Get blinded, idiot

Gonna work on this for a little bit before "publishing" this piece (read: posting on reddit) but here's a slight sample of what I've been working on

idk what else to put here so have this gif I found of a shark riding on a roomba

My art of a DnD Tiefling Wizard!

Commissions open!

Here's the description of the character:

race: Tiefling

class: conjuration wizard

sex: male

personality: he is a shy and reserved person. His backstory to help inform you of his personality and stuff is this: Grew up in an orphanage. The orphanage was well funded and well ran. He wasn't mistreated at the orphanage by the staff. He was picked on by the other kids because he was different. Part of that was being a Tiefling, and he also is very smart, so the kids picked on him. There was one incident that caused one of his horns to break. Because he was ostracized by the other kids he spent his time reading a lot. So where he is at now, he is nervous around other people, not confident in himself at all, and very shy/reserved.

age: 19

height: 5' 9"

weight/build: slim and frail

hair style/color: unkempt, black, shoulder length hair. Hair where if he was leaning forward like reading a book or just having his head down his hair would cover around his face almost like how a hood would.

eye color: yellow

skin color: red/red-orange

items/weapons: nothing in particular other than his spell book and a bag for it

clothing top: wears glasses, has nice-ish clothes. Nothing extravagant though. I attached some reference pictures, but I'm open to your interpretation.

clothing bottom: same as above

clothing bottom: leather boots. He has human feet, not hooves. Other than that, see same answer as above.

pet: barn owl is his familiar

other: see reference image for his horn style, but one of the vertical horns is broken off. See reference images for tail. His tail is not super thick is the main thing.

Breaking and Exiting | Magical untensils to break into and out of any situation

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Welcome to the new month, a combo theme of fortress and escape. While the intent for these items were to escape, they, admittedly, also work to infiltrate a fortress. Ha! Perfect segue between topics :)

Adamantine Battering Ram

So, the trait of adamantine weapons, besides bypassing damage immunities is that it autocrits structures and objects, like doors. Well, it makes sense then that you'd want an adamantine version of an object all about breaking down doors.

Counterfeit Skeleton Key

Doing things in alphabetical order is amusing sometimes. This is, as the name implies, a replica of the artifact in this list. Because of course you want a magic key that automatically unlocks any door. Did steal the idea of several conceptual versions of this item from media consumed long ago that I no longer know where it's from where it moulds itself to the lock it fits into and stays like that. Or I hallucinated that memory, I honestly couldn't tell you.

Inconspicuous Crate

A Metal Gear reference, haha! Also coincidentally not the first mind altering box I've made, huh.

Instant Hole

So, the robe of useful items potentially includes a window or a pit that you can just slap onto the ground or a wall, but that's the only way to get such a marvelous item. I thought it might do to make an actual item out of it. Yes, this is based on the portable hole from Who Framed Rodger Rabbit. I just couldn't name it such, because apparently that item already exists but isn't really a hole. Now is it?

Mithral Lockpick

I miss masterwork thieves tools. I also find the general lack of improvements for the most used tool a little odd, actually. It's not much, but it's nice.

Skeleton Key

Behold! The most common fantasy magic item in existence. Including the item of the same name from the elder scrolls that I borrowed some of its abilities of (AKA the unlocking of potential), and pathfinder's "Perfection's Key" which I borrowed the destruction method of. Strangely, the closest item 5e has is the chime of opening, which is a temporary item and loud. Neither of which I would recommend for sneaking.

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Little man’s first day at home and he’s already rolling for initiative

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Sorceress' Might!

I had an idea of an entire castle coming to life as a monster, so I made this!

Commissions are open! Feel free to DM me!

Playlists

think I'm gonna take a page out of Critical Roles playbook and create a few playlists on Spotify that I think associate well with my characters.

BEHOLD MY NEW FAVORITE BLORBOB 🐸💚🦆🤎

This is Dolfus Hound, a frog that a fae decided for whatever reason to give the gift of Realizing the Difference Between Good, Evil & Chaotic and immediately wanted to become a (Folk) Hero, and even though Dolfus only has like 9 HP Dolfus tries Dolfus' best and believes in you the way only a Chaotic Good froggy can. Dolfus has a big weakness for beer (and pampering Joyous Day teehee).

Dolfus can understand and write Common and Sylvan but can't speak. Joyous Day, Dolfus' trusty and faithful steed, is a female wood duck (if you can tell lol).

