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propose a trade, I give yuri a dollar and he lets me smooch a rat on the cheek
'A whole dollar? You can kiss Igor as many times you want!'
#tiefighter#yuri galkin#art#my art#sketch#oc#ocs#oc answers#rat#warlock#dnd#dungeons and dragons#my oc#devil#pact of the fiend#doodle
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my skrunkly tabaxi warlock star in the night
#star in the night#rexai#thats her fiend patron#evil little creature#also her family#and gage (the warforged at the bottom)#gage is one of the other pcs#eclipse of the moon#i luved this campaign it was my first#that got finished#never playing a warlock again tho i need more spell slots#dnd#tabaxi#warlock#warforged#pact of the fiend#devil#dungeons and dragons
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Demon Lord Graz’zt and my warlock Jgorjers (George).
I want to post dnd art on here but I’m so bad at posting so I’ll just start with this. Enjoy!
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tfw the next campaign hasn’t even started yet and you’re already drafting concept art for your new warlock and his recently deceased-turned-demon wife
#psychedrawstuff#psyche angel#psyche draws stuff#art#artists on tumblr#oc#dnd#dnd warlock#Pact of the Fiend#dungeons and dragons#sketch#traditional drawing
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what D&D class/subclass/race would your actual practice be :D
this website has a breakdown of most of the 5e classes and subclasses so you can quickly read through the options
this other page has a breakdown of official races
(for the purposes of this game you can totally be whatever level you want and multiclass, etc)
post what you'd be in the tags!
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ok fine so like preface just wanna say this isn't really a critique on Wyll specifically. his patron and whatnot at least has some contextual reasons to make sense in this game on the sorta devil side of the plot and I'm also like only barely starting act 2 of the game so I have not seen where his whole story is going. this isn't a Wyll specific thing and more just like the general way Warlocks are handled in dnd media that I've experienced
because when it comes to dnd I am absolutely a warlock apologist. Its my favorite fucking class and I will fight anyone to the death who argues that it's only good as a multiclass option because it is one the classes that has the MOST rp fodder built into it and its so versatile. if you're a minmaxer who just wants to make the biggest explosion or do the most damage yeah you're probably not gonna like it. but if you wanna be forced to fuck around with magic in creative ways (and even use weapons while being a caster) and have your backstory be important to everything about your character, then its warlock all fucking day baby.
but I find fiend warlocks just so fucking boring.
not because they have to be inherently boring but because that's for whatever reason the only kind of warlock that exists to everyone involved in making dnd related media. like I swear every time its just "someone made a deal with a devil and it turned out to be bad!" like come oooon. Doctor Faustus was written in the 1500s, we can be more creative than that.
and yes, examining the fucked up power dynamics between a warlock and their patron is great! but we know a devil is bad when we make a deal with them! there's arch fey, eldritch beings, even fucking celestials as patron options in dnd that are at the very least morally indiscernible and sometimes outright good that are like much more interesting moral and ethical storylines to go down. for instance, why a morally good celestial might turn to some freak willing to make a deal with them to get something accomplished rather than, say, a cleric.
like I love warlocks. the potential to get messy and fucked up with it is just soooo ripe no matter which direction you go. but GOD. why do we just always go down the same "deals with devils are bad!" storyline over and over again.
#I would genuinely be much more interesting in a fiend warlock that just flipped the dynamic entirely#or like if the warlock clearly didn't hate the situation at the very least#and even outside of fiends warlocks#half the time its still like 'We have to free this poor warlock from their pact!'#like I swear no one will just commit to being a fucked up little freak.
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Backgrounds With Class: Rakdos Cultist
I'll be honest: Ravnica has always fascinated me. I was a high schooler when the first set came out, and I was immediately consumed creating characters for the setting. Now that we've actually received my long-awaited crossover, I thought it would be nice to write a love letter to the setting in the form of another Backgrounds with Class series. After all: some guilds have natural class choices tied in, from a conceptual standpoint. Boros and Fighter, Izzet and Wizard, Selesnya and Druid. But guilds aren’t class-restricted, and so I wonder what it would look like if you paired every class with every guild background, even the ones that seem at odds, like Izzet and Barbarian, or Gruul and Artificer. So I thought about it, and this is what I came up with. Some character concepts for each class, and each Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica background for each class.
