#dnd renders

[morrigan-sims]

𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓑𝓲𝓻𝓽𝓱𝓭𝓪𝔂, 𝓡𝓸𝓸𝓴

(𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝑀𝑒𝓇𝑀𝒶𝓎)

It's my favorite boy's birthday today, and it also happens to be the two-year anniversary of his campaign debut. Since almost all of my edits of him so far have involved him being absolutely miserable, I decided it was time to make something a little sillier. And since it's May, I figured why not make him a merman? Happy birthday, my beloved idiot bastard man. I'm sorry for what I've done to you and what I will do to you in the future. Thank you for saving me. I don't know where I'd be without you. 💖

(Caption Plaintext: "Happy Birthday, Rook (and happy MerMay)")

[non-sideways version under the cut, plus a link to the full-size image]

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[morrigan-sims]

𝔖𝔞𝔦𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔬𝔫 𝔞 𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔭 𝔦𝔫 𝔞 𝔟𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔩𝔢

𝔄𝔫𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔯 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔰 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔪 𝔓𝔲𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔯𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔭𝔲𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔗𝔬 𝔰𝔢𝔢 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔟𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔞𝔰𝔱 𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔢𝔱 𝔰𝔞𝔦𝔩 𝔞𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔫𝔬 𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔴 𝔑𝔬 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔬𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔡𝔢𝔠𝔨 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔭 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔟𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔩𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔴𝔦𝔫 𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔭, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫 ... 𝔒𝔥, 𝔠𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫, 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔲𝔭 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔅𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔱 𝔟𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔢𝔶𝔢𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔯𝔲𝔫 𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢 'ℭ𝔞𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲'𝔯𝔢 𝔭𝔬𝔭𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔨, 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔤𝔢𝔱 𝔩𝔬𝔰𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔟𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔩𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔱𝔬𝔲𝔠𝔥 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔪𝔞𝔡𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔣𝔢𝔢𝔩 𝔰𝔞𝔫𝔢

(A million thanks to @intramoon for helping me get the rain and stormy sky textures.)

lyrics plain text:

Sailing on a ship in a bottle Anchor all your thoughts to the bottom Pulling ropes and pulling your head back To see what is breaking the foremast You set sail alone, there is no crew No one on the deck who can help you This is all your own battle to win This is your ship, and you are the captain ... Oh, captain, make up your mind Before the salt burns your eyes and you run out of time 'Cause you're popping the cork, you get lost in your brain And you lose touch with all the things that made you feel sane

I really could have just put the entire lyrics of Ship in a Bottle on here, because every bit of them are applicable to Rook and his current place in the story. I've loved this song for years and I was dying to put it on Rook's playlist. Now that he's gone through emotional hell and is about to be named captain of the Tide Breaker, I finally can.

(I swear he is actually in a bottle. I want to do a render that shows that better, but I haven't figured out how best to do that yet.)

[morrigan-sims]

𝓹𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓮 𝓭𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓭 𝓶𝓮, 𝓘'𝓶 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓸𝓴𝓪𝔂

The world faded into a blur as Rook plunged blindly into the darkness of the labs. He flew past countless doors, taking turns at random. Some dim part of his mind was aware that this was foolish, that he might be running towards more monsters. Towards his death. Most of him didn’t care. Maybe if he died, he would wake up from this nightmare.  After a while his boots’ magic faded. His speed slowed to a crawl, and he stumbled. His foot caught on a fungal root and he tipped forwards, slamming into the ground. As he sat up and looked around, Rook knew he was far, far from the room where he’d started. Good, he thought, the party won’t be able to find me.

I've always thought that this scene (which was nearly a year ago now, holy shit) from Rook's campaign would make a really cool render. But I didn't really have a great idea for how to pull it off. And then I was browsing my game and found a bunch of fantasy plants and mushrooms by @radioactivedotcom that I apparently forgot I had, and it all starting falling into place. A little bit of blender advice from @goldenwaves set me on the right track to getting all of the plants to glow. And then I got it into photoshop, and boom!! My boy's miserable day came to life! I'm pretty damn happy with how it came out, actually.

(Caption Plaintext: "Please don't find me, I'm not okay")

[morrigan-sims]

“I should have known that it was only a matter of time before she found me again. I’ll end up dead, or back in her hold. I can’t decide which is worse.”

[morrigan-sims]

Ship in a Bottle (again)

Still didn't find a setup I liked better, but the DM needed a chapter banner, so I edited this really fast. Maybe someday I'll make the perfect render to show this thing off from the outside...