Kraken week is a TTRPG event hosted by Ginni Di and PointyHat! I has the pleasure to work with the latest designing and illustrating the Kraken and a couple of monsters for his free campaign 'Storm Raising' (check it out on his youtube channel!!)
I'll be sharing the design and process here throughout the week 🌚
First of all, of course, the Kraken!
It was super fun to design. I kept my monster art a secret for a couple of years but this year is the year 😎😎🤣
I mixed some creatures for this design, always keeping the tentacles and coral elements and there was a lot of interesting proposals! Which one's your favorite??
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Welcome to the second installment of the Wonderful World of Darklords Summer Blockbuster series! In this episode, we're going to look at the only movies in our series that actually busted blocks: the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. (Mostly the original trilogy, but we'll touch on 4 and 5). Topics discussed include:
Which of the MANY candidates for darklord we settled on, plus AU discussions about the other possibilities (including potential torments, how to make the domain reflect them, and the type of adventure you can run with them, if you're wondering why this episode passed our usual 2:10 ceiling);
The highly gameable hallmarks of a Pirates of the Caribbean adventure (credit to Ryan George's Pitch Meeting series), which you can use to make your own sessions feel appropriately Pirate-y;
Trade wars between the East India Trading Company and the Boritsi Trading Company, both of which are constantly beset by pirates, and WHY ARE WE NOT PLAYING THIS GAME RIGHT NOW;
Chicken Bone;
and more!
The full writeup for Davy Jones' Locker is available on DM's Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/486011/Davy-Jones-Locker-A-Ravenloft-Domain-of-Dread?affiliate_id=241770
If you want to fall down the same rabbit hole that Rachel fell down to reach D's adventures in this episode, this is a good start: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/overheard/article/queens-of-the-high-seas
Now, what are you looking at? Back to work!
All music recordings are in the public domain (mark 1.0) and are licensed through https://musopen.org:
Chopin Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No.1 (main theme), performed by Eduardo Vinuela
Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 12 in C Minor: “Ocean” (darklord theme), performed by Edward Neeman
Chopin Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (land theme), performed by Luke Faulkner
Rachmaninoff Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 - 2. Prélude in C sharp minor (Dread Possibilities), performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Chopin Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (parting thoughts), performed by Luke Faulkner
Dialog for Yensid was written by Azalin Rex himself @darklordazalin
The Wonderful World of Darklords logo was designed by Halite Jones, whom you can find @halite-jones or on Instagram at http://instagram/com/insta_halite
I made a #DnD5e Monk Subclass for Kuo Toa Monitors (based on my setting) for #KrakenWeek2024 - an event where all kinds of #DnD youtubers made aquatic-themed videos.
The fish-like Kuo Toa go back to the earliest editions of D&D, and for some reason always had special monks called Monitors...
