Some Mermay daily warm-up sketches.🧜♀️ I’ve referenced underwater dancers. 🧜♀️ #mermay2020 #mermay pic.twitter.com/fnSbmdnmw8
— Tony DiTerlizzi (@TonyDiTerlizzi) May 14, 2020
What does your mental image got summoned/conjured creatures look like?
What does your mental image got summoned/conjured creatures look like?
Are they indistinguishable from natural creatures, or are they obviously (distressingly?) unnatural?
Maybe they look drawn or painted into reality, juxtaposed with “natural” textures? What if the odd, jerky movements of Harryhausen creatures are not “early SFX” but “the unnatural is also squarely in the Uncanny Valley”?
Could also be a cool justification for seeing through a Disguise Self spell or other illusions.
— Harbinger of Doom (@BrandesStoddard) August 21, 2020
That’s exactly the sort of thing the Intelligence (Investigation) check to see through illusions is modeling; finding details that don’t match and give the game away.
The disguise self video is slightly out of sync with your audio 😂
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) August 21, 2020
Maybe the visual texture of the skin is a little too shiny, too matte, too plastic-y… basically everything makeup did to Brent Spiner to make him look less like his birth species (?) and more like an android. The lighting showing on the form doesn’t match the lighting in the area. Shadows fall against the light, highlights are on the wrong angle.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) August 21, 2020
Ooh yeah, illusionists forgetting to have their illusions cast shadows is freaking great There’s a scene in the Bulgaria’s where two wizards face off with bound demons, but the binding is keeping the demon spirit trapped in an illusory/quasi-real form. As long as you maintain the form, it stays bound to your will.
One wizard loses when…
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) August 21, 2020
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First word that comes to your mind: Baldur’s Gate? Waterdeep? Daggerford? Mirabar?
Hello Sir…love your talent…thank you for all you do…question if you wouldn’t mind…First word that comes to your mind please….Baldur’s Gate? Waterdeep? Daggerford? Mirabar? Baldur’s Gate: moon-bowl (crescentiform shape of the city, split by the river)
Waterdeep: home (bustling, dirty, oft dangerous…but home)
Daggerford: song-path (to some destinations not yet revealed)
Mirabar: Gems (so many gems, and so many rich dwarves smiling o'er)#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 4, 2020
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“They buried his corpse in the last fading sunset”
They buried his corpse in the last fading sunset
Too dead now for half-hearted regret— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 19, 2020
The skeleton is indulging in rattling and faux-eerie moans
That set my teeth to rattling, so I'm going to dance on its bones— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 20, 2020
If you spend your life in constant carping and critique
Your outlook for your (mythical?) afterlife is bound to be bleak— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 24, 2020
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden was written in a way where you can say, well I don’t like this part, not gonna do it
This adventure was written in a way where you can say, well I don’t like this part, not gonna do it, and it really doesn’t hurt the adventure as a whole. This feels like they are almost three short distinct adventures that tie into a cohesive whole.
— NewbieDM (@newbiedm) September 6, 2020
I think that's fair to say, yeah.
There's a level of modularity to Rime of the Frostmaiden that the writing team really delivered on, while allowing for continuity and cohesive through lines. I particularly like the campaign's opening sequences.
We'll see if y'all agree. 🙂
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) September 6, 2020
Complete side note: One of my favorite general setting bits is guidance for finding NPC spellcasters (who aren’t statted) in Ten Towns.
That’s helpful for DMs, I’ve found. Not sure who added that in (I’d guess Chris Perkins but am not sure), but it’s a simple winner. And bonus, some guidance on finding common magic items for those players who crave a magic weapon but haven't managed to find one. 😂
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) September 6, 2020
Yup. A quick check on "Is there an NPC spellcaster to be found here? How many?" Up to you to decide who and what, but also gives you NPC statblock guidance on what sorts of spellcasters can be found.
That goes a long way when your party suddenly needs a remove curse. 😛
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) September 6, 2020
Contrary to popular memery, we do really dig stories. 🙂
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) September 6, 2020
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Fort Bones – done for Dungeons & Dragons latest book ‘Eberron – rising from the last war’
Fort Bones – done for Dungeons & Dragons latest book 'Eberron – rising from the last war'
These are indeed halflings riding raptors, scouting a fort made out of bones with a flying pterodactyl in the sky. This job is amazing.
AD: The venerable Reeshard 'Squatch hunter' Whitters pic.twitter.com/R19v8iSskJ
— Titus 'Updated Patreon!' Lunter (@TitusLunter) November 20, 2019
Likewise! And together there isnt a squatch that can hide!
— Titus 'Updated Patreon!' Lunter (@TitusLunter) November 20, 2019
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How do Lord Bron from Iriaebor look like?
Alex McClay @AlexMcclay2000 · 9h
…Now onto my question, with all the research that I have done in Iriaebor I realized that in every source that Lord Bron is mentioned that we do not get a description on how he looks like. So, how do Lord Bron look like?
Thanks in advance!— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 20, 2020
#Realmslore
1)
Lord Bron is a human of mixed heritage, but has Calishite blood in his past, and so has dusky brown skin, dark brown eyes, and light brown hair that’s going grizzled gray. He customarily goes clean-shaven, except for2)
…“daggerboard” sideburns, and keeps his hair helmet-cropped (what in a real-world modern female is sometimes called a “pixie cut”).
He’s of burly build, stands a shade under six feet tall and is a shade less than two feet…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 20, 2020
3)
…across at the shoulders (so, “heroic-looking” build), has rugged, weatherbeaten, “leathery” skin that makes him look to be in his fifth decade, has a hook nose that got broken long ago and healed “twisted to his left, in the…#Realmslore 4)
…middle,” and is a soft-spoken, firm man of few words, who usually dresses in leather armor with a metal back-and-breast and bracers (reputed—correctly—to be magical; they have at least the protections of a brooch of…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 20, 2020
5)
…shielding, and likely more). Lord Bron has an air of authority that has nothing of bluster or arrogance in it, but a calm confidence; he can effortlessly dominate a room, without uttering a sound or doing anything dramatic.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 20, 2020
