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Another year, another birthday for my dear friend @tigerwriter! The Temphere Campaign has brought so many colorful characters, and they are always a blast to see hanging out, interacting, and helping us make the story of our D&D campaign great! Here's to another year of Temphere, and another year of us being friends. < 3

#dungeons and dragons #d&d #story scenes #rochol #Iporr #Vandoryth #Jesper #shahrukh #Hushed Flame #Xolo #Ash #Ibereai #Magdiel Liadon #Valanthe Liadon #drow #eladrin #half-elf #tabaxi #guard drake

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If you love me, please open the image in another tab to fullview it, there is a lot of detail that tumblr shrunk into oblivion.

So! I decided that this year I want to get better about practicing my backgrounds, because I hate backgrounds and never draw them if I can get away with it. XD In service of this goal, I enlisted the help of my friends Tiger and Rabbit, who will take turns with me each month in choosing a scene from one of the many collaborative stories we've written together for me to draw. And I have to give it a detailed background.

For the first contribution to this project, Tiger chose a scene from one of the recent sessions of the Temphere campaign- our party's ranger, Anther, had spent um… a lot of turns grappled by a grick thanks to some bad rolls both to attack and to break the grapple. Cree, who'd been distracted by another Grick for most of the fight, turned her attention to Anther and used the spell Heat Metal to turn Anther's rapier white-hot; a side-effect of this spell is that any creature holding the object has to make a constitution save or drop it. Anther chose to fail the save, but because the grick was holding her and also in contact with the rapier, it had to roll CON and failed. This was a pretty funny scenario, not least of which because in our other campaign Rabbit has utilized a similar damaging spell, thorn whip, to break allies out of grapple. XD

The wolf in the background is an NPC we were escorting at the time, Ryth, who as a fun aside was kicking absolute ass during the fight thanks to some bonkers good rolls, such to the point that we kept joking he was channeling Kiba from Wolf's Rain and had "the power of god and anime on his side."

Next month is my birthday, so it's my turn to pick the scene!

#reblogging from main #Cree #Anther #Vandoryth #story scenes

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FINALLY GOT YOU BACK, SHINKO.

Art fight revenge for @shinkoscribbles (and partially for @tigerwriter). Cree and Kassor, ready to spread light and rainbows and to beat up some fish.

#cree #art fight #art fight 2023 #This is so pretty #the rendering on the scales dayum #looking forward to many rainbow lasers #thank you so much

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Engarde, @anthertheranger !

For those who don't follow my main blog, I am participating in Art Fight again this year! For my first piece I attack fellow Temphere campaign player with this depiction of an incredibly fun solo scene for Anther. She snuck out of town in the middle of the night to find traps being laid by the monster hunters that were after our ward, a wolf-were called Vandoryth.

Feel free to follow me on Art Fight if you like, I go by Shinkoryu14!

#dungeons and dragons #dnd #anther #ranger #art fight #art fight 2023 #team werewolves

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Name: Cree

Pronouns: She/Her

Flags: Lesbian

Native Canon: D&D Temphere Campaign

From one gay dragon to another! A feature of my queer characters would never be complete without Cree Let-Me-Immediately-Session-One-Flirt-With-This-Female-Dragonborn-NPC Dungeons and Dragons. She's been getting art almost every pride since her campaign started, so of course I had to feature her here! Hilariously, the rainbow scales are not a bit of pride flair- she literally has those in-game thanks to warlock pact shenanigans. But I am not going to look a gift rainbow in the mouth!

#reblogging from main #I’m posting daily pride art #on my main blog! #feel free to follow me there if that interests you #Cree #warlock #bard #dragonborn #black dragonborn

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Cree got some new armor last session! Her full warlock outfit update is still pending (she needs some time to settle into the idea of BEING a warlock before she goes and completely changes her look over it, lol) but this is still a fun visual reflection of her progression. And the higher AC is a blessing!!!

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #dragonborn #black dragonborn #warlock #bard #Cree

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So, what is the OGL and why are DnD creators thoroughly screwed?

Tumblr has not been doing a great job at talking about this, but:

With OneDnD, Wizards of the Coast has decided to update the Open Game License (OGL). Said license is what allowed people to create homebrew DnD content and sell it, and even larger companies to use certain sorts of content. Pathfinder, for example, is built on said OGL. This also allows streamers and artists to exist and benefit from said content.

With OneDnD (sometimes called “dnd 6e”), WOTC wants to create a much more restrictive OGL, which will, amongst other things:

Make WOTC take a cut for any DnD-related work (according to Kickstarter, a whole 25% of the benefits)

Let WOTC cancel any project related to DnD up to their discretion

Let WOTC take ANY content made based on their system, and re-sell it without crediting you, or giving you a single cent

And most importantly, revoke the old OGL, which will harm any company or game system that used it as a base, such as Pathfinder. And it means they GET ownership over any homebrew content you may have done for 5e in the past!

