#dungeons and therapy

[ianthewife]

addiction n abusive relationship metaphors are breaking down my door send help

head in my hands the last three panels are gonna live in my head forever

[ministarfruit]

I love that marcille and mithrun go to therapy together… they can be buddies I believe it

[renguro]

[fumifooms]

[ilovelouie8]

Look at that vice grip

HE AIN'T GOING NOWHERE KABRU

[untowardsthoughts]

if anthony burch played normal oak in s2 i dont doubt it would be dissimilar to francis now

[mossyfig]

Very WIP of Senior Year Normal and Hermie!! Wanted to share my designs for them!!!!

[ishtar7677]

This was a Christmas gift to me and my husband from our GM of our very first characters that we ever TTRPG'ed (Pathfinder) who commissioned this from @cutetanuki-chan. (The picture is from me taking a picture and cropping at a weird angle - the whole thing in its frame is stunning.) These two characters (Chrissy and Odhran) met when our game night people were like... hey let's try pathfinder. So I made a character and so did my husband and after meeting them, I was like... oh god... we are gonna get divorced. Lol. We were struggling at the time. And we made these characters and god, they hated each other so much..... but eventually found their way to being friends. But they were our first characters EVER. The next character my husband rolled up in this campaign (we needed to double up to round out a playable campaign), my rogue eventually formed a romantic attachment with. Then I made a bard for a totally separate campaign, and now we're both determined that he meet Chrissy at some point b/c within MINUTES of meeting my bard in a totally unrelated campaign, we were like, okay he's soulmates with Chrissy! But that's the magic right? Finding the parts of ourselves unexpectedly that can be completely accepting of other parts of our partner... even the parts of them that we thought we didn't like, want to be around, or understand to begin with. (CAUTION WARNING: let the reader understand, do NOT use this story to excuse abuse or bad behavior to try to fix a partner! This is an exercise that can ONLY be done with a feeling of absolute safety and trust between partners. We were not there when we started TTRPGS but got to a better place of trust due to his own personal work with therapy. But there were MASSIVE strides before I even trusted it. ) We joked tonight after our friend gave us this picture that Odhran (my rogue) saw this picture and was like oh GOD, what hell-fan of Chrissy (actress) did this? Why do I look like I'm worshipping her? GAHHH nOoOo. But....Odhran can also shut all the way up. :) What ultimately makes me as the player love this picture so much is probably the underpinnings of a romanticism depiction. These two characters, while they never and will never fall in love, in a meta sense, they were the gateway for us into several characters who did help us rediscover love again after years in a very difficult marriage, find a adhd hack into new relationship energy through RPing, and just provide us an outlet for a lot of intense emotional energy. And this artist, despite knowing NONE of this, captured its essence in a two completely non-romantic character portrait. @cutetanuki-chan you knew none of this and still managed to capture it perfectly. This picture will hang proudly in our house and I will enjoy explaining it to anyone who walks through our doors. Your depiction of HERO FORGE characters being so accurate is stupid impressive. Also shout out to our GM, Grace, who actively sought this out for us. What a perfect present. We couldn't ask for a better GM or a better friend. You're family and we love you so much.

[thatsthat24]

NEW VIDEO: “Those D&D Party Members Who Need Therapy…” ⚔️ https://youtu.be/qYzlriesWaE

[vashvana]

If I had a dime for every time I was infatuated with a black, white haired villain from a popular manga/anime series who wears purple and commits evil because the trauma they endured as kids led them to develop unhealthy coping mechanisms, leading them to blindly place misguided faith in the manipulation of an alluring, golden colored character who is pure evil but amasses cult-like followings, ultimately resulting in some prophetic doomsday-like event, I’d have two dimes. Weird that that’s happened twice.

[cozybells]

yeah you'll hurt me

[quartervirus]

Zuma's Expressions

I was going out of my MIND struggling with character likenesses, which is a REAL PROBLEM when you plan on drawing tons of comics about them.

After banging my head on the table and tearing my hair out didn't seem to work, I doodled practice sketches of @gelly-art's queen bitch– I mean, Drow Sorceress instead, about to gauge someone's eyes out for stepping on their toe or something.

Or maybe for just existing.

I dunno.

Girl's got issues.

[xtheredwitchx]

It all started when he was born

[sergoliathbeetle]

Astarion getting so excited about meeting Drizzt hits different when you realize that Astarion probably held on the the legend because he, too, wanted to escape the horrors of his tormentors. Drizzt did what Astarion was never able to do- fight back, resist, and leave. Drizzt survived the horrors of growing up literally tortured mentally and physically by people who by all other means were meant to help and support him. Astarion was ripped from his life and forced into this horrible servitude and spent his days in terror, just like Drizzt did. Astarion probably sees a lot of himself in Drizzt and wished at least at some point that he could do the same. Drizzt is a survivor, and so is Astarion. Drizzt became what he is because he survived, and I'm certain Astarion hopes he can, too. Drizzt found community despite his circumstances, and so did Astarion. I'm sure they would have plenty to talk about, plenty of healing they could to just chatting together.

[mystxmomo]

... No joke page this time, because I have three relatively high effort comics sketched out better exploring this character in a way I want .

Meet Agency, everyone.

Design notes and thoughts under the cut.

You'll notice, that is a tiefling virtue name right there. A traveler by nature, he is someone who highly values freedom, and people and things having the freedom to do as they'd like in life.

He is a bard, however in battle he does not play a traditional instrument. Instead, he has a music box (it's magic, so it's a bit funky) of which he personally enchanted/made. He does compose music, but it's all rather experimental, playing with different music styles and instruments. (Not exactly something easy to bring into battle.)

He's rather cagey about how the music box works, but it seems to be a collection of different music he's come across in his travels. How he changes the songs and how it's been enchanted? He refuses to say. Emotionally, it's the equivalent of someone bringing their playlist to battle. He is dancing to the music in battle.

A chosen of Eilistraee, he was a strategic pick from her done to make a point to both her brother (Not a Drow and a Complete outsider to her main communities) and her followers (He is a man completely uninterested in humoring drow gender politics, and he barely humors her church despite becoming rather involved in it) He's not... aware of this.

Agency: I am… A little under the impression I am being used as a pawn for a greater scheme Enclave: Oh good. You figured out how this works organically. Agency: Does that… Bother you? Enclave: Ah. No. If we must use this analogy, I made myself into a pawn for this game long before you were born. Agency: Hmmm…

Overall, he's a chosen that seems to have one foot in the door at times. He's here, he has a hand from the deck. But he's maybe not as fully dedicated as he at first seems, and doesn't seem entirely aware of all the cards at play. Despite this, he does genuinely like Eilistraee. He doing a lot to humoring her. She loves that he's willing to go all out on thematically fitting to her ("I honestly used to dress up in florals more, but she really seems to enjoy the star theming. And I do look rather good in blue")

Regardless of what he does and doesn't know, and how dedicated to it he is, this is a role he agreed to take on knowing there would be some... difficulties. Especially given the time he came into the picture. (He is another character introduced at the most modern point of the story.)

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A lot of his shape language is meant to be somewhat devious seeming. Anime villian shape language. He has a lot of points and angles, but rather pretty features. His horns are meant to mimic crescent moons, and together come to create a full one.

Personality wise, he is unironically just like. A well meaning man with no bait and switch. He CAN be a little dramatic, as he's a theater kid at heart. But he has a very gentle soul. Contrasted with the fact that he does just love a good fight.

[nanowired-lover]

i think im gonna start posting doodles on this blog bc i like them but it feels wrong to put them on my art blog so yeah. Chilchuck (+ 1 (one) Senshi) upon ye