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A few of you might already know that I've been roped into pen and paper roleplaying by my significant other sometime last year. We played a homebrew PnP made by him with a circle of friends and I had lots of fun. When he and his best pal then got the idea of doing a Dungeons and Dragons campaign I first had no intention of getting involved. The homebrew RP was enough for me and I quite honestly found the array of species that my SO and his pal made available for said campaign to be quite uninspiring. In the light of me uploading a comp that features quite a lot of DnD art you might have already guessed but they ofc successfully lured me in with the simple sentence "what if we let you play a kenku?".

Full size is under the download.
It's been a few months now and I've amassed quite a few doodles from both these PnPs and decided to throw them together in a comp to share, in case anyone is interested, haha.

I've numbered them and am gonna give a hopefully relatively short summary to explain what story happened that lead to those situations. Not because I think that anyone will read it but because I'm very aware that future me will dig this up somewhere down the line and have a good laugh at this. You're welcome. Future-Tokin. If anyone else wants to read as well feel free to tho. I'm not gonna stop you.

1. The dragonborn is saying "How would you feel when someone wants to see you dead?". In essence, we were having a quite serious scene somewhere in the forest shortly after learning of the brutal death of a late player-character (some of our players are going through characters quite quickly <-<). And while the dragonborn Nahagliiv was discussing the fact that he just learnt of an assassin trying to take his life with halforclady Kuro and the rest of the group were having an impromptu funeral of the deceased PC my Kenku was mesmerized by some ball bearings that had been shed on the ground in the previous fight.
One of her main driving forces are shiny things so whenever one of our DMs (my SO and his pal co-dm the campaign) gives me the cue "your Kenku sees something shiny" I have to let whatever she was doing drop like a hot potato and have her try to acquire the shiny things to stay in character. She's also quite dumb (rip that low intelligence roll xD) so she has very low situational awareness.

2. Kenkus can imitate whatever sound they've heard so this is an artistic rendition of my borb just staying in the middle of town square serving as a loud alarmbell (which friggin town does not have a bell for that? I searched for one, I swear it!) after our dearest mage akarao (may she rest in peace) set the tavern on fire by fighting a demonspider inside it. We had a good laugh sending forward recordings of car alarms. Yknow the ones that have like a dozen different kinds of alarm sounds? Why is that? Why not just one kind of noise? I never understood that. Anyway. Kenku was being a good girl by waking everyone up and then helping with carrying water buckets. Useful at last.

3. This picture actually depicts a situation that happened after #7. A dragon attacked the village that the group was hanging out in and my Kenku just legged it into the forest after almost being turned into grilled chicken by a fireball. It then ran until it found a puddle of mud which it sat in until it was found by it's companions xD

4. roll20 doodles of Akarao (top left) my Kenku (top right) Kuro (middle right) and Nahagliiv (bottom).

5. The group was supposed to head south to go back to their homebase after the village had been burnt to crisp but Nahagliiv instead led us all north due to a vision he had and the only one that realized it (the only one that didn't fail their survival roll xD) was my Kenku, who then proceeded to try to get Nahagliiv to turn around. She can only use sentences she's already heard, so communication is very limited for her and the others didn't understand what she was trying to tell everyone and Nahagliiv used that for his own goals and pretended she was being weird about something which ofc offended. The 150m big Kenku spent the rest of the way hacking away at the 2m+ dragonborn with her beak and cursing him out with what little related vocabulary she had. Eventually Nahagliiv shut her up by incospiciously handing her three gold coins which she begrudgingly accepted xD

6. My Kenku rescued an egg out of a harpy nest that one of her companions set on fire after killing the momma harpy. She's been carrying it with her ever since and occasionally will just sit like this and incubate it.

7. Already explained in #3

This is the cut where the DnD stuff ends and I switch over to the homebrew campaign with homebrew races and a homebrew world and system. It actually has no basis on DnD as it was made by mene before he learned anything about DnDs system^^

8. The playergroup is spread all over germany so we have to have our sessions via Voice and roll20, instead of meeting in person. Another player (the one that plays the human Aldebaran that you see in the middle of #9) has a headset that is very close to death and will occasionally give off awful static noises. It's been a running gag that these static noises are actually Vauban (another players wolf mage) charging up his lightning bolt^^ (he's shouting "move ou tof the way!")

9. A scene where players just casually stating dumb things that their characters do just to say "just kidding" turns into canon because the GM is like "no that happens now, no backtracking". Vaubans player is like "I sit down on the chair" (one of two chairs present in the room) to which Aldebarans player replies "I sit on Vaubans lap" and Karl Franz's Player replies "Ok I sit on Aldebarans lap" to which Vaubans player just voices his character by going "ARghhhghhghgh YOU FATASSES"

10. situational joke that won't be fun when I explain it.

11. same as above

12. Artichoke man who's real name I forgot taking a peak at whatever Vauban is reading over his shoulder. Vauban flunks his perception check and has absolutely no idea.

