In the same way the gods created angels to serve them, so did humanity with robots. Now, in some strange twist of fate, an artificial construct bears the same holiness given to celestials: And surely, they wish to be of assistance.

Meet Argyros! She's a new character for a coming campaign (an Aasimar/warforged Cleric on DnD5e, and an Aasimar/Automaton Oracle of Life in PF2e). I had been wanting to scratch the itch to design a robot, and she was the perfect fit for it. I hope you'll like her! I can't reveal too much, but feel free to ask, I'd love to shape her a bit more~

I experiment with style, and this commission is one of my favorites - this aesthetic does not leave my thoughts!

Avatar for @\AmoralSupport from twi🖤

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On Creature Design

Artists and writers often don't realize the full range of variety that animals include. This leads to "aliens" that are a lot less alien than a lot of creatures on Earth.

Imagine that you are designing an imaginary animal to go on an alien planet in a fictional universe. We'll suppose for this example that your creature fits the Earth definition of "animal." What might this creature be like?

Here's just some of the traits that "animals" in fiction are usually assumed to have...that real animals often don't have:

The ability to move around: To be fair, most animals have a motile phase of their life cycle, but many animals, such as corals, (most) sponges, and (most) bryozoans, don't move as "adults."

Bilateral symmetry: that is, there's a left and a right side that mostly mirror each other. Humans are bilaterally symmetrical. But not all animals are. Take starfish for example. They have radial symmetry instead.

Either an herbivorous or a carnivorous lifestyle: The natural world...actually isn't divided into predators and prey. Don't forget the detritivores!

The ability to make that one specific roaring sound that every single alien and dinosaur makes in a movie: Animals make some WEIRD fucking sounds okay. Y'all ever heard a blue jay making its "swinging gate" impression?

Size comparable to horses, cattle, and humans: It's weird to think about, but humans are megafauna. We're enormous compared to most insects, worms, birds, and even rodents and bats, the largest groups of mammals. The "average" animal is closer to a bee than a human. A lot of sci-fi beasts and monsters are the size of a rhino, but try going outside on Earth—you'll encounter a thousand much smaller organisms before you find one that large. A planet that is otherwise "Earth-like" would probably be similar.

Individuality or "Individual" lifestyle and consciousness: Yes, yes, I know the "hive mind" is a trope, but it's often still assumed that "animals" are individual units independent from one another, where each "individual" has a complete set of all the organs and features it needs to survive. However, some real animals, like siphonophores and, yes, bryozoans, are colonial—their "individuals" are modules that can't live independently, rather like organs in an animal like a human. Because I can't stop myself from talking about bryozoans...in Selenaria bryozoans, the "individuals" around the outside edge of their colony use their setae as legs to walk around, and the other individuals provide the "legs" with food, since they can't eat by themselves. Bryozoan colonies are also interconnected by a linked nervous system, and sometimes colonies that grow into each other will just...merge, and start sharing their nervous system even though they're genetically different. Science.

Adaptations to full time life on land: Water worlds and sea creatures are not exactly missing in scifi, but it's still under-acknowledged that land life is a weird adaptation to a weird extreme environment. Land animals are just water animals that have learned to carry around their own water inside them. It's true! Living in water is so much simpler, because you can always just filter particles out of the water around you to eat, and when you need to reproduce you can just throw some gametes out there so somebody will find them.

"Male" and "female" individuals: Stories that mess with this generally have a MORE rigid biological "caste system" with more categories, but there are a lot of animals that can reproduce sexually or asexually at their whim, that change sex as part of their maturation process or when conditions require it, or that switch freely between producing sperm and egg cells. "The females are larger and more dominant!" isn't even that weird or unusual. Try "every member of this species is "male" when they are younger and becomes "female" later in life" or "this alien decides whether to be "male" or "female" depending on what the situation requires" or "these aliens are engaging in ritual combat with their dicks to see who gets pregnant." You know. Normal stuff like that.

Since I finally chose my mythic path in Wrath of the Righteous I finally threw together some art of my character Caedrinn! I can't wait to see how my chaotic good Cayden Cailean worshipper reckons with being chosen to be an aeon.

I gotta get back to playing, I'm perpetually walking this line of either drawing as much as I want but not playing enough Wrath, or doing vice versa.

i think that killing a dragon should have catastrophic nuclear-fallout level environmental consequences tbh. their blood should scorch and wither the earth with fire and poison, the toxic fumes released as they decay should choke the land and all nearby living creatures, and the entire landscape where they fell should be transformed into a blighted wasteland where bleached leviathan bones loom upwards out of the ground as a warning that can be seen from miles away, the boundary markers of an exclusion zone.

More Confluence work! Filling an entire coast with strange and wonderful things takes a fair amount! Cities built under opalised whale bones, geodesic domes that study the rainbow soil and the great floating market where you can get anything for a price! And some folks you might get to meet (love to know your favourite!) Find out more on our twitter, we love hearing from you! All work is mine!

Player does simplified fanarts of PCs and NPCs. Thrastus is a dwarf NPC

In the sun-kissed lands of these Ancient Lands, where myths danced with reality and philosophers pondered the very essence of existence, a timeless tale of heroes and gods unfolds. Here, amidst marble temples and olive groves, the echoes of a bygone era resonate with the promise of epic adventures and profound wisdom.

Hello everyone! Welcome to another map pack, one that is influenced by one of my favorite time periods in history- Ancient Greece & Rome.

This pack includes 16 total maps including a Coliseum, Academy, the Mediterranean coast, and much more!

Check out the map pack here, the first 6 are free to download!

Frantic Search (Borderless Ver) by Jeff Miracola

Here is a free pdf of the players handbook

Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything

Here is a free pdf to monsters manual

Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything

Here is a free pdf to dungeon master’s guide

Here is a free pdf to volo’s guide to monsters

Here is a free pdf of mordenkainen’s tomb of foes

For all your dnd purposes

I got to draw Fledgling for @trucbiduleschouettes and give her a new outfit too! She's an air genasi pirate (well, an air spirit, but-), and just an absolute menace <3 I just love kids who can (and will) steal my wallet

MARIT LAGE

by Diana Franco Campos

dragonborn for Kaelynhyrule on insta

Storm Wraith By MorkarDFC

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"Life in the shadows has always be rough. But as a changeling? As a Technomancer? My dear, you have no idea...." Oc-Tober 3 and 4 got mashed together for Navlaan. One of two of my Blorbos to actually retire after years of sessions. I don't get to delve into cyberpunk too often since him now that i think about it.

I know PortfolioDay is not much of a thing here on tumblr, but since I posted about it in my other social media, I thought I could give it a try here too! Here's a collection of my 2023 art~

Also, hello! I'm Sygdom, a freelancing Spanish digital artist specializing in fantasy/sci fi! I'm currently open for all sort of projects, specially anything TTRPG-related!

Artstation (portfolio): www.artstation.com/sygdom

Links: linktr.ee/sygdom