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oddsbod · 1 year

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my ranger got a cool new sword

#oddsbod's art #dnd #5e #ranger #gloomstalker

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cool-frog-hours · 3 months

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More of this fuckin guy

#frogs art #froud #his colors changed again #oops #firbolg #gloomstalker #dnd #digital art #dnd character art #dnd character #dungeons and dragons #original character #character reference #character design

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gin-draws · 3 months

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I always enjoy figuring out new characters so much!

#aasimar #aasimar oc #gloomstalker #ranger oc #dnd oc #oc art #dnd character #dnd art #sketch #digital sketch #character design #character development

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vatyrie-avaris · 1 month

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Vatyrie Avaris has always been a willful man. This rebellious streak was scorned in the diabolic aristocracy he was born to, a race of tieflings whose loyalty and pride in their infernal blood has allowed them to maintain some of the hellish features and skills of their heritage. Tired of the unforgiving order of demi-devil society and of being a tool for his tyrannical family, Vatyrie sought freedom from the restraints of his nobility. But the price of freedom was greater than he could have imagined. Stripped of his prestige and the infernal magic in his blood by his father’s lash, he was banished. Prejudice and fear taught him to hide his more devilish features, and he has spent the years as an average tiefling, working as a mercenary, bounty hunter, anything to get by. Now he wanders Faerun, never settling for fear of being driven away again.

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Commission work by the incredible @darpart of my beloved first DnD character and recent BG3 Tav, Vatyrie Avaris. I am blown away by her work in capturing this bold bastard of a ranger! He is a homebrew tiefling subrace (Demi-devils or purebloods) who have retained more diabolic features and abilities through strict preservation of their infernal bloodlines. As a banished noble, he became a gloomstalker ranger who uses an enchantment on his necklace (depicting the Avaris House crest) to blend in as a normal tiefling.

More in depth explanations of his appearance can be found here!

A fic featuring Vatyrie in the world of BG3 (mostly with Astarion) can be found here!

More art: More Art; And More; And Look, even More!

More Character lore: House Crest; Love Chart; Astarion x Vatyrie relationship meme; Nautiloid Abduction; Camp/Relationship Dialogues; Scar History; Voice Barks/Quips; Vicious Vatyrie Mockery; OC Info

Follows, likes, and rb are greatly appreciated! Thanks for stopping by!

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justavulcan · 5 months

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Backgrounds With Class: Izzet Engineer

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.

Izzet Engineer

The Izzet Engineer Artificer is a study in contradictions. Temperamentally, he’s the quintessential vedalken- cool, calm, orderly, and precise. When it comes to the subject of his work, though, he’s exactly the opposite. His area of expertise is pyrodynamics, and he specializes in demolitions magic. When asked about the contradiction, he’s as likely to say that destruction should be no less calculated for maximum efficiency than anything else as he is to crack a rare smile and say simply that it needs to be done.

The Izzet Engineer Barbarian was lab security before his accident, mostly internal in case the mephits or weirds break containment somehow. Turns out that his chemister employer was experimenting with tri-elemental weird fusions, though, and the massive surge of wild magic that resulted contaminated everyone in the lab that didn’t meet an untimely end. Now the wild magic is in him, too, triggered by the surge of adrenaline brought on by combat. Accordingly, and in the spirit of testing the results of the accidental experiment, he’s been involved in a lot more field work lately.

The Izzet Engineer Bard is preoccupied with bringing life to the lifeless. Motion in general has been an interest of his from gobling on the streets to assistant in the lab, and it’s always fascinated him how the world acts around moving things. Gifted with a keen sense of timing, he claims to be able to keep the rhythm of the universe, and his ability to magically pull that rhythm to reality is his greatest pride and joy. If you need someone who knows how to get something somewhere sometime, he’s your man.

The Izzet Engineer Cleric has never been a high-concept member of the League, instead focusing on the materials fabrication. Attached to things they can work with their hands, they’ve made thousands of miles of piping and scaffolding in their career, and have even supplied housing, capacitors, and other more technical equipment for a variety of projects in the League. Low-key indispensable and firm in their desire to one day be working with guild-trademark alloys like mizzium, their faith draws from the raw confidence that with the proper tools, and the right material, anything is possible.

