dnd-arts-and-crafts

[gilded scroll]

Thanks for the advice! Yeah I’m just messing around trying different things myself. I haven’t looked at tutorials really. I saved videos but haven’t actually watched any lol. Wanted to see how far I could get with a little effort lol

[summer ibex]

and those are actually really good! keep doing and posting it

[white fog]

Finally getting into DnD after years of just watching from outside the window lol

Turned my goobers into little creatures as a type of way on dipping my toes in the pool. Super keen to chat with anyone about DnD stuff bc I'm super new and I'm not very knowledgeable about it but would love to learn

-# yes the fashion is based off the early 2000s bc I miss that time lol

[untold thicket]

my latest artwork, i think i'm slowly getting closer to the splash art level i aspire to (still a long way to go, but I'm happy with where i am)

[manic kiln]

God this is beautiful

[lament finch]

This is amazing!!!

Recent commission!

[untold thicket]

@manic kiln @lament finch thank you so much 🥰

[jagged wigeon]

A recent dnd party i did

[kind phoenix]

Hedda Ironlute - Dwarf Valor Bard

[jagged wigeon]

The story behind
A DnD party in peril
Lembas Greymourn
Cold, composed, and determined — everything a bard is not supposed to be. Where others sing for coin and glory, Lembas delivers his music as lamentations for the loss of his brother, at the hands of a dragon. The presence of Tiamat herself could not shake the brooding weight he moves with. With sword lodged in the green head's jaw, he readies his lute as a last resort.

Merida Fizzlewick
She shouldn't be here. She knows it. The dome crackling above the party is held together by her trembling hands and sheer refusal to be the reason everyone dies. An amateur sorceress barely reaching anyone's shoulder, Merida was never meant to be the mage of anything — let alone a battle against a dragon queen. Yet here she stands. Shaking, overwhelmed, and somehow still casting.

Calico Lupine
Calico has spent considerable effort constructing the image of a deadly, mysterious rogue, and it works on everyone except the people who have seen his adorable face. He is the one who dragged Durgin out of danger every time.

Durgin Ironbrave
The brave part of his name is an irony. As a cleric, he certainly lacks faith. Trying to live up to his family name, he embarks on this journey, hoping to slay the dragon queen. Yet reality strikes when his foot gets frozen, and his cowardice keeps him in place.

Inanna Embervein
A barbaric tiefling. What else should I tell?

[remote lake]

Commission i finished of someones starfinder oc and pet, couldn't tell which color i liked the monkey the best lol

[brave garden]

The purple is quite nice as it provides contrast to the very red tone oc

[worldly spire]

I think this place would appreciate this. My friend designed my graduation cap.

[gilded scroll]

Can we share music here as well or is there a different thread for that?

[grand flint]

The channel description says:

Share your D&D creations: illustrations, cosplay, music, and more.

So yeah, music counts, provided it follows the general server #rules!

[ivory kestrel]

drew my aasimar Torren.

[gilded scroll]

Appreciate it! Thank you

[quick quartz]

recent DnD portraits super happy how they turned out 🥺

[sturdy pollen]

Holy shit! How long did these take

[quick quartz]

depends usually with no others things to do a couple of days

[sturdy pollen]

Well they definitely show how much hard work goes into em!! 🙂

[silver cobalt]

Hexblood for a campaign I start soon

[primal canyon]

A Tranquil Moment Of Peace.

[gilded scroll]

This what I want to make, it’s so gorgeous! Love your art

Covering bands to make heavy dnd music. I’ll upload a folder with completed songs if anyone is interested

[olive lotus]

I listened to them and they sound nice

[icy charm]

character stuffs that I like. Been making a lot of references lately so I thought I share some

[keen atlas]

crown paladin duergar I'm working on

[haughty skiff]

Recently finished this piece

[cloud hollow]

Did my quick did characters redraw

[toxic lagoon]

Recently finished this commission

[quiet hearth]

Does anyone have any tips for drawing dragonborns? I just started a campaign with some friends and I wanted to surprise them with art of their characters, but I'm struggling with the one dragonborn of the group...

[daring badger]

A drawing of my Goliath who is a genuinely kind person

[olive lotus]

Check the #dnd-heroforge-etc channel and look at my 18ft tall warforge named Titian and nice drawing

[hearty inlet]

Since BG3 was released, I use these as reference

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xDoenr

[analog lagoon]

Recent comission, Monk of the astral palm, Ta Mius

[gentle oracle]

sharing my old art about the huntress of sci-fi post apocalyptic theme

[edgy pulsar]

Hmm, that’s a really nice idea! Your players will be very happy. What type of dragonborn drawing do you want and can you draw yourself?

[quiet hearth]

I draw quite a bit, but my style is softer than most D&D artists that I've seen and I'm not sure if I can do a dragonborn character justice, y'know?

[edgy pulsar]

Hmm yeah,, I can understand if you want to have any tips and suggestions, then you can join me on DMs

[supple pilot]

A determined monk wielding his Dogstaff to fend off cultists I drew for the Truly Sentient Items!
Character: Cano, Hound Archon Monk, with the Dogstaff
“The winds of Mount Celestia are perfect and brook no imperfections in whom they touch.”
-Draddoc Lore-Hewer

[frozen flame]

Just got my first ever commissioned piece finished!!! @frostedgears is the best!!

[silk briar]

Working on one of my forst creature concepts to put in the world I'm building. Its in working progress. I need to make action poses and expressions next.

[solar valley]

That’s super cool! I love the little flower dress they’ve got on. And his cute little eyes :D

[manic kiln]

I got too tired to continue..

[gusty vigil]

Horses be difficult fr

[manic kiln]

Yeah the lighting and the muscles is too much I’m just gonna go to bed 😭

[jaunty spear]

working on a couple art piece

[kind phoenix]

Roman The PyRoman(cer/iac) - Half-Elf Sorcerer

[inner prairie]

Started converting my character to 3d

[crimson pecan]

Shady elf princess sketch, who knows what she's up to? :D definitely nothing good

[silk briar]

Thank you so much . You're are so nice!

[abstract pawn]

Dnd com

[manic radish]

One thing that helped me when I made a Dragonborn character was treating the face structure more like a mix between a dragon and a bulky humanoid instead of just “a lizard person.”

I’d recommend focusing on the head shape or snout first, then building the horns, jawline, and scales around that. Looking at different reptiles for scale patterns also helps a ton.

[chilly oriole]

FINALLY had the chance to bee a player. Unfortunately this guy has like 11 HP at lvl 3 so he's cooked

[summer ibex]

oh i loved the unfocus

[haughty idol]

Realized i had NO reference for my Lolthite’s face and i was just randomly drawing his Lolth’s embrace with no solid design, so went ahead and did this really fast lineless art to mark everything down

[quiet hearth]

Okay that makes sense actually. Thank you!

[radiant salmon]

Doodles of two merchant NPCs I made from my DND campaign!

Lutus the batfolk is quiet and polite but struggles massively to keep wild magic surges contained. He runs a shop in town permanently afflicted by a darkness spell where he sells his handmade scrolls as an outlet for his power.

Thea the Dragonborn has that same over the top energy Undyne has, and uses her fire/molten breath to forge and mold weapons. Odd, but very effective methods!

[ember crane]

"The Order Of The Gauntlet does not falter. And Neither Will I" -- Victoreon, White Hawk Of The Gauntlet.

[true compass]

Donita , Divine Sorceress Tiefling

[frail swallow]

Made a bunch of little stand up photos bc mini figures are expensive! So heres all the important npcs at a ball my players are going to!

[manic radish]

My pleasure

[zenith hill]

Recent commission

[lime pulsar]

Portrait comm from another server 🙂

[bright flax]

Commission I got done a while back by Cilorine!

Her name is Sally Tandervale! She entered a Celestial pact when she was 13 to swear off boys, swearing and alcohol. Now she is a 30 year old halfling and desperately trying to escape her pact. She still has to say the same cheesy one liners she picked when she was 13.

[manic radish]

Wow..Incredible work done by your artist

[muted egret]

She's cute, and so is the owl

[bright flax]

I have my brother's commission if I can find it...

[manic radish]

The magical girl aesthetic mixed with the owl companion fits her backstory so well. Cilorine did such a beautiful job on the design too, especially the hair and soft pastel colors.

[bright flax]

I also have my brother's commission as well.

[manic radish]

Nice

[muted egret]

"ohmygodit'stuxedomask"

[bright flax]

I'm so sad because Cilorine is booked until June.

[muted egret]

Did I get that quote right? Been a while

[bright flax]

I wanted to create a character who was really tired. So I made a burnt out magical girl lol.

The joke is that she's Chibi Moon in her 30s when all the glamour has worn off.

[muted egret]

Is it like being reminded of how cringey you were as a teenager, but constantly in her case?

[bright flax]

Yes.

She still has to say the same cheesy lines to enter her magical girl form.

(That she picked when she was 13)

So it's just constant cringe lmao.

[manic radish]

ohh ..that is so sad

[bright flax]

I mean I guess she'll be free in 9 days...

Oh the choices... To buy lego batman or to get a commission done...

[manic radish]

Great, I’m sure the wait will be worth it.

[hexed hollow]

reminder this isnt a discussion chat

[bright flax]

Sorry.

[muted egret]

I don't think I've posted this character here before, he's a pit fighter turned adventurer I commissioned

[manic radish]

Yeah my bad

[final apex]

just finished this piece for my friend's dnd character. Eladrin life cleric.

