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[yourdndstories]

This all really happened! Based on a submission from @thanksforputtingupwithme

[filibusterfrog]

comm for a patron

[theshunbun]

A red bliss spudaran subtype for the tato ttrpg~ 💕

[vintagerpg]

Henry Justice Ford is a curiously under-remembered artist of the golden age. He is most known today, if he is known at all, for his work illustrating all twelve volumes of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books (fun fact: despite being known as “Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books,” Lang’s wife Leonora Blanche Lang selected and translated all but the first in the series, The Blue Fairy Book).

This is a fairly thorough collection of Ford’s work from Dover Books: Maidens, Monsters & Heroes (2010). Ford’s ink work is bold and intricate, his color work luminous and often combining surprising colors (perhaps a side-effect of the reproduction process). I tend to gravitate more toward his inks, perhaps because there are more monsters there (though that Chimera is pretty fab). Ford, of all of these artists, seems to have delighted in monsters. Especially reptilian ones, though he has talent for grinning demons and goblins, too. So many of his monsters are downright strange, too — look at that Scylla! WTF?! He has quite an array of giants, as well. Longtime readers may recall my enthusiasm for his Arabian cyclops, which featured on the cover of A Natural History of Unnatural Things.

Unlike the other artists I’m looking at this week, Ford has a direct influence on Dungeons & Dragons. That affable looking giant with the club is the clear inspiration for Trampier’s cloud giant illustration in the Monster Manual and I think generally you can see a lot of resonance between the two artists, particularly in terms of framing and posing. Tramp’s pseudodragon seems to have a lot of Ford in it.

A tremendous artist, flipping through any of his collections is like looking through a Victorian Monster Manual.

[rowansender]

Every session starts with me trying and failing to bring myself to fight my wife who is currently our DM

Dungeons and Dragons, but your character must be a self insert, and class is determined by your current abilities Barbarian Must have a demonstrable temper, go off I guess  Bard Must be able to play an instrument Cleric Must be involved in a religious organization Druid Must have demonstrable knowledge of, or passion for nature  Fighter Must beat the DM in physical combat (hope your DM’s a wimp)  Monk Must practice a martial art  Paladin Must have a cause that one actively supports  Ranger Must be able to fire a kind of ranged weapon accurately  Rogue Must sneak up on the DM (Hard mode: steal their dice)  Sorcerer Must have a powerful family heirloom  Warlock Must work for a powerful entity (Corporations, The Government)  Wizard Must have a College Degree or a 3.0 GPA  If you can’t be any of these you start as a commoner, and may become one of these classes when you finally satisfy these conditions.

[geezmarty]

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BG3, Dragon Age, and any TTRPG! All info in the forms 😊💖

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[shadow-of-gehenna]

Introducing the Sobek - Animalistic Terror

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Rampaging across the battlefield comes the Sobek, the most extreme representation of A.R.C.'s design philosophy. The Sobek is an apex on the battlefield, tearing through anything that stands in it's way, ripping enemy combatants limb from limb with it's unshackled rage.

The Sobek's license provides pilots with everything they'd require to turn the battlefield into a slaughter house, barbed Lock-blades and Lashers help pin mechs down, Ripper Jaws and Strider Talons tear apart even the toughest targets, and the Death Roll module will eviscerate whatever or whoever remains.

However, be warned pilots, the Sobek's hunger for battle and blood must be sated, if not, it may turn inward to find what it wants.

[transit-fag]

What do the shops in my ttrpg sell?

[leidensygdom]

Viridiana, for @estellisa , as part of the Brilliant Bismuth tier on my Patreon~! Y'all know I love iridescent stuff so I was over the moon with the scales here, I had so much fun with this one~!

[prokaryartsllc]

Finished experimental comm of a very cool tiefling!

[charaznablescanontoyota]

so i wrote another ttrpg

[thetealhummingbird]

You know, thinking about it... I love the idea that Elphaba thinks she's a wizard but is actually a sorcerer. She has a natural gift that is hard to control. She works hard, studies even harder, but learning in that manor still doesn't come naturally to her. Not until she finds the power within her and really accepts herself. 🖤💚

dnd au request

[ahcoffeebeans2]

its here (pre-orders only)

[lostcompanyofficial]

Original Art Auction!!

Big news, Rottmnt and Lost Company fans! We are hosting an auction for ROTEMNTEE Aliens original artworks, and this is your chance to own a one of a kind Andy Suriano art piece! All proceeds will go to Bill Flores (Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse shorts, Clone High, Uncle Grandpa) And Dave Wasson (Cuphead, (Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse shorts, Time Squad) my friends and colleagues who lost their homes due to the reccent fires! Lets help them get them back on their feet! Their go fund mes will also be linked on this post below! Check everyone out and send them some love!

Please make sure to read over and carefully on the graphics we share, and stay tuned! Auction will be hosted ONLY on our Twitter, you can find us at @lostcoofficial Auction will start on 01/22/2025 from 12:00 pm EST to 01/26/2025 9:00pm EST

👽 Auction starts at $200 for each of the individual drawings.

👽 The Minimum Raise/Minimum Increase you need to add to a previous bid for it to count : $25

👽 Ship to world wide, bidding prices are in USD

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👽 The winner will be contacted privately when the auction date ends, please make sure your dms are opened, if not by a certain date, we will move on to the next bidders.

🌟 You can find Bill Flores on @bill_humanzee on insta You can find Bill's go fund me here!

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Happy Bidding!

[vintagerpg]

Sidney Sime is another under-appreciated artist of the Golden Age, which is a shame, because he’s one of the strangest. This is Sidney Sime: Master of the Mysterious (1980), one of only four collections of his work, all out of print and all rather pricey. During his lifetime, he wasn’t terribly prolific — his largest, most well-known body of work was illustrating (and inspiring) early stories by Lord Dunsany. The largest extant collection of Sime’s work remains at Dunsany Castle.

Sime’s rather hard to pin down stylistically, I think. He often reminds me of Harry Clarke, who was a contemporary, but while Sime isn’t hesitant to be highly detailed or ornamental, he often combines line work and washes in ways that are surprising. These contrasts look like cells of cartoon animation, and give many of his illustrations a curiously anachronistic feeling. It’s so odd, but I can picture so many of these drawing moving.

Some really great stuff here. “The Incubus” is jaw-dropping in its subtly and its atmosphere, definitely a favorite. The castle of the Gibbelins and the house of the Gnoles are both nicely horrific (and are important influences on RPGs). Lots of skulls, lots of dragons, lots of weird lumpy creatures. I love how, like the Dunsany stories they illustrate, the art seems to depict mythology from an alternate world, free of the centuries of symbols and associations of our own. This makes Sime sometimes feel obscure, but also, as the title says, establishes him as a master of mysterious.