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Just found this embarrassing in one of the games I ran, wanted to vent. The campaign is off the Twisted Taverns book, and they're going from high fantasy tavern to tavern, collecting the items this drunk archwizard left at the various bars. Since they teleport between taverns, the tavern they transported to was an aquatic one. So... they immeadiately start drowning in an underwater bar.

In my head, the thought was the octopus barkeep, seeing landlubber adventurers drown in his bar, not for the first time, begrudgingly grabs rebreathers off the wall and tries to stick them on the adventurers faces.

My adventurers, confused/disoriented and rolled low on perception, only noticed a tentacle trying to shove something into their mouth. They attempt to escape. They roll high, succeed. They're still drowning. Bartender chases after them. Doesn't want them to hurt themselves so would try to restrain... at that point I was realizing. No one speaks octopus because why the hell would that be a thing? (The octupus bartender was FROM THE BOOK, I didn't choose that character, it was just there)

There was this moment of the game kind of stopping, like no one made moves and looked at me, while my brain knew "oh" from the looks, I didn't know how to resolve it. I just said "I think there might be a... thought about this situation. Trust me, it's not that thought. Play it through?"

TLDR Most of my friends thought I was fanfic'ing tentacle porn.

Got the opportunity to try something a bit different with a client this week! Here’s the vibe we were going for:

“Absolutely zero chance this ends without someone starting a brawl outside the tavern. The bard insisted on a party selfie. The paladin is questioning every life choice, the goliath is trying way too hard to fit in the frame, the artificer swears the camera is enchanted, the druid is quietly concerned for environmental implications, and the rogue is hiding everyone's snacks.”

Definitely one of the most challenging drawings I’ve done. Had a blast working on it though, and the players are super happy with the result!

Have posted various places (including here) over the past couple of years about a book I was writing, the Magical Code of Regulations. 500 pages of fictional law governing the use of magic. When it finally released two months ago, I posted it here and on r/TTRPG, and this community really helped kick things into gear with shares to other communities, pre-orders, and tons of kind messages.

Well, after my last post here (and a bit of luck with Questing Beast doing a review on it!), I just passed 1,000 sales, and was able to sign my first book for someone! It feels amazing, and I just wanted to thank everybody here for making it possible. I expected maybe 100 sales or so in my lifetime, so getting to 1,000 after just two months is way more than I ever expected!

Would love to hold some kind of giveaway or AMA, but right now, just basking in this high!

That was really all. Thank you all again, you've passed the kindness check!

4 out of 5 characters in last night's game died over a absolutely nothing obstacle like something I had forgotten about and was kicking myself cuse they were going to breeze right through it obstacle.

The party had three possible routes to an infested temple they needed to purify.

The first was straight through territory held by an Ork warband. It was the fastest route, but it had a high chance of random encounters of running into well-equipped Ork raiders.

The second option was to go around the warband to the east through a mountain pass called Rainbow Grotto. (This was actually a trap. With a high Local Knowledge check, my players learned that the locals called it "Bandit's Delight" because it was so easy to ambush wealthy adventurers there.)

The third option was to head west, where a narrow trail along the side of a mountain could still be crossed by a prepared group of adventurers. They just needed some rope, a few pitons, and enough climbing gear to get across a section of the cliff side trail that had been washed away during a massive storm.

They brought all the right gear, got everything set up... and then impressed me with how amazingly sideways everything went.

First, party member 1 a monk realized it was technically mathmaticlly possible to clear the gap with longjump and a good roll. They decided not to tie a safety line or take any rope because it might encumber them on the jump. ( I have no idea what he was going to do once he was on the other side with no rope but it was his choice) When they failed the roll, he leapt off the side of the cliff and began plummeting to their death.

The party wizard who had readied an action in case he fell attempted to cast fly on the monk.

I reminded them that Fly is a touch spell.

They stared at me for a moment and just said, "Oh..."

Party Member #1 died.

Party Member #2 laughed at them for being an idiot. He grabbed all the rope, successfully climbed about ten out feet, and then, like the Intelligence 7 barbarian he was, grabbed a piton in one hand and a hammer in the other to secure it. There were no foot holds he was only being held up with his hands. I was clear to state this BEFORE he grabbed for his tools.

