#irl campaign

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Bringing you a new picrew I've seen around. I've cat-ified my ttrpg gals

Neko Val

Neko Iris

Neko Lillian (calm and berserk)

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Valeera, chosen of Lolth. The Great Deceiver. Conqueror of the Tower of Madness. Kingkiller. Worldrender.

Evil group mom. Great party guest.

The commission arrived just in time for the end of her campaign, at which point she led Lolth's troops on an unholy crusade, and tore her world asunder. She now governs several world shards, which she has transformed into her own personal utopia.

Commission for @Yami-Musume of their sultry dark elf!

[shadowkat2000]

I truly love gay friend groups dressing as if they’re going completely different places; today my friends and I were going to brunch, church, goth night, the ren faire, and golfing respectively

[valtsv]

i can't even be mad that the "[x] is such a raw quote you'd think it was from shakespeare" meme was originally used to make fun of me for a cringe post i made a few years ago when everyone hated my guts and i was battling an episode because it's so funny

[zombie-bait]

The Blade of Frontiers??? On MY dashboard???? More likely than you’d think

[tinylilvalery]

never forget the instant karma Our Flag Means Death got for killing off the best character in the show in the season 2 finale and then instantly getting cancelled. absolute justice.

[tangledinink]

my official campaign promise is that if wanderer wins their poll in the @tmntaucompetition then i'll drive to @vangh17a's house to personally shake their hand and give them a crisp high-five.

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Not quite foaming at the mouth because my character in that game is too refined, but let me tell you about Türion, pronounced like Tyrion. (I hope you are fine with blorbos from our ttrpgs).

Türion is a talking door (the name is a pun because a door in German is called Tür). We met Türion in a hidden passage of a manor of rich people - we wanted to nab some books from the manor library, and our rogue had found out about the hidden passage. It was there we met Türion blocking our path, depressed as all hell, as they were originally friends with the kids of the manor (the path beyond led into a treehouse), but since they'd grown up, nobody had been down in the hidden path.

When we talked about the outside world, Türion got really excited and lamented being stuck there, as it would've loved to see the outside world. So, in a ploy to get the door to open quietly, the party offers to take Türion on an adventure. Now you need to know, the party is evil-aligned, and it's pretty clear they're just saying that because it basically guarantees free passage, and what is the door gonna do if we don't keep our word?

But. This awakens something that has long-since been slumbering in my drow warlock, Val. She remembers what she would've given as a kid to see the sunlight. She's eventually made it to the surface, sure, but she's had to fight tooth and nail to get where she is today, and this kid door has no way to do even that. It's pathetic. So she decides she's gonna keep the party's promise, even if she has to do it by herself.

We get past, break in, get out. Val insists on keeping the door. We manage to finangle it off it's hinges and transport it out through the canals. We almost get eaten by a kraken in the way out, but we make it. We give Türion it's name, since it never had one.

At first Türion is just dragged along with the rest of the equipment, hidden under blankets and in hotel rooms, cause they're a talking door and that is weird and we can't afford the weird looks if we want to take over the world eventually. Val brings Türion little souvenirs, maps and carvings and tourist chaff during their travels. She buys geography books to read as good night stories to the door.

We leave behind the island we were on since we kinda caused a zombie apocalypse, and take Türion with us.

Eventually, this hiding and all is not good enough for the party anymore. The rogue and the sorcerer build a wagon that lacks a wall so we can slide Türion into it, and they can see the world for themselves. We travel with the Türion-wagon through elven forests, through dwarven mines. Through a black desert where we steal ancient artifacts from an inverted pyramid and have a thrilling chase Ben Hur style through the desert. Türion is part of our getaway wagon, and sees so much.

But. This. Is. Still. Not. Good. Enough.

