Joic

The magic isn't based on the weave or some sort of mana or anything, but functions purely on the concept of "The GM's capability of dealing with your bullshit today"

In the part where you're going through your mage training and go to the Fade I was going about my day enjoying the game. Then 16 seconds in the soundtrack suddenly played that high-pitched waterphone sound or whatever sound and I shit you not, my brain completely forgot about the existence of Hell's Kitchen because I thought "This is where the meme is from."

AHHH, almost didn’t make it this month, it’s been quite a doozy! This is my new “Stormlord Joic” avatar/OC, completely original :D He’s supposed to be like, my avatar, because a friend of mine told me that the self portrait I made 2 months ago didn’t look cool enough, so he told me to make a cooler online avatar. So here we are, Stormlord Joic!

I’ll be making a smaller, profile picture version where I’ll have just a faceshot in a month or two. Gotta find the time and will to make it. Anyways, this is my drawing for May. I almost didn’t have the motivation to draw all month, and had to finish it with only a sketch last Saturday. Good thing that I had the time to work on it basically all day on Sunday.

Here are all the versions of my newest artwork, which depicts a friend of mine, Dan, also known on Discord as Loud, dressed in a maid dress. This was part of a joke I made over half a year ago where I said I’d draw him wearing a maid dress. With his permission, I eventually did it. This is purely as a joke, I don’t care much for men in maid dresses, it kind of weirds me out. But even so, I thought it was pretty funny to draw. Even put a leash on him, which I can assure you made it extra sus according to him.

This is my artwork for the month of April, and I’ll be sure to post again in May. If you like my art, go ahead and follow, and I do take simple requests, if you are willing to wait for it to appear in the queue of my list.

I drew a self portrait of myself, this is a depiction of myself as close to reality as I can draw (without it coming out looking like shit). I will say I look a bit old for my age and might’ve used some thicker lines than needed.

This is what I drew for February! This is Johnny Joe (though I mispelled his name and only noticed in post) he’s my player’s character in my Anime Campaign game that is based around Epithet Erased. He’s one of my favorite characters, and he is also one of the onl people that didn’t have a faceclaim, so I drew it for him. I have a version with and without background, hope you guys like it!

Perseus VS Medusa, I made 4 versions.  This is a poster meant to sorta replicate the volume covers of Record of Ragnarok. This is my OC Perseus (representing humanity) versus a friend of mine's OC, Medusa, representing the Gods. This version has the banner in the background.

Makoa

Makoa, everyone’s favorite big tortoise tank with an ankor. Nobody dares challenge Makoa. So let’s ask the question, what would Makoa be in a D&D context.

Once again, I’m gonna go ahead and say race is pretty easy to guess here. Obviously, being a big tanky tortoise, he would be a Tortle, despite his he technically is a deity of sorts. Since he is said to be a “turtle deity” (despite not being a turtle since he has legs for land) he would likely be some sort of divine being. The classes most befitting of Makoa would be either Paladin, Barbarian or Druid. I’ll go into detail about it later in the post, and he might end up multiclassing.

Tortles do not have subraces, so he would be a regular Tortle so we can remain RAW with this. Even so, I should point out that Shell Defense is not his shield ability, as in D&D it does not summon a big shield around him. However, he would likely use it when using Shell Spin. Makoa being 108 (at least) is a bit troubling since Tortles only live up to 50, but we can mark this down as him being some sort of deity.

Next, his class, he first needs access to his Shell Shield, and since neither Paladins nor Druids have any of the necessary spells, we have to get creative. Because of its round shape, Globe of Invulnerability and Wall of Force are the only options. Since neither Druids or Paladins have this spell by default, we must turn to Barbarian, picking the Ancestral Guardian subclass at level 3 and going up to level 6 for the Spirit Shield. Technically it reduces damage, but in this case we’re assuming it nullifies all damage. Next, the Dredge Ancor must be some sort of magic item. We’ll be using the SRD and use the Dragon Hook, which will allow to grapple and pull the opponent, as well as being used for melee combat with the ult. Like with Barik, we’re ignoring the main weapon, in this case his cannon, because of them being built on the Paladins universe’s materials and therefore not having much options for D&D equivalents. Lastly, the question remains. YOU CHALLENGE MAKOA?! His Ancient Rage will not just be a simple Barbarian rage, though it will function with the rage abilities. First we increase our Barbarian level to 9 for Brutal Critical, which will explain the high damage chance. We’ll take 3 levels into Paladin, with an Oath of the Ancients so that you have access to Divine Smite, and you can use Channel Divinity: Turn the Faithless which is simply there for flavor of when you utter the phrase “You challenge Makoa?!” they will be affected. 

Hi y’all, so I got back into Paladins Champions of the Realms a little bit ago, and now I was wondering, what classes and races would all the champions be? There’s quite a few, so I think I’ll go through all of them one at a time.

(Note, this is all up to creative interpretation, and this is just for fun, no drama in comments please)

Here’s an easy one, Barik. Barik is already confirmed as a Dwarf, and from his lore it’s said he’s a skilled inventor and engineer. In a D&D context, this would obviously mean he’s an artificer. So he’s a Dwarf Artificer, but next step is getting to know exactly what kind of character he is.

What kind of Dwarf is tricky, considering the same subraces aren’t present in Paladins. Even so, there isn’t much to look at, since we can already eliminate  Duergar, as aside from his Stone Cut skin, he looks nothing like them. Now, between Mountain and Hill Dwarf, I’d say he’s a Hill Dwarf for one reason. Because he’s a tank, I find it plausible he has the Dwarven Toughness ability.

Now what kind of Artificer is he, what is his level, and what subclass? Well for this, I’ll analyze his abilities, and decide from there. For obvious reasons, we’re going to be ignoring the blunderbuss because everyone in Paladins with a few exceptions use a firearm-like weapon. Barricade is either some sort of magic item, or it’s a wall of force spell, Wall of Force is not an option for all Artificers, only Artillerists and Armorers, meaning he would have to be one of both. Which one becomes quite obvious when you realize what his Turret would have to be, an Eldritch Cannon, with his Turret being a Force Ballista and his Forgefire Ult, a flamethrower. Because of the wall of Force, I’d say he’s a 17th level Artillerist Artificer, utilizing some magic boots that allow him to use his rocket boots ability. He’d be attuned to the boots and his blunderbus. Technically he doesn’t use most of his abilities, but just imagine what he’s capable of knowing this.