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Two D&D characters of mine. Sketches of outfits and their portraits.
First one is Anuket Kruidnagel, whom I play in the Waterdeep: Dragon Heist campaign. They are a Tiefling and a “Noble” Bard (College of Whispers). Anuket just likes to create mayhem, drink wine and occasionally solve crimes.
The other is Ibis Clothaire, whom I play in an Eberron campaign. He is a Drow and Paladin (Oath of the Ancients). Ibis is a 200-year old hippy who lived through a horrible war. He plays the Qanûn with passion and just wants to bring the band back together.
Both campaigns are hosted by the amazing Charredlore
The more I read about medieval and Renaissance Venice for the gay fantasy project, the more I realize just how little of Venice is actually present in the Blades in the Dark setting, and how much of it was stolen whole cloth to create Waterdeep in Forgotten Realms.
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Chapter 13- City of Splendors
In which our adventurers finally reached Waterdeep, the Crown of the North, birthplace of our warlock Dante Malaspina (interpreted by me). A city so wide and complex, starting from its bureaucracy and ending with the vast a colourful variety of people that pass through it.
Here’s a brief list of all the things the party has to do while in town:
1) Find a passage to the land of Calimshan
2) Talk with a bunch of wizards
3) Retrieve a diary from a (hopefully) semi-abandoned house.
I’m running a Waterdeep Dragon Heist campaign for some friends and figured I’d try my hand at an art handout for them. So say hello to Lif, former owner of Trollskull Manor! This is meant to be an old portrait of him the players found in the library.
[image description: text that reads: “The people of Waterdeep are among the greatest of its splendors. Fashion, comportment, love–these things are practiced with an art and a zest in the city uncommon elsewhere. Visit a festhall or festival and see for yourself! And don’t miss the cross-dressing performers who regale audiences with humor and song. Fabulous–that word doesn’t begin to describe it, especially when they enhance the merriment with magic. The city is also a haven for those who define for themselves what it means to be a man or a woman, those who transcend gender as the gods do, and those who redefine entirely who they are. What confidence! I never tire of witnessing it. I have seen folk in Waterdeep whose lives are more magical than the marvels possible with spells.” End description.]
i think a huge barrier to d&d, for me, was that it seemed….made for other people. i don’t think i’m alone in thinking that. (also, the first time i ever tried to play was with an asshole ex-boyfriend who kinda ruined the experience but i digress.) d&d seemed exclusionary in a lot of ways.
but anyway. this passage was in a random module book that i purchased randomly without knowing at all what it contained, and maybe it made me cry on this tuesday morning but you can’t prove it. it’s a small thing, really (like, of course in a fantasy land, gender diversity is acceptable!) but it’s still a big thing to see it published in an Official D&D Resource.
A friend commissioned me to draw her beefling, the “mamma bear of the washcourt” and certified Waterdhavian gossip. She’s my bugbear’s adoptive mom. Don’t mess with her loved ones because she has a lot of zeal and a -1 to wisdom
