~Corvidraline, AKA D.C., needz j00 h3lp. She's short on cash, a good anthro and furry artist, and has opened what are probably the most affordable commissions on dA. Go take a look!
_{((For those who are wondering... I advertise for friends, but I try not to commission them. I'm afraid of offending someone.))}

So, on Wednesday morning, one of my co-workers came by and mentioned that his friend had invited him to play D'n'D. He had never played a tabletop game, and didn't know anything about D'n'D, so he was kind of nervous... and somehow I ended up coming and joining in. Something about someone's wife being in the game but being uncomfortable being the only female there. So.

Back when 3.5 came out, my little brother got started playing D'n'D. He got me to make a character, and I disappointed him horribly by making a female human barbarian instead of some elven mage or cleric. Poor kid. I understand him better than he understands me. He ended up so frustrated at me that, in the first game he ever played (where he was also the DM), he 'kicked me out' after less than an hour. Poor Famla Flamestalker never made it to level 2.

4.0 simplified a lot of the 3.5 stuff. There are a few 'typical' races in 4.0 than were 'special' races in 3.5, like dragonborn and tieflings, and they altered half-elves to actually have unique characteristics instead of being a mere compromise between humans and elves... and there's some weird fey race now. On the other hand, a number of classes I remembered (bards, barbarians, druids, etc.) are now in the supplemental Player's Handbook instead of the main one, the skills section is HUGELY simplified, and the feats are a lot more practical, with the more specialized ones being limited to sub-classes at level 10 and above. I don't like what they did with the alignment grid--it's supposed to be simpler, but character personalities just CAN'T be divided up that way--but as a group, we're ignoring the new version. I'm chaotic neutral, even though 4.0 says there's no such thing, and our tiefling is lawful evil.

Famla Flamestalker is resurrected as Famla Firestalker (called Fammy), a female human fighter who's just been exiled from her village for refusing to marry any of the guys who go after her. Everyone's required to get married, but there's a formality... they have to beat you in a fistfight. The winner of the fistfight gets to decide if the marriage goes through or not, so even if the one who starts it loses, the winner can choose to marry him or her anyway. Famla has always won, and she has always said no. People think that she's just being stubborn and insisting that someone has to beat her to marry her, but that's not really true. She just doesn't like any of the suitors.

Having been exiled, she came across a male human ranger by the name of Kampa Dude (played by my co-worker), who keeps buying her drinks hoping to get her to "say yes"--to sex, not marriage. She just wants the beer. Somehow, they've hooked up with a tiefling warlock, a fey wizard, a giant druid, and a halfling--"NOT Kinder!"--rogue. They're running through a modified level 3-4 quest at the moment, based on... Dragons of Autumn? It's the first of a trilogy in Dragonlance; Rensing knows what I'm talking about.

The other chick in the group, the DM's wife, is working on drawing her character (the fey wizard). I'm considering doing the same, but I may get lazy and either commission someone else to do it or not bother.





Features: Those Who Helped Ink Get Commissions To Pay For The Vet (see previous journals)

#Ninth:
`Saimain
Very, very, very, very (five years later), very good artist. This is the kind of detail I hope to get near some day, and she's a fantasy artist who's written books about her characters besides. She and her works get more and more interesting the longer I watch her and the more I find out. She does not take commissions. You don't even want her to, because her own works are so beautiful as it is that prints of those are amazing. I know this, because hers are some of the few on my wall... and they are the best on my wall. Much as I'd long for something of mine drawn by Saimain, I know... I just know there's nothing of mine so beautiful as to deserve that care. Someday, maybe there will be. I hope I can someday create something with words so awe-inspiring as what she has done with mere sketches. Saimain is more a master of her craft than I can ever expect to be of mine.

_{~p3p574r (for my brother's annoying complicated character) <--I give up on this. The artist pretends to have fallen off the face of the earth, when I have PROOF she's still active.
~torikat (for three monochrome headshots) *payment reserved* <--Waiting to see if she still wants to do these when she gets back from abroad.
~Nith47 (for Cassandra in full paladin armor, in combat) *unpaid, need to confirm amount*
~Princu (for Corellia) *paid?*
*NaRai (for the Goddess of Mysteries) *paid*
=DarkVanessa (for assorted late Christmas gifts--Rensing, Eulalia Danae, Ivy, and Kashala. ^^) *paid*
~IridescentInkSpell (for the Butterfly, Cassandra/Cookie character sheet, and the 7 princesses) *paid*
=canehda *unpaid, need to know the amount*
=saintpepsi (for 11 pieces, mostly Black Mask Age stuff) *$400/$900 paid*
~Rensing (for Wanderer Ala) *$10-15 on completion*
=johnbecaro (for A+R) *paid*
~Rebeccannoying (for some dragons) *will pay with sub*
`hellobaby (for the White Lady) *paid*}
[other artists have been targeted; waiting on more money]
_{~blueduality also says I'm commissioning him, but I have no idea what it was for, so he's off the hook if he wants.}