Where I post my DnD Art

This will mostly have illustrations by me because Larkspurs player wasn’t involved because her side quest was a day ahead of us.

Now that Doorune is dead, we continue through the evil underground lair and explore a bit - we find a hatch that leads into the lake, some supply rooms with rotting foods, and a ladder that leads to a sewer grate of a street in Laketowns shipyard district. We keep this in mind for when we’ll have to leave later.

So after going through most of Monroe’s evil unground lair, we come to the secret room in the back that seems to be his evil underground office. He isn’t there, there's just a bunch of treasure and a mahogany desk. 

After the incident with the exploding the desk, Leswen, Erindur and Rocks stay in the hallway while Frank and Belladonna investigate the room.

While Belladonna looks around the treasure for Monroe’s shard, while Frank tries to figure out the desk. Turns our the desk is some kind of puzzle with mechanisms to unlock the drawers. He takes time to figure out; in the drawers there is nothing, except the top one has an unopened letter. 

He opens the letter, and inside there is only a calligraphed phrase;

SESSION 9

Larkspur finishes her side quest after her, Elladan and Elrohir raid a dungeon and kill a cave troll. 

In the beginning of her side quest session, Elladan recites to her a poem titles “Oh Larkspur” which was actually a late birthday gift from the DM to her player IRL. 

I don’t remember most of Larkspurs encounter because I was in the othe room while it was being done, I do remember however that she is a day ahead of us, and they get the shard back, so Larkspur can now Naruto run back to us.

THIS DIDN’T ACTUALLY HAPPEN

So I am quarantined (again), so I have to miss the next DnD session probably (we will try videochat tho) so the DM considered running me as a NPC.

I had the crazy idea that maybe Monroe being an evil genius, who does in fact know who all of us are (didn’t bother going after Leswen or Rocks during fellowship for some reason, DM probably just didn’t think about it), probably put up a trap for Belladonna specifically since she’s our key to getting through dungeons (Burglar class is basically rogue in Middle Earth). A trap made specifically for Hobbits. Belladonna gets past it, but Rocks, who is basically just a human in Hobbit form, does fall for the trap.

Some stuff from our Fellowship phase

Frank spends this time learning a cultural virtue where he lives in the woods like a bear. Thing is though, he has three adopted children to attend to. When the DM is narrating what Frank has been up to, he talks about how he learns how to catch fish with his bare hands and mouth like a bear.

Here we have Rocks taking their adopted human siblings Wayford and Fearn out for a walk around Laketown (they look so weird without a cape/cloak on but meh)

In regular DnD at level 5 you’re a renowned hero with a following. The thing is though, Rocks siblings think they’re lame because they’re 

A) A warden, so basically a bard 

B) They’re in a support tole, not directly fighting a lot 

C) Only 2′6. An average human 10-year-old is 4′5 (the scale for this sketch is not proper, Rocks should only come up to their bellybuttons)

The twins area more enthralled by Rocks party members sans the Healer. Being kids, they are more excited about combatants.

Finally, here we have Leswen and Rocks hanging out at a tavern. They were both in Laketown for fellowship since they live there.

 Elves seemingly don’t get drunk off of non-elven alcohol, so Leswen isn’t affected. Rocks, the second smallest being Leswen has ever met, doesn’t fare very well against her. 

Munroe the evil Laketown Hobbit, our Little Bad Evil Guy for the Laketown Arc

Session 8 “We make a lot of Naruto references”

So after a Fellowship phase where we all biggered our brains and also muscles, we all return to the University of Laketown where we discuss helping Erindur taking back an untakable mountain, but in the months we’ve been gone The Evil Hobbit of Laketown Munroe has gone into hiding because the evidence has now put him wanted in the eyes of the law after years of weaseling his way out of legal trouble. The people of Laketown are in an uproar asking for his arrest for now it’s up to the party to find him, especially since he still has one of the shards.

(Also, during the Fellowship phase we forgot to pay King Thranduil after using the path on Mirkwood. Larkspur doesn’t get in trouble but her king does the whole “I’m not mad I’m just disappointed” and she glares at Belladonna who is now one of the richest people in Middle Earth)

The scholars tell us that the local gang, the Barrelers might be willing to help us if we can convince them.

Frank talks about how he is going to kill Munroe and all of the twisted murderhobo methods, but Rocks steps up and says they should spare him and allow the legal system to deal with him. The gear-turning noises bit is Franks players face IRL being like “Is this hobbit being #$%#ing serious right now”. 

