#dnd 3.5e

[triflingshadows]

Obsessed w these 3.5e vampire and vamp spawn designs

(Left drawn by Wayne Reynolds, right by Tom Baxa)

#art #dungeons and dragons #dnd #dnd 3.5e #vampire #? #q

[ncat]

Weave Whisperer 3.5e

This is my first foray into writing 3.5e content. I had a lot of fun doing so (:

This is an adaptation of the first class I ever wrote for 5e, so its nice to have a version of it for 3.5e as well.

Yeah <:

Ah! And heres the share link

#Dungeons and Dragons #dnd 3.5 #dnd 3.5e #homebrew #spellcasting class #NCat Homebrew

[missrosiewolf]

-aggressively sips orange juice-

So! What happens when you take an Edgy That Guy and ascend him into Godhood?

You get Shevarash, the elven god of revenge, loss, and hating drow.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: This dude needed therapy, not godhood. Fenmarel, for some reason, decided that it would be a good idea to help the most Anti-Drow elf to ever exist to become a god and it is because of this mindset that Shevarash has very few allies. He is so fucking focused on his tireless and unending crusade on the drow that only like-minded individuals will put up with him, such as Psilofyr and Callarduran Smoothhands.

Because let's be real: this man lives and breathes hatred. That is all he is now. Whoever he was before he became this person, this hunter obsessed with eliminating the drow is gone, destroyed during what is called the Dark Court Slaughter.

For those who are not familiar with this event in FR history or don't know what it is, the Dark Court Slaughter was an event that took place on Midwinter's Night in -4400 DR. It was the longest, darkest night of the year and an army consisting of Drow and Duergar swarmed out of the Underdark; the army overran both the dwarven realm of Sarphil on the southern shore of the Moonsea and the Elven Court at the heart of the great forest of Arocar. Countless lives of elves and dwarves were claimed that night, including most of the assembled leaders of the Fair Folk and the Stout Folk who had come to court to reestablish their long-standing alliance.

Among the few survivors was Shevarash but among the dead was his family. With grief and anger in his heart, Shevarash swore an oath to Corellon to become the hand of the Seldarine against drow to seek vengeance for the loss of his family.

(Demihuman Deities, p. 157)

And that is how Shevarash, likely once as carefree as most elves, became an agent of revenge. It's an oath he kept too. I would say that he became the greatest enemy the drow had because he was, for the remainder of his mortal life, relentless in his pursuit of the drow. He raided their underground cities, destroyed their shrines dedicated to their gods, and slew their priests.

However, Shevarash stories ends like many stories of revenge: his death. Shevarash was slain by a horde of myrlochar (soul spiders) after killing High Priestess Darthiir'eigg Aleanrahel and six of her consorts circa -4070 DR — 330 years after the Dark Court Slaughter. So ended the mortal life of Shevarash the Black Archer

But then Fenmarel decided to help him achieve godhood. Now Shevarash is the Night Hunter and Arrow Bringer. Fun fact: Corellon is the one who determines whether or not someone can join the pantheon, soooo they absolutely okayed Fenmarel's decision to help Shevarash undergo apotheosis. They okayed the most Anti-Drow elf to ever exist...becoming a deity.

Despite the fact that Corellon has TWO dark elf children (three if we count Vandria) and one of them is supposedly the favorite child (Eilistraee) because here's the thing: Shevarash (in his mortal life) hunted all drow, not just Lolthite drow — though Lolthites were his primary target. It didn't matter if you were Lolthite, Vhaeraunite, Eilistraean, Kiaransaleen, whatever — if you were drow, then you were his enemy. However, that changed once he became a demigod.

(Grand History of the Realms (2007), p. 27)

Yes. Eilistraee and her worshippers at one time, pre-godhood, were among Shevarash's targets. Demihunam Deities even states that it was only until recently (full disclosure: DD is a 2e Advanced Dungeons & Dragons accessory for the Forgotten Realms so by recently I'm guessing it's referring to 1370-1371. Either that or the late 1360s) that she managed to work out an some kind of truce with this guy.

