#taldian

[blujaydoodles]

thinkin about pre-campaign Elyss and the early days with the Darkwind Regiment 😌

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #character art #illustration #genasi #water genasi #half elf #sorcerer #bard #paladin #I dunno how quickly khemed and taldian adjusted to elyss #but since they were the first members of the party and jermaine was the last I figured I could have him the only one Nervous regardless lol #elyss is weird and offputting NOW that she's comfortable with these people and has literally any social skills at all #she joined the regiment out of necessity FRESH off a twelve year run of living completely alone in the woods #so you can imagine #very few people in our home continent have ever even heard of genasi so there's also [gestures at all of her] you know #anyway this whole thing filled me with joy and love for my girl and her friends #(including those not pictured cause I ended up going back through aaaall my art for this campaign) #I know for a fact Jermaine was intimidated by her at first cause Justin and I have talked about it and now that's her best friend 🥺💕 #I love them.... #jermaine #khemed #taldian #my OCs #elyss #darkwind regiment #dungeons and doodles

[blujayonthewing]

tumblr vernacular ruining me for real, our paladin's player has written another bit of short prose exploring something from last session a little more in-depth and I CANNOT comment 'chris I am going to kiss you on the mouth'

#fortunately I CAN say 'I owe you my life. I am eating this for breakfast' #and I do #literally last night he was like 'I might write something up for this scene' #and I was like I CANNOT overstate how much joy it brings me every time you write things for taldian #EVERY TIME I'm like OHOHOO a GIFT for ME and I'm EATING IT FOR BREAKFAST. DELICIOUS THANK YOU #I love taldian and also I love my friend #but I gotta tell him normal style. or at least 'won't actually Make It Weird' weird style #about me #irl frens

[willshaper]

I'm getting a lot of taldian vibes but this is definitely not taldain

#rin reads ssp3 #ssp3 spoilers #ssp3

[blujayonthewing]

an artist I followed posted a doodle about their dnd party's answers for fuck marry kill and I spent about point three seconds thinking about how that would go in elyss' campaign before I remembered that she's the only woman in a party of straight men played by straight men and I lost interest immediately

#'my character is the most fuckable' doesn't really hit when the reason is that they're the default option dfkjhdgfkj #ANYWAY to be honest I think taldian is too polite jermaine is too self conscious and elyss is too... different flavor of self conscious #to play fmk with their friends who are right there lmao #... I do feel like belial would be reasonably likely to pick a male party member for fuck purely out of academic interest #considering he canonically visited a brothel over a timeskip to try sex at all also out of curiosity lmao #but I can really see everyone else being like '.... I mean.... elyss' in a way that's just boring :') #about me #my OCs #elyss

[blujayonthewing]

..... not me realizing almost none of my characters have anyone they feel like they can talk to and confide in about their own problems.....

#ahahah... that's fine.... 😬 #weirdly the exception here is elyss #or rather-- she has the same problem but her reasons are from the other direction #she feels like she could and would be willing to reach out to jermaine or (in most situations) taldian #HER problem is that she's really bad at disentangling her own emotions let alone putting words to them #no one else feels like there's anyone to reach to (for different reasons) #either 'there's no one I trust enough to be vulnerable with' or 'there's no one I'm willing to burden with my issues' or both #I guess mel lands in the middle where-- elyss knows she can lean on her friends but doesn't always know how #mel doesn't know how and doesn't recognize the need to and also she COULD lean on zhartook but I dunno that she fully realizes that #....... anyway I'M fine : ) this reflects nothing I'm sure haha : ) #about me #my OCs

