#gladehaven campaign

[shadow-djinni]

dragonfire

this one's got a bit of a story behind it, under the cut for length

about a month or two into the campaign, we got word of—and saw—a red dragon and rider scouting the area around our party's home base. dragons in this setting work for the Dragon Empire, a nation-state to the south, and are ridden only by the Highlords, a coterie of warriors led by the Dragon Emperor...and a bit of investigation turned up another shocking piece of information.

the red dragon rider, Highlord Renato, was a former member of the Kai, who purportedly betrayed the order and helped hunt them into extinction...and was now hunting Cedar.

we had a couple close encounters with him, including one in a dream where Cedar faced off with him (and actually took damage from his attack!), but managed to escape his grasp every time...so he got clever, and laid a trap.

see, the thing is, two of our other party members—Asmodai, our cleric, and our paladin, Berethor—are acolytes of a persecuted religion, and Cedar was known to rarely be seen without them. a ruined temple to their goddess was located just west of Renato's domain, and when we went to investigate it, he'd laid a trap that went off when we entered the crypt, and he cornered us in it before we could flee, with the dragon covering the entrance to the crypt while he descended the steps to fight us in person.

we rolled initiative, and Asmodai and Cedar got the same initiative count and were first in the order. we went to the end of the crypt, right around the corner of the stairs, with Cedar insisting that they were going to fight Renato to buy everyone else a chance to escape—and Asmodai stepped out first and snapped his staff, a holy artifact of his goddess, causing a backlash that destroyed Renato on the spot.

at which point the dragon blew fire at us.

we were on the same initiative count, though, and I turned to the dm and asked "hey, can I accelerate and try to pull Asmodai out of the way?"

"make me a strength check", he says.

I beat the DC by one.

which saved both of our lives—Cedar managed to drag Asmodai, in full plate, twenty feet back down the hallway to Berethor, who jumped in and shielded us from the flames with his magic cloak

#my art #dnd #ttrpg #old school essentials #cedar of the kai #it was such a fuckin close run thing too #asmodai attempted to shield cedar first and failed his save against the dragon's breath weapon #and we both would have been burned to a crisp if I'd failed the save #anyway this is the incident that had asmodai's player and i like 'wait a minute...' at each other lmao #because he shattered a holy relic for them because he refused to let cedar sacrifice themself fighting renato #and cedar refused to bail without him when he failed his save #dragged him all the way back down the hall to safety and then went to post up on a DRAGON #anyway theyre in love actually. and theyre so fucking dumb about it #gladehaven campaign

[shadow-djinni]

handful of sketches, featuring Asmodai, our party's cleric (and Cedar's dearest friend)

plus a meme redraw featuring my out-of-character attempt to figure out what the fuck the dm is doing plotwise

#my art #dnd #ttrpg #old school essentials #cedar of the kai #yes asmodai is wearing a flower crown in literally all of these lmao #its magic and he got it by winning a competition at the goblin market #.....and then was stuck wearing it for three months bc the market is only accessible at the full moon #and SOMEONE kept stealing the moon. i mean literally stealing the goddamn moon #gladehaven campaign

[shadow-djinni]

two of the more polished drawings of my character, Cedar, from an OSE west marches style campaign I'm playing in irl! they're a kineticist (effectively a fantasy jedi), and a member of a destroyed order of monks known as the Kai, who were all but wiped out forty years before the beginning of the story...

#my art #dnd #ttrpg #old school essentials #cedar of the kai #more art incoming after this; i have a bunch of sketches of them #gladehaven campaign

[shadow-djinni]

also, if y'all want to know literally anything about that OSE campaign, don't hesitate to ask me! my ask box is always open and I want to talk about that campaign so badly it's unreal

#gladehaven campaign