#torm

[rainbow-neko-artblog]

My motivation is down the drain.....(head hands) at least i have you RPGworld... (RPGworld by @colliewolfdraws )

[eddsworld-clone-catalogue]

Starting off with the original rejects

(I didn't want to attempt to figure out how to draw Realistic Matt so he's not here)

[weronikaring]

Welcome the paladin of Torm.

He's a silver dragonborn, but by the time I realized that the "silver" that came in my original Army Painter’s Speedpaints set didn't feel light enough and grey enough to feel like silver, I didn't feel like redoing it, so he looks kind of evil. I've since bought some other metallic paints, but it was too late for this one by then.

The figurine is from the Blacklist Miniatures: Fantasy Series 1 kickstarter.

[tailsdollr]

doodles while i write these guys exploding

[ljs98art]

Meet the Low Rollers, my Curse of Strahd dnd party!!

Theyre a quirky bunch of weirdos who have found themselves making all sorts of chaotic decisions in dire situations!

Aka i finally got around to finishing a character lineup for my beloved dnd party!!

[thomasew7]

Some rejects stuff I did in class today

[yusyed]

I MISS ALL THE TIMES I USED TO RAID UR INBOX SO GUESS WHOS BACK BACK AGAINN

I GOT A QUESTION I HUNGER FOR HEADCANONS

Would ya happen to have any headcanons for torm x edd?? Sorry they're just so cute I dhhssnnss

Or if u can't think of headcanons maybe just a cute scenario you think would fit them like what'd they do for a first date or smthn?? love youu!!

AHHH I'M SORRY BABY I FORGOT THIS WAS IN MY INBOX ;;

I GOT PLENTY OF HEADCANONS FOR YOU

- Torm and Edd would often drive out to a hillside with a 12 pack of cola on them and they'd just drink it while talking about life.

- Torm tries his best to be a gentleman to Edd, opening doors for him and whatnot. He wants to show that he's more (and better) than Tom and Tord and Edd thinks it's cliché yet endearing.

- Edd finds it funny that even a fusion clone of two of his friends is shorter than him. He squishes Torm's face a lot.

- They've been on plenty of dinner-and-movie dates together. 😳 Something about them is very relaxing for the both of them.

- They love watching Cats together.

[splendidud]

I LOVE PATRUL AND TORM SO MUCH, they’ry my magnum opus <3

[educationaldm]

*SPOILER WARNING* As a DM, a character possessed by the spirit of Tiamat suddenly gaining powers? I'd make them a sorcerer or some kind of warlock, not a cleric. We don't see him devoting his life to Torm. That's just my take. It was a very cool episode. Not quite sure why it was a "Secret Level" though.

[luuletus-ee]

- Tarmo Selter

[eliotbaum]

Vier Fäuste für Gott 🕯️ A sezession inspired piece w/ Rudolph van Richten and my cleric PC

[wearepaladin]

Just had some thoughts about this guy. Context: I was making a reference to him in a conversation when I just looked at him again from the top down: sure is strange that some Oathbreaker can do what this guy can, knows what he does, and has the power to determine who has broken their oath and can oversee their change into the oathbreaker path or redemption to their old oath, no matter what that oath was or the circumstances of its breaking. Almost as if…

He oversees all oaths made by paladins. And the only being that makes any kind of sense for in The Forgotten Realms is Torm, the god of all paladins, someone who is weirdly lacking mention in a lot of Bg3’s lore.

Just a bit of random speculation but I do like the notion that the god of all paladins includes oathbreakers as his people: you’re still part of what it means to be Paladin and I’m going to help you through it, come what may.

[ljs98art]

A little drawing of my curse of strahd oc, Torment, covered in zombie blood 🥰🤭

And as always!! Be sure to click for details 🖤

[lunareclipse06]

Don’t look up

Yay! The rejects are joining the fun too!

Bonus Tomattoredd doodles vv

Still not the happiest with his design. Something feels off. Def gonna rework him more

[vintagegeekculture]

RIP Tracy Tormé, Creator of the "Holodeck Malfunction Episode" and Sliders

Tracy Tormé’s most enduring legacy in popular culture is that, while a writer on TNG’s tempestuous first and second seasons, he created the entire concept of the Holodeck Malfunction Episode.

Yes, even people who suggest you skip TNG’s first couple seasons say that “The Big Goodbye” is one you don’t want to miss. And there was a very nice tribute to Tracy Torme in an episode of Picard, which had him as the author and creator of Dixon Hill… which he is, and deserves credit for this.

