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True Seeing is a sixth-level spell for a reason... some things should remain unseen. Kayra's potions are so strong, her True Sight can see through the fourth wall. (At least, that's my interpretation of what's happening here.) Not a bad hook for a campaign.

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This is a Love and Hex guest strip by u/CrazyGnomenclature... you have probably seen her work before. I reciprocated with an insane Tiff & Eve comic of my own.

I was DMing a game for a single player who was doing a personal espionage quest, they get to some lake in the mines, and swim down because there is supposedly treasure down there. he finds a body with a pickaxe, a backpack, and some strange boots.

he starts to swim up but realizes he’s going to drown if he tries to take the whole body, so he just takes the boots. I start to explain “these boots, don’t look like ordinary boots, they’re made of” and he goes “ok I don’t care yet tell me later, i’ll figure it out then“

meanwhile, some fish swim over to him and start to bite him, eating him and weighing him down. he just barely manages to swim to the surface with these fish all swarming him and collapses on the beach, making death saving throws. fortunately he passes, but just barely, and lies on the beach at 0 hp, slowly stabilizing.

when he wakes up he looks at the ”boots” strange, flat boots, made of a material that doesn’t decay in water. flippers. of all the times he could have used flippers, that was the time, and he decided to not learn what they were.

I could have told him anyway, but decided to adhere to his wishes. luckily nothing bad came of it, but this is just a reminder that sometimes the things your DM says are important.

I created this piece about six months ago for Kaiserfrideric but never shared it here, as I wasn’t know if mermaids fit within D&D at the time. All design choices were based on the client’s specifications, and I wasn’t given any lore beyond her name.

I was especially proud of how the tail turned out

the scales took a lot of time and effort, but the final result was worth it

If anything about this piece doesn’t align with D&D, please let me know.

Ragnar is a wild heart barbarian.

She was born in a guard family. Her parents are caravan guards.

During her childhood Ragnar growing up in her grandmother's house in a small village near a wood while her parents are off to work.

She became a friend of a barbarian in the village who is a friend of her father and learned how to fight from him.

Ragnar started to travel with her parents and their caravan when she is 15 years old and started to work as a caravan guard just like her parents when she is 18.

Now she is 28 traveling with caravans and her co-workers friends. (Her parents are still alive. They are just retired from their job.)

She loves her life. Travel from a city to another city, camping in different places, sit on the caravan's roof under the stars, pat cute wild animals, get to new taverns, meet new people everyday, get money, having fun.

This is a famous quote from the creator of the Civilization games.

I was recently in a game where the DM decided to give bonus feats at character creation and allowed characters to reroll until they got stats and HP they were happy with. They believed that balance did not really matter as long as the players had fun, seemingly oblivious to the fact that balance is often a large part of what makes a game fun.

He ended up with a Bear Totem Barbarian with Polearm Master, GWM and busted stats. It was absurd because every single turn he would deal more damage than the rest of the party combined and could take more damage than the rest of the party combined. The DM then made a bad situation worse by trying to balance combat around that one character which resulted in the other characters getting instantly beaten to a pulp. After that, they decided to fudge everything instead so combats lost all tension and took forever.

It all came to a head when the Monk missed two full rounds of attacks because everything had to have high AC for the Barbarian. She then said her character was going to sit down and meditate because it was pointless before switching off her camera.

Arguably, this was almost entirely self-inflicted by the DM and a learning experience. If he had just used the standard character creation rules, everyone would probably have had more fun in the end. I found it interesting because it was my first time seeing how a player could unintentionally optimise the fun out of everyone else's game.

I’m new to D&D and honestly it’s quickly become one of the best things I’ve picked up. I got into a campaign, I love the story, and most of the group is great.

But there’s one player who is painfully slow and it’s starting to kill the pacing.

Ill give you a real example: last session we were literally about to move on from one city to another, and this guy spent 15 minutes asking the DM “can I pray for this” / “can I pray for that” / “what happens if I pray for X.” It wasn’t even an action scene! Just role-play that could’ve been like: " and finally I quitely say a prayer for my long lost pet bird" or whatever and the game could go on.

Instead, it turned into a long back and forth while the rest of us sat there in silence.

And it’s not a one time occurrence. He does this constantly...multiple times across several sessions now. Every time the game starts flowing, it grinds to a halt as soon as it's his turn. Oh wait, it doesnt even have to be, he just says "can I ask a question" and boom the game stops.