Because we always need to leave Türion behind when we go into a dungeon or on a mission. But, fear not. Val comes across an illicit seller of all kinds of goods, and finds a shield in his possession - apparently, it had once belonged to a very vain individual that had his own portrait (or maybe a mirror, I don't remember exactly) installed on a hinge on his shield, so he could admire himself. Val buys it, we rip out the old door, and adjust it so we can put Türion on the hinges instead.

New problem. There has been a shift in the party composition and neither the rogue, nor the sorcerer, or the warlock can actually carry shields.

I take a damn cleric level so I can finally get shield proficiency and carry my door child everywhere (also it fit thematically as Val was gaining more of her patron's favor).

Finally. We can go whereever with Türion.

Tldr: My warlock became a cleric to take the most inconsequential, niche NPC, her talking door child on a sightseeing trip around the world while the party strives for world domination.

Tell me about the most niche incidental side character that makes you foam at the mouth

[jibril-thelibraryangel]

You know I’m in an interesting position regarding the Bard Lament change

On one hand, I’m straight up not as attached to Bard’s Lament as everyone else in the fandom seems to be

Sure it was a dramatic moment with some great acting from Sam… but it was also very nasty and visceral in a way that the rest of the show isn’t and it really never gets addressed properly

Also I feel like the whole fandom always simplifies it as “poor little guiltless Scanlan finally standing up to everyone else who are evil bullies to him all the time for no reason”

All this to say, if you had told me months ago that they were removing Bard’s Lament, I would have been surprised but not upset

However after seeing the whole season… damn I really do feel they squandered some AMAZING set up for it

They show Scanlan constantly leaving Vox Machina behind and when he does horrible things happen to them, things that could’ve objectively been avoided by his presence AND HE NEVER EXPLAINS HIMSELF

They are about to execute Percy while Scanlan has a literal magical key to stop it and they find him passed out drunk, vomiting on the street… and nobody said anything to him about it???

Percy then literally DIES in a battle he left them for, like… it would’ve been 100% understandable if in her grief Vex would’ve cursed Scanlan off and blamed him for Percy’s death.

Then also Keyleth is mad at everyone about Raishan, Vax is self isolating because of his raven bull shit and only cares about Vex, and then Pike rejects his love AGAIN

That is literally the perfect storm of circumstances for Scanlan not feeling part of a family, resentment and animosity and a blow out… and they just didn’t??

They could’ve use the fact that only Pike and Grog cared enough to stay by his side during his comma, and nobody else seemed even a little worried about him? No?

Okay

Not as upset as I’m sure a lot of others are going to be, but definitely underwhelmed… which is not a feeling you want to be left with in a season finale

[getetteroo]

Some indulgent redesigns of Strahds wives.

[steamclouds]

Trying to put together another timeline for Voradras

[fleckjayky]

[blujayonthewing]

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Bringing nightmares to a person near you!™

Commission for @screen-gremlin ! This was fun! Loved doing the messy hair!

[moeblob]

Despite charisma being a pretty important stat for paladins, Paul has no charisma in the base plot. So I decided it would be really funny to have him have super low charisma in game, too.

So the whole "roll a save" in town is because Karen and Paul want to visit a tavern for info and Chris thinks it would only be fair to bully Pauladin with an NPC version of his hot bartender depending on the save.

[echoes-of-courage]

How do you feel about getting cheated like the title Echoes of Wisdom??

Like Zelda version of EoC

I wouldn’t exactly say I was cheated. I mean, it is a bit different, but it’d also be a lie to say that I’m not at least a little disappointed about it. I’m willing to change the title of this AU later if it becomes a problem, but I’m keeping it for now.

On the other hand, this just makes me think that an Echoes of Power would be the worst adventure in existence. Imagine the main Ganon, whatever’s going on with FSA Ganon, the wind twink who served the second guy, and whatever other minions they pick up along the way…. trying to camp. A forest has been burned to the ground. Someone will end up dead by the end of it. There’s a dark Link messing something up somewhere. No one knows who summoned him, but he sure is there. They all hate the same guy but that guy is different reincarnations of the same kid. Worst family road-trip ever.