[muted egret]

Nice

[prime moon]

decided to sketch my 5 dnd characters together 🙈

[hushed marten]

Latest art piece of a D&D couple

[near venture]

• the beginning

[narrow plume]

fan art i had made of a char i like from my fav ttrpg show by ainems work

the cat is the player's new cat mac

[severe root]

Kenkoblin?

[eternal canopy]

I'm making dice sets and need color combos, glitter or no glitter, transparent or no, and number colors if anyone wants to help the creative juices flow

[twin bluff]

Blue/purple/indigo with neon green/lime numbers :3

[tough compass]

I want to create digital card or just screenshots of magic items that are presentable enough to hand out to players, i really like homebrewery its just a bit complicated for my smooth brain, does anyone have suggestions? (i dont really know where to put this kinda question sorry if wrong channel)

[potent jay]

You could always use something like Canva or photoshop and make your own. Thats what I do since none of the templates I found on google were exactly what I wanted. There are sites to make your own MTG cards if you’re interested in that style.

[prime moon]

a friendly reminder that this channel is for posting art! there's other channels for discussion

[vocal vine]

Alice, the stone statue cleric. (Uses the stats of a warforged.) Given a literal second chance at life, found the Peace Domain with Eldath and eventually became a priestess in her church!

(Artist is Meg Comb: https://www.tumblr.com/megcomb)

[rugged eagle]

Koi ponds!!!

[brave garden]

I made an interactive word puzzle for my group

[fading stirrup]

Making dice trays for my campaign group that is starting this summer. The longer one is for our DM. Going to add felt once they’re dry. Boxes are from Hobby Lobby for $8-9 each. Already had the stain, which is called Early American. Felt was 99 cents per color I got. Total for project is going to be like $10 per tray.

[sweet condor]

Been working on my character for three months and the main art is STILL a wip😭 But hey, the chibi is ready! Meet Erif. She's a dancer who casually wields a giant scythe haha. A very strong woman. I've got literally 3 pages of lore for her already

[silk briar]

I worked on a fun creature concept that's a mix of a teira batfish and hepatica blossoms, meet the Philippa.

[zealous parrot]

my new necromancer (probs using the pointy hat homebrew version...)

[dark minnow]

Just finished another commission. This one of two characters 😄

[mint pelican]

i drew my paladin without his dumb helmet.. sorry if like since it's not digital it's strange i personally prefer picking up a pen and writing on paper. it just feels more natural.

[muted egret]

No need to apologize, don't worry about the medium, art looks great

[mint pelican]

thanks

[analog rock]

That looks incredible omg

[hexed hollow]

is this made with AI?

[frigid fjord]

It is, yeah. A moderator will deal with it when they're next around.

[winged moss]

Ooo they are so cool! What did you make the water with?

[prime moon]

lmao I looked at their message history, they know it ain't allowed and have still posted it at least twice

[gilded pewter]

A scroll of revivify I've made
I made the parchment my soaking some paper in coffee for around 20-30 minutes and drying it

[misty moat]

ashtura

[inland laurel]

Nemerii Kair, lvl 17 Hunter-Ranger/Druid. Eater of god hearts, saviour of her Moon-Druids, WitchesBane and more…

[rugged eagle]

I first went in with a dark blue paint into the bottoms. Went over with a lighter blue, intentionally leaving some spot near edges and fish to be darker. Used scenic water resin to add a transparent layer. Then bruahed up scenic water ripple efects to add texture, and to create the motion from the fish. Added a second layer up ripples to create the illusion of light refracting through water, and then used white paint to hit the crests of the ripples do add wake.

[kind phoenix]

Art for patron: Roar - Kobold Barbarian

[pliant crescent]

My friend sent me some hair made from yarn.."plarn"

[fading stirrup]

Finished them up!

[summer ibex]

WOW thats so coooool

[magic gyro]

Snallygaster wip.

[karmic hornet]

My friends owl bear companion

[muted field]

a barbarian-monk i'm playing soon, his name is Moxlavos and he's a force-polymorphed dragon (a homebrew race)

[jolly mantle]

backstory art of my lich as a kiddo having a beach day dusk with his vampire dad

[split mango]

doodled my dnd chars together after a hiatus

[raven monolith]

This the sketch for a character I made called Rusty, a warfroge barbarian.

[frosty parrot]

WIP of a homebrew "enemy" for a friend...its moreso a visible representation of a consequence, less of an actual encounter.

TW: Bodyhorror, gore, death

[pulsar pond]

Im new to drawing and working on a project for a character but I need some help deciding eye color.
Pls vote below

1 purple, 2 teal and 3 for pink

[icy charm]

A lil ref sheet for a pc im making and she’s my favorite class, fighter 😎

[supple pilot]

Cagalli dancing with a dashing gentleman, as seen from his point of view!
Character: Cagalli Starchaser, Dark Elf Cleric and Rogue

[limber rose]

Found a reference sheet of one of my paladins from last year

[woven wagon]

I just made a news paper clipping for mu players campaign

[stark crow]

She looks awesome

[prime moon]

and I finished this one!

drew all of my dnd ocs together, except 3 of them would hate each other if they met

[inner prairie]

DRAGON!! tried to replicate a chromatic ice dragon palette

[icy charm]

Thanks!

[hoary kestrel]

Hello everyone, I'm an artist Tigrsasha and these are some of my ready-made commissions with customer DND characters.

[prime moon]

very pretty art! this channel is not for advertising though, that's #dnd-advertisements

[hoary kestrel]

thank you, now I have placed an advertising post in the right channel, if possible, then let the pictures stay here.

[upbeat acorn]

Hey there, I did this dwarf portrait for a commission. A blacksmith, when he can he don’t hesitate to take his greataxe to help and fight ! Borin Martefer, this is his name, French name actually !

[vocal vine]

Midas Fox, a human pirate man man.

Artist is Evan Stanley (https://www.deviantart.com/evanstanley) -- the Sonic the Hedgehog comic writer/artist.

[jaunty spear]

Hello! Check out my Work in Progress art piece where their DnD party is entering a lair to located the Undead King!

[frosty gorge]

Plip is flying !

[radiant salmon]

Atop a cliff overlooking the great forest, a heavy pair of footsteps stops and admires the view. A long journey to get here, and an even bigger one ahead. Lots of tales of the things that grow here!

Is it gonna be an easy journey? Nope.
Is it gonna be clean? Yeah... probably not.
Is it gonna be fun? Uh, darn RIGHT it will be!

Adventure awaits!

[wary sedge]

They look like Franklin.
I love them already.

[radiant salmon]

yeah I get that a lot lmao

ty mate! Their name's Kamu, and I've drawn them a few times here! No land they won't explore to get rare and exotic food to cook with!

[merry obsidian]

My [so far favorite] character Faelanor!!

First is him when he was younger, second is just a mini-sheet of his design and third is him and his beloved boyfriend, these are all quite old now though I need to make some more art :/

[quartz falcon]

These are all incredible!

[hoary kestrel]

Thank you!

[quartz falcon]

I made a rough silhouette for a villain of my own creation from a 20+ year old project I'm working on as an encounter of a big bad for one of my D&D groups! 😄 The rough is intentional as I'm trying to draw out the final redesign. 😊

[frosty parrot]

WIP of a homebrew "enemy" for a friend...its moreso a visible representation of a consequence, less of an actual encounter.

TW: Bodyhorror, gore, death

[merry obsidian]

That's actually sick :0

[wicked sedge]

drawing my changeling, they so silly, the party’s hot soulknife rogue

[keen atlas]

npcs

[misty moat]

fox spirit mommy who takes care of lost children and runaways from abusive families

she lives off of magic, so it comes with a nice bonus of her not needing to kill anyone and she just needs to be near them

no, she does not need physical touch, those are for weaker spirits

by just being around people or living things she can "steal" an insignificant amount of magic from them that wont actually affect them

that aside she actually treats the children as her own children and not just mere sustenance

its just a nice bonus

[tribal hearth]

Pretty lady🥺

[misty moat]

shes powerful enough to have her own little domain

[tribal hearth]

still a pretty lady that i would trust

[misty moat]

if you have no ill will yeah she would be a good host and even treat you to a meal

[tribal hearth]

she likes she gives good hugs\

[next blaze]

Leonardo in the sky, almost finished

[next blaze]

Sick!

[quartz falcon]

Made this rough silhouette of a villain I'm designing for a personal project I've been working on for 20+ years BUT decided to introduce him via a big villain encounter with one of the D&D groups I'm DMing! The rough is intentional as I will be coming up with his actual design soon! 😁

[hexed hollow]

Sketch and lineart of an empyrean of Zeus and Tyche i made

[ornate condor]

Dnd Art Group!

[misty moat]

yeah she does

she fluffy

and whether you hug from front or back your face will be full of fluffy softness

[vital sandal]

Doodle of one of the main villains in my campaign I’m in

[muted field]

i made a volcano-themed character sheet (meant for martial classes as i didnt make a spellsheet), free to use and in correct printing DPI sorry if the order of things is weird i just made it in a way that makes it easier to understand for me

[vestal gazelle]

Dude thats cool as hell

[muted field]

thank you!!

[vestal gazelle]

Can I send this to my friend so he can print this for his character cause it fits so well

[muted field]

of course! go right ahead

[vestal gazelle]

Thank you

[quartz musk]

The players experience a memory of their mentor (center!) fighting a campaign villain- they didn't know his body beneath the neck is covered in runic tattoos.

... the villain sketch is crude so far! But I swear it'll be menacing as heck! I hope.

[daring badger]

A funny little thing I made of my Goliath who is a genuinely kind person

[split mango]

getting used to procreate so dnd characters art :)

[stark cloak]

I absolutely love the wand of polymorph art

[next jewel]

My friend drew a little concept art of our party!

