#dungeons and/or dragons

[tea-with-eleni]

“I loved Strahd von Zarovich. I cannot deny it.

He is exactly the kind of person I always dreamed of finding, when I was mortal. When I was alive. He’s brilliant, a strategist, a warrior. He protects his people. Of course, it helps that he is also beautiful. Is it any surprise that I was so easily taken in by his charms? I entered the mists and found him waiting. He was in mourning. I loved him then, and stayed by his side through a grief he could scarcely describe.

He came to love me, I think. Maybe he even still loves me, in some way. A heart can love so many when it doesn’t need to beat. I was not his lost Tatyana, I never would be, but I knew that he loved me too.

No gods blessed our union.

Of course not. My husband killed me, after all.”

Had Strahd actually wanted a wife who could be his equal, he would have been hard pressed to do much better than Ludmilla Vilisevic: she’s fiendishly intelligent, a brilliant strategist, a gifted wizard, and is (or in our campaign, was) truly devoted to her husband’s ambitions. She wants what he wants and, as far as anyone can tell, always has - even before Strahd bound her to him centuries ago.

Or...she did. Perhaps one of Strahd's greatest mistakes was when he accidentally made Ludmilla a true vampire with her own free will. It wasn't a problem for centuries, but things are different now. She's realized just how deluded Strahd actually is. She's realized that Strahd will always choose the dream of Tatyana over the woman who has been by his side for centuries.

The cards are the broken one, the necromancer, the traitor, the torturer, the temptress, and the Raven. Make of them what you will.

[anna-neko]

they've finally found a way to get nerds to Improv shows - make it DnD!

so of course hadda dress up! (Trickster luved me, yay!)

the outfit theme was simple... DnD is an adventure, yeah? And for an Adventure Quest you gotta have a map to follow.... therefor I am "a map lit by starlight" - the skirt is printed in a complex atlas, and there were gold stars in my hair! Plus - fav lil detail - a tiny functioning compass charm dangling off my belt

[tea-with-eleni]

Hm. For the Curse of Strahd that I'm running, I have made precisely one gender flip: Argynvost. Because I felt like it worked slightly better for the character who might care most about what happened to the giant silver dragon.

So, as major-at-any-point-in-our-story characters go, we have, for men:

The six male PCs (played by an equal assortment of male and female players who just all happened to make dudes, I don't think there was a conspiracy)

Strahd von Zarovich

Escher (RIP)

Van Richten (MIA)

Viktor Vallakovich (MIA)

The Abbott (Arguably male)

Azalin Rex (It's a long story)

Blinsky (Probably not major but certainly beloved)

Ismark

Assorted Martikovs

Assorted blacksmiths across two different domains of dread (they've mostly been male, apparently I have a bias)

Sergei von Zarovich

and for women:

Ireena Kolyana

Fiona Wachter

Ludmilla

Volenta

Anastraya

Arabelle

Madam Eva

Argynvost (deceased long before the story began)

Vasilka (Arguably female)

Assorted Martikovs

Assorted shopkeepers and innkeepers across two different domains of dread (many innkeepers have been female, apparently I have a bias???)

and for nonbinary people:

Ez d'Avenir (vaguely female)

A few NPCs with cameos

Vampyr, technically, I guess

I feel like if you gender flipped everyone, some story dynamics would feel different, but not like "oh shit, did Lolth command the women to kill all the men and throw their bodies in a cave somewhere???"

[mindboogling]

I love making a gag character for D&D, forgetting they’re just a gag character, and then take a step back to look at the original ref

[ukrainian-groove-metal]

“my sentient sword came out to me as transmasc, i mean, talk about un-she/they-ing your blade!”

[smolderingcorpsebar]

(yes, that @gallusrostromegalus )

[sufficientlylargen]

Flamin' Fireball

★★★★⯨ - 6 reviews, 4.3 average Jump to recipe

Deliciously smoky and sure to annihilate your foes, these fireballs are a family favorite! Very easy, and with a nice bite!

Now I know everybody has their own "best" fireball recipe, and some people have strong opinions about what a fireball should be. But I like to think outside the box. You see, when I was only eight years of age, back in the Silver Foothills, my fathers often had to be away all day for business and so I was left to my own devices. I would spend hours roaming the hills, inspecting the plant life and learning the behaviors of the animals. There was an old woman who lived up the hill a bit, a gnoll named Krignor, and she cooked the most delicious stroopwafel stew I have ever had - hearty, sweet, with just a hint of coffee - and I often would...

[twelve pages later]

And to this day, I can't roast a displacer beast without thinking about that tower and the stew that saved our lives.

Flamin' Fireball

Roll 1 pinch Bat Guano and 1 pinch Sulfur into a ball.

Throw.

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[saturni-idae]

Down in the dungeon, where hunger resides 🩸

I wanted to make a dungeon meshi fanart for a while, and man, I love Falin, so here we go

I hope you like it :)

[sm-baby]

[tea-with-eleni]

I would bring back the sun.