Rocks goes into a monologue about how years ago a former adventurer of Laketown had once gone to the nearby forest after reports of a baby goblin messing with small game traps, and when they cornered it she pulled her bow back, but she stopped and assessed the situation to see it wasn’t a baby goblin at all, it was just a feral child. Then Rocks mumbles something, but claims that sometimes the answer isn’t violence, it’s mercy. 

Belladonna is constantly saying “So was it you?” but they don’t answer. Although this hilarious exchange does follow;

Male Elf Scholar: That is very profound story, for a child.

Rocks: ...Sir, I’m 30.

Male Elf Scholar: But you’re-

Rocks: I’m a Halfling

Male Elf Scholar: But you’re wearing shoes

I IRL look over at the DM and he says until my character stops wearing shoes they will continue to be mistaken as a human child. (Challenge accepted)

Leswen is reminded to use the ‘Drug Rock’ (code name for the Seeing Stone) to maybe find him, but her player rolls bad again so she basically OD’s and attracts the attention of everyone. The Scholars berate us for keeping the stone a secret, because the item lets the Dark Lord Sauron see us. However, Frank takes it and does a rhyme to find Munroe, and his player IRL gets like a NAT 20 so he see’s exactly where Munroe is; he has an subterranean secret base under the harbor district.

The Seeing Stone is put into a case and covered, Belladonna asks for it back but the elves say that it belongs to the elves and also it’s evil. She threatens to steal it and the party tells her to calm down.

Also we all forgot Grypho was there the whole time.

Two legendary elves, Elladan and Elrohir burst into the University and state that the shard they had was stolen and they need help. They take Larkspur since she knows her way around Mirkwood. And now she has her own side quest going on. All three of them Naruto run to Mirkwood.

Rocks tries to ask any of the scholars if they are going to help them get Munroe since they are now minus an elf, but because I IRL used the term ‘college nerd’ which was counted as saying in-game so the Male Elf Scholar feels insulted.

Male Elf Scholar: Oh? You’re calling me a nerd?! Didn’t I see you holding a sign outside of an inn a few weeks ago? *leaves the room in a huff* (Rocks had to learn Trader Savvy during the Fellowship phase so they worked in their families inn as customer service basically.)

So the main party starts towards the Barrelers territory. They pass Rocks families inn, but one of their moms, Daralis, see’s them and Rocks tries to rush them past but Daralis greets them anyways. They say their in a hurry, and continue after Rocks, being a terrible liar, is shushed by Erindur after they almost let is slip they are looking for shards.

So they talk to the Barrellers but they will only take two people to see their leaders. Rocks, the only one with proficiency in traditions and can roll for advantage with charisma, decided to take Frank because he is human.

They are taken to a warehouse with basically a maze, Frank tries to mark their way with this chalk he brought. But one of the barreler grunts sees him doing this.

Grunt: *takes the chalk from Frank* You can have this back when you leave!

(We make a bunch of school teacher jokes at this)

We see the Big Boss of the Barrellers and he’s this huge dude, like 6′5 and throwing full barrels with his bare hands and also no shirt. He and Frank are seemingly very similar.

Rocks is like ‘Hey I’m a Halfling Herald and this is a Human Warrior, we’re after Munroe, you in?’ and the Big Boss is in. The problem is he wants to talk about how he feels like his gang is doing all the work so he wants a 70-30 split instead of 50-50 with the Barellers taking the lions share. 

Rocks gets a nat 20 from advantage, and since they can double the proficiency bonus of persuasion they end up with a 30, so they get the Big Boss to agree to 50-50, so his gang will cause a riot/distraction while we sneak in and get Munroe

Frank gives the guy a map leading to Munroes base, and also makes a monologue about how indiscriminate and destructive fire is. However, this triggers the big boss because Smaugs attack was a mere seven years ago. 

Rocks and Frank leave, but Frank hangs back a little because he’s planning something, no one knows what though.

Session ends for us but LARKSPUR IS HAVING AN ADVENTURE ALSO

In her sidequest they make it to Mirkwood and Naruto run through the trees but they find a group being attacked by orcs. They save the group, but Elladan falls through the leaves onto his ass and Larkspur calls up “Are you okay?” Normally a three-story fall would grievously disfigure a man if it didn’t outright kill him but because of  elven bullshit magic he’s totally fine, just stunned.

A bunch of bats show up and attack the trio so they have to kill all of them (the bats are Saurons remote control drones eyes and ears) One of the bats turns into an attractive woman / vampire.

