#player character race

[palidoozy-art]

Long time no see. Sorry, I'm usually a little... drained around this time.

Concepts for a D&D race for my players, called the Elunin. They took inspiration from the Khajiit (and obviously Viera), where they appear differently based on what phase of the moon they were born.

More info about them/me rambling under the cut.

So my players in my main campaign were interested in trying Pathfinder 2E, and I wanted a chance to play Kjosev more. So we decided we'd start a potential one-shot right before the Eclipse (a period in our world about 200-ish years ago when the sun went out for an entire year that set the world back drastically).

One of my players adores Viera, and he wanted to bring his FFXIV character into D&D/Pathfinder. We looked at adapting Beastkin or Harengon... but it didn't quite fit what we wanted. So the player and I worked together to conceptualize a race. He decided to call them the Elunin. The name isn't based off of the WoW goddess Elune -- he randomly generated it and happened to really like the name -- but it's a coincidence we're fine with.

Like I stated above, they took inspiration from the viera (obviously) and the khajiit. Depending on their birthday, they take on a different form. Those born under the new moon appear almost completely human, and those born under the full moon appear almost fully rabbit. Those born on the in-between phases sit somewhere... well, in-between.

They are effectively genderless until they reach a certain age, upon which they choose their gender role. Some never choose.

They do not have a traditional two-parent family unit -- rather, the entire group of them raise kids, and are effectively all treated as parents.

They revere the moon, thinking of it as their true parent, and so they view the stars as their siblings. They're heavily interested in the skies and space above (which they call the Great Warren), because they dream of one day visiting their siblings.

and yes the full moon rabbit can talk.

#palidoozy arts #d&d #character design #artists on tumblr #digital art #we're still coming up with the specifics of the race #in terms of like #actual stats #but my players are really excited to play one to the point that i might have two of them

[a-h-li]

Just a little fixated on Fireb0rn’s speedrunner vs 4 hunters series

#fireb0rn #hollow knight #hk fanart #hk oc #(not exactly) #came up with random lore to personalize fireb0rn’s player character in the world of hk #in my mind speedrunner vs hunters occurs after thk ending #even though the knight lasts much longer then pure vessel they are not invincible—the cycle must continue which is where! #fireb0rn racing champion and free running master comes to hallownest in search of a challenge #only there’s something else lurking in the undergrowth… #my art

[fedorah-the-explorah]

i think player should be able to deck gray. just once. as a treat.

#shut up suzie #carmen sandiego 2019 #player carmen sandiego #let the child unleash his inner violence #yall ever watch race to the edge? #theres this one scene where one character goads the protagonist into punching him #thinking that it wont actually hurt #bc protagonist is built like a tree branch #but then he gets his shit rocked and it's magnificent. #anyways yeah. whenever i see that scene #i think if drawing like this stupid hypothetical #where gray is like 'look kid. clearly you have a problem with me. understandable. why dont we settle this like men? ill give you one free #pass to punch me' #and player is like 'thats stupid as fuck no.' #and then gray keeps goading so player turns around and BAM #kid packs a punch wheb backed by the power of friendship #zack and ivy are losing their shit while recording #carmen is like 😰😰😰

[aidenlydia]

The fat sidekick trope is so overdone, why not have a fat boyfriend instead? This is Player x Neville, from Need for Speed Carbon. He was my number one wingman and first fictional male crush. But it’s also my first time drawing them so I'm still getting the hang of it (+ some clips from the game v)

#I'm Neville's Nr 1 fan #I think Player's face turned out best in the second one #He's one of those pov main characters so technically he doesn't have a face #Just black hair #But I had a specific facial structure in mind #I headcanon them getting drinks after every successful race or police escape #I've been thinking about that ever since I was a child and didn't know about shipping yet #Only dudebros know about this game and it's such a shame #Carbon and Most Wanted were my favorite Playstation games and I still listen to the soundtrack to this day #Need for Speed Carbon #Player x Neville

[forcedhesitation]

that one bozo who made the gender swapped dame aylin mod: it's unrealistic for minorities to exist in this game because it's supposed to take place in medieval europe!!!!

aasimar, vampires, devils, and dragons aside....

bg3:

#bg3 #thoughts about media #where's the outrage over the existence of a 1950s québécois dish in a medieval european setting? hm?? #canada...canada doesn't exist in the forgotten realms. the land which this country occupies does- but the concept of the nation does not. #also! in the forgotten realms- bisexuality is the canonical norm and gender is much more complicated than just a clear cut binary. #several races have words in their languages specifically for transgender people. #and it's not viewed as strange in any way for someone to be transgender. transition is also super easy- as magic exists. #in fact. it's very probable that dame aylin CHOSE the form of a woman. based on what I've read- the divine can easily change their form. #and devils are all varying flavours of non-binary. primarily genderfluid it seems. it's totally normal for them to change form and pronouns #the majority of elven societies practice total gender equality- they do not see one gender as better/worse than the other in any way. #and bg3 actually does reflect the forgotten realms canon. pretty strongly. in this respect. #the illithid are genderless and referred to as such. your elven companions are all bisexual & polyamorous... #...duke stelmane has this title because it's a canonically genderless title. there is no use of sorceress/wizardess for the same reason. #and of course- your player character can swap gender & pronouns midway through the game and no one will care. at all. #like. for all the terrible problems with the forgotten realms- it's become FAR more aware of the fact that it's ridiculous for... #...a fantasy world to restrict gender and sexuality in the all-encompassing & discriminatory way that bigots demand. #also this isn't ammunition for anyone to pick on people who have lesbian/gay or straight tavs or durges. #my own main tav is a gay man.

[graceful-not]

this guy joining Echo in Ninjago Characters I AM Going To Be Thinking About Forever btw.

#ninjago #ninjago liveblog #ninjago okino #They really gave me a side character whos an NPC guide in a video game (but doesnt know it) and then made him Find Out and fall into a #a depression about his entire lifes purpose being for naught and that his entire worldnis fucking fake and then have him break free of his #of his coding and Go To The Real World #im. hes so everything #BUT THE SCENE WHERE HES TRAINING AND FAILING TO PROPERLY GUIDE HIS PLAYERS OVER AND OVER AND OVER BC THEYRE TREATING IT LIKE A GAME BC THEY #BC THEY HAVE MULTIPLE LIVES BUT THEIR DEATHS ARE REAL /TO HIM!!!/ HE HAS TO WATCH ALL THAT AND IT MEANS SOMETHING TO HIM BECAUSE #BECAUSE GUIDING THE PLAYERS IS HIS WHOLE PURPOSE!!!! BUT TO THEM HES JUST THE TUTORIAL HELPER CHARACTER!!! AUAU #i do also like Racer 7. An NPC /programmed to lose/‚ only there to add a challenge to the actual players and yet she NEVER STOPS TRYING... #but she always crashes at the exact same spot in the race. every. time. #AUUGH.

[kingfakey]

are people really mad about the lack of fantasy racism in the escapist fantasy game movie… get help.

#sincerely the dnd race guides are racist as shit #dnd honor among thieves #idk like i once had to ask a player to leave the group? #because their whole characters deal was killing goblins and wearing them as a coat #my jewish ass like hahahahahahahaha get out #are you really mad they didn’t make tieflings red or whatever??? fr??? #its a 2 hour 16 minute PG13 action and adventure movie

[hamartia-grander]

I made a druid tiefling as my D&D character two years ago and am just now playing as her again in Bg3, and it is accidentally one of the most poetic characters I could've played as in this game. The tieflings of the Emerald Grove immediately warm up to her as one of them, but are upset to find she's a druid. The druids hate her at first for being tiefling but then warm up to her when they find out she's a druid. When she asks to trade, Arron says he's happy to help someone who follows the first circle, instead of giving a warning about remembering others are in need too. Halsin abandons the tieflings but calls her "sister". She appeals to Kogha through the teachings of Silvanus, but loses favour for being "a devil". Another tiefling called her one of the good druids for helping them. Compared to my first playthrough, there's a noticeable difference between how the Absolutists see her before finding out that she's a True Soul, because tieflings are lesser slaves to them and druids are too Good. Her party members see her as both the voice of reason and the source of their frustration in her gentle and patient wisdom. She is the bridge that connects the Druids of the Emerald Grove and the Tieflings, both through her actions and through her identity. It's all fascinating

#Not to give Larian any more cred than they deserve bc they don't deserve much. But I am very happy that NPCs and the story in general- #-recognises the player's race and class and everyone reacts accordingly to that acknowledgement #It makes for some very fun and narratively fulfilling interactions #Also when romancing karlach I got to say that fire doesn't bother me bc I'm a tiefling who's resistant to fire #It's SO much fun #I also love my character so much she's my favourite #Bg3 #Baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3

