#DnD 3.5e

[xyliaxart]

Obsessed with the god of death from my friend's homebrew dnd campaign. His name is Chenlen and he thinks he's very funny. His holy symbol is the full moon.

[triflingshadows]

Obsessed w these 3.5e vampire and vamp spawn designs

(Left drawn by Wayne Reynolds, right by Tom Baxa)

[missrosiewolf]

-aggressively sips orange juice-

So! What happens when you take an Edgy That Guy and ascend him into Godhood?

You get Shevarash, the elven god of revenge, loss, and hating drow.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: This dude needed therapy, not godhood. Fenmarel, for some reason, decided that it would be a good idea to help the most Anti-Drow elf to ever exist to become a god and it is because of this mindset that Shevarash has very few allies. He is so fucking focused on his tireless and unending crusade on the drow that only like-minded individuals will put up with him, such as Psilofyr and Callarduran Smoothhands.

Because let's be real: this man lives and breathes hatred. That is all he is now. Whoever he was before he became this person, this hunter obsessed with eliminating the drow is gone, destroyed during what is called the Dark Court Slaughter.

For those who are not familiar with this event in FR history or don't know what it is, the Dark Court Slaughter was an event that took place on Midwinter's Night in -4400 DR. It was the longest, darkest night of the year and an army consisting of Drow and Duergar swarmed out of the Underdark; the army overran both the dwarven realm of Sarphil on the southern shore of the Moonsea and the Elven Court at the heart of the great forest of Arocar. Countless lives of elves and dwarves were claimed that night, including most of the assembled leaders of the Fair Folk and the Stout Folk who had come to court to reestablish their long-standing alliance.

Among the few survivors was Shevarash but among the dead was his family. With grief and anger in his heart, Shevarash swore an oath to Corellon to become the hand of the Seldarine against drow to seek vengeance for the loss of his family.

(Demihuman Deities, p. 157)

And that is how Shevarash, likely once as carefree as most elves, became an agent of revenge. It's an oath he kept too. I would say that he became the greatest enemy the drow had because he was, for the remainder of his mortal life, relentless in his pursuit of the drow. He raided their underground cities, destroyed their shrines dedicated to their gods, and slew their priests.

However, Shevarash stories ends like many stories of revenge: his death. Shevarash was slain by a horde of myrlochar (soul spiders) after killing High Priestess Darthiir'eigg Aleanrahel and six of her consorts circa -4070 DR — 330 years after the Dark Court Slaughter. So ended the mortal life of Shevarash the Black Archer

But then Fenmarel decided to help him achieve godhood. Now Shevarash is the Night Hunter and Arrow Bringer. Fun fact: Corellon is the one who determines whether or not someone can join the pantheon, soooo they absolutely okayed Fenmarel's decision to help Shevarash undergo apotheosis. They okayed the most Anti-Drow elf to ever exist...becoming a deity.

Despite the fact that Corellon has TWO dark elf children (three if we count Vandria) and one of them is supposedly the favorite child (Eilistraee) because here's the thing: Shevarash (in his mortal life) hunted all drow, not just Lolthite drow — though Lolthites were his primary target. It didn't matter if you were Lolthite, Vhaeraunite, Eilistraean, Kiaransaleen, whatever — if you were drow, then you were his enemy. However, that changed once he became a demigod.

(Grand History of the Realms (2007), p. 27)

Yes. Eilistraee and her worshippers at one time, pre-godhood, were among Shevarash's targets. Demihunam Deities even states that it was only until recently (full disclosure: DD is a 2e Advanced Dungeons & Dragons accessory for the Forgotten Realms so by recently I'm guessing it's referring to 1370-1371. Either that or the late 1360s) that she managed to work out an some kind of truce with this guy.

(Demihuman Deities, p. 11)

An uneasy truce. Uneasy truces are typically truces that will only last a certain albeit unknown amount of time and given this is the Seldarine and fucking Shevarash — it likely would not take much to break this truce.

Not surprising given that Shevarash is not only the most Anti-Drow Elf to ever elf, but he also did hunt Eilistraee's followers in the past likely during his mortal life) — which, as Grand History of the Realms points out, is something he no longer does as he no longer considers Eilistraee and Eilistraeans to be among his prey (likely due to the fact that once he ascended he became aware that Eilistraee is nothing like her mother and brother). So both sides are likely tense from this history and while she may not be counted among his 'prey' anymore, that does not mean he likes her or even that she likes him.

They, at best, tolerate each other from what I can tell.

(not even gonna lie. I would not at all be surprised to learn if Shevarashans are still terrorizing Eilistraeans in some capacity despite this uneasy truce)

Is this truce still a thing in the current edition? I don't know because I don't where Shevarash and Eilistraee officially stand in the new edition in relation to each other. I can't tell you whether or not that truce is still on-going. It'll have to be up to individual interpretation.