(For the Laketown arc)

Rocks explaining their adopted human family to Erindur (formerly 'Arendir' I was spelling it wrong)

SEASON 2 DESIGN CHANGES IN: SUPER BEST FRIENDS SHIPPUDEN

Notes: 

Franks only real difference is that he wears a bear mantle/cape now, because during his Fellowship phase he did a culture virtue that allowed him to live like a bear for a couple of months.

Arendir now has an undercut (inevitable)

Leswen cut her hair short and wears her Order of the Blue Cloak

Rocks finally decided to wear a cloak like a regular cloak instead of like a cape like a twat.Interestingly, their current cloak gives them an appearance reminiscent of their Shire-self.

Session 7

After taking out orcs and hobgoblins, the Super Best Friend continue their merry way, but after some ways they hear approaching hooves. Larkspur and Leswen use their super elven bullshit vision to see a band of Riders of Rohan approaching. They explain it to the party, and Rocks the only one who has profieciency in Traditions deduces that they need to speak to the spokesperson (Leswen) and another human (Frank) because they don’t know what Hobbits are and would clash with the dwarf and other elf.

So Arendir, Belladonna, Rocks, Grypho and Leswen hang out in the back as the party takes to the side of the road.

Sure enough the Rohanians stop by them and say that they have been sent by Leswens colleagues from the University in Laketown to bring them back. Leswen rolls perception and see’s that the Rohanians are hiding something, so she presses them for information and they confirm they were hiding something, but it was that the party has been followed by Orcs. Time is pressing.

They once again have to offset paying King Thranduil because now they have to go to Laketown. So they allow to Rohanians to escort them via horse. Not before this exchange though;

Rohan captian: *looks to the three Hobbits* Why are two of your children barefoot?

Frank: These are my charges and I let them do their own thing.

Each party member is with one Rider, with the Hobbits being held in front because of their small size and being mistaken for human children.

Eventually, they are attacked by Orcs riding on Direwolves, and combat begins. Arendir is terrified of horses, so he’s rendered unable to do anything (the *poke* thing is a boner joke we made IRL about that being the real reason he couldn’t fight)

Belladonna using some of her five million Treasure Hunter / Burglar bonuses, takes out most of the Orc riders in one shot, to the absolute shock of the Riders who now think Belladonna is just a demon child. Rocks is just singing their Songs of Slaying, to the *confusion* of their Rohanian.

Leswen spears an Orc to Death, and Frank the absolute mad lad jumps off of the horse and attacks and Orc Rider.

Combat ends, Leswen recollects her spear, the Rohanian who was Belladonna’s Rider is too freaked out to ever mention what she even did.

They continue their way to Laketown, and go to the University. Most of the party stands idle while Leswen talks. They talk about the shards they’ve found, but then one of the evil Hobbit Munroe’s lackeys appear, and he reveals that Munroe actually has another missing shard. They present evidence that Munroe was trying to instigate a race war, and the lackey runs away after Frank threatens him.  

Session 6

Now that the bear has been killed the party loots his hoard, finding a shit ton of treasure and grisly bear meat. The problem is, they have to talk about how to split it, and also how to actually carry it. There’s so much loot, they actually have to talk about weight.

Belladonna obvious gets most of it, because most of the rest of the part isn’t that interested in treasure (Rocks is of a prosperous culture, and Larkspur only cares about nature) They end up burying several barrels worth of gold ore rocks, with Arendir having the discern which rocks have the most gold in them.

Rocks at some point pulls Arendir to the side. They go off on a long-winded story of how they used to do a lot of shrooms when they were young, and now they think this ‘rock’ they found is actually some kind of drug rock (they thought the power of the seeing stone giving them visions was hallucinogens) So they give it to Arendir because dwarves have knowledge of rocks and stones. He realizes the power of the stone and shows it to the party, not before berating rocks for keeping to to themselves. 

“In all fairness, do you really think Human Warrior can handle hallucinations? Have you met the guy?” -Rocks.

Leswen tries to use the seeing stone, but because of her player IRL poor rolls, she doesn’t see anything. Frank takes a jab at it, and by using a SICK RHYME (and his player IRL getting a good roll) not only is he able to use the seeing stone, he can use it to the extent he can actually see EXACTLY where the Munroe, evil hobbit in Laketown who put him in jail, is. He can also see he has another piece of the shard.

Much like the interrupted session from last time, they talk about the anti-poison bracelet, silver sword, and magic ring.

The bracelet is given to Leswen, the silver sword is given to Larkspur. The ring is given to Arendir by Frank. We IRL joke about how Arendir and Frank are now engaged.

