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So cause I don’t have much else to talk about here. How about I talk about some DND  characters i’ve played (And that I have art of)

My first dnd character was a 3rd-level Tiefling/Draconic bloodline sorcerer named Valentine. I don’t remember much about the character, I think his backstory was something about him being a president going out in the world after unlocking magical powers? But the most vivid memory I have of him is that I forgot to take actual leveled spells with them. So for a session or two, I was stuck casting firebolt for the whole session, and somehow I got the kill the kill on the boss fight. Needless to say the next session was way better! The campaign they were apart of didn’t last long but hey, I suppose if it weren't for this pride flag colored Tiefling I might not have gotten into DND.  My 2nd DND character shown here was a 9th-level Human, Way of the Kensai Monk/Ranger named: Master Wu-Tang (Yes, he was named after the Wu-Tang clan) who left his family to join an assassins guild of monks, now retired, he joined a ghost hunting organization called “The Crows” in order to do something with the remainder of his life (For reference he was around 70). He was made because the DM wanted to have the party sort of split between ghost players and crow player characters. Having the ghosts be the spellcasters and the crows be the martial characters (Something like this. Keep in mind this was 2 years ago) I also recall wanting to make a DND version of Master Roshi (Without the perverted “Gags) and with that. Wu-Tang was born. Despite some issues the campaign would end up running into (Such as two sort of problem players that I will not name here) Wu-Tang ended up being my longest lasting character. Lasting countless sessions and going from level 3 to level 9. 

The next character I made was for a Feywild campaign. A 5th level aasimar (Pre Monsters of the multiverse) Undead Warlock/Divine soul Sorccerer multiclass named Falus Lucifier. The basic premise of him was that he was born into a highly religious village that considered him to be a god. He visited a strange figure to try and find a way out, only to be murked by a band of Paladins. Though said strange figure would keep their end of the bargin (Sort of) reviving Falus by possessing his body. I basically ended up kinda playing Gabriel from Mandela catalogue as a DND character. Combat wise Falsus was pretty potent as he would cast bless on the parties martials (And himself) and use his form of dread before blasting away with eldritch blast. I designed him to be a blaster/support hybrid and my god I think it worked out, RP wise I unfortunately dropped the ball due to my less than stellar rping as the character and some odd decisions on my end. Maybe I should revisit the character concept sometime. 

The fourth character here is a character I played for a very short-lived Curse of Strahd campaign, a 3rd level Tortle/Path of the Aberrant (Homebrew subclass) called: Captian Goru Zur Ganqwuc. Who on a sailing trip to barovia would fall into the depths, sinking deeper and deeper before waking up with strange tendrils on his shell and gaining new powers. They were basically a grouchy old guy that had this quirk of calling people peck-neck, just to he could cuss someone out without anyone but him knowing what he meant. (Yes I took the line from a A Hat in Time cause I thought it was funny) he was pretty fun to rp as cause I got to do this gravely irish accent with the character. It’s a damn shame the campaign lasted one and a half sessions before being swapped for a Strixhaven campaign.

As a fun fact about Goru, he is the first character i’ve played that was a homebrew subclass. I’ve had characters made before that were homebrew (Such as Wu-Tangs back up character) but neither of those were actually used. And even if the aberrant barbarian was super janky and unbalanced. It was cool to actually play a subclass that I made. Maybe next time funny turtle man.

The last character here is my third most recent character. The 6th level human Chronurgist Wizard/Artificer named Dimitri Leviticus. They were made for a superhero campaign where, I originally wanted to be a homebrew gravity paladin, but the dm vetoed it cause it was too much. Which you know what, that’s on me, so trying to fill the party roll as both the spellcaster and the ranged blaster. I made Dimitri. Dimitri’s career started within as a toy maker, coming from a toy making family (Who were actually pieces of shit but they didn’t know that) Eventually their shop would’ve been blown up and, while in an apartment, with some guidance from a voice in his head they would make a device that allowed him to warp time. So they joined the new dawn academy in order to become a hero, both to bring smiles to the world in a way their toys can’t, and to possibly find out what happened the night their shop was bombed. Dimitri’s probably some of the most fun i’ve had with a caster (Much less a character) In a while, I reflavoured a bunch of their spells to fit the toy/steampunk theming of the character. Such as the web spell being flavored as a web of monkeys in a barrel, find familiar was flavored as a clockwork animal With a prominent wind-up mechanism in their back, and their version of chromatic orb was them throwing powered dodgeballs. Sure they were also mechanically strong and were kind of overpowered. But they were still super fun to play, if even just cause you get to look at any roll your DM made and say. ‘You know that’s a very nice roll...How about we reroll that”  The campaign was a bit of a mess and i’m 99% sure it’s done for. But hey, at least I came away from it with some good memories. 