I really wanna try goin on an adventure with Dolfus 'n Joyous Day, but I'm already busy with another character so I guess Dolfus will have to wait (booo).

Also I have no idea what gender to make Dolfus and frogs are Neat Like That so I guess Dolfus is Dolfus' single pronoun.

This is an interesting look at the origins of the Braunstein game in the Twin Cities wargaming group, one of the most important antecedents of D&D. David Wesely is still around, still running Braunsteins at cons, and he popped in to add his comments to this video.

58. Gary Gygax - D3: Vault of the Drow (1978)

The culmination of the D series of adventure modules takes players all the way to the Drow city of Erelhei-Cinlu deep in the underdark where they get to finally face the ones responsible for the Giant Alliance above ground, in case they didn't kill Eclavdra at the end of G3, that is (if they did they are supposed to find that she has been cloned).

There is always a tension in adventure modules between making them too loosey goosey and putting little effort into the story being told and being too railroady and not leaving any discretion to the DM. This adventure falls a bit into the first category, while Gygax invents some truly awesome encounters (the Succubus garden being particularly great) and great settings with the detailed vault and city of the Drow, he doesn't really bother that much in connecting those elements. The players get a moody amazing sandbox to play in but little direction as to why they should play in that sandbox. So the DM is going to be thinking very fast on their feet or is going to have to do a bunch of prep work to lead the characters from point A to B to C.

By the end of the adventure characters will find one of the most famous demon queens in D&D, Lolth, the Spider Queen of the Elves, the largest "dungeon" within the module being her fane. However, Eclavdra isn't working for her, she is actually a servant of a rival of Lolth, so the logic behind this boss battle will have to be made up by the DM as there is no indication of it. Should the players manage to get transported to the Abyssal plane where the true Lolth resides they would have to wait for a couple of years to continue the story in 1980 with Q1: Queen of the Demonweb Pits. I'll get to it eventually. 

Get blinded, idiot

Gonna work on this for a little bit before "publishing" this piece (read: posting on reddit) but here's a slight sample of what I've been working on

idk what else to put here so have this gif I found of a shark riding on a roomba

one of the funniest things that has ever been said in my D&D group is the Dragonborn saying "Raw" as a response to a hot Halfling asking how they liked their tea.

⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Deathmetal Axe
Weapon (greataxe), very rare (requires attunement) ___

This adamantine axe is covered in narrow cracks, which periodically erupt with harmless, magical flame. Along its haft are four strings: plucking a string creates a deep, bone-rattling resonance from the axe. If you’re proficient with lutes, you are proficient with the “deathmetal axe”, and you can play it as if it were a lute. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon, as well as on any Charisma (Performance) check you make with it. Whenever the axe hits an object, the hit is a critical hit.

𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙨. The axe has 7 charges for the following properties. It regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you take 10 or more lightning damage and then use one of the axe’s properties on your next turn, the number of charges required by the property is reduced by 1.

𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨. While holding the axe, you can use an action to expend 2 of its charges to cast either the “shatter” or “thunderwave” (2nd-level version) spell from it (save DC 16).

𝙏𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚. Whenever you take the Attack action with this weapon, you can expend 1 of its charges to replace one of your attacks with a special performance. When you do, make a DC 16 Charisma (Performance) check. On a success, you create an instantaneous wave of sound, which affects creatures within 10 feet of you; friendly creatures within the wave immediately gain 2d6 + 2 temporary hit points, and hostile creatures must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or take 2d6 + 2 thunder damage. When you roll a 20 on the Charisma (Performance) check, the radius of your wave increases to 30 feet, and the number of temporary hit points gained and thunder damage dealt is doubled. A creature is immune to these effects if it can’t hear the performance. The wave then fades. ___

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do you think they'd be friends

💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Ring of the Koi
Ring, rare ___

While wearing this ring, you can breathe underwater, and you have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed. In addition, you can swim up waterfalls; doing so costs 2 feet of movement for every 1 foot you move.

𝙃𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧. You can perform a special ritual over the course of 10 minutes; doing so requires the “ring of the koi” and a golden basin worth no less than 100 gp, which must be filled with water. At the end of the ceremony, you drop the ring in the basin. The ring is then destroyed, but duplicates the effects of the “hallow” spell, centered on the basin of water. This version of the spell uses the Courage option for its extra effect. When a creature finishes a long rest within the spell’s area, it gains the benefit of the “ring of the koi’s” other effects for the next 24 hours. ___

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