(Demihuman Deities, p. 11)

An uneasy truce. Uneasy truces are typically truces that will only last a certain albeit unknown amount of time and given this is the Seldarine and fucking Shevarash — it likely would not take much to break this truce.

Not surprising given that Shevarash is not only the most Anti-Drow Elf to ever elf, but he also did hunt Eilistraee's followers in the past likely during his mortal life) — which, as Grand History of the Realms points out, is something he no longer does as he no longer considers Eilistraee and Eilistraeans to be among his prey (likely due to the fact that once he ascended he became aware that Eilistraee is nothing like her mother and brother). So both sides are likely tense from this history and while she may not be counted among his 'prey' anymore, that does not mean he likes her or even that she likes him.

They, at best, tolerate each other from what I can tell.

(not even gonna lie. I would not at all be surprised to learn if Shevarashans are still terrorizing Eilistraeans in some capacity despite this uneasy truce)

Is this truce still a thing in the current edition? I don't know because I don't where Shevarash and Eilistraee officially stand in the new edition in relation to each other. I can't tell you whether or not that truce is still on-going. It'll have to be up to individual interpretation.

My personal belief / interpretation is that this uneasy truce is likely fractured, perhaps severely so. With the return of the Dark Dancer and her brother, Eilistraee and Vhaeraun have achieved a new understanding of each other — as a result, they have a friendship and a truce (though their followers still get into conflict from time to time. Understandable, a long history of both sides hating each other and fighting each other isn't going to go away in a single night). Which is a problem for Shevarash because even though Lolth and her followers are still Shevarash's number one target, the rest of the Dark Seldarine (sans Eilistraee) is still very much his enemy. Vhaeraun is still his enemy. Shevarash's followers still hunt down Vhaeraunites. Shevarash, as mentioned in the screenshot I shared from p. 27 of the Grand History of the Realms, is now more able to hunt Lolth and Vhaeraun directly thanks to his becoming a demigod.

I can't see Shevarash at all accepting Eilistraee's newfound friendship with her brother due to his history with the drow and his mission. Eilistraee, for her part with this new friendship and truce, I think would protest against Shevarash still hunting her divine twin and his followers. Given what I know of Shevarash, I do not think he would see this as anything other than an incentive to return to crusading against Eilistraee as well. He is a very angry deity, consumed by hatred — he's not going to look at the nuance at the situation. Likely, he'll read this as Eilistraee as turning traitor, becoming corrupted, etc. etc. Because to him...drow are bad. It doesn't matter who they worship, in his eyes drow are bad. For Shevarash, there is no nuance. It's black and white, as clear to him as night and day.

He might tolerate the drow worship Eilistraee and he might tolerate Eilistraee herself...but that means nothing when he will eventually resume being hostile toward Eilistraee. And he will. It's not a matter of if, but when and it won't take much. Will he resume hunting her? Possibly, especially if she decides to break ties with the Seldarine.

I did have a section written up about the elven group who are disguising themselves as drow and raiding surface settlements (thank you lawful-evil-novelist for that bit of lore!). but upon further reading, I learned Champions of Ruins doesn't, unfortunately, definitively state that the group is Shevarashans. Only that they're a very anti-human group called the Eldreth Veluuthra, who are conducting these raids in hopes of increasing hostilities between humans and drow. The book further states that even though they worship the Seldarine, the good-aligned deities of the pantheon want nothing to do with them so as a result no cleric of the good-aligned elven gods are part of the group.

So it's up in the air if these particular EV raiders are Shevarashans (his alignment is listed as chaotic neutral; it's possible he didn't write them off completely unlike his good-aligned peers) or not.