It’s important to note that OGLs are supposedly irrevocable. They were planning to use it for OneDnD initially, but they want to apply it retroactively to 5e, somehow. Which is illegal, but lawyers have mentioned there’s a chance they may get away with it given the wording.

This means that anything you make based on DnD (A homebrew item? A character drawing? Even music, according to them?), can get taken and used as they deem appropiate.

These news come from a leak of the OGL, which have been confirmed by multiple reputable sources (including Kickstarter, which has confirmed that WOTC already talked with them about this), and was planned to be released next week.

So, what can we do?

Speak against it. Share the word. Reblog this post. Let people know. Tumblr hasn’t been talking much about this matter, but it’s VERY important to let people know about what is WOTC bringing. 

Boycott them. Do not buy their products. Do not buy games with their IP. Do not watch their movie. CANCEL your DnD Beyond subscription. (Btw, they ARE planning to release more subscription services too!). They do not care about the community, but they care about the money. Make sure to speak through it. 

And maybe consider other TTRPG systems for the time being, Pathfinder’s Paizo has been much nicer to the community, their workers are unionized and are far more healthy overall

#dnd #wizards of the coast #open gaming license #as someone who has #purchased homebrew content #felt like I should spread this #boost

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For Christmas this year, I made my D&D group themed presents - snowglobes! This was so much fun, I really really loved this theme, and I liked making everyone's scenes! I'd actually like to make one for one of my own characters, there was a type of winter scene I wasn't able to do that I would still like to try! We shall see!

The images each have image descriptions, but names and credits to the character owners are below! (in order of appearance):

@creethebard's Dayainee the "Warforged" paladin

@ginzloveslife's Dahlia, the halfling cleric (and Marigold, her riding hound!)

@elycien's Tandy, the gnome warlock

@rabbitthewriter's Virga, the water genasi druid, and

Riel's Kevin, the half-orc battlesmith artifacer and his steel defender Chad! (Riel doesn't have a Tumblr)

#Dayainee #friend art #I love it thank you Tiger #Very atmospheric and perfect for winter #Merry Christmas!

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A quick contribution to the holiday! Here's Cree, my PC from the Temphere Campaign, and Fen, one of the NPCs from the Thrrasir campaign, all geared up for a costume party!

Happy Halloween everyone! I hope you all had a lovely evening and ate many sweets!

#Self reblog #Cree #dragonborn #Halloween #tw: arachnophobia #tw: spiders

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The party recently acquired a baby brass guard drake named Xolo (pronounced "show-low"). In the most recent session Cree was training and bonding with Xolo. During this scene a lot of recent upheavals caught up with her, resulting in this sweet/sad moment.

#dungeons and dragons #d&d #dragonborn #guard drake #black dragonborn #brass guard drake #bard #warlock #story scenes #cree #Xolo

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Happy Birthday to The Wild Cards!

The campaign and the party turns four years old on September 9th! From what I have learned since I started playing D&D, that is a very long time. And as celebration this year, I drew some good moments from each of the party members!

Bu I certainly could not have done this ago. About a month ago, @shinkoscribbles DMed me and mentioned how cool it’d be if every character got a cool character moment drawing. And since that would have been a lot of work on my end, they offered to do the sketching and the lineart. Major thanks to Shinko, they are amazing, they did so awesome, could not have done this without them.

Keep reading

#Scheduled post #Happy Anniversary Temphere Campaign #This collab was a lot of fun #Dahlia #Anther #Cree #McGuiggan #Fracture #Hush #Athelia #Kassor #Wenrule #Thesdian

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So Cree recently multi-classed into Warlock! I'm hella excited about it, this is going to be a lot of fun both in meta and in story!

Speaking of in-story, Cree forgot about the fact that in Temphere canon warlocks tend to get some sort of very visible, very obvious "mark" from their patron. Like Medea and Kindrin having very brightly colored hair from their Fey patrons. So Cree's patron, a sun spirit with rainbow powers, has made her iridescent!

She'll adjust. =)

#Cree #d&d #dungeons and dragons #dragonborn #warlock #bard #bardlock

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Kassor

One of my D&D players is multiclassing as a warlock,and this is her patron! Kassor serves the sun god, but is currently stuck in a hexblade staff (hexstaff?) fighting the sapient evil within, as you do~

#Rainbow snek! #Cree still doesn't know how to feel about this #but I for one welcome her new prismatic overlord #Tiger's spin on the hexblade lore is a lot of fun #tw: snake #snake #cobra #temphere campaign

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Here are my contributions to the collab! Cree being a little gremlin like usual, and Tace going all out on the fancy! You can see Rabbit and Tiger's contributions at full size in the reblogs. Happy Pride everyone!

