DnD gals want the one thing, and its to make some ridiculously cool badass armor. Admittedly my perspective is very limited.

Woo, this is from awhile ago. But I'm posting it now!

A return of my Freybug OCs! A group inspired by both Gintama and FMA.

Felt like drawing bust shots because I was finally getting comfortable with drawing noses too.

But we got Fester with the dark green hair, Rosabud (finally managed to draw them for the first time ever after never being satisfied with designs beforehand:')) with the black, white, and red hair, Archer the Blondie, Augustus aka, Auggie, with the red hair, and last but not least Kokua with the light green hair!

I've also come to realize Kokua and Archer have a relationship like Sanji and Zoro from One Piece, while also both having green and blond hair.

Freybug gets his name from one of the numerous types of monstrous black dog spectres in english mythology. Also, he is another recycled OC 👁️👄👁️

i didnt feel like drawing its wings but i drew Freybug my favorite abby ever. yayyy freybug

Had an idea for Freybug’s lore and just ran with it for a couple of paragraphs.

Her name was used in a cautionary tale. A savage creature in Skydancer form stalking the graveyard, taunting and teasing those who ventured in. A dark shadow, slinking between twisted trees and out of control bushes. Always just on the edge of someone’s vision.

But she wasn’t real. Merely a made up being, created to keep hatchlings from wandering into the graveyard. The thing about hatchlings, though, is that they rarely do what they’re told to do. Especially when it comes to doing things they shouldn’t.

Of course, they went into the graveyard. Never on their own - usually in groups of two or three. They’d wander between the rows of gravestones, giggling and wondering what this “Freybug” might look like. Maybe she had black fangs. Or perhaps she was cold…colder than ice. Maybe the temperature dropped whenever she was near. And what of her familiar…what would suit her? Something fierce - a wolf perhaps.

They say, however, that there’s a strange magic in Felhallow’s graveyard. Things that seem to appear out of thin air, whispers on the wind…that sort of thing. And what if that magic somehow got caught up in the whispers and rumours?

Well…who can say? What is certain, and some adult dragons have seen it with their own eyes, is that a dark shadow now stalks through the graveyard, slinking between twisted trees. Taunting and teasing those who enter.

drawings of the freybug, mermaid of marden, and hobgoblin for folktober 2021.

Freybug found the forbidden boxes Mourning is not always as it is painted - Freybug encontró las cajas prohibidas El luto no siempre es como lo pintan

"HOOO: TALK DIRTY TO ME"

Tapas (ENG/ESP) https://tapas.io/series/Hooo-Talk-Dirty-To-Me

Webtoon (ENG) https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/hooo-talk-dirty-to-me/list?title_no=710070

Webtoon (ESP) https://www.webtoons.com/es/challenge/hooo-h%C3%A1blame-sucio/list?title_no=710145

✨Folktober Day 3: Freybug✨ England is full of legends of black dogs. The Freybug, a black dog with red eyes, roams the roads of Norfolk, England, terrorising the souls of the people who come across it. 🌾

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Belatedly posted Freybug aka black dog of British folklore, for #folktober day 3 by @sin eater on Instagram

Tryna use inktober as chance to do things a lil out of my comfort zone / experimental / more creative-ly ?

The Freybug is a black dog in English folklore. It is said to be the size of a calf (a common description of English black dogs), and terrorises travellers on quiet country roads. Most stories of this phantom hound come from Norfolk.

The legend of the Freybug dates back to at least 1555, when Protestant martyr Laurence Saunders mentioned the beast in a letter to his wife. Spelled "Fray-bug," it also appears in the Oxford as an "object of fear" and a "bogy spectre."

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Monster master list.

Suggest a spook.