[novel star]

Art I made for the token of my lady cleric of the forge domain, Minna.

[kind phoenix]

Art for patron: Niccolo Jacquet - Harengon Ranger

[modern scaffold]

My newest illustration, hope you like it! :)

[wicked sedge]

“and they were roomates…”
“omg they were roomates”

my pc and my bf’s pc in a college setting campaign

[lone topaz]

WIP of my evil and malicious tiefling fighter :) except in comfy clothes bc I didn’t wanna draw armor

[silk briar]

Sharing my creature design sheet for this cute walking flower creature. Meet Mossfeet

[lone topaz]

Oml he is so unbelievable swag…

[silk briar]

Hahah thank you shovel

[prime moon]

i have decided that i don't draw my kalashtar wizard enough

[rain oasis]

That creature looks so comfy to sit on for some reason xD

[silk briar]

It might let you lol

[cinder wind]

slides in. so basically i was somewhere for 2 weeks and this is how we coped 🤩🤩 im uhhhh not a dm but … idk how to bring all this up to him. anyway enjoy hallucin its an amazing country

FINALLY i was timed out the first time

also fishbone 🤩🤩 (not his real name)

[icy charm]

I like my new pc a lot

[quartz musk]

And now, the villains turned from sketch to hopefully aura-farming!

Really glad with the 'feel' in both honestly! 🙂

[upper burrow]

I found a tree branch and have been turning it into a staff. Here it is when I finished with bark removal (I kept some bark and underlayers of the bark to make it look more interesting)

Same staff but I've added copper plate and a stone from my rock collection to fill in a hole and make it look more mystical. Also handy for just bonking people 🙂

[radiant salmon]

damn thats a good stick

[viscid bough]

Party illustration

[true compass]

Druid sketch

[gusty sage]

DDEX01-04 Dues for the Dead - The Catacombs (42x38)

[lethal quiver]

Nice

[crisp sun]

Dungeon Mapper? @gusty sage

[gusty sage]

This one was made in Dungeon Painter Studio using Forgotten Adventures tiles/objects

I've switched to Clip Studio Paint for newer maps

[crisp sun]

I mean painter*

[timid kiln]

@gusty sage Is it worth the money? It seems rather expensive.

[gusty sage]

DDAL05-05 A Dish Best Served Cold - Bloodrider Camp (30x30)

DDAL05-05 A Dish Best Served Cold - Darkwater Run (30x30)

A couple of maps made in CSP

[crisp sun]

wow!

[timid kiln]

I second that.

[gusty sage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnDT3a4ydvs

[merry steeple]

Clip Studio is pretty versatile, especially with the custom brushes you can use 😮 almost pretty much swapped over from Photoshop

(I use it for illustration and painting, but have done a map or two in it)

[timid kiln]

Gasp

That is gorgeous.

[crisp sun]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9jumpin-wow-nice-well-done-xT77XWum9yH7zNkFW0

That dude knows how to make it look easy!

[timid kiln]

I think that if you find those brush setups, it IS easy 😮

[merry steeple]

IIRC there are some assets you can download in CSP that are 3D renders you can just plug into your canvas. Never used it though, I can't seem to get it to work xD

[timid kiln]

I haven't DM'ed all that much to be honest, but for the few sessions I have I used Dungeon Painter Studio. This seems to take things a step further than that! Only thing I'm worried about is fitting the map to a grid, like Roll20 has.

[lethal quiver]

Can you not change the grid in r20?

[gusty sage]

CSP has a grid feature. You can also set up the image in units such as inches. That way the maps scale correctly

[merry steeple]

where is that in CSP?

[gusty sage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcBS4kGcyxo

Grid is in View menu

[copper ravine]

You "can" change the grid size in Roll20, but it's not easy, nor exact. Requires you to do math to figure out the percentage change to use. It's easier just make your maps and tokens in multiples of 70px.

[merry steeple]

🤔

[timid kiln]

Nothing's easy or exact in Roll20, just ask my DM. She's had plenty of trouble with updates messing things up 😅

[merry steeple]

The grid doesnt necessarily save in teh finished painting does it?

[lethal quiver]

I'm so glad I don't use it

[copper ravine]

I did figure out the math once to have 1 pixel equal 1 foot and get a 5 px per square gird.

[timid kiln]

That said, is there a free version of CSP, and does it suffice for mapmaking, or do you have to pay to get anything decent out of it on that front?

[merry steeple]

@timid kiln no, but it goes on sale every so often

[gusty sage]

The grid doesn't save on the final map. It's mostly for aligning things

[merry steeple]

wait, maybe there is a free demo version

can't remember though

The pro version I picked up for like $30? I think? This was like, last year

[timid kiln]

Even if the grid stayed, there's a good chance it'd overlap with a Roll20 grid if everything's aligned correctly.

[merry steeple]

The license has like 3 uses

[copper ravine]

Yeah. I prefer using maps without grids because it's a pain in the butt to align.

[timid kiln]

Hmmm... Well, good to know anyway. I would have to consider if it's worth the investment, since I don't really run games too often....

[copper ravine]

You can always make the grid entirely invisible.

[merry steeple]

TBH, it was worth it for me since that free Photoshop CS2 kept bugging out on me, and I paint alot so...

[copper ravine]

There's an online photoshop like editor at photopea.com or you could use GIMP instead.

[timid kiln]

I wish I could paint/draw. I make a three year old's scribbles look like art compared to mine 😅

[merry steeple]

I think Kirita or something was a free alternative as well? It came really recommended but I've not had a chance to try it out

*Krita sorry

[lethal quiver]

Yeah, it's free. Though seems the website is down

[merry steeple]

👍 its all a matter of practice and learning the basics

[timid kiln]

Fortunately, I have a sense of humour lying around somewhere....

[lethal quiver]

https://krita.org/en/

https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=kZlHO27ZSqRbcl91gTf9DvCFcrUWcXaWUx70

These are licensed under the creative commons license. These are assets created by and for the campaign cartographer community. Essentially they are textures.

[merry steeple]

That feel when I'm working on a commission but I wanna draw some character ideas °A°"

[timid kiln]

I kinda understand that feel, but in my case it when I want to create homebrew and just don't have the time.

And again, I wish I could have that dilemma. I've been using an image I plucked off of Google as a character portrait for a while now 😅

[agile rock]

Always the trouble of "thing I need to do" and "thing my brain really wants to do"... I wish those lines crossed more often!

[merry steeple]

the thing I'm doing is just a bunch of intricate armour details and I'm just... I wanna render my Fire Genasi or that Draconic Sorceror I had an idea for @_@

How often do you guys make a draconic sorceror actually show more of their dragon stuff in thier physicality?

[gusty sage]

I know that feeling... probably every day

[agile rock]

Oof, armor details-- I always get so bored when I start working on the tiny things, but I'm sure it'll look amazing when you're done

[timid kiln]

I've been playing for less than a year now, and I haven't played a sorceror yet, so I don't know.

[agile rock]

I think it's neat when it's done. The draconic sorc I play with doesn't-- though he brings in the element he chose.

[merry steeple]

🤔

[timid kiln]

I play a Lizardfolk Pugilist, that's about as close as I can get, but it's not quite what you're asking for 😅

[merry steeple]

xD Cause I have an idea visually for a character but I dunno if it would be... okay? I guess? lmao

https://twitter.com/neenersart/status/1090756679027744769

Art by Nina! (@neenersart)

Been a little busy, but I have a couple character concepts I wanna note down/sketch, so its not done.

This is a Draconic Sorcerer, it
manifests itself at the lower part of her face and her hands/forearms. #DungeonsandDragons #DnD #tabletoprpg #characterdesign #dnd5e

Twitter

(super rough sketch from yesterday 😐 )

[agile rock]

I like her!

Sorc stuff comes naturally, so physical differences makes sense

[merry steeple]

🤔 just I was looking around before and not many people were doing stuff like that haha

[agile rock]

There's one "famous" example in Calianna from Critical Role, a guest's character that tied in the draconic stuff really heavily. I think it totally works, but everyone has their own opinions on it for sure

[merry steeple]

yeah, it seemed she was like, an exception among the art I poked around for Draconic Sorcerers for

[timid kiln]

Keep the most important part of character design in mind: It's your character. Whatever you're happy with is good enough.

I wouldn't overthink it. Just let it happen, basically. Eventually you'll have that spark that makes you go "Aww, yiss!"

[merry steeple]

I had that for a couple characters I've not had a chance to play though. They just seem so cool @_@

[timid kiln]

I've had several character concepts made about a year before I actually found a game I could play in, so I feel you 😅

What characters did you make then?

[merry steeple]

I have like.... 7 characters 'waiting in the wings' so to speak, but the ones I've developed most visually are a Fire Genasi Sorc, Water Genasi Cleric, Aasimar Cleric, and TiefBarbarian.

[agile rock]

I feel like I've never seen someone play a Tiefling Barbarian before!

What are they like?

[merry steeple]

.3. I dont have a chance to play much right now cause I work overnight shifts on the weekend, and would rather play with my Fiance but we're in an LDR right now and we'd like to play face to face, you know?

She's like. Buff.

lemme find a sketch...

I keep on changing her horns :[

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Du28KPCUcAAwl_Y.jpg a work in progress on another computer I had haha

[agile rock]

😲

[merry steeple]

it seems I can't upload pictures directly to discord here?

found an upload I did, xD this one was back in September https://66.media.tumblr.com/d338c96615a43baf56de9e52f57084ee/tumblr_pfpxrdPZRi1rsye3mo1_540.jpg then I changed her horns bu elsewise roughly the same

[agile rock]

The broken horn is so aesthetic.

