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Personal account for WIPs, scrapped art, game pics, and other miscellany. Main: @blazarbearcat.bsky.social

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · 5d

Pretty cute conversation. I love Bex and Danis

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · 5d

He made a cameo in the one-shot with part of the BG3 cast hosted by Mark Meer in Dragon Con 2024, which I was listening to while working on art, and his description caught my interest

Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · 5d

Warduke, a member of an evil adventuring party in Wild Beyond the Witchlight and also a character from way back in 1e, wears half plate armor, which in his case means "one side is completely covered in chain mail and the other side is basically naked". Pretty fun and cool but also kinda hot lol

Concept art of Warduke by Mike "Daarken" Lim for Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Sources:
https://www.daarken.com/pages/d-d
https://enormgallery.b-cdn.net/daarkenart/65604/warduke-1650459446-62600336bd0fc.jpg
https://twitter.com/DaarkenArt/status/1426634788006293505

Art of Warduke by Wayne Reynolds for the article “Critical Threats: Warduke” in Dungeon Magazine #105

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · 7d

Something like this

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · 10d

This thing is going to fuckin' kill me when I get to the lineart 😭

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · 13d

Listening to Ed Greenwood's BG3 streams and he said that "Dragonborn questions should be directed to WotC. That is their commandment on that after my comments". Tried to look into it and this is the most recent dragonborn thing I can find, so this may or may not be it. That's... very interesting lol

Source: http://www.candlekeep.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24782&whichpage=21

CaptainRelyk the Brass Dragon: @Ed Greenwood do dragons and Dragonborn have cloacas, human genitals, or something else entirely? I know some people wish for them to have cloacas and be more anatomically realistic, and not have cringey mammal parts

And before people judge me for asking this… Melissa Tiefling asked me to ask Ed! I’m not a weirdo, you are!

Ed Greenwood: Dragons and dragonborn have human-like genitalia, but these are normally hidden within natural shallow (and flexible scale-covered) body cavities that are accessed through natural “slits” or slot-like openings normally kept closed by powerful muscles, but which can be gaped (and held wide open) by the owner of the body. The “rolled edges” of the slits are scale-covered and supple, and in most cases can form an airtight and watertight seal if the body owner wants them to.

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · 14d

In reply to a question about circumcision, initiation rites, and sterilization. Honestly, I find Ed Greenwood's directness and thoroughness about these kinds of topics somewhat admirable lol

Source: http://www.candlekeep.com/library/articles/sse/sse_040506-07.htm

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · 18d

Relearning how to draw these dorks again

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · 22d

I'll get back to the comic after this I swear 😭

Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · 22d

WIP

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · 25d

Aww 🥺

I know it has its detractors, but I honestly loved the Ecological Succession storyline

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · 27d

How do you draw mouth expressions with a giant beard 😭

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · 27d

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sure, Hemet, we could both do with a good shower 🤨🏳️‍🌈❓

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · Sep 4

Dug up some more from the screenshots folder

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · Aug 31

I like how there's not much elaboration on each of them, which leads me to think that it was a safe assumption in the 70s that the average American tabletop gaming nerd just inherently knew the difference between a "brazen strumpet" and a "wanton wench"

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · Aug 31

Well this was AD&D back in 1979 so dragonborn didn't exist yet

Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · Aug 31

Just remembered about the greatest official D&D table of all time: random harlot encounters

A snippet from the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Masters Guide, published in 1979

"Harlot encounters can be with brazen strumpets or haughty courtesans, thus making it difficult for the party to distinguish each encounter for what it is. (In fact, the encounter could be with a dancer only prostituting herself as it pleases her, an elderly madam, or even a pimp.) In addition to the offering of the usual fare, the harlot is 30% likely to know valuable information, 15% likely to make something up in order to gain a reward, and 20% likely to be, or with with, a thief. You may find it useful to use the sub-table below to see which sort of harlot encounter takes place:

00 – 10 Slovenly trull
11 – 25 Brazen strumpet
26 – 35 Cheap trollop
36 – 50 Typical streetwalker
51 – 65 Saucy tart
66 – 75 Wanton wench
76 – 85 Expensive doxy
86 – 90 Haughty courtesan
91 – 92 Aged madam
93 – 94 Wealthy procuress
95 – 98 Sly pimp
99 – 00 Rich panderer

An expensive doxy will resemble a gentlewoman, a haughty courtesan a noblewoman, the other harlots might be mistaken for goodwives and so forth."

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Jay? @quasarbearcat.bsky.social · Aug 29

Pretty cool detail that took me way too long to notice lol. Elves in BG3 such as Astarion, Halsin, and Minthara meditate instead of sleeping when you take a long rest, just as elves in D&D don't need to sleep and instead go into a semiconscious trance for four hours a day