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Two index cards with D&D characters on them, drawn in a flat, cartoony style and colored in a limited palette of red, blue, golden yellow, and white. On the left is Nanny Hulda, a pale-skinned aged gnome cleric dressed as a classic garden gnome, with a tall pointed red cap and white pigtail braids, holding a ladle and smiling sweetly. The kids called her Football Granny. On the right is her son Hadrian, a younger gnome ranger with shoulder-length blond hair, glasses, and stubble, wearing adventuring gear like sensible boots, a tunic, a shoulder-bag, and a red bandanna around his neck. He stands with arms akimbo, smiling cheerfully. The kids called him Pickleball.ALT
Three index cards with D&D characters on them, drawn in a flat, cartoony style and colored in a limited palette of red, blue, golden yellow, and white. On the left is Kokebi LĂłmĂŤ, a half-elf barmaid. She has medium-dark brown skin and an afro of curly hair. She's wearing a white dress with a scooped collar, her sleeves rolled up, and a headband with a star on her forehead. She's cleaning a tankard and looking attentively off-camera at something. I think the kids called her Bubbles. On the right is Laneus, a plump tiefling shopkeeper of a magic store. His skin is bright red, with bulbous curving horns, which are tipped with black, as are his fingers, and he has short curly hair. He's wearing a black robe with a large hood draped around his shoulders and the sleeves rolled up in a businesslike way. he's resting his arms on a tabletop and smiling cheerfully. There are potions and herbs arranged behind him. The kids called him Ladybug Demon. Under the other two is Ma'ar Din, a kobold shopkeep. He's very short, only his head and hands are visible over his shop counter. He has sharply pointed ears sticking out from his head, short pointed horns, and large eyebrows the kids thought looked like little baguettes, so he wound up named Bread Demon. His adventuring wares are hung on hooks behind him, and he's smiling the satisfied smile of a businessman eager to sell some goods of dubious quality. (Ma'ar Din is a play on Marden's, a surplus & salvage store chain in Maine infamous for selling, well, goods of dubious quality.)ALT
Two index cards with D&D characters on them, drawn in a flat, cartoony style and mostly colored in a limited palette of red, blue, golden yellow, and white. On the left is a drow ghost labeled ????, floating up from a charred hand and grouchily crossing his arms. He has purple skin made lighter from being a hazy ghost, piercing red eyes, and white hair. He's dressed in a vaguely ancient egyptian manner, with a crown shaped like a spider with a red jewel on his forehead, and a beaded collar that looks like a spiderweb. The kids have given him so many nicknames and add new ones by the hour, to the point that one kid must keep a list of them all and to keep things short they simply chant that he is "THE ONE." On the right is a desiccated drow with scraggly white braids and purple skin labeled "????: gift shop mummy." She's wearing rags and is propped in front of a banner reading SALE!! She has cheap spider-themed tourist trinkets arrayed around her, like necklaces and tokens. She is entirely dead, and not paying any attention at all to her customers or wares, head tilted back and mouth wide open. Terrible customer service.ALT
Three photos of a Dungeon Master Screen from different angles. It's built to look like a castle made of rough pinkish stone, with six pointed-arch windows running along the front and side flaps. There are "stained glass" windows drawn on translucent vellum taped behind the window openings, and a couple character cards slotted in front of them in a couple windows. There's also a circular window at the center-top of the castle face, showing an emblem of the location the players currently find themselves. The first photo is the screen from the front on a table. The second photo is the screen from the front during gameplay, with paper flags that look like banners draped over the top edge. The third photo is taken from behind the screen, showing the DM's perspective, with books, notes, pens, character cards, a tankard of tea, and an iPod and speaker hidden behind the wall. Though from the front the stained glass have silver window frames, from the back they are black, because the silver paint pen wasn't as opaque as I thought it was.ALT
Two index cards with D&D characters on them, drawn in a cartoony style and colored in a limited palette of pale green, brown, taupe, and blue. On the left is Lilòia, a half-orc. She is stoutly built, with pale greenish skin, short nubby horns, and pointed ears. She has wavy brown hair pulled into a messy bun and wears a shaggy sheepskin coat over her plain dress and apron. She's crossing her arms and looking askance pensively. The kids call her Duchess. To the right is her father, an orc named Savaric. He is a powerfully built but wrinkled old man with a bald head but bushy mustache and eyebrows, and much greener skin and longer, pointed horns. He's wearing a simple collared shirt with a blue bandanna around the neck, leaning his arms against a wooden table. He looks tired and serious.ALT
Two index cards with D&D characters on them, drawn in a cartoony style and colored in a limited palette of pale green, dark green, brown, taupe, and blue. On the left are three bullywugs, or anthropomorphic frogs. Glup, at top, pale green, is frowning at the viewer with crossed arms. Roag, blue, is holding up a spear, his mouth open wide in excitement. He's elbowing Bitts, dark green, who is reacting with surprise and has to close his eye to avoid getting hurt. On the right is Oren, a pine dryad. His skin is made of dark brown wood, and he has pine boughs for hair. He's wearing armor made of giant pine cone scales fringed in pine needles, and a sash around his waist. He has a calm, kind expression and is leaning one hand against his hip.ALT
Two index cards with D&D characters on them, drawn in a cartoony style and colored in a limited palette of pale green, dark green, brown, taupe, and blue. On the left is Bernuharduz, a bugbear tavernkeep. He looks like a big cheerful dog man with brown fur, smiling at the viewer and holding up a bottle dwarfed by his paw-hands and massive tankard. On the right is Aalis, a crocodilian lizardfolk boatbuilder with mottled blue and green skin. She's sitting on a coil of rope and leaning an arm casually against a dock post, one ankle crossed on the other knee. She's smiling calmly. She's dressed in a simple shirt and pants.ALT
Two index cards with D&D characters on them, drawn in a cartoony style and colored in a limited palette of pale green, brown, taupe, and blue. On the left is Solch, an elfin barbarian. He's mostly submerged in water up to his chin, with his curly pale hair fanned out around his face. He's holding a long stick, but only his fist and the end of the stick are visible out of the water. His skin is pale, but his hands and ears--which are notched like a cat that's gotten into fights--are grimy. He's glowering up unhappily. On the right is Henrik, a gnome monk dressed as a classic medieval monk in a brown habit and with tonsured blond hair. He has his hands clasped with his sleeves covering them, and looks at the viewer with a confident smile. He's another of Hulda's sons, I'm planning for one to be present in every adventure. Who knows what sport the kids will nickname him with...ALT