[merry steeple]

i knoooow

[timid kiln]

^ that.

[merry steeple]

but then I'm like, I kinda wanna do antlers too

but uuurgh I've drawn antlers before and they can be a little bit of a pain to draw

[timid kiln]

I’d love to talk more, but I really need sleep now 😅 Goodnight, and keep up the drawing, it’s amazing!

[merry steeple]

good night!

[agile rock]

Night! 😃

[tawny escarp]

https://i.imgur.com/AKjeU3J.jpg

Zakhara the Land of Fate dnd Map I drew

[agile rock]

Whoa! Where do they start at?

[merry steeple]

cold climes?

[tawny escarp]

Climes?

and @agile rock they will start in the town of Ganam in the Haunted lands.

[merry steeple]

climate?

[tawny escarp]

Ah.. well Zakhara, is mostly arid desert it is part of the Forgotten Realms and is meant to recreate the feel of central Asia, from the Levant to india. The Crowed Sea is full of jungle isles and the like.

i.e. Very hot and very humid

[merry steeple]

SUCCESS

[fresh dome]

Testing file uploading with a D20 I created in Illustrator last night. (It was trickier than you might think!)

[gusty sage]

Very nice!

[merry steeple]

@fresh dome whatcha gonna use that for?

[fresh dome]

Twitch layout refresh later this year. Since I caved in to Critical Role's pressure and got into tabletop RPGs again, D&D and TTRPGs in general have begun kind of dominating my content.

[merry steeple]

oooh fair

gonna pop up whenever a 20 comes up or just a general logo?

[fresh dome]

I haven't decided yet. Since it's Illustrator it'll be very easy to make variations in different colors and styles so I could use it for a number of things. Custom tip icon for the bit jar, notification graphic element, general part of the layout... all kinds of stuff. I'll probably end up doing some of the other die types too but the 20 seemed like the most tricky, so I tackled it first.

[sacred shadow]

ooo I'm glad someone made and arts & crafts channel

👋 I've found a discord channel I might actually chat in!

[somber bay]

Does this mean we get some @sacred shadow art!?

[sacred shadow]

lul yes

[agile rock]

I'm #hereforthis

[sacred shadow]

hehehe

[somber bay]

Subs already shared his kenku elsewhere 😄

[sacred shadow]

I made this for jason but i can share heeeere

[agile rock]

Sassy beholder!

[gusty sage]

I imagine it having a cliche mob boss voice

[sacred shadow]

Yes!! And extended "s" sounds

Just to ... shake things up

[fiery parrot]

This is my first mini I ever painted. Does this fit in here?

[agile rock]

Definitely!

[somber bay]

Yes!

[agile rock]

Looks pretty darn good, I really like the model, too. Where did you get it?

[fiery parrot]

Hero forge

[agile rock]

Oooh

[sacred shadow]

Absolutely! Mini painting is art 💙

Heck yeah Hero Forge!!

[willow violet]

Some concept art of my DND character, Saphi Daxori! 💕

[fiery parrot]

Oh, she's cute

[sacred shadow]

omg so good

[willow violet]

Thank you!

[fiery parrot]

I have a spider I need to paint for one of my players beast companion. I'll post that when I'm done!

[agile rock]

I am so here for albino tiefling. Such a look!!

[willow violet]

Thank you so much omg

[somber bay]

I love her

[dusty flint]

your tiefling look sos good!

Meet Bonnri Ironset, mountain dwarf gunslinger. birdy-the-artist on tumblr did an amazing job.

[agile rock]

Her hair though!! Adorable!

[dusty flint]

😄

Fun fact: her family joke that she could have been switched with a gnome at birth, because despite being the eldest of her siblings, she's the shortest at 3'7".

[agile rock]

Love it

[dusty flint]

so idk if this is the place for it, but i love sharing the little things i do to get further into my campaign! Bonnri occasionally sends letters home to her partner and son, and I ended up learning the dwarvish cipher to make it look a little more dwarvish

[agile rock]

Whoa! Cool!

[dusty flint]

This was from very early on in the campaign. I've since downloaded a font so I can type these things

it makes it a little less authentic but typing them makes preparing her letters a lot easier

[merry steeple]

@sacred shadow that beholder looks kinda lewd °A°"

Thisis the last tabletop commission I had done - friend of mine wanted a lean Goliath in a high school gangster uniform xD

[dusty flint]

That's so cool!

I had this one done for my party as a Christmas present.

[merry steeple]

I'm working on an Elder Scrolls one at the moment (hence the intricate armour @_@ @agile rock )

[sacred shadow]

@merry steeple oh nooooo 😅

[merry steeple]

😭

[agile rock]

!!!!!!

Oh my god I love

Your shading on the stuff that's done is so pretty 😭

[merry steeple]

@dusty flint 😮 whats the story behind this?

[dusty flint]

So, our firbolg found this giant hollowed out tree that a hag was using for a home. Turns out it was burnt out and very dead, and for reasons that we do not yet know, it angered him greatly. So he set the tree on fire and tried to kill the hag. We had to turn on him to stop him from killing her. And once the hag had escaped, he fell to his knees in front of the tree and watched it burn. And all we could do was watch it burn with him

That's the cliffs notes of the story. There's a lot more to the full story behind it which partainns to a lot of backstory stuff for our firbolg

[warped pine]

My taxabi rogue Heinous Beans

[merry steeple]

;3; thank you @agile rock it takes me too long to do, I need to reduce the amount of strokes I do since I paint almost everything on a single layer

[gusty sage]

Some of the tokens I made for use on virtual tabletops. They're made using Photoshop with images from Pinterest and token frames from the Roll20 Marketplace

[strange birch]

Those are awesome. 💯

[timid trellis]

wow

[frozen mica]

Wow, these are great.

[wanton crown]

nice

[rotund anvil]

Is that an elf version of Vergil? That's awesome and these roll20 icons are fantastic, make me want to make characters just to use them.

[gusty sage]

Hehe, yeah I added the ears

It was made for a Bladesinger

[rotund anvil]

I was totally thinking bladesinger when looking at it.

Nice work.

[gusty sage]

In order, they're a Shadow Monk / Moon Druid, Bladesinger, Divination Wizard, Shadow Sorcerer, Life Cleric / Shepherd Druid

[fiery parrot]

I love that one if those is just Virgil from DMC3.

[rotund anvil]

I used your mask-witch one for one of my chars, Sorsha. I even made a homebrew spell inspired by it.

[gusty sage]

It's actually the scarlet witch from Marvel 😉

[rotund anvil]

Really?

[gusty sage]

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/82331499571101294/

[rotund anvil]

Oh, I meant from the thread on the forums, purple robes, lots of masks floating.

[gusty sage]

Ah, the Witch of a Thousand Faces
https://www.deviantart.com/necrotechno/art/The-Witch-of-a-Thousand-Faces-537233583

[rotund anvil]

That be the one.

[gusty sage]

They made another one: https://www.deviantart.com/necrotechno/art/Witch-trying-out-her-new-ice-staff-by-SKTneh-662868307

[timid trellis]

Looks like that'd be a really cool Warlock Patron...

[rotund anvil]

Made a divination wizard with it - she also has a familiar, a crow named Byrne (crow in gaelic).

The artwork is inspiring.

[gusty sage]

Mine was a Hexblade / Swords Bard

Named Persona

[rotund anvil]

Ooh I like that.

And the mask of many faces invocation would be rather appropriate

[gusty sage]

Yep, she had it 😃

[rotund anvil]

I appreciate these things. Over 30 and I still struggle just making stickmen. Is there such a thing as graphic-dyslexia? I unimaginably suck at graphics. So, very thankful for the inspiration of artists and putting the faces they make formy chars.

[fiery parrot]

I know I posted it before, but I want to give a bit of a background on my human sorcerer.

Her name is Revir Giadro. She was born, or rather hatched, over 200 years ago as a silver dragon. She was always kind and met with scholars and traders in the years as her hoard grew. 15 years ago, a pair of powerful wizards gained her trust and became good friends. On one faithful night, they sprung their trap. The pair betrayed her trust and cast a spell changing her true form into that of a young human child, and altered her memories into thinking that her true memories were a vivid dream. The wizards took her into their care, "raising" her as their own child. Revir grew into a young teen, and her sleeping dragon magic started seeping to the surface. Her dracoinc magics were uncontrollable, and she started her training to learn how to control her power. With the help of a family friend, he taught her how to wrangle her power, however, she had come down with a magical malady, and she was taken to be cured without her "parents" knowledge. The greater restoration spell removed the magical mental blocks and Revir remembered who she was. She returned home, took all of her belongings and left, leaving a note to her "parents" that she was leaving, and she would see them again when she returned to her true form.

[keen dome]

my DM "screen" (relevant to #dnd-discussion current convo)

[merry steeple]

Painting minis is so cool @_@ i kinda wanna try and sculpt minia from scratch but aaah

[wraith pumice]

I've been dabbling in the creation of magic items recently, with this as the result.
It's the 'Ring of Grandeur', a homebrew magic item which can be found here: https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/446620-perquins-ring-of-grandeur

[gusty sage]

CCC-RPSG-01 Ooze There - Bakery Map (18x15)

CCC-RPSG-01 Ooze There - Rolling in the Deep (21x20)

CCC-RPSG-01 Ooze There - The Forgotten Fane (22x27)

[twilit nova]

Ooooh, Jason would be impressed with those maps. Better than what I made for when I ran it on Roll20

[wraith pumice]

Making some NPCs for my next campaign

[strange birch]

Totally gunna have to make some maps for my daughter's birthday game. Yup... that settles it. Gunna use the plotter at work and print out some dungeon painter maps. 😄

[still kayak]

@wraith pumice SO CUTE.

