ashmcgivern
Ash McGivern
LA Animator and Reptile enthusiast. Co Creator on Adventure Squad. Credits include Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, Bento Box, CBS, Titmouse, HotHouse, Cartuna, and StudioYotta (She/her)
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Art by @mernolan, colors by @ashmcgivern
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Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak, is available now for free!
"Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak" is an unofficial dragon-slaying Dungeons and Dragons 5e adventure for Level 20 players. Players will venture into 4 unique lairs where they will de-power The Barrier protecting the peak of Shatterpeak Mountain. Once they climb to the mountain's top, they will get to face off with Adatok the Paragon, the Amethyst Greatwyrm.
This adventure includes a two pdfs (one normal and one print-friendly), battlemaps and art for each of the 7 unique locations and custom tokens for every named monster and NPC. As a Dungeon Master you shouldn't have to do any extra legwork to find assets to play your adventure!
This adventure assumes that you own the following sourcebooks.
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dungeon Master's Guide
Player's Handbook
Monster Manual
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
If you played this adventure, please tag me on social media (@AshMcGivern) and let me know how it went. If you enjoyed it, consider leaving a tip! Either way thank you so much for playing!
Download it here from Ko-Fi!
#daytime rebergle#reminder that this exists!!!!#I’ll post some art from the module soon#but you can go grab it for free rn
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Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak, is available now for free!
"Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak" is an unofficial dragon-slaying Dungeons and Dragons 5e adventure for Level 20 players. Players will venture into 4 unique lairs where they will de-power The Barrier protecting the peak of Shatterpeak Mountain. Once they climb to the mountain's top, they will get to face off with Adatok the Paragon, the Amethyst Greatwyrm.
This adventure includes a two pdfs (one normal and one print-friendly), battlemaps and art for each of the 7 unique locations and custom tokens for every named monster and NPC. As a Dungeon Master you shouldn't have to do any extra legwork to find assets to play your adventure!
This adventure assumes that you own the following sourcebooks.
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dungeon Master's Guide
Player's Handbook
Monster Manual
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
If you played this adventure, please tag me on social media (@AshMcGivern) and let me know how it went. If you enjoyed it, consider leaving a tip! Either way thank you so much for playing!
Download it here from Ko-Fi!
#dungeons and dragons#dragons#dnd5e#Slaying Adatok#ITS HEEEERE!!!!#cant wait for people to play it#please def let me know how it goes id be SO stoked to hear about it#adapt it to pathfinder!! see if I care!!!#it uses 5e statblocks but im sure you can find other monsters in other systems to substitute!!!
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Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak releases TOMORROW!!!
I'm extremely proud of how the whole thing has turned out, and I really hope you all enjoy the adventure. This mini campaign comes with everything you'll need to run your adventure, assuming you own a few sourcebooks (Fizban's Treasury of Dragons being the main body of inspiration!).
This free Level 20 dragon-slaying module will be available for free download on April 5th on my Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/ashmcgivern)! Shares are appreciated!
#dungeons and dragons#dnd5e#dnd#dragons#SlayingAdatok#TOMORROWWWWW!!!!!#im so pumped!!!!#cant wait for yall to see it! :>
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WE'RE BACK its been 84 years
Official page update tomorrow April 4th at 6pm EST, but head on over to https://adventuresquadcomic.com/ to see the chapter three cover art for now 👀
Our new posting schedule will be every other week on Thursdays!
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Art by @mernolan, colors by @ashmcgivern
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“Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak”, features 7 unique locations with battle-ready maps and splash images for each location! It was my goal when putting this adventure together to make Dungeon Masters’ work as easy as possible, and so each location has all the artwork necessary to bring these locations to life.
This free Level 20 dragon-slaying module will be available for free download on April 5th on my Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/ashmcgivern)! Keep an eye out for the drop in the coming days. Shares are appreciated!
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Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak, is going to be available for download on April 5th!
"Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak" is an unofficial dragon-slaying Dungeons and Dragons 5e adventure for Level 20 players. Players will venture into 4 unique lairs where they will de-power The Barrier protecting the peak of Shatterpeak Mountain. Once they climb to the mountain's top, they will get to face off with Adatok the Paragon, the Amethyst Greatwyrm.
This has been a very long 2 year journey for me, and I'm so excited to finally share it with everyone! Keep your eyes out on my Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/ashmcgivern) where the adventure will be available. Reblogs and shares appreciated. Thank you!!!
#dungeons and dragons#dragons#dnd#slaying adatok#dnd 5e#i dont even know what to tag this as!!!! im super excited!#There will be more reminders through the week so keep an eye out!
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Tabling at FanFaireNYC! If you're attending swing by and say hello or compliment my shoelaces.
Tickets are on sale (at very reasonable prices) at fanfairenyc.com
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2 straight days of working in InDesign…. 2 years of writing and playtesting....the time is nigh…. free dragon slaying mini 5e campaign is ON THE WAY
#slaying adatok#dungeons and dragons#asharts#I DID THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE PDF TODAY!!!!#ITS DONE!! IT LOOKS REAL!!!#IM OVER THE FUCKING MOON ABOUT IT!!!!!!!#going to let it sit around for a bit and have some friends look at it for errors etc but its looking so nice!!!#i cannot overstate how exciting it was to see 2 years of work materialize into something that looks.... dare i say.... almost official#its worth noting that this module will assume you own Fizbans Treasury of Dragons#if you dont.... there are ways to get those stat blocks etc etc#or you can substitute with another system like pathfinder!!!#i want people to do wahtever!!#anyway im excited can you tell????#yall will finally get to meet Adatok and the Gemstone Alliance!!
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I lived, bitch
#asharts#me#self portrait#sdjkghdfgf I FINISHED MY GIG TODAY#gotta be real it was sorta miserable at the end#but Tiny Toons was as stress free as a WB gig can be#Got put on Invincible Fight Girl at the end there and boy.......... howdy what a pipeline#but hey its done!#and yeah im looking for work now but tbh I need the break
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It’s gotten to a point where walled gardens feel like the only safe space. Yeah I have artist friends on Discord, but is that a community? Not really in the same sense.
I’d kill to find a place that captures the magic of posting art on deviantART in the 2010s, but there are so few sites that exist like that anymore. A few have popped up, like inkblot and artfol, but nothing catches.
Artists can’t seem to agree on where to go, that’s the real challenge. Nowhere feels safe, and the challenge of art specific websites is that they don’t have the same reach as general social media does. Just. Ugh.
RE: Tumblr selling data to GenAI companies. (prev reblog.)
At this point I'm truly wondering what to do, really. (Glaze your art and so on, sure) But even the words we write, our personal thoughts, asks, everything is getting fed into these fucking machines from any site available. "Make your own page!" - Services like Squarespace, which are what I and most of my peers use, have sneakily added the option to allow third-party crawlers to harvest data. And portfolio websites are not social media. I want to interact and I have to reach clients.
Are we reaching the point where we have to post only previews and send finished art via Newsletters or post behind paywalls? Print it out and send a pigeon to our followers' homes?
I'm so fucking tired. So angry.
I've been an artist through life-threatening depression, through working and studying full time, through moving house and country, through the pandemic.
And this? This might just be what breaks me.
#AI#ashtalks#I just finished a big project too………#like am I even going to share it now#was all that work for nothing
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Said goodbye to Sandi today. It was time, I’m out of sorts, simultaneously torn asunder and unimaginably relieved. Taking care of a geriatric lizard is a lot of work, but she was worth every ounce of effort. She was a good one, she made it 22 years. That first photo was one of the last I took with her. The others are photos from the past few months.
I don’t know what else to say - I could speak about her for hours, and at the same time there’s not much else to say. It doesn’t feel real and I’ll be adjusting for a long, long time.
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Sandi’s gone.