I loved Strahd von Zarovich. I cannot deny it.

He is exactly the kind of person I always dreamed of finding, when I was mortal. When I was alive. He’s brilliant, a strategist, a warrior. He protects his people. Of course, it helps that he is also beautiful. Is it any surprise that I was so easily taken in by his charms? I entered the mists and found him waiting. He was in mourning. I loved him then, and stayed by his side through a grief he could scarcely describe.

He came to love me, I think. Maybe he even still loves me, in some way. A heart can love so many when it doesn’t need to beat. I was not his lost Tatyana, I never would be, but I knew that he loved me too.

No gods blessed our union.

Of course not. My husband killed me, after all.

He was the first vampire. There aren’t rulebooks for such things. We didn’t know, he didn’t know that there was a way to free me from his control. And besides… shouldn’t a wife obey her husband?

It is better to be dead than spawn. I can say that with utter certainty. I loved my husband, and I loved that he would do anything for Barovia. I would do anything for Barovia too, whether I wanted it or not.

It was an accident, when he freed me. Neither of us knew that it would do anything at all, if I were to drink from him, as he did from me.

I would like to think I suspected.

I may be lying to myself.

I do not think he regretted it, though. He loved me.

I loved Tatyana, through him. That was something he could never have forced. He would not have needed to. My heart was as free as his. I gave it willingly to the girl who fought her way to our door, who begged us to let her stay. I could spare her my indignities. We needed to be certain, I told my husband, that we could share our dark gifts with Tatyana when she found her way back to us. Volenta was willing. My husband knew what I was planning, but indulged me in this. I could keep my little bird. I could keep Volenta.

We could not help him woo Victoria. Anya. Olya. Sorina. Marina. They died, life after life.

There is little point in learning to love a willing puppet. He did not free Anastraya. I do not know if he loves her. I did not.

He did not free Escher. I did not know if the boy even understood the cruel fate that awaited him.

I did not care if my husband forbade my interference with Ireena. He could not command me, not anymore. I saw no need to obey this command. What was the point? I wanted to meet her, before she died. Everything in my studies was shaped to help her survive. If I could meet her, if I could protect her… Volenta laughed at me, but did not try to dissuade me. Although we have come to feel very little for the fleeting mortals who live and die by our whims, she confessed her own curiosity.

I created the cruel charade that lured our dearest home. Volenta played her part well. I was less convincing in mine, but then, I did not need to be. I merely needed to be present, to scare her enough that she would not enter the temple.

I spoke with her that night.

My husband was dreadfully wrong.

My husband was sick.

She will never love him. Not in this life. Not in any life. Strahd killed me, but he destroyed her.

I loved her, too. She is brilliant. Dazzling. She is the radiance of the sun I never thought to see again. She is more alive than my husband ever could have been. Of course, it helps that she is also beautiful. Is it any surprise that I was so easily taken in by her charms? I helped steal her from the cold outside of the Amber Temple, I brought her home. She mourned the lives she never was able to live. I loved her then, and stayed by her side to protect her from my husband. We entered the mists together, to try to escape.

We will never be free while my husband endures.

He will torture and coerce and enslave so many like me to capture her. To cage her. He would do anything for the idea of her, but he does not, cannot, comprehend Ireena Kolyana.

She will never love him. She may never love me.

I don’t care.

I may be lying to myself.

I have, unknowingly, condemned the man she did love, once. It is better to be dead than spawn, but I will not cause her more pain. I cannot free him. Not without damning him further. But perhaps she can, someday. I am not kind. It would be kinder to kill him. But Ireena may yet love him, and I will not take this chance from her.

It was an accident, when I created him.

I regret it.

I cannot help her woo Doru Donovich. But, then, if she truly loves him, she does not need my help. I think I understand some things better now. If he loves her, perhaps they can yet be happy.

Well. Not while my husband endures.

But perhaps someday.

Volenta, my bird, knows how hard it will be to kill our husband. She is more afraid than I am. She does not want to give up this world just yet. Nor do I, in truth, but I would do anything for Barovia.

I loved Strahd von Zarovich. Nevertheless, he killed me. He killed Volenta. He has killed Ireena, life after life after life.

So many, dead. So much darkness, for so very long.

It is time for us to return the favor.

[sufficientlylargen]

*locking the door behind the players* Oh yes we are.

idk what dm needs to hear this but you arent getting that done in a single session

[gorjee-art]

Finally made a sheng reference! Now I won't make tiny continuity mistakes!

[ladysantos]

made a lil turnaround of my dnd oc + an old drawing of her

[bridgekc]

i love crossovers

[sufficientlylargen]

I think if you're gaining new moves that's still leveling up, it's just up and at a diagonal.

Leveling sideways should keep you at about the same overall tier, just moving you.

E.g. the wizard levels sideways, losing three spell slots but gaining barbarian rage and proficiency with a hurdy-gurdy.

Level sideways.

Once you get 1000 EXP you get an extra dot in a discipline and can unlock a move from a different playbook