#swarmkeeper

[lavenderarts]

Another adopt sold, this time an Elf Swarmkeeper Ranger! Had a blast drawing all the little rats and the giant rat skull! I’m putting these out because I’m fundraising to help my partner pay rent! If you’re interested in supporting me in that, keep an eye out for future adopt designs, and support us on Ko-fi! My username there is lavielux :)

[bondibee]

updated design for Viviria! They’ve changed a lot since the beginning of the campaign and I’m very proud of my little scrungie 

[theirishhalfling]

Arcas is a sweet, innocent lad, just one who’s a little bit cursed as a swarmkeeper ranger accompanied by thirteen crows at all times.

He's a soft boy really, just incredibly deadly with a bow. And as soft as he is, don't turn your back on him, because he loves am exposed back as a target... You really can't outrun him.

[friendlyforestbeast]

WIP of my halfling swarm-keeper for a one-shot, Milfina Louise Herberton

She’s runs an apiary that supplies honey to local bakeries but left her home in search of her missing daughter

[nameless-is-nameless]

New tokens for my dnd campaign’s second anniversary! Two years of the Bad Omens doing their thing

Left to right, we have Haven (me!), Sikkuhl, Janos (@chopshajen ), Masvari (@pianissimoe ), Celeste, and Xanthippe (our DM @wethekeegsta )

I love this crew so much, truly the best dnd game I’ve had the pleasure of playing in!

[phi8]

Stinger | Warforged Ranger (Swarmkeeper)

Commision for one of my friends! He's the one who plays Dolgrum in our post-Strahd D&D campaign, but this character is for a campaign I'm not a part of.

It was really fun to draw very organic forms that were still clearly part of an artificial being.

[justavulcan]

Backgrounds With Class: Golgari Agent

I'll be honest: Ravnica has always fascinated me. I was a high schooler when the first set came out, and I was immediately consumed creating characters for the setting. Now that we've actually received my long-awaited crossover, I thought it would be nice to write a love letter to the setting in the form of another Backgrounds with Class series. After all: some guilds have natural class choices tied in, from a conceptual standpoint. Boros and Fighter, Izzet and Wizard, Selesnya and Druid. But guilds aren’t class-restricted, and so I wonder what it would look like if you paired every class with every guild background, even the ones that seem at odds, like Izzet and Barbarian, or Gruul and Artificer.  So I thought about it, and this is what I came up with.  Some character concepts for each class, and each Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica background for each class.

Golgari Agent

The Golgari Agent Artificer is one of the kraul, a wingless merchant who recently took over the family business.  Poling a narrow raft through the undercity’s sewer network isn’t glamorous work, but it does afford her a fine selection of various fungi and other ingredients for her elixirs and salves.  If push comes to shove, her alchemical expertise is for more than just brewing potions; many an undercity predator has tasted her home-made deathspore bombs and opted for easier prey elsewhere.

The Golgari Agent Barbarian has been a member of his neighborhood’s hunting party since he became of age.  Eschewing moodmark paint in favor of a hunter’s mottled camouflage pigments, he knows how to track and run down prey with the pack coordination of a wolf.  This talent’s not hyperbole, either; his last encounter with one of the Selesnya’s ledev guardians supplied him with a fine wolf-pelt cowl he wears proudly over his hunter’s paint.  Sometimes he even thinks the spirit of the wolf takes over on the hunt; it would account for the times he’s come to after a kill with blood on his face.

The Golgari Agent Bard knows better than most how things of import can turn up anywhere.  A findbroker by trade, her ability to discover the history behind any gewgaw or trinket she scrounges up has more than doubled her profit on occasion.  Gifted with a turn of phrase and the eerie, low-pitch ocarina she cares for like a child, her ambitions don’t stop at finding lost art- she yearns to be the first to rediscover some buried vault or basement thought long lost.

The Golgari Agent Cleric, in accordance with the Swarm’s care for the cycle of life and death, has been responsible for dozens of acts of euthanasia in her life.  It doesn’t take an expert to recognize when a hunter’s been taken by zombie fungus, or when a red reaver bloom’s explosive dispersal drives a whole apartment block mad with aggression.  It just takes care and respect for the final solace of death to ease people’s suffering.  That her focus also comes in handy fending off territorial disputes is icing.

The Golgari Agent Druid is, technically, a drudge, one of the zombified dead that the Swarm relies on for muscle, both on the farm and the battlefield.  However, unknown processes allowed the fungal parasite to seize full control of the host, and arrive at a consciousness of their own.  Now, they’re busy determining the meaning of their new existence.  While they work it out, they shamble about the Undercity, working odd jobs tending livestock and helping farmers with their natural understanding of other fungi.

