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@ all my dnd artists, I am tryingnto find some references to draw some tabaxi.... and I am hitting a brick wall.

The tabaxi in question is of the fem variety, and is very good with her daggers. A bit of a rogue really....

Im working on character art for my very first dnd character so I can get a rough sketch to a tattoo artist, but I'm coming up blank with references for poses of feline/human hybrids. So recs would be amazeballs! Thanks!

#please help #tabaxi reference pics? #need artist assistance #dnd artists

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what the fuck ethan

#high fantasy maths #this is #more than i expected

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OH LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL!

Battlemap Aesthetics. [Downloadable freely, here]

#battle maps

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The Class Roulette pin is here! 🎉 Available in my store soon 😁

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I had a day a few weeks ago (thanks to Dungeons and Destiny) where I jumped head first into lore to try and weave a "new-ish" story for a group of players. And I went through a lot of their lore because 1. Its really in depth & cool, and 2. Because I felt that maybe I could explore some options when it comes to the Oryx plot lines and what have you.... and I called my s/o and basically cried and word vomited at him what I learned. It was eye opening for both of us, seeing as how he'd been playing since D1 came out. And that's how we met lol....

robert brookes (narrative designer for bungie and the patron saint of o14) just retweeted this. excuse me while i go absolutely hysterical over this.

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Hmmm

DM: What if every time you referred to Strahd as Vampire Daddy, I made the encounters more difficult? As the DM, I have the power to do that. 

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To all my friends who do D&D or are part of the ttrpg community, a friend of mine is doing a charity stream over on their twitch channel all day today. If you could pop on and get them some views or even just reblog so they could get some exposure that would be amazing.

Indigo Chameleon is full of fun friendly faces that do a lot of cool gaming. From Fairy Tale verses, to a gothic earth. To a modern verse, to even a time hopping adventure I am hella proud to be a part of on Thursday nights.

Check out these cool peeps as they raise money to help with US hunger.

#ttrpg #twitch #fundraiser #dnd shenanigans #dnd for a cause #check out these cool peeps #signal boost #dnd 5e homebrew #first time dnd player friendly #streamed games #community games #discord

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Homebrew hijinks

Recently I have been creating a module, in my own spare time... because i have no life, I have a lot of it.

Imagine a low magic world in the late 90's.

Not warefare, plenty of fantasy interlaced but not the standard high fantasy of other D&D style stuff.

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Useeeeefulll

Types of Ships

Parts of the Ship

Wind Directions

Sides of Boats

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Oooh... something i should look into for my campaign.

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A city where necromancy is legal and actually a part of every day society. So long as you follow a specific set of laws to make it seem a bit more ethical, you’re allowed to use it to do anything from helping you in a fight, to helping you run your business. In fact, there are entire shops or restaurants where the staff are undead. Laws to handle the undead could be things like:

• The corpses used cannot have flesh on them for sanitary reasons, especially in the case of businesses. Those who raise undead who are more than just bone will face a fine dependent on their situation.

• Similar to how people can donate their bodies to science, or donate their organs to those in need, people can choose to donate their bodies to necromancers before their death.

• If it is unknown if a person wished for their body to be donated after death, and they have been dead for 150+ years, you’re allowed to raise them. If next of kin is still alive, you must get permission from them first.

• You must take care of the undead in your charge. Keep them clean and unbroken. If one of them starts to get too much wear and tear, you are required by law to respectfully lay them back down to rest. Failure to do this will get you a hefty fine.

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Knowledge is power and I feel like learning and passing on what I know..... because thats how I, as a nerd, work.

Reblog if you are open to answering questions and giving advice for Dungeons & Dragons or other table top games.

Feel free to put in the tags how best to contact you and maybe what games or editions you know best.

Edit: since some were a little confused, I wanted to clarify that I am not looking for advice. I’m just trying to make it known to those new to the hobby that myself and many many other people are willing to help.

#dnd #dndhomebloooove #dnd 5e #dnd shenanigans #dnd character #neeeeeeerd #share the love #share the knowledge #knowlegeispower #pass it on #discord #dndbeyond #twitch

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SIGNAL BOOST!