He promptly fell to his death. Still he was secure in the knowledge that he had infact tied a saftey line and not trusting his not tieing ability left his saftey in the capable hands of the party rouge. Who was infact very good at knots. However, The safety line he had very securely tied around the barbarian wasn't actually tied to anything secure on the other end... it was tied to Party Member #3, the halfling. After some quick math and letting 300+ lbs of muscle and steel moving at 9.8 m/s^2 do what its going to do to when tied to 35 lbs of wet potatoes I watched as as Party Members #2 and #3 both fell off the side of the cliff to join Party Member #1. Party Member #4 had already secured a safety line to himself and seeing his friends fall burned a hero point and rolled impressively well on a reflex check to save his friends and was given one action to do so. He heroically jumped after Party Member #3 in an attempt to save both of them, completely confident in the rope he'd tied. Unfortunately, he didn't realize the other end of his safety line had also been tied to Party Member #3. Who was inchare of securing all saftey lines.

So he joined them. In death

In the span of a few moments, four out of my five players died in one of the most bizarre comedy-of-errors party wipes I've ever witnessed.

Party Member #5, the wizard was left stranded on the side of the cliff scared cuse his party took all the food water and shelter with them to the bottom of this gourge and then he remembered he could cast fly and floated to saftey. Something that was always available even before they bought the climbing gear. And why i was upset about how easily they were going to clear this obstacle

I had this vision of him as sort of a medieval saint with his symbols and the golden foil, he is a cleric of Ilmater so I used the red ropes to bind the wolves. He was turned into a werewolf in strange circumstances and he can’t really control his body once transformed, so he tries his best to avoid transformation as much as possible. The words around his neck are carved into the skin and are a spell to stabilize his human form, it reads “quem digilit dominus castigat” god punishes the one he loves, referring to Ilmater, the god worshipped by the ones who are bound and suffering.

I had the absolute pleasure of bringing Sienna to life! She’s an 7'4 ft tall, 19-year-old Half-Goliath front-line mercenary. Her tragic past of abduction and brutal experimentation left her with a dark gift the "Living Nightmare" ability to morph her own flesh into parasitic eldritch weapons.

Huge thanks to my private client for trusting me with her backstory and design! I’m incredibly grateful for your support and for letting me build out such a badass concept.

If you have your own cool D&D characters or wild ideas you want to see illustrated, let’s bring them to life! Commissions are open!

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This is my third time trying to post just a stupid joke from last session.
First I was new, then I needed to add [Art] and [OC], then another 400 characters explaining what is in the picture. Why is this so complicated, some of us (me) are stupid and will in the end post nothing. Why so much rules when they do nothing. You didn't get anything by my text and joke I sent that I draw will still be used by who ever wishes no meter how I tag it. Please can someone in comments make me understand... (English is not my first language)

Hello everyone !

Here is Cordelia Maribelle Rose, she is a vampire lore mastery wizard ! I have been playing her for more than a year and she has been incredibly fun, but I guess that’s because she is a wizard after all.

I drew her in this outfit because our campaign is taking us to a desert and I assume this is what a Victorian spoiled immortal brat would look like ! Hope you like it !

Which brings me to another topic, I am opening my commissions in case anybody is interested, feel free to look at my profile to see my other drawings ! I will put the rates in the comments in case people want to know them, please DM if you want to do a project with me !

Insta/Tiktok : nxthxn_gs

Approved by mods (thanks again hihi)

I've had the opportunity to illustrate a character for a friend that he commissioned me for.

They said that she doesn't have a name because she was once an Ancient and Sacred Forest, belonging to the Nature Goddess of the realm and at it's heart lay a Great and Sacred tree. Tales tell of it's power, and how it was rumored to be on it's way to becoming a Treant.

But Humans and other similar races destroyed that.
As a result of clear cutting, all trees were harvested for lumber, then the remains of the forest burnt to ash to make way for a new village.
The Gods, particularly the Nature Goddess whom the forest belonged to, took pity on the once magnificent forest, rich with history and sacred nature, took the life essence from every plant, from every tree and vine down to the blades of grass and flowers between them, and using the soul forge, forged a single soul from them and from the ash came new life.
As one single sapling from the once Great Tree survived, and blossomed. From this sapling my character emerged. No flesh, no meat, no bone, instead wood, vines and vegetation. The physical embodiment of the lost forest.

That's the backstory they gave me when I accepted the commission.
and they gave me additional details and references for the character.

I really enjoyed working on this and I'm proud of it.
I'm always open to illustrate interesting characters like this one, so don't hesitate to contact me if you ever want your characters commissioned.

Thank you very much !