The Golgari Agent Fighter is militant, a troll-blooded human with the strength of arm and heart to testify to his lineage.  While for the moment just one of the many toughs that lurk around the Undercity looking for easy prey, his true goal is far less provincial: to climb the Swarm’s political ladder and become one of Jarad’s closest advisors or even his bodyguard.  To this end, he’s quick to speak out in aggression against surface- dwellers intruding on his domain, or take the initiative and lead a raiding party himself.

The Golgari Agent Monk was always gifted with swiftness of arm and wit; as a nymph he scrapped with his siblings more days than not, and has since taken to far more dangerous partners to improve her skills.  He mostly works as a guide for the rare surface-dweller to travel below the sunlit streets, and even distills his own moonshine from fermenting fruit and the ample yeast colonies on his travels.  He’s become quite the alcoholic aficionado, and claims he fights even better when he’s had a few drinks.

The Golgari Agent Paladin was, like many of his Ordruun kin, originally slated to join the Boros Legion as a cadet when he came of age.  He did, but when a raid went bad and he was left for dead in the Undercity by a sergeant he knew to be corrupt, he swore he wouldn’t leave the darkened streets and buried closes of Ravnica until the man lay dead before him.  A childhood roaming the near-surface reaches and a minotaur’s innate sense of direction have served him well, and his new guild feeds the cold core of his desire for vengeance happily so long as it’s pointed at their mutual enemies.

The Golgari Agent Ranger always liked bugs.  Wasn’t much of a choice, really, living in one of the many tenement buildings sunk below the sunlit streets of upper Ravnica- you learned to deal with the scurrying things of the world young.  Cultivating a unique magical bond with them was the work of many long nights, but the result has been beyond reproach- his many tiny friends are stronger than they look, and complement his hunting well as they ensure that his prey can never truly escape.

The Golgari Agent Rogue has aspired to become one of the Ochran ever since one killed his abusive parents in front of him.  Starry-eyed about becoming one of the Swarm’s most famous killers, he moved to the Undercity the next week, escaping the home of his blood family to find new kin.  He had a rough time of it, begging and sweeping out chimneys, but he picked up the poisons quickly, and has always been slight enough to slip down sewer pipes and chimneys to find the target.

The Golgari Agent Sorcerer was a washout before he was anything of real use- literally.  Originally an experimental attempt at forming a drake-human krasis for the Guardian Project, he was mistaken by a careless lab assistant for a failure and flushed out of his transformation tank before his scales, wing flaps, and poison glands fully developed.  Recovered by a rot farmer accustomed to handling the runoff from the Simic lab in question, he’s grown to appreciate his new environment- and has already misdirected or slain the first attempts of the lab’s owner to track him down for retrieval.

The Golgari Agent Warlock always made a point of delving deeper and into tighter environs than his contemporaries.  Never a good fit with hunter or shaman, he explored the depths of the Undercity all on his own before stumbling one day into an as-yet undiscovered chamber.  The figure sitting on the throne there was enormous in size and patched together from all different creatures, but when it stirred to see the boy before it, all it did was offer him a set of knucklebones on string.  Taking them was the beginning of something, and now the man treasures the talisman that forms the link to his patron.

The Golgari Agent Wizard has been a rot farmer for decades.  It’s only now, lately, that he’s set out to travel and study magic in the hopes of winning his farm back.  It was taken from him by a devkarin lich, an objective lesson in might making right within the Swarm, and he hopes to master enough of the necromancer’s art to bend the new owner’s undead farmhands to his will.  He’s quickly finding that things are very big outside his secluded cavern home, and even that he likes it- perhaps enough to keep him from going back.

[trucbiduleschouettes]

Did a quick portrait of Lamb, my shifter ranger that I played for a heist one shot! He's a swarm ranger, and his swarm is a bunch of pigeons and one vulture- he's also a postman with his own postal service.

His charisma is 7, though-

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[jotheweirdoz]

My DnD character for our next campaign. She's based on the Wolf Spider since they carry their spiderlings around with them and because she's a Swarmkeeper Ranger I thought it would be a fun idea to have the swarm be the spiderlings she carries with her.

[greyfacered]

Honeycrisp Apple, the cranky beekeeper of the Apple family and on the verge of divorce

[death-ward]

joined a descent into avernus campaign! this is arlynn and she's going to be a swarmkeeper ranger who has a pack of pixies she summons and gossips with all named barbie. she's also cursed with lycanthropy :3

[squirrelkitty-art]

Kleethee drawn for Artfight!

Character belongs to the ever charming @echoghost1

[candycthulhu]

I joined a D&D campaign recently and this is my character Ebbie SilkFeather. She’s a Fairy Swarmkeeper Ranger.

[chaisteabox]

Andy with her Peryton spirit-flavor swarmkeeper ness.

Depending on the situation she would also have slugs, frogs, scorpions, or living flowers that are just horrific gossips.

[nameless-is-nameless]

Last set of dnd characters in outfits! The creature club!

Haven is mine, Sikkuhl is Nathan’s