[harley-plays-games]

#can you tell what my favorite is #this is all jokes btw #i can make a real poll too #as someone who always #plays a thief #the stealth buff is nice #okay #the elder scrolls skyrim #tes v skyrim #tes #skyrim #khajiit #skyrim race #skyrim character #harleytalksaboutgames #khajiit are the best #skyrim player

[arcticwaters]

wanna introduce y'all to my baby white dragon critical role oc who has taken up 90% of my brain space for the last three years. her name is moonghost she's a champion fighter* and fully exists to be yasha's trinket, her most favoritest person in the whole wide world

#critical role #critical role oc #my art #*as of EotS she is lvl17 fighter/lvl3 paladin (for bahamut) #i can not stress how much thought and energy i've put into this character. she has a dndbeyond sheet with real stats #i homebrewed a dragon player race i made her a playlist i collected tropes from tvtropes and wrote out what her profile there would be like #as i'm sure you can tell by her shape and glitter ghost is heavily inspired by the light fury if she wasn't designed by utter cowards #in my imagination she straight up is a light fury but that's copyright so i added some more features inspired by the tlovm dragons #lucky for me she's not real so i can do what i want but it is something i take into consideration #her personality is very thw toothless (except justified because she's literally a child and not a flanderized idiot like he was) #i wanna do a ref sheet for her but dragons are difficult and she can't exist without yasha #once i learn how to draw yasha it is OVER for you people i will truly become even more insufferable than i already am in this fandom

[exhausted-archivist]

On the topic of the inherent racism in the Qun and its people, with how baked in racism is, you can't buff it out and reformat. You can't remove it, and BioWare has only been doubling down on it up to Tevinter Nights in 2020. Which means you need to be careful with how you interact and build on it. At least that is how I approach it, in general I don't like to engage with it because it's just so difficult and not in any thought provoking or insightful way. So I refrain from doing so as much as possible in public spaces anyways, because it is so inherently unsafe for me to do so. From an interaction with fandom level, but also on a personal level because some of it makes me want to crawl out of my skin.

I am extremely weary of how da4 is going to portray them, I hope it will be better since the writing team has been moved around and there have been some acknowledgements on poor writing of stereotypes and biases in 2020. Which I take with a salt mine worth of salt, especially with the way the new comics like the Missing having lingering themes and stereotypes remaining. How Patrick Weekes described the rebelling antaam in Three Trees to Midnight (Tevinter Nights 2020) was the biggest red flag, followed by the yellow flag from As We Fly short story by Lukas Kristjanson (short story 2023).

With how BioWare has racism and harmful elements baked into the Qun and people in general it is going to difficult for them to fully separate it, update it, or reformat it. But I hope they do. I hope that they actually attempt to make it better like they have suggested they would. Because it is so harmful and they should. I don't think they'll get it right on the first try, but I hope they try. It won't magically fix the racism in the fandom but I would like to not feel the need to crawl out of my skin when playing a vashoth. I would like to see the franchise grow and become better than it started out as. I don't want it to stay stagnant for the sake of "consistency" which it doesn't have by design.

#archi yelling into the void #fandom critical #bioware critical #This is a little out of the norm but genuinely that post about the cow ears rattled me #And the tags in there weren't much better at times. Some of you really say some things with your whole chest #I don't play as a vashoth in Inquisition for too long because it is inherently more hostile than any other inquisitor #you're regularly called a slur. there is no care to your preferred terminology or identity. #Not even Bull who makes it abundantly clear how important terminology is with identity is even consistent with it #You're literally called all three terms we have for the horned people at some point. Qunari/tal-vashoth/vashoth. #The codex for adaar calls you vashoth. Most NPCs call you qunari or a slur. Bull calls you both Qunari and tal-vashoth. #even though he makes the distinction between the two in a conversation with Adaar going as far as to tell them they AREN'T Qunari. #Genuinely kicks up some intense feelings with how shitty BioWare portrays the Qun and those horned people in general. #Both in stereotypes and in how they don't care about the lore. BioWare isn't known for consistency or even reliable narratives #But every other race and group gets the respect of preferred terminology. They get the time to correct you ex) Dorian being called magister #But BioWare doesn't care to enforce or even let the player enforce the difference between qunari/tal-vashoth/vashoth. #Like I said I have feelings about this. Because it feels like it extends past the unreliable narrator or character bias/ignorance/racism