#dungeons and dragons #forgotten realms #dnd 2e #dnd 3e #dnd 3.5e #the seldarine #shevarash #eilistraee #I don't care if it's a mess. I MADE A PROMISE TO MYSELF #THAT I'D GET THIS OUT BEFORE SEPTEMBER ENDS

[fortunesfavours]

i come bearing time duplicate, an epic-level spell found in the depths of the epic level handbook for dnd 3.5e. this will now consume my waking thoughts for dunamancy/sg/oc purposes

#dunamancy #dnd 3.5e #it may be worth noting the consequences for casting epic level spells are likely very different in exandria #they probably exist? does anyone know? has mr mercer said? #cause like. mystra and thus mystras ban after karsus's folly dont really exist in exandria #right? anybody? #would the caster have to take it up with ioun? the luxon? #cause all right maybe this needs to be a seperate post with netheril vs the age of arcanum #(need to make that post re move mountain and also rewatch calamity to go fact check this) #would an equivalent of mystra's ban have been brought about because of vespin chloras? #by who? when exactly? how is it enforces? consequences? does it differ for dunamancy? #i do not think i am versed enough in lore of either world to answer any of these questions but boy howdy am i asking them

[suddencosmology]

Saturday DnD story time: We've been exploring the abandoned wizard tower of former jackass clown rockstar. He had somehow planted a positive energy well in the middle of a Blighted undead hellscape, so we came to loot his digs.

The defenses ranged from classic to esoteric, but the majority of them were handled without incident. My character "disarmed" a hallway of Explosive Runes by having literal raptor vision and reading them from the other side of the room so that was fun.

But it got better. On the second layer, he had a portal at the bottom of a well filled with Dew of Lunary. Normally, in small doses, this magic amplifier increases the caster level of Divination effects by 1. So to go in we needed to make a Will save modified by how many Divination effects we had active or unused and you bet your ass my shaman walks around loaded with Divination magic in her pocket.

So while everyone else is calmly diving in and making their saves, Cipher just sits there and reflects on her life choices while I am silently screaming "fuck yeah consequences".

So the DC was a total of 70, to which I failed at a 41. I will be experiencing the sum totality of time and space next week and it will be great.

#dnd #dnd 3.5e #ttrpg #well well well #if it isnt the consequences of my own actions

[ocsoftherealm]

Only 5 more days, adventurers!! If you haven't submitted your application, time's running out!

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#dnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd 5e #dnd 3.5e #fandom zine #fan zine

[nex-best-thing]

Meet the new and improved Marluxia von Alteria!  

When I first designed him, I didn’t know that he was based off of the Kingdom Heart’s character. I drew him based off of the description my BF gave me, and found out later just how similar the two were. A few of my friends pointed it out as well. I finally sat down and decided to design him in a way that makes him feel like his own character.  

Marluxia is an NPC in the DnD campaign I’m in. For some backstory, he’s connected to my character, Aster, and is the reason why she can use any form of magic. He is the Chosen One, and due to a decision to try to quickly fix all the damage done by King Tyrannus, the evil king he was destined to defeat, he became immortal, and his team thought he had turned evil as well, and turned on him. This caused them to fight him and “kill” him, chopping him into pieces to keep him from reforming. 100,000 years later, Aster found his eye in an abandon facility, and implanted it. The two became fast friends and some romantic feelings have even started to develop, despite neither of them wanting a relationship for various reasons. (Aster isn’t emotionally ready for another relationship after a horrible breakup as well as an overall fear of romance, and Marly doesn’t want to go through the pain of losing someone he loves).

#DnD #Dungeons and Dragons #Dungeons and Dragons 3.5E #DnD 3.5E #D&D #D&D 3.5E #Character Design #DnD character design #DnD concept art #Concept Art #OC #Original Character #Art #Digital Art #Digital Artist #Artist #Artist on Tumblr #Artist on Twitter #digital illustration #DigitalArt

[artyqui]

Boat wip of my 3.5e dnd group!!

#dnd oc art #small artist support #original character #small art blog #art support #oc art #small artist #dnd 3.5 #dnd 3.5e #digital artist #oc artist

[c0rvidbones]

Wit Dalca

DA'VI ILLUSORY WIZARD

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wit uses he/it pronouns!

aka my most fucked up little wizard. hes like ~10 yrs old here and hes full of mischief and makes awful spells that would be war crimes if he was an adult. i had a lot of fun animating him! i couldve done more but i really spent so much time on this. like more than 12 hours logged on the procreate canvas.