The Izzet Engineer Druid is an unusual member of the League in that she hates spending time in the lab. Bound to a fire elemental companion of her own and planning one day to be a one-woman foreman, her real ambition is to serve as one of the guild’s elementarii. Weirds and their creation have always fascinated her, and her willingness to field-test anything even remotely related to the topic has made her a popular contractor for testing handheld equipment.

The Izzet Engineer Fighter, like his father and older brothers before him, has always been a dab hand with the crossbow. The family business is support and assistant work for the chemisters of the Izzet League, and he’s always wanted to be a scorchbringer. The old man says you always need an edge, so to set himself apart, he’s audited engineering courses at the guild workshops and started making new ammunition for his ‘bow- enhancements of energy and matter, making some truly unique shots possible. His designs have recently caught one of the lesser magisters’ eye, and now he’s on track to become one of the guild’s best combat engineers and troubleshooters.

The Izzet Engineer Monk was caught in an electro-galvanic storm as a youth and hasn’t been the same since. Infused with raw elemental energy and adopted by the scientists whose work took the lives of his parents, she spent much of her youth brawling and scrapping on the street until she suddenly- explosively- cut loose with a thunderwave. Her adoptive parents, hearing of the incident, took her into the Laboratory of Storms and Electricity to see if there’s more to the storm’s changes than her perpetually windblown hair and the crackle of ozone that follows her.

The Izzet Engineer Paladin sees herself one day as not just a scorchbringer, not just a security chief on a project, but the champion of the Izzet League. She’s not much of an inventor herself, but there’s always room for a strong back and a will to fight in the League, clearing abandoned structures for refurbishment and engaging in one of modern Ravnica’s countless small-scale military action. The day is coming, she can see, that she sprints into battle bearing the latest and greatest of her League’s tech.

The Izzet Engineer Ranger joined the Izzet combine under unusual circumstances. A kraul and formerly a farmer in the Undercity, she used to deal with all kinds of run-off from the Izzet laboratories above contaminating her food until one day a weird washed down the pipes. After putting it down, she went to the laboratory to demand they reroute their sewage, and left hired as the official run-off and chemical waste technician under the League's employment, as well as underground security. Now, she handles the access tunnels and piping for a network of laboratories, growing increasingly interested in wielding a scorchbringer.

The Izzet Engineer Rogue has a dirty job, for the Izzet League. Officially on the payment records as an outside consultant, she is one of the League’s idea thieves. When guildless engineers hit on something the League can use but refuse to sell, she seeks them out and makes sure their designs and experimental materials fall into the hands of someone who can use them. She doesn’t mind the work; the challenge is nice, and although she has enough technical know-how to make modest progress herself, she is much more comfortable cracking locks and dodging security.

The Izzet Engineer Sorcerer is a natural talent at storm summoning, but when a stray bolt fried their clan’s shaman, they fled the Gruul to take up with the other guild that likes lightning. Among the Izzet, their talent is looked down upon for the more primitive flavor they bring with it, but none can argue with the results. As-is, they ended up doing the scut work of keeping maintenance tunnels clean and smoothly running, a dull job with a lot of hands-on ground-level know-how involved.

The Izzet Engineer Warlock has had an unorthodox apprenticeship. Instead of working with and learning from a chemister or blastseeker, she made a deal when she joined the guild to work under a water djinn. He gave her a disused segment of water-cooling piping, part-time work at two labs, and a promise of an arcane engineer’s manual in the future. She’s making the best of it so far, helping with her colleagues’ experiments where she can and faking her way through the rest.

The Izzet Engineer Wizard is, predictably, fascinated by conjuration magic. Themself a weird brought to life by a magister’s experimental elemental summoning, gifted with an unusual spark of intelligence for elemental plasm, it is small wonder their talents tend toward the calling of things- and, eventually, beings. Crackling with life and lightning, limber as a stream of molten mizzium, they’re as mercurial in interest and focus as any magister of their guild, a role they hope one day to fulfull.

