CEO of Fake Ecosystems 🌲🌲 | Knowledge (Nature) enjoyer | Spidermogging the Monster Manual | Guaranteed to impress that cute druid at your table (no promises)
Have you ever encountered creatures while playing #DnD or other #TTRPG and thought "This existing might really change how the world works..."?
Post it here, and I might deep how fantasy meets real ecology with that creature. You might even end up with free content for your game.
Setting aside the question of whether an orc would drink a beverage that had a little parasol in it, this is a really good example of bad anatomy.
Yes, the orc girl is portrayed adequately, but the artist clearly had no idea how tusks worked. Her tusks interfere with her ability to eat and they look terrible and intrusive besides. If the artist had gone to the trouble of finding a real pig skull, and worked its jaws up and down once or twice, his orc tusks would look a LOT better.
Ditto for people who don't know that carnivores use their canines to kill prey, not slice or chew their food. They have a special tooth (the carnassial) to slice meat, and it's why both cats & dogs chew with their side of their mouth on something tough.
The more you know.
“We are all adventurers here, I suppose, and wild doings in wild countries appeal to us as nothing else could do. It is good to know that there remain wild corners of this dreadfully civilised world.”
– Robert Falcon Scott (1911)
Rainbow eucalyptus sheds its bark in strips at different times. New bark looks green because chlorophyll shows, As the bark ages, tannins build up, shifting the colour through blues, purples, oranges, and reds
creating the rainbow effect.