The Bug Bear! A Curious Kodiak Blundered Into An Alchemist Shop And Guzzled Down The First Flask He Found!

The Bug Bear! A curious Kodiak blundered into an alchemist shop and guzzled down the first flask he found! Now he's the horrendous and accurately named Bug Bear! With insect-like abilities and a mantis aided maul, this ursa is now the weirdest in all the woods!

🎁 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁!⁠ [4/14] This content has been generously donated by @kthomebrew to be shared while The Griffon’s Saddlebag takes a vacation! Please support these creators and their excellent content!⁠ ⁠ Related downloads are available *for free* through the link in my Vacation highlighted story! ⁠ ___⁠ ⁠ KibblesTasty is a super talented game designer whose clever insights and community I admire. His famous Inventor class is what I’d play if asked to play an Artificer. If you’ve playtested any of the subclasses from the Saddlebag on Discord, you’re familiar with the series of feedback questions I ask: those are based on questions Kibbles asks his patrons, and they do a great job of developing the content further.⁠ ⁠ You can get this subclass, plus TONS more, in Kibbles’ Compendium of Legends and Legacies! A massive book of martial might and magical mayhem for D&D 5e - 4 epic new classes, 30+ new subclasses, 30+ feats, and over 240 spells! I’ve got mine preordered, and I can’t wait for it! ___

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Some sketches of Thrash, done by @werelocke last year! I think they convey his personality pretty well: as a human he had a rich father, and was both conventionally attractive and a huge bully. Since getting cursed, he's gotten cut off from the family fortune and trapped on another plane. And old signature rakish grin doesn't hit quite the same with his new set of fangs... He's still a jerk, and insults people a lot because he's very insecure about his new form and how people perceive him. But he's also been forced to band together with others in order to survive, and become very loyal to the party (although he would hate to admit it). Their relationship is kinda like bickering siblings. I'll share the rest of these at some point, I enjoy posting about this guy! I'd be happy to answer any questions people may have as well, or hear about your own characters :)

The adopted father of Barden, scholar of the Sang’s and Librarian of the Tomeloft, the firbolg Mountain Sang has much on his shoulders and so much love in his heart.     And he is trying his best. Meet him in Strange Hungers, A DND livestream I’m part of, link below to the twitch!

Thrash as the human he used to be, sketched by the wonderful @plebies! As a human his name was Emmett, but he chose a fake name after being turned into a monster in an attempt to save his reputation. What would his friends say? What if his father found out!? He'd be ruined! The fact that this was such a high priority should tell you something about the kinda guy he used to be. The amulet around his neck said 'We without as you are within', so naturally he assumed someone was trying to frame him and ruin his good name!

But if he pretended to be someone else... it would avoid any embarrassment while he figured out how to get this pesky curse removed. He's still working on that part.

However, he was never that creative, so when the owner of the tavern asked his name all he could think of was the main character of a pulpy adventure novel 'Thrash the Barbarian!'. Sometimes he regrets his choice (it doesn't exactly help with people assuming he's some kind of wild beast), but he's pretty much stuck with it now!