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An elf, a dwarf, a tiefling and a half-goliath half-elven pseudodwarf walk into a tavern...? There's got to be a punchline in there somewhere. Socket's D&D tumblr, for adventure chronicling, player character art, and panicked screaming over the DM's newest reveal. (And D&D-related reblogs, probably.)

[mooreaux]

A fully rendered tiefling commission 💛💛💛 I love goooooold!

[mooreaux]

Gnomes don’t need tents when treasure chests will do!

(Deirdre is the real treasure ✨)

[geezmarty]

might get to play a divination wizard soon she's gonna permadie session one hit by a rock that does 1d4 damage

[geezmarty]

she now has a name and it's so important you know she's also going to have a slavic accent

[wondertrio]

our beloved new party for Out of the Abyss <3

Jericho is mine, and the only fellow tumblr user is Ren's creator, @mandiminimojo if you're new here

[inonibird]

Say hello to Ferrous, my warforged Fighter/Rogue who is actually a former human soldier whose soul was ripped out and stuffed into a shell of Infernal origin and didn’t ask for ANY of this shit~

This is one of the more unusual characters I’ve rolled up, a collaboration with the DM wherein I essentially placed most of the backstory in his hands and let him feed my amnesiac scattered memories over the course of many sessions to reveal more and more about who the hell they had once been and who had done this to them (all I knew was the elevator pitch of “former human, now warforged, have escaped control”). It’s been wild going from waking up in a box in Session 0 as an almost mindless war machine, to a robot-like being with a limited vocabulary describing their flashbacks/memories as “head-pictures”, to growing protective of and attached to the deep gnome crime family that took them in, to understanding that their sister was dead but not fully processing why they should mourn her, to learning they once had a wife that they held and kissed but could not presently attach any love to her memory, to having enough insight to ask our artificer if she could look inside their body to figure out why the connection between their fragmented memories and emotions felt so muddled.

After a little cranial exploration from the artificer (who did technically receive consent from Ferrous to do this), we learned that Ferrous’ BRAIN(!) was preserved inside their head, and a piece had been cut out of it(!!). The artificer decided to galvanize the damaged region with an electric shock, and a BIG chunk of Ferrous’ human memories and emotions were restored. At this point they discovered that between the day they were ripped from their human body and the current time, EIGHTEEN YEARS have passed, during which they have no idea what the empire forced them to do. So here they are, no longer just a big, agreeable, almost childish automaton for the artificer to tinker around with, but a full-ass grown adult with a shit-ton of trauma. This is where the RP has been difficult but so fascinating, since essentially at this turning point I started playing a new character. NEAT.

The latest development has been the artificer drumming up an item that allows Ferrous to use Alter Self, which is a HUGE step up from the Goggles of Disguise they’d been using before having their personality restored. Being able to take a real human form again means the world to poor Ferrous, and beyond that, it apparently disrupts the empire’s ability to track them when they are human instead of warforged (yeah, they are being actively tracked, EVERYTHING IS FINE). Needless to say, it’s a lot of fun to RP Ferrous relishing mundane human activities, and just as exciting to realize the spell has more value than merely a way to help them feel better about their circumstances!

Soooo, yep. That’s Ferrous! Not actually their name, though, still waiting on that memory to unlock as of the time of this post~ :P

[lylahammar]

Everyone say hi to Girt Shertemic, my new dnd character (it/its) ✨

[oops-all-goodberries]

Since Cirrus is an Air Genasi, their natural colours are very bright, and they constantly have a pleasant light breeze around them! 🌤️

But they can also look VERY different when in a gloomy mood… 🌧️

[jellisdraws]

Frisk in Flight (sketch)

POV your 5 foot 4 inch dumbass has gotten over her drug addiction and depression and her reckless overconfidence in the face of implacable eldritch beings is starting to get… concerning.

Then again she can punch and kick through solid steel and incorporeal creatures, so maybe not?

[eldstunga]

Temerity and her Ribcage opener, redux since I am going to get to play her again soon

[mooreaux]

Made @night-market-if ‘s oc Chrysanthemum into an eldadrin to see her as all the seasonal pretties ✨

[chanterelle-charlie]

Sometimes you play a character for years before you figure out what niche they occupy in their world. Sometimes, the answer is "Chosen One Adventurer". And sometimes, the answer is "Bitchy Employee at the Parks Office".

[juliedillon]

My current d&d character, Silas Lockhart. He’s a scrungly old firbolg Circle of Stars druid who’s just trying his best. He is very soft hearted (and still heartbroken after a loss he hasn’t quite recovered from), but he’s slowly finding his way again and learning he has value and purpose even if he’s alone. 

[juliedillon]

Silas and his paladin husband Castor, during happier times, back before Castor was spirited away (and before Silas’ horns were broken off). 

[ikrutt]

Betrayal!, 2023

Virak joins the party, develops trust issues.

Moskuans have two spoken languages, Groundtalk and Overspeech. Groundtalk is long-distance communication in the infrasound range. Overspeech is regular spoken language for everyday conversation.

Adreas cannot hear Groundtalk, but understands Overspeech just fine.

[graciedart]

firbolg / circle of spores druid / male

“Decay, Symbiotic, Nurture" 🍄

for @NirnrootNoises

[vonspe]

thinking abt this fiddle harness carrier..holder thing but idk if it’s cool or stupid

[rollinwiththepunches]

Portent's arcane focus and spellbook; a mysterious relic called a Horologue. It's a magic relic that can be used to divine time, tune into specific timelines and read time that has not happened yet.

Rather than record spells in a book, Portent recalls specific moments in time and turns the dials on her horologue to tune into specific timelines.

She's intrinsically bound to it and it ticks instead of her heart. Sometimes it ticks erratically, or backwards or not at all. She's not sure what it means.

Name is a WIP until my DM approves my proposed backstory.

[discourteouscuttlefish]

Wanted to do a fun lil pop art inspired piece with my astral tiefling graviturgy wizard Phaethon, everything he knows about the world he learned watching 50s sitcoms and they’re poorly concealing the fact they’re an alien. His pronouns are whatever fits the situation the best or funniest