all are prisoners, and while waiting in a cell a zombie apocalypse happens. I failed my check to kick the door down, but our warforged fighter makes his check to open the door.

Next we enter a big cafeteria room, and oh man is the Maul insane. Before me was an NPC fighter who did some pretty good damage to a zombie. I killed him pretty handedly.Then our Artificer lightning lured another enemy to me. I rolled a Nat 20, and knocked this zombies head off with so much velocity that I hit our drow sorcerer with it (unfortunately he saved).

Then a big enemy walks into the room and goes invisible. Our warforged has an incredible idea, and we kick a huge cafeteria table into the wall, pinning him there so we know where hes at. Then our sorcerer lightning lures the enemy to smack his forehead into the table super hard, taking some extra bludgeoning damage. Finally, our ranger rolls a max damage roll for 12, hitting him right between the eyes killing him.

Super duper fun! We also got a bag of holding that our satyr bard holds for us!