[blujaydoodles]

m’boy needs a haircut

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #character art #illustration #half elf #sketches #doodles #this post brought to you by drawing Aubree's hair getting long and then talking about dnd characters' hair growing out with Justin #hilariously Jermaine is his only PC WITH hair #I actually did sketches about the whole party growing or cutting their hair! the rest are on patreon :3 #one of them is Taldian tying his hair back which is a doodle I've wanted to do for YEARS and is annoyingly the worst one right now lmao :'D #the PROBLEM IS I couldn't find good references for a muscle man tying a ponytail in the five minutes I felt inclined to look 😔 #I'm gonna wanna come back to it but. we'll see. my wedding is in TWO WEEKS y'all I have been Frazzled lmaooo aaaah #anyway. [puts my hands on his cheeks] I lov my son #Jermaine #darkwind regiment #dungeons and doodles #Elyss #(tagged because she's the one speaking offscreen lol)

[blujaydoodles]

Doodle prompt: Elyss holding hands :3 I got a bit carried away with this one but I just love my girl so much ;n; <3

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #character art #illustration #genasi #water genasi #half elf #ranger #sorcerer #SO the reason I did three is that that top one was the very first thing I thought of because it's an rp thing that made me really happy #but it didn't feel like it was really in the spirit of the prompt 'holding hands' lol #I talked about it a bit on the patreon post if you're curious (it's a free post) but basically taldian is kind and good and she needed it #hhhh god I wish I had the time to actively chase down more prompts because 'character + verb' is exactly the kind of exercise I need to do #taldian #jermaine #my OCs #elyss #juniper #dungeons and doodles #darkwind regiment #mistletoe

[blujaydoodles]

Elyss, 83, holding hands?

I got carried away lol

from this really great prompt list!

#THANK YOU!!! <3 #HI HELLO YOU SENT THIS ALMOST EXACTLY TWO MONTHS AGO DSKJHKGFJ OOPS UH.... #I actually did most of this immediately and then had A Bad Brain for uhhh all of the rest of that time lmao #thank you for sending another one cause it reminded me this one was still sitting there too 👀 #ask thing #art prompts #I'm gonna repost em separately tomorrow so I'll talk more about em then BUT!! MY GIRL!!! #Taldian #Jermaine #my OCs #Elyss #Juniper #dungeons and doodles

[blujaydoodles]

After exploring a mysterious lighthouse where we found little else besides piles of burned, hand-written biographies and a damaged book bearing Elyss's name, the Darkwind Regiment sailed away-- only to spot a fire burning in the lighthouse tower, several miles behind us. The party discussed options to return and investigate, but Elyss seemed strongly disinclined...

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #D&D #illustration #tiefling #paladin #genasi #character art #comics #let me know if my handwriting's illegible aahah :'D #who could it BEEEE (we found out immediately lol but Elyss had a Hunch as soon as we found the books in the tower) #I wanna do some more doodles from these last couple sessions so (perhaps) follow up to come :3c #my OCs #Elyss #Belial #Khemed #Taldian #Darkwind Regiment #dungeons and doodles

[blujaydoodles]

Commissioned by a mutual friend as a gift for his player: an updated look for Taldian, the paladin of the Darkwind Regiment!

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #character art #illustration #paladin #LOOK AT THIS GOOD BOY I LOVE HIM!!! #this took me way longer than I expected it to because I put a lot of pressure on myself to get it Right lol #took a stupid amount of noodling to get the face actually looking like Taldian to my own liking :B #the shield is a brand new +3 shield and the armor is also brand new cause he traded his old magic armor for the shield lol #hence-- not looking battle-worn (yet!) #commission #dungeons and doodles #Darkwind Regiment #Taldian

[blujaydoodles]

Not that it happens often, but I imagine Elyss sometimes talks to the paladin’s horse if they’re alone together :)

#dnd #genasi #water genasi #illustration #character art #ranger #horse #'try not to let him get into too much trouble okay...? look after him for me' #it never comes up but Elyss is an animal lover in general and is fond of May #don't need to be good at talking to be friends with a horse #anyway I was just thinking about doing some quick doodles of the new armor cause I'm excited about it #and this composition popped into my head fully formed despite the fact that I can NOT....! DRAW HORSES!!! SIGH #May also has like... a saddle and other normal horse accessories but if I can't even draw A Horse you KNOW I can't draw that other shit lol #my OCs #elyss #may #taldian #(by proxy) #darkwind regiment #dungeons and doodles