Rakdos Cultist
The Rakdos Cultist Artificer is what you get when you cross a bartender with a stage pyrotechnician. Not much of a talker, he’s pursued the mixture of dangerous liquids ever since his pa brought him to bring-your-child-to-work day with him in the Izzet lab he worked. The fizz and spark of the fluids, the pop and bang of the explosives, and the screeches of dismay and inspiration sat heavy in his mind ever since, and he’s chased that high all the way from the top of a magister’s tower to the underground club where he makes sure the stage lights cast the best illumination and the pyro’s always on point.
The Rakdos Cultist Barbarian has been a fan of the circus his whole life. From when his Orzhov parents first stood enthralled on the street by the carnival’s call to when his sister walked the razor-tightrope to her own end, he has always felt a burning for life and the fleeting performance that no cold coin can cool. Now, roustabout in his free time and blade-juggler on stage, he chases his dream- to throw himself body and soul into the cult’s every move, be it stunts on stage, drinks in a dive, or a riot set to ruin neighborhoods.
The Rakdos Cultist Bard has skipped out on his parents’ legacy of kill-suiting in favor of better blades over more blades. Born for the limelight like many of the cult of Rakdos, his small stature is as much a surprise to audiences as his opponents, as is the killer-slapstick routine he’s working on. This routine, “The Bumbling Swordsman,” is an acrobatic marvel, integrating his natural athleticism and skill with the blade to make sure his co-performers meet various hilarious “accidental” ends throughout the performance and has, so far, even killed a member of the audience from sheer hilarity.
The Rakdos Cultist Cleric is walking proof that not every member of the Cult of Rakdos belongs on stage. Painfully clumsy and gifted with a total lack of a sense of humor, he instead leverages his massive frame to roustabout for his troop. Between shows, he studies tactics, convinced that Rakdos mobs shouldn’t limit themselves only to frenzied orgies of violence. This unusual focus on warfare has started getting him some attention at parties- after all, every party needs a planner to blow it up.
The Rakdos Cultist Druid has an uncanny connection with the various beasts that make themselves at home in Rakdos clubs, fight-pits, and pitfight-clubs. Capable of speaking to and guiding the many rats loyal to Rakdos himself in performance and defense of their buried territories, his ‘pets’ have earned him the honorary title of ratcatcher. That this half-ogre is a runt for his kind and has a bad back to boot matters little when a chittering carpet of filthy fur and teeth can back him up in combat.
The Rakdos Cultist Fighter never could pick between fire-breathing or axe throwing. When his troop’s leader asked him drunkenly “why choose?,” the path became clear. Now, he breathes fire without oil and blocks the other thrower’s axes with magic, the better to put death-defying stunts in his shows. Part-time enforcer, part-time performer, and part-time miner, he’s operated on minimal sleep for years, claiming the sleep-dep hallucinations and irritability only sharpen his edge and heighten his performance.
The Rakdos Cultist Monk, like many in the Cult of Rakdos, is not one to miss a party. Unlike most, though, his legendary constitution makes sobriety a daunting wall to climb- and not for lack of trying. Despite a constitution given by his demonic grandfather, he can blackout with the best of them, and his appetite for new and stranger drinks and other intoxicants is insatiable. And when the call goes out for entertainment, he’s always third to heed the call, bobbing, ducking, weaving, and knifing with the best bar brawlers in the Cult.
The Rakdos Cultist Paladin wasn’t always the proud middle-finger marauder he is today. Once he was a Boros Legionnaire, training to serve as angelic honor guard. Then everything changed when he was sent to Precinct Four for a month of border watch. In that month, he saw Gruul raiders rip through disciplined troops like a ball through pins, izzet wierds level buildings, and his fellow legionnaires ignore noncombatants in danger. It got to be that his nights unwinding at the local Rakdos clubs were the only thing that made sense, and when the rest of his squad pulled out, he stayed behind, forsaking his rank in favor of the mad hedonism of the club floor.
