Another round of potions on me
Hey! So this is some pixel art I made. I really like the Mega Man games,
and I had an idea for a boss, so I made a sprite for it! I’m self
taught at pixel art, so it might not be that good, but I’m proud of it
:)
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They desire vengeance!
Move in together. Problem solved
That witch hasn’t said a single word but im calling it now - Himbo.
Also yes move in together, platonically or romantically doesn’t matter, I’d watch the hell out of that wlw mlm solidarity fantasy sitcom anyway.
A fair maiden knocks on the goth lady’s door and says she’s here to find love.
The goth sighs, points across the road and says, “Witch is over there. He doesn’t do love potions because consent but he might be able to make you prettier, although 90% of the time it turns out the spell didn’t do anything but make you more confident.”
The maiden blushes and sheepishly explains that she knows he’s the witch, she just talked to him and he sent her over here.
Goth looks over her shoulder to see the himbo witch standing outside his house giving her a grin and a double thumbs up.
YES TO ALL OF THIS
I support all of this
was talking to some friends about how stupid isekai anime are but it reminded of an idea i had for one called “i got trapped in a fantasy world and all i have is my vintage muscle car!”
it would be a low stakes story about a mechanic, her new elf friend, and a baby dragon (dog) they tame on a road trip through a fantasy world trying to find a way to return her home. think itd make for a fun episodic cartoon. idk.
There was this high fantasy YA novel I spent ages on as a kid, and before I die I do want to come back to it. For now it lurks in my warm-up sketches.
Danganronpa x Final Fantasy job classes: Mikan Tsumiki, the White Mage
Anon asked me to draw Mikan as a White Mage - so the trick was to marry the innocence of the usual white mage outfit with the fan-service Mikan is so strongly tied to. I went with a little cleavage and the Marylin Monroe-esque pose. Then I drenched her in peptobismol because, come on. It’s Mikan.
I didn’t follow a specific outfit for this. I just went with the usual White Make imaginery - and drew whatever felt best for Mikan.
Hope you like it!
Makoto Naegi the Onion Knight - click!
Sayaka Maizono the Songstress - click!
Celestia Ludenberg, Lady Luck - click!
Junko Enoshima, the Puppetmaster - click!
Nagito Komaeda, the Gambler - click!
Kaede Akamatsu, the Bard - click!
Kyoko Kirigiri, the Paladin - click!
Rantaro Amami, the Geomancer - click!
Peko Pekoyama, the Parivir - click!
More inadvisable D&D campaign premises, Wizards Are Awful edition:
- The party is hired by a hedge-wizard to quietly retrieve a recently sold batch of healing potions that’s proven to have certain unintended side effects. Fortunately, the potions have a very distinctive appearance; unfortunately, the bulk of them were sold to a travelling merchant, and the wizard has no idea where the merchant has gone!
- The party encounters a talking cat who insists that it’s a transformed wizard, promising a reward if they retrieve a scroll to break the curse. While searching, they’re met by a toad who claims to be the true wizard and denounces the cat as a traitorous familiar seeking to usurp them. The ensuing argument is interrupted by an owl making the same claim.
- During a stopover on an otherwise uneventful journey, the party are magically snatched from their beds and spirited away to the tower of a mighty archmage. The archmage was attempting to summon a genie, and – being incapable of admitting error – utterly refuses to believe that the player characters are not, in fact, genies.
- A wizard’s experiments have been causing an enormous public nuisance, and the local constabulary has deputised the party to deal with the situation – but not by force. The wizard is infuriatingly good at keeping their villainy within the strict letter of the law, and the party’s mission is to catch them doing something that’s technically illegal.
- The party finds employment at the multiverse’s premier Wizard University, a sprawling institution whose campus includes a separate research department for each of the eight schools of magic. The player characters are not members of any of these departments: rather, they work for the ethics committee.
@sexyshoelessgodofwar replied:
What kind of wizard school has an ethics committee?
The kind that understands the value of plausible deniability.
@specsthespectraldragon replied:
how do I justify banning using zone of truth on the familiars
a. Run it as a low-level adventure; at level 1–2, nobody in the party will be able to cast zone of truth yet
b. Run it for a group that doesn’t know or habitually prepare zone of truth in spite of theoretically being able to cast it
c. All three animals believe themselves to be telling the truth
holdharmonysacred asked:
Vaguely inspired by those posts on isekai VS portal fantasy: Exactly what literary fantasy genre would old school JRPGs like classic Final Fantasy games, or modern JRPGs that pay homage to the classic style like Granblue Fantasy, translate to and/or have evolved from? I mean, obviously you could call that particular flavor of fantasy just "JRPG fantasy", but like. IS there a literary counterpart to it the way you can compare isekai and portal fantasy?
prokopetz answered:
Given that it’s it’s been over three decades, you can point to any number of influences that have crept in along the way, but if you’re talking about origins, that whole genre of video games ultimately traces its roots in large part to Western sword and sorcery fiction as interpreted through the lens of the Japanese localisation of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition.