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magnoliidae · 2 months

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Love just slowly smushing around colors from my favorite (default) palette around on the canvas // wip

#my art #gloomstalker #dnd character art #wip art #mal’s dnd tag #zombie acrobat #lol I finally settled on a name so I guess I should update that tag but also I don’t want to :-)

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jzibbles · 20 days

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dark urge,, the · 10-20 hrs, clipstudiopaint

Last year, Baldur's Gate 3 took so many hours of my life and I have no regrets. !!!

I'm currently playing a ranger-bard durge on our second run (first go at tactician, we're in act III now). it's super fun! I headcanon that my durge loves monies (started rogue thief), got lazy for a bit (I put the min in min max), got depressed and regressed into murderous ways for a bit (gloomstalker), but after uhhh playing his lyre for his enemy's corpses out of memery, realizes that.... Playing music is actually fun? Or something. But still has to pull some weight (ranger bard), haha. He is now kind of in his belated high school emo rock moment. As emo rock as you can be playing bard dance on a lyre, anyways. (Mostly I wanted to try a support role.)

Yes, my durge's in game name is actually "dark urge,, the" . This is because our first try when I specced durge, I was "dark urge, the" , but my partner specced into paladin then immediately broke his Oath so we had to restart. SMFH.

Timelapse coz it's fun:

Yes, originally I wanted to draw a much meme-ier thing -- when "dark urge,, the" first started playing the lyre. Ah..... the poor populace.

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Ehem! This was fun to draw. I mostly wanted to practice composition & lighting / rough rendering w this piece. I've gotten too used to rendering fine details that I'm not so used to thinking about the legit bigger picture, so this was a fun exercise for that. The color palette was also a fun challenge, you can see it actually started very different looking. Here was a mid-progress shot.

Hm ha, I'm glad I kept pushing it. The final piece looks way better than I'd hoped it could be. SFX are still new to me, so they're kinda eh, but not too bad for an early go.

Was it necessary to put the name on the final image? Yes. In Copperplate.

#baldurs gate 3 #clip studio paint #fanart #dragonborn #dungeons and dragons #dark urge #the dark urge #bard #rogue #gloomstalker #ranger

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awacatto · 9 months

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Fullbody commission for a owlin, they are so cool to draw I love rendering wings :)

#dnd charcter art #dnd art #dnd commission #trans artist #digital painting #own style #artists on tumblr #autistic artist #commission open #drawing commisions #dnd owlin #gloomstalker

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kovah · 1 year

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Sinda Fireclaw - A Tabaxi/Lycan Dragon Aspect Monk now with Ranger levels and Gloomstalker. AKA - Obnoxiously red firecat can now hide in shadows.

She is a glorious menace and I love her.

#tabaxi #dragon #lycan #monk #gloomstalker #dnd #dungeons and dragons #d&d #illustration #wotc #dnd5e #5e #fantasy

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twigby-art · 8 months

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Saoirse, My Ranger.

#She's a hot mess tbh #gloomstalker #dnd oc #dnd art #character design

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salokorai · 1 year

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After doing this campaign for almost half a year, I finally got to finish this nice group drawing of my player's characters!

From left to right we've got: - Literal grumpy dad Calahan Victus De Sang (Oath of Conquest Paladin/Undead Patron Warlock) - Pro hedonism and unionized pirate Sepphaira (Swashbuckler Rogue/College of Blades Bard) - "Then Perish" Freyn Ulfgar (Undeath Domain Cleric) - Golden retriever energy Yaku Ca (Gloomstalker Ranger)

#dnd #homebrew #player characters #paladin #oath of conquest #cleric #undeath domain #warlock #gloomstalker #ranger #swashbuckler #pirate #rogue #bard

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houseplantcreature · 4 months

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So... I kind of popped off with a friend's Christmas present this year

(really hoping these don't upload blurry, i swear they're in hi-res... please tell me if they're blurry!)

I have a friend who's a huge fan of playing rangers, so I drew two of his characters as his christmas present! The one on the left/bottom is Saravyn, gloomstalker ranger (he has previously appeared in my art as Katya's boyfriend, but he is truly terrifying when he wants to be). The one on the right is Kyrene, an equally-strong but much more friendly ranger blessed by the Book of Righteous Deeds.

#dnd #ranger #ranger art #gloomstalker #dnd5e #5e #christmas #present #art #drawing #character design #oc #woods #fire #feywild

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cool-frog-hours · 4 months

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