[wraith pumice]

Thanks 😄

[sacred shadow]

@gusty sage Those roll20 icons made with Photoshop are super well made. I like em a lot!

[gusty sage]

Thanks 😃

I actually use Affinity Photo Editor. It's very much like Photoshop, but cheaper and similarly powerful. I think it does some things better.

[sacred shadow]

Oh, awesome! I use Affinity Designer, but haven't picked up the Photo Editor. I've heard great things about it.
And honestly, yeah. There needed to be a better option than paying for Adobe's expensive CC subscription scheme. It's not affordable for anyone on their own.

I'm impressed those were made with it and really intrigued now, heh

[gusty sage]

I got Photoshop through work, but still like Affinity

[sacred shadow]

That's definitely a compliment to Affinity

[gusty sage]

Although, I can't take all the credit for that art. The frames come from Roll20 market place and the characters from pinterest.

[sacred shadow]

Well, what you did with your resources is A+ 💯

👌

[gusty sage]

😊

[dusty flint]

Dwarvish letter in prep for tonight's game! (I do have a Common translation! Haha)

[gusty sage]

Hang on, let me put on my Dwarvish reading glasses

[dusty flint]

Please do. It would be nice to be assured that I downloaded the right cipher 😛

[gusty sage]

DDEX01-06 The Scroll Thief - Spillway (16x20)

DDEX01-06 The Scroll Thief - The Dragon's Swamp (22x26)

[fresh dome]

Since we're sharing maps, I enjoy messing around in Illustrator so for my Waterdeep Dragon Heist game I create custom versions of the maps for myself and my players. This is the first level of Trollskull Manor.

[timid kiln]

I made these with Dungeon Painter Studio for a one-shot I ran. Since the players, depending on their choices, would come across it in either day or night, I created two versions. They're fitted for Roll20.

[somber bay]

I love DPS

[timid kiln]

As do I. I wish it'd be a little better organized though. I still have to make time to sort my assets, since they're all over the place atm 😅

[wraith pumice]

Badge for a project I'm working on

[gusty sage]

Tried a more still murky water for the swamp

[strange birch]

Makes it waaay harder to see the logs.

[gusty sage]

Ah yeah, the layers got mixed up for those.

[copper ravine]

@gusty sage What'd you use to make the sewer tiles?>

[heavy jasper]

Cool stuff

[gusty sage]

It's a texture from Forgotten Adventures.

Clip Studio Paint

[oak quarry]

@timid kiln u should add shadows to ur Bush and long shadow to ur bank

[gusty sage]

Bush?

Also, I just added darkened some of the sand around the water to simulate wet sand. It gave the islands a bit of depth. I'll upload the complete image soon

[strange birch]

Did ya add some foliage?

Dems some clean islands.

[gusty sage]

Here's the updated image with some damp sand near the water and some foliage

[twilit nova]

@gusty sage remind me the next time I run AL online to borrow ALL your maps 😃

[gusty sage]

😃

[dry radish]

@gusty sage You make those maps?

[gusty sage]

Yes

[dry radish]

Neat. The maps in AL (back when I played) were always very basic and lacklustre. Your maps would've made the experience better.

Is there something like Dungeon Painter Studio that doesn't require Flash and runs on MacOS?

[gusty sage]

The downside of Clip Studio Paint

[copper ravine]

o_0

[jagged relic]

must be a lot of layers there eh @gusty sage

[gusty sage]

A decent number. But I think a PSD file with the same number of layers might be only 5% that size.

[split light]

this is what I see opening beyond

@azure cradle

is all I am saying

[azure cradle]

Not all of those are subraces.

Some of those are just descriptions of an earlier section.

[split light]

then they shouldn't be in the subrace category

[azure cradle]

For instance, Elves of Valenar talk about both Valenar High Elves and Valenar Wood Elves.

[dry radish]

What? They are all subraces. Which ones aren't?

[azure cradle]

I'll post a better visual.

[hearty drum]

This is a portrait I had commissioned of my Tiefling Rogue Swashbuckler Bel https://twitter.com/AustenMarieTV/status/1070103317651447809

Austen Marie ✨ ECCC nn14 (@AustenMarieTV)

a red boie
-commission for Sal!

Twitter

[gusty sage]

Some are variants of the same subrace, but wrong channel for this

[azure cradle]

Agreed

[gusty sage]

Just finished this token for a Hexblade Archer

[copper ravine]

Nice. I both like and dislike fancy borders.

The details make the tokens look messy at normal or zoomed out ranges.

[hearty drum]

Oh nice

[agile rock]

Those tokens are so cool, Sillvva. Quality manips and smooth cuts on the overlays. 👌🏻

[dry radish]

Manips?

[copper ravine]

This is my Gnome Druid ~ Circle of the Spores:

[hearty drum]

Aww

[copper ravine]

And this is his awakened symbiote form:

The DM let me flavor the wild shape as taking the form of a medium sized myconid.

Also will be roleplaying them as two entirely different personalities, voices, and such.

[hearty drum]

ah

that's really cool

[copper ravine]

My Monday night DM is pretty damn awesome. So glad he allowed both my wife and I to join his first foray into online DM'ing.

If you met my druid, you wouldn't say awww, lol. He's a crabby old gnome that prefers the quiet speechless company of myconids to that of anyone else.

[hearty drum]

My Rogue would say that

then again, he is a bit of a rake my Rogue

[copper ravine]

This is my druid, Togari in a nutshell:

[hearty drum]

heh

[dry radish]

@hearty drum Pretty sure that word and concept is against the ToS of the server.

[hearty drum]

@dry radish Thanks! fixked

Sorry about that!

[digital glacier]

What word?

[copper ravine]

Sheep.

[digital glacier]

Why can’t you say sheep

[copper ravine]

Chaotic.

[digital glacier]

Why can’t you say chaotic

[wraith pumice]

Homebrew wand

[frozen mica]

Wow very nice. I like it.

[noble thunder]

I composed some music for a homebrew adventure that I wrote. It was apart of a final assessment I did for my bachelor of music where I was attempting to create dynamic music that changed depending on the paths the players took or the outcome of their actions.
Here's the link to the SoundCloud playlist. I really enjoy writing music inspired by D&D.
https://soundcloud.com/andromeda7music/sets/music-for-dungeons-and-dragons

[frozen mica]

These are really good. I think Ashdale is my favorite.

[noble thunder]

LOL It's mine too!

The artwork is my poor attempt at cartography but it shows the town and the forest next to it.

[frozen mica]

Oh nice you made the map too.

[noble thunder]

thanks

[jagged relic]

oh man that's pretty cool

is it alright if I use the tracks in my next table?

[azure cradle]

@noble thunder When you say the music would dynamically change depending on the decisions of the player, what exactly do you mean? Like, is this algorithmic music?

[noble thunder]

@azure cradle
I had made a text story game in a program called Twine2. For some of the tracks there would be just two variations i.e. One where the player triggered the trap and the other where the players found and avoided the trap.
What I have yet to upload was the battle music for the final encounter as it contained different layers and different versions of the same layer that were suppose to change each round depending on how the DM felt the combat was going for the players. I.e. moving in a positive way or a negative way. But also increasing or decreasing in intensity. So 3 levels of intensity ie 6 stages. 7 if you include the intro to it and 10 if you include the possible end outcome. Victory Defeat or bitter sweet( i.e. ending in fatality's or having to flee)
I hope that answers your question

[azure cradle]

Okay. For the non-musically inclined, it sounds like each track was a collective of pieces that would shift and move according to criteria based on party actions.

[noble thunder]

^^ exactly

[azure cradle]

If I understand that correctly, that's pretty dang cool.

[frozen mica]

That’s is really cool.

[noble thunder]

my poor teacher got to listen to me explain and talk non stop about D&D for 11 weeks it was great

[azure cradle]

I had a social psych professor who had to endure the same from me!

[noble thunder]

It's the ultimate story telling device! when you look at other forms of multi media story telling like Tv, theatre and movies , Video Games are the only thing that come close to creating the illusion that the players are impacting the story but with Table Top Games the DM willing, It truly lets the players impact on the story. It was so much fun to experiment with different methods of getting the music to accommodate for the possibilities.

[vast harbor]

A tourism brochure for a version of Carradoon set 300 years from the building of Spirit Soaring

lil papercraft backpacks with some item/spell cards in them

[gusty sage]

💯

[hearty drum]

Oh wow

[vast harbor]

the full map of the reimagined Carradoon, too. used https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator and then did a lot of post-prod editing

highly recommend that generator, it's awesome

[noble thunder]

thanks for the link that generator looks awesome? @vast harbor How did you make the spell card pockets? they are soo cute!

[vast harbor]

Oh my bad, should have given credit right away ! This is from an artist - here - http://www.r-n-w.net/play/equipment-packs-the-full-set - def not original from me. The pamphlet was my work with some help from a crest generator and some free assets.

[noble thunder]

All good items cards like this would be insanely helpful for my group tho I have yet to find ones I like. These looks good.

[earnest fiber]

https://twitter.com/eiramhachi/status/1092067709179887627?s=20 hahaha this is fantastic

Eiram Hachi (@eiramhachi)

So the Components for Armor Of Agathys is a cup of water and I'm laughing. #dnd #spell

Twitter

[dry radish]

I really want this t-shirt.

https://funnyt-shirt.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/s-2295.jpg

I wonder if I could make the design myself somewhere in Aus so it's actually affordable.

