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Pax_Chi
2016-01-12, 04:56 PM
Hey all. I'm looking for some help with trying to find one particular type of image pretty common to all of fantasy.

So the heroes have just completed an adventurer. It was hard fought but well won, and they leave with packs full of gold, hearts full of glory and voices full of story and song. To celebrate, they make their way to their favorite tavern/inn, gather around a table, and order the biggest glass of their favorite drinks. They lift their mugs up in a toast and begin to regale themselves and the bar patrons with stories of their adventures.

That image, of an adventuring party gathered around an inn/tavern table, lifting their drinks and laughing, or telling their tales of adventure to the rest of the patrons?

I can't find a decent image of that. ANYWHERE. I thought such a relatively iconic image would be an easy Google Image Search, but nope. After using every variation of 'fantasy', 'inn', 'tavern', 'adventurers', adventuring party', 'ale', 'celebration', 'tankard', 'beer' and 'mug' in Google Image Search and deviantArt, I found exactly four images that might qualify, none of which I could really use. Most of the images are of bar brawls, or it's much less joyous and more subdued.

The closest thing I've found was this image from deviantArt (http://img08.deviantart.net/685c/i/2015/106/5/d/tyra_friends_in_tavern_by_greenviggen-d7xn4sm.jpg), but the weird deviantArt 'z' is in the way and it's a bit too comical in certain respects. I thought finding a relatively standard D&D/Pathfinder adventuring group around a table sharing a drink and looking happy wouldn't be that hard, but I can't even find a picture of Valeros drinking from his mug in a tavern.

So if anyone could point me in the right direction of some images along those lines, I'd appreciate it. It's just weird that an image I think of as being pretty iconic of the fantasy genre and such is nowhere to be found.

InaVegt
2016-01-13, 12:48 AM
How do these look?

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/31328439/images/1396910427995.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WzP-od8bIlo/T1aifTvhs6I/AAAAAAAAByU/AioaPimuQ-w/s1600/DwarvenPartyMachines.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7d/a6/f2/7da6f2db527acab6bd0bc796e93c17f0.jpghttp://img03.deviantart.net/4053/i/2014/358/4/d/commission_funny_tavern__updated_by_sicilianvalkyr ie-d1es9km.png

Pax_Chi
2016-01-19, 11:24 AM
InaVegt

First off, I want to say thank you for the effort and the quick response. Sorry it took so long to get back to you in light of that.

As for the images themselves, I actually came across all of them at various points in my own search, and none of them were quite right.

The first one has the right environment, but it comes off as more somber, with the actual glass raising happening in the background by only two people.

The second one is closer in tone, but a bit too comedic, and focused mostly on the dwarves.

The third one would be pretty much perfect if, again, it wasn't so dwarf focused.

The last one has the right atmosphere, but not enough actual toasting or glass raising.

Still, I appreciate you giving it a look.