I’ve found myself DMing a homebrew Dungeons and Dragons game for a chaotic group of mostly middle schoolers and millennials and also the local pastor. Finally I have a use for all those characters I created a few Inktobers ago!

Our first adventure was a “”“one-shot”“” I wrote for my siblings a little while back, in which Our Heroes help Nanny Hulda find her son, who got lost in the Dark Crystal Pyramid in the woods outside their village. Along the way they were supposed to explore a room with a mummy, but one of the kids decided to kick a flaming barrel of rum down the shaft that led to the room, and I was amused enough by this that the next session (yeah the one-shot took like 3 or 4 sessions to complete) I introduced the ghost of the mummy they were supposed to fight, if only he hadn’t been blown to smithereens. The kids were so immediately charmed by this silent grumpy ghost that they adopted him into the team and may be starting a cult in his honor.

At first my screen was just some cardboard with character cards awkwardly taped to the top, but that wasn’t Enough for me, I wanted More. So I designed a new screen to look like a castle, complete with stained glass windows that double as character card displays! The banners along the top of the wall are initiative markers: I had players draw an insignia representing their character on the front, while the back side has important stats written in dry erase marker on tape, so I can edit them on the fly.

Now our chaotic band is headed into Kypree Swamp, where they’ve met three bullywugs (they did not care for one but attempted to adopt the other two) and the grouchy half-orc Lilòia, who I was worried would get called Shrek but was immediately dubbed The Duchess. Completely unpredictable, these kids. I’ve included all the character cards I’ve done for both campaigns, even the ones nobody’s met yet, because only two of my players follow my tumblr–one of whom is my partner and saw me drawing them already anyway haha

Descriptions and names in the alt text! Please do not use my characters for your own games.

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