#trox

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*Drops art and runs away* just a little of my fav monsters//

and a Nitebear. why the fuck nobody likes him(个_个) he deserves love too!!

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my singing monsters you will always be famous

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Normally I dont post wip’s of comms but this Trox Evolutionist I’m designing for @phoebebane on twitter is coming along great

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Sketch

they r so real to me

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finally started making GIFs

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Roleplaying Races 14: Trox

(art by Nicholas “Rookzer0” on Artstation)

And here we have another example of an ancestry originally created as an example in ARG’s race builder, this one demonstrating how strange and powerful you could make a playable race. The result was powerful and bulky beetle-folk with a chip on their shoulder.

While there doesn’t seem to be any one specific inspiration for this ancestry, fantasy has always been full of big, monstrous peoples who may or may not actually be surprisingly gentle despite their bulk and fearsomeness.

Interestingly, trox got a major update to their lore in Starfinder, which we’ll talk about momentarily.

As we learn in Starfinder, the trox as a people were created by the goddess Hylax as her envoys and sentinels, and are in fact native to the Liavaran moon of Nchak. However, while the majority of their people lived in relative peace, that group is not who we are talking about today.

You see, many trox were sealed inside protective asteroids by their goddess and launched to various other worlds to serve as envoys for her diplomatic ways, and one such stone fell to Golarion in the ancient past. However, the Golarion clan had the misfortune of being discovered by the duergar , who saw their physical might and similarity to the giant beetles they already used as beasts of burden and enslaved them, subjecting them to eugenic breeding programs and alchemical enhancement to turn them into powerful brutes.

Many trox have since rebelled and broken free, escaping to the surface, only to discover that the evils of slavery were present there as well. As such, while they retain some aspects of their heritage, the trox of Golarion are distrustful of other species due to the suffering their people have gone through.

Sporting heavy chitin elytra, mandibles, and armor, trox resemble humanoid beetles, but they are not fully arthropod-like in anatomy, sporting an internal skeleton as well and soft fleshy parts as well. Additionally, they also sport an array of smaller appendages on their chests in addition to their bipedal arms and legs. While not strong and articulate enough to wield objects, they can come in handy.

While the trox of Golarion have become brutish and somewhat violent, they share with their ancestors a strong sense of community that overrides personal desires, they also prove inquisitive, eager to learn about the ways of others, and fiercely loyal to those the call friends. Sadly, the vast majority of them still live in slavery, either to the duergar or to surface slavers of various peoples.

Trox are immensely strong, but centuries of conditioning have dulled their minds in all regards.

Despite their bulk, they prove surprisingly agile when they need to be.

Their night-eyes also suit them well for a life underground.

This in turn is fueled by their powerful digging claws, making them swift under the ground.

The conditioning that they were subjected to and the subsequent fury this engenders also makes them surprisingly violent when replying to the attacks of foes that have harmed them.

Additionally, their grabbing appendages are quite useful for latching onto a grappled foe, freeing up their arms to fight other foes.

There is one alternate option for the trox, representing those trox that have trained themselves to abandon their rage and focus, tapping into an atrophied vibration sense, all the better to notice when invisible foes like their duergar slavers are coming.

With their extremely high strength bonus, trox are very suited for melee builds, particularly grapple builds thanks to their extra appendages, making any combat class a good pick for them. The penalty to all three mental stats is something of a deterrent for any caster or skill-based class, but not an insurmountable one. In fact, the fact that their penalty applies to all three means that it’s almost like the board is even between the three, just expect to have to make a little effort to bring them in line with other casters and characters. Any class that can blend casting with more traditional combat will probably work best for them, such as druid, magus, paladin, and warpriest.

That does it for today, but we’ve got one more entry to do before we’re done. Look forward to it tomorrow!

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Bakugan (2023) Episode 7 - "Rules are boring"

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bakugans vs yeti

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iT-Rox

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Tol

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Titanium Trox Unboxing! | Bakugan (Gen 3)

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Finished comm for Phoebe Bane of her trox evolutionist! Mouth open variant for Normal Reasons

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Tronox Holdings Plc Sees Loss Despite Revenue Growth in Fourth Quarter Financial Report https://csimarket.com/stocks/news.php?code=TROX&date=2024-02-22085706&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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TROX SWORD!!!!

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Prestige Class Spotlight 11: Blackfire Adept

(art by Yuan Chang on Artstation)

 The idea of there being a cosmology of planes, of spaces beyond space as we know it, where all sorts of wonders might be found is truly an exciting prospect, and I for one know many people who would be chomping at the bit for an opportunity to visit such places if they existed and such a thing were possible.

…but there’s such a thing as being too eager, isn’t there?

Knowledge is power, after all, and power corrupts those without the conviction to stay true to their principles. Thus can an erstwhile planar explorer go from being a wide-eyed scholar to being a servant of the end times.