The Rakdos Cultist Ranger has a deceptively difficult job: taking care of the beasts for the cult’s performances. Not so easy when the beasts include horses with nightmare sires, just-barely-not-hellhounds, and rats the size of cats with the temper of wolverines. Still, she’s quick with a beastmaster’s blade and whip, and has an eye for training beasts to perform alongside her, so she might go far yet. In the meantime, she also finds herself playing crowd control when the audience tries to escape to upstage the other cultists.
The Rakdos Cultist Rogue walks the path of the blade bravo, full of tall tales and braggadocio too grand to believe- almost. In truth he is a talented swordsman, and an ambitious performer- his boasts are the show, and with a packed bar to play off of, he can claim greater and greater impossibilities- that he fought the sun, that Tin Street’s named after his family, that Isperia of the Azorious Senate is a casual ‘playmate’ of his. Of course, making such boasts in mixed company has brought him trouble before, but that’s what a quick blade and a quicker step are for.
The Rakdos Cultist Sorcerer doesn’t really know where he came from or why. Born in the Undercity and manifesting unusually scaly skin for a human, he aways assumed he was the runoff from a Simic experiment. He spent a lot of his youth running with freaks and geeks from the Rakdos’s mining operations between his own stints in the mines. It wasn’t until he was nearly an adult before the scale color came in and he realized he wasn’t a failed krasis or guardian project subject, but that he somehow ended up with high-octane dragon blood and the sorcery that came with it.
The Rakdos Cultist Warlock has always felt the thunder in her soul, like so many of her herd; unlike the rest, she is content to surround herself with drums and chase the pulse of the crowd. After lancing three of her roustabouts in a grim comedy routine Rakdos himself chuckled at, she swore to make the ringmaster laugh- and he pulled a lance from his own flesh to hand to her, mark of her promise. Now she’s a rider after his own humor, aiming to plant her charge where it can hit the hardest- a striker fit to bust a gut.
The Rakdos Cultist Wizard puts a lot of effort into only burning the right things for his performances. A fire-juggler by trade and a student of Evocation magic by fancy, he specializes in acts of pyrotechnic grace and complexity on the stage. Currently he’s thrown his lot in with a handful of like-minded souls, and they lowkey compete to see who causes the most property damage at their venues. To the winner go the nightly spoils- a new brand and a drink. He’s got four brands already, but there’s always room for one more.
#D&D#Dungeons and Dragons#Dungeons & Dragons#Character Ideas#Character Designs#Character Concepts#Ravnica#Alchemist#Zealot#Swords#War#Shepherd#Eldritch Knight#Drunken Master#Oathbreaker#Beastmaster#Swashbuckler#Draconic#Fiend#Pact of the Blade#Evoker
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Playing a drow in bg3 bc I love them and holy shit everyone is SO casually racist to my pc (even the tieflings!!! Another historically persecuted race!!! I expected it at least from the bitchy wood elf druid lady but the tieflings???)
#im literally only at the druid camp and everyone is SO mean>:(#im not even a lolth drow#fran plays bg3#anyway it kinda fits with my backstory#drow taken by convent as a child and made into a paladin#and by taken i mean straight up stolen by self righteous humam assholes who have to save the evil drow children uwu#anywaym shes uh. confused abt everything. growing up in a convent to be a do gooder#but is like. actuallt. a selfish coward and doesnt wanna be that#so im multiclassing into pact of the fiend warlock#padlock multiclassing my beloved. what is cooler. NOTHING#party rn is just me astarion wyll and gale hanging out doing crimes while wyll and gale disapprove#oops :)#im having a blast :) truly will to live restored i am going to cause problems on purpose:3#astarion/charis mutusl corruption arc. theyre gonns get worse AND better at the same time#also gale keeps giving me whiplash bc he sounds SOOO much like greg ellis as anders in da awakenings#its NOT him i googled it#but damn this man sounds like cullen as anders FOR REAL#hes kinda hot in a definitely keeping secrets but also magic way#him and periklea would get along soooo well
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i wonder how an au where power is a human, denji is a devil and aki is a hybrid would turn out — denji would be the chainsaw devil (still looking mostly human?) while aki is the gun hybrid and his trigger is. idk, making a gun with his hands and pretending to shoot himself?? Power is still the most deranged one out of all three. I don't know how Makima's shenanigans would play into this btw.
