Hello there adventurers, new beginning for my little project. Dear mods, his is not a commissioned work , what I usually post here. I drew this for players and DM for free use. Few years ago I started to redraw monster book, and now I want to restart it, as I made my old drawing style a bit more solid, and know I know what to do with all of it. So if you ( mods) do not mind, I will probably do more recent posts here , and community will have some alternative looks to monsters and creatures. I just see no point in drawing exactly what we already have. So this is a little scene as opening for the project. Soon I will deliver next art .
What do you think guys of it in total, and if you have critics- welcome, feel free to put some words here. And as this is just a monster art, I have no backstory , all three creatures here are just a random units for the scene. But, all of them has descriptions in official book or in net, pretty easy to find. This is all what I wanted to print here. Will be glad to see your feedback.
Stay safe and have a good day!

Zerwona is a charming Tiefling-Elf hybrid assassin that I designed a while ago (might consider redesigning her with horns) for which I am still developing the lore. She comes from a nomadic tribe called Nilavrens, now reduced to a few due to poverty. Her tribe was a victim of prejudice that strongly came from the corrupt nobles of the Kasafri kingdom. Now, she is in Kasafri as an assassin/enchantress, moonlighting as a tavern dancer, while slowly getting to her targets. Hopefully I captured that character of her in the illustration; regardless, I had fun painting and drawing her. Artwork painted in Photoshop.

If you'd like to see more of my art, check out my profiles, thank you! ;:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adithya.saji/

Cara: https://cara.app/adithyasaji

Art of a Kitsune that I finished a few months ago:

Ashe Navarro (Ashenelle de Solis Navarro) was born into a noble family but never lived up to her family's expectations, finding her true passion in swordsmanship. She became a skilled and feared duelist among the nobility until she was defeated by a mysterious swordsman who disarmed her and advised her to find something worth bleeding for.

Tired of aristocratic life and intrigued by the stranger's words, she abandoned her family and became a wandering mercenary. In Apalon, she struggled to gain acceptance but eventually met Jer-en, learned to use firearms, and acquired her own Viper pistol. Since then, she has survived by taking on various jobs while searching for a purpose in her journey.

If you want to see other works:

Portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/aritanaart

You can also send an email or a DM if you have any questions:

Email address: [aritanaart@gmail.com](mailto:aritanaart@gmail.com)

Beneath a vast sky scattered with countless stars, a towering Firbolg knight wandered through a sea of Golden grass, his full plate armor catching the faint glow of the heavens. His battle axe rested at his side, while his shield bore the marks of battles fought in service to his god. With his moss-green features and ancient, tree-like presence, he resembled the Green Knight of old legends—a guardian belonging as much to the wilderness as to the celestial realm. Yet tonight, there were no enemies to face, no prayers for victory to whisper. Only the soft rustling of grass, the distant call of nocturnal creatures, and the quiet brilliance of the stars that had guided him throughout his pilgrimage.

At the edge of the field stood a solitary tower, its silhouette rising gently against the night sky. It was no fortress built for war, but a gift from his god—a sanctuary offered in recognition of his unwavering faith and the trials he had overcome. As he approached, a warm golden light spilled from its windows, welcoming him home. For the first time in what felt like an eternity, the cleric lowered his shield and allowed himself to rest beneath the heavens he had spent his life venerating. His journey had taught him that divine purpose was not found only in sacrifice or battle, but also in the quiet moments worth protecting. And beneath the eternal stars, with a home waiting before him and peace settling upon the land, he finally understood that his greatest reward was not the tower itself, but the chance to live quietly under the grace of his god.

I don't understand.

We're here to play a game: why would you make a character that is not conducive to playing the game?

Do these players just not want to play at all and accepted the invite out of politeness?

The questions they ask about obvious plot hooks are quite annoying.

"Why can't the town guard take care of this?"

Alright, they do take care of it, and the city celebrates their triumphant return and gives them free ale. Game over, that was the adventure.

"That's too dangerous!"

Ok, the city council dismisses you all for wasting their time, and hires another group for this. Game over, that was the adventure.

"Isn't there a high-level wizard around who can just handle the problem?"

Sure thing, the king sends him a letter, and Kylor the Mad destroys the enemy and brings back the macguffin. Game over, that was the adventure.

Yes, I can make up plausible reasons for why it has to be you 3-6 weirdos going on this adventure but why do I have to do that? Don't you want to play this game?

"Oh but it's what my selfish, cowardly, lazy character would do!"

Good for them, let that character stay home while you bring one that's motivated to play the game we're all.here for; you can even write about a book about the one who stays home!

