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This character was a commission i had the pleasure to work on! I hope youll like her! :3 "Radhika Sharma is a Tiefling whose bloodline was influenced by the Endless Bog of Minauros. She is a warlock of the Fiend, tasked with collecting debts for her Patron in exchange for her powers. Said Patron, however has been nothing but helpful and kind to her family, protecting them from anyone that wouldn't take too kindly to the Yuan-ti traces in their heritage. So they decided on their own to help out their patron since the more powerful their benefactor is, the better their own situation gets. Of course, anyone familiar with the Hells knows Minauros if where new souls are processed and minted..."

Map size is 25x30

Check out my map gallery here for easy viewing: https://cara.app/stainedkarbon

Support my work on patreon for high res, gridless, and foundry modules: https://www.patreon.com/StainedKarbonMaps

Hiya everyone!

I’ve got a mushroom/fey circle variants of this map here for you. The original is a creepier map that feature a staircase leading to nowhere (based on the Search and Rescue Officer r/Nosleep series).
This one is much brighter and colourful, but still kinda creepy, or at least dangerous considering the Fey.

If you want the high res, gridless version you can get access to that and my entire backlog on my patreon if you’d like to support my work and need a bunch of cool maps.

Happy adventuring!

Krane

Meet Sasha Evenbrand, and her wife who has become soul-bound to her after dying in her arms, subsuming the usual shadowy copy.

Sasha is a captain of the Hellriders, and lost her wife Bella, another soldier, in the defense of Elturel during its descent into Avernus. For reasons unknown to her, after her death her wife's soul attached itself to Sasha, replacing her usual echo. The echo no longer perfectly copies Sasha's movements, and sometimes even looks to her wistfully, or tries (and fails) to communicate in moments of strength. Sasha has left her city and the guard, on a quest to bring her back, or die trying and join her.

Amazing art by Kristina David! u/Specialist-Drink6014

It was a pleasure working with her on this and other commissions. <3

I am building the wandering trader Tee Moo (Temu) into my world and need faulty/rip off items that seem great but have unintended or stupid effects. What magic items should he carry that have unexpected/mundane results, curses, etc.?

Like all demons, blood, chaos, and greed call to S’tzaari like a siren’s song. Unlike all demons, it does not consume him, and that makes him deadly. Armed with four sickles branded into his flesh from birth, the few that lived to tell tale of his blades deemed him the Veiled Prince.

I create a lot of neutral and good characters, so I wanted to try an evil one. I really like his concept, but I got lazy with the art 😭 getting the tattoo to sit across his back was in interesting challenge once I added two extra shoulder blades.

Couple fun facts

*summoning the weapons causes an excruciating burning sensation

*He cannot cover any part of the tattoo ever

*His power in the abyss is significantly greater than in the mortal plane

*There are rumors that he gave himself that corny ass moniker

*Please do not use or repost my art in any capacity*

I was planning to draw an Owlin for my challenge to illustrate all the races of Dungeons & Dragons, but at that moment SevenDice shared an idea for his "Bestiary" series: a fierce owlbear with a cub - and I just couldn't resist. I tried to create a little story featuring a cute but timid cub and a ferocious mother ready to do anything to protect her beloved child. I hope I managed to convey that :)

Looking forward to your comments and feedback!

Also, for February 14th - Valentine's Day - I'm already working on an artwork that will surely charm you with its concept. What do you think - which two races would be interesting to combine?

I'm a huge nerd and did some number crunching. I wanted to learn which official D&D 5e adventures are the most successful. In lieu of sales data, I used subreddit data as a rough proxy. Raw subreddit size or just weekly visitors heavily favor older books because they've had time to grow a fanbase, so I adjusted for age by dividing total members by days since publication (rough growth rate), and looked at weekly visitors vs total subs as an engagement ratio (how active/sticky each community is).

What I found is no matter how you slice it, the same adventures keep winning: Strahd is the undeniable king, with Frostmaiden, Dragon Heist, Witchlight, and Avernus almost always also at the top. Tomb of Annihilation and Tyranny of Dragons are close runners-up. Strahd in particular absolutely dominates across the board. Every slice: raw size, growth over time, engagement, you name it, Strahd outperforms basically everything else on the list combined.

Eat your shriveled heart out Vecna, Strahd is the true big bad of D&D.

Speaking of Vecna, Vecna: Eve of Ruin is the only adventure released since Witchlight (2021) that cracks the upper half of the list once you adjust for age. Pretty much everything else post-2021 trails the older stuff, even with generous normalization.

At the bottom, Princes of the Apocalypse is last across almost every metric (sad for me, since it was my first campaign as a DM).

Hopefully this is as interesting to you as it was to me!

[edit for formatting and phrasing]

[edit 2: many have been asking about other adventures or other ways to slice the data, so here's the dataset: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xbLpHBDZ4qIV9x5CRM1PF-B2-l9-ddOJDNauY4JIUkU/edit?usp=sharing If you want to play with the data yourself and maybe draw some conclusions, please do! You'll have to create a filter view to sort and filter. Hopefully you'll have as much fun as I did. For those of you who don't trust links, I posted the data set as plain text in a comment.]

I remember seeing a post on TikTok a while back for DM advice, and they suggested a campaign where you would reveal that the players were actually evil. And while I don’t exactly mind that concept, I don’t exactly like it that much either. There’s something about having your motivations and choices warped for a twist that I just can’t get behind. Though I never played in a campaign like that myself, my friend who’s the DM of a game I’m currently in told me he considered having that twist, before eventually deciding otherwise.

But I know my opinions and experiences are ultimately my own, and the gameplay experience depends on who you’re playing with. So I wanted to hear from other people who were in these kind of campaigns. How did you react to the plot twist? Did you already know? Did you look back on past sessions to try and find hints? And if you continued playing after that, how did the reveal affect the way you play your character? Let me know in the replies!

(Oh, and sorry for the yap session).

This piece shows my halfling wizard PC during a small exploration scene from our DM’s original story.

For some reason, my wizard never picked up the Light spell, so every dark meant pulling out a lantern instead.

I recently bought new paints and wanted to experiment, so I returned to traditional watercolor for this illustration.

The organic textures and subtle gradients felt perfect for capturing the warmth of the lantern and the uncertainty of exploration.

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Raised within the secluded Monastery of Uru’Ten, Lyrin became the vessel of two ancient spirits bound to her arms. The spectral serpent embodies discipline, subtlety, and lethal ki, while the storm dragon surges with wrath, lightning, and overwhelming force. Caught between serenity and destruction, she roams the world in search of the Monoliths of Equilibrium, hoping to unite these rival powers and master the balance that could either elevate her beyond mortal limits or shatter her completely.

I had so much fun working on this commission, hope you all enjoy it!

If you liked it, here are my social media profiles, feel free to check out more of my work here 🤝