#neogi

[driderwife]

[ pregnancy tw ]

New githyanki character im making ! Hes a sh’ukyani (the egg layers lolll) and his boyfriend is an evil neogi >:) 🥚💕

#pregnancy tw #my art #dnd art #dnd #githyanki #neogi #forgotten realms #gith #Tryth

[dailyadventureprompts]

do you have anything on the Neogi?

Coincidentally this ask came in around the same time as I'd watched the above video and had a lot of disagreements with it (in addition to being annoyed out of my brain by the editing style).

In my opinion: the Neogi are actually a great villain monster because in their role as merchants/slavers of the cosmos they embody the most monstrous aspects of capitalism IE the willingness to reduce other living things into commodities for the sake of self enrichment.

Several lore entries on the Neogi refer to their mindset as "utterly alien" because they see all life as property. This makes me laugh because all you have to do is spend any time around Anarcho-capitalists and you'll hear people who are so far up their own profit-driven-asses that they'll not only defend the property rights of slave holders, but the "rights" of impoverished people to sell themselves and their families into slavery.

We live in a world today where people who need medicine that costs pennies to make have to go into life-ruining debt in order to afford living another month, year, etc. None of us are truly free when all of us need water, food, shelter, and yet all of these things cost money, forcing us to work to continue our existence. In this way, you can see the funhouse mirror logic of Neogi thinking it's reasonable to use magical compulsion to force others to do their bidding. What's the difference between the Spider-merchants using their mindbeams to force someone into indenture, and a grain merchant who jacks up their prices during a famine? It's just good business, and at least the Neogi are honest about it.

Conversely, their position as merchants puts them in an interesting place in the monstrous rogue's gallery. Unlike most other enemies the party is going to fight, the Neogi are willing to cut a deal. You could probably pay them to stop their villainous plan, or even outright help the heroes... it's all just a matter of whether or not the party is capable of meeting their price ( materially or ethically). Failing that, they can just show up as sketchy merchants provided you avoid any and all comparisons to Watto

They also have great utility in causing other adventures to happen, whether it be in transporting strange creatures that will inevitably escape, or kidnapping the party to sell off on a hostile world.

While I'm at it, check out my take on umberhulks, the default Neogi henchman.

#neogi #villain merchant #spelljammer #leng #villain psionic #footnotes on foes

[dnd-smash-pass-vs]

The Neogi! 3 ft (0.9 m) venoumous spider-dicks with a hairy sack. They're xenophobic ruthless slavers whose only ability is being able to mentally enslave people in a fraction of a second. Seriously, this isn't a "culturally they're slavers," it's apparently just hard-wired that they consider EVERYTHING as descending tiers of slaves and owners. They think it as fundamental a part of the universe as...well, thier ability to enslave creatures at a glance. They have slaves, if they work for someone thier boss is thier master but they're a slave that still has slaves, everything is seen in an ownership relationship. There has been a single god-forged exception in decades of writing, to everyone else the world is either prey, slave, or both.

Also, basically every creature in existence despises these things. Celestials, demons, undead, doesn't matter, they'll put aside their differences momentarily if it's to beat up one of the universe's most hate worthy creatures.

#look they're in the book and sentient so they go in the tourney #If they pass the qualifiers...like I'll put them in but will be seriously concerned about all of you. #neogi #dnd #dnd5e #DnD 5e #d&d #smash or pass #5e #monsters of the multiverse #mpmm #cw slavery

[leavingautumn13]

spelljammer npcs for this campaign i'm writing [individual portraits under the cut]

(and by spelljammer i mean 80s spelljammer put in a blender with two campaigns worth of lore, not the 5e book. sorry, i haven't read it)

#spelljammer #dungeons & dragons #d&d #tiefling #warforged #drow #gnome #neogi #illithid #long post #i might actually get to run this and i'm super excited #anyway #autumn.art #autumn.fandom #autumn.oc #oc: thelxiope #technically they're all ocs but whatever #physically i'm here. mentally i'm in the astromundi cluster. #feel free to ask me about this campaign. it's forgotten realms with homebrew flavoring. #stuff like this is really where you can see my art style come through. winged eyeliner and eye bags #because the horrors are incomprehensible but you've still gotta serve #oc: rahifa #oc: hrissock #oc: euphemia

