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Mind the Glow

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Lots of Magic, a little bit of Pokemon, Avatar, Marvel, and a slew of other nerdy things.
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bace-jeleren

THE PREVIEW FOR THE NEW MAGIC COMIC REVEALING THE MOST BAFFLING SHIT LIKE, HEY, KIDS, NIV WAS A ROBOT ALL ALONG

Check out those gears, that shining chrome finish

AH YES, HE WAS BUILDING A ROBOT

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caitmayart

“Shh mama! I’m surprising you!!“  CR2 Ep109

 This moment took my heart and cradled it softly in gossamer and tucked it into bed. Thank you so much for making me feel so WARM.

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dm-tuz

Unbound Monsters - Slaughterhouse Horrors

An easier post for folk that missed the first or the second entry to these monsters. This is what you can expect to get every month when you become one of my patrons!

Links will follow in the reblog, so please be considerate and reblog my reblog containing the drive link so others won’t have to look for it.

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prokopetz

Okay, so: for those who aren’t familiar with it, the premise of D&D’s Ravenloft campaign setting is that it’s a gothic horror world where some myterious force elevates its most evil inhabitants into godlike rulers called Darklords. Each Darklord is granted a domain in which they wield absolute power, but also labours under a curse that denies them the one thing they want most. Basically, it’s a setting where the existence of boss monsters is a concrete phenomenon.

That’s not the whole gimmick, though. The other half of the equation is that each Darklord is a thinly disguised version of a particular historical or public domain literary figure. There’s a Darklord based on Victor Frankenstein, a Darklord based on Dr. Moreau, a Darklord based on Count Dracula, and so forth.

(Actually, there are two Darklords based on Count Dracula, one modelled on the literary Dracula and one modelled on the historical Dracula, which is just hilariously meta – but I digress!)

And then there’s the weird ones.

For example, there’s a Darklord who’s literally an evil William Shakespeare. He has the power to put on illusory dramatic productions that seem absolutely real to outside observers, but all he sees are wooden puppets and cardboard backdrops; his thing is tricking adventurers into participating in his contrived tragedies in the hope of wringing emotionally genuine performances out of them.

Similarly, there’s a Darklord who’s an evil Pinocchio, and wants to capture the player characters to use them as test subjects in weird experiments that he hopes will uncover the secret of becoming a real boy – experiments which are doomed to failure, of course, because that’s what the Darklords’ curse is all about, but don’t tell him that! (Also, evil Pinocchio’s name is “Maligno”, because of course it is; this is not subtle material.)

So, with all that context in mind, one of my perennial campaign ideas I hope to run some day is a Ravenloft game where the first Darklord the player characters come up against is an evil Billy Mays.

(If that one doesn’t pan out, my backup plan is a Darklord based on Jay Gatsby.)

A few standout suggestions for additional Darklord inspirations collected from the notes:

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makanidotdot

got a request for hobo toph and opal, i’d been wanting to draw zhaofu toph and young opal so i did.  She’s telling opal about her old nonbender friend’s cool sword, and probably ruining something of Su’s to momentarily recreate it.

also did a age thing for my version of toph, kind of just to make sure I knew how I was getting from point A to point B.     also UGH GOD I GUESS I GOTTA GET ALL MY OLD TOPH STUFF OUT NOW BEFORE ITS’ NON CANON IN LIKE 3 WEEKS ALSO I REALLY AFRAID FOR TOPH LIKE OK AIWEI IS THE ONE WHO TOLD THE STORY ABOUT WHERE SHE WAS AND SHE IS PROBABLY THE ONLY OTHER ‘TRUTHSEER’ SO WHAT IF SHE’S NOT PARTY HOBO TOPH WHAT IF SHE’S CAPTIVE OR DOING SOMETHING NOT GOOD OR ????????????????? ok anyway

and little more rendered versions of the sisters idk what else i would post it with

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