D&D was huge in Japan during the late 1970s and early 1980s, and a lot of old school console JRPG franchises like Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy started out as more or less direct adaptations of the game. Final Fantasy is particularly blatant about it; it has you fighting mind flayers, displacer beasts, and other D&D-original monsters at various points, and though later ports would switch to a more contemporary MP-based spellcasting system, the original NES version uses an idiosyncratic slot-based spellcasting system that’s basically found in D&D and nowhere else.
(It’s not just video games, of course. Many of the classic fantasy light novels that would later be adapted as foundational fantasy anime have much the same origins; Slayers is a transparent D&D parody, and Record of Lodoss War is literally based on the creator’s college D&D campaign. Amusingly, the English dub of Slayers would go on to become one of the major media inspirations for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition – what goes around comes around!)
I’m struggling to find the source at the moment (Every search I do on YouTube points me at either 16-Bit Gems or any number of GDC lectures, but it was a 90-120 minute, unsponsored, unedited lecture that I intend to keep looking for.), but I’m familiar with a separate set of facts regarding the relationship between DnD and Final Fantasy. It’s entirely possible that I’ve been terribly misinformed, but my understanding was that DnD was very much *not* a major entity in 1980s Japan, and that any influence that game may have had on DQ, FF, and their immediate progeny was indirect. Rather, those franchises were most strongly influenced by the various, contemporary PC adaptations of DnD. Again, I really, really wish I could find my source for this, because the lecturer goes so far as to theorize that the reason JRPG plots are so weird (relative to writing found in western RPGs, at least) was that Sakaguchi, totally lacking any first-hand experience with DnD’s method of storytelling, ended up independently reinventing RPG storytelling for that part of the world.
I’m not looking to disagree, rather I’m hoping there exists an explanation for how my source could have made the assertions it did while drawing, presumably, from the same history.
To an extent, it depends on how you define your terms – tabletop roleplaying was big as niche hobbies go, but it was still very much a niche hobby, so if you’re comparing tabletop RPGs to, say, board games or card games, it’s easy to see where they looked like a non-entity. It’s also true that D&D in particular wasn’t necessarily the biggest player in the early days of Japan’s tabletop roleplaying scene; up until the early 1980s, sci-fi tabletop RPGs were the more popular genre in Japan, with fantasy RPGs being viewed as a sort of niche-within-a-niche – basically the opposite of the situation in the West, where fantasy RPGs were the hobby’s eight hundred pound gorillas.
However, it’s inaccurate to suggest that D&D remained obscure by the time Final Fantasy rolled around. Fantasy tabletop roleplaying had experienced a revival in Japan throughout the early 1980s, generating enough interest that the first official Japanese localisation of D&D was published in 1985. Shortly thereafter, Japanese hobby magazines began publishing “replays”, lightly edited transcripts of actual D&D sessions, as casual reading; these played much the same role within the RPG community that tabletop roleplaying podcasts like The Adventure Zone do today, and many drew sufficient readership that they were later adapted as mangas or light novels. And of course, in 1987, we have Final Fantasy. So, while it’s true that Final Fantasy and its various imitators jumped on the bandwagon fairly early on, this came on the heels of several years of surging popularity for Japan’s fantasy tabletop roleplaying scene in general, and for Dungeons & Dragons in particular.
(As an aside, Western thinkpieces about why JRPG plot are “so weird”, like the one you cite, tend to strike me as… I dunno, kinda racist? Yes, JRPG storytelling is pretty off the wall, but it’s not that weird compared to contemporary Western fantasy RPGs. Heck, next literary sword and sorcery fantasy, most JRPG plots are downright tame! The psychoanalytical approach to criticising JRPG storytelling that a lot of Western sources go in for has more than a whiff of “oh, those wacky Japanese!” about it.)
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fucking concept art of the dragon age races that depicts dwarves like this:
you suck and i defy you
this makes me violent <3
Calling all dragon age artists! Let’s see your interpretation of what dwarven women should look like!
Okay, here u go
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