13. A revamp in the homebrews system actually led to us all having to come up with new characters to have a fresh start. The new story was that most of our new!characters were friends or family of our old!characters on a journey to find out what happened to old!characters. One player decided to just play an absolute carbon copy of his old character, naming the new character Aldebaran when the old character was called Aldeban. The joke was both looked exactly the same and were possibly twins. Karl Franz finds Aldebar frozen solid in an iceblock in very suspicious circumstances. Rushes over to Aldebaran who's by far the most suspicious guy out of the batch of new!characters and smashes his face into the ice going "WHO IS THAT" (and why does he look exactly like you xD)

14. Mene spent a while explaining our surroundings and letting an NPC talk to give us some info. All players failed to notice the transition back to "gameplay" and awkward silence ensued unti we went "OH the cutscene is over?"

15. Vauban and my character Kitani having a heated argument about something while the rest just looks on.

16. Vauban not having the best pair of sea legs. Roll20 sketch xD

17. Aldebaran had the bad habit of trying to cheat vendors out of their pay by handing over too little money. This particular vendor then refused further service to him. Vauban observes the situation. Walks up to the stand and orders the exact same thing that Aldebaran just tried to buy. Vendor ofc catches on and refuses service to him as well to which Vaubans player rolls an intimidation check and wins. At this point the 2m + Wolf person was clad in demonic black plate armour so I can understand all too well that the vendor eventually caved and sold him something xD

18. Old!Characters. Aldebans player said something to the likes of "I say 'lets go on an adventure' to the others" to which the GM replied "You didn't even go over to meet them, you're like....30 feet away at least.

19. Aldebaran being a dickhead...again! xD Everyone was in a weird dungeon with some time shenanigans. We find an important looking artifact that looks like an hourglass. Aldebaran gets fed up with shit for a reason that I forgot and wants to smash the hourglass on the ground. Kitani (my girl) tries to catch the seemingly important artifact I completely flunk my athletics (?) roll and not only does the hourglass shatter on the ground but she falls off of the balcony that they were on to the floor below. Gets an injury (I flunked another roll x-x) and has a mouthbleed. The worst possible injury because it renders spellcasting and shouting impossible and my character was the only healer of the group who, you guessed it, only had spells and shouts. After hearing that explanation Karl Franz' player just goes "I turn around and punch him square in the face".

20. + 21. self explanatory.

Will be moved to scraps later.

Description
A few of you might already know that I've been roped into pen and paper roleplaying by my significant other sometime last year. We played a homebrew PnP made by him with a circle of friends and I had lots of fun. When he and his best pal then got the idea of doing a Dungeons and Dragons campaign I first had no intention of getting involved. The homebrew RP was enough for me and I quite honestly found the array of species that my SO and his pal made available for said campaign to be quite uninspiring. In the light of me uploading a comp that features quite a lot of DnD art you might have already guessed but they ofc successfully lured me in with the simple sentence "what if we let you play a kenku?".

Full size is under the download.
It's been a few months now and I've amassed quite a few doodles from both these PnPs and decided to throw them together in a comp to share, in case anyone is interested, haha.

I've numbered them and am gonna give a hopefully relatively short summary to explain what story happened that lead to those situations. Not because I think that anyone will read it but because I'm very aware that future me will dig this up somewhere down the line and have a good laugh at this. You're welcome. Future-Tokin. If anyone else wants to read as well feel free to tho. I'm not gonna stop you.

1. The dragonborn is saying "How would you feel when someone wants to see you dead?". In essence, we were having a quite serious scene somewhere in the forest shortly after learning of the brutal death of a late player-character (some of our players are going through characters quite quickly <-<). And while the dragonborn Nahagliiv was discussing the fact that he just learnt of an assassin trying to take his life with halforclady Kuro and the rest of the group were having an impromptu funeral of the deceased PC my Kenku was mesmerized by some ball bearings that had been shed on the ground in the previous fight.
One of her main driving forces are shiny things so whenever one of our DMs (my SO and his pal co-dm the campaign) gives me the cue "your Kenku sees something shiny" I have to let whatever she was doing drop like a hot potato and have her try to acquire the shiny things to stay in character. She's also quite dumb (rip that low intelligence roll xD) so she has very low situational awareness.

2. Kenkus can imitate whatever sound they've heard so this is an artistic rendition of my borb just staying in the middle of town square serving as a loud alarmbell (which friggin town does not have a bell for that? I searched for one, I swear it!) after our dearest mage akarao (may she rest in peace) set the tavern on fire by fighting a demonspider inside it. We had a good laugh sending forward recordings of car alarms. Yknow the ones that have like a dozen different kinds of alarm sounds? Why is that? Why not just one kind of noise? I never understood that. Anyway. Kenku was being a good girl by waking everyone up and then helping with carrying water buckets. Useful at last.