I suppose I should mention I had a personal encounter with Tracy Tormé at a convention. The main thing I remember was that he looked absolutely terrified when someone asked him about what happened with “The Royale,” far and away TNG’s worst episode except the clip show, about the crew getting trapped on a hotel they can’t leave from a badly written book. To his great credit, he took responsibility for the episode not working and did not pass on the problems to the production crew.

The most extraordinary thing about Tracy Torme is that he had a Forrest Gump like ability to appear in the background of scifi culture’s greatest moments.

Not only was he inside the TNG writers’ room in 1987-88, he was around during the production of Terminator with James Cameron. Tormé was the one who, hearing about the production of the film, squealed on it to Harlan Ellison, telling Ellison that it was based on his old Outer Limits episodes, with a visual based on his script for “Demon With a Glass Hand.” In other words, he was the Gavrilo Princip who got that entire conflict started, where two of the most proud personalities in scifi butted heads, James Cameron vs. Ellison. Cameron, to this day, insists that the film company gave Ellison money and a credit because it was easier to pay him off than to go through litigation (which rings true, frankly, for risk averse production companies), and to this day Cameron insists, with his absolutely expected big dick swagger, that Ellison is a “parasite” who received money for nothing, and if it had been up to him, he wouldn’t have given him a dime.

It’s also worth mentioning that Torme also created the TV series Sliders.

Has anyone else noticed that Sliders is an incredibly right wing show? Seriously, watch it again if you haven’t seen it in years. If you haven’t watched this show since the 90s and you were a kid and all that went over your head, it’s kind of amazing how Limbaugh/Newt Gingrich era right-wing Sliders actually was. It made 24 look like Doonesbury. The targets of Sliders were 90s New Right satire: health care systems, infuriating hippies, the nanny state disallowing the public smoking of cigars, California weirdness, the drug culture, the USSR. Torme’s right wing views were less John Millius-style “blood alone moves the wheel of history” stuff, but more like that of a slobby regular joe in the 90s, Dennis Leary’s character in Demolition Man for instance, who mostly just wants to smoke cigars, ogle girls, and eat hamburgers without getting scolded by his wife. He was less “Passion of the Christ” and more “Animal House.”

I am not saying this as a negative, but merely a description. Contrary to popular belief, right wingers driven by bizarre sexual pathology and weird grudges produce amazing art, as Millius and John Swartzwelder show. A lot of Steven Universe fans love to say things like “all good art is about empathy and kindness” and I reject that notion. Good art can also be about reflecting things in the human experience like fear, trauma, cruelty, and paranoia.

For that reason, it doesn’t surprise me that Tracy Torme’s best movie script was a horror film about a traumatic experience, Fire in the Sky. An ominous movie about a vanished ranch hand who was the victim of alien abduction, in the earned finale the film’s tension builds toward, our hero remembers the true cause of his missing time: an abduction by aliens, who’s motives are emotionless and incomprehensible, and who subject him to horrific vivisection that we see in excruciating detail. Travis Walton is treated not with sadism or cruelty, but with icy detachment, by alien superintellects that view him as no different than cattle, and are to him as we are to cattle. The most terrifying detail of the film is that the classic “gray alien” look turns out to be spacesuits, revealing a far more frightening appearance underneath.

[journeybetweenthepages]

First up is my Human Paladin Oath of Devotion (Acolyte, Blessed Warrior) to Torm. (had a side idea that eventually he would take maybe 1 level in Cleric of Life Domain to Ilmater and basically make him a holy warrior of the Triad) He has an aversion to Necromantic spells instead using Evocation Healing spells which is explained in the backstory

Tristan Sunstrider

“Tristan was raised in a roadside temple he was left on the steps of as a small child in a crossroad city that catered to most benevolent Deities

The City was besieged by an army of undead raised by a would be Lich Sorcerer, Tristan and those taking refuge in the temple for 2 days and 3 nights were eventually saved at seemingly the last moment on the morning after the 3rd night by a small army of Clerics and Paladins, The Clerics went through the streets to put the dead back to rest while the Paladins were sent to secure the Temple and find survivors finding Tristan and the refugees alive within. Tristan decided then and there to become a paladin himself.

A childhood friend at the sight of the Undead Army had ran throughout the night and into the next night to reach the next city and tell the people there what had happened and they roused who they could of Clerics and Paladins in other nearby cities and set out on the 2nd day reaching Tristan’s city in the middle of the 3rd night. After further investigation from the collective clergy and guards the would-be Lich wasn’t as gifted as they thought and had actually been killed by his own creation on that first night.”

A Paladin of Torm in Toril, The Platinum Dragon in Exandria, and Iomedae in Golarion

(Photos found on Pinterest. Center Pic by Aurore Folny)