#paladin and the cleric

[i-eat-homeless-people]

I WAS AT A TABLETOP GAMING STORE AND

THEY ALSO HAVE PRIDE FLAGS???? THEY HAVE THE PROGRESS PRIDE ONE AND A STRING OF BI FLAGS ABOVE THE DOOR

[thatratgo]

I love how you can kill the Night Song as a cleric of Selune and she won't bat a damn eye.

[moghedien]

I love that Shadowheart/Durge are just the fucked up verison of Isobel and Aylin and it’s like extra obvious if both Shadowheart and Durge are trying to redeem themselves

I’m just imagining Shadowheart with her hair freshly dyed to look like Isobel’s like “I am also dating the child of a god 😌” and Durge just over there like

[vivtanner]

Hamartia ⚔️

Every order on tannenbaumpress.com gets one of these small cards I illustrated as a little thank you!

[blumineck]

Hey nerds, I made a video! Ranking all the classes in the 2024 D&D players handbook for playing archer characters. It's a doozy, but there are some really fun builds available now 😁

[leidensygdom]

And another outfit for the OC Outfit challenge! This time it's Adallind, a Centaur forge Cleric for @/seanjhermanart on instagram! I have never drawn a horse centaur until now which I'm a bit ashamed to admit. I've had dragontaurs, griffontaurs, mantaurs, but somehow not a normal horse centaur. Not like I've drawn many horses--

Anyhow, I wanted to play a lot with the forge aesthetic and went with a blacksmith/fire theme here. And somehow, green is also on the menu, since it's Adallind's favourite. All in all a very challenging piece, but one I'm quite proud of!

[taeiris]

here’s a super old piece i did last year for a dnd byler zine that got canceled recently!!!

its a bummer but im glad i got to be part of the process with a bunch of other talented artists and writers!

its kind of crazy to see how drastic my art style change has been😭

[winntir]

Hey.

Wanna hear how Baldur's Gate 3 companions are the opposite of their class archetypes?

Astarion

Karlach

Shadowheart

Lae'zel

Gale

Wyll

Minsc

Minthara

Jaheira

And then there's Halsin. Halsin is the platonic ideal of a Druid.

[endrae]

feeling like frodo-it-is-done.gif

I have been working on this ever since December, but I can finally say it is, indeed, done. This is gonna be a cover for the zine I've been working on with @kiwiitin and which (unless things go horribly wrong) will have its debut in TreKuplii. It will be an original dnd character zine focusing on these two good lads and their stories.

[prokopetz]

Can you go over what is going on with Paladins and Clerics in DND, not from a mechanical or in universe perspective, but from what different sources/genres/tropes they are drawing on? They always seemed to have too much overlap in the basic concept to me to make sense as separate things in the dnd classes/stock character line up.

Clerics originated way back in the pre-OD&D days, when the game that would become Dungeons & Dragons was still a fantasy roleplaying add-on intended to be paired with your favourite historical wargame. One of the players in Dave Arneson's original Blackmoor campaign had an army whose commander/player character was a vampire named Sir Fang, who proved to be sufficiently overpowered that a mechanical "hard counter" was desired.

This ended up taking the form of a vampire-hunting priest character heavily inspired by Peter Cushing's turn as Abraham Van Helsing in the 1958 Christopher Lee adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula; that vampire-hunting priest in turn developed into what would become one of original flavour D&D's three core classes (the other two being the fighter and the wizard – the thief/rogue came later).

The paladin, meanwhile, was originally a direct, 1:1 lift of Holger Carlsen, the protagonist of Poul Anderson's 1961 fantasy novel Three Hearts and Three Lions, and was introduced as a subclass of the fighter – rather than a class of its own – in the 1975 Greyhawk supplement. Over the game's editions it's wandered from being a fighter subclass, to being a high-level "advanced class" to which qualifying characters can switch at 10th level, back to being a fighter subclass, and finally to a core class, where it's generally remained.

So, in short, the cleric was originally a purpose-built hard counter to vampire PCs loosely patterned after Peter Cushing's Abraham Van Helsing, while the paladin was originally for people who just really wanted to be one specific Poul Anderson character.

(I'm sorry if that's not a terribly satisfying answer, but you need to understand that practically everything in old-school D&D is a 1960s or 1970s pop culture reference – it just doesn't read that way to modern audiences because nobody gets the memes anymore.)

[basketobread]

I JUST REALIZED I NEVER SHARED PALADIN LUNARA LOL (yes i drew her in aylins armor... IT'S SO PRETTY I HAD TO!!! just pretend they're swapping outfits cuz they're besties ^_^ /j)

[jellisdraws]

Sheer

My war cleric… Hashi, in an absolutely stunning dress I saw yesterday. Sketches and reference below the cut

[goromimii]

Phantoms of the fall

Can you even find me. Between the trees

Can you even hear me. When I scream

This piece… I’ve poured all the skills I have, 19h of work, I really wish Neil to sign this painting

[tomurakii]

I just love clerics. I just love explorations of faith and devotion in a world where gods are provably real and also provably not omnipotent. I love obsession I love devotion I love giving your everything for an ideal or the approval of a higher being who can't or won't be devoted to you in return

[vivtanner]

Favorite postcards I've ever made are these foiled ones - available till Nov 14th on tannenbaumpress.com ✨

[llatespring]

pov ur two clerics of warring goddesses getting ready to kill some goblins and kiss a little