That’s all of the DND characters i have drawn up atm. I might talk about some other characters i’ve played in another post. But for now if you’ve read this far, thank you. Go out and play some DND or something. 

pinball wizard the arcane arcade trickster who makes a living by cheating at arcade games and reselling minion plushies to children

comms open!

There's still cobwebs in the corners

And the backyard's full of bones

My wizard tiefling Marduk

Don’t mind me,, just posting neglected dnd character art <3

“As you travel threw the night you stubble across a gaunt stranger on the road, his form is frail but his gaze holds an arcane power deeper than the stars.." Was practicing some painting of skin and accidently created my next DND character.

Cario is just a little wizard babey. He doesn't deserve any of this.

With the start of a new campaign comes a new group of future heroes. Meet the new boys for Voice of the Gods!

Starting from left to right we have:

Canxi, a mysterious fire genasi Artificer and craftsman, living inside of a magically water powered suit of mechanical armor

Ajaz'ren, a timid yuan-ti Sorcerer and crown prince of New Ren, formerly Jar'resh

Damian Nyctea Owlhide, a noble Warlock and ambassador from the distant nation of Falcoria

Leothaire "Leo", a Druid from the secluded tribe of the Nophrina, on a journey to prove his worth to one day lead his people

Faucibus Tomemore, a curious Scribe and scholar, on his journey to discover never before seen magics, accompanied by a trusted mimic in the form of a scarf

Magic Object Idea

Reassembled Painting

Description: What seem to be the painting of a famous artist, but with something wrong. The original was a different painting of another famous artist that was then magically cut in small squares and glued precisely back on to look as the other work. The name of the original is on the back of the frame. It yearns to return its original state.

With an investigation roll of 13 or lower the character doesn’t notice anything, 14 to 17 the character notice the colours are slightly different and in some places wrong, 18 or higher and the character notices the cuts and realise what’s been done to the painting as they read the original painting’s name.

Functionality: once a person stands in a 30ft radius of the painting for a long period of time, the sound of scissor will be overheard repeatedly in the air, this sets the start of the “attack” of the painting. Depending on for how long the character is in sight of the painting, it will try to get their attention and to make them suffer its own curse by:

• Swapping colours of their features, for example making their hair the colour of their eyes and viceversa, or making their skin the colour of their armour and viceversa.

• Swapping two people’s features, in case there are at least two creatures in sight, for example swapping the hair, armour or voices of two characters.

Everything is restored after the character moves 40 feet away from the painting.

To restore the painting the players must either break its curse with magic or restoring it manually in two hours of in-game time where the effects are minimal as the painting returns to its original state. (Make it so there is a way for a character with no art knowledge to know how the original looks like, by either putting the painting somewhere where they can be helped by a professional or maybe by making them find earlier a book of paintings of famous artists)

Once the painting is restored, depending on the character that saved it’s class, it changes form:

Artificer: the painting fuses with their tools giving them a beautiful coat of color, +1 to any checks made using them.

Barbarian: the painting fuses with the barbarian to make tattoos of beautiful art all over their body, +1 to Cha checks

Bard: the painting fuses with the Bard’s instruments, +1 to any attack made using them (magic and not, but only attacks that would damage a creature or more)

Cleric: the painting fuses with their shield, turning it into a fine piece of art dedicated to their god or deity, +1 AC

Druid: the painting fuses with the staff of the Druid, or changes in a similar way their Druidic focus, to make it look like a beautiful representation of blooming nature

Fighter: the painting fuses with the boots of the fighter turning them into a beautiful peace of art, +5ft on all speeds (that are not set to 0)

Monk: The painting fuses with the knuckles of the Monk, marking them with beautiful tiny tattoos, +1 max ki point

