#d&d 3.5e

[my-t4t-romance]

what with all the anti-trust overpriced nonsense going on with Hasbro and D&D, I just now remembered that I started collecting pdfs of D&D sourcebooks somewhere around the beginning of the pandemic! it’s mostly 3.5e and 4e (EDIT: now with lots of 5e materials added by @honeynutqueerioz!), but here’s a link to the google drive folders. let me know if yall can access the pdfs alright, and dm me if you have anything you’d like added to the collection!

1 reblog = 1 yo ho

[nostalgiachan]

Wasn't sure what sort of trappings to give ol' Sydan here, so I thought a 3.5e sheet might be cute. Present it more like I'd colored it directly in my sketchbook.

[nixii-sabre]

Kidd on his way to be funniest fucker in the torture chamber:

WRONG. Harper was the funniest fucker, she waved at him while chained.

[nex-best-thing]

Meet the new and improved Marluxia von Alteria!  

When I first designed him, I didn’t know that he was based off of the Kingdom Heart’s character. I drew him based off of the description my BF gave me, and found out later just how similar the two were. A few of my friends pointed it out as well. I finally sat down and decided to design him in a way that makes him feel like his own character.  

Marluxia is an NPC in the DnD campaign I’m in. For some backstory, he’s connected to my character, Aster, and is the reason why she can use any form of magic. He is the Chosen One, and due to a decision to try to quickly fix all the damage done by King Tyrannus, the evil king he was destined to defeat, he became immortal, and his team thought he had turned evil as well, and turned on him. This caused them to fight him and “kill” him, chopping him into pieces to keep him from reforming. 100,000 years later, Aster found his eye in an abandon facility, and implanted it. The two became fast friends and some romantic feelings have even started to develop, despite neither of them wanting a relationship for various reasons. (Aster isn’t emotionally ready for another relationship after a horrible breakup as well as an overall fear of romance, and Marly doesn’t want to go through the pain of losing someone he loves).

[oddthesungod]

Dam…….. its crit role’s 9th anniversary!! Still remember sitting down to watch the first campaign 2 episode one day to see what the fuss was all about after seeing a couple cool artists I followed on twitter post about it, I think they were at episode 5 when I started watching? So I pretty much followed along campaign 2 from the start!

Wild how fast time passes!

Anyway happy 9th to CR and thank you for being the push to get me back into ttrpgs!!! 💖💖💖

[thejaymo]

"When one of the players is drawing a map as the characters explore a new place, give her a break. Describe the layout of the place in as much detail as she wants, including dimensions of rooms"

"Of course, when the PCs [player characters] are lost in a dungeon or walking through fog, the whole point of the situation is that they don’t know where they are (or where they’re going). In cases such as these, don’t take pains to help the mapper."

I love this detail in D&D 3.5 ed. rulebook.

[acealistair]

Nimue | Half-Elf | Thief Rogue | Urchin | trying her best

[env0]

D&D Players of Tumblr!

D&DBeyond are offering an Advent Calendar of FREE content starting today.

Sink your teeth into today’s gift of the Monstrous Compendion Volume Two: Dragonlance Creatures, and enjoy 11 monsters from the recently released Dragonlance campaign setting.

Enjoy the stat blocks and artwork of 11 beautiful monsters to start incorporating int your campaigns!

Featuring a diverse set of creature types, gorgeous art, and even sneaking some magical items in there as well. (I’m looking at you Verminard, wielder of Nightbringer)

So if you were looking for a Autumn themed Unicorn. Then do I have a treat for you! The Forest Master, a CR 8 Celestial creature.

I am excited for this D&DBeyond Advent Calendar and so should you

Not sponsored but that'd be dope

[pigeonliker420]

whenever i go looking into help or random talk about bg3 i keep seeing people like comparing it to dragon age either in expectations or selling points and bro. ghirl. its not dragon age. its baldurs gate

[actuallybestrpgideas]

I need people to know the important similarities between Dio Brando from JJBA and Strahd von Zarovich from D&D

For example here is the scene of Dio from Jojo becoming a Vampire (taken from the anime but the manga chapter this scene is from was released on March 9, 1987) (also skip to about 4 minutes into this video, sorry this is the only one I could find)

And here is an excerpt from the Tome of Strahd straight from AD&D I6 Ravenloft, published in 1983

Important similarities:

Both required the blood of another to become a Vampire (Sergei in Strahd's case and Jonathan's Father in Dio's)

Both, after becoming vampires, were shot at (Strahd by arrows and Dio by guns)

Now the real question is are they both mutually referencing something or is Araki referencing a four year old D&D module in Jojo?

[ask-zaukodar]

D&D musing time

My recent bout of emotional energy has led me to revive some of my old characters, and now I’m in the way of wanting to try and convert them from 3.5e to 5e.

Only it turns out I have to home brew the fuck out of things because 5e has no template for half-dragons as player characters like 3.5e did.

And before someone goes all “just make a dragonborn” I need to express how badly I want to not do that at all. The half-dragon character’s shtick revolves around being an unnatural creation of unethical magic ffs, I can’t get that point across if I end up watering him down with an race that is already watered down from its made-not-born roots.