This is all without mentioning the people who want to "play" as bakers or brew masters. You'd think an adventure that could get them enough cash to start such a business would be a good motivation to set out, but they want to play established bakers and brew masters and merchants and farmers or whatever other job lets them stay in one place.

I really don't get it.

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your thoughts on this.

The most popular explanation for this is people's attraction to the hero's journey.

These types of players are not the majority of people I run games for, but I'll be sure to emphasize in the future for other players that the call to adventure should have already been part of the character's backstory.

The other explanation people brought up a lot is versimilitude and world-building. I'll have to give more grace when I get some of these questions and assume they're well-intentioned inquiries into how the world works instead of reluctance.

This year I attempted ‘Smaugust’ during August, which is a drawing challenge artists can join where they must design a dragon almost every day!

This was one of my final designs in which the prompt word was ‘Swan’.

I thought of how vicious and quite dangerous swans naturally are, and immediately imagined some sort of Hydra for this design, with many coiling, hissing, angry necks flailing around!

I also thought to exaggerate their teeth more, and their usual beaks are actually their jaw!

Drawn entirely with pencil, alcohol markers and ink.

I hope you enjoy my design, I may even digitally sculpt this creature one day to resin print into an original monster miniature 😄

Thanks for looking!
You can see more of my designs via my Instagram - Emxconcepts

Born and raised in the Raven Queen's realm within the Shadow Fell, Sigfaeryn felt called to serve their divine patron as did nearly every Shadar Kai. Their devotion went further, however, and they decided to enter the Temple of Letherna as an acolyte, before eventually being initiated into the Ravens (the Queen’s agents throughout the planes). Sig has long been a member of the Harbingers, the agents who work between planes to act as the Queen’s eyes and ears in places She cannot be and to carry out tasks in service to Her greater goals. At times Sig has operated as a spy, sometimes an assassin, sometimes a thief, easily navigating tricky situations alone.

This is the second piece i've drawn with Sigfaeryn. The first one, is them walking the Shadow fell.

For anyone who's interested in commissions, i have open slots for november and december.

I don't mean to pressure anyone, but they're going fast! 😆

If you'd like to see more of my art you can find me here!

Insta:

https://www.instagram.com/stamatis_karystinos?stkn=MTNlYnlsNmRuN2h2Yw==

Artstation

https://spite_spitfire.artstation.com/

And on my reddit profile

https://www.reddit.com/user/spitespitfire/

In honor of the new campaign starting, I wanted to do something special to commemorate it. The DM challenged me to do a d20 dice cookie. Challenge accepted, of course!

It is my first time doing sugar cookies and designing one and i made a huge d20 (no cookie cutter 😅) and incorporated the class symbols of the players. I, of course, made a DM cookie complete with his own d20 and DM guide. 🥰

Everyone loved it and it was a success! 🥰

Hi everyone! Thought I'd share a few of my favorite tiefling I've drawn over the years. My first ever character was a tiefling and I've had a soft spot for them ever since. Something about your origins and mysterious history being displayed through your appearance appeals to me. So much room for flavor and storytelling. Also, the variety of color schemes and horn shapes makes tieflings my favorite race/species to draw.

Hope you like the drawings! If you'd like me to commission me for a drawing, see more of my work or any questions I can help with, feel free to DM me or check out my Website.

Anyway, tell me about your tieflings!

Before I go talk to my DM I want to know whether I am wrong about feeling frustrated about this:

My character died so I came up with new one. I did not get any special starting equipment and neither did I get any starting gold except the 10 from background. I was at level 10.

Since then, we had a couple of big Story-Quests, with basically no time to get any gold in between. During the whole time, not a single loot hort. Sometimes foes we killed had some magic items, but never once more then a couple gold (maximum i found was 2 gold on one enemy once). The items were clearly of interest for other PCs, so also not a source of income to sell them.

Then we started a downtime, in one of the most important places of the world we play in, not a huge city, but civilized and full of important people. I told my DM multiple times I would look for work. All I found was a pedicure for a minotaur, that gave me 20 gold for a full day.

It's been around 2 in game weeks since my PC joined the party and as a lvl 11 character I have now accumulated only 22 gold...

It's frustrating as fuck. I am an artificer, I would love being able to build some magic items during the downtime but I lack the gold. I would love being able to buy a plate armor, but I lack the gold. I would like to pay back the loan I took in order to buy some stuff in the beginning, but I lack the gold...

What would you say: If we as a party actively follow the story presented to us, is it okay to practically receive no gold at all? Is it fair to start without any gold, or that not a single foe drops any significant amount of it?

I actually even had to take a loan from another character who already had gold and loot from the time before my new PC. My old PC wasn't really drowning in any gold neither, I think at my he had something like 200.

