#way of the shadows monk

[detectivejuliuspepperwood]

Hemlock | The Wayward Bhaalspawn

they/them • deep gnome • haunted one • way of the shadows monk & thief • chaotic neutral

[bewitchedbg3]

After several attempts, this is the one I was happiest with. My fav ‘Way of The Storm’ ship ⛈️🩸

Took a more of a stylised sketchy style.

Tavella belongs to @angiemaniac

Also funny bts:

Ref:

[the-punforgiven]

Im curious, for people who have beaten the Shadow of the Erdtree final boss, rb and put in the tags how you did it!

(Don't say who it is though, I've still got mutuals who haven't played it and are avoiding spoilers lol)

[graciedart]

copper dragonborn / way of shadows monk / female 

Classical, Shroud, Antique🗝️

for @NirnrootNoises !

[akkivee]

i will miss the block party outfits for everyone tbh lol

[roxannenebula]

*Lysander 'Morpheus' Mortimer (he/him) *Monk, Way of Shadow* Zariel Tiefling* Haunted One*

My first durge who is likely going romance Astarion, he's Lawful Evil and lacks empathy often so first evl run too.

[ninjanissie]

For @dallieart! Its her half-elf paladin, Lafavel and my halfling monk Dagger.

[haunted-the-vagabond]

Vance, The Dark Sun (Mark 3 design)

[rosesrambling]

there are many good critiques of dnd 5e offloading too much work on the DM to interpret and manage the rules but my PERSONAL pet peeve is the wild magic sorcerer

per RAW, wild magic surges happen whenever the DM calls for a roll. it’s one of your key class features & resets tides of chaos, and exists purely within the realm of DM fiat

wild magic surges have a fairly low % chance of happening in the first place, and mostly aren’t really penalties. so in my experience DMs just call for the roll after every leveled spell. which is fair! except

tides of chaos resets on each wild magic roll not each wild magic surge. this would basically give sorcs advantage on every single spell they cast with an attack roll! which seems a bit silly and overpowered, unless you house rule the ability to work off surges instead.

it’s just a whole mess of an archetype which requires the DM to intercede on a class feature, and the easiest way to offload that work unbalances the class unless you make a second house ruling. which is again, just more unnecessary work. absolute mess of an archetype that typifies the wider problem

[nerdyperday]

Day 2770 Kuruts

[detectivejuliuspepperwood]

Kinda already obsessed with my lil shadow monk durge. I used to only make drows, elves, and tieflings, but after making a halfling paladin I have a newfound love for small dnd races.

[miserycorde]

what dnd class suits your personality?

Tagged by: @fishermcn

Tagging: YOU!!!

Monk

You’re a reflective and ambitious person who likes to push yourself to see how far you can go, always seeking self-improvement. You’ve cultivated some impressive skills over the years through practice, study, and hard work, though others might just call you naturally talented without recognizing the effort you put in to get there. You know that there’s a time for thoughtful analysis and a time for purposeful application of brute force, and you’re equally skilled at both.

Subclass: Way of Shadow

Monks of the Way of Shadow follow a tradition that values stealth and subterfuge. These monks might be called ninjas or shadowdancers, and they serve as spies and assassins. You’re a quiet person with a natural tendency to blend into the background, which you know how to use to your advantage. You prefer an indirect approach and you’re not always the most straightforward person. You tend to hide or repress your true feelings, which might make it hard for others to get to know the real you, and you might find it hard to open up. You’re an expert at keeping secrets and you know how to get a lot done without drawing too much attention to yourself.

[escaped-goat]

"A Star, by any other Light"

Astarion seduces and entices the part of me that hates myself. The part that wishes to feel the claws of a beast sink its nails into my soft belly, whisper everything I've ever wanted to hear, and devour me as I am: numbed completely from the inside.

Because there is a great and terrible addiction to my self-destruction that demands I follow the beckoning finger ever lingering above the blackened pondwater of my once clear mind.

Astarion, before the walls come down and the sun touches those parts of his soul that he swore would never be warmed; before the nightmares became just dreams he could find solace in the love of others from; before the night left his eyes and the morning dawned there instead; before all of it, he was the knife swinging low in the dark. The kind I bared my throat to with drunken haste.

Astarion, healed, would never be someone who could love me. And he could never be someone I could love safely beyond that night.

Not because he is unworthy, but simply because the abused monster of a shadow I have become desires the drag of a knife across my ribs more than the gentle caress of a lover's kiss.

I want to be maimed and ruined and torn apart, like so many times before, like my addiction dictates.

Astarion, healed, deserves better than the grasping, wheezing thing that crawls on all fours through the desert, begging for another fix. Kissing the fists that rear back to strike it.

The edge of sanity bends where the light touches the dark. It is love that will send me careening over the edge into unfathomable oblivion. It is the wretchedness of the dark that sings to me like a crooning mother through the womb.

I want his malice and his hate. If he loves me, I may perish.

---- Excerpt 32: Diary of the Dark Urge

Dirge of the Durge Series

[maddmuses]

@spiderwarden from x

Across the fire, leg crossed over the other as she half-lounged on a conveniently-located flat rock, Shadowheart nursed a copper chalice that was over half full with a deep ruddy wine. Swishing the dark liquid around in her hand, she watched the ripples from the bottom of her vision as the scene played out before her. Though the cleric couldn't recall the name, other than it being "waterdhavian" at Gale's repeated reminding, she could say that it was far drier than the half-elf's taste was, despite having an amount of underlying sweetness to make it tolerable.

The remark had come, strangely enough, unprompted from her. She couldn't even recall the origin of that line. Was it scripture? Something said to her? Or a pontification unique to the cleric that had occurred to her before or after the start of this mission.

Still, she couldn't help but chuckle lightly at Minthara and Scratch's strange little friendship that they'd worked up toward. Of course the dog was an old favorite of hers in this party by now, but the drow... Well there was certainly a curiosity on her part of the woman. She wasn't quite sure what to make of the paladin, especially following the towers.

"Who says that it can't be a touch of both," Touching the rim of her cup to lips, before tilting it back into a long sip, "after all, would it not serve the phrase to be versatile?" Watching the dog shuffle his way nearer, and chuckling gently again.

[yoursarcastichorse]

Way of the Shadow shapeshifter monk for ButchBread on twitter.

[ninjanissie]

February DND Doodles:

The party took a short rest after stripping and tying up the vampire larper for fear he'd be able to use his wizardly magic to get away (it went way better than we thought???)

Clover (halfling) getting up on Norra (half-orc) so she could talk to people without them bending down

Dagger volunteers to finish the watch after abruptly being woken up mid-rest because our part warlock forgot that he has a geass on him

Dagger being moody and sleepy finishing the watch

Solias, Lafavel and Dagger attempt to solve a door puzzle

Solias decides to fly over a trap but is disappointed that he didn't get to carry one of the halflings over and is instead stuck with Dande

Clover saw/guessed Norra the druid wild-shape into a spider so she threw her towards the flying Solias (Dande ended up catching her because who would actually catch a spider??? Also, he didn't see her wild-shape either so it was very wtf)

Lafavel accidedntally ended up near the end of initiative in battle but blocked the entrance to the room with the baddies so everyone had to work around him to fight

Solias got swarmed by centipedes

Dande got knocked out by a dwarf-mummy backwards into an open coffin. Poetic.