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Some Enzo, Cyril, & Vandal fanart becasue they are such fantastic little squad and I'm obsessed with ink demons as a concept. A million variations are running through my mind. CMYK printer ink demons, glitter pen ink demons, tattoo ink demons, highlighter ink demons, squid ink demons???? Beautiful possibilties.

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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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What do you mean that Forgotten Realms is a romantic fantasy setting masquerading as high fantasy?

(With reference to this post there.)

Exactly what it says on the tin – the Forgotten Realms is clearly principally inspired by romantic fantasy, not high fantasy.

In this context, when I say "romantic fantasy", I'm referring to a specific, relatively short-lived genre of fantasy literature that was wildly popular in the 1980s and 1990s, but abruptly fell almost entirely off the map after about 1998, due to a variety of economic and cultural factors which are way too complicated to go into in a Tumblr post. This is distinct from the more contemporary usage of "romance novels with fantasy settings", though there's definitely a lot of overlap.

If you're looking for a romantic fantasy reading list, Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series – especially the early stuff – is probably the easiest to get your hands on these days; it's practically the only example that still has any real name recognition in 2025, for all that Lackey was a latecomer to the genre. Other names worth checking out include Margaret Ball, Carole Nelson Douglas, Tanya Huff, Holly Lisle, Jennifer Roberson, and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, off the top of my head, though not all of them worked exclusively within the genre.

(Elizabeth Moon is an interesting edge case, in that her stuff is principally military science fiction, but very much adheres to the forms of romantic fantasy. Her Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy, one of her few pure fantasy works, is a fun snapshot of an era because it was written explicitly in response to what Moon perceived as the shortcomings of the fantasy worldbuilding on display in then-contemporary Dungeons & Dragons settings, and hit the shelves at just about exactly the same time as the earliest Forgotten Realms material.)

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I'm afraid I did the pinup art jam with my blorbo

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Finally watching Mice & Murder.

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Hi everyone! I just finished up my 3 year campaign of Rime of the Frostmaiden! Here are the final character portraits for the players, known as The Last Embers

(details and retrospective under the cut)

I've been playing and running in a legacy Forgotten Realms setting for ten years now, so I made a lot of changes to this campaign to honor the Players' pasts and potential futures. We have rotating players and DMs depending on the module.

Averik Spellfellow (Formerly Meborg the Goblin): Goblin Scribe Wizard played by the DM of a Lost Mine of Phandelver campaign he ran for all of us ten years ago! Averik was an NPC goblin the Phandelver PCs saved from Cragmaw Castle. He became a wizard in his own right, but not without a massive chip on his shoulder. He journeyed to Icewind Dale to research Chardalyn.

Cormorant Black: 1/2 orc tiefling Rune Knight fighter. She's a scion of PCs that went through the Tyranny of Dragons campaign. Corrie is obsessed with giants and wants to learn as much as she can about them in order to prevent another dragon apocalypse, should the cult of the dragon ever return. She's searching for The Eye of the All Father, but got waylaid in Icewind Dale thanks to Auril's Rime.

Carnelian Black: 1/2 orc tiefling Circle of Stars Druid. Another scion of PCs that went through the Tyranny of Dragons campaign. Carnelian has a different approach to dragons and sees them as creatures that deserve life like any other. They're very self-assured and followed their sister to Icewind Dale to protect her and restore balance to the seasons.

Isabella Quitano: Shifter Ranger / Rune Knight: An artist who incorporates blood into her paintings. In search of new adventures and inspiration for her art, she followed the Black Scions into the unknown.

Ryker Goldheim: Dwarf Rogue/Fighter: Ryker is FROM Icewind Dale, born in the Dwarven Valley but spending much of his life in Easthaven. He left home years ago and became an agent for the Lords Alliance. He's on one last job for Castle Neverwinter: Assassinate a potential threat to Neverwinter's throne. He returned home with the party under the guise of acting as their guide in the Ten Towns.

So based on these players, I added a LOT more giant lore to the bast campaign. For example, the Chardalyn Dragon became the Chardalyn Vonindod (Giant construct, the blueprints were found by Sunblight). The tieflings' mom is a high-leveled cleric of Umberlee, so I also added a bit more to do with the other divine furies as well, particularly Malar and Umberlee.

So yeah! I'm going to miss these jokers. This campaign was a LOT of fun to run and honestly… I'd do it again. Maybe without modding it next time.

Thanks for reading!

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My @d20exchange gift to @chromathesia 🫶 Pick a card. BUT watch out!

Card details👇

Wonder who I might’ve had the most trouble with

Cottonbottom☝️

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Osprey, Rosie, and Loretta getting ready for drag night--Oz can give himself triple D's with Alter Self but that isn't very fair, is it?

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Nyachooh

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My tiefling family's devil ancestor, Gilda Firasa the Erinyes (And her previous form, Firas the Cornugon). She was promoted to Erinyes after Tyranny of Dragons, now she's a warlock patron to one of her grandkids 😈🔥

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Sky & Clouds painted by Théodore Gudin ☁️

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Huevember catch up 4/30

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My players defeated The Frostmaiden on the solstice❄️

I painted these minis a while ago, I’m happy with them!

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The last glimpse of this D&D party before they settle down (for now)

They met at the Witchlight carnival, saved Prismeer, then went into the Shadowfell for some cosmic symmetry where they picked up a stray (a lost duchess of port au lucine)

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In the woods somewhere

Osprey, my tiefling warlock, was gifted a familiar by his patron when he was lost in the woods as a child

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I’m going through an old sketch book and I gotta say, 2015 Tucker was THRIVING

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So Faerun has a Halloweenesque holiday called Liar's Night 🎃 It's #orctober , #tieflingtuesday AND Halloween so here are all of my Liar's Night pictures so far with this 1/2 orc tiefling family!