Horrid Vamp Man

IMMACULATE (2024) dir. Michael Mohan

An exchange gift for @qusok that I had a lot of fun with 😆 Poor Ismark is trying his best.

A random scene from our last session

You’re the patron saint hunter.

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Playing with Procreate brushes and the CoS: Torch Rahadin.

The Abbot of Saint Markovia.

"But how can you justify a player character with a (non-disinherited) noble background in a dungeon-crawling fantasy game" well, the most obvious approach is a fantasy setting whose nobility practices cognatic primogeniture where, instead of "first son inherits, second son goes into the military, third son becomes a priest", it's "first son inherits, second son goes into the military, third son becomes an adventurer". From the player's perspective, it handily explains why the title comes with little material support from the family; from the family's perspective, there's an unspoken understanding that most of the spare heirs will be eaten by a dragon (or whatever), thereby simplifying the inheritance situation, and the few survivors will become great assets.

(There is, of course, the possibility that a surviving third son, having grown powerful and understandably harbouring some slight resentment, may return, kill his elder brothers with dark magic, and take over the dynasty, but in practice this almost never happens.)

... couldn't Adventuring just be the fantasy equivalent of "Father send me to the War against the French to learn command and bravery". Except it's dungeons, magic and monsters.

Unfortunately not. One of the reasons it was traditional for the second son to go into the military is because it carried a warrior's prestige without being especially dangerous in practice; any noble family of means would be able to purchase them an officer's commission that would keep them off of the front lines, and you don't actually want the second son to be in constant mortal peril, because you need a backup heir in case the eldest son dies unexpectedly. Being an adventurer – at least as depicted in most fantasy dungeon-crawler settings – carries too much real danger to play that role.

I just think he is very neat

Some Strahd doodle from a little bit back! If you get it, you get it :))

recovering from food poisoning! here are some doodles to loosen my hand for commissions again! feat. A party member asked to the St. Andral priest "how to become someone like sergei" and his response is "unshakeable faith". additionally some doodles of younger rahadin and alek!

he is the ancient he is the land he is the right cunt

Curse of Strahd in Hades style

Let's see .... The main cast of our favorite Draculastic DnD module in one of my favorite game art style

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commissioned work

One of tonight's warm ups... they keep each other on a short leash. <3

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Not every Hunter relishes the thrill of the hunt. Another Soulstober entry! I have also just sent my Soulstober book to the printer. Very excited to have the artbook soon!

I am so tickled by the thought of Daniel’s family seeing him at almost 80 branch out into a new social circle comprised of beautiful men in their 20s and 30s that are also the most intense and bizarre people anyone’s ever met and worse now Dad is acting Exactly Like Them

Holy Sepulchre Cemetery