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[hazoret]

"I feel like I've ruined all your lives. I've just made everything harder."

"Kestrel, you were my first. You made me a father."

Kestrel had a really nice moment with her dad a couple sessions ago that's been rotating in my head ever since.

[criticalrolo]

losing my mind at this amazing story from r/dndmemes some people’s dnd adventures are just. So Fucking Cool

here’s the link and the story, it’s Amazing

[ashes-and-static]

THE FUCKING REVEAL AT THE END LIKE THIS GUY IS LEGIT LIKE

THATS MY WIFE AND I LOVE HER

[khartsie]

A friend's character Davina, fire genasi bard/sorcerer

[valoniaart]

Saturn dragon 🪐

[hellothisisangle]

Drew a bunch of concepts for curved horns and uploaded the lineart assets for use on Patreon

[filibusterfrog]

pirate lad for a patron

[filibusterfrog]

real catgirl for @voidkatten

[catbatart]

Commission of a fierce warrior-mage!

[dejaysus]

I thought you might like these moss-filled pawprints in concrete which I saw earlier. :-)

[sillyfairygarden]

couldnt get the thought of a mossy, spirit cat out of my head so i drew it after work :)

[achesspiece]

got sent this homebrew ability to give to strahd and i absolutely am going to when i run that campaign because i will NOT be interrupted when i am monologuing

[olibheare]

Design Commission from a bit ago

[pigeon-princess]

i love your emaciated, anxiety-riddled wizard. i just wanna wrap him up in blankets with a hot cocoa and give him some cursed tomes (for enrichment)

This is the exact kind of enrichment time that I think would fix him for the better.

[hustlerose]

dwarf rave: one guy chants while everyone else rhythmically stomps their iron boots. by the end, the whole club is knee deep in rubble

elf rave: 19 hours of thrashing, acid tripping, and interpretive dancing to calm ambient music and forest sounds

orc rave: everyone stoically nods their head to the loudest and bassiest beats the realm has ever heard

[christiansorrell]

Cloud Empress Rulebook FOR FREE!

Several months ago, I did development work on Cloud Empress, a standalone, Nausicaa-inspired TTRPG by worlds of watt. It's full, beautiful rulebook recently went up on DriveThruRPG FOR FREE so I think folks should check it out. I'm really proud to have taken part in the project and think the end result is tremendous! Plus, there's so much more coming for it in the near future!

Get your copy HERE!

[yourdndstories]

Though she be little, she is mighty.

Based on a submission from @skyeribbon

Want me to doodle your D&D party? Commissions are open! Currently $20/character, see my blog post or e-mail YourDnDStories at gmail, subject 'Doodles' for more information.

[flameraven]

Dragon Prints now available at my shop! $15 each, 3 for $40

[prokopetz]

If you’re wondering what the whole drama regarding tieflings is in the Dungeons & Dragons fandom: basically, capitalism ruined tieflings, and for once that’s not even slightly a joke.

Tieflings were first introduced as a playable species in Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition, via the Planescape campaign in 1994. At the time, there were no particular rules regarding what a tiefling was supposed to look like. The text explicitly stated that their basic physiology could vary wildly depending on what their fiendish ancestor was, and one of the first major Planescape supplements even included a table for randomly generating your tiefling’s appearance, if you were into that sort of thing.

This continued to be the case up through the game’s Third Edition. However, when the Fourth Edition rolled around in 2008, the game’s text suddenly became very particular about insisting that all tieflings looked pretty much the same. Some campaign settings even provided iin-character explanations for why all tieflings now had a standardised appearance. Understandably, this made a lot of people very annoyed.

There was naturally a great deal of speculation concerning what had motivated this change. It was widely cited as “proof” that Dungeons & Dragons was trying to appeal to the World of Warcraft fanbase – which was nonsense, of course; nearly all of the Fourth Edition’s allegedly MMO-like features were things that popular MMOs had borrowed from Dungeons & Dragons in the first place, and to the extent that tieflings’ new look resembled a particular WoW race, it was in that they were both extraordinarily generic.

In reality, it was a change that had been lurking for some time. Though Dungeons & Dragons is directly published by Wizards of the Coast, Wizards of the Coast is in turn owned by Hasbro, and Hasbro has long regarded the D&D core rulebooks as a vehicle for promoting D&D-branded merch – in particular, licensed miniature figures.

This was a bugbear that had reared its head before. When the Third Edition received major revisions in 2003, Hasbro corporate had ordered the game’s editors to completely remove any discussion of how to improvise minifigs for large battles, and replace it with an advertisement for the then-current Dungeons & Dragons Heroes product line. Implying that purchasing licensed minis wasn’t 100% mandatory simply would not do.

If you’ve gotten this far, you’ve probably already guessed where this is going: tieflings having no standard appearance made it difficult to sell tiefling minifigs, as any given minifig design would only be suitable for a small subset of tiefling characters. In the brutally reductive logic of the corporate mind, Hasbro reasoned: well, if we tell tiefling players that all of their characters now look the same, we can sell them all the same minifigs. So that’s what the game did, going so far as to write justifications into several published settings for magically transforming all existing tiefling characters to fit the new mould!

This worked about as well as anyone who isn’t a corporate drone would naturally anticipate – and that’s the story of how capitalism ruined tieflings.

[tomatomarrow]

Here’s that table, btw.  I really dig the art in the old Planescape books.

[ifightformyfriends]

I already made a post talking about how varied Pathfinder allows/encourages Tieflings to be, but this seemed like a good excuse to just post a bunch of the official Tiefling art that really shows it off

There’s so much variety and flavor :D