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I don't want Baldur's Gate 3 DLC I want Larian to keep adding in unfinished scenes and finishing dropped quest lines and open up the upper city and give us all the anime style filler episode content we can handle for eternity until they run out of updates to give

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Warlock: Sorry I can’t hangout tonight I’m due to descend into madness

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My tiefling ranger, Mikael, who's really into fire.

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#dungeons and dragons #dnd #dnd characters #ttrpg #tiefling #ranger #gloom stalker #rogue #dnd oc art #mikael ilya

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My assassin/warlock who's dating the newly minted moon God.

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My assassin/warlock who's dating the newly minted moon God.

#dungeons and dragons #dnd characters #dnd #dragonborn #assassin #rogue #warlock #ttrpg #black dragonborn #hexblade

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Been trying to get back into drawing by doing portraits of dnd characters I want to play. We got a triton, satyr, aasimar, and chantling.

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New dnd character, who dis?

#barbarian #dnd #dungeons and dragons #erzra

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Heyo. So I started a youtube channel to talk about books if anyone is interested. Starting out with some queer horror books for spooky season. 

#it me

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So I'm running a homebrew campaign set in the feywild, and there's a few racial limitations because some races just don't make a ton of sense existing in the feywild where the context for them isn't the same, but ibwanrwd to add some extra race choices to keep things interesting. So here are the stats for the Shadow Fey, and Void Dragonborn who live in the Feydark. And the Faerie Dragonborn inspired by the faerie dragons in the monster manual. Not pictured is the dryad homebrew which I posted a long whole ago.

#dungeons and dragons #dnd #ttrpg #dnd homebrew #homebrew race #dungeons & dragons #dragonborn #faerie dragon #feywild #shadow fey #dark elf #shadow elf #void dragon #void dragonborn #faerie dragonborn

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If you’re wondering what the whole drama regarding tieflings is in the Dungeons & Dragons fandom: basically, capitalism ruined tieflings, and for once that’s not even slightly a joke.

Tieflings were first introduced as a playable species in Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition, via the Planescape campaign in 1994. At the time, there were no particular rules regarding what a tiefling was supposed to look like. The text explicitly stated that their basic physiology could vary wildly depending on what their fiendish ancestor was, and one of the first major Planescape supplements even included a table for randomly generating your tiefling’s appearance, if you were into that sort of thing.

This continued to be the case up through the game’s Third Edition. However, when the Fourth Edition rolled around in 2008, the game’s text suddenly became very particular about insisting that all tieflings looked pretty much the same. Some campaign settings even provided iin-character explanations for why all tieflings now had a standardised appearance. Understandably, this made a lot of people very annoyed.

There was naturally a great deal of speculation concerning what had motivated this change. It was widely cited as “proof” that Dungeons & Dragons was trying to appeal to the World of Warcraft fanbase – which was nonsense, of course; nearly all of the Fourth Edition’s allegedly MMO-like features were things that popular MMOs had borrowed from Dungeons & Dragons in the first place, and to the extent that tieflings’ new look resembled a particular WoW race, it was in that they were both extraordinarily generic.

In reality, it was a change that had been lurking for some time. Though Dungeons & Dragons is directly published by Wizards of the Coast, Wizards of the Coast is in turn owned by Hasbro, and Hasbro has long regarded the D&D core rulebooks as a vehicle for promoting D&D-branded merch – in particular, licensed miniature figures.

This was a bugbear that had reared its head before. When the Third Edition received major revisions in 2003, Hasbro corporate had ordered the game’s editors to completely remove any discussion of how to improvise minifigs for large battles, and replace it with an advertisement for the then-current Dungeons & Dragons Heroes product line. Implying that purchasing licensed minis wasn’t 100% mandatory simply would not do.

If you’ve gotten this far, you’ve probably already guessed where this is going: tieflings having no standard appearance made it difficult to sell tiefling minifigs, as any given minifig design would only be suitable for a small subset of tiefling characters. In the brutally reductive logic of the corporate mind, Hasbro reasoned: well, if we tell tiefling players that all of their characters now look the same, we can sell them all the same minifigs. So that’s what the game did, going so far as to write justifications into several published settings for magically transforming all existing tiefling characters to fit the new mould!

This worked about as well as anyone who isn’t a corporate drone would naturally anticipate – and that’s the story of how capitalism ruined tieflings.

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Another from my D&D visuals series: combat ranges

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Little gelatinous cube and big gelatinous cube

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“Hey, kid. You’re like me… How?”

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Terrible Character Ideas:

A monk based on a European Christian archetype. They have sworn a sacred oath to defeat the giant snail plaguing the countryside.

A dragonborn desperately trying to convince the party that they’re really an aarakocra with a skin condition that made their feathers fall out.

Your standard horny bard, but they play a washboard. 

A sentient hat piloting a mannequin.

A dark elf who’s afraid of the dark, and terrified of spiders.

A peasant farmer who joined the adventure because they’re going through a midlife crisis and want to ~find themself.~

A druid who got involved because they’re the party’s weed dealer.

A werewolf who doesn’t believe in the moon.

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Some sparkly trans dice for the sparkly trans people out there. <3