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Shaun
@shmaba.bsky.social
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he/him || Art Guy || no nft & anti-ai
Opinions are mine, yada yada, you get it

Art Director for Daggerheart Hope&Fear
Set Design/Character Art/Illustration for Critical Role

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Also I guess I should mention I've been designing the looks for their live show sets!

Fabrication teams varied for each location but they all did a great job making silly concept art look good in real life
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Oh I just realized I never mentioned that I designed the look of Critical Role's Campaign 4 set!
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Made a new friend recently 🥹
A small sketchbook with various graphite sketch drawings of a newborn child.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Now that episode 1 is live I can say I did the concept designs for the Age of Umbra set :)
May 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Happy Daggerheart Day!

Go get your buddies, grab those d12s, and pack your softs of rope. It’s time to have an adventure!

I got mine! Both editions :))))))
A photo of Daggerheart Limited Edition and Daggerheart Standard Edition box sets on a wooden table
May 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I gotta speed up making the rest of these

#swordtember #swordtember2024 #daggerheart #ttrpg
Shifter Tier 3. Primary 2 handed Trait: Strength Range: Melee Damage: d10+4 Magical Feature Alter. Once per long rest you may change the feature of this weapon to one of the following until your next long rest: Powerful. On a successful attack roll an additional damage and discard the lowest result. Reliable. +1 to attack rolls.
May 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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more sword stuff
these are totally balanced right? probably??

#swordtember #swordtember2024 #daggerheart #ttrpg
Blood Drinker Tier 3 Primary (1 handed) Trait: Instinct Range: Melee Damage: d8+5 magical Offering. On a successful attack you can choose to mark one HP and force your target to mark one additional HP from your attack. Spellspike Tier 1 Secondary (1 handed) Trait: Knowledge Range: Melee Damage: d4 Conduit. When making a Spellcast Roll you can mark a Stress to roll this weapon's damage using your proficiency, each 4 rolled gives a +1 bonus to the Spellcast Roll
May 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Rings can be swords right?

#daggerheart #ttrpg #swordtember #swordtember2024
Pact Ring Tier 3 1-handed Trait: Presence Range: Melee Damage: d6+4 physical Feature Union. You become Partnered with any ally that has a Pact Ring equipped. You may initiate a Tag Team Move as part of an attack with a Partnered ally one additional time per session.
May 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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look at Lemonade
April 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Can I do all of what's left of Swordtember before Daggerheart comes out? Maybe

#daggerheart #ttrpg #swordtember #swordtember2024
Grave Touch Tier 3 (2-handed) Trait: Strength Range: Melee Damage: d10+5 Feature: Necrosis On a successful attack against a target that has marked all their Stress, they automatically mark an additional HP.
April 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Another sword! Gotta get back into the flow of things

#swordtember #swordtember2024 #daggerheart #ttrpg
Spellslice. Tier 1 Primary (2-handed) Trait: Knowledge Range: Melee Damage: d8+3 magical Feature: Reduce When you recieve magic damage you may mark a Stress to reduce the incoming damage by your proficiency. Wizard Only. When you man an attack roll with this weapon and your current Strange Patterns number is rolled on either Duality Dice you can choose to add advantage to the attack roll instead of gaining a Hope of clearing a Stress.
April 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Alright time to get some more #swordtember stuff on here
(...in april of the next year)
#daggerheart #swordtember2024 #ttrpg

As always these are not playtested at all. They're likely very broken. It's really just to make some fun art
Bad Apple Tier 2 Secondary Weapon. 1 Handed Trait: Presence Range: Melee Damage: d6+2 physical Feature: Rude When you succeed with Fear on an attach roll using this weapon you can spend a Hope to stop the GM from gaining a Fear token. Wild Shard Tier 2 Secondary Weapon. 1 Handed Trait: Instinct Range: Melee Damage: d6+3 magical Feature: Charged When you make a spellcast roll you may mark a Stress to reroll one of your Duality Dice. You must use the new outcome. Sorcerer Only. When you use your Volatile Magic during an attack you may also add your instinct to the damage.
April 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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I need genAI to cease at once
A screenshot from Aqua Team Hunger Force. Shake is leaning down to stare at Meatball with the bottom text “I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this”
March 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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So with Cr's campaign 3 ending it has this unique nostalgic feeling for me. This entire story has been played out in front of the set that I had originally concepted way back in 2021.
February 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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The rest of the monsterous cast
(2/2)
A hot Krampus. Big biceps, chiseled abs and pecs. Even a sexy trail of hair traveling into their torn pants and a long forked tongue for the monster fuckers (yeah I know you’re reading this) A vintage tree-topper doll. The head of a proclaim doll on an ornament with a cone of thin fabric “dress” shaped by wire. Their arms are decorative pipe cleaners and their hands are two large Christmas lights A muppetey looking green dragon with large creepy puppet eyes and thin hairy grinch hands. Their head is topped by hair shaped like a Christmas tree with ornaments. Wearing shorts with suspenders over a red knit sweater. If Kermit the frog was a dragon and had fused with the sport mascot Gritty.
December 24, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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Merry Christmas! If you’ve seen the Critical Role Critmas special I had the pleasure of designing the set and also the art of their monster forms!