Paladin: The painting fuses with the paladin’s blade, turning into to a shining piece of art with its hilt beautiful yet still practical. +1d4 damage dealt using the sword

Ranger: The painting fuses with their bow or ranged weapon, marking with drawings of the hunt, +1 to all Wis checks

Rouge: the painting fuses with the daggers of the rogue, turning them into a deep black colour when they hide but a beautiful piece of art when they don’t, +1d4 to sneak attacks damage

Sorcerer: the painting fuses with the body of the sorcerer as a beautiful tattoo forms on their chest, gain an additional metamagic option

Warlock: the painting fuses not only with the character but with the pact itself that they made with the patron, making your Eldritch Blast look like a beautiful piece of art as it blasts your enemies, +1d6 damage dealt using Eldritch Blast (for Hexblade, it fuses with the weapon and deals +1d4 damage)

Wizard: the painting fuses with the spell book of the wizard, making its cover much more beautiful and depicting the spells inside with drawings too, +1 to the number of recovered spell slots AFTER halving the Wizard level (a 4th level wizard will be able to recover 3 spell slots instead of 2)

Inspiration: the video above, the idea of a painting cut to pieces to form another came to me listening to the story of a Black actress being forced to learn how to act as a White actress.

DnD Campfire Silhouettes

I started playing in a DnD group recently, was inspired to draw all of the characters after session 1 and quickly made this fun silhouette style piece!! Most of the other players and the DM have already put this piece as a background on their devices and it blows my mind how much they love this piece, truly is fascinating how differently others might see a piece that I consider quick, dumb and fun haha 😄

🎊Happy Birthday Garren!!🥳

In the campaign recently we had a fun birthday session for our favourite Paladin where the party threw this grand magic tavern feast and invited the entire village they stopped in after completing a recent side quest!! I just had to draw Garren in his birthday fit and recieving some of his gifts from the party cause it was so wholesome fr fr. Happy Birthday Garren, congrats on somehow living to be both 31 and 281 at the same time (yeah I don't get it either lolol) 😂👀💧

Some close ups:

DnD Sketchs: Lia's Madness Arc

So one of the characters got to roll on the Madness table and nearly died of exhaustion recently after their encounter with the nymph Thesilha. Poor Lia had a terrible time in her dream world and the party have all been coming up with ways to help her feel better and making sure she has the time and space to rest.

Some ways the party have helped her so far include Luuki making her a sickass staff/cane to help her walk, Ezra being the best girlie pop with her and helping look after her, and Remmy has let her vent to him and let her lean on him when she gets tired (THIS IS SO WILD CAUSE HES BEEN THE ONE WHO HATED HER THE MOST AND NOW HES HERE I LOVE HIS DEVELOPMENT 🥲😭)

DnD Character Appearance: Thesilha's Dream World

So the party encountered this really powerful nymph recently while on their journey to some mountains and the only way they could continue is if they completed some trials she set out, one such trial involving having the party members live through a hallucinary dream world molded by their greatest wishes and their deepest fears. Each person had a slightly different world that they lived in but these are the dream versions of people within Ezra's dreamscape. It was very facinating designing these fictious worlds and how significant people within Ezra's life would be shaped by it (Ezra's dream was very wacky and he ended up going a bit mad throughout it all, thanks again @jesuisfinni for playing into his madness for me lolol)

A lot happened throughout this but a quick run down of the changes that happened with characters in this dream world:

Lia was a socially confident and highly respected Top Student at the Deacon College, however while she was intelligent in the ways of the arcane she could not use it or cast any spells

Garren didn't experience any of the Crystaline Curse plot that happened and never lived to be a Military Commander, instead he was just a simple man who was trying to find a job and was quick to grow attached to people (unlike his regular self who takes his sweet sweet time)

Remmy was homeless and fought to survive on the streets everyday ever since his grandparents died and the streets have not been kind to the boy, however he does still have a spark for cooking even if he rarely ever gets to do so

Annabelle (a new backstory npc and long-time friend omg) runs a lively tavern that catered to the monster-kind folks in the high street of the city Ezra grew up in instead of running a secret underground tavern because Teiflings were heavily oppressed and scrutinized

Vince and his twin brother Lee are 2 of Ezra's close friends from his teen years who were unjustly sentenced to death at 15 so in this world they got to live and grow up to be what they always wanted to be (@jesuisfinni really wanted to hammer in the tragic backstory and that's these two I guess)

