#The Zone Cast

[v-poreons]

Been showing a friend taz balance for the first time (we are halfway done with stolen century at the time of this post) which means I'm listening to taz balance all the way through for the first time in like 7 years so I wanted to make myself some wallpapers for my phone's lock screen :] great opportunity to tweak my old designs for these guys and see my progress as a character designer since I was a teenager lol! alt text should have image descriptions if Tumblr logged them properly.

Bonus Fisher under the cut vvv

[acadieum]

started my first re-listen of taz balance since starting it in 2018 (?)

and i just wanted to explore what their origin backgrounds were vs the characters they ended up becoming... they are interesting...

[mooselybased]

So I wanted to draw a lil' something in celebration of The Adventure Zone hitting ten years old this year! Which turned into me drawing a pretty big something featuring (almost) every player character from (almost) every campaign from these past ten years.

So here's to Adventure Zone Balance, Amnesty, Commitment, Dust, Graduation, Hootenanny, Ethersea, Dadlands, Steeplechase, Versus Dracula, and everything that's still to come!

[froggheadd]

me? posting taz art? in 2025???

(click for quality)

[ID: art of Taako from The Adventure Zone. He's in a seated position, calmly reading from a spell book as a purple glow emanates from the pages, and swirls around him. The Umbra Staff leans against his side. Taako is a slender elf with light brown skin, and and braided brown hair. His outfit is mostly purple and olive-green, with a patched-up wizard hat, fancy blouse, and long plaid pants. Several tiny items hang from his belt: an hourglass, set of measuring spoons, whisk, and corkscrew. End ID.]

[julcreates]

Taako! (From TV)

Every once in a while I’m in a TAZ phase again….

[fioblah]

business meetings at the chug n squeeze

tip jar

[m0nomercy]

sapphic ship a day for lesbian visibility week!!

carey and killian from the adventure zone balance!!

the first actual play podcast i got crazy invested in i love these wives <333

[wizard-loving-wizard]

taakitz on @gastronauts

[bunni-art]

"Baaaaabe, not while we're at work..."

or: ​POV the reapers that are here to send your necromancing ass to hell can’t stop flirting with each other

[fish3s]

every lab has a derelict room

(aka scientist’s lament)

~details:

[fizzsparkpop]

how odd it is to be haunted by someone who is still alive

[ghostslazy]

Extremely rough first stab at the Taz Vs. Dracula lineup bc I love them all so so much already and don’t have the time to finish a lineup of characters for fun rn 🥲

Close up sketches, design notes and surprise drac under the break:

Travis’ characters are always the hardest for me to design idk why, but I made him very western inspired with some vampire hunting flair. Lady Agatha Thistle’s breed was one I hadn’t heard of before but I love a good blood hound. I always end up making Travis’s chapters warm toned, they’re all very red/orange coded to me. (Beef would be the exception I think he’s very pink and blue in my mind)

Clint always makes the sweetest roundest characters I love designing his. I wish we had a cannon spelling because there’s so many directions you can go with “Filo” also his characters are usually green or green adjacent to me. I cant wait to see him bust out more booger potions

Justin never misses with a character and I cling onto every single one he makes so quickly and violently it’s getting embarrassing. I like the idea that she would still dress extremely fancy and posh even tho her new body should be in some battle ready armor. Also I made her blue since she is a Frankenstein’s monster and most likely wouldn’t have the blood flow to have a human color. Plus I love the monster high color palettes so I’m referencing a little bit. Justin has very cool coded characters to me, lots of blue and purple and forest greens.

Probably not sticking with this Dracula design but I want him to love a bit more silly and slick, I think having him be lanky and shorter will pair him very well against our rough and rowdy boys

[acadieum]

girlhood is a spectrum or smth like that...

(lup doodle for my treasured mutual, @lichlover !!!)

[mooselybased]

New TAZ season means time to draw some new fellas whose names I can't spell! And listen. To me, in this, the season of oops all wizards, all characters are wearing some variation of star-covered robe and pointy hat, until proven otherwise

[nebulaeyedfish]

Okay, so I guess I'm... sprinting at it, just like "AAAAH" with Beacon extended, and I think there's a moment just before we collide where Beacon sort of like, almost half-whispers like,

Doing some comics practice with Episode 11 of Amnesty :)

(Tag list: @swanofstorie @raise-me-up-take-me-up @imflyingfish)

[artlyloser]

[ID: An Illustration of Lady Godwin beheading the wolfman from TAZ vs Dracula. We only see the neck and disconnected head of the wolfman. He is stylized in red and yellow and between we can see Lady Godwin swinging her great axe. Her face is twisted in glee and anger on her dead blue skin. Her body is more purple and covered in scars and stitches. END ID]

GODS NOT DEAD BUT THE WOLFMAN IS