Rya.Reisender
Explorer
I do it when there's an official 5e illustration of the monster / NPC available.
Well I’m surprised at how many say they do! I didn’t until recently, when I got a request for a picture of something from a player. Now I take pictures of things and have them on my iPad ready to show during the session. I think I’ll try and do both a verbal and a picture.
I was disappointed by the request, actually, and took it as a note to improve my monster/NPC descriptions. The players seem happy to see pictures though.
Sometimes in my search for images to make tokens or handouts, I'll come across a particularly spectacular image such as this one:
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1) She's so hot, there's lava running through her veins. Literally."super-hot earth genasi girlfriend named Gemma Roxov who lives on another plane and is a professional model."
As even my in-person games are run on Roll20, it seems a waste not to take advantage of that visual medium, so I frequently show pictures. At the very least you'll see a monster token, but sometimes I'll prepare a handout with the full image.
Sometimes in my search for images to make tokens or handouts, I'll come across a particularly spectacular image such as this one:
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...and now the xorn engineer on the PCs' captured mind flayer ship is telling everyone who will listen about his "super-hot earth genasi girlfriend named Gemma Roxov who lives on another plane and is a professional model." He shows them the above picture as proof. They're all pretty sure he's lying. I guess we'll see at some point in the future.