Eh This One Is Not The Quality I Wanted It To Be, But I'll Forgive Myself Because I Made It In A Dark

Eh this one is not the quality I wanted it to be, but I'll forgive myself because I made it in a dark pub.

These will probably be the last bug sketches for a while, because I'll be drawing more gay stuff for pride month. I'll probably either revert back to insects or bats after that.

People don't talk about the best part about being a dm.

It's not the cool monsters or vibrant worlds.

It's not the poignant storytelling and heart wrenching character dynamics.

It's hiding stuff from your players and being able to send a vague and threatening text to a group chat and watching them all freak out

Here have some bugs.

(if you wanna know what bugs specifically look at the alt Text)

Another work in progress. I really hope I don't fuck up the hair.

I hope that I will finish both figures tomorrow, then I finally have the head space again to do other stuff.

dungeon meshi but they try to solve problems the dnd way (marcille is shooting her shot)

I think I get why there is such a divide between D&D only people and D&D is the worst game ever people. People have joked about "they aren't ttrpg fans, they're D&D fans," before, but I think that's legit true. D&D is used to scratch a different part of the brain than most ttrpgs. D&D is like Among Us or Lethal Company. Is isn't necessarily a fan game to play on it's own by yourself. It's a lobby, a physics engine, that you and your friends can use to facilitate spending time together and make jokes. It can also be a vehicle for youtubers to entertain you by using it as a vehicle for entertain. That's the purpose of those youtube videos like "this build let's you deal 10,000 damage turn one at level 3," and "melt your DM's mind with the the game breaking mechanics of rope!" That's NOT meant to be taken seriously. It's ment to be a joke you and your buddies laugh at. In the same way that showing everyone in the lethal company lobby the game breaking glitch you saw a video about is meant to be funny. This way that D&D is used in practice is extremely different from other systems that aren't trying to make a physics engine for jokes. They're trying to make a system for generating a good story. They see those D&D videos and wonder "what are they thinking trying to tell a narratively satisfying story with bad mechanics like that?" The answer is they're not doing that at all, actually! If it is possible for a "D&D Killer" to exist, it's not going to be a game that focuses on narrative, like other systems. It's gonna be a physics engine joke machine, like D&D. I think this is what Brennan Lee Mulligan was trying to say in that interview when he said he "likes D&D as a combat simulator, because he and his friends are already trained improv performers that can make their own story. It's not that he's just a dumb dumb who doesn't understand ttrpgs. It's that he finds a physic engine type system easy to just exist in and make up whatever narrative his friend's want in. Homebrewing cyberpunk technology or hyper detailed sex mechanics in D&D sounds idiotic to someone who plays specific ttrpgs for specific narratives, but to someone who mods lethal company to have a super Mario sunshine world where you get chased around by Hatsune Miku monsters it makes perfect sense to take the thing you like and to push it to ridiculous extremes.