#chainsaw man#chainsaw man spoilers#power hayakawa#denji hayakawa#aki hayakawa#chainsaw man au#csm au#kobeni could be a devil! or a fiend! she still suffers but her plot armor is insane#human angel! human beam and violence! human princi!!!#hybrid makima 👀? who knows#idk how but like. imagine denji making a pact with power and stuff and she can use him as a weapon (or maybe use his blood)??#as a nod to the actual story#but yea this au has me in its grasp fr#i retract my statement#hybrid princi
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#splitting 'fiend' into 'abyssal/infernal' bc its wILD to me that theyre lumped together#youre telling me 'undead/undying' two diff pacts??#sUUURE#anyways#none adopts need to stay chained to the warlocky context when bought#but the inspo is fun#<3
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Dungeons & Inkwells 17: Warforged warlock
#you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like. this is the ideal woman#robot lovers.... this is for you#if robot has soul why can't robot sell it to the devil ?#robot can.#im gonna call her something edgy as hell like Turmoil idk#many of my warforged have names of virtues and such lets keep the theme#warforged#warlock#pact of the fiend babyyy#turmoil#dnd oc
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'Love you back cutie!' @mynqzoozo
#art#my art#oc#ocs#yuri galkin#dnd#dungeons and dragons#dnd oc#he comes from fantasy poland#so thank you marmarris on twitter for the translation#digital illustration#sketch#sketches#drawing#doodle#devil#pact of the fiend#trans oc#mynqzo
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I played DND tonight for the first time and I had so much fun!
I'm playing a character that can't talk because of course. Were playing online with video and me and the GM agreed ahead of time I could act out as much as was feasible for conversations and she could interpret me freely. And if she got it wrong it's fine, it's a limitation of my character's ability to communicate, not mine.
And we're playing on a virtual game space where I can click what action I want to do on my character sheet and then roll the dice virtually as well so I don't have to specify any mechanical things I'm doing or read out numbers or anything.
Everyone is very patient if I do wanna say stuff in the chat and they respond to me verbally which is perfect and the GM let's me write out cool moments and then dramatically narrates it to the group.
It's something I've always wanted to try but felt like I couldn't because it's known as being a chatty game and I'm just happy and excited to find an accepting group that have made accommodations for me 💖
#sully posts#im playing a lil gnome guy#that made a pact with a fiend for magical powers on exchange for his voice#but he finds he doesn't actually care that much about his voice so joke is on the fiend i guess!
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me trying to give my squad the most optimised min max builds but crying over the idea of giving anyone but wyll warlock
#fray.txt#i have a build i wanna use so bad but it would mean giving halsin or minsc a fiend pact LOL
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"... And it spoke with a thousand voices, each vibrating with a torrent of beating wings"
A little appetizer of my illustration for @TomeOfPactsZine, now on Kickstarter💫 i had the pleasure of creating one of the Eldritch patrons, P̵̧̌a̸͓̕ņ̴͑t̷͓̑h̷̻̚e̶̯͒ọ̸̔ň̷̻, the gaping, many faced hunger.
Uhh tw: flashing images
Tome of Pacts is a for-Profit fanzine about patrons and the warlocks brave enough to strike a deal with them with +50 artists and writers.
If you like powerful entities and all that patron-warlock power dynamic (wink), whether they are eldritch beings or creatures of legend, check the project out!
It is already funded but we're so close to hitting the ✨gold foil✨ stretch goal! And i really want that ✨gold foil✨ tbh
Like 👏Look👏at👏the👏material👏.
Cover by Flohgna. Illustrations and texts shown by Rowan (left) and Leevolt (right).
☽ Join us in prayer ☾
(Yes, thats a link)
#dnd#patron#warlock#eldritch#entity#horror#religious trauma#fanzine#dungeons and dragons#kickstarter#illustration#tome of pacts#pact of the tome#pact#demon#angel#cursed weapon#Lich#Archfey#Fiend#Celestial#tw flashing#flashing image tw#flashing images
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Why did nobody tell me BG3 had a really funny terms and services?
#fuckin#additional obligations in eldritch law#baldurs gate 3#bg3#i thought the 'pact' was kinda cute but this is great#'there is no fiend in the Realms that doesnt have a soft spot for idolatry'#'know that mortals who amuse Us often get better perks'#fuckin hilarious#op
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