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LeilaAscariz — Istixia of the Izzet League
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Published: 2017-11-16 20:57:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 1188; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 0
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Scales! And horns! And a dragon lady! What's not to like? Another long term NPC who has become really important in some plots. Her name is Istixia, and she is a human bard gone disciple of the red dragon. I have exaggerated her draconic features because... why not?I created her for my D&D adaptation of MtG's ravnica and she is an Izzet with a diva complex who is pretty more humble than she looks.
I reutilized this pose, lazy me!!! fav.me/db8m7ra
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You know that it's a shared weakness xD
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I didn't join! I am a founder member xD
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Your dragon member is sexiest then my Dragon Woman
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She seems sexy enough to me!
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Whoaaaaa Leila on a roll~!!! Just look at all these amazing artworks~!! 
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This one and Mother Maiden Crone are old, as I reuploaded them to request critique xD
This one casually didn't was difficult to do, all flowed organically.
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¿Y por qué no exagerar sus facciones dracónicas? Hay veces que veo "hombres lobo" que no dejan de ser simples chicos guapos con orejas de perro. Ahora bien, Saberwulf, ése es un hombre lobo de los de verdad.
Istixia mola. El detalle que más me llama la atención es que incluso su calavera parece haberse deformado (ojos más atrasados y zona inferior ligeramente más adelantada). Quién sabe, a lo mejor algún día le empieza a crecer la boca...
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Sin duda, y tengo visto personajes descritos como "horriblemente deformados" que luego parecen hasta guapos!
Pero en este caso por obsesión que tenga el personaje con trascender su forma humana aún tiene facetas muy reconociblemente humanas. En este caso quise llevarla un poco más lejos y hacer más visibles sus escamas y rasgos faciales porque me apetecía xD
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Así que, ¿Darks souls 1, 2 o 3?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvYApd… ? <- XD
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Fantastic picture - I always wondered what your avatar picture would look like in full size!!!
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Thanks! The character should actually look more human than I drew her, but I loved to exaggerate her draconic features.
Trying to show her human ethnicity with red skin and those reptilian eyes was really fun!
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Well, I could neither plache her as a Tiefling nor as a dragonborn - I assumed some kind of halfdragon...
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She is a human disciple of the red dragon... with 10 levels in the class xD
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I geathered as much. I didn't play 3 or 3.5 D&D but I tried to understand the rules and concepts!
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I played mostly 3.5 but now I have adapted most characters to Pathfinder, which is to me an improved version.
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Yeah, I heard that Pathfinder is an improvement!
You know I tried a bit of 3rd, but a character like Panartias would lose to much in conversion / translation. You see, he is a 9th level fighter (with swashbuckler kit), 13th level thief and 10th level wizard (of the red robes) under 2ed edition rules. (which dosent mean hes an 32 level character - rather around level 15 - but with a lot of skills and abilities at a high level)
After 3/3.5 rules that would translate to a level 19 character overall - which I could for example distribute like this F5/T7/W7 which would mean better saves and to hit bonusses for him, but fewer skills (and at a lower level)
Plus he would lose his uniqueness: changing professions was only possibel with a 15 in every main attribute of the first class and 17 or higher in every main attribute of the new class. And only humans could dual-class (or tripple-class as in his case) while other races could multy-class.
So I could either cheat and use the old rules under the new edition or not make the shift...
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I think it might work fine under 3.5/PF rules as an Eldritch Knight or even an Arcane Trickster. I love Arcane Tricksters in PF though I don't like multiclassing or prestige classes in PF a lot.
I'd might go for a Swashbuckler instead of a Fighter, ot even a Slayer might do a good work (it is an hybrid between a rogue and a ranger but I think it might be fitting). Instead of a vanilla wizard, a sorcerer or an arcanist sound like a neat option (sorcerers in PF are really cool to play).
Also, just playing a bard and tweaking it with a cool archetype to fit your concept and your options the best you could is an option. A swashbuckling magic user seems pretty bardish to me.
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I'd have to rearrange the statts then as well - and that would definitly change the character.
Believe me, I've pondered all the options you mentioned, but none really satisfies me.
Panartias had weapon-specialisations sword/rapir, dagger and boxing for once.
As a thief he had all skills apart from pick pockets (25%) and read languages (0%) maxed out (at 95%) - plus he had the best possible backstab (sneak attack) (5 x damage)
As a wizard he specialized in buffs and illusions (as well as cantrip and curse-spells)
"Multiclassing" was only for demihumans back in 1th and 2nd edition - what Panartias did was "Dualclassing" wich was much harder, because off the attribute requirement and because you coulden't /weren't allowed to use your class abilities (apart from the hitpoints that you keept) untill you had a higher level in the new class then in the old. A hard, stony road - but with its rewards!
Sorry for bragging about it.
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Oh, nope! I have a good time trying to figure out a way to get it done. I might revise the archetypes to find more options!
Rogues in PF have access to extra feats using their rogue tricks plus all characters having feats each 2 levels so it might be doable without Fighter levels
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Well at the moment Panartias uses only his fighter and wizard abilities - rogue is dormant since it is his higes class...
But Panartias is excactly the type of character they nerfed with the change from 2nd edition onward.
The fighter 5 (weaponmaster path for the swashbuckler manoevers), thief 7 (spellthief for additional casting levels) and wizard 7 (Transmuter or Illusionst) - everything with the entertainer background and variant human for extra feats is the clothest I get with 5th edition.