Naming themselves after the black flame-like energy release that is sometimes seen when planar barriers are torn asunder without regard for stability, the Blackfire Adepts are a loose cabal of mages with an interest in conjuration. Certainly they wish to see and study other planes, but true to their name they are also very interested in the blackfire itself, a cosmic destructive force that eats away where the threads of reality have been severed, consuming matter on a molecular level when it gets in the way as well. To that end, they specialize in using conjuration in deliberately “wrong” ways to induce flareups of blackfire to observe the effects and turn against their foes.

It should be no surprise to you that they learned most of these secrets from fiends of all descriptions, nor should it shock you to know that blackfire burns away at the barriers towards the lower planes the fastest.

That the blackfire adepts, so obsessed with mastering the planes and studying the very fabric of reality by, of all things, destroying it, that they cannot or will not see they are being used to erode at reality to make it easier for fiends to enter and cause harm and destruction is the very picture of hubris. Even those that are in on it surely think that they will be spared, or that whatever knowledge and power they gain will be worth it.

Needless to say, this makes them the sworn enemies of the Riftwardens, who seek to protect the barriers between planes.

Whether they are unscrupulous scholars who don’t realize or care about the harm they cause, or full on villains, this is the very picture of a mage taking things to far, and they can start this path with knowledge of planar and magical lore, mastery of summoning spells, and knowledge of how to enhance said conjurations.

 As a spellcasting prestige class, they do continue their mastery of spells, though sometimes they are too busy mastery other aspects to master the traditional spellcasting aspects.

They do, however, learn to enhance their casting of summoned fiends, conjuring them faster than other summoned beings.

By channeling a few elusive flickers of blackfire between themselves and a foe, these mystics can enhance their attacks and spells against them for a brief while, but said foe must remain within a certain range.

As part of their pursuit of forbidden knowledge, these adepts make dark pacts with entire categories of fiends, choosing several throughout their careers. These pacts may not mean much more than a slight amount of mercy from fiends they encounter in the wild, but when they call a fiend to perform greater services, the pact enhances the outsider, making them that much more powerful.

By sacrificing a spell, these conjurers can harness the power of the blackfire, causing an eruption of the stuff. The greater the amount of magic expended, the greater the unholy destructive power they unleash.

Perhaps their most infamous ability, however, is their ability to use blackfire to breach boundaries, most notably by empowering their summoned allies to be conjured through dimensional locks, or pass through wards that would normally keep summoned creatures at bay. It does take energy to do so though. Later on, they can pierce through antimagic fields, the greatest abjurations, and even extradimensional havens that normally would not let invaders inside, though doing so is obviously difficult.

More dangerous is that these adepts can choose to empower (or perhaps unshackle) the summoning power many fiends have that they could not ordinarily use as summons. However, such extra summoned beings are not under their control, making it a gamble to use.

Later on, their ability to enhance their spells with traces of blackfire improves, causing destructive resonance when their enhanced attacks and spells strike true, dealing additional damage, and even granting a little vitality to the caster when they slay a foe.

Finally, their mastery becomes so great that they can turn their blackfire power against the conjuration effects of foes, causing those that are summoned, called, or teleported in to be seared by a flash of that blighted flame as they enter.

As you can see, this prestige class is all about bolstering your fiendish summoning and having an untyped damage blasting spell they can use pretty much whenever. This truly is a powerful, if morally bankrupt option for a neutral or evil summoner. Naturally, no matter what your base spellcasting class is, you’ll want to favor the whole summoning and calling suite, as well as a variety of other spells you can use or sacrifice for those unholy blight spells. Naturally, assume that you’ll be fighting from the back line most of the time, supported by your fiendish allies.

 At their worst, these mages are villains in the service of fiends, witting or unwitting. Some less villainous ones might channel their powers in moderation, but they are still playing a dangerous game. By default good blackfire adepts aren’t allowed, and honestly, I don’t think there’s any way to reflavor the class to be otherwise. Even the most chaotic good character appreciates at least enough stability that the multiverse isn’t collapsing. While you could go a neutral character that thinks they are using the power for good, blackfire is such an inherently destructive force that they’re just kidding themselves.

  Normally, the Flame of the Rifts leaves little to nothing behind, but not even the breakdown of reality can be perfectly thorough. Such remnants are usually left to rot, but sometimes the anguish of such utter destruction reanimates the pieces into a swarm of blighted bits similar to the undead horrors known as the undigested.

 Despair can rip apart the soul just as easily as blackfire consumes matter and reality. Such was the case with a young trox scion who lost the love of his life to an accident of fate, and has begun to heed the whispers of the shadows in the dark, who offer absolution from his pain if her brings reality crashing down on a cosmos that ripped his love from him.

 Once a common sight, the eidolon Rivasai, a plant-like draconic creature hasn’t been seen with his summoner Valtas in months. He assures everyone that Rivasai is simply not needed or out doing errands, but the truth is more horrific. Valtas’ secret experiments into blackfire obliterated his companion, and left something horrible and empty in it’s place.