#fantasy concepts

[starry-voids]

idea I had a while ago, I ended up dropping the related story but I still like the concept and want to use it in something: a ring of mountains with a valley in their center. ancient myth says a sorceress is buried in the exact center and lowest point. ancient legend also says that she was never dead, and will someday claw her way back out of her grave to herald an apocalypse.

[faolonfiendrender]

Me and my brother just had the idea of a guy whose a humble and hospitable shepherd, whose house/tavern just happens to be built on the most concentrated source of magical energies in the world, which was designed as a meeting place for actual fucking gods.

Every other day they have more than one god staying at their house, scheming wizards of all types pass by or stop there. The shepherd is very illiterate, and this is important because he has accidentally signed several contracts with various entities in the name of the closest kings, confidently thinking he's spelling his name.

The houses layout changes to fit the number of guests, and the pantry is both bigger on the inside and self-stocking and he doesn't question it because he grew up here. The basement stairs lead several miles down to an immense cave system with several warring civilizations, so he just keeps that door locked because last time he was there someone tried to conscript him. This man just doesn't question why his house is bigger on the inside because it's all he's ever known, in his words.

"Houses are usually bigger on the inside, churches are not, and that's the difference between a church and a house."

Sometimes fights break out, and this humble shepherd is smacking two rival gods of war with a broom and shouting to break it up.

Needless to say, his sheep are clearly not entirely sheep, and several have wings and fireproof, only can be cut by divine metal wool, the shepherd has divine shears because a god of the forge was staying one day and he complained how his sheep's wool keeps cutting his shears.

He also doesn't age much because gods keep blessing him with a long and healthy life, he thinks it's just healthy living and a good diet that doesn't include any of that fancy citrus stuff, just meat and bread and cheese. By all rights he should have advanced scurvy, but that's only for people who aren't blessed for generosity on a weekly basis due to the quantity of gods he gives room and board for free.

and I cannot emphasize enough, this guy doesn't know, he thinks living 300 years is perfectly normal 'cause his dad was over 600 years old when he died, and it's an awful tragedy how many people the plague and that disease that makes you age really fast kills.

Basically a man who has all the supernatural stuff happening right near him, and thinks tending the sheep is his calling when he's basically operating the most important inn in the multiverse.

[frenchvani11a]

✨Potion Effects✨

A list of potion effects, both good and bad, for free use to any alchemist or adventurer willing to try some magic

Duration, severity, and other things are up to writer and Dm discretion. I did not add what skills or abilities of a character each potion would effect.

Potions below the cut👇

Healing

Healing but as you heal you feel as if you’re skins on fire while the injuries are sealed

Strength

Strength but after you feel very tired and sore, as if you did all of the actions with your own strength

Invisibility

You begin to glow

Gives you dark vision

Changes skin colour

Skin colour changes and glows

Makes you run fast and jump high and very agile

Grow two feet of hair on your head

Shrink to half your height

Grow to double your height

Flowers leaves and vines grow from you (Range of few flowers to a walking bush)

Physically can’t concentrate (concentration spells are impossible)

Constant levitation two feel up in the air

Weakening (loss of strength and endurance)

If you crack your joints and shake you start to glow

Luck

Bad luck

Feeling like you have a mild fever

You suddenly have to urinate

You feel strong brave and fearless

You feel calm and slightly happy

You get anxious and jumpy

You feel very tired

You have the sudden urge to sing

Can only speak in rhymes (or alliteration)

Feel extremely drunk (ex. stumbling and slurring)

Act like a snobby rich girl

Instantly have a lot of energy (like caffeine)

Pass out

Limbs turn (metaphorically) into jello and you’re completely immobile

Suddenly proficient in every weapon

Suddenly proficient in every instrument

Turn into a tiny frog

You fall in love with the first living thing you see (only aware of the effect after it wears off) (can be a plant)

You can’t speak

Hallucinations

You fall asleep for 1-3 days

Sneeze glitter for the next few days

Temporary paralysis

Poison

Unable to tell lies

Unable to say the truth

Seriously believe you are on fire when you are not

[aromerrowace]

People who portray elves as haughty and looking down on other races who then give them British accents are truly missing out on the chance to make them vaguely French

[tinystarwatch]

Sort of a silly high fantasy concept but what about hats with structures for tinies?

Top hats with railing and doors to the interior!

Bowler hats with tiny benches and street lamps

Sun hats with onings for shade and rope ladders

Base ball caps with rock wall style handholds an rollercoaster style seats

Cowboy hats with saloon style doors and rocking chairs

Crowns with flat spaces to perch on in between the spires and ornate little stairs

[wintercourtart]

Concept sketches for the comic I’m working on, The Selkie King’s Coat, and a personal sketch of The Collective, a fun little monster design I’ve been wanting to do of a boar, a bumblebee, and a beehive built in the corpse of the boar. I referenced a lot of bees, boars, hives, and also bloodborne monsters.

[virovac]

Ooh, elf idea

What if elves only have breasts when pregnant or nursing like nonhuman primates?

Hmm, same could be for dwarves. 

Maybe a mix for orcs, leading to additional pronouns other species don’t have (I noticed prononouns in some older languages that don’t have the binary dichotomy were on social roles and expectations rather then solely sex or gender as we know it today. So you might have different pronouns depending on your age or if you were known to be infertile)