But the core problem is, that this means a 19th level character with 5/7/7 level abilities as opposed to a 15th level character with 9/13/10 level abilities. The abilities are cut in half! The character gets a bit tougher and more resillient in return.
Then Panartias is actually a dex-based fighter - but that concept wasen't as much supported in earlier editions as it is now with the finesse-weapons. Panartias starting statts were 16 str, 17 int, 7 wis, 17 dex, 14 con and 11 char. (Later additional stats like commliness 17, percepton 14 and luck 14 were roled/added) I had to distribute the stats like that, because changing the class 3 thimes was the core concept! It is even in his motto:
to conquer the heart of a beautiful lady.
Then I became a thief -
to steal myself a kiss from her lips.
And finally, I became a mage -
to enchant her face with a smile.”
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Definitely it sounds like a complicated thing to adapt!
I think going for a prestige class that allows to progress in both spellcasting and martial prowess might be the best option, like the Arcane Trickster, but still, I can see how difficult it is.
I had a tough time like that converting Istixia, as she was a bard/disciple of the dragon in 3.5, and disciples of the dragon in Pathfinder are so different and less focused on spellcasting. And as she was mainly an spellcaster and obsessed with magic and dragons. I kept the class but part of the concept was eroded. Also, in 3.5 the changes were permanent, and her race changed to half dragon, which was important for the character as she was trying to attain some sort of metamorphosis and get rid of her humanity, partly as a reaction to a traumatic past. In Pathfinder, most changes are invoked at will and can be dispelled, which means that the "metamorphosis" isn't permanent.
So, despite most the characters that I adapted to PF were even better as I got to get them closer to the concept I had in mind with more personalization and more options, it harmed Istixia's concept quite a lot.
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I'm glad you understand the problem!
Isn't it weird, that a good system fails to account for some special characters - like Istixia and Panartias?
That;s the main reason I sticked to 2nd edition: Because some dear characters were hard to translate / adapt.
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Fortunately for us, most characters adapter fabulously and were even improved (Sylvyana was much better as an urban druid, as she never had an animal companion and was mostly a spellcaster). But sadly some of the best were hard to adapt.
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Yeah, I think they made sure most characters would gain something rather than lose something.
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That was what made PF characters more customizable, which I liked. I didn't like prestige classes a lot precisely because the prerequisites often forced the characters to be too much alike.
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Well I did read the optimizers form on the Wizards of the Cost boad sometimes.
They tendet to pile one prestige class on top of another - which probably wasen't the intention of those classes...
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I always liked my characters to be functional but if they don't support the character concept, I don't even think of it. You can make your character work fine without optimizing irrationally and against the backstory.
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Same for me! A too optimized character isen't fun to play for me; a charcter is defined by its weaknesses as much as by his strength.
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Hahaha, totally! If you read my Reign of Winter story you'll see how Kileanna seems to end always getting the worst part in combats xD (and she had a pretty strong build though)
She also rebelled against me as the story went by, refusing to learn or cast some powerful spells because she hated them! (She learned cloudkill, used it twice, and then decided it was evil and never prepared it again)
She also took a lot of healing options because she became terrified of her group dying after someone died and she couldn't heal her!
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For Panartias, I took a few extra weaknesses.
For example he hates disgusting things (which a lot of spell components are). So he missed a few good spells like spiderclimb (living spider and tar), fireball (bat guano), and wizard eye (eye of a hawk, eagle or rock).
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He hates disgusting things! Amusing phrasing. But not as much considering that I love disgusting things xD
Kileanna is able to vomit swarms of insects, so when you can do that, nothing seems too disgusting.
I have a wizard who is utterly afraid of running water. And my GM loves to take her into the sea xD
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I have very tough characters too - my ranger Simur for example - he actually loves pain, blood and gore...
...Panartias is more of a delicate flower when it comes to that.
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Qué finura y buena mezcla de colores.
No me suele gustar mucho los sombreados con el mismo color, pero manejas muy bien las pinturillas, el dibujo queda variado en matices, simplemente funciona muy bien.
Los volúmenes formas y texturas...
Muy buen trabajo!
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Muchas gracias! En realidad uso generalmente entre 2 y 4 tonalidades diferentes para cada color, pero hago un degradado sutil para que no se note apenas. He llegado a usar 6 pinturas diferentes para un sólo color xD
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Debe ser por eso que funciona tan bien.
Realmente da gusto verlo xD
sigue asi!
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Muchas gracias por el ánimo, y los faves que me das!
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Thanks! I started her many months ago but I always delayed finishing her because of other work ^-^U
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Thanks! Ihad so much fun with the scales! This is the first step to learn how to draw a real dragon!
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The scales are amazing aaaaah my god. How you manage to get such rich, vivid colors with colored pencils just blows my mind. This is beautiful.
Love it - you always amazing me.
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Thanks a lot! I actually had to fade this one a bit because my scanner made them even brighter. It hates me! Oh, and I usually mix many colors to make them more vibrant. The red scales, i.e. has 2 shades of red (I usually go for 3-4 different hues for the same thing, but this time I only used base+contrast)
I have been working on this one for months, as I always put this aside to take other projects, so I am so glad to have her done!
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I'm glad you were finally able to finish it! It's amazing.
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I adore your coloring skills and of course, those scales!!
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