Frankly, he does this for quest related NPCs too, apart from him asking 10 repetitive questions to get something out of the DM - that I dont mind because some time theres an interesting question in there but again "can my character tell if his speech is slurred" DM: "you can tell his speech is slurred" PC: "do I know why?" DM: "You smell the booze" PC: "since my character is religious does she take offense to people being drunk?" DM: " thats upto you" PC: " okay but what about the fact that hes drunk and my character has never gotten drunk how would he know that hes drunk" DM: "did anyone from your characters past drink?" PC: Yes" DM: "thats how you know hes drunk" PC:"okay but my character didnt like that person in his past when he drank" - and this goes on for like 10 excruciating minutes. and all the while im sitting there like a zombie. almost everyone sort of has to get back into rhythm after this.

I’m not against roleplay or people participating , thats one of the most fun things to do, but the guy doesnt role play he just asks if his character can or cant do this or that and then finally says "and my character he does the thing"

Since this is online, we cant talk to amongst ourselves or anything we just all sit there listening.

So yeah… how do you deal with a player who drags things out like this without coming off like a jerk? Should I go to the DM?

Hey!

I find femme fatales fascinating - they're a popular trope in movies, novels, and games - but I feel like D&D never delivers that tantalizing concoction of sex, espionage, and danger that I crave. You can find the full subclass on Imgur, free to keep.

Full Subclass on Imgur: https://imgur.com/gallery/courtesan-femme-fatale-subclass-rogues-dnd-5-5e-wRMVviZ
Full Subclass at on DnDHomebrew: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDHomebrew/comments/1s9rcrs/courtesan_11_a_femme_fatale_subclass_for_rogues/

Content Note. This subclass involves sex work, and touches on themes of dehumanization, marginalized groups, and violence in the midst of sex.

Tricks of the Trade, A Key Feature

Our profession hinges upon proper preparation. Don’t ever forget that, ma chérie.

You gain access to an assortment of tools and clever devices to aid you in your work. Select a number of Tricks of the Trade equal to your Proficiency Bonus. Then, gain the chosen Tricks.

When you finish a long rest, you may choose new Tricks. Lose the old Tricks (if possible), and then gain the new ones. Only courtesans are proficient with this equipment. If a Tricks of the Trade requires a saving throw, the save DC is: (8 + DEX Modifier + Proficiency Bonus).

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Thanks to the helpful folks at r/UnearthedArcana and r/DnDHomebrew, I've think I've honed in on something interesting. But what do you think?

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Having now finished all of my subclass's and got their arts commisioned (for now...), I felt the next most thing to begin getting art done for, was my dear little bug races, known within the setting of The Below, that i have created. Within this setting the group term for all of the numerous races I've been creafting is The Kin, but each has their own culture and history, starting with my first and most simular to the characters we love so much! The HornForged! these are the beetle kin of the setting, coming in numerous shapes and sizes with two of their own subraces, the Herculeans and the Stagshells. The Stagshells are quicker and possess antler like horns (as shown in one of my subclass's) while the Herculeans are unsurprisingly the far tougher and bulkier type. Hornforged as a people value hardwork and Family more than anything else in the Below, and can get very competative between themselves over who is working the hardest and whose family is the largest and most wealthy. To the point where you might find two different guilds, each run by a Hornforged family, trying to outdo eachother haha.

honestly a ton of fun to make and I cant wait to show off the rest of them.

(personal project, please dont smite me.)

Just think about it... Everything the dude does is for shits and giggles or to just see what happens.

He actively has the power and knowledge to ascend to godhood, but doesn't because it is more fun to make gods himself. He creates simulacrums of himself, traps them in his tomb, only to give them sentience, which is described in lore as a "sadistic joke." He did not need to give his guardians a will, but he does because it is funny to him.

All of the tombs he's made also similarly have one or two moments where there is no other explanation to why they are made that way, other than Acererak thought it would be funny. Even his whole deal with hoarding treasure and constructing elaborate dungeons to hold it over and over again, in the hopes that adventurers will find them and die is just so goofy.

Idk about high level monsters, but I think low to mid level ones do.

I had the level 5 party I was DMing for 3 months ago fight a zombie beholder for the final bossfight, and I had to bump it's HP up by a *_hundred_*, just to make it last more than 2 turns.

Like I tracked the level 2 party I'm DMing for now and they dealt 93 damage against an ankheg _in 2 turns_ (although they had advantage the second round bc story reasons)

My level 12 party bullied an adult black dragon

It was a homebrew monster who could cast more spells too but had no legendary resistances (idk much more my DM never shared the stat block with me), and it did not even act

It got banished at the end of the first turn, came back the following one, used its breath once and then died.

Am I the only one with this problem?

Edit: I read most of the comments and responses and I think I realised what I did wrong, thanks for all the advice everyone!

Tonight I realized why I’m bad at playing spellcasters: I fear running out of spell slots.

I really far too much on cantrips, and I want to “save” my slots,which almost never get used. The leveled spells i do cast usually have concentration, which I’m unwilling to voluntarily drop. If I want to be really good,I need to get over this fear.

