Chromium, the Mutable
MTG Core 2019
Art director: Cynthia Sheppard and Mark Winters
This was an exciting commission as I’d had this idea for a six-limbed dragon’s anatomy/posture for a while, and getting to design and illustrate Chromium gave me the chance to explore it. Keeping his hands free while ‘walking’ also happened to play well with his card’s ability (he can transform into a human)
ayy this is really good ! gotta say my heart still belongs to THIS generator but this ones definitely more useful for making things thatre Really Out There in terms of creature design lemme just
World of Warcraft: Molten Core Monsters. D&D 5e Monster Stats
As promised here are the new Warcraft monsters, and Warcraft page design. Built with inspiration from World of Warcraft’s art book and game UI. All of course based on the original, and one of my favorites, raid. Molten Core. ((Art was taken from the original World of Warcraft TCG, some of which was reused for Hearthstone))
Terrorize your creatures from the volcano’s depths! Inhabitants of the fire lands! Core Hounds, Molten Giants, and their master; Ragnaros the Firelord! Fill your volcanos, or your plane of fire, with these monsters. Or even get some salamanders, fire elementals, and earth elementals together and recreate the Molten Core for yourself!
Note: Fair warning… Ragnaros is the most powerful and most dangerous monster I have tried to create. Everything above challenge rating 20 gets rather risky. We’re talking a party of level 20 characters probably with some nice magic items. Ragnaros is untested! I did my best to compare him to the creature closest to his challenge rating (Ancient Red Dragons), but he might over or under perform. If you decide to throw caution to the wind and terrorize some high level players do let me know how it goes, as it’ll be a bit yet before I can get my group together to test him myself.
Feel free to use. Any of my posted creations are always open to any DM that wants to terrorize player characters with them.
There is a specific and terrifying difference between “never were” monsters and “are not anymore” monsters
“The thing that was not a deer” implies a creature which mimics a deer but imperfectly and the details which are wrong are what makes it terrifying
“The thing that was not a deer anymore” on the other hand implies a thing that USED to be a deer before it was somehow mutated, possessed, parasitically controlled or reanimated improperly and what makes THAT terrifying is the details that are still right and recognizable poking out of all the wrong and horrible malformations.
hey I totally fucked up and forgot the 3rd type, which is “Is Not Anymore And Maybe Never Was” monsters
“The thing which was no longer a deer and maybe never was” implies a creature that, at first glance, completely appears to be a deer, but over time degrades very slowly until you realize (probably too late) that it is not a deer anymore, and had you seen it in this state first, you wouldn’t have recognized it as a deer at all, and there’s a decent chance that it was never actually a deer to begin with but only a very good mimic, and what makes this one scary is the slow change from everything being right to everything being wrong, happening slowly enough that you don’t even notice it until its too late, as well as the fact that something now so clearly not a deer could have fooled you to begin with.
And the fourth type, which is, “I dunno, but it sure ain’t a deer.” Which implies complete confusion about what the creature could be, to the point that even a person as comfortable in this world as someone who would use the word ain’t unironically is uncertain, which should horrify you to the deepest depths of your soul.
one that i particularly enjoyed was the ‘nonesuch’, a beast which when you see it your brain convinces you ‘nope, no way that shit is real’. on some level it becomes less real after having been seen by someone who disbelieves its existence as well
May I propose the additional type of “that’s definitely a deer but deer are much more fucked up than previous realized”, because turning the corner on a trail and having half a dozen deer suddenly turn and look up from eating Thier companion’s remains is a special kind of spooky.
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