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(my half-drow bard)

[the-griffons-saddlebag]

⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Battlechef’s Heated Skillet
Weapon (mace), rare ___ This iron skillet is magically light and wieldy in your grasp, allowing you to swing it as a weapon. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. If you’re proficient with cook’s utensils, you’re proficient with the “battlechef’s heated skillet.” The skillet has 3 charges and regains all expended charges whenever you spend at least 1 hour cooking with it, which can be done over the course of a short rest. The first creature to eat a meal that was cooked in the skillet gains 5 temporary hit points. When you make an attack with the weapon, you can speak one of its three command words to expend 1 or more of its charges: “hot” (1 charge), “hotter” (2 charges), or “hottest” (3 charges). If the attack hits, the target takes an extra 1d6 fire damage for each expended charge. ___ ✨ Patrons get huge perks! Access this and hundreds of other item cards, art files, and compendium entries when you support The Griffon's Saddlebag on Patreon for less than $10 a month!

[vintagerpg]

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials (1979) is a fun little book that looks at aliens from a variety of science fiction stories through the (slightly) in-universe framing of a field guide, complete with notes on ecology and biological functions.

Artist Wayne Barlowe’s selections are an interesting cross-section of the genre (I don’t recognize a lot of them, honestly) and his interpretations (of the ones I do recognize) always walk the fine line between capturing something essential that I pictured in my mind’s eye while also being surprising or unexpected in many ways. Among the beasties I did not photograph are the Overlords from Childhood’s End, the Puppeteers from Ringworld, the Izchel from Wrinkle in Time, the Masters from the Tripod books and Ursula Le Guin’s Athshean.

In a way, the Guide feels like an extension of the larger interest in fantastic art in the ‘70s, embodied most in the Gnomes, Fairies and Giants books. It, and its Fantasy companion (see tomorrow) certainly wouldn’t come out today, but for me, they’re just amazing. They gave Barlowe a whole book to draw monsters and aliens; monster and alien enthusiasts like me got a pile of rad illustrations to look at; and a stack of sci fi writers got low-key advertising for their works. Wins down the line.

Worth mentioning that this is likely a direct inspiration for Call of Cthulhu’s pair of Petersen’s Field Guides (Cthulhu Monsters and Dreamlands), right down to little nuances of layout formatting. I would bet that they were also on someone’s mind when the Ecology articles began to appear in Dragon Magazine (those started in ’83 with the Piercer).

[bodaciousbasil]

If history repeats this will get no love but my WIP will continue to be rather popular but what are you gonna do? Aaaaanyways, here’s a finished Ankarna. I’m thinking that the harvesty crown might be better for an autumn deity but Brennan did she she was the goddess of Summer, justice AND harvest so there it is.

[probablybadrpgideas]

Monster who eats your backstory.

It bites you and you've now sprang into being just now ex nihilo

[nalem]

Alex was once a FOOL </3

[katharpy]

[fifthnail]

DnD still hits hard

[urivart]

Goblin witch finished for @/PalurdasK

[cookies-in-chees]

Half of the D&D memes on Reddit: ok so what if the warlock was evil and mischievous and the paladin was a goody two shoes? Wouldn’t that be hilarious?!?!?

Bg3: Ok so the Warlock is probably going to be the only person in your party who will disapprove of killing little Timmy and pissing on his moms grave and the paladin wants you to hit the second tower

[r00ib0s]

I FORGOT HIS FAKE BIRTHDAY AGAIN!!!!!

(merry 420 and happy new year)

[the-griffons-saddlebag]

⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Lantern Flail
Weapon (flail), rare (requires attunement) ___ A fiery lantern hangs at the end of the chain of this flail. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. While holding it, you can use an action to magically light or extinguish the lantern’s flame. While it’s alight, any target hit with the weapon takes an extra 1d4 fire damage from the attack. If the fire damage die rolls a 4, the target continues to burn; it takes another 1d4 fire damage at the start of your next turn unless it or another creature within reach uses an action to put out the fire. It continues to burn in this way if the fire damage die rolls another 4. While the lantern is alight, it sheds bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. ___ ✨ Patrons get huge perks! Access this and hundreds of other item cards, art files, and compendium entries when you support The Griffon's Saddlebag on Patreon for less than $10 a month!

[vintagerpg]

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials was well received and won a couple of awards (and a second edition, I think in ’87?). It took a little while for the sequel to emerge: Barlowe’s Guide to Fantasy hit shelves in 1996.

Even though I am not super widely read in either fantasy or science fiction, Barlowe’s fantasy book is the one I really vibe on. Maybe because it allows him to do stuff like Grendel from Beowulf and Gorice from The Worm Ouroboros. Wouldn’t have expected Gideon Winter, the antagonist from Peter Straub’s odd novel Floating Dragon to be included, but he was. Other surprises are the Psammead from Five Children and It and the Saw Horse from Oz.

One of the coolest things about these books is the fold-out size comparison charts. I love a good size-comparison (and again, this is a big feature of those Petersen’s Guides for Call of Cthulhu, and I am sure it came directly from here).