Had A Rough Day And Decided To Chill Out And Draw Chris (the Hero) And Andrew (Guide) Discussing The

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We’ve finally finished playing Drakkenheim after three years of sessions and I can’t help but feel such a weird sense of grief over Chris’ ending, despite the party having "won" the adventure.

The final chunk of the campaign suffered quite a lot due to external reasons -- the final 10-ish sessions took us an entire year to get through due to scheduling issues, absolutely killing the momentum of the campaign, and for various reasons the DM was unable to commit the time/thought the campaign really needed to wrap up the story in a satisfying way.

Drakkenheim as a campaign book is very story-driven, featuring faction intrigue and a larger, overarching plot to keep things moving while having players choose a specific goal/quest for their character to tie them directly into the story. But by the end of the campaign, we were completely glossing over NPC interactions and faction relationships, and essentially hand-waving the completion of half of the party’s personal quests, ruining what we had been building up to throughout the whole campaign.

Chris’ personal quest -- to study the eldritch corruption taking over the city, and someday reverse it -- was never resolved. His character arc involving his relationship with one of the factions was dropped, and his bond with his mentor mostly ignored.

It felt unearned to use his character epilogue to resolve all of his struggles that should have been addressed in the main campaign, and so it ended up much more ambiguous than the rest of the party -- where other party members were looking towards the future, becoming nobility or attaining pseudo-godhood or traveling the planes or whatever else, Chris was left exactly where he was at the start of the campaign: trying to find a way to cleanse the contamination, something that may or may not ever be achievable.

There’s nothing stopping me from writing a continuation to Chris' story, and the DM has encouraged us to do as we please with our characters from here. But it feels weird knowing anything I do from here is for myself alone, when we spent the last three years making this story together.

The DM has mentioned possibly coming back together in the future for a short adventure where we track down and kill the Duchess a year or so after the campaign ends, and I could see Chris hoping to extract some information about the contamination from her -- depending on how that adventure goes, maybe that will redeem the ending of the main campaign. Or maybe not; we’ll see.

Ultimately, I think I will eventually figure out a better epilogue for him. I love the world of Drakkenheim and the lore has so much fun stuff to build off of. I want him to have something greater than what he got, and the world is so detailed and creative I know I can give him the ending he deserves. Maybe I'll illustrate some fun post-game comics or similar to make it feel more "real."

But we’ll see. For now, things are raw, so I’m gonna take some time to sit on things and mull over where I’m gonna go with him from here.

the Creature: sometimes a family is a scientist and the creature that he made

victor frankenstein: sometimes a family isn’t

Late night doodle time ft. Chris

yoooooooooo, look what I have

yes, I am making stardew valley terraria mod

here some leak for ya, kisses kisses

although it's pretty old, but I still have it

aand my graphic tablet just broke yesterday, so now I can only write heart events and other stuff

hope you like things that I'm doing

yes I got inspired by some other art with this crossover, but I tried to draw all this sprites on my own

A very tired teenage bird shape-shifter. Sadly, that’s a side-effect of spending every night (and some of his days) out exploring and trying to get away from a political family. After all, he’s never in any place to inherit power -- technically he and one of his brothers are twins and therefore the same age, but he wasn’t cut out from the start for the hard political life like his three siblings.

When you’ve accidentally fallen in love with a fish

muahahahahaha surpriiiise >:))) I hope I got at least partially into the characters of these cool guys…

@ask-a-simple-hero @evilbiomes @asktewawa @purity-town

A couple of doodles I did tonight.

(This is pixelrhys hi) I saw your tags and I was like! Don't worry, hardmode is fiiine! It definitely doesn't scar you with the consequences of your actions! But hey, at least it isn't Calamity! *I give you a huge thumbs up and it pans over to Fritz behind me, crying his eyes out*

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