Given What Happened I'll Say Law Enforcement.

So pretty! Must remember this if I ever end up running a game in that setting.

Syngorn Map Yo

Made one for my campaign in Tal'dorei and wanna share with anyone who may need one for their games. Enjoy!

Reblogging so I remember. Character research. I’ve made a half-elf, with a drow mother & half-drow father, raised in drow society particularly in a temple of Lolth. They worship a different goddess currently in the campaign, but it’s good know their roots better.

The Descent of the Drow

Requested by @adrainea​ for the lore giveaway.

Part 5 of 5: Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes & Beyond

So where are we now? On May 18th/ May 29th 2018 (digital version/hard cover) WOTC released Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, and along with it some changes to this tale. Here’s my summary relevant to drow, though I highly encourage looking at the supplement its self. There’s much more to add, but I’m only including what is relevant to the question: What did dark elves do to become drow/banished? 

Elves were formed from drops of Corellon’s blood when he fought a godly war against the orc god Gruumsh. Corellon was like “oh neat” and adopted these blood spawned beings as his children

He favoured a few of them and made them the Seladrine gods. One of them would become Lolth.

Corellon had no fixed form, Corellon could be a flock of birds, a woman, a man, a river. Like Corellon, elves too had no fixed true form and could choose.

One day Lolth picks a form, names herself Lolth and tells the other elven gods that they should choose fixed forms as well to have power and impact on the universe.

The some elven gods agree, some do not. Elves become divided into those who agree with Lolth and those who agree with Corellon.

Lolth tries to kill Corellon for her usual reasons, fails, Corellon finds he can no longer trust his children and casts out ALL elves from Arvandor – they get pushed into the Feywild where they now have fixed forms, even those who stood by Corellon. (?)

The elves decide to explore Toril and other lands because they are naturally curious and emotional creatures, hungering for new experiences after the loss of their “father.”

Some elves continue to worship Corellon, some Lolth, some other gods.

[I get on a plane in several hours so no time for arts. Please enjoy this art “ Temple of Lolth “ by Julian Kok, featured in Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes] Closing thoughts:

Drow who repent can be gifted this ability to change form (biological sex) after a long rest. New lore states that all elves worshipped Lolth, not just the Ilythiiri. But they stopped and it was the dark elves who did not pull back. Whether this means all dark elves or only the Ilythiiri, is unclear.

If there’s a core thing to take away from MTOF it’s that: Drow aren’t born evil, not by race. They have a history, culture and environment that encourages certain behaviours. Remove them from that environment and they have a chance to change. If a drow, orc, or goblin, where born say in a good aligned city, grew up with humans, they would pretty much act as a human would, think and have values as their peers would. They’d look different, sure, their biology would have some effects, yeah. But they aren’t “born evil”. If you’re playing a drow (born in the Underdark into drow culture) it’s likely they will struggle with this inner darkness for a very long time, perhaps forever. And that’s fine. Such things are what make drow so thrilling to play. Despite being set up from birth to be drawn to darkness, they may overcome it, or use it in productive ways. I’ll leave you with this Paarthurnax quote, because I adore it and it’s relevant. “What is better ? to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort ?” ~ Paarthurnax, Skyrim Be well friends, and may your characters be as varied and complex as you wish them to be.

Milo!!! He was my hero growing up. Atlantis makes me so nostalgic and it still holds up.

tonite’s wisdom: milo atlantis….cute

Reblogging... I cannot be mean to Gundam Tanaka.

reblog to give gundam tanaka a hug

ignore if u want him to cry

Reblog to remember this. This is awesome. So many memories.

it is pretty annoying how the fandom erases shaggys flaws to make him into a uwu precious scoobie snack babie…like hes a coward that when push comes to shove isnt there to help out his friends lmao

Persona 4 Dancing All Night... Is this the return of demon contacts?

I love this movie, family, fun & how pressure forms cracks.

Reblog if you love this movie

A bit delayed, but the group portrait of the Tal'Dorei Council, my piece for @artists-guild-of-exandria Tourist's Guide to Taldorei, IS DONE!!!

From left to right: Elderbern Cleareyes, Odessa Tal'Dorei, Kel'jaia Uleoh, Brom Goldhand, Allura Vysoren, Syldor Vessar, Tofor Brotoras, Keyleth of the Air Ashari, Lady Vex'ahlia de Rolo and Dierdrik Greyspine.

This took forever but I'm really happy with the result and I hope you all like it!

✨do not repost my art | Reblogs are love✨

Wow 😯

Sol Koroleva 𝓈𝒽𝑒𝓇 @soldatsot https://twitter.com/soldatsot/status/1123606012060098561

Awesome recap!!! Looking forward to this! 😇

D&D Presents Panel

General stuff

this a show under the D&D presents banner, their focusing in on new D&D materiel and showing it off

Chris tries to do spoiler free sessions and jumble around the adventures from the book

it’s being live streamed on twitched and being posted on youtube after, THERE WILL BE A PODCAST VERSION.

It’s coming out early 2020, there’s probably going to be a session 0

Mica is going to eat the dice one day

I’m now only using the term ‘Math Rocks’ for dice now

Characters

Shady- Valance Knight, Teifling wild magic sorceror, ‘Vale’ was disowned at 15, was the first person in his town with magic. accidentally caused some shit. people want him dead. is pretty much like Elsa (who is that). Has a silver orb with strange ruins

Anna- Delviny pine, Half-elf bard, is known for being a story teller, is one the look for more stories, I might accidently call her Poppy lol. Lore College, Mark of detection. Has a deed of land for somewhere she doesn’t know

Mika- Sasuna (I don’t know how to spell the last name) , Levistus Tiefling Cleric, Tragic past, tricked into a cleric pack with a death god. has a small silver skull

Nate- Reiner, human fighter, ALIVE PARENTS AND FAMILY!! GOOD LIFE is woke about his privileged, was an order of the gauntlet, refuses magic. has a piece of obsidian that always feels warm(IS IT MAGIC?!?!)

How they meet

Reiner is the lynch pin, is trying to put together the party, these guys were at the bottom of his list. 

group name is T.O.R.C.H = the only red crab here

Setting

WE BE IN THE PERKINSVERSE MY BOIS, 

MIni series in the fandlin area, will be previewing 2020 big story

Q&A questions

Q: Will there be crossovers? A: YES chris is always open to crossovers

Q: are other D&D stuff being brought into the show? A: Chris is very open about the players wanting to bring in stuff as long as the have a good reason.

Spelljammers stuff is happening!

Q: are any of the cast canonically trans or NB? A: They haven’t thought about it yet

Q: will the stream format be similar to DCA? A: Yes, the want to update it a bit

Q: Will this be all ages friendly? A: Chris is aiming for 12 and up. there will be occasional swearing. so 13+

Q: Will be there be accents? A: Anna is tortured about this, she wants Delviny to have a different voice from her. | Mika will probably do a difference cadence. | Nate doing a different cadence as well. | Vale is remembering how to form sentences.(Like Star)

Q: How long will the episodes be? A:1 hour 45 minutes is their aim

Q: Will they be doing other streaming platforms? A: they don’t know exactly, but the producers are most likely 

Q: Most emotional moments for previous characters? A:Shady going to bring his father back to life and give a youth potion was acid instead. | Mika had a Beastmaster Ranger is in a depressed spiral and finds a white wolf, | Nate does not know there are so many | Anna; there are so many, Evelyn planning her death for her sacrifice | Chris; that time he TPK’ed and didn’t feel anything