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Alternative discussion site at https://raddle.me/f/GMToolkit and https://raddle.me/f/tabletopRPGs.
A collection of multimedia sources for D&D (DnD) Dungeon Masters. Podcast, blog, video or whatever, if it's going to help you DM, we've got it!
Welcome wanderer!
A collection of multimedia sources for D&D (DnD) Dungeon Masters. Podcast, blog, video or whatever, if it's going to help you DM, we've got it!
Alternative discussion site at /f/GMToolkit.
Welcome wanderer!
Header image by Kerem Beyit.
/r/DndBehindTheScreen. DM Creative Archive. Worldbuilding, Storybuilding, DM Discussion. DM'ing 201.
/r/BehindTheTables. Random Tables for D&D. Extensive and ready-to-roll.
/r/DMToolkit. Collection of Podcasts, Vidcasts, and other D&D Multimedia for your consumption.
/r/DndMaps. Catalog for user-created maps.
/r/DndAdventureWriter. Discuss. Build. Share. Adventures for any edition of D&D.
/r/UnearthedArcana. All homebrew. All the time.
/r/Battlemaps. Combat areas for every conceivable encounter.
/r/DndRealms. Custom settings for your D&D world
/r/DndMonsters. All monsters, all the time!
/r/DMToolkit
It's important to keep a fast clip so that your players enter a flow state faster, which naturally causes them to enjoy things. There's a reason why work can feel like a torturous slog while play zips by despite being the same amount of time.
https://www.kontentpunch.com/kontent/save-time-to-maintain-tempo
As the title says i need help, i stop for a while and i dont save the link i was using to make spell and items cards for dnd, and now cannot find it anywhere (i was using it in my other work pc in my freetime and forgot save it).
I remember allows to write, add symbols, upload images, portrait and margens, if i remember correctly allows to make magic cards too. Someone could help me to find it pls.
So i'm looking for either a deck or a guidebook to incorporating a tarot deck into my game. My players will meet a fortune teller, and I'd like the cards to potentially point to future events that may impact them. I looked at the D&D deck, but the guide is more tied to creating specific encounters which I'm not looking for. On the other extreme, I don't want to expend the time and effort to master Tarot reading. Looking for something in between, so I can lay the cards down and say for example, oh this card indicates you are destined for royalty...etc. Or, maybe I should just wing it and make it up as I go. Anyway, appreciate the input. Thanks.
I made my own adventure based off of the Magic the Gathering faction the Cult of Rakdos. It's a performing troupe that caters to entertaining a bored demon. The party went to an amusement park that included a play with mandatory audience participation. I go over the problem I had when I ran it so you can avoid the same pitfalls.
https://www.kontentpunch.com/kontent/note-failure-rakdos-carnival
Welcome back to Advent's Amazing Advice! The series where I take popular One-Shots, Adventures, Campaigns, etc. and fully prep them for both New and Busy DMs. This prep includes fully fleshed-out notes, music, ambiance, encounter sheets, handouts, battle maps, tweaks, and more so you can run the best sessions possible with the least stress possible!
It's October, the month of Halloween, so of course I had to prep a spine-chilling One-Shot! The Haunt is one of the highest-rated 5th-Level Horror-Themed One-Shots around by Phil Beckwith. In it, your players will have to survive, solve puzzles, and uncover the mysteries of Montarthas Manor.
In ages past, an ancient town was lost and destroyed by a siege of orcs. Only one building survived and to this day, the manor is the only still standing building to be seen for miles around. Some say it is haunted, a few whisper of great treasures within, whilst others whisper that it is the manor itself that lives! No one knows for sure, only that a great evil haunts its halls. Do you dare enter Montarthas Manor?!
Without further ado:
Included in The AAA Collection is:
Over 6 dozen other Fully Prepped One-Shots, Adventures, and Campaigns: Click Here
As always, if you see something you think I can improve, add, change, etc. please let me know. I want this to be an amazing resource for all DMs and plan to keep it constantly updated! If you'd like to support me, shape future releases, and get content early feel free to check out my Patreon!