[sheppi-isometrics]

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#art #digital art #dnd #pathfinder #foundryvtt #dungeons & dragons #dnd creature #illustration #pathfinder monster #fantasy monster #level 6 #aberration #neogi #spider #crystal sphere

[redcapmcnasty]

(Currently unnamed) Neogi Deathspider captain-owner, I have made for a project. A wicked and dastardly creature, but not without his vices and fully capable of being reasoned with (for a price).

#ellie draws things #Neogi #Spelljammer #dnd art #d&d #spelljammer art

[jaffre]

lays down seductively

#my art #dnd #neogi

[daemons-and-deathrays]

An Editor's Look at Clueless Lore - The Cosmos and The Cage

For you, dear reader, I have a compilation of notes and records detailing strange things around the prime and the planes.  While much of it deals with Clueless Lore, I figure this would be a fascinating way to observe ignorance and arrogance around reality… to say nothing of righteous planar Sigil mentality! Author’s Note: Two posts in two weeks!  ABSOLUTE MADNESS, I know.   And yes, part of this…

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#Forgotten Realms #Nentir Vale #neogi #Planescape #spelljammer

[educationaldm]

Kicking off World Space Week, here are some more official WotC Spelljammer Art pieces.

I love the #Neogi #Nightspider ship, and the two DM Screen Covers by Julian Koch and Jedd Chevrier are stunning.

#World Space Week #WotC #Wizards of the Coast #DnD #D&D #Dungeons and Dragons #Art #Neogi Nightspider #DM Screen #Dungeon Master #Julian Koch #Jedd Chevrier #Space #Spelljammer

[dailyadventureprompts]

Monsters Reimagined: Thri-Kreen

D&D lore has never been kind to human/animal hybrid characters, especially to those who resemble animals stereotyped as being “evil”, such as gnolls or lizardfolk. This goes double for Thri-kreen the game’s default bugpeople, who etither get no lore at all, or get a few paragraphs describing how they don’t have emotions or personalities and see most other humanoids merely as food.

That’s the personality of a monster species, not a player option, and that general flatness of concept is expressed by almost every piece of thri-kreen art: depicting them mostly naked in a barren landscape brandishing a weapon at something.

While there’s a few seeds of interesting worldbuilding in the different versions of the Thri-Kreen , I’ve found the best way to make them conceptually rich is to continue my trend of combining two lackluster bits of canon into something distinctive, in this case, the mostly forgotten race of creatures known as dromites, who share the Thri-Kreen’s traits of being insectoid and psionic, but have a lot more interesting notes about their culture, Here’s What I’ve come up with:

The “Kreen” evolved on a distant world as a singular psionic hivemind, functioning much in the way you’d expect any colony of insects might save their ability to learn and retain information was far greater than that of any simple arthropod. Developing knowledge of engineering and magic that let them spread across the planes, they eventually suffered some kind of disaster that caused their hivemind to dissolve, leaving the “Thri-Kreen” as free willed individuals for the first time, where as before they were merely fragments of a consciousness that spanned planets.  The chaos was immediate, as if each organ and cell of a single body suddenly gained awareness, forcing the fragments of what was arguably a single world spanning organism to begin constructing cultures and civilizations from scratch.

While in the many millennia since the end of their hivemind have seen the Mantises take numerous different paths, the concept of “wholeness” is a reoccurring theme. The name “Thri-Kreen” literally means “un-whole”, referencing their psionic bond with one another, and hearkening back to their undiminished “Kreen” or “whole” state of the distant past. This search for wholeness leads the Thri-Kreen to live in small, closely bonded groups where each individual may be in contact with every other individual, much in the same way that creatures in cold climates will stick together to share bodyheat. While it’s not unsusual for smaller groups to break off from a larger one, absolute isolation is considered to be a terrible state for a Thri-Kreen.