The D&D gang held our annual Pride Collab! This year's theme was Paint the Wall with Pride; everyone did a fantastic job, and it was a lot of fun to piece the final artwork together.

#Cree #Tace #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dragonborn #kalashtar

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Was going through my desk at work and I found a random doodle of Cree that I thought actually turned out halfway decent, so I decided to clean it up and color it in the MediBang app on my phone. Here’s Cree’s face for no reason! XD

#dungeons and dragons #d&d #cree #dragonborn #sketch

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“Is something the matter?” “I was going to ask you the same thing. You’ve been acting strange over the last week or so.”

Cree and Anther, having a talk, talking things out like party members.~

Anther noticed Cree has been off lately and like an actual friend, she approached her about it. The results are up in the air, Anther does not quite know how to people.

#Cree definitely absolutely not still hiding things #seriously though it was a cute convo #Bonding! Character development! #Cree #Anther

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I had originally intended to finish this for the birthday of my very dear friend @tigerwriter-art. Then I was offered a job in another city, and having to move and start in the new position threw my timeline wildly out of kilter, resulting in this being almost a month late. But I was determined to see it finished!

Tiger, you are an amazing person, and you've stuck with me through the good times and the bad. Together we've told countless fun and engaging stories, and you never cease to impress and entertain me with how fabulous of a writer you are. Here is just a small sampling of your awesome characters in (belated) honor of your special day. Much gushing under the cut.

Qlu- The aaracockra tailor NPC from the Temphere campaign. I thought about drawing Hush, but we always draw Hush to rep you for that campaign and I thought you might enjoy seeing someone different! Qlu has a ton of personality and passion, and is always great fun to talk to whenever he appears in a scene.

Shadowstep - The mischievous deinonychus from Naelus: The Isle of Mist. The raptors were still great characters, full of snark and big of ego. Their jovial but fiercely loyal natures were a blast to play against, and Shadowstep's gentle chiding to keep his headstrong mate Driftstone in line was always entertaining.

Leif - The OG, the first character of yours I had the pleasure of reading and interacting with, the archmage of House Jade from Medieval. It has been a joy to see this character's growth over the years, from a short tempered, antisocial loner who likes birds more than he likes people to a compassionate person who helps others as much as he is able (though still with a short temper and a fondness for birds, because it wouldn't be Leif otherwise). And of course, I had to include his black-shouldered kite Ayleth, because it wouldn't be Leif without one of his raptors.

Harper - The half-alien teenager from Wrighton: Strange Memories. Can I just take a minute to enthuse about how well you wrote this character? They read very much as a realistic, believable teenager. They understood serious, heavy situations and treated them with the appropriate gravitas, but also had times where they could be mulish and immature. It was always fun to see what they were going to do next, and their more childish point of view helped bring levity at times to my far-too-serious character from the same story.

Iskender - The sapient, super-powered, talking Turkish Angora cat from Hero City: Capital of Justice. The fluffy white cat who isn't just there for the supervillain to stroke, but IS the supervillain, and in fact the boss of the supervillains. Clearly a delightful character in concept alone, but Iske was also a blast to play against. Gleefully evil, he delighted in everything from orchestrating the break-in of high security government test facilities to shedding on the sofa just because he was told to stay off it.

Metastophelous - The demonic parole officer from Mafia 2 & 3. Technically an older character than Leif, but I wouldn't meet him until much later, lol. A 4th wall shattering, scathingly sarcastic agent of divine retribution, as like to make critical remarks about your writing as on the mafioso ghost he was in charge of. He's always got a fun take on any given situation, delights in watching his repentant sinner struggle, but also genuinely wants him to succeed and shows no such callousness towards the innocent. An enjoyably complex, nuanced take on the typical "demon who punishes sinners" trope.

Doryen - Last but certainly not least, the lizardfolk sorcerer from the Thrrasir Campaign. Often the voice of reason (considering his party members are either too idealistic for their own good or swing hard into the "neutral" end of the morality spectrum in their suggested approaches to problem solving) and yet delightfully short-tempered such to the point that it's almost a meme at this point for him to exclaim "can we just fight you already?" to monologuing villains. I look forward to seeing how he continues to grow as the campaign progresses.

Happy belated birthday, Tiger. < 3 Hope this year is a good one to you.

#Qlu #aaracokra #Doryen #lizardfolk #Leif Jade #Harper Kulkarni #Iskender #Metastophelous #Ayleth #Shadowstep