P.S. As a special Halloween treat anyone who enters the code Halloween2024 when signing up will get 25% off their first month!
Cheers,
Advent
Hi, my name is Khan and I am the person behind Devabhumi. I am of Indian origin, and I have always been interested in non-European D&D settings. There is such a treasure trove of untapped stories, monsters, and legends in Indian Culture, which can provide fresh and unique content for your campaigns.
Devabhumi is a high fantasy 5e and Pathfinder 2e setting inspired by the history and epics of Ancient India. This setting features:
Download the campaign setting here.
Hey everyone,
I recently made an online app that can generate D&D one-shot adventures and I am looking for some feedback.
To use the app, you just need to put in a prompt and after about 5-10 minutes it will produce a fully formatted adventure ready to run. It is still in the early stages right now and still needs some work. I was hoping to get a few people to try it out and send me some feedback (via inbox here on reddit). You automatically get a token to create an adventure when you sign up, but if you are keen to try out a few different adventure styles to test it out, then I will add some additional tokens to your account.
Sorry for the current jankiness of the apps interface. If people like it, I will continue to improve the interface and adventure generation engine.
You can find it here: https://www.adventure-generator.com/
Those who write about how awesome and detailed their lore is and how frustrating it is that no one reads your genius are overlooking that your players are looking to play instead of join a Book Club. I go over some ways to sneak some lore past the goalie.
I've been thinking about a campaign set in George RR Martin's World of Ice and Fire and it made me wonder: How many widely recognizable fictional worlds exist in the contemporary Speculative Fiction canon, including both Science Fiction and Fantasy? I think the answer is surprisingly few. This list of 120 worlds is really starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel with inclusions like Herculoids world or Bionicle's setting. If we really work at it we may be able to get it up to 200, but that would be about it.
While the criteria I am using is admittedly somewhat fuzzy, including some mildly obscure worlds like Jack Vance's Dying Earth or Moorcock's Melnibone which may not be recognizable to the general public or post Critical Role/Strager Things DnD players, but I think they are sufficiently well known among an older DnD crowd due to their association with the founding of DnD. Mazalan is another borderline case included for its association with TTRPGs (the setting of GURPS which is also a series of successful novels). A borderline case I excluded was the Sookie Stackhouse world, which I feel is extremely similar to a point of redundancy to the World of Darkness. This would be a case where they would be the same world were it not for copyright issues. Ann Rice's world is a iffy inclusion on this basis as well.
These worlds are intended to be examples where there are a diversity of settings and with room for more than a single plot-thread running through them. I am specifically trying to avoid the unrealistic "Frozen World" or "Forest Moon" trope where an entire world is written like it has the characteristics of a small region or is entirely based around a single gimmick (The Undead world! The Giant world!). I want worlds with depth, particularly depth that a DM can easily look up online and perhaps spend an afternoon listening to lore videos on YouTube to get inspiration for a very distinct setting for an adventure.
This can be used as a table of random Prime Material worlds all of which have very distinct flavor. A portal opens up and dumps the party in a random world? Just roll on the table for a rich and well-thought out world your players may already recognize. You could make an entire campaign like the Jerry O'Connell '90s show "Sliders" with this table, setting each new adventure in a different rolled world before a magic item regains enough charge to "slide" them to the next world.
Of course, please suggest any exclusions you think are appropriate and discuss the appropriateness of my inclusions in the comments!