Creatuary Day 7: Thanks to my weirdo stalker friends peer pressuring me, I made my images today and posted up. I didn’t realize a freybug was a hellhound, and now I realize I have the same creature on the challenge twice. Maybe I’ll just replace it with a Cerberus or cyclops or something. ^^; oh well! I made two versions. One based on the references from the book, the other just based on my imagination. #creatury #steekira #creatuary #creatuary2020 #freybug #hellhound #dracopediathebestiary #williamoconnor #creaturedesign https://www.instagram.com/p/B7DC193Hx3Y/?igshid=1xc4yxeilyi3t

Local DnD party can't be bothered with quest boss monster anymore. Context:

Dahlia's group went off to rescue kidnapped children in the sewers, and along the way they dunked on a boneclaw monster. Dahlia spared it but that only managed to piss it off. The quest was successfully finished and the monster returned again. I think it was expecting to fight but Dahlia kinda just brushed it off. The sheer impudence I suppose.

In a letter to his wife, dated 1555, English martyr Laurence Saunders told her of his witnessing “fray-bugs”. A fray-bug is known as “an object of fear; a bogy, spectre”, and the word was later morphed into the Freybug by John Brand’s analysis of Saunders’ letter. Typical description of the Freybug is a black dog about the size of a calf with red eyes - typical of other black dog legends. It is said to roam the roads of Norfolk, England, casting fear into the souls of people who it happens across. 

Daily D&D Monster: Shadow Mastiff

Or, as they're more famously known as: black dogs. We've already covered hellhounds and the barghest, but there are so many other varieties to speak about. The one most people may recognize is the Hairy Jack, a ghostly breed which forms up a majority of sightings. Generally they're just like regular dogs, except you can't see them all the time and when you do you never forget. Meaner Jacks are often called Padfoot, but it's arguable whether or not that's a real breed. I've already talked loads about barghests, the canine house elf/hunting dog of the fey, but a smaller breed exists in the Capelthwaite. Often more amicable and less shy than their larger cousins. To counteract this friendliness are the Black Shuck and Pesanta, two breeds that seem to actively wish malice upon people. Black Shucks are like coyotes: prone to running away but can menace people from afar. Some confuse them with Barghests, but the distinction is active. Catalan Pesanta on the other hand are almost like bogeymen; steel skeletons wrapped in a dog's coat, able to squeeze into cracks to chase down their quarry and even pursue them in their dreams like nightmares. Often, Church Grim are put in place to battle malevolent spirits like these. The recipe for creating a Grim comes from the Scandinavian Peninsula, and no matter what shape of animal is buried under the church they all seem to act similar. Despite being protectors they're also pretty dang scary, as they don't do things that living dogs do, like eat or breathe or react to hugs. In a twist on the Church Grim is the Freybug, Western Europe's answer to the ghoul. Even though they're on this list, they're closer to goblins and other fey than black dogs. Freybug mimic other black dogs, but abuse the trust of humans by patrolling graves and occasionally digging them up for a meal. But Grims can send them packing no problem. They're nothing compared to elfs and trolls.

Teaser Tuesday: Big Puppy

Teaser Tuesday: Big Puppy

Cover Art by Sean Harrington Coming in at number was Kira Grasdon.  I’m happy when she comes up in a poll like this because I don’t get to promote her solo adventure very often.  Enjoy this piece of Quest of the Brokenhearted.   (more…)

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Freybug

A kind of Black Dog, Freybugs are found in Norfolk and are believed to be closely related to the Black Shuck of Essex and (occasionally) Suffolk. Known to grow to the size of a calf, they may terrorise travellers, but have never directly hunted or caused the death of any - though many have said the dogs have scared them to death. In recent years attempts have been made to domesticate Freybugs, with variable success - the greatest success was had when crossing Freybugs with Gurt Hounds, domesticating the offspring, and then breeding back to something closer to the bulkier, molossus-type Freybug.

Freybugs vary in colour from a dark liver, close to black - and some, especially crosses, with white and flecked patches - to a true black, almost shadowed. True black specimens are considered the ideal example of the domestic variant, and are popular guard hounds for magical estates, as they are incredibly hard to see in the night, and can seem far faster then they actually are when moving in shadow, making them highly effective as psychological warfare. Perhaps for this reason, they are especially popular with the few Vampires living openly in Britain, and several are known to keep pairs that were trained together.

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(Read about Freybug in lore Here. I hate that I have to include this but PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THE IMAGE SOURCE OR MY CAPTION.)