[azure cradle]

That's funny @crisp sun . What's the source of that, are there more?

[dry radish]

I don't get it.

[gusty sage]

The helmet made him a better deal maker

[sacred shadow]

This is super cool, if anyone's into making b+w old school RPG zines: https://creators.kickstarter.com/zine-quest-rpg-zines-2019

[gusty sage]

Just cut my 761 MB file for the swamp map to 232 MB without any loss of quality... apparently Clip Studio Paint saves a bunch of useless information.

[lethal quiver]

That's a massive amount of information...

Has anyone here used Filter Forge to make assets?

[gusty sage]

Someone else cut one from 1.88 GB to 386 MB

[lethal quiver]

My friend had a map she was working on up to over 10 gig.... it went down significantly when she merged layers.

[gusty sage]

Yeah, I didn't even have to merge layers. CSP has a button in the edit menu to change image resolution. Just hit Ok without changing anything and the size cuts drastically.

[lethal quiver]

You can check out her stuff
https://www.zovyarpg.com/

[gusty sage]

Nice! They look really good

[lethal quiver]

She does great work.

I like the PDF she's working on. The previews of it she's given me look amazing.

[gusty sage]

Also if anyone is looking for character portraits, do a google image search for "Baldur's Gate Portraits"

[gusty sage]

Preview of my next map

[lethal quiver]

Awesome @gusty sage

[plush cairn]

If I need maps... could I commission you

Got a few adventures going out this fall, will need some maps done

[twilit nova]

That looks like Fire, Ash, and Ruin @gusty sage

[gusty sage]

Indeed

As for commissions, I'm not sure I'll be doing that, at least right now

[plush cairn]

nods

[spring plaza]

I can do commissions if any of you want. Just send me a PM :)

[obsidian seal]

Very pumped for this channel!

[willow violet]

Jester from Critical Role!

[azure cradle]

DysonLogos just posted another fantastic map in his D&D Beyond thread; the Strange Ruins at Karst Ford.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/arts-crafts/15918-i-draw-share-the-occasional-d-d-map?comment=132

[sacred shadow]

I love how they worked "Dyson" into the ruins' layout.

[azure cradle]

A strange ruin indeed!

[spring plaza]

@willow violet that's a cute Jester!!! So nice :)

[willow violet]

Thank you!

[frozen mica]

My homemade folding DM screen with clear pockets for notes and maps.

[bright tulip]

that looks extremely professional, a boardroom D&D screen

[spring plaza]

Awesome!!! What materials did you used?

[honest stratus]

i<3 the look of the one matt uses on critical role, was that made by wyrmwood ?

[frozen mica]

@honest stratus yes, his new one is made by wyrmwood

@spring plaza I used 4 9X12 canvas panel boards, gorilla tape, and 6 clear pockets

I left some space between each canvas board and used the tape as the hinge.

[spring plaza]

That's a very good solution!! I was thinking on making one using leather and hard cardboard.

[sly steeple]

Stay tuned for a cool Dyson-related DDB thing.

[dry radish]

Dyson, as in the map dude?

[twilit nova]

I saw cool, and assumed DDB branded dyson fans

😛

[azure cradle]

That's intriguing. I've become a real fan of his maps, and really appreciate his ongoing thread on D&D Beyond.

[dry radish]

Dyson fans are a lie! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEaUHrIuWCI

[onyx topaz]

Maybe Badeye is going to release a DDB Dyson hairdryer - i hear those things are amazing

[twilit nova]

dont need one here in SG, but will when i get back home

[alpine folio]

@crisp sun That cartoon reminds me of my favorite moment in The Adventure Zone.

[crisp sun]

Omg I live for the Adventure Zone! @alpine folio

It's so good to see a fellow fan 😊

[alpine folio]

I love it so much!!! I’m a huge fan of different playstyles being represented, and having a family play together was just so...wholesome. And then, without ever being cheesy, they managed to tell one of the most compelling, moving, funny, and emotionally satisfying stories I’ve heard/read in ANY medium.

I’m a HUGE fan of how they took the game and made it their own, not beholden to a traditional medieval fantasy setting in any way.

[flint ridge]

I ran across this, while I don't agree with all the items, and there are of course more that can be added, I feel like it would be appreciated around here: https://imgur.com/gallery/KSVVsWj

[crisp sun]

@alpine folio so true! It's extremely wholesome and I'm always surprised with the cliffhangers and surprises they seem to spring into the show. And I didn't even know if was a family playing until much later into the series ! 🤣

Not sure if this is worth sharing here but

[crisp sun]

I experienced my first ever D&D fight using actual pieces and materials. It's a bit silly and all for the experienced but this made my week 😊

[grim ivy]

I have a pretty good tip for such

A DM I played with for a one-off.. used gift-wrapping paper for maps and dungeons!

It even has one-inch-squares already on it!

(on the backside, of course)

And I'd imagine it's a bit cheaper than most DM grid-sheets

[flint ridge]

It's far less durable though, and gets more expensive after you have to buy new rolls regularly.

Plus if you make a mistake you can't erase it and correct.

[grim ivy]

Well it was just for a one-off game (holiday themed, so fitting)

we got to murder a robot santa

[flint ridge]

Yeah, I too miss Futurama.

[grim ivy]

It ended on a good note, didn't overstay its welcome

A good show to watch, that seems to have a similar, but still unique tone, is Final Space

[spring plaza]

Mapping and planning a world

Right now i'm just taking notes on ideas for it

[crisp sun]

@grim ivy awezome tip!

[grim ivy]

no prob

[dry radish]

I'm not terribly familiar with 3D printing but this looks pretty good: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1679800548/dragonlocktm-3d-printable-miniatures

[gusty sage]

@spring plaza you should check out Wonderdraft

[dry radish]

I wanted to like Wonderdraft. Then I discovered that it only works on MacOS through Wine 😦

[spring plaza]

@gusty sage I'll check It, Thanks!

[obsidian seal]

im going to be getting a 3D printer soonish... getting pretty excited to make that Lock Terrain

[gusty sage]

Progress!

[lethal quiver]

That writing in your map, is it a font or is this something you've made yourself @gusty sage

[gusty sage]

It's from a map in an Adventurers League module. I'm basically remaking it with Forgotten Adventures assets and a few other things

All of that will be excluded from the final version and replaced

[lethal quiver]

Have you checked out the stuff from https://dungeonarts.com/

[gusty sage]

I have some of their assets, and use them occasionally

I try to stick to FA assets as much as I can

[lethal quiver]

I'm still learning CC3 which comes with a lot of its own assets, some of them are awesome some of them are in a style I don't really like

[dry radish]

CC3 scares me and my puny brain 😦

[lethal quiver]

It's a pretty intimidating software, but I find it works better for me than raster graphic editors.

[twilit nova]

Ahhhhh, that map is looking amazing

[crisp sun]

Hey @gusty sage, that's some really well done stuff

Ever considered pairing up with a content writer and preparing some one shot dungeons for people?

[gusty sage]

Not really, no. But thanks 😃

I do it more as a hobby on the side in my free time, among other things

[graceful quail]

Made some quick papercraft minis for our Ravnica game

[onyx topaz]

That elephant is adorable

[flint ridge]

Very nice, if I had any ability to draw I could use that inspiration.

[graceful quail]

I figure that some quick papercraft minis are good for NPCs / characters that won’t be appearing as much

[graceful quail]

Made a bunch of Flux Changers for our Ravnica game tonight

[gusty sage]

Some look happy. 😃 Some look sad 😦 One looks like its seen some things 😱

[flint ridge]

Here's my WIP world, each hex here is 360 miles (or 6 continent-scale hexes)

And here's my software, though not maximized as I normally use it, for @sleek salmon and others interested

[fresh dome]

I saw @flint ridge summon me in another channel regarding mapping. As he mentioned, I use Illustrator, but it's not the cheapest or easiest solution for all people.

Level 1, Trollskull Manor

Upper Level, Zhentarim Hideout

I haven't yet tried any sort of terrain mapping, just interiors with minimal exterior bits.

[dry radish]

Nice

This was the thing I was talking about: https://www.patreon.com/posts/grass-road-24058353

[crisp sun]

I can't seem to find it but does anyone know of a tool to "write" your own homebrew content that still looks like its vanilla printed content?

[copper ravine]

gmbinder

[crisp sun]

I used to know it but lost my links

[sour lily]

Gmbindee

[alpine folio]

Homebrewery is great.

[sour lily]

*gmbiner

Or homebrewery.naturalcrit.com

[crisp sun]

Homebrewery is 1000% what I was looking for @alpine folio

[sour lily]

You'll want this as well

https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet

[crisp sun]

I was considering preparing my own simple One-Shot adventures 😊

just kinda practice as a DM

[alpine folio]

Awesome!

[copper ravine]

gmbinder is better than hombrewery.

[sour lily]

I personally prefer gmbinder as well

You can change the background layouts for the pages

And the cloudmanagement is better imo

[alpine folio]

I’ve had mixed results with it—it’s crashed on me quite a few times. But if they’ve stabilized it since I last used it, it’s a great concept.

[sour lily]

Yeah it's thankfully stabilized then

Anw hope that info helps @crisp sun

[crisp sun]

I dont know but it sounds like I will need to try both haha

I am a newbie to DMing but not a newbie to acting, roleplaying, etc

plus this lets me express my more poetic side 😄

Btw, @dry radish , that source you shared is amazing

[agile rock]

|| I will advise: Homebrewery has been abandoned, and it's a question of how long it will stay up. If you choose to use Homebrewery, make sure you save a back-up of your work somewhere! || I missed the news. 😉

[dry radish]

Bum.