#criticalrolespoilers
#criticalrole
A reindeer skull with Christmas lights tangled into the antlers and strung through the eye holes. The thin body covered in red hair with blue and white geometric designs. Deer legs stick out from torn jeans. They hold a wooden sled like someone would hold a skateboard. A very angry looking muscular gorilla bearing its teeth while wearing Santa red and white hat, loin cloth with suspenders and belt, and tall white fur trimmed boots. The gorilla is holding a pair of cymbals A snowman with sad looking coal eyes and metal “teeth” from large braces and corrective mouth gear. The snowman wears a clown looking hat and colorful collar with ornaments and colorful balls. A hunched skulking lithe looking yeti with long white hair partially covering their face. Chains wrap around both arms. One has an icicle forming at the end and the other has an ice ball with spikes on the end dragging on the ground.
December 24, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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Suddenly over 1k on here. I think my follower count doubled in like a couple days lol
December 4, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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Butchers Bib - Rope of Climbing - Portable Hole
CR Abridged

#criticalrole #criticalroleart #CRabridged #art #ttrpg #dnd
Butchers Bib A dark leather butcher apron with sharp metal attachments and blood that seems to always drip down the bottom. Rope of Climbing A coil of seemingly normal rope. When a command word is spoke one end can automatically move to tie itself to something Portable Hole A piece of black fabric. When laid flat the fabric drops lower as if the floor beneath opens up to allow more space for objects to be stored within the fabric. Gold and objects can be seen in the portable hole.
November 15, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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Weave Lens - Gnarl Rock - Feywild Shard
CR Abridged

#criticalrole #criticalroleart #CRabridged #art #ttrpg #dnd
Weave Lens A circular semi transparent green glass lens with magic engravings along the edge. A multicolored swirl can be seen in the shine cast along the glass Gnarl Rock A broken piece of a dark purple rock with warped violet veins running across it Feywild Shard A mostly smooth glass like surface with a coloring that goes from pink to orange. One side is flaked and broken as if it was broken off of a larger object.
November 15, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Potion of Possibility - Health Potions - Eversmoking Bottle
CR ABRIDGED

Potions galore
#criticalrole #criticalroleart #CRabridged #dnd #ttrpg #art
Potion of Possibility A faceted glass bottle with a sparkling and bubbling liquid inside that shifts into becoming a vapor Red health potion bottles sit in a small wooden box with a leather covering. Small stones with magical markings on them sit beside the box A round glass bottle with its corked topper lifting up allowing smoke to billow out around the bottle.
November 14, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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Shade Creepers - CR Abridged
Love these little guys

#criticalrole #criticalroleart #CRAbridged #art #dnd #ttrpg
Shade Creepers from Critical Role. Small, pale skin, big eyed humanoids with no noses, sharp teeth and clawed hands wearing torn up dark fabric as hooded clothes. One Shade Creeper is hunched into a crawl while holding a dagger and the other is glowing internally while screaming as they trigger their ability to self explode in flames.
November 14, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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#swordtember
Day 5 Prey & Day 6 Enigmatic
Two since I'm over two months behind on this now

#swordtember2024 #ttrpg #daggerheart
Hunter Blade Tier 2 Primary 1 handed weapon Trait: Agility Range: Melee Damage: d 8+3 Physical Feature: Seeking Spend a Hope to reroll your Hope die during an attack roll and take the new result. Ranger Only. When you make an attack against your Focus this weapon has a range of Close. Inscrutable Edge Tier 2 Primary 1 handed Trait: Finesse Range: Melee Damage: d 8+3 Physical Feature: Obscure When you make an attack with this weapon while Hidden you may mark a Stress to remain Hidden.
November 11, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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Distracting myself with the dog today
November 6, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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#swordtember
Day 4 Saber
A simple sword but it gets the job done

#swordtember2024 #ttrpg #daggerheart
September 9, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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#Swordtember
Day 3 Incantation
handy magic knife has an incantation cheat sheet written right on it
#swordtember2024 #ttrpg #daggerheart
September 7, 2024 at 9:02 PM