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Here are some images I use as references for my games. It is not hard to guess what some of them are based on. I have taken a few liberties, such as the minor templar not wearing black, or Nibenay. I know many of you do not like AI-generated images, so feel free to ignore them if you want. I hope some of you find them useful.

Successful prints of my attempts at b'roghs, a eagle headed giant, anakore and dagorran.

The excellent work of gloimykidminiatures in the background, sweet kank riders ready for an encounter in the black sands

Project name: Ashara frontiers

Reposting this because my other post was taken down due to lack of context.

**all images were drawn by me**

Currently I am fleshing out an indigenous society that live in a massive jungle of giant trees and giant bugs!

Please ask questions and add anything that sounds interesting to develop this idea. I want each society to be as intricate and detailed as possible :)

Main premise —

My world I am creating has zero magic and no creation story or gods. It is more of a hard sci-fi of humans as they are now with medieval to Stone Age level technology on a different world of larger plants and animals. The world they live on, Ashara, was made how any of the planets in the solar system and universe were made, a big bang, and laws of physics.

There are multiple cultures in different environments that will eventually meet and fight each other in wars on massive scales much like a Warhammer or trench crusade.

** here I will walk through all the images and provide all the context I have so far for this location and culture. :) **

This native society is still in the Stone Age but their animal husbandry with all sorts of insects and arachnids is so intertwined with their society that their culture, tools, ecosystem, and lifestyle revolve around giant bugs. They have a warlike and aggressive nature from living in such a harsh environment. Literally a “ law of the jungle” mentality.

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They live in “castles” or giant hollowed out jungle trees and use the large structures of the roots as wooden walls to keep pesky animals and other tribes away from them. They farm crops and keep certain types of insects as livestock inside of here.

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This giant guy is a detritivore and eats dead and decaying trees. All his nutrients come from the other tiny organisms that help break down wood. He’s like a whale shark, mostly docile because humans are so small they are like barracuda following sharks. He also eats a ton but it’s millions of really tiny creatures. there’s food everywhere in a forest of trees larger than the redwoods.

It carries its young offspring on his back, humans of this society observed this behavior and used it to domesticate these guys.

The jungle canopy provides so much shade that most other trees cannot grow. There are still very dense jungle plants on the jungle floor but this beetle is big enough that it just steps over them

This beetle would not be able to crawl vertically with humans aboard, the structure might be okay with the different stresses of climbing vertically but the humans would slip off :) there’s to much floor space to tether all the humans and they would probably fall. Although this is a flaw in design I think it would be super cool to leave in actually. Other warring nations could use terrain against them or tip them somehow to beat this giant unstoppable bug and balance the world out a bit.

-Image #4-

This is a smaller beetle that carries a single rider and is probably from the same genus as the last giant beetle.

The problem with this sketch is that the saddle needs scraped and reworked entirely. A society in the Stone Age would probably not have a modern western horse saddle! Please help me think of an alternative. It must be able to stick the rider in place while the beetle climbs, especially if it’s vertically!

Giant bees and wasps cannot be tamed because they see humans as normal sized bees see mites and other parasites! They continually clean each other to prevent sickness spreading to the queen or other workers. And trapping and isolating them is difficult because they secrete distress pheromones that other bees or wasps come to. This is primarily for balancing the world because riding bees would be sick af but alas :,( riding some flying insects would be fun though, just not an entire army of them.

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Weapons of this society.

A spiked club made from the fangs of a giant tarantula. Only warriors that have killed a giant tarantula may carry this club and only an elder or wise man may create the club because of the inherent danger of the fangs poison.

The maxilla are two blades on the sides of a mosquito’s proboscis, they are tiny knives that cut through the skin of its victim to insert the proboscis. On a giant mosquito they make large wickedly serrated knives or small swords. This is the common sidearm / utility tool of the tribes.

The proboscis of mosquitoes are long hollow tubes that are used for blowguns. They also have a sharp point and can double as a spear but It is not the main use as it could potentially crack or break if it is stuck by another hard object.
different darts are used for different purposes ie small game vs poisoned for larger game.

Large dragon flies, about the size of a small chicken are everywhere in such a giant jungle and are harvested for their wings to make arrow fletchings.

Ant lions are a great nuisance on the edge of the jungle because they eat so many insects and other animals that the tribes use for food that they are hunted for sport by large war parties and harvested for their jaws to make sweet axes or clubs.

Thank you for reading to the end here! If you’d like more please follow my socials in my bio :)))

Edit: Thanks to Baldrax I went through and updated ALL of the textures in the collection and vastly improved them visually! The first 50 or so miniatures should now be available for free on Talespire! Have fun.

My online party has been having a blast in a Dark Sun playthrough, but there was a complete lack of appropriate miniatures for the setting.

So I decided to start creating monsters inspired by the original designs for use in the campaign.

At this point I have made a lot of progress importing MANY into Talespire. They really color the world in a uniquely Athasian way! Still many more to do!

If anyone is interested in using them in their campaign feel free to check out my profile as I add the models. I am also open to providing the files for printing and other 3D applications if there is community interest/support.

https://mod.io/g/talespire/u/shinyskull666

Havent had time to print these guys, anfd it not sure i actually need a Drik (it looks like at gargantuan snapping turtle) a Dune freak, Daggoran, a couple og Broghs and a Babababoon from dungeon crawler carl.
printed and painted minis soon

Just wanted to share some artwork I've made of the Monsters, Beasts, and Creatures for my home campaign of Dark Sun. Some of them are pulled from the old Monster Compendiums, like the Beast Headed Giants, Silt Runners, Braxat and Razor Wings while others are of my own homebrew like the Capsrull, Sauros, Zeta and Diablo.

Hopefully people enjoy it and maybe get some inspiration for their own games!

I have read about dragon and avangion forms, and I was wondering: how many people really achieved it?

The ritual is pretty hard, and you need to grind for it for a very long time. Probably years of real time.

So if you did, please tell me your story!

The Nephew of the leader of House Wavir reveals that he's been watching the party, Porani, could give a care less.