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Sindriana was a high elf healer in life before being killed in the undead invasion of her homeland. She would later be raised up as a San'layn, a vampiric form of undead elf, to spread misery to the very forests she once called home. One night, under circumstances nobody but Sin herself knows, she regained her freedom, and sought out to make amends for the many wrongs she had committed. Now, Sindriana wanders the world, using her necromancy to help wayward spirits cross beyond the boundaries of life and death, while channeling those who have passed on so they may speak to their grieving loved ones one last time.

Obviously started off as a WoW character, but has been easily converted into a dnd character with very few modifications 💙

Art by valkyray on Vgen :)

So this is a new OC design I did. I'm pretty happy with how she turned out, but I still don't have much of a backstory for her. Also the art isn’t finished I didn’t do any rendering yet
Zaraya believes fear is more reliable than loyalty. People betray each other all the time, but fear
makes them think twice. She broke one of her horns to separate herself from her family and has no interest in making new connections. She works alone, and trusts no one.

Hey y'all! This is a commissioned piece that I recently made. Here's the backstory for this character that the client gave me. I made some tweaks to the writing, but it's still the same story. Cheers guys!

As a young tiefling orphan, Vallyria was taken in by Governor Heinrik Siegfrid. He gave her a home and raised her like a daughter, but he also trained her to be his personal assassin. To protect his political power, Vallyria spent years killing his rivals, blindly believing she was doing the right thing for her adoptive father.

Everything changed during a mission to eliminate a rebel reformist leader. As Vallyria drew her blade, the target’s young daughter rushed into the room, crying and hugging her father. Watching the man protect his child, Vallyria realized what real family love looked like and that Heinrik was just using her as a monster. Lowering her weapon as she realized what she had become because of him, she fled.

When Heinrik learned about her failure to complete the mission, his loving-father act vanished. Seeing her as a loose end, he branded her a traitor and put a massive price on her head. Now on the run from other assassins hired to take her down, Vallyria is using the exact skills he taught her to stay alive. But survival isn't her only goal anymore She’s determined to tear down his reign of corruption and get revenge on the man she once called father.

So I've had a minor dispute with my dm in a game recently. We talked about it earlier today, but admittedly I'm just more confused now, so I figured I'd turn here for some other opinions. So I'm playing a 9th level Paladin in dnd 5e rules, so I have Aura of Protection with an 18 Charisma as well as a Ring of Protection, so overall a +5 bonus to all my saving throws personally.

Just a few weeks ago, my dm called for a Wisdom ability check when me and another party member entered this underground fighting ring. Bad luck, both of us rolled pretty low, I got a 7, + 1 from my Wisdom for a total of 8. Sucks but eh, that's the way dice roll.

Then the dm narrates how we both "feel a dark presence settle over us" and than something else that I can't quite remember, and then he moved on to the next characters. (TBF, the session ended shortly after cause time was up, so maybe that 'dark presence' hasn't resolved yet. Idk) But like, we're not mind-controlled or something afaik so...

But his words confused me, since he specifically called for a Wisdom ability check, not saving throw. He even shook his head when I'd asked beforehand if it was a saving throw, so I didn't misunderstand. But to my understanding, saving throws are made when something outside of the player desires to affect them, right? So like, this should've been a saving throw, correct?

So I talk to him today and he tries to explain himself, but either I'm just too stupid or something, but from what I could tell, his reasoning is because we didn't take damage or weren't harmed, so it's not a saving throw? Like, one of his analogy's (and I swear I wish I was lying) was something like "smelling a fart vs smelling poison gas. The former doesn't require a saving throw, the latter does" and I'm like... shouldn't the former still require a saving throw, albeit a low dc and no real consequence for failure cause it's just a damn fart?

Idk, what do you guys think? Am I wrong or just tripping?

Edit: Forgot to mention, this has happened a few times before, hence why I brought it up to him now, since I was confused.

Kivak the Illustrious didn’t earn his name by sitting in some dusty library or writing pretty poems for noble ladies. He earned it by walking out of a goblin warren with a stolen gold-inlaid lyre, three dead goblins bleeding into the dirt, and not a scratch on his new green tunic. That’s the kind of luck that makes you believe in something. Born to a circus made up of misfits and outcasts in the Greywood, Kivak was the runt of his tiefling litter, the one with the smallest horns and the biggest mouth. He learned fast that the world doesn’t give you a damn thing just because you were born with red skin and a tail. You have to charm it, trick it, or stab it. So he spent years playing in taverns that would’ve kicked him out on his ass for being a devil-spawn if the ale wasn’t cheap, and he learned that the best way to survive a knife fight is to make the other guy laugh before you draw your own. He’s been run out of three towns, banned from two more, and somehow always lands on his feet with a pouch full of coin and a smirk on his face. He calls himself "Illustrious" because "Kivak the Lucky Bastard" doesn't fit on a bounty notice.

I was recently requested by a player to paint their character, Garrick Blackbriar. I was given a description of their appearance, weapon, and armor. For this piece I decided to go more geometric with the shape language I used, while also maintaining a rugged and barbaric feel. I thought the shapely look of form, juxtaposed with the organic elements in the armor would provide a really interesting look overall. I think in the future, I’ll return more to using line work, but I felt the rendering style suited this character nicely. Oftentimes the piece will tell me what it wants to be and which approach I should take.

What is meant by that is my dm during combat will not go by the "bloodied" rules or tell me if I can even gleam anything off my enemy. He says if its impossible he won't make me roll for it, so I don't get to roll perception or insight to see how hurt my opponent is. Which sucks because im a battlemaster and I wanna know if its worth it to use my superiority die or if my target is at 1hp. This has happened 3 separate times I used the dice and he's like it doesn't matter he's dead. I think he thinks its funny or something and its not a huge deal just a gripe but man it sucks when it happens.

I would like to apologize for all of this, but it is something that i must take out of my chest.

I'm an DnD 5e player for the last 7 years, i still, never finished one campaign at all.

That's because all of the groups i end up joining get their campaingns cancelled by problems out of my reach.

- The DM just gives up

- Players just leave and ghosts the party.

- A player makes bigs mistakes on purpose and end up breaking up the party. (Last one)

All those things makes me feel frustrated and sad, because i never get to finish my characters stories.

I get so engaged and immersed with the story, and then, it all crumbles instantly.

All the adventure disappears, the ideas of roleplaying with others just vanishes.

As i am someone who really is fond of the characters i make, I've been reusing them just hoping they would get a good ending, but it never happens.

All i wished was a game where i could share a story with others, and others could share theirs stories as well, as we have our adventures to defeat a great villain, or unvail secrets.. I don't know.

Really I'm starting to lose hope, as I can't feel happiness with my favourite hobby, which is RPG.

I simply don't know what to do anymore at this point.

Sorry to bother you, i just needed to share it with someone.

My friend is playing a homebrew DnD campaign and I really wanted to honor one NPC in their character's backstory with some cool (and sorrowful) art

This is Eveline, who unfortunately fell during a monster attack on her village before the campaign started. At her brother's wish, she was brought back to life and came back to the world as a fox/monster spirit. She kept her memories and her personality, but she lost her ability to speak in exchange, which pains her greatly.

She helps her brother however she can during the campaign.

The constellation depicted in the corner is the vulpecula, which means little fox!

I just launched my commissions on VGen where I do portraits like this one! I love playing with light and adding symbolism elements however I can in these pieces 😊

Link if you're curious: https://vgen.co/moonberryglow (approved by mods beforehand)