#dnd divination

[spiritofhyena]

I'm back on my bullshit.

[<- trying to give divination interpretation to deck of many things cards]

[underleveledjosh]

Very interesting guide. Very helpful. Thanks.

Divination with DnD Dice

There seemed to be enough interest in the DnD Dice Divination system that I decided to go ahead and write it up. I couldn’t fit it all on here though so I might be making more posts in the future about it. I’ve included the most important stuff here to get started. 

I’ve included a zine to download and print off if you want to take it with you. I actually recommend the zine, it’s a better format than what tumblr would let me put together. 

Please consider tipping me and definitely credit me where you can. 

I know there are other systems out there and I don’t have a monopoly on dice divination but this guide did take a lot of time to put together and is built on my own collection of frameworks, meanings. 

Dice sets can be picked up for cheaper than most basic tarot decks making the barrier to entry lower. My goal was to create a system that could get a similar level of complexity of information to tarot and oracle cards. I found in test readings, I could get roughly the same as I would get from a four card reading. So it’s a good start! 

It’s my mission to make divination more accessible, tipping me helps me devote more time to this.

Zine: https://www.scribd.com/document/380692727/Divination-With-DnD-Dice

If Scribd gives you trouble try here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/21613135

Read description for printing directions or it might not come out right. 

If you can’t print it off, the same information is included below the cut.  

Hope someone finds this useful! 

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[lae-zels]

The one you gravitate towards the first time playing any cRPGs. Included Pillars of Eternity races and Divinity Original Sin ones.

[demynom]

Shout out to @liltypoman for running a dnd oneshot for me and my wife in which we got to play as rum tum tugger and bombalurina on a mission to kill Tom Hooper for his Cats 2019 sins

[dailyadventureprompts]

Thirsting Grail, Outergod of Wants and Wounds

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Adventure Hooks:

While travelling the party encounters a once famed surgeon who seeks their help in undertaking pilgrimage to the distant shrine of a death god. When pressed on her motivation, she reveals that through some curse or divine act of cruelty, those she operates on can never die, but also cannot heal. 

There is a tree that grows in the ruins of the old braon’s castle, said to have sprouted from the chopping block upon which he had his wife’s lovers executed. The tree grows no leaves, only flowers, and it’s said that if you make a tea from its blossoms, you will receive a vision of your one ture love.  Beings of woven thorn are said to guard the tree, but there are those who would pay desperately to drink of its boughs. 

A once peaceful kingdom dissolves into a generations long civil war, any hope of peace drowned beneath a tide of violence, ruination, and grievance that none can hope to escape.

Among the outergods there are none more eager to engage with mortals than the entity known as Thisting Grail. It is a thing of violence and appetite, and seems all too eager to lend its power to those most likely to misuse it, whether they sought it’s aid in the first place or not. 

Scholars and madmen have long debated the Grail’s motivations, what goal or ideology it is trying to achieve with the visions and often horrific miracles it bestows. In truth, Thirsting Grail has no goal beyond the pursuit of violence and longing, it is a means without an end, ready to lend itself to any cause that would make the world a bloodier, hungrier place. 

The god is formless, an ocean of boling blood that takes on the shape of whatever “vessel” its followers imagine for it, borrowing their cultural iconography and birthing itself anew each time. There are litanies of these avatars, hundreds more likely forgotten by history;  blood saints and baleful red stars and heart hungry blades. Perhaps because of blood’s ubiquity in ritual and occult practice the Grail’s influence can “seep” its way into the worship of other entities, divine or demonic, and it’s not unheard of for otherwise upstanding and dogmatic worshippers of banal gods to accidentally begin practising the grail’s bloody rites. 

Sanguimancy and other forms of blood magic are the most obvious of Thirsting Grail’s gifts, but it has other more esoteric offerings: smoke from sacrifices or incense mingled with the formless god’s essence can grant visions of desires made manifest, though often twisted through a disturbingly carnal (in both senses of the word) lens. All too often worshippers ( and the cult leaders that encourage them) see these visions as prophetic, leading to the outergod being sometimes called “the mother of truth”.  It can also manifest the objects of desire: succulent fruits, unearthly lovers, weapons of inordinate power, but there is something fundamentally wrong with these creations as they cannot grant true satisfaction, and often leave those that partake of them wanting more than when they started. 

Those who fall prey to Thirsting Grail’s influence can become warped as their own veins become polluted by the entity’s ichor: becoming feral creatures of endless cruelty and appetite, or having their wounds open wider and wider until there is nothing but wound remaining of their swollen flesh. Those so overtaken grow and warp and merge with others until new horrors are birthed from them, a permanent seedbed of 

Titles: Mother of truth, formless mother, font erubescent, the bloodstar.  Symbols: A red grail or fountain, cultural iconography stained with blood.  Signs:  Wounds that bleed but do not heal, plants overflowing or cracking open to expose their innards. Unsettling red dreams.  Worshippers: Those with bloodstained hands be they doctors, butchers, or murderers. Vampires, occultists, and other sanguiphiles. Instatiable gourmands and unfulfilled lovers.   