[blujaydoodles]

discussing some of the logistics of the keep being built for the party :D

bonus: Elyss having feelings about it, because I’m predictable 

#dnd #D&D #dungeons and dragons #doodles #character art #rp board-- bard: *teasingly ruffles the paladin's hair* #me: omg thank you bless you #paladin: *offhandedly refers to the party as his family* #me tearing up: tHANK YOU.......!!!! #I think (although I could be wrong) these are the three people in this campaign who really share this view of the party as A Family #so getting to spend time with these two and have conversations like this was really good for Elyss n__n #my OCs #elyss #khemed #taldian #darkwind regiment #dungeons and doodles

[blujaydoodles]

Divine Smite

#DnD #D&D #dungeons and dragons #paladin #beholder #GET FUCKED!!! #[taako voice] THAT'S MY BOY! MY BEAUTIFUL MAGIC BOY!!! #AAAAHHHHH #I want to do more with this but my surface is on the fritz AGAIN so I can't PAINT properly but #WE KILLED OUR BIG BAD AND OUR PALLY GOT THE KILLING BLOW AND I'M SO!!! HAPPY!!!!! #Elyss also did a shitload of damage because that's what she DO SON!!! #there'd be more arrows but her bow has a magical arrow-returning property so the only ones sticking were shot in the antimagic eye cone #I'm pretty sure everyone got at least one good shot in magical or otherwise #IT'S ALL... SORT OF A BLUR #dungeons and doodles #darkwind regiment #taldian

[blujaydoodles]

“His life is not worth more than yours.” “All life is precious.”

In which Taldian promises to protect a random npc we picked up, quote, ‘on pain of death’. Needless to say, Elyss objects. 

#D&D #DnD #dungeons and dragons #paladin #paladin: *espouses paladin-like ideals* #Elyss: now hold on #what does she expect! when will she learn!! #Taldian wears full plate now and I swear I was going to draw that #but then I realized I can barely draw armor in a neutral front facing position let alone in profile with crossed arms lmao #hey hey I drew this two weeks ago and then stuck it in drafts and FORGOT OOPS #actually I think what happened is I was going to do a bunch of doodles from this session and put them all on one post #but I still haven't done the other ones I wanted to yet :B #surprise surprise #my OCs #Elyss #dungeons and doodles #Taldian #darkwind regiment

[blujaydoodles]

it’s a good day to be filled with love for your doofus friends

#D&D #doodles #I never know how to tag these goofy campaign doodles lol #jermaine doesn't look like he rolled a 23 but listen. listen. ...... don't worry about it #the gnome lined us all up in front of everybody else in town and then yelled DANCE and Elyss went NOPE #she would have maybe under different circumstances but nooot uhhhh that lmao #but-- against all odds! she had a genuinely Good Time and was really happy for a minute there :) #also for the record even though the bard crit failed he still did way way better than both the fighter and paladin over on the right lol #my OCs #Elyss #Darkwind Regiment #Khemed #Jermaine #Eldryn #Taldian #Tobias #dungeons and doodles

[blujayonthewing]

rereading the rp thread for elyss's campaign before dnd tomorrow and feeling Extremely Soft about the sorcerer having a panic attack and the paladin very gently taking his hands and checking him over to make sure he's okay

#their conversation didn't go... quite the way jermaine needed it to tbh but even so #taldian is A Good Boy ;n; #I WAS a little concerned because justin did not say 'jermaine is having a panic attack' #he just described the symptoms AND jermaine's confusion and fear about them because he's never had one before #and taldian's player-- who is in school right now for nursing-- made an ooc comment half joking(?) about cardiac arrest #me: oh god is he gonna think this is a Medical Emergency and make it worse shdmhdksdhkd #no it just meant he checked jermaine for signs of shock or some other physical issue while laying-on-hands and gently inviting him to talk #a good good boy..... I lov him #JERMAINE REALLY NEEDED HIS HANDS HOLD ;n; #about me