Classic Fantasy Worlds:
\1. Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
2. Never Neverland (James Matthew Barrie)
3. Oz (L. Frank Baum)
4. Middle-earth (J.R.R. Tolkien's works)
5. Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
6. Westeros/Essos (World of Ice and Fire)
7. Discworld (Terry Pratchett)
8. The Wheel of Time world (Robert Jordan)
9. Wizarding World (Harry Potter by JK Rowling)
10. Percy Jackson world
11. Interview with a Vampire world (Ann Rice)
12. Amber multiverse (Roger Zelazny)
13. Cosmere universe (Brandon Sanderson)
14. Ursula K. Le Guin's worlds (Earthsea, Hainish Cycle)
15. Dragonriders of Pern (Anne McCaffrey)
16. Xanth (Piers Anthony)
17. The Dark Tower multiverse (Stephen King)
18. The Dying Earth (Jack Vance)
19. Conan the Barbarian world (Robert E. Howard)
20. His Dark Materials multiverse (Philip Pullman)
21. The Dresden Files universe (Jim Butcher)
22. The Laundry Files universe (Charles Stross)
23. The Magicians trilogy world (Lev Grossman)
24. The Gormenghast world (Mervyn Peake)
25. The Mortal Engines world (Philip Reeve)
26. Eternal Champion multiverse (Michael Moorcock, including Elric)
27. Lankhmar (Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series)
28. Malazan (Steve Erikson)
Science Fiction Universes:
\29. Star Wars galaxy (George Lucas)
30. Star Trek universe (Gene Roddenberry)
31. Alien/ Predator world
32. Dune universe (Frank Herbert)
33. Foundation universe (Isaac Asimov)
34. Hyperion Cantos universe (Dan Simmons)
35. Ringworld and Known Space (Larry Niven)
36. The Culture (Iain M. Banks)
37. Hunger Games world
38. Running Man world
39. Divergent world
40. Farscape world
41. Stargate world
42. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe (Douglas Adams)
43. Blade Runner universe
44. The Matrix universe
45. Firefly/Serenity universe
46. Battlestar Galactica universe
47. Doctor Who universe
48. Ender's Game universe (Orson Scott Card)
49. Neuromancer/Sprawl trilogy universe (William Gibson)
50. The Handmaid's Tale world (Margaret Atwood)
51. The Solarpunk universe (various authors)
52. Mad Max future
53. Logan's Run future
54. The Time Machine's far future Earth (H.G. Wells)
55. Barsoom/ Heavy Metal
56. Metropolis (Fritz Lang's film)
57. Buck Rogers world
Comic Book Universes:
\58. Marvel Comics universe
59. DC Comics Multiverse
60. Hellboy universe (Mike Mignola)
Tabletop RPG Settings:
\61. Warhammer 40,000 universe
62. Forgotten Realms (D&D setting)
63. Dragonlance (D&D setting).
64. Greyhawk (D&D setting)
65. Dark Sun (D&D setting)
66. Ravenloft (D&D setting)
67. Glorantha (RuneQuest RPG setting)
68. Shadowrun (RPG setting)
69. World of Darkness (Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, etc.)
Mythology-based:
\70. Cthulhu Mythos (H.P. Lovecraft and others)
Anime/Manga Worlds:
\71. Dragon Ball world
72. Gundam universe
73. One Piece world
74. Pokémon world
75. One Punch Man world
76. Neon Genesis Evangelion universe
77. Attack on Titan world
78. Fullmetal Alchemist world
79. Cowboy Bebop universe
80. Ghost in the Shell world
81. Akira Neo-Tokyo
82. My Hero Academia world
83. Naruto world
84. Vampire Hunter D world
85. Berserk world (Kentaro Miura)
86. Bleach universe
Video Game Universes:
\87. The Elder Scrolls universe (including Skyrim)
88. World of Warcraft (Azeroth)
89. The Legend of Zelda universe
90. Final Fantasy multiverse
91. The Witcher world
92. Sosaria (Ultima)
93. Mass Effect universe
94. Fallout universe
95. Cyberpunk 2077 Night City
96. Deus Ex universe
97. BioShock universe (Rapture and Columbia)
98. Half-Life/Portal universe
99. Halo universe
100. Metroid universe
101. Mega Man world
102. Castlevania world
103. Resident Evil world
104. Metal Gear universe
105. Super Mario world (Mushroom Kingdom)
106. Sonic the Hedgehog world
Animated Series/Cartoon Worlds:
\107. Transformers universe
108. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe world
109. Thundercats world
110. G.I. Joe universe
111. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles world
112. Power Rangers universe
113. Robotech universe
114. Gummi Glen (Gummy Bears)
115. Rainbow Brite world
116. Equestria (My Little Pony)
117. Care-a-Lot (Care Bears)
118. Bionicle world (Lego)
119. Snorks world
120. Fraggle Rock world
121. Herculoids world
Ok, dumb questions for you all. I played a session today with my players and in a fit of panic said that the players came across an undead that basically used frightening visage with the effect thAt it petrified them. My players were talking about how boring the campaign was with all the monsters they knew so I wanted to throw them a curve ball. Has anyone used an undead monster that can do this, or is this something I will need to homebrew.