#posting him separately #c0rvidspeaks #c0rviddraws #oc #ask me about my ocs #dnd oc #my oc #wit dalca #wit #c0rvidanimates #elf #wizard #elf wizard #really hes like a half elf half tiefling thing called a davi but people dont kNOW thats a canon thing from like 3.5e #dnd elf #dnd wizard #dnd5e #dnd art #dnd character #dnd #dnd charcter art #animation #animated #digital animation #animated gif #animatic #is that enough fuckin tags

[xyliaxart]

It's her again. new ref

#art #oc #dnd #Yolotli Delacroix #orc #half orc #catfolk #tabaxi #weretiger #3.5e #barbarian #warshaper #tiger #furry #half catfolk #xyliaxoc #xyliaxart #digital art #original character #my art

[reigen-small-naturals]

was anybody going to tell me that "bloodweaver" is a thing from DnD or i had to find it out myself? did people who coined that ship name were this smart? was it a deep cut or an accident? i need answers!!

#bloodweave #apparently it's a homebrew class for dnd 3.5e #anyway i love this ship name even more now it has Layers

[wc-adventure-game-35e]

@morningstar-warriors @healing-fire--rewrite @bonefall @ailurocide (Pinging for reach)

#wcag 3.5e #warrior cats #dnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd 3.5 #dungeons and dragons 3.5 #3.5 edition

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Do you play D&D? If yes what edition and can you tell a story about any of your chars?

I do! Currently playing 5e, but I started back in the 3.5 days. Unfortunately it's been a while since I've really gotten to play long enough to have any particularly exciting character stories, the last few years I've been more in the DM chair because that was the only way to get a game going.

Sometimes I do just make characters because I think of a fun concept though! Like Saxxa Boom, dwarven bard with a perchant for explosive finishes (based very heavily on Jack Black 😂)

#friendly asks #dnd #3.5e #5e #i think I played more sessions for a couple years in high school than I have the entire rest of time since 😩 #but currently running a game for my two friends who had never played before and they're enjoying thoroughly #doing the wild beyond the witchlight adventure setup but also nerfing it somewhat since they're new and there's only two of them

[thejaymo]

"When one of the players is drawing a map as the characters explore a new place, give her a break. Describe the layout of the place in as much detail as she wants, including dimensions of rooms"

"Of course, when the PCs [player characters] are lost in a dungeon or walking through fog, the whole point of the situation is that they don’t know where they are (or where they’re going). In cases such as these, don’t take pains to help the mapper."

I love this detail in D&D 3.5 ed. rulebook.

#rulebook #dnd #d&d #3.5e #3.5 edition #dungeons and dragons #dungeon master #world running

[env0]

D&D Players of Tumblr!

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Enjoy the stat blocks and artwork of 11 beautiful monsters to start incorporating int your campaigns!

Featuring a diverse set of creature types, gorgeous art, and even sneaking some magical items in there as well. (I’m looking at you Verminard, wielder of Nightbringer)

So if you were looking for a Autumn themed Unicorn. Then do I have a treat for you! The Forest Master, a CR 8 Celestial creature.

I am excited for this D&DBeyond Advent Calendar and so should you

Not sponsored but that'd be dope

#dndbeyond #critical role #dnd #d&d #dungeons and dragons #advent calendar #free monsters #dm resources #5e #homebrew #3.5e #dragonlance #monster manual #monstrous creatures #war of the dragon #war of the dragonqueen

[suddencosmology]

Story time:

The first proper DnD campaign I completed was a mess, and most of it can be traced back to its roots as a tutorial the GM ran for a bunch of newbies. He set it in his personal world and let my soon-to-be friends loose to fuck around. Maybe that was a mistake, but he went a doubled down on this idea by sending the party to the site of an ancient djinn battlefield. Full of Wishblades. Still-charged Wishblades.

I joined about halfway through, conveniently after Bonzo (he was a clown)(and a rockstar)(and a cult leader) used the last charge. Upon realizing this man had run through about 300 wishes to (creatively) solve every obstacle too big for him to shank, I drafted a meme to commemorate.

The in-character conversation over his go-to problem solver never expounded the full extent of the absurdity it was, because if it did, my monk would've been a lot less willing to let him fuck around and find out.

#dnd #dnd 3.5e #wishes #the gm's sins always outnumber your own #my first dnd campaign