My personal belief / interpretation is that this uneasy truce is likely fractured, perhaps severely so. With the return of the Dark Dancer and her brother, Eilistraee and Vhaeraun have achieved a new understanding of each other — as a result, they have a friendship and a truce (though their followers still get into conflict from time to time. Understandable, a long history of both sides hating each other and fighting each other isn't going to go away in a single night). Which is a problem for Shevarash because even though Lolth and her followers are still Shevarash's number one target, the rest of the Dark Seldarine (sans Eilistraee) is still very much his enemy. Vhaeraun is still his enemy. Shevarash's followers still hunt down Vhaeraunites. Shevarash, as mentioned in the screenshot I shared from p. 27 of the Grand History of the Realms, is now more able to hunt Lolth and Vhaeraun directly thanks to his becoming a demigod.

I can't see Shevarash at all accepting Eilistraee's newfound friendship with her brother due to his history with the drow and his mission. Eilistraee, for her part with this new friendship and truce, I think would protest against Shevarash still hunting her divine twin and his followers. Given what I know of Shevarash, I do not think he would see this as anything other than an incentive to return to crusading against Eilistraee as well. He is a very angry deity, consumed by hatred — he's not going to look at the nuance at the situation. Likely, he'll read this as Eilistraee as turning traitor, becoming corrupted, etc. etc. Because to him...drow are bad. It doesn't matter who they worship, in his eyes drow are bad. For Shevarash, there is no nuance. It's black and white, as clear to him as night and day.

He might tolerate the drow worship Eilistraee and he might tolerate Eilistraee herself...but that means nothing when he will eventually resume being hostile toward Eilistraee. And he will. It's not a matter of if, but when and it won't take much. Will he resume hunting her? Possibly, especially if she decides to break ties with the Seldarine.

I did have a section written up about the elven group who are disguising themselves as drow and raiding surface settlements (thank you lawful-evil-novelist for that bit of lore!). but upon further reading, I learned Champions of Ruins doesn't, unfortunately, definitively state that the group is Shevarashans. Only that they're a very anti-human group called the Eldreth Veluuthra, who are conducting these raids in hopes of increasing hostilities between humans and drow. The book further states that even though they worship the Seldarine, the good-aligned deities of the pantheon want nothing to do with them so as a result no cleric of the good-aligned elven gods are part of the group.

So it's up in the air if these particular EV raiders are Shevarashans (his alignment is listed as chaotic neutral; it's possible he didn't write them off completely unlike his good-aligned peers) or not.

[lets-get-bingsoo]

artfight

[ncat]

Weave Whisperer 3.5e

This is my first foray into writing 3.5e content. I had a lot of fun doing so (:

This is an adaptation of the first class I ever wrote for 5e, so its nice to have a version of it for 3.5e as well.

Yeah <:

Ah! And heres the share link

[fortunesfavours]

i come bearing time duplicate, an epic-level spell found in the depths of the epic level handbook for dnd 3.5e. this will now consume my waking thoughts for dunamancy/sg/oc purposes

[suddencosmology]

Saturday DnD story time: We've been exploring the abandoned wizard tower of former jackass clown rockstar. He had somehow planted a positive energy well in the middle of a Blighted undead hellscape, so we came to loot his digs.

The defenses ranged from classic to esoteric, but the majority of them were handled without incident. My character "disarmed" a hallway of Explosive Runes by having literal raptor vision and reading them from the other side of the room so that was fun.

But it got better. On the second layer, he had a portal at the bottom of a well filled with Dew of Lunary. Normally, in small doses, this magic amplifier increases the caster level of Divination effects by 1. So to go in we needed to make a Will save modified by how many Divination effects we had active or unused and you bet your ass my shaman walks around loaded with Divination magic in her pocket.

So while everyone else is calmly diving in and making their saves, Cipher just sits there and reflects on her life choices while I am silently screaming "fuck yeah consequences".

So the DC was a total of 70, to which I failed at a 41. I will be experiencing the sum totality of time and space next week and it will be great.

[ocsoftherealm]

Only 5 more days, adventurers!! If you haven't submitted your application, time's running out!

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[nex-best-thing]

Meet the new and improved Marluxia von Alteria!  

When I first designed him, I didn’t know that he was based off of the Kingdom Heart’s character. I drew him based off of the description my BF gave me, and found out later just how similar the two were. A few of my friends pointed it out as well. I finally sat down and decided to design him in a way that makes him feel like his own character.  