Frankly, I'm a little embarassed after learning what went wrong with my initial entry. I like the One Page Dungeon Contest entries because it fills the game world with nooks and crannies for your players to explore. I managed to talk to one of the judges over what I did wrong:
https://www.kontentpunch.com/kontent/learning-from-one-page-dungeon-contest
Hi folks. I've been doing a lot of work tuning homebrewed stat blocks over the past couple of months and often needed to compare the relative strength of different die rolls. But all the tools I found for that felt pretty clunky.
So I built the RPG Dice Analyzer. It lets you enter a dice roll expression (like 4d6+3) and gives you the minimum, maximum and average results. It also gives you a chart showing how likely any given result is.
Hope you find this helpful!
Inspired by the Essentials Kit, these handy cards offer a quick and easy reference for all the Weapon Mastery abilities in the 5e Player's Handbook. Each card features a clear and concise description of the ability, making it easy for players to understand and use during gameplay. Perfect for DMs and players alike, these cards streamline the game and ensure everyone is on the same page.
Key Features:
Add these cards to your game today and enhance your 5e experience!
Weapon Mastery Cards - Google Drive
Edit: fixed Link
I want DM tools that doesn't distract me from running the game more than necessary, so I made this tiny monster finding webapp https://dnd-monster-lookup.vercel.app/
I try to focus more on telling great stories with my players, so getting access to the information I need quickly without to much fluff is important. I also want the tools to "stay in character" so I want them to look and feel a bit like a magic item.
Hope you find it useful.
Hello,
I'm looking for some guidance on an issue I'm encountering. I want to start using digital maps on my TV for my games because I love how vivid the colors are, and I've noticed some maps even feature slight motion to add depth to the environment. Currently, my party is exploring a city buried in sand, and I’d like the ability to hide areas of the map they haven’t yet discovered as they explore. Is there software that can help me achieve this?
Thank you!
Basically I have been playing too much Slay the Spire lately. My party has an upcoming battle and I want the baddie to inflict a status on them where they must play their characters by drawing 5 cards from their deck on each of their turns.
I will custom make them cards for each of their characters that contain action and bonus actions available to their character. Until the end of the fight they are only able to take actions that are in their hand. Once they reach the end of their deck, they shuffle the discard pile back into a main pile and go through it again.
On the one hand, as a player I think it would be a fun challenge to have to use your character in new ways. From a DM standpoint, I think it could be a fun mechanic if it were used in just one fight and not a regular thing.
But where I am torn is it too railroad-y or something? Been playing with these guys for years so I doubt they would be pissed about it, just want to know if it could be fun or if players would hate it.
Thanks team
Hi all,
I've created a spreadsheet that can create fully speced out characters that (mostly) follow RAW. It includes the following:
-Random Character Creator
-Initiative/damage tracker
-Monster Search
-Item Search
-All items, spells, and abilities will show their description of you mouse over them.
-Spell list for classes that need one
-buttons to import chose creatures or characters to the combat Tracker
-an option to save a generated character.
You can find all the details here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_twcv00jzVjMKzm8wNdo3oc8PmQL3f030vfr3mFsNs/edit?usp=drivesdk
Hello there!
Me and my husband have created a short adventure set in Eberron. It's a heist/rescue mission that requires players to attend a noble ball and infiltrate a mansion at night.