[lethal quiver]

When did homebrewery get abandoned?

[agile rock]

Well over a year ago.

For all we know it could still remain up for years, but it could also go down anytime, it's just impossible to know. 😦

[dry radish]

Stolksdorf is still posting on reddit, as recently as yesterday.

[lethal quiver]

Surprised because I saw things that still used it’s style. Which tended to be a red flag since they never had OCR when I saw those things on the DM’s Guild.

[agile rock]

Maybe they came back? The last I had heard (a couple months ago) it was still abandoned.

[lethal quiver]

Or someone replicated it’s style.

[agile rock]

Ah, looks like they came back in August of last year! So scratch what I said. They were gone for a year a few months with no communication.

[dry radish]

Rumours of Stolksdorf's demise are greatly exaggerated https://www.reddit.com/user/Thurse

[agile rock]

April 2017 -> August 2018 Homebrewery was left unattended.

I'm happy to see that I was wrong!

[dusty flint]

The dice I've picked out for tomorrow's game! Complete with an extra d20 and an extra d10 for advantage and critical hits with Bonnri's pistol.

[vast harbor]

https://imgur.com/a/akdFrpc some dice bags i've knitted. The first one in the album was for our recent Curse Secret Santa exchange, and I filled it with a really cool black and purple metal polyhedral set

[flint ridge]

Very cool!

[gusty sage]

In anticipation of the Artificer coming this month

[ivory egret]

Did you draw these?

[gusty sage]

I didn't draw them. I used frames from the Roll20 marketplace and character images from Pinterest.

[ivory egret]

Ahh, still they look dope!

[merry steeple]

I got my flaming ember dice for my Forge Cleric! 😄 (her artwork is in the second photo) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtjwoYDBEtE/

[stone slate]

The world I'm making for my game. suggestions?

[merry steeple]

Looks good @stone slate ! Only thing was maybe the borders follow natural landscape bits, like curving around the border of the lake or something, easily allow early travelers know that "hey, youre crossing a border" if theres not like, wall or fence or something there

like

its my 2 cents but otherwise looks good

[distant rapids]

@stone slate What's the scale of play? Are adventurers likely to criss cross the lands regular or zero in on a region?

I ask because that's a huge factor in what's next when you have a good map started (like yours).

[agile galleon]

one of my player's Evocation Wizard meeting his first character the Totem Barbarian 😃 ((I HAVE A LOT OF COMMISSIONED ART of my group if people ever want to see;) ))

[delicate nimbus]

Oh I would love to see

I've got some art too

I'll probably post it on here

[agile galleon]

well gifts were brought up in general chat, this is the xmas gift i got for all seven players. Their characters, their companions and in game spouses/children 😃

[agile rock]

That is so cool! Tell us a bit more about them.

[delicate nimbus]

oh this is good

[agile galleon]

haha sure! SO the two at the bar are Kvothe and Thrugah 'Jean' Urgel. Kvothe is a PC Oread monk, he built this bar (The Rope's End). Thrugah is his companion and bartender.

The blonde and the lion are... Zyian the Aasimar/Elf Paladin/Swordmage and his Half-Celestial Dire Lion mount/companion Lady Veshj.

The three at the table are: Zyn the Drow Samurai (PC), his wife Zyglplyx, a Triton Druid and also a Duchess, their eldest daughter Zyllin.

The three up front are all PC's. Spliff Mcneely- Human wizard, and self proclaimed Master of the Arcane, LORD OF THE INEVITABLES as he likes to declare. Griff the Fetchling Summoner (the creepy one in the mask 😉 ) and Burz Grimmum the Ex-Paladin turned Cleric of Jamal (a half orc)

the dancing pair are Aybara (PC) the human barbarian and his Goblin Ranger wife Marie Gelp.

The wolf is Aybara's animal companion and mount Fang.

Clamouring over the dog are all four of Aybara and Marie's children: Brook, Ash, Ore and Meadow.

And another Half-drow/triton, the younger of the twins Fishynwill.

up in the rafters there is Chateruse the Ratfolk Summoner (Griff's Companion and Headmistress of the Arcane Academy he founded) sitting on her two headed snake Eidolon Vic-Tor. and beside her is Spliff's Tiefling Daughter Sheeve Mcneely (THAT WHOLE relationship is a massive can of worms)

phew i think that's everyone. Sorry, there's a lot to unpack in the picture ^^;

[azure cradle]

What a good idea to share commissions, I'd love to share the ones I've gotten of my group.

Each of the following commissions were done by Caio Santos, whose Twitter handle is @BlackSalander

[delicate nimbus]

I'll post them one by one probably not all at once

lol

[wicked void]

New map I made!

[azure cradle]

This first one is related to the earth genasi druid PC.

[agile galleon]

das a nice map! @wicked void

[azure cradle]

Middle-aged now, he still holds on to the memory of what his father would tell him of the circumstances of his birth. That his mother was something beyond the mortal realm, and was only briefly a part of their world.

Part of his personal quest is to someday meet her, find out more about his heritage and fully understand who he is.

The artwork depicts her in her natural state, within the elemental plane of earth.

[agile galleon]

it's some cool art. 😃 I really like the scale of it. and the use of color. I'm a sucker for vibrant splashes of color splattered into a work -3-

[azure cradle]

Each of my commissions was in that style, it works really well.

[agile galleon]

that's awesome 😃 we have a few different artists we comm from but most of our comms are in a sketch style the first picture i shared was in. artists sketch prices are usually what fall into our budgets haha. It's a really cool style!

[wicked void]

Another one. I guess I’ll post some stuff I’ve made for my campaign!

[agile galleon]

ohhh that's so pretty

[delicate nimbus]

ooh

nice

[azure cradle]

Very nice.

[delicate nimbus]

Here I've got my warmage Vlad that i commissioned from CherriFaerie on twitter

[agile galleon]

AHHHHHHH i wish i had maps like that for my setting D: i'm really bad at drawing maps >.<

[delicate nimbus]

same

[azure cradle]

I've been using tools to create maps.

[wicked void]

And that’s only about a fourth of the map.

[delicate nimbus]

Also I sketched my cowgirl/witch character Lucy

[agile galleon]

that's awesome

[delicate nimbus]

And commissioned a few drawings of her from CherriFaerie

[agile galleon]

i've been drawing continents out by hand as i need them D:

[agile galleon]

and it's...not very good.

my drawings

[delicate nimbus]

oh yeah?

[agile galleon]

these comms are great -3-

[azure cradle]

Here's the last commission I'll post for now. This is art of the god of my zealot barbarian. He's a mix of Celtic and N.American myths, with a strong raven and wild hunt theme.

[delicate nimbus]

You can get there for sure

oh nice

[agile galleon]

that's super cool Conn 😄

[delicate nimbus]

is that a corvid skull hes got for a helmet?

[agile galleon]

I never get to be a pc so i get art of my npcs -3-

[azure cradle]

Yes it is. Bit of artistic license on behalf of the artist, but I love it.

[delicate nimbus]

i made some art of my friends' characters

[azure cradle]

This is all artwork of the PCs that I DM. Bit of a gift for both of us, since I feel like the whole thing is my character.

[delicate nimbus]

this is my friends' PCs Ayame the warlock and Nyaegi the bard playing shogi

a really quick sketch

[azure cradle]

Sadly, he's not taking commissions at this time. I'd done artwork for the aarakocra ranger (my favorite of the bunch too), but now that character's dead and replaced.

I'd gladly pay for another piece of the new character.

[delicate nimbus]

i'd love to commission more art honestly but i'm already commissioning some right now haha

i'm sort of addicted to commissioning lol

[agile galleon]

I spent WAY Too much on that 21 person group shot

[delicate nimbus]

oh man

[agile galleon]

i really can't get comms for a while haha

i mean it was still a steal

[delicate nimbus]

next piece I'm commissioning is just 70

"just"

[agile galleon]

but like in terms of how much money i have/make it was alot

took me a few months to pay off.

[delicate nimbus]

those can run really up there

I also do 32x32 pixel icon commissions

I've got a few examples I've made for friends' characters

this one was commissioned by one of my sister's friends

[agile galleon]

ohhh that so gooooood

[delicate nimbus]

they're the perfect size for discord emojis

[agile galleon]

i love pixel stuff

[delicate nimbus]

[agile galleon]

that's so cool !

[delicate nimbus]

this one is one of my PCs

redji, a Monk

[agile galleon]

this is about the only drawing I ever do in session myself haha.

it's the gems on a special dagger one of the players has.

[delicate nimbus]

its something!

[agile galleon]

it is 😃 the problem is every three killing blows the gems change -3-

so i get to draw different gem shapes fairly often haha

[delicate nimbus]

i also commissioned redji from Charmmoo on twitter

[agile galleon]

pretty much all the art we have is character sketches! BUT! I have one special piece i had done a while ago let me hunt it down.

[delicate nimbus]

ooh i'm interested in seeing

[agile galleon]

I give you Tartarus- the no man's land separating the nine hells from the 3 circles of the abyss 😄

[delicate nimbus]

oh my god that's incredible

[agile galleon]

yeah one sec i'll get the artist -3-

[delicate nimbus]

it looks like the whole house is made of bones

thats beautiful

[agile galleon]

it is!!!! LIKE one of my top...5 favorite npc's I've ever made and roleplayed lives there!

[delicate nimbus]

wow

[agile galleon]

his name is Wyatt. He's a living skeleton.

He was a human, got cursed by some bad, god magic juju and ended up getting stuck in Tartarus

and he's just been...spending his undeath there. Killing and demon or devil that wanders too close

[delicate nimbus]

that reminds me of a character in my father's d&d campaign

[agile galleon]

the players LOVED him and they recently did some time-line hopping and got to meet him when he was alive and living on the planet.