#it was time#but she’s gone#I took today and tomorrow off work#I will be grieving for a long. long. long time#we elected to put her down#so it’s peaceful and painless#but I am devastated#Sandi
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Hi I’ve been absent a lot lately, the whole of 2024 in fact I’m realizing.
On top of just not having the spoons to really share much of what I’m doing, in combination with NDA, social media just exhausts me now. The state of the internet in general. I can’t really mentally handle constantly hearing and seeing how AI seems to be permeating every part of online existence, how every website is one big pool of advertisements, and uh, the state of the world in general. There are too many things for my dumb brain.
So I’m taking a bit of a back seat, or rather I have been I guess. Tumblr is really tbh only social media I spend any time on and even then there’s whispers of Automatic partnering up with Midjourney. If it happens I won’t stay here long that’s for sure.
And where does that leave me then? I have a lot of great friends on Discord I talk to and I’m getting into Twitch more, but I know people here still want to see what I’m up to. I have mutuals I like and artists I want to follow that I don’t necessarily want to abandon. But with the state of things, everyone just seems tired. People are sharing less. Is there really nowhere for artists left?
It’s just kind of depressing tbh. I get more fulfillment being away from social media than being on it, which is a GOOD thing, but it sucks that the time I do spend back here doesn’t feel safe anymore.
All this to say, I wish I had more to share, but I’m tired and feeling recluse, and I’m tired of shifting where my social media presence is at any given time. I’m very close to finishing a BIG project that I’ll finally be able to put online, but there’s a lot of processing I have to do first and these things take TIME.
I only have about one month left at WB (unless they extend me AGAIN which would be the 5th time fjdhdhdh) and maybe a break is what I need. But I dunno. I for sure will be streaming more if nothing else, but idk about my other social media presences. If you see me active on social media again, know that it’s def not because I enjoy it. It’s to get my name and face out there ultimately so I can find work again. Not to mention I’ve begun the process of archiving/moving my art blog to a new location where I can self host because…….. I’m so tired.
Idk!!! Morning thoughts. This is nothing my friends don’t already know but for those who are curious, here it is. I spend a lot of time on tumblr but I do t share a lot because of *broadly gestures*. Hope y’all feel me.
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Pretty exciting stuff! Thanks to everyone who's been dipping into my streams over the years. :') Hopefully when I have time to stream I can be entertaining and educational for yall.
In case you didn't know, I'm going to be unemployed come March as my contract at WB comes to a close. Until I can find a new gig I'll be streaming much more frequently to share what I'm working on.
Right now I'm finishing up the final pieces of my dragon-slaying mini 5e adventure. After that, more Adventure Squad comic, and also actually animating! So if that's interesting to you, come hang out.
AshMcGivern's Twitch Channel
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And the blood moon rises once again
#asharts#zelda#botw#totk#digital art#watched someone finish botw for the first time last night and I had FEELINGS#love this series so much augh#she hadnt gotten all the memories and we arrived because we raided from another stream#and me and the lads were like NO YOU HAVE TO GET THE MEMORIES!!!!#ITS SO IMPORTANT#we were super planning on raiding and running but then we got involved like#no she must see all the memories#the payoff is important#we made her read the kings and zeldas journals so the emotional impact hit#it was a great stream#anyway hi i love zelda sdjkhgdf
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just a friendly reminder to not tag mcyt stuff as minecraft! the minecraft tag is for the game itself and not for youtubers/streamers ^^ ty!
Noted for the future I guess? I tag things based mostly on how I want to be able to search it on my blog later, not for visibility. If I end up in the wrong tag in any fandom it’s gonna be more for organizational purposes than it is anything else.
#ash talks#I really have no plans to make more mc related art lol#I just really enjoyed DO2#gotta be real tag policing is annoying to me but I also understand where it’s coming from#there are a few other fandoms I casually observe where ‘incorrect’ tags are taboo#AUs in particular#but I am simply out here
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