Quick Lia Painting

Was inspired to draw Lia in her ballgown in the moonlight but not inspired enough to do a full render of it so have this piece that I produced in like an hour or 2 I can't remember lolol

Sketch Book Art Dump!! 🎨🖊

I've been wanting to post some of the stuff I've done in my personal sketchbook for quite some time now but suffered from the same old ✨️"artist's perfectionism"✨️ and never thought any of them were good enough to post. So here I am, doing this now to remind myself that it doesn't matter if the drawing looks a mess and if people don't like it as much as I do, if I am proud enough that I want to showcase it then I should just do it, even if I end up the only one who thinks it looks cool 😌🙏💜

All of these were done with ballpoint pens and pastel highlighters that I take with me everywhere lolol

Characters are mostly from the DnD Campaign (Ezra the Bard, Garren the Paladin, Lia the Wizard) with a sneaky little glimpse of Junior (derpy dog boi) from the comic I'm creating 🤭

Dnd Art: Sleep Pile 💤

A sketch of the party at current all coming together for a nap cause life is tiring and sleepy cuddle times can help one cope with that struggle (I would know I'm a ✨️professional ✨️ napper 😌👌)

(New Characters:-

Harengon - Luuki 🐇

Aasimar - Lia 👼)

D&D OC refs

Made in April

References for some more of my D&D OCs

Emerson Foxglove, warlock/rogue, abyssal tiedling, He/they. Was once a normal petty thief (minus the lycanthropy) until they pickpocketed the wrong adventures and had their legs mangled. They desperately called out for help and were answered by an archdevil, aka his new warlock patron

Janus Flimly, wizard, yuan-ti, he/him. A con man who uses his illusions to sell his fake potions until He met an adventuring party (same one as Em) who helped him to change his ways. He also has a drag queen boyfriend now (or partner? They/he pronouns)

Tahlia Maverick, bloodhunter/wizard, infernal tiefling, she/her. A loner who hunted monsters until she met a group of travelers (different than Janus and Em’s) She learned that the blood hunters she worked with were evil so she branched out on her own. She changed her last name/virtue name to Reverence to Maverick during the adventure. (It was. So cool)

Daisy Bloom, warlock, harengon, she/her. I have yet to actually play as her, but she’s a lawful evil warlock. Despite that, she’s super polite and motherly, and only ever does evil acts because she believes them to be right. She would willingly betray her allies if the devil she serves wanted her to. (The rock in her hand was something from the campaign I almost used her in until the DM decided not to run it due to anxiety. He’s doing it now but I’m playing as an asshole bard named Ashleigh)

Shuffle

March 2024

Short animatic based on events in my first campaign

Circe the pigeon had a kinda relationship with Prince the loser NPC (I read it as queerplatonic tbh)

But Circe’s lust for power and acclaim (motivated by aarokocra’s apparently short lifespans) drove them apart and led to Circes exile

Also Prince had a really bad Australian accent

Battle map

Made this sometime in 2023 for a big boss fight in my first ever campaign! Our monk, Frank, pissed off Talos and so they fought him, killed him, and Frank became a god! If I ever mention Frank Knarf, god of Mist, Thunder and Hand to hand Combat anywhere, this is the context.

Characters (left to right):

(Image 2): Emily, Meradel, Frank himself, Brim, Circe, Psycho Killer (named for the Talking Heads song not bc he’s a murderer), Iris and Truffle. All the PCs (Image 3): Petrichor (recruited to lead reenforcements that weren’t needed), Janus (Truffles BF), Prince (Circe’s… honestly idk they were kinda Queerplatonic then they broke up), Ai/Loki (yes they recruited a god. Yes she’s also one of my comfort OCs shut up), Percival and Archie (gay shopkeepers who were my fail safe for if this almost became a TPK), Mel (mostly there to watch tbh), and Hemlock (also recruited to reinforce)

This fight was chaotic and took all session but it was legendary

D&D party

From December of last year

From left to right: Circe, the communist pigeon wizard (any pronouns I think); Truffle, the Druid drag queen (not in drag in this, unfortunately)(they/them); Janus, the Yuan-ti wizard conman (that’s me!)(he/him); and Emily, the responsible one (also the bard somehow) (she/her)