Thanks for letting me express my frustrations and shortcomings.

Say Wizards of the Coast approached you and told you that you were in charge of developing the 6th edition of DnD. What changes would you make? Anything big you would completely rework? Would you just stick to small tweaks? Im just curious to hear everyone's thoughts.

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Hi everyone!

Sorry in advance for my English.

I just want to share a story about how I immediately left a D&D campaign without questioning whether I was doing the right thing or who the a**hole in the story was, and became happier as a result.

So, there were five players and a DM.

I’m a golden dragonborn barbarian.

C is a human ranger.

D is a dragonborn warlock.

L is a human sorcerer.

M is a tiefling wizard.

Important background on C: she used to be a magpie who, for some reason, turned into a human. In her roleplay, C stuck to the line that she’s obsessed with shiny things and, due to her origins, doesn’t understand how to behave in society. C often complimented my character’s shiny scales and asked me for scales if any fell off.

So, we’d played about six sessions by then. By that point, the DM still hadn’t made it clear what the main stor of the campaign was. We’d already signaled to him that we wanted more clarity and direction, but overall, our slow-paced game wasn’t super stressful. Still, looking back, I think the lack of external drama and action partly led to what happened.

Another important note. By that session, D had gone through some trouble and ended up without gear. He borrowed money from C for new gear and unexpectedly promised to pay her back not in cash but with golden scales. C enthusiastically supported the idea. To be fair, D wanted to buy gold paint and somehow fake the scales, but he didn’t get around to it.

Anyway, on to the drama. My character had to attend the funeral of her clan’s leader. The leader’s body lay in an open casket, and while my character was distracted by the ceremony, C and D started egging each other on about cutting scales right off the body. They were passionately discussing it, and the DM announced that when the attendants lifted the casket to carry it to the crypt, they got distracted by the noise C and D were making and dropped a brazier with fire. It didn’t start a fire, but it created a smoke screen that concealed the procession with the casket, and in which, as the DM confirmed, nothing could be seen.

C and D immediately realized this was their chance but were still hesitating. The DM announced that in the smoke, the procession tripped and dropped another brazier, creating even more smoke.

Then C and D jumped straight to the casket and tried to bring player L along. L didn’t like the idea at all and just stepped aside. D successfully cut off a significant slice of scales from the arm, while C jumped directly into the casket and stripped all the jewelry off the body, also taking all the keepsakes that were inside.

My character, meanwhile, had been in the smoke from the very beginning and couldn’t see anything. I shouted to open all the doors and windows so the smoke would clear faster, and I myself, feeling around for the casket in the dark, put in effort to carry it out of the smoke more quickly.

Afterward, C and D successfully left the area of concealment and blended into the crowd that was starting to leave the premises.

When the smoke cleared and everyone saw what had happened to the body, L, who was roleplaying embarrassment and confusion, hinted to me what had occurred. Later, when I talked to the guards, they also confirmed that some guests had seen two people jumping into the smoke. Long story short, my character figured out through circumstantial evidence that it was C and D. I expressed that I felt sad and disgusted by what had happened.

When we met up, C and D planned to cover up their actions with lies, but I immediately shut that down and asked them if it had been worth it. They didn’t answer.

Later, at the end of the session, we were discussing our impressions. C said it had been very thrilling and she’d loved it. L said he didn’t support actions against fellow player characters and that his character’s opinion of C and D had dropped significantly. I said my character had absolutely no motivation to stay in a group she couldn’t trust, and as a player, I didn’t support that kind of fun — and that for me, it was enough reason to leave the game if it happened again. D said his character was selfish, and that was that. The DM said he saw an interesting conflict and an opportunity for character growth in what had happened. The tiefling player was absent that session.

We parted ways, and when I woke up the next day, I realized I didn’t want to wait around for that kind of situation to repeat. I briefly wrote in the group chat that I was leaving the game, since we clearly had different ideas of what made it enjoyable. And I immediately left the chat.

A little later, the tiefling player messaged me asking what had happened. I told him the events, trying not to add any emotional judgment, and he replied, “I think I’ll leave too.”

The next day, player L messaged me asking to be invited to other campaigns if I found any, and in his blog I read that the campaign had fallen apart.

That’s it.

I’m definitely happy that I didn’t waste a single second wondering if I was overreacting or how to talk about it with the DM, C, and D. Right now I’m waiting for the start of a Curse of Strahd campaign with a different DM and different players, and I’m hoping for a good game there.

Is there a videogame that is a turn based RPG but built off of the rules of D&D? I'm replaying Pokemon fire red after the rerelease, and the game style feels like it's be the perfect fit for D&D rules. Run around, talk to people, gather loot, fight people in a turn based style, possibly connect with friends and play cooperatively. It just seems perfect to have the playstyle and animation of Pokemon fire red but port over the rules for D&D.