Outsiders who come into contract with the Mantisfolk would describe them as a strange mix of dependant and standoffish: offering help without ever being asked but challenging every opinion ever voiced. This is because unlike most mortals, who tend to become resistant when their opinions are challenged, Thri-Kreen seek group consensus above all and when faced with a crisis will begin checking their ideas against others to throw their weight behind the best option possible. This leads to Thri-Kreen settlements being largely non-hierarchical, through prone to sudden political swings.

Thri-Kreen are mostly genderless, through groups looking to expand ( or larger enclaves looking to maintain their population) will yearly elect “queens” and “consorts” for the reponsibility of producing young.  Most other species mistake these individuals as leaders of the Thri-Kreen, when really their job is to fuck for days to months at a time.   Smaller, nomadic groups of Mantisfolk gather together to have these sorts of elections, and the young are divided equally to be raised by the different packmembers as they enter their pupation stage.

 The umberhulks that populate the underdark and slave pens of the cruel neogi bear an uncomfortable resemblance to present day Thri-Kreen, hearkening to the fact that while many of their kind found new beginnings across the astral sea after the dissolution of their singularity, many others found terrible ends. Likewise, the clockwork horrors that swarm across spelljammer ships and junkworlds communicate in a codified form of the Thri-Keen language, hinting at the existence of what might be an extinct conclave of mantisfolk engineers, or a hidden coterie of insectoid artificers intent on recreating their kind’s previous numbers in metal.

#monsters reimagined #writing advice #dnd #dungeons and dragons #d&d #5e #thri-kreen #dromite #spelljammer #plains #field #savannah #neogi

[thousurroundingverdure]

#Chitra Neogy #women of color #actress #the premonition #arrow video #cult movies #cult cinema #cult horror

[leavingautumn13]

the astromundi cluster certainly is a place [spelljammer scribble comic]

[Rahifa and Hrissock are npcs in a campaign i'm writing]

#spelljammer #d&d #dungeons & dragons #neogi #astromundi cluster #am i tagging a module that came out in 1993? hell yes i am #spiders tw #in case hrissock's little tarantula paws skeev anybody out #autumn.comic #autumn.art #autumn.fandom #''hrissock doesn't look like the official neogi artwork'' listen i got speculative biology brainworms real bad okay #just go with it #autumn.oc #oc: rahifa #oc: hrissock

[dwter]

if you donate blood they will tell u ur blood type 4 free ^_^ it’s definitely worth it. <- lying.

:OOO this is so good to know bc ive always wanted to donate Pause . they used to do a day at my school where 17+ students and teachers could donate blood and i rmr i was so excited to become a senior and be old enough to do it but obviously that stopped when the pandemic came

#ask #and i think im no longer iron deficient so maybe i rly can YAAAAAS #thank u neogie catKISS 🌟 #neoriots

[forumelettrico]

La Colonnina Neogy Fast situata a Bressanone BZ in Via Brennero 1: una Alpitronic con due CCS da 50 kW singolo a 2x25 kW parallelo, con un look futuristico e slim https://www.forumelettrico.it/forum/colonnina-neogy-fast-2xccs-bressanone-bz-via-brennero-1-t28156.html #Bressanone #bolzano #neogy

#Bressanone #bolzano #neogy

[jaffre]

a little neogi caravan

#my art #dnd #neogi #damn this is so small #anyway #had fun #love these little guys

[daemons-and-deathrays]

Strange Tales of Space Beyond

Oh, hey!  It’s another post! Author’s Note: May I be free of these shackles, free of D&D.  None the less, I had ideas while I was writing my previous bit…  So here you go!  One last look at Spelljammer, at least for a long time.  That new book still burns me out, especially having to explain the Flow instead of Astral Sea.  But, discard the meaninglessness in search of meaning…. or something like…

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#Advanced Dungeons and Dragons #body horror #gnomes #magitech #neogi #Planejammer #Planescape #spelljammer #Spelljammer Campaign Setting #steampunk #totally not Tzimisce #Tzimisce #wildspace