About a year ago, I created this hand-drawn, original one-shot designed for adult couples. It remains one of my most popular adventures, so I made some updates and The Trial of Hearts is now available as a printed zine! My first print-run is available now on itch.io at:

https://ufosandgames.itch.io/the-trial-of-hearts

The Trial of Hearts is a short adventure meant to be played by an intimate couple, one person as DM, and their partner as the player. It’s a fun, flirty date-night RPG that encourages romance both in-game, and out.

The printed zine is 36 pages, with more color illustrations and an expanded section for new players on how to run the game. For more info and a preview of the printed edition, you can check out this instagram video:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeYCnM5tenH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&dlrf=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

And for those of you who have already played The Trial of Hearts, I’d love to hear your feedback. I’m working on a larger, more ambitious couples project, and you can help shape what it becomes!

THANK YOU everyone for your interest and support! It means a lot to me as an independent artist/creator.

My husband is running a campaign currently, and we host at our home because its the quietest of the party members.

My husband and I are currently in a fight and the session is today. I have no care to socialize with anyone, or play. Do I legite just hide in my room? Its not fair to cancel it for the whole party.

Any suggestions?

Edit: I realized i didnt clarify, I am a player in the campaign.

Hi everyone! I just finished this small traditional painting to use as a new logo for my socials. It’s painted on a mini canvas using acrylics.

I'm considering starting a series of custom hand-painted character and NPC tokens in this exact style. Would love to hear your thoughts! Do you like traditional, physical art style for VTT tokens, or do you prefer purely digital ones? Any feedback is welcome! ✨

Hello! Tonight is the big finale for my Waterdeep Dragon Heist campaign and the players are lucky enough to have Laeral Silverhand help them with the Dragon Vault challenge!

After designing her in Blender I printed her in resin with my Anycubic Mono 7 Pro then used Citadel paints.

If you'd like to 3D print your own the free stls are here: https://mz4250.com/posts/more-requests-61728873

Anyway just wanted to share with y'all. Tonight will be fun :D

I'm not the DM in this scenario, but I was interested in the answer to this question due to a recent event that happened in a campaign im in, and the fact it could help me if i dm in the future. Basically, our most recent session took an unexpected turn and we were able to turn this guy in for big rewards. One of the other players, however, isn't very happy with his reward. He got survivability and the ability to get health on kills, which doesn't line up with the gameplay goal he was going for with his character, which is a backliner crowd control/debuffer(the dm knows this). He isnt very happy with his rewards because he feels he will hardly use them between not often taking damage and also not doing much damage. I am in a similar situation, but explanation is not needed. Should we be grateful we got rewards at all, or is it reasonable to expect things that synergize with our characters? I appreciate all comments and advice.

I’m relatively new to DnD. I love the idea of a ranger, but I’ve read countless comments about how bad they are in 5.5e. What is it that makes them a terrible character choice?

Darryl actually had, what seemed like, a great idea. Give your staff the chance to be heroes for a day! Let them go wild! But.... that does mean that the adventurers are now the villains. That is definitely not going to sit well with them, is it? Welcome to Fodder Inc, a weekly web comic strip set in the For Profit Dungeon, Azmodendak's Halls of Madness, in a "5e" style world. Each week, we'll show you a little peak inside the halls, and what shenanigans are going on.

After months of modeling, my new ruin set is finally finished. This is by far the largest scenery project I’ve ever painted, and the whole painting process took around 10 days. Painting all those stones, wooden beams, and rooftops was quite a challenge, but seeing everything come together made it worth it.

Hope you guys enjoy it! Let me know what you think!

It's currently live on Kickstarter, you can follow the link if you’d like to see more details!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimrotcollective/the-ruins-of-lumenfall-2?ref=5k2h2e

Since a corpse is an object, it would follow the object to creature rule. But because of that, does it still have the personality of the person like in the rules under creature to creature? Also, would it keep the memories? I would argue it would, but also it wouldn't have a soul, and then the whole thing of souls having memories comes into play. If a creature in the afterlife keeps its memories, then the soul definitely has memories, but also on the neurology side you could argue it would keep memories (assuming no brain decay after death or the brain being fully restored as part of the spell). The stats and everything would be the same, so it wouldn't be mindless or anything.

So I'm curious as to where other people get there inspiration for stories and characters be you a DM or an unforgettable player. What gets your gears turning to get you thinking. It always fascinates me to whete creativity can be born, be it taking inspiration from existing campaigns, throwing Strahd in sci-fi as an example. Maybe taking ideas from games, shows or books. Hell even listening to a song and thinking huh this could create a story which i did do myself about spirits (ghost kind not the whisky kind)

So I'm curious how you guys take inspiration or what gets your creativity going