#Forgotten Realms

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Karlach

Vinyl Cover Art Details

Art by Magdalena Katańska

[waterdeepactual]

god, does this make Elistraee's church the unitarians

My Drow antipaladin: "Hmm. I'm gonna have to pray about this. I guess there's probably not a temple for me around here."

DM: "No, but as a paladin, you do have all the shit you'd need for a ritual in your inventory."

"Oh yeah, that's right. It's just like when I was a little elfling at Lolth Camp and I made my profession of faith at the bonfire. It says in the Spible that wherever I am, She's with me."

[pidgeydraws]

made a meme

[emp-roar]

"MY ARMY SETTLED IN THE VALLEY of Barovia and took power over the people in the name of a just god, but with none of a god's grace or justice." -- Tome of Strahd

"Raven's Inquisition" is a Curse of Strahd prequel campaign I am currently playing in where we get to explore setting elements and character relations that otherwise could not have been explored in the canon module. The DM @emp-roar (me) is constructing the campaign as an adaptation of the "I, Strahd" novel, where Barovia has yet been established, Strahd is still human, and the players are all inquisitors overtaking the Tsolenka Valley under the von Zarovich crest and the banner of the Morninglord.

Hi all! It has been a while since I've been on the internet, but I have since graduated and pursuing a career in animation! I was gifted the I,Strahd book during the middle of the pandemic and had been itching to run a prequel campaign based on an adapted take of I, Strahd, exploring elements that made Barovia and ultimately, Strahd, the way it became.

Hope you like the Ravenloft cast who the party had met. (Unironically this looks like a dating sim.)

Additionally the breakdown of Sergei's Vestments can be found in my player's @tateringss arsenal.

Impera Brigade insignia credit goes to ChiRHOKin I adored the shape of his alternative Barovia flag.

Strahd Portrait belongs to WOTC and the overall design and style was heavily inspired by Thronebreaker a Witcher's Tale!

And lastly! SOL INVICTUS!

[anim-ttrpgs]

I know it's something you're not as confident in but I wanted to say thank you and you're doing great at the Ecchi anime tone in Silk and Dagger. I laughed at recognising a lot of the tropes and my players and I had a ton of fun arranging things to go wrong just the way they would in a trashy fanservice anime.

(Also while I know the rulebook says the breast size thing is a joke, we did end up having our Drow frequently judge the size of her peers vs her with regards to how to treat them. Which was mildly hilarious)

Thank you so much! :)

I’m so glad that it’s working out as intended for y’all despite my inexperience with the genre as well as, like, this just being new ground for me as a designer.

Ideally, if I can build the game up to my own standard, players won’t really have to “arrange for things to go wrong,” things will just be bound to go wrong over the course of normal gameplay while the players play as hard as they can to keep their Drow and servants afloat.

And also yeah the breast size thing is a joke the way the text says it in the rulebook, but it’s something that can often turn out to be true, both because higher ranking Drow tend to be a little fatter and thus have bigger breasts, and because Drow with bigger breasts tend to get more respect and thus be higher ranking. Conveying that concisely and humorously in the rules text however is something I’m still working on, or at least I will once I shift back to focusing on Silk & Dagger.

[ritelli-main]

.·:*¨¨*Ahhh the magic of the first meeting*¨¨*:·.

[rollingtablesiguess]

Rolls to Alarm Your Players

Want to spice the game up? Why not try alarming your players for no real reason? Make sure to make a show out of counting the dice before you roll.

[prokopetz]

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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more studies with astarion!!

[lazylittledragon]

i need guenhwyvar to be Cat so bad

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Balor

Concept art for Baldur's Gate 3

Art by Maxime Ponslet

[feyspeaker]

She came to him with a broken heart; little did he know that fixing it would bond theirs both together to the hells and back… oh yes, i did that

prints | patreon (has version without lettering for download)

[murchellie]

Soft Vampire Wyll 🩸​🤍

Wyll nation please accept this pretty Vamp AU concept I made 🤲​ I promised Vampire Wyll for Halloween but I'm a loser and found time and inspiration only now D:

[ladysiryna]

The Nightsong is no more.

[howtomakeyousee]

Every single night.

[steamclouds]

Leyendecker-inspired fancy Jarlaxle!