I absolutely love this meme...everyone did such wonderful bits of their adventuring lives :3..Sammi's is as adorable as usual, and Doxia's has this sharp, somewhat cynical but cute feel about it, while the emotions in Lythari's drawings always got me. I can't help but love Abigail's Bhaalspawn's nonchalance, Erephine's beautiful portraits, Aliya's interesting style, and Nix's Angelo X3 and of course, Epantiras's blue bhaalspawn   
I haven't seen a lot of Leila's works but I'm possitively falling in love with her style :3..

Characters I don't really drag around anymore..hm..

Aerie-can be sort of sweet behind all the whining and emo fest, and somewhat grows up throughout the game (when we were in Hell and about to face Irenicus for the last time, Aerie's words just sort of made me go 'wow, you go aerie!')  Don't really play her that much, but I always take her when I play the Kivan mod - It's just cute the way Kivan needs someone to fuss over and Aerie certainly needing to be fussed over :3 . However, I simply cannot stomach her when my PC is a guy, where the whinings took on a whole new level altogether. On this account I agree wholeheartedly with Cal on her treatment of Jaheira. It just feels so...highschool ^^; sort of shows that as a woman she is definitely not on the same level with Jaheira

Haer dalis- Simply put, I don't trust the guy. It just doesn't feel comfortable to be travelling, fighting, and getting into life-threatening situations with someone as...flighty as Haer dalis. Throughout a game with him I keep expecting him to just disappear in the most convinient moment without anything more than an airy bye-bye (something on the lines of 'it is time this sparrow should fly away' or something XD) Even when he was being all sweet romancing Aerie I can't help having a sinking feeling that one day Haer dalis is just going to disappear on her too. heheh, perhaps I'm just being paranoid

Mazzy-My logical mind kept saying that there's actually nothing wrong with Mazzy, but somehow I just can't stand her in my party for too long. I guess it's just that she reminds me so much of people who, without anyone asking them to, goes around busily telling people what to do and what is best for them-to the tiniest, most painstaking details. Somehow with Keldorn (who is also lawful-good) I don't feel this kind of overwhelming pushiness- I don't really understand it myself And again I agree with Cal on the way she treats Valygar, it's a bit disquieting to me.

I don't usually bother to pick up Korgan or Edwin...after brief run throughs with them, they just don't really sit well with me at all ^^; while in the case of Keldorn and Cernd, I usually left them to be together with their families (in the case of Cernd the same way that Amaurea did ^^)

Oh wow, I love this challenge
Galsic's Anomen really did it for me, though, the expression of contempt on Ano's face is just so right (and so wrong for him as a child ) and of course Sammi is my hero as always *goes off to collect every last one into my harddisk XD* little Tiax is particularly cute. Love the idea behind Doxia's pic too.

A quick work with photoshop, Valygar and his mother. I've always imagined that Valygar grew up watching his mother slowly descending into madness. But perhaps, at some points she'd have these bursts of lucidity where she can say that she loved him, and those are the memories that he might try to forget the most but also one that he'd secretly cerish. Just felt that way ^^;

Really nice edits :3 I particularly like Kivan the assassin..but I think I just love the whole lot of them..
Looking forward to more of your stuff

Scipio, that's a really good idea :3 I often played some of the games I did because the guys in the forums were talking (or raving) about it..So that would be a very valuable list indeed ^^

In no particular order :
Baldur's Gate series- meh, what can I say :3 It's the only game I ever played where I realy felt I knew (and obsess at) all the characters and places in a personal way

The Longest Journey- Great story and beautiful, beautiful atmosphere. I loved April's voice so much I downloaded her soundset for my BG pc X3

Arcanum - Fell in love with Arcanum the first time I heard the music and saw the menu. I've always loved the industrial revolution era, all the clothes and ambience, when it got partnered with magic and hacking and slashing (and old guns!) , there was no way I can refuse. Companions are pretty cute, and all the minor details in the surroundings made it all the more fun :3

Vampire the Masquerade : Bloodlines - I wasn't so much a fan of games in modern settings, especially RPGs. However, Bloodlines managed to make me feel the roleplay bit in a perfectly modern setting in a very engrossing way ^^

Icewind Dale- the first Bioware RPG I ever played The first thing that struck me about it is how beautiful it is. The music, all that snow and frozen lakes, the great tree of Kuldahar - everything felt just about right in a classical adventuring kind of way. I know it doesn't have a level of party interaction (at all?), but it is a really charming game.