It's a D&D 5e adventure for characters of levels 3 to 4 that will take 6 - 12 hours to complete and features:
• 15 pages full of intrigue and moral ambiguity
• Rich narrative and captivating characters with developed backstories
• Beautiful custom heist maps (VTT, DM version, Player version) and art made by humans
• Unique traps, puzzles, and monsters
Moreover, though it has Eberron flavor/ties, it is easily convertible to any other setting where you would like to run this kind of heist.
Welcome back to Advent's Amazing Advice! The series where I take popular One-Shots, Adventures, Campaigns, etc. and fully prep them for both New and Busy DMs. This prep includes music, ambiance, encounter sheets, handouts, battle maps, tweaks, and more so you can run the best sessions possible with the least stress possible!
White Plume Mountain is an absolute classic Adventure for level 8 players; one that has been talked about for years and has been redone time and again. Heck, it was even ranked the 9th greatest Dungeons & Dragons adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine in 2004. This is the perfect Adventure for those of you who are looking for a bit of combat and a whole lot of puzzle!
Three magical weapons have been stolen recently. Clues in the form of a poem lead those in power to believe the weapons have been brought to a volcano which was once the hideout of a powerful wizard named Keraptis. These are no mere magical weapons, but sentient artifacts. Can your players survive the perils of White Plume Mountain and retrieve them!?
Without further ado:
Included in The AAA Collection is:
Over 5 dozen other Fully Prepped One-Shots, Adventures, and Campaigns: Click Here
As always, if you see something you think I can improve, add, change, etc. please let me know. I want this to be an amazing resource for all DMs and plan to keep it constantly updated! If you'd like to support me, shape future releases, and get content early feel free to check out my Patreon!
Cheers,
Advent
Hi Folks,
I end up printing a lot of large-scale maps for my in-person D&D games. I don't have access to a large format printer, so I've used various tools to slice the map into page-sized pieces for printing. But I wasn't really happy with how any of them worked, so I decided to make my own.
The Battle Map Tiler & Printer lets you choose a map image, set the print dimensions you want, the type of paper you have, etc. and will automatically slice it into an appropriately paginated PDF that you can print on an ordinary home printer for assembly into a full-sized map.
I've been using it myself a lot, and hope you find it useful as well!
[5e] [Homebrew]
So I wrote some alternate DC-based magic rules for Dnd. If you are curious, these are available on dmsguild as "Magic is Chaos" and "Winds of Chaos" bundles, but I will not be linking these here as that's not allowed in Reddit.
However part of these rules split Magic into 5 Types of Magic (not 3), (aka The Winds of Chaos) rules which are largely inspired from Golden Age / Tides of Magic rules, where infrequent Chaos Winds / Chaos Storms will favor or disfavor one of the Types of Chaos (instead of 1 school of magic). There are also Rules for opposing Signs, and Ascendant/Descendant signs, as well as optional rules for the Schools of Magic, where each of the Chaos Signs has 3 of the 12 schools within its "Decan", or sphere of influence.
Anyway this post isn't about the rules per se, it's about my split of Magic into 5 Types, and my very pretty pentacle (aka The Wheel of Chaos). Main idea is I lumped Bards and Rogues together into their own magic type - Bardic Magic, and I also split out Pact Magic as its own thing. To me it just felt that Bards as a primary caster deserved their own magic type, and I made Rogues into their Half-Casters, similar to how Artificers are a 1/2 caster of Arcane. I am also splitting out Warlocks, and putting the Eldritch back into the Knight (as their 1/2 caster), and Sorcerers end-up using one of the 5 existing types depending on their source of sorcery.
I spent countless iterations of what that wheel of Chaos should look like, both for opposing signs, and ascendant/descendant relations (clockwise or anticlockwise), and in the end I settled for the below. Note that there are some intentional design decicions inherent to this final version:
All art original by me BTW - done in Windows paintbrush using various fonts and wingdings XD
Our community's TTRPG group is considering organizing a massive Battle Royale and PvP event at a game store soon, and I've been tasked with setting up the gameplay format.
We're probably 45 days or so from when we want to do it.
