#crystal dragon d&d

[wuzhere75]

procreate curves save me

[oldschoolfrp]

The wizard of the wasteland and his giant crystal skull -- Ian Coate cover for Australian Realms magazine No 1, June 1988. This premiere issue featured several articles about AD&D and the start of a series on running Gamma World in an Australian setting. Australian Realms billed itself "the first Australian magazine on roleplaying" and published 30 issues from 1988-96.

[vintagerpg]

This is Crystal Barrier (1987), a module whose attempt at cleverness is admirable, but ultimately a failed experiment. Boris Vallejo on the cover again (a pretty good one, at that). Interior art by Todd Hamilton and Jeff Bush. I don’t want to say it is bad, because it is not, but it is definitely somewhat unconventional. It also recycles at least one interior piece from War of Darkness.

OK, plot. This links in to the civil war in the Dragonlands as laid out in the Dragons Role Aids sourcebook. Ostensibly, the players are looking to destroy a drug that the bad dragons are using against the good dragons. However, in doing so, they encounter the titular barrier and fall through it into another dimension where a Necromancer is fomenting the civil war by having captured the soul of a dragon lord. This feels like an inside-out Dragonlance already, but it gets even moreso: there is some light time travel involved and Fistandantilus-like, the big twist at the end is that the Necromancer is a future version of a player character’s mage. I like this in theory, but it all happens so fast it feels similar to when a show gets canceled and they try to wrap up another season of story in the finale (actually, thinking some more, it reminds me of how Millennium got a weak send-off after its cancelation as just another episode of The X-Files). It doesn’t satisfy. Also, what the heck happens if the mage dies on the way? And wouldn’t the Necromancer be worried about that?

The module is interesting in the way it applies different rules to the world beyond the crystal barrier, in a way that I think predates the way different planes work in Manual of the Planes, which came out around the same time. The encounters there tend to rely on large numbers of monsters, though, which is a drag.

[dranathedragon]

I’m a D&D nerd, who is currently obsessed with Dead Boy Detectives, so of course the “What class would everyone be?” thought has been tickling me. I’ve seen a few other people post their thoughts on it, and I’ve been reading the amazing “Messrs Payne and Rowland’s Adventuring Agency” by @terresdebrume whenever it updates. Seriously, it’s really good, highly recommend. So I figured I’d throw my hat in the ring and see what anyone else’s thoughts are while I’m at it. Just doing the core four in this post.

So let’s get the easy one out of the way first, Crystal. She’s 100% a sorcerer, her power comes from her bloodline, she was born with it. Because she’s psychic based I’d say she’s specifically an Aberrant Mind sorcerer, without all the deep space tentacle monster baggage. Though she does have disembodied floating eyeballs in her psyche so MAYBE!

Next up is the second easiest, Edwin. He’s a wizard, everyone knows he’s a wizard. What KIND of wizard though? I’m going with Order of Scribes. He loves that little notebook so much, it gained sentience. How awesome would it be, if in this D&D version of the show, Edwin’s notebook didn’t follow him to hell because it was his sentient spell book, and it stayed behind with a purpose? It stayed behind because it KNEW Charles would never leave Edwin there and he would attempt a rescue. It KNEW Charles would go, and it KNEW it had to stay behind to help him. It showed him the things he needed to see, the information and maps that would reunite him with their wizard. I just love that.

Next up is Charles. He was a little tougher. I’ve seen quite a few posts saying that he’s a barbarian, and at this, I must object. At least with the criteria I’m using I suppose. Charles’ power doesn’t come from his rage. The one time we see him using his rage to fight, Edwin’s horrified and worried reaction pretty much confirms this was wildly out of character for him.

Just as an aside, I’m a firm believer of when Edwin said, “That was extreme”, he wasn’t talking about knocking the night nurse off the cliff. He was talking about Charles’ reaction in general, it was an extreme REACTION. He’d never seen Charles act with that much anger, hate, and violence before. He’s not an attacker, he’s a defender. It scared him, but he was scared FOR Charles, not OF him. Our wizard just isn’t great at people’ing. That’s a discussion for a different post though! Back to the topic at hand!

So, if I don’t think he��s a barb, what is he? Well, I’ve got two possible options. One thing that’s said quite a bit in the show, is how charismatic Charles is. And let’s face it, he is. So, using that logic, I’d say he could possibly be a Paladin. Specifically, an Oath of Devotion Paladin. I mean, come on, his power would so come from his extreme devotion to his favorite wizard. That would be a fun one, but there’s my second option which I find slightly more plausible.