Hm, as for a honorable mention, one game which I still carry fond memories of is Quest for Glory V: Dragonfire. It's the first RPG I've ever played (I think..). I don't even remember the premise of the story anymore, although I still remember there was this inn where we stay in, and everyday the menu would change from one horrible meal to another - until finally the innkeep settled for plain old macaroni and cheese, and it was delicious! . Um, heheh, I'll stop ranting now.., but I really did love that game

Love Sammi's version of Immy's mother, can sort of see traces of her there :3...Can't wait for you to color it Sammi! (she'll have red hair too? no? because that would really suit her look) And baby Immy in the second panel is just...awwwwwww  

And one from me - Extremely messy, I know X3 But I just had to get the idea out of my system in order to be able to work peacefully...XD



Godchild or no, it was still her child. And regardless of what he said, she's keeping her baby

My Charname's mother with Gorion. I've always loved the premise that they were 'somewhat' lovers, in a way :3

My art account and my fanart account (mostly forgotten realms :3)
hee hee...I love the phrase 'double deviant'...X3

I really really loved all of Sammi's pictures!! ^^ Midorii's was really cute too, I particularly like the line "please, Estel'amin, this is supposed to be a peaceful place" XD
Doxia's is lovely as always and Vilkacis's always manages to draw me odd looks from all around the internet cafe

Um, one from me :3
The Seven Hells tavern-owned and run by an ex-Bhaalspawn, a pink-haired serving girl with a fondness for casual pickpocketting, and a bartender with glowing eyes (don't ever ask him where he got that from, though). And because this is a fanart, a certain bounty hunter gets through the game alive, just to make sure the gamblers in the tavern doesn't cheat too much, and provide the lady owner with glimpses of him now and then :3

I adore number three! X3
Also, cute way of potraying Neeshka and Khelgar

Azkyroth - oops sorry, my bad X3..

Jazhara & Orthodoxia - Thank you :3 I generally use watercolor pencils to color my pics and colored pencils to outline it. For the pics I did for the challenges the whole stuff are overlayed with old paper textures and gets a little retouch from photoshop filters (mostly dark strokes and watercolor or sporadic usage of the burn tool)

Leila - Agreed! I do wonder too how they are supposed to traipse around sewers and swamps with that...0__o

Vilkacis - that's bloody cute
Azkyroth - haha! the horror of being a Bhaalspawn X3

Hate, I guess. But it could go under the label of 'love' just as easily...



Anyways, I've always sort of hated Elessime...don't know why

EvaineDian- that's absolutely lovely....can we perhaps get a view of a bigger picture...dunno, with armors and swords strewn all over X3...
heheheh...I really love this challenge

SpAE- ooo...I'm in love with both of your pics. Xan and the Bhaalspawn looked so...doomed and the Khalid-Jaheira one is just pure sweetness X3 the expression on Khalid's face is simply adorable :3 Pleeease do color it sometime soon
btw, I love the phrase 'canonised love' >D, thank you

Solar's Harper-thank you ^^ the Bhaalspawn is supposed to be half-elven

Aww, that's so beautiful I have no words. Is it Yoshimo, Angelo or someone else?

It's supposed to be Yoshimo (he's diabolically hard to draw XD) and the protagonist, in the back there's Jaheira, Nalia, and Minsc
Thank you Kulyok ^^

Heheh...it might not be love, then again, it might be



Can't wait to see the colored version of Orthodoxia's pic..the whole picture conveys such a strong but silent emotion, and great balance between the Bhaalspawn and Xan..Love it to bits! X3

Orthodoxia, the pic really nails the warm and fuzzy no-one's-watching feeling X3 great use of colors
Ilmatar, the Edwin pic is just simply hot!! :3
I also really love weeRLegion's...heheheh....love manifests itself in all sorts of ways >3
Hmm...love...

Sounds like fun! hmm...a month...