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Avoraciopoctules
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### Inspirational Fantasy Artwork

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Post by Avoraciopoctules » Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:18 am

I've collected some cool images that give me ideas when I'm coming up with stuff for games and stories. I wanted to post some D&D / generic fantasy art and maps, and it wouldn't really fit to post them in the image macro thread. So, new thread.
More generally, there's a nicely organized gallery of images here, and a bunch of Creative Commons-licensed dungeon and other maps here. Neither are mine, but I've found both useful in the past.
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Post by Avoraciopoctules » Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:29 am

Large Cavern:
Retired Mech Pilot:
Summoner:
2 tiers of mummy:
totallytrustworthy.jpg
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Post by Avoraciopoctules » Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:35 am

Orc Chef
Medusa
Creepy Mask-toting Desert Guy
100 Faces:
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Post by Maxus » Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:42 am

I've got a few I keep around...One good one, if you don't mind the NSFW ads, is going to gelbooru.com and searching for "fantasy landscape" or to safebooru and looking for ucchiey. I'm sure Ucchiey has other galleries on places, but that's where I know he's at.
But here's a favorite from a website that's since closed down.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
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Post by Avoraciopoctules » Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:58 am

Lich Club (We don't talk about it)
Mancubus from Doom
Flame Glyph:
Snowy Mountain Fortress:
Assassin:
Cave with Pool
Armored Dragon (zombie dragon maybe?)
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Post by Avoraciopoctules » Fri Feb 01, 2013 8:05 am

Bongo Bongo
"Stumpy", Adventurer
Wendigo Fight
Pyromancer
Druid House
Yuan-ti Alchemist
Possessed Armor
Lavos
Epic Adventure
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Post by Prak » Fri Feb 01, 2013 8:29 am

The Lich club reminds me, did I ever show people here the lich make up I did as part of my final for Stage Makeup a couple semesters back?
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Stahlseele » Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:17 am

no
Welcome, to IronHell.

> Shrapnel wrote:

> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by Cynic » Fri Feb 01, 2013 1:05 pm

I vaguely remember you talking about it at least.
edit: Here you go.
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Post by OgreBattle » Fri Feb 01, 2013 1:09 pm

I love that Lich club picture
It's by Keith Parkinson. He did Everquest box covers too. He died of cancer a while ago.
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Post by Avoraciopoctules » Fri Feb 01, 2013 8:00 pm

Airships in Mountain Citadel
Mothman Mafioso
Bonus pic:
Troll Berserker
Summoner/Demonolist
Giant Alligator Zombie / Vehicle (kinda gruesome)
Guard
Don't Fuck with this Gnome:
Siren
Cosmic Demon
Illithid with Fleshcrafted Battle Armor
Raven Totem Druid
Orc Barbarian
Final Boss of the Underdark
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Post by Cynic » Fri Feb 01, 2013 8:34 pm

I love Illithid fan art.

> Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.

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Post by Prak » Fri Feb 01, 2013 8:44 pm

> Cynic wrote:I vaguely remember you talking about it at least.
> edit: Here you go.

You copied the wrong thing.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Avoraciopoctules » Fri Feb 01, 2013 10:26 pm

Fanart for id Software's Heretic
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Post by Stahlseele » Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:38 pm

i had this uploaded to my flickr years ago i think
And of course, the spirit of MURICA!
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Welcome, to IronHell.

> Shrapnel wrote:

> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by Surgo » Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:13 am

> Stahlseele wrote:i had this uploaded to my flickr years ago i think

I think you're looking for the other image thread.
http://www.dnd-wiki.org -- the wiki
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Post by rampaging-poet » Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:13 am

Deviantart links ahead:
Towers and domes in a red sunrise.
Subtle magical effect.
Castle town on the move.
Roaring dragon.
Ancient tree.
Gem-filled cavern.
Dueling wizards on the Plane of Shadow?
Sunrise near a dragon's lair. (This artist does excellent portraits as well, though she removed some of my favourites).
Zelda-related deviantart links:
The very beginning.
Termina's Clocktower.
OoT Link with Megaton Hammer.
Fierce Deity sketch.
Dark Link appears.
Evil spirit.
Masked child.
Approching Death Mountain.
Stallord (giant skeletal dragon).
Reasonably generic hermit, wizard, and concerned citizen.
Warrior with flaming sword.
Volvagia attacks.
Hammer time!
I know most of these aren't as epic as the other things in the thread, but this is all I've got. I might post the images directly later, if anyone's interested. The last one is definitely going straight to the image macros thread.

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My deviantArt account, in case anyone cares.
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Post by Shrapnel » Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:17 am

> Avoraciopoctules wrote:Fanart for id Software's Heretic

SOMEONE ACTUALLY REMEMBERS THAT GAME!! FUCKING SWEET!
Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
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Post by Stahlseele » Sat Feb 02, 2013 10:24 am

i played that game
Welcome, to IronHell.

> Shrapnel wrote:

> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Sat Feb 02, 2013 3:33 pm

> Avoraciopoctules wrote:Airships in Mountain Citadel

I wonder if that picture was inspired by Final Fantasy 9. In that game, the world is covered with a mist that creates monsters (and the flavor text describes it like the taint from Legend of the 5 Rings, but all of the player characters spend a lot of time in the mist and don't seem to suffer from it). Airships are the primary transportation, and all the cities are at high elevation. The way that everything seems dead and broken below a given elevation makes me think of it.
Also, someone need to tell the raven druid need to pull her skirt up, I don't know why it became acceptable for women to have their buttcracks showing but it needs to stop.
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Post by Cynic » Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:51 pm

I don't think it should be acceptable for anyone to have their butt cracks show.

> Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.

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Post by Avoraciopoctules » Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:15 pm

The intricacies of Raven Clan fashion are a mystery known only to the druids.
Ostentatious Armor (Really Fancy Helm)
Oni Channeler Monk
Rune Circle
Cloistered Cleric
Vampire in a Mummy Suit
Coastal Town in Storm
Earth Elemental Summoner
Martial Artist from Persona 2
Either those mountains are really small, or those skulls are REALLY BIG.
Illithid Cavalry
Impractically Oversized Manta
Darkmantle Attack
Orc Bard
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:51 pm

> Cynic wrote:I don't think it should be acceptable for anyone to have their butt cracks show.

I agree, but generally speaking it's women sticking their unwashed dingleberry-infested asscracks in my face and not men.
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Post by Avoraciopoctules » Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:09 pm

Corpsecrafted Warbeast
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Post by Avoraciopoctules » Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:13 pm

Colossus:
Undead Rave
Paper Demon Summoner?
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