[redlilyadventuringcompany]

Dungeon24: Day Seven

Finally done with week one!

AREA A7: Preparatory Chamber Whatever this chamber’s purpose might have originally been seems lost to time as it has been stripped bare and occupied by a patrol of 4 orcish warriors from the Iron Dagger Warband that has taken up residence in the northern areas of the complex. The warriors are not exceptionally silent and can be heard from any adjacent rooms with no check. They’ve set up there…

[prokopetz]

Proposals to refer to One D&D as "6th Edition" in order to spite Hasbro marketing don't go far enough. We should retroactively assign full edition numbers to every major core rules revision for which the game's publishers declined to do so, as follows:

White box OD&D is now 1st Edition

Holmes Basic is now 2nd Edition

AD&D 1st Edition is now 3rd Edition

BX/Moldvay Basic is now 4th Edition

BECMI/Mentzer Basic is now 5th Edition

AD&D 2nd Edition is now 6th Edition

The Rules Cyclopedia is now 7th Edition

The AD&D 2nd Edition Player's Handbook redux with the infamous "This Is Not 3rd Edition" foreword is now 8th Edition

Player's Option is now 9th Edition

D&D 3rd Edition is now 10th Edition

D&D 3rd Edition Revised (3.5E) is now 11th Edition

D&D 4th Edition is now 12th Edition

D&D Essentials is now 13th Edition

D&D Next (later informally rebranded as "5th Edition" due to consumer pressure) is now 14th Edition

Finally, this means the forthcoming One D&D is 15th Edition.

Make sense?

[imsobadatnicknames2]

The fact is. I simply would have never developed my ear and appreciation for music enough to become a musician myself if I hadn't spent my teenage years stealing the entire discography of any band that mildly caught my interest and had instead limited myself to listening to the stuff I could pay for or otherwise legally access. I wouldn't have gotten into TTRPGs and TTRPG design without the prints of some shitty D&D 3.5e scans that my dad got me once.

Everything I am as an artist and a creator I owe it in some way or another to being able to steal other people's shit. If I didn't support stealing from artists now that I am an artist myself it would make me the biggest fucking hypocrite in the entire planet, because I wouldn't be an artist in the first place if it wasn't for stealing.

[nex-best-thing]

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Forgot to post the speed paint that goes along with my previous art!

Check out the full image: https://www.tumblr.com/nex-best-thing/700778746034126848/storytime-i-absolutely-love-my-design-for?source=share

[lunastrophe]

BG3 Elven Lore 🌙 Astarion's Life In The City

I was thinking recently about Astarion's past and how his childhood could look like. Did he spend it in Baldur's Gate, or somewhere else?

According to D&D lore, elves have their own cities, laguages, cultures, customs and deities. They are not meant to be simply prettier, pointy-eared versions of humans with longer lifespan and some other superior traits. They are different on many levels: biological, psychological, even spiritual one.

Elven parents usually want their children to be born and spend the first decades of their lives in elven communities - mainly to ensure their safety (children are not common among elves), but also to allow them to grow up in connection to elven way of life: language, cultural values, spirituality and so on.

Sometimes it is not possible, though, and elven child is born and / or grows up in predominantly non-elven community. Perhaps Astarion's childhood looked like that.

🌙 City Elves - some elves, for various reasons, choose to spend some time away from elven lands, adventuring or travelling. Some of them may decide to stay for a few decades or centuries in a large, cosmopolitan city like Baldur's Gate - and even start a family there, becoming a part of local community.

It is quite possible that Astarion's parents were such "city elves" and because of that, he was growing up more or less disconnected from a typical, traditional elven way of life. That might explain why at 39 he had a career and quite responsible position - while typically, a young elf of a similar age would not even be considered an adult.

🌙 Fostered Out - upon reaching the age of twenty, a young elf is usually fostered out to another relative who lives in the same community or somewhere else, mainly to learn various skills and family lore, and to study. This process of fostering and studying can be repeated for the first hundred years of young elf's life (based on Races of the Wild, D&D 3.5e).

So, another possibility: maybe Astarion was born somewhere else and was sent to Baldur's Gate when he was twenty or so, to spend some time (like, a few decades) with his relative(s) and to study.

🌙 Orphaned - some elven children after losing their parents are adopted by their relatives, but some may end up being raised by non-elves - for example, by humans.

Among elves, such a thing is typically considered a great misfortune. Non-elf-raised elves are often not prepared for the prospect of centuries stretching before them - they are forced to grow up quickly, they try to live like their non-elven teachers and later, they have no idea how to manage the weight of their much longer lifespan (based on The Complete Book of Elves, 2e).

This is yet another scenario that might explain why Astarion, being a very young elf, had a life of a very much adult human (39 definitely does not sound like "adult-enough-to-work-as-a-magistrate" from elven point of view).

🌙 Astarion's Family - assuming that Astarion was raised by his elven parents or other relatives, it seems a bit doubtful to me that they would never, ever stumble across him somewhere in the city for around two hundred years. Perhaps after his death, they decided to leave Baldur's Gate - because, for example, staying there was too painful for them?

And if he was an elven orphan raised by humans - even if his human family did not leave the city, it is certain that they are not around anymore after two centuries...