[delicate nimbus]

you know of the lord of blades in eberron?

[agile galleon]

VAGUELY my eberron knowledge is...hazy at best.

[delicate nimbus]

well anyway in my father's campaign i play a warforged

[agile galleon]

https://www.deviantart.com/banzz did the landscape.

[delicate nimbus]

who unbeknownst to them is the basis of a whole batch

oh i'l save that link

a whole batch of warforged were based on Mender, which is my character

Mender, before they lost their memory, was a revolutionary who tried to get warforged to revolt

but the king decided that was too dangerous so they nuked the whole army

mender's best friend became the lord of blades and when they died, got stuck in the underworld and was only able to access the world through Mender because of a psychic link

[agile galleon]

that sounds like a lot of fun -3- i've always enjoyed eberron as a setting, but never played there. only read novels.

[delicate nimbus]

The lord of blades has this huge tree made of blades that they stick people responsible for the warforged genocide on in the underworld

and so whenever the party was close to someone involved in the event, they mysteriously died and we learned it was through mender so mender felt kind of bad

anyway i've got a commission of mender here too

here they are holding a staff of healing

[agile galleon]

that's adorable haha 😄

i love it.

[delicate nimbus]

yeah cherrifaerie has a very cute style

this here is redji again

[agile galleon]

them cheeeeeeks

[delicate nimbus]

and my sister's Kenku ranger with their electric owl

and little mouse friend

[agile galleon]

we use an artist named Rahmad (manowolves on deviant art) alot, his price is like perfect in my groups budget.

ohhh so cute

[delicate nimbus]

yeah she has high cheekbones

[agile galleon]

Gelp the frogman swashbuckler

[delicate nimbus]

oh man that's nice

[agile galleon]

with his -very- expensive fake moustache

[delicate nimbus]

suave

my friend Argon drew lucy as hol horse from jojo

very funny

[agile galleon]

awesome! 😃

never watched much jojo

oh! I just remembered i do have art of the last PC i played

[delicate nimbus]

ooh

i also commissioned ninten @thotcore on twitter

[agile galleon]

http://zoey-and-dakota.tumblr.com/ did this for me! Ravarian 'Starburner' Solbot my Android ❤

[delicate nimbus]

oooooh

thats cool

[agile galleon]

I loved playing Rav ❤

[delicate nimbus]

i love playing lucy

i also drew her as an opossum lmao

because they both love garbage

[sacred cipher]

Got some really good commissions of a couple of my characters Mosin Enfield, the Half Orc Champion and Ceridian the Centaur Battle Master & his wife Sisul from https://mobile.twitter.com/caitlinc37?lang=en

[delicate nimbus]

oh nice

these are really good

[sacred cipher]

Yeah, I absolutely love the artists style.

[lofty coral]

I redesigned my first dnd5e character I made back when it was still called D&D Next.

[dry radish]

Is there any kind of bot that can help make Discord wiki-like? Or maybe help organising groups with calendar events and invites? I really wanna ditch Facebook.

[flint ridge]

What exactly do you mean wiki-like?

[agile galleon]

Our Aasimar/Elf Paladin/Swordmage Zyian by Sidddraws on tumblr

[agile galleon]

Did some painting recently -3-

[icy storm]

jeeebuz, that's scary as hell already

[agile galleon]

He def turned out pretty okay 😃

[mellow dawn]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/a22hs5/oc_art_my_group_has_an_extreme_food_fetish_in_our/?st=JRWDAVTB&sh=e61c548c

My group’s commission

[agile galleon]

my groups first group shot 😃

[serene trench]

Totally not a menacing looking group ._.

[agile galleon]

SOME of them use the term 'hero' VERY loosely

Griff and Spliff are more anti-heroes.

[plush cairn]

I mean adventurers aren't always heroes 😉

[agile galleon]

very true 😛

[azure cradle]

Here's another art that I had commissioned. This one was for our aarakocra ranger, recently deceased. He was part of a Harper like organization that protected the portal at the center of his civilization.

[plush cairn]

ohhh that's pretty

[keen dome]

Fingers needed for focusing the camera. Related to #dm-discussion

[crisp sun]

I'll have pictures ready at some point but I'm preparing my own D&D Tabletop setup in Tabletop Aim 😊

Sim*

[dry radish]

So, I have all these tokens and tiles from 2-Minute Tabletop. I was intending on using them in GIMP but if there is an easier way to build maps with these assets, I'm all ears.

[lethal quiver]

Dungeon Painter?

[dry radish]

Requires Flash so not an option.

[lethal quiver]

The steam version does?

[dry radish]

Steam version is Windows only so, again, not an option.

I probably should've mentioned, Mac only.

[lethal quiver]

Ah, in that case, no idea. GIMP or other programs like that are all I know.

[flint ridge]

Worldographer is what I use, comes with a demo version, even has a Java version if you prefer for some reason. http://worldographer.com/download/ there is a city/town upgrade available and in March it's getting a dungeon upgrade.

[agile galleon]

Aasimar sword mage from my pathfinder campaign =3=

art by manowolves on deviant art. dudes awesome

[spring plaza]

A watercolor painting i've been working on today. Still on process.

[reef forge]

Holy shit, that looks insane man, keep it up!

[bright mural]

yo that is badass

[spring plaza]

Thanks you all!!

😍

[sweet dirge]

Well after 40 mins got the full rough draft of my D&D world done completely and ready to make it in wonderdraft what ya all think?

[wicked yoke]

Seems quite big! I wonder what geographical features are gonna be on it.

[grim ivy]

I found a nice way to fill out maps

is to do little texturing to show areas that are mountains, cliffs, swamps, forests, etc

give the world a more organic feel

[dreamy charm]

As far as maps go I’m a fan of Inkarnate, if no one has mentioned that yet. I use that for all my outdoor spaces and Dungeon Painter for indoor.

https://inkarnate.com/

[wicked yoke]

Inkarnate's nice.

I use Dungeon Painter as well, but only for combat maps now.

It was fun designing cities and such, but realistically, it's a lot of work for something that's only going to have a slight bit of it used.

[lethal quiver]

Wonderdraft seems interesting, but I'm sticking to my CC3

[obtuse helm]

I personally use Azgaar’s Fantasy Map Generator for world maps

And even smaller scale maps

As an example, my current game’s continent

[sour lily]

Setup for today's lvl 18 game where the players fight an ancient undead dragon paladin

Dragon took several days to paint

Game for the lovely @twilit nova

[twilit nova]

I lived!

And hit level 20!

[plush cairn]

Nice!

[gusty sage]

💯

[viral turret]

My miniature painting

[dusty flint]

Time to organise!

[crisp sun]

@sour lily that is absolutely impressive!

Working on a LMoP - One World 😄

[spring plaza]

This little one is done!

[bright tulip]

that looks really good

[crisp sun]

"You find your path blocked by two dead horses..." 😛

[wicked yoke]

Woooooah!

What is that? It looks digital, but still physical.

That is, the grid. The trees are very nice.

Is that a product or something you made yourself?

[lusty stirrup]

@wicked yoke I think its TableTop Simulator. Really immersive to run a game in .

[wicked yoke]

Oh, yeah, that makes sense.

[crisp sun]

The grid is a bit off given I am using the One World system

but I am putting together a custom One World Lost Mine of Phandelver and will be running it multiple times as a "One Shot" through here to practice my DM skills 😉

but yep, @lusty stirrup is right. Its TTS. And truly really awesome but I just wish we had a way to use DnD Beyond in it without having to use Tablets

Tablets are expensive in memory usage

[azure cradle]

Very nice. Yeah, that program has a lot of functionality I've never explored, but nice to see it in action.

[crisp sun]

Invites might be going out maybe next weekend

this will take some time, but I will have progress pics!

[crisp sun]

The first zone is complete w/ DnD Beyond support 😉

[sour lily]

Ooooh that looks lovely

[delicate nimbus]

oh WOW

[twilit nova]

TTS takes forever to setup though, right? Ive always been interested but literally have zero time

[azure cradle]

If you want to set it up that extensively, I'm sure it does.

If you just want to have an image on the table, some minis and dice, it takes maybe 20 minutes the first time, then just a couple minutes each session after.

[twilit nova]

That's the thing. If Im going to do something, it has to be amazing. So yeah, I'd want the full setup.

[azure cradle]

Fair

[dry radish]

That's the exact same rationale I use for doing nothing and staying at home in my underwear!

[carmine ledge]

Setup for running Tomb of Horrors earlier today

And my setup from running it last year as an anti-Superbowl party. So sad I am seeking that house...

[dry radish]

In mapmaking parlance, what is the term used for various embellishments like crystals, scuff marks, mushroom patches, etc. that add atmosphere but don't really define the map in any strategic manner?

[gusty sage]

I'd say map features

[carmine ledge]

@dry radish Cartouche is possibly what you're looking for, but that's a specific kind of embellishment. I think embellishment works just fine for general purpose. "Terra incognita" would be the term for unknown parts of maps that are filled in with sea serpents or the old "here be dragons" text.

[dry radish]

Hmm, I know there's a term for it but just can't remember what it is and none of those are what I'm after.

[fresh dome]

I'd just think of them as decorative elements or aesthetic elements, but I doubt that's the specific official term.

[dry radish]

I really just don't have a brain suited to understanding graphics programs 😦

[dry radish]

I swear this used to be easier twenty years ago.

[dry radish]

Is it too much to ask for a simple battlemap making program?

[obtuse helm]

I guess so