The Slayers

From the serious and dramatic of D&Disms, we go into the comedic of D&Disms.  The Slayers is an Anime that is a send up of Dungeons and Dragons.  Honestly, with the dramatic Dungeons and Dragons cartoon in the mid 1980s and the Record of Lodoss War anime series we D&D gamers need something to help us laugh at our favorite game.

Just like the famous video where the player says: "Are there any girls there?" The Slayers  pretty much takes it over the top and combines silly slapstick humor with dangerous situations in a good formula.  The series follows the adventures of Lina Inverse and her companions as they find adventure and misadvanture in a D&D World, and fight and cast spells in over the top situations.


It's hard not to laugh at the exploits of the Slayers.  Especially if you play Dungeons and Dragons.  Even when people fail their spell checks for casting a spell, the results can be humorous.  If you are a serious Dungeons and Dragons player and you can't handle people criticizing the official 4th Edition from WotC, then you need a break and you need to watch The Slayers.  You need to laugh at your favorite game and realize that those who criticize the 4th Edition of the game have their feelings to vent. 

The Episodes can be watched through Funimation or Hulu.

Desert Amazon by ~Atlantean6 on deviantART

Desert Amazon's lighting is much, much better than the image below.  I rendered the image below with a 12 hour difference (she was rendered in the morning).  Now, this figure is rendered at Dusk.

Desert Amazon

I think I still have to work on my lighting technique.  However, it's a reason to try the She-Freak in something inspired by Conan.  The Death Bringer!!

Agafya, the She-Devil

Agafya by ~Atlantean6 on deviantART

She has a name.

Agafya, the fem barbarian from Hyrkania, has come to the Western Kingdoms of Hyboria to make a name for herself. A contemporary of a young Conan of Cimmeria, Agafya has her own ambitions. Can there be room in Hyboria for Conan, Sonja, and Agafya?

Yes. Done in DAZ Studio 3 Advanced.

Barbarian of Hyrkania

Barbarian of Hyrkania by ~Atlantean6 on deviantART

"Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. When shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. Nemidia. Ophir. Brythunia. Hyperborea.

. . . But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan the Cimmerian."

-- From the "Pheonix on the Sword," by Robert E. Howard

Who doesn't like barbarian women from Hyrkania? Who doesn't like strong, muscled women in general? This is a barbarian woman from Hyrkania, the same land as Red Sonja. The background used is a picture of Sunset over Antelope Island in Salt Lake City. Actual picture is credited to Night Fate.

This Barbarian is getting the itch. Apparently, the heroic stories of barbarians across the Vilayet Sea is calling to her. Living around the time of Conan the Barbarian, instead of Conan the King, this one Barbarian is preparing to set out and find her own destiny.