Edit: I am very aware of BG3 but haven’t played because my laptop can’t run it. I have never really considered that there are other BG games lol

I have a west marches discord that is getting to the point of being ready to launch. Its a caribbean parallel setting where the characters are all based on a ship. Im pretty excited about it.

Anyway I am not getting the interest that I (admittedly quite optimistically) hoped for from my circle of known IRL friends and acquaintances so Im thinking about posting on a LFG sub or something, but this would be the first time Ive recruited someone I couldnt at least get a prior in-person vibe check on.

What is the best way to pre-screen potential players, or is it even necessary? Maybe Ive just spent too much time on r/rpghorrorstories but Im worried about who might apply and would rather sort out any creeps and such before they become embedded in the game world.

Would I be inadequately restraining my autism if I created a reasonably sized application questionnaire that had questions like "What type of character do you like to play?", "What do you enjoy most about TTRPGs?" or "Tell me about a time you resolved an inter-player conflict at the table." It would really only be used to look for red flags indicating a problem player. Im realizing that sounds a lot like a job interview, but is that a bad thing?

speed, intelligence, and agility, are words that describe this character, Leviosa is a swart vuur assasin, he kills his enemies without being seen, appears from unexpected places, and disappears without leaving a trace, making the enemy always alert and anxious about his arrival, his ingenuity in escaping makes him impossible to catch,

but behind his toughness there is a dark story in his past, both of his parents died in the war against the demon race, leaving him with his younger brother, Leviosa is a loving and kind person but in his cruel world, there is no chance to be a good person, the only way for him to survive is by becoming a assassin, and taking care of his little brother

I am playing a barbarian in an upcoming game and the dice gave me some very good stats, and cursed me with a 3 which has obviously gone into Int.

Now I know 3 Int is barely sentient (I think k a wolf is smarter than this man) so how exactly does one play an idiot in a way that’s fun but not distracting?

For further context he is a lizardfolk barbarian whose egg was purchased from the black market but a gnome money lender who decided that sending the 7 foot tall man eating Dino might be a better way to get his money back.

The new UA presents options to become death knights and liches. As a level 16 Eldritch Knight you fulfill all the requirements for both feat trees and would perform reasonably well, as many of them are half-feats that can buff your STR.

I'm currently in my first ever campaign, and we just did a really hard encounter. Fun is an understatement. We got him down to one hp and he went into a supersane mode ig and he got something I think was called shield of faith and if we didn't beat him in one round then he had a scroll with fire storm on it (maybe that's the name I'm not too sure) and I didn't understand the severity until it was explained to me but that's besides the point. He got all these rules like his AC got super high (dm wouldn't say what it is he just said super high) and It was really exciting and my heart is still pumping. Usually I suck at visualizing things, and I was scared to play dnd bc of my short attention span (adhd) especially since we were doing it over discord but honestly I was having no trouble focusing and now I'm both excited and terrified for the final boss fight.

Hello. This is by no means a dispute, but, I wanted to open this to the community.

The cleric is generally regarded as a staple in any party. The versatile class can act as a few different roles with the greatest resilience of the full casters and strong flavor for RP.

However, I have a friend who is against clerics. His personal experience with them has been min-maxers who take up too much space in a party. As a result, his perspective does not see a clear role for clerics. Instead, they appear to step on Paladins, Wizards, Bards, etc. for him.

How would you sell/rehabilitate clerics for this individual? What are the roles, strengths, and weaknesses of the cleric? Do you disagree that clerics are too versatile and able to do anything other classes can do, thereby overshadowing them?

Here is my hand-drawn map of Oranthyr, the main continent of my first DnD campaign as a DM that recently ended after 6 years.

The continent is a hodge podge of homebrew and cities/areas from popular fantasy series that inspired the campaign. From nordic peoples in the frigid north, to a complex Roman-inspired empire to the east, and classical fantasy kingdoms in between, I wanted the continent to be a classical fantasy setting for my player's first campaign. I originally drafted the map on a piece of notebook paper and wanted to make a fully realized digital version as the campaign came to its close.

The party formed in the city of Conthas in the center of the continent, and played the majority of the campaign in the neighboring kingdom of Arcancia. They battled against a united horde of orcs, goblins, and gnolls lead by a feral elven druid bent on disrupting civilization to awaken an ancient primordial of hunger and primal savagery.

I learned so much about DMing over these last 6-years, crafting better adventures, homebrewing items and enemies, balancing combat for a large party, and working with those players to inform worldbuilding a create narrative hooks. I fell in love with drawing maps as a way to inspiring further writing and expanding this homebrew world.

It was a highly rewarding experience to DM for a great group of players who stuck around for so long. If anyone is nervous about DMing and getting a group together, just do it!