Hey everyone! If you’re a d&d, tabletop rpg, or dice nerd like myself you should spread the word about this super cool Kickstarter for an app by Arcane Goods!

So the app allows people to create dice palettes and then purchase the custom dice palettes that they have created and named. BUT it also allows you to share the palettes on the app and if you get lots of attention you may earn cool rewards!

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE

They’ll also be doing super cool monthly contests where they’ll choose a theme and you can create dice palettes to hopefully win some awesome prizes!

There’s only 18 DAYS LEFT FOR THE KICKSTARTER

So let’s get this thing kickstarted!!! Here is the link!

Also if you love dice palettes check out @thedicepaladin @rogue-at-heart @the-dice-nest !

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Inner me is most pleased with this

Frodo Didn’t Fail

The climactic scene of The Lord of the Rings, when Frodo and Sam reach the Cracks of Doom, is one of my favorite scenes in all of literature. So I was very interested a little while back when noted Tolkien scholar Stephen Colbert laid out a neat little analysis of the scene. Frodo seems to fail at his appointed task – rather than throwing the ring into the fire, he claims it for himself, and the ring is only destroyed by the coincidental intervention of Gollum. Colbert then notes that Gandalf should have known that Frodo would fail. Back in the second chapter, Frodo demonstrated to Gandalf his inability to throw the ring into the much cooler fires of his own hearth, after having only possessed the ring for a few hours. Therefore, one may assume, Gandalf must have intended for one of the other members of the Fellowship to intervene and ensure the ring’s destruction.

Colbert’s analysis is clever, in the same way that the theory that Gandalf had intended all along to use the eagles to reach Mordor is clever. In its cleverness, though, I think such analyses risk treating LotR as a D&D campaign and thus losing sight of the real literary themes of the story.

One of Tolkien’s key themes is the Augustinian view of evil. Most genre fiction takes a decidedly Manichean view of evil – a view that holds that evil and good are two great opposing forces in the world, like the light and dark sides of The Force. In a Manichean view, good must triumph by opposing evil, either to eradicate it or to restore a balance to the universe.

Manichean views of evil lead to a very common type of climax to stories: the contest of wills. Our hero confronts the villain, and through superior courage, grit, love, or what-have-you, they overcome the villain and their evil power. It’s Harry going wand-to-wand with Voldemort, Thomas Covenant laughing at Lord Foul, Meg breaking IT’s hold over Charles Wallace, Luke facing down Vader and Vader facing down the Emperor.

Any other writer could have given us a very typical Manichean Cracks of Doom scene. Frodo approaches the fire, and the ring’s temptation overtakes him. He puts the ring on and begins to claim it. But a tiny voice somewhere deep inside him insists that this is wrong. Sam cries out, and thinking about Sam’s love and devotion rekindles a spark in Frodo. His Hobbitish desire for food and good cheer wells up, and he tears the ring off and throws it into the fire. A dramatic ending and a nice echo of the moral of The Hobbit.

But that’s not what happens. Frodo’s goodness – even the innocent goodness of a little old Hobbit – can’t go toe-to-toe with Sauron’s evil. Indeed, Isildur proved it. He defeated Sauron by opposing him with the force of good, and defeated him. But Isildur couldn’t destroy the ring, and within the year it had destroyed him.

Tolkien holds instead to an Augustinian view of evil. Evil, according to St. Augustine, is not a force of its own, but rather is the absence or corruption of good. We see this most explicitly in the idea that Morgoth and Sauron can’t create anything of their own, but only corrupt and warp what has been created by others. We also see it when Gandalf and Galadriel describe what would happen if they took the ring – it would warp their own desire to do good until they became evil.

An Augustinian climax can’t involve a contest of wills between good and evil. In an Augustinian world, evil can only exist by leeching off of good. So evil must be given an opportunity to destroy itself, much like the self-defeating band of thieves described by Plato (on whose philosophy Augustine drew heavily). Good wins by renouncing evil, not by overcoming it.