[sorieba]

more dnd bust sketches, this time more from the campaign I'm running

#artists on tumblr #digital art #sketch #dungeons and dragons #dnd oc #dnd npc #dnd pc #top to bottom is a tabintha named asher #a drow elf named Imadeyunuagbon. but Deyunua for short #and a lynachian named Krinaxus #Deyunua and Asher are NPCs #Krinaxus is a player character #tabintha #lynachian #those are my homebrew races

[dykemerrilll]

was gonna wait til i finished act 2 before posting my nightsong thoughts but actually i want to get my first impressions out to see if they change but…currently i’m pretty disappointed by it because from an rp perspective i literally don’t see a single reason why the pc would let shadowheart kill the nightsong if they weren’t already allied with the absolute.

from a practical perspective your whole aim is to get rid of ketheric’s invulnerability - i guess killing the nightsong might achieve that purpose but to me at least the implication throughout the gauntlet is that if you kill the nightsong as part of the dark justiciar trial she doesn’t actually die. (never mind the fact that aylin seems far too important to both ketheric and shar for her to be sacrificed if an ordinary selûnite would do). obligatory disclaimer that i didn’t let shadowheart kill her so i don’t know what happens in that instance, but that doesn’t really matter in this case because i’m talking about how the choice is presented to you, and to me at least it did not seem like killing aylin would be in any way strategic.

in which case it’s not really a choice because a) practically you are strongly encouraged to let aylin go and b) morally your tav has to justify the murder of a defenceless woman for…what, shadowheart’s career goals? even if you’re romancing shadowheart (which i am) convincing her requires a straightforward persuasion check, the mechanics of which thus far have meant you convince her that your position is correct - there’s not much in the way of lasting relationship consequences in that she won’t get so mad at you she leaves the party because you’ve already convinced her you’re right.

all that is to say that i think this is reflective of bg3’s overall binary attitude towards its major choices - there’s a good route (save the grove, defend isobel, free aylin), and a bad route (destroy the grove, ally with marcus, kill aylin). a lot of those choices compound, as well - other people have talked from actual experience about how allying with minthara will lose you a huge amount of content and allies, thus railroading you into picking a side from both a narrative and gameplay perspective. you’ve a huge amount of freedom in how you go about achieving any of those things - stealth, persuasion, combat etc., but the objectives themselves are pretty static.

so when you then have a companion’s personal quest tied to intrinsically to the plot it negates a huge amount of player choice. thematically, the companion quests are binary because they can either break or perpetuate cycles of abuse - that’s an instance in which binary choices can be very compelling. but the thematic concerns of shadowheart’s very intricate and heartfelt personal quest are totally undercut by the necessities of a pretty straightforward choice. i can’t play a hands-off tav and let this be shadowheart’s decision without to all appearances letting ketheric win. this isn’t a truly grey choice like the decision to sacrifice isolde or go to the circle in dragon age origins. it feels like that’s what bg3 was trying to do here by combining shadowheart’s quest and the main narrative, but because that main narrative is actually relatively inflexible, it just means shadowheart’s quest suffers by comparison.

#bg3 spoilers #bg3 #havent spoken to aylin yet so maybe my thoughts will change #this isnt even getting into the fact that overall i think the apparent motivations of the absolute cultists are completely #all over the place #something obviously worsened by the game’s reliance on chaotic evil races like goblins #ketheric is individually a great character but he doesn’t really tie in to the narrativr at all #yet — obviously he could but like. ive 65 hours in this game alreadg so i would kind of hope to have seen #a little more of my villains’ motivations #by now #this really isnt helped by all your major act 1 villains ending up dead by the end of it #and gortash and orin appearing super late #and the emperor still fucking about #im genuinely very confused by a lot of the main quest and im not stupid. ive played rpgs before #like i just. dont understand. why your player would ally with the goblins in act 1 #ive seen some people come up with truly great rp about that so like. its possible to justify #but i just dont think a game touting itself on freedom #and choice should need that much convoluted character work to justify its basic ‘bad’ choice #ais.bg3

[racke7]

Me vs FF14 part... 2?

It's taken me pretty much three full days of running from cutscene to cutscene. But I've finally reached Heavensward.

And like... on some level? I'm kind of offended?