Inspiration:  I wear my influences on my sleeve with this one.  I’ve been turning the Elden Ring mythology over in my mind for some time partially because I think there’s a lot of fun ideas there but also because I felt like (in typical Fromsoft fashion) there wasn’t enough shown to really scratch my itch for discovery. 

The formless mother/bloodstar was chiefest among these elements: A killer aesthetic with lore that was a little too thin to use as inspiration. After a while that thinness turned into a feature, the idea of an eldritch entity of pain and violence that conformed to the needs of those who worshipped it, granting power to those who would go out and make the world more violent and painful.  I liked the idea that “mother of truth” was a misnomer, and that cultists would ascribe meaning and intent and iconography to a god that didn’t care one way or another. 

Another strong influence is the Grail from Cultist Simulator/Book of hours ( SERIOUSLY, play book of hours you fools), an eldritch entity/aspect of reality that presides over hungers and births be they literal or figurative.  The Blood + Mother connection was obvious here, but the Grail provided some more texture and esoteric aspects to fill out my version’s storytelling potential.

[trucbiduleschouettes]

More art of Efi before he ran away

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[dwoodledip]

A quick little design of a Divination Wizard

[anna-draws-stuff]

Celeste Severin, my high elf Divination wizard 🔮✨

[nodensart]

Dark tears

Elane - an elf whose body became a vessel for an chthonic God. And her battle for self-awareness never stops...

Art reward for Faneposter Divinity Original Sin, OC

[tinkerbitch69]

Insane idea for a ship dynamic: the sexual tension between a goddess and her chosen martyr

[wehavekookies]

Continuing on the topic of Victoro's inventory:

a glass eye found at Blinsky's Toyshop, remade into a little divination device and serving as a spell component.

[gavamont]

A wizard that uses Cards Against Humanity as his tarot deck.

Your first draw is “a sad handjob”. One is tempted to interpret this as a bad omen of broken love, but it is the beginning of the road, so know that your path starts from hardships but the next card reveals what shall come of this heartbreak.

“Shiny objects” while more vague in the game, this is more concrete in divination, you are going to receive great material wealth. But next in this formation is the fork, so this will lead to 2 options you must choose between.

“Advice from a wise, old black man” you will have the opportunity to give boons to others or perhaps be directed by the wisdom of others. The other option is… “racism”…

Okay, well, don’t choose that path. Reading done.

[vivtanner]

The brightest sun 🌞

These horse boys are my friend's elf character Ignatz (Divine Soul Sorcerer) & my character Bataar (Path of Wild Magic Berserker).

[thebeardlyben]

Some recent bust commissions for lovely folks! Argrok Ragejaw - Todd Cooper

Gruff - @drawfuldm

Cordelia - TKTigerkat

Tecali - @droptix

[strawberripine]

Divine Beauty Art Dump <3

i was talking in @sherbertquake56 's chat a bit about dnd and my GAL so here's (i think) all my art of her! <3 Some fun info bits: Divine is a College of Glamour Tiefling Bard, and appears to be about 20 years old. Her pronouns are she/her, and she has a VERY charismatic personality (her charisma is LITERALLY 20) which has helped her and her friends get out of many sticky situations. Her full backstory is down below if ya'll wanna read <3 “Divine Beauty was born and raised in Hell to her parents Ideal and Love. She lived a life of comfort, far away from any violence or worries.” This is the memory of Divine’s youth that was implanted in her, but it is far from the truth. Divine Beauty (aka Azathoth the Awe Inspiring, Aspect of Envy) is one of the 7 Aspects of Hell, split from Azmodeus by Aannis Draneer. When she was split, Aannis chose her to one day take Azmodeus’ place, and rose her as his own. Over time, she inherited mass amounts of power both in Hell and in Faithruin, accumulating a cult known as Envion, full of warlocks with various skill sets at her beck and call. She also began absorbing other aspects at this time, specifically Wolfish (aka Senzaroch the Gracious, Aspect of Gluttony). Intimidated by her power, her brother Ideal (aka Amir the All-Encompassing, Aspect of Greed) decided to alter Divine’s memories to impede her progress, forcing her to believe he was her father and their sister, Love (aka Velcenthe the Overwhelming Passion, Aspect of Lust) was her mother. Over time, Divine’s memory began to fracture, resulting in her absorbing Love without even realizing, and starting to uncover more and more the longer she remained in Hell. Fearful, Ideal implanted the idea for Divine to set off in Faithruin to become a “popstar,” hopeful that the ongoing war there would eventually result in her downfall. To keep up appearances, he hired Pheredes (aka The Blade, a Firbolg Bloodhunter) to act as Divine’s bodyguard, and the two set off. Over time the two would collect a group of travel companions with a range of goals and aspirations, battling monsters and saving cities along the way, and leading Divine down the still ongoing path of finding out who she’s meant to be.

[zephyrbug]

A revisit to the wizard trapped in time, Ume💫🔮🔭

I’ve been meaning to redesign Miss Ume for a while now so I thought now was as good of time as any! She’s a Pc that was in Veils game (Veils partner! happy late valentine’s day) and It’s been four years since i’ve drawn her so I’ll be sharing the comparison to the old art as well later!