Get Illustration Support Pack #34!

I am pleased to bring you another Illustration Support Pack, which includes [12] item illustrations, [4] landscape scenes and [8] NPC Portraits & Tokens.

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Item Illustrations

This month's item illustrations were designed with two different themes in mind, voted on by Patrons on Discord - Eberron and Greek Mythology. We talked about a handful of different options for the various magical/mundane items, and we ended up with a pretty good list. I hope that some of them are useful for your campaigns, even if you aren't running anything using those settings.

The item illustrations were done by Steven Bell.

The highlighted item is the Final Messenger -- this Warforged Component is an intricate assemblage of clockwork and filigree wings, designed to serve as a communication device within warforged units. A massive swarm of Final Messengers was released by The Lord of Blades to deliver his Singularity Speech.

Description

A final messenger is a tiny homonculus - a delicate winged creature designed to facilitate communication between warforged soldiers during the Last War.

Final Messenger

If you are a warforged, you can use an action to hold a final messenger and integrate it into your body. While it is part of your body, the messenger cannot be targeted by any attack. You can only have one messenger attached to your body at a time.

A final messenger holds [4] pieces of data, accessible only to the warforged it is attached to:

A destination for the messenger. This can be very specific (a particular apartment in Sharn) or more general (an open marketplace).
A target individual. This could be a specific person or a category ("Any Karrnathi warforged"). Any creature can be the target, but note that only warforged can read the message.
A single image recorded through the eyes of a warforged attached to the messenger.
A message of up to 25 words.

While the messenger is attached to you, you can use an action to review the data currently stored within the final messenger, and if you choose, to change any or all of these data points. You can release the final messenger as a bonus action, at which point it flies to its destination by the most direct route possible. If the destination is impossible for the messenger to reach, or if the destination is on a different plane of existence, the messenger will immediately begin searching for a target. Once it reaches the destination, it seeks the target individual; if no target has been set, or if the target is not located, it approaches the nearest warforged.

If you are reduced to 0 hit points while a final messenger is attached to you, it immediately detaches and seek out its target. It retains its stored message, but replaces its stored image with the last thing you saw before dropping to zero hit points.

A final messenger is a Tiny construct with an AC of 20, 6 hit points, and a flying speed of 60 feet. It is immune to poison damage, psychic damage, and all conditions other than unconsciousness. If it is forced to make an ability check or a saving throw, treat all its ability scores as 10 (+0). It has darkvision with a range of 60 feet. It has no limbs and the only action it can take on its turn is the Dash action.

A messenger can only remain active for 8 hours after it detaches from a warforged body, after which time its energy dissipates and it falls unconscious. In good conditions, it can usually travel about 100 miles before running out of energy. An unconscious messenger must complete a short or long rest attached to a warforged, after which it regains its energy, as well as regaining all lost hit points.

NPC Portraits & Tokens

This month's NPC illustrations were designed with the D&D 5th edition module, Rime of the Frostmaiden, in mind, featuring several duergar/dark dwarves, a goliath prisoner and a human researcher. While these designed were crafted around particular NPC's in the module, one could certainly use them for any homebrew campaign or narrative.

I particularly liked this Duergar Noble, by HIIDRA Studios:

There are also [4] scenes included, by various artists, and I particularly enjoyed this one depicting the Tree of Knowledge from a temple of the same name, by Mondcuow.

I hope you like them!, and I'd love to have your support in helping commission future artists, and continuing to work on releasing maps for the TTRPG community.