Marluxia is an NPC in the DnD campaign I’m in. For some backstory, he’s connected to my character, Aster, and is the reason why she can use any form of magic. He is the Chosen One, and due to a decision to try to quickly fix all the damage done by King Tyrannus, the evil king he was destined to defeat, he became immortal, and his team thought he had turned evil as well, and turned on him. This caused them to fight him and “kill” him, chopping him into pieces to keep him from reforming. 100,000 years later, Aster found his eye in an abandon facility, and implanted it. The two became fast friends and some romantic feelings have even started to develop, despite neither of them wanting a relationship for various reasons. (Aster isn’t emotionally ready for another relationship after a horrible breakup as well as an overall fear of romance, and Marly doesn’t want to go through the pain of losing someone he loves).

[aquatic-freak]

2e shadow demons look so much better than 3e, 3.5e, 4e, or 5e.

[artyqui]

Boat wip of my 3.5e dnd group!!

[xyliaxart]

You've seen the goblins, you've seen the catfolk, and now here's the merfolk. That's 3/9 of the types of folk from my friend's homebrew DnD campaign.

We haven't had any PCs of this race so I got work with my friend to figure out what we wanted them to look like :) it was fun! And I'm happy with the result.

[y-rhywbeth2]

'From region to region of the Realms Common may have different accents and slightly different vocabularies, influenced by other local human and nonhuman tongues. While a native of Thay will be able to communicate with a denizen of Baldur's Gate, each will be aware of the others' ridiculous accent.' - Cyclopaedia of the Realms

I find myself wondering what a Baldurian vs Thayan accent sounds like. I know it's not supposed to sound one-for-one like a real world accent, so that makes it rather hard to imagine.

Also there are other pidgin trade-tongues. 'Elvish,' 'dwarvish' and other non-human languages may technically just be their variations of common, as the various demihuman cultures all have different accents and linguistic drifts.

[c0rvidbones]

Wit Dalca

DA'VI ILLUSORY WIZARD

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wit uses he/it pronouns!

aka my most fucked up little wizard. hes like ~10 yrs old here and hes full of mischief and makes awful spells that would be war crimes if he was an adult. i had a lot of fun animating him! i couldve done more but i really spent so much time on this. like more than 12 hours logged on the procreate canvas.

[wc-adventure-game-35e]

Worldbuilding: Ranks

This should have been one of the first posts, but eh, here we are. This post will focus on the ranks in a clan and their relative class!

Leader: Leaders are the successor of the previous leader, gaining respect and learning how to work with their clan during their time as a deputy. Leaders would be a prestige class, requiring a certain amount of levels in the warrior classes (can be mutliclassed from healers too).

Deputy: The clan's second in command and selected by the leader to follow in their pawsteps upon the leader's death. Deputies would not be a separate class, but would need to have the required levels for leader in a warrior class before becoming deputy.

Oracle: The Clan's spiritual advisor. They are chosen from birth and raised to learn things that pertain to their jobs, mostly how to communicate with spirits and some magic. There is only one oracle per clan. The successor would be known as a lesser oracle until the current oracle dies. Oracles would be their own class, but have two prestige classes, clerics and seers. Clerics are chosen by a single deity, which the oracle becomes a speaker of. Clerics would be similar to warlocks and clerics from DnD 5e. Seers are oracles that have spent too much time in the other planes of existence, becoming more magical in nature. They would be similar to sorcerers and wizards from DnD 5e.

Healers: The doctors of the Clan. They were taught how to use herbs to cure diseases and heal injuries. However, some may leave the rank, becoming a warrior instead. They would be a single class, focused on healing and buffs, similar to DnD's bards.

Warriors: The lifeblood of the Clan, warriors would be split into two classes, fighters and hunters. Fighters focus on training in battle, becoming more of a strength based character. Hunters focus on hunting or fishing to feed their clan, creating a more dexterous character. Some may have a change of heart and become a healer.

Unranked: Unranked characters would be any cat that has a 'job', but is not a warrior, healer, or high rank NPC classes are playable, but not optimal for play. Some NPC classes would include builders, gardeners, time-keepers (kinda like a historian), insect keepers (for things like honey and cobwebs), artisans, and cooks.

Monarchs: Nursing and pregnant parents are in this "rank". However, this is always at least one midwife, a cat who is a perma monarch, to help new parents. A classless rank.

Elders: As a cat gets too old to do much, they will retire and become an elder. Some elders take on an unranked job on occasions, but do not have the strict responsibilities of that job. A classless rank on it's own.

Apprentices: A cat learning a rank or job. For PC classes (oracle, healer, and both warrior classes), an apprentice is level 1 and graduates at levels 3-5 (depending on level). For NPC classes, they do not have a strict level to graduate.

Kits: Any cat younger than 6 moons. A classless rank.

[reigen-small-naturals]

was anybody going to tell me that "bloodweaver" is a thing from DnD or i had to find it out myself? did people who coined that ship name were this smart? was it a deep cut or an accident? i need answers!!