It’s shown multiple times in the show, that while Charles claims to be just the brawn, he’s actually very clever and capable of thinking outside the box. Not to mention, he’s all about magic items. Bag of holding, enchanted cricket bat, enchanted jar/paper weight, enchanted lullaby ball, the disguises, the list goes on. So he’s smart and specializes in magic items, that screams Artificer. I’d say he’s a Battle Smith Artificer, some of their specialty spells are based around defending/supporting their allies, and you can’t tell me he wouldn’t find having a little robot pet, sorry STEEL DEFENDER, completely aces. He’d also name it like “Steve” or something and treat it like it was his and Edwin’s child, fight me on that lol. (Jk, don’t fight me I don’t like conflict!) Update: Charles’ lock picking has been mentioned and it just added to this for me as Artificers get expertise in thieves’ tools. How did I forget this?!

So that leaves Niko, who is kind of the wild card. I saw at least one post saying she’d be a bard, but I don’t think that’s accurate. Bards are all about attention (well mostly, I guess whispers would be an exception but she wouldn’t be a whispers anyway) and the whole sprite possession thing seemed to kinda make her uncomfortable with it. Idk, it just doesn’t really fit right to me. On the same thread though, so far in the show, Niko’s only real power is to see the dead. That might be expanded if we get a second season (🤞🏻), but for right now, that’s all she’s got other than being a good friend and excellent reading comprehension skills (which I might revisit this using that last one later). That said, since she got that ability (technically) because of the sprites (more because they almost killed her, but also they’re with her in the igloo so this still might work!) I’d say Niko is a Warlock. Just by the by, I hate that the class is called “Warlock”. That’s a word that came from an old English word meaning “oath breaker or he who breaks their oath”. Warlocks are all about MAKING not BREAKING pacts. Just a weird choice but MOVING ON! Since the sprites seem kind of Fey, I’d say she’d be a Pact of the Archfey. Nothing to do with the pact’s skill set, since we’d have nothing to compare it to, just because they seem fey to me.

So that’s what I’ve got so far. I might think of other characters’ later, like what would Jenny be etc. What do you guys think? I like to hear other people’s opinions on this! It’s fun to bat around!

[sugarpopparty]

Feywild ✨

[ohfugecannada]

New challenge: draw the species of your favourite non-human character in these cursed Spec-Evo styles:

(Source: u/AlexBot2009 on Reddit)

[nite0304]

Even more crystal stuff, because fuck the caster amirite?

This time its a golem made entirely out of gemstones, capable of reflecting even the most powerful of spells, specially psionic spells!

You can get the Psionomicon now on my patreon, or on DMsGuild!

[dreamyprinx]

“you’ll find that my personality is as dazzling as I am, darling” - Lanturn probably

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[tanuki-kimono]

Crystal-like fairy mushrooms made by Masakiya from UV resin and quartz(?). The sculptures look so glass like but just look at this video (the “boing” sound xD).

Artist also made those adorable crystal dragons:

Those would make such amazing d&d props!!!

[desertdruidcrafts]

My players were exploring a dwarven mine whose patron ancient silver dragon got bored and tried moving the whole lair into the Elemental Plane of Earth.

We've got some crystal beasts from the Plane of Earth, an ancient silver dragon (finally), some crafty silver kobolds, a gem hurler (variant of the ice elemental), rusty iron automaton, and the geyser elemental from The Elements and Beyond.

[jellykoala]

Here's the full DM screen I painted! Ready to drop my party into the underdark and ruin their day 🥳

It's been a long time since I've done a full painting and I'm definitely rusty, but I had a lot of fun anyway.

I tried to get pictures of it with all the hinges on but it's long and awkward so i settled for scans. It's made up of four 8×10 birch wood panels (gessoed on both sides to prevent warping) and connected with jewelery box hinges.

[oldschoolfrp]

"Fleeing the rage that consumed their feuding families, Juliana and Orlando fled to the Cave of Echoes, where it is said every wish is granted." (Dave De Leuw cover for AD&D module UK1: Beyond the Crystal Cave by Dave J Brown, Tom Kirby, and Graeme Morris, with a bit of inspiration from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, TSR UK, 1983)

[wraithgarden]

I'm playing this Twilight Cleric Astral elf gal Valsephona in a Crystal Citadel twoshot with my regular DnD group while I take a break from DMing and I had to draw her!

[deepdreamnights]

Eh, have some Crystal Dragons.

Who are you to refuse?

The image(s) above in this post were made using an autogenerated prompt and/or have not been modified/iterated extensively. As such, they do not meet the minimum expression threshold, and are in the public domain. Prompt under the fold.

Prompt: dragon 2d with lightfilled crystals and neon, in the style of precise hyperrealism, hybrid creature compositions, vray tracing, spiral group, intel core, lovecraftian, futuristic chromatic waves

[sugarpopparty]

Battle Princess ⚔️

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[ithirealdice]

Magical Girl’s Gaze d6s