#clockwork dragon

Saw this Clockwork Hydra mini by Misty Mountain Gaming at MAGfest and HAD to buy him! Instantly fell in love with him and painted him almost as soon as I got home!

Clockwork Dragon

Art for The Elder Scrolls: Legends

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Behold, the Meat-Wizard Mutophage v2.5

I am once again rolling out an update for the mutophage, class. While not as drastic an overhaul as the last time, this update includes a lot of changes to help balance out what was an overpowered mess in the last release. As well as some incredible new cover art by the wonderful @booogerbox, of thier own Character, Addie!

Long story short, I was going through some rough times when I released v2, and I let myself be pressured into adding or changing a lot of things in the class to make others happy, rather than sticking to what I wanted the class to be. It became a brick shithouse of barbarian, with all the added versatility of a wizard - and besides that being incredibly broken, it's never what the mutophage was meant to be.

V2.5 is no longer an inherently tanky class: yes, you still get a double d6 hit dice, but you aren't throwing out roided-up multiattacks every round, and you can't mutate yourself more resistances than a barbarian. The core idea behind my mutophage has always been to create a flexible alternative to the wizard, that didn't rely on magic. The Mutophage can be a brick wall of shear muscle and DPS, but it is not inherently so. It can also be built as a stealthy infiltrator, or a clever utility. But it cannot do all those things at once. It's not a one-man party anymore.

Some people will probably be grumpy that their god-build is no longer feasible. But those people are more than welcome to just stick to the older version. For the rest of us, this update provides a well-needed nerf and rebalance, to make the class playable alongside core content.

As usual, the Preview here is low resolution. For the high-resolution PDF, with full art credits and links to the artists, check out this handy dropbox link. And be sure to tell me what you think!

This mini was one of the oldest I had! A friend had given it to me badly primed wih bright red wings. I reprimed him, then he sat on my shelf for like 4 or 5 years. I was in a constant state of "I can only paint this super cool mini when I get good enough to give him the paint job he deserves!" Which, if you've ever been in this situation, is never going to happen...

So this week I just went for it.

Today, I finally finished him! I'm so so pleased with how he turned out!