And that’s exactly what happens at the Cracks of Doom. The ring isn’t destroyed because Frodo’s force of good overcame the ring’s evil. Nor is Gollum’s intervention a coincidence or deus ex machina (like the series of disarmings that happened to make Harry the master of the Elder Wand). Rather, the ring’s evil collapsed in on itself by drawing Gollum. The very corruption of Gollum that enabled the ring to escape the river drove him to wrestle desperately with Frodo for it and ultimately fall to his doom, ring in hand.

An Augustinian view of evil has definite moral implications, which are also shown throughout The Lord of the Rings. A Manichean world is a consequentialist world. To defeat the forces of evil, we need to think strategically. Sometimes we may even need to indulge in a little short-term evil in order to be able to achieve the greater good. But an Augustinian world can’t allow that kind of pragmatic approach. In an Augustinian world, any compromise with evil can only strengthen it, giving it an infusion of good that delays its self-destruction. An Augustinian world demands a deontological ethic, doing the right thing regardless of the outcome.

Again and again in The Lord of the Rings, we see that strategically pursuing the greater good fails, while remaining true to moral principles succeeds even when it looked foolish. On the cautionary side, we have Saruman and Denethor. Though they may point to the palantir as an excuse, they each ultimately made a thoroughly reasonable choice in the face of Sauron’s overwhelming advantage – to ally with him while playing the long game, or to give in to despair. Our heroes, on the other hand, repeatedly make foolish decisions based on hope. Aragorn is a good example – he decides to pursue Merry and Pippin because he owes them protection even though Frodo is the one who holds the fate of the world in his hands. Later, he decides to make a suicide attack on the Morannon rather than hunkering down in Minas Tirith, in the hopes of Frodo’s quest succeeding.

But the most important instance of doing the right thing despite the consequences comes from Frodo himself: he refuses to kill Gollum. Killing Gollum would have been an eminently reasonable idea – he’s a slinker and a stinker, and we know that he never redeemed himself or turned over a new leaf. Indeed, his main accomplishments were to lead Frodo and Sam into a death trap, then to try to kill them with his own hands at the Cracks of Doom. Both Sam and Faramir were right when they said that killing Gollum would have been a good idea!

But Frodo showed Gollum pity and spared his life because it was the right thing to do. And just like Gandalf could see Frodo’s unwillingness to destroy the ring back in Bag End, he also addressed this very issue. He instructed Frodo:

Frodo: It’s a pity Bilbo didn’t kill him when he had the chance.

Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo’s hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.

And in the end, that pity was what saved the world. Frodo’s pity made it possible for Gollum to be there at the Cracks of Doom to take the ring. Frodo refused to give in to the small, reasonable evil of killing Gollum, and so he left the great evil of the ring exposed to destroy itself. That was Gandalf’s backup plan, not Aragorn’s strength to take the ring and destroy it. And so Frodo didn’t really fail. He succeeded at his quest back when he saved Gollum’s life, when he did the right thing even though it seemed foolish.

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The christmas special.

So tonight I thought for fun we would run a holiday filled adventure after the horrific events of the previous adventure. (That adventure had our heroes getting their butts handed to them)

So, our guildmaster and his recently reunited wife were reading a christmas tale, which is a winter solstice celebration tradition. As they were listening one of the guildmembers passed out some adult eggnog which knocked out the party and transported them into the book. On this adventure, they had to save Christmas due to some rather naughty elves who took the sleigh for a joy ride.

I had a few encounters set up, some kobolds on wolves (which they talked their way out of and decided to help free the kobolds from their master.), some polar bears that would have just huffed off in search of food but the barbarian killed them (and they found the baby polar bear which the barbarian then swaddled in the pelt of the mother bear and wore it like one of those baby carriers), they came across Grandma Joyuex in her house, a candy boi named pep( modeled after peppermint butler), met some snow elementals that they didn't try to kill, and even took on a yeti.....

I am pretty sure the best part however is when they went to free the kobolds before taking Mage Nicolas Noel back his sleigh, and met Krampus. Now.... they managed to talk to Krampus (Christophe) and convinced him to go visit Grandma Joyuex and have her teach him how to bake non sentient gingerbread men.

#dnd 5e #dnd 5e homebrew #xmas special #xmas spirit #joyeuxnoel #christmas #dndhomebloooove #dnd shenanigans #dnd

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