3. This picture actually depicts a situation that happened after #7. A dragon attacked the village that the group was hanging out in and my Kenku just legged it into the forest after almost being turned into grilled chicken by a fireball. It then ran until it found a puddle of mud which it sat in until it was found by it's companions xD

4. roll20 doodles of Akarao (top left) my Kenku (top right) Kuro (middle right) and Nahagliiv (bottom).

5. The group was supposed to head south to go back to their homebase after the village had been burnt to crisp but Nahagliiv instead led us all north due to a vision he had and the only one that realized it (the only one that didn't fail their survival roll xD) was my Kenku, who then proceeded to try to get Nahagliiv to turn around. She can only use sentences she's already heard, so communication is very limited for her and the others didn't understand what she was trying to tell everyone and Nahagliiv used that for his own goals and pretended she was being weird about something which ofc offended. The 150m big Kenku spent the rest of the way hacking away at the 2m+ dragonborn with her beak and cursing him out with what little related vocabulary she had. Eventually Nahagliiv shut her up by incospiciously handing her three gold coins which she begrudgingly accepted xD

6. My Kenku rescued an egg out of a harpy nest that one of her companions set on fire after killing the momma harpy. She's been carrying it with her ever since and occasionally will just sit like this and incubate it.

7. Already explained in #3

This is the cut where the DnD stuff ends and I switch over to the homebrew campaign with homebrew races and a homebrew world and system. It actually has no basis on DnD as it was made by mene before he learned anything about DnDs system^^

8. The playergroup is spread all over germany so we have to have our sessions via Voice and roll20, instead of meeting in person. Another player (the one that plays the human Aldebaran that you see in the middle of #9) has a headset that is very close to death and will occasionally give off awful static noises. It's been a running gag that these static noises are actually Vauban (another players wolf mage) charging up his lightning bolt^^ (he's shouting "move ou tof the way!")

9. A scene where players just casually stating dumb things that their characters do just to say "just kidding" turns into canon because the GM is like "no that happens now, no backtracking". Vaubans player is like "I sit down on the chair" (one of two chairs present in the room) to which Aldebarans player replies "I sit on Vaubans lap" and Karl Franz's Player replies "Ok I sit on Aldebarans lap" to which Vaubans player just voices his character by going "ARghhhghhghgh YOU FATASSES"

10. situational joke that won't be fun when I explain it.

11. same as above

12. Artichoke man who's real name I forgot taking a peak at whatever Vauban is reading over his shoulder. Vauban flunks his perception check and has absolutely no idea.

13. A revamp in the homebrews system actually led to us all having to come up with new characters to have a fresh start. The new story was that most of our new!characters were friends or family of our old!characters on a journey to find out what happened to old!characters. One player decided to just play an absolute carbon copy of his old character, naming the new character Aldebaran when the old character was called Aldeban. The joke was both looked exactly the same and were possibly twins. Karl Franz finds Aldebar frozen solid in an iceblock in very suspicious circumstances. Rushes over to Aldebaran who's by far the most suspicious guy out of the batch of new!characters and smashes his face into the ice going "WHO IS THAT" (and why does he look exactly like you xD)

14. Mene spent a while explaining our surroundings and letting an NPC talk to give us some info. All players failed to notice the transition back to "gameplay" and awkward silence ensued unti we went "OH the cutscene is over?"

15. Vauban and my character Kitani having a heated argument about something while the rest just looks on.

16. Vauban not having the best pair of sea legs. Roll20 sketch xD

17. Aldebaran had the bad habit of trying to cheat vendors out of their pay by handing over too little money. This particular vendor then refused further service to him. Vauban observes the situation. Walks up to the stand and orders the exact same thing that Aldebaran just tried to buy. Vendor ofc catches on and refuses service to him as well to which Vaubans player rolls an intimidation check and wins. At this point the 2m + Wolf person was clad in demonic black plate armour so I can understand all too well that the vendor eventually caved and sold him something xD

18. Old!Characters. Aldebans player said something to the likes of "I say 'lets go on an adventure' to the others" to which the GM replied "You didn't even go over to meet them, you're like....30 feet away at least.

19. Aldebaran being a dickhead...again! xD Everyone was in a weird dungeon with some time shenanigans. We find an important looking artifact that looks like an hourglass. Aldebaran gets fed up with shit for a reason that I forgot and wants to smash the hourglass on the ground. Kitani (my girl) tries to catch the seemingly important artifact I completely flunk my athletics (?) roll and not only does the hourglass shatter on the ground but she falls off of the balcony that they were on to the floor below. Gets an injury (I flunked another roll x-x) and has a mouthbleed. The worst possible injury because it renders spellcasting and shouting impossible and my character was the only healer of the group who, you guessed it, only had spells and shouts. After hearing that explanation Karl Franz' player just goes "I turn around and punch him square in the face".

20. + 21. self explanatory.

Will be moved to scraps later.