Like, a part of me genuinely wants to replay the entire game from the start "as something else" (different main-class, different race, different starting-area, whichever), because the dungeon-queuing system is actually really fun when you start to Understand it.

As in, FF14 has somehow made an MMO that has almost eliminated the feeling that it is a level-grind? Partially? It's turned the whole thing into a surprisingly comfortable level of (limited, but genuine) social interaction.

To the point where even someone who isn't obsessively grind-focused like me, can genuinely enjoy themselves. Just queuing up for dungeons, Hunting some bounties, and-...

And then FF14 has so many fucking quests that it literally chokes the life out of the gameplay.

As an example, one of their biggest dungeon-draws (bcs high rewards) is a quest that almost everyone hates playing. Because doing that dungeon means watching literally eighteen minutes of unskippable cutscenes.

And that's with them having reduced the amount of cutscenes in that dungeon, because the players complained so much about them.

Like... I'd be perfectly happy replaying the game from the start with a different character, even knowing that leveling isn't some kind of pain-free thing. But the thought of having to restart the fucking Main-Quest? Of having to spend literal days just running back-and-forth to cutscenes?

I'm currently feeling a bit burned-out as a result of the binge I went on to get here, but I'm pretty damn sure that I wouldn't replay this fucking thing even if you paid me for it.

(And, of course, Heavensward also has a Main-Quest continuation that you have to follow. And now I'm not even allowed to fly everywhere to cut down on the "running back-and-forth"-part of my complaints. Not until they arbitrarily allow me to discover flight for the new areas, by going through even more of the Main-Quest.)

(Not to mention that now I have to go back and do even more Class-quests, with their own cutscenes, in order to unlock a bunch of skills.)

(I'm very fond of the "the church is evil because it doesn't let you fuck dragons"-meme, and I'm very much seeing it. But like... come the fuck on. Why is this MMO a feature-length movie-series? Why can't I just play the game and have fun?)

#and yes. i'm very much aware that ''you can do anything with one character'' #bcs everyone gets one (1) race-changing potion. and classes can be switched out super-easily. but that's not the point. #video games #ff14 #rants #personal stuff #also like... i'm unemployed and waiting for my classes to begin a few weeks from now. i have INFINITE free-time. #and i still feel like ff14 is actively trying to waste my time by ''telling a story'' that should be in a single-player game. #... actually. that'd explain a lot. did the writers of this game learn to write from single-player games? #is that why there are so many cutscenes and minor characters to constantly juggle? did nobody tell them that they were making an MMO? #(the feeling of going ''all-in'' on the genuineness in the cutscenes even when it's corny as shit? good.) #(being forced to sit through cutscene after cutscene instead of actually playing the game? bad.) #like... even just the dungeon-cutscenes? to some degree it's expected that you SHOULD skip them? bcs you're making others wait? #(and during the Raids. that means outright being left behind. ain't nobody stopping for anyone.) #so you're losing a massive bit of story-telling. bcs it's trying to tell that story in the WORST place. #it's a good story? i guess? but it's so fucking inconvenient to _play the game around_ that it feels more like a chore than an adventure. #and in a single-person game? i think it'd be great. maybe not entirely my kettle of fish. but genuinely good. but as an MMO? #like i get that a lot of it has been added onto it over the span of YEARS and that ppl playing it since launch would've been desperate #for new content. despite how the amount of content seems incredibly overwhelming for new players. #but jesus fuck. at least let people wanting to start a new character to just... skip the fucking thing? they've already seen it once. #* nevermind. they thought of that. they're selling ''story-skip''-potions for 10$. wow. just... wow.

[rosymorns]

how did 3 of my 4 players make elf twinks.

how did 3 of my 4 players make elf twinks in a campaign where i had a distant plot point assuming all of them, who had never played elves, would again not play an elf, and i'm going to have to rewrite that.

#i mean one of my players hasnt told me his characters race. we may be 4 for 4 on elf twinks in this campaign #carly.txt

[howlerpilled]

Making a red rising dnd campaign and its so far going to be great!! Anyways look at my partners character i drew for them♡♡♡♡♡ @praetorialreject

#red rising #red rising trilogy #pierce brown #dungeonsanddragons #oc #5e #5th edition #red #campaign #dndhomebrew #i homebrewed all the colors into races #for 3 players #i love my players #i am going to make them sob #all of them #morning star #golden son #iron gold #dark age #light bringer #art #original character #red rising oc #red rising art