The bit about Rocks showing the other hobbits a fidget spinner is a reflection of how I, their player IRL, use a spinner throughout the session for hours because my usual method stimming is crunching dice in my hand, which causes Leswens player to have over-stimulation. 

Almost out of Mirkwood, they come across a shoddy camp of Goblins and Orcs. The party sans the pacifists like Leswen and Rocks decides to kill the party to get them out of the way.

Larkspur and Belladonna decide to sneak inside, they eventually get caught and a fight encounter is started. We have to work our way around poisonous briars and mushrooms in this fight.

Frank takes a rage potion that makes him super strong, but super out of control because neither his race nor class (knight) are adept at handling rage like Arendir. 

We joke around how Rocks singing ‘Songs of Slaying’ is basically heavy metal death growl singing.

Larkspur has seal/cat teeth. She looks cute until she yawns, and then just sharp teeth. 

A digital recolor of an earlier shipping artwork by @bluemewqt

Session 5

They return to the Beornings and rescue Grypho from Franks three unruly children, who spent the whole time tormenting him. They do hug him though, and he isn’t as obsessive as he was earlier over the books from the dungeon.

They get paid for their quest, and they put their noggins together and discover with their information that Munroe the evil Laketown hobbit was trying to instigate a race war, with the help of Orcs and goblins so their next quest was to uproot the scoundrel.

Frank asks Beorn if he knows somewhere where they can scrape enough money to pay King Thranduil, who the party has to pay because he ensured safe passage through Mirkwood so far. It isn’t an easy feat, seeing as King Thranduil is notorious for being greedy AF. Beorn said that there might be an abandoned temple in Mirkwood. 

So they head in that direction and find the abandoned temple. Problem is, there is a sleeping bear inside. A GIANT sleeping bear. Bigger than other bears. They brainstorm ideas, including the healer making sleeping aids/poison, to pit traps. Ultimately, they decide to have Belladonna use stealthy-stealth to steal treasure and bring it back.

Belladonna tries to steal the treasure using stealthy-stealth, unfortunately the bear passes one of his persuasion checks and attacks her, the rest of the party comes inside to her aid.

A long battle, the bear tackles a wall that falls on Frank and Rocks and they almost die via massive damage. Luckily, they pass their saving throws, but they do have to burn an inspiration point to re-roll. Belladonna is also buried under the rubble, but she wasn’t hurt as bad as them, but everyone assumed she was dead. Larkspur digs her out eventually.

They bear requires the absolute effort of everyone, his health is so high. At one point the players IRL joke about calling him fat to do massive psychological damage. 

Larkspurs player IRL had SUPER bad rolls this session, even though she was three feet behind the giant bear she kept missing him. 

The poorly drawn pencil sketch in the middle is Rocks using their persuasion ability to persuade the bear to leave, because the bear was close to dead, and as a Warden killing things outright is not something they want to do. Although they DO successfully convince the beast, it was Frank’s turn next and he was definitely going to stabby-stab it to death after it dropped a wall on him.

The party doing their FINALIES at the end was the players IRL, it was a really long fight. 

The session actually ended here, but the next session was cut short after grabbing loot because of IRL fighting (which happened a little bit in the last session, as you can Larkspur doing the ‘everyone is fighting...’) Here is some sketches from both me and the original artist.

In the session following, we loot through the bears hoard and theres a shit ton of treasure and magic items. 

One of them is a seeing stone that Rocks finds, when it makes them flash through middle Earth they assume that it was a drug laced rock (they did a lot of shrooms when they were younger, so they will always assume drugs before magic) and they hide the stone in their bag, which gives them a shadow point.

Theres also a magic rings that makes you more nimble, we make a proposition joke and Frank says something along the lines on “My people don’t give rings for proposals... You get wood.” And then we all make dick jokes. 

One of them is actually the artist redrawing a scene I did when we were both  doing shipping art together. We joke that the real reason Grypho is so useless is because he spends the whole campaign staring at the muscles of the manly men of the party, and then another that Rocks is technically half a man. (Rocks has a masculine torso but feminine shape / hourglass figure) Their resentment with their hobbit heritage is also so strong that they wear boots even when they sleep.

The obligatory shipping page courtesy of myself and @bluemewqt​

Leswen x Larkspur because they’re both elves and the players are dating IRL.

Belladonna x Frank because they’re both bloodthirsty vicious killers. And their players are also dating IRL. 

Rocks x Larkspur because their players are the ones drawing the shipping pages. 

Bonus page; the real reason why Gypho is so useless during encounters