Are there any established guides or advice for setting up a PvP event that I could reference? How to handle balance, advice for maps and ways to mix things up, etc.
We were thinking we could do Solos, Duos, and Teams of five, spending an afternoon doing several rounds of fights.
Does anyone have experience playing in or running an event like this? How was it organized? What resources did you use to set it up in a way that isn't totally broken?
Does anyone know of a good app that not only uses DnD 5e rules, but will continue to have the ability to wholly stay in the 5e ruleset when the 2024 rules come out? I'm not excited to have to fight with DnD Beyond or cross-check everything it says to see if they made invisible changes just to stay in 5e.
I tried Googling this, but no company is going to declare: "Don't worry! We won't push you into 2024 rules like DnD Beyond!" So I'm hoping someone anecdotally uses something they know will retain the same rules going forward.
Of course, I'm fully prepared that the answer is the usual licensing problem.
Anyone know of any decent combat management programs that can be used without the internet? I'm looking to manage a few combat encounters for a d&d game that I'm running for some friends out in the middle of a state park. I will have access to electricity and can plug in my laptop, but won't have internet access. Cell phone service will be limited, so I can't rely on using a hotspot.
Thanks!
Hello! I recently developed a tool specifically designed to smooth out the flow of combat during your players turns. It's in early access with an active developer.
No more riffling through stacks of papers to find your creatures saving throw modifiers and armor class.
No more forgetting about conditions affecting you creatures.
No more bogged down math of your wizards fireball on 10 different creatures.
Here's a demo: https://x.com/sjmog1/status/1820604425909530855
Let me know if you want to use it, it's free here: https://github.com/sjmog/dnd-copilot
Hey, i like to use quite realistic stuff for my campaign, and my party is gonna be going through some mountains on the next few sessions. I was wandering if anyone knows where i could find some real world maps, especially of mountainy terrain, with trails etc so i could use them as environment for the session. Bonus points if i can somehow change the names of peaks and other stuff on it.
I can't find much of anything. I'm looking for maps as well as monster/NPC/PC assets. If you don't know anything specific, a good resource for isometric assets in general would be helpful.
Thank you.
Welcome back to Advent's Amazing Advice! The series where I take popular One-Shots, Adventures, Campaigns, etc. and fully prep them for both New and Busy DMs. This prep includes fully fleshed-out notes, music, ambiance, encounter sheets, handouts, battle maps, tweaks, and more so you can run the best sessions possible with the least stress possible!
We're back at it again with another Fully Prepped Mini-Campaign; Dragon of Icespire Peak, A level 1-6 Adventure that's a bit frosty! This is part of the Essentials Kit; released between Dragon of Stormwreck Isle and The Lost Mine of Phandelver all created by WoTC.
Dragon of Icespire Peak is a bit different from the other two I've prepped; not only is it more of a sandbox, but it also has the ability to be run with just one player which is a huge plus for those of you who can't get larger groups together! I'll be incorporating the recommendations from both Bob the World Builder and Sly Flourish along with my own tweaks to make this one of the best experiences you can have running this Mini-Campaign!
If you've used my previous notes you'll know that I take adventures such as these and do all the difficult and time-consuming book-to-session conversions so you don't have to! I do my best to include ambiance for every scene, custom battle maps, handouts when needed, spell sheets, encounter sheets, and more!
This may all sound familiar, but seeing as this is a Starter/Essentials Kit, I think it's important to reiterate:
Without further ado:
Included in The AAA Collection is:
Over 5 dozen other Fully Prepped One-Shots, Adventures, and Campaigns: Click Here
As always, if you see something you think I can improve, add, change, etc. please let me know. I want this to be an amazing resource for all DMs and plan to keep it constantly updated! If you'd like to support me, shape future releases, and get content early feel free to check out my Patreon!
Cheers,
Advent
Hello folks. I'm looking to give a riddle full of homophones that should be pretty simple to solve if the party were to speak it out loud but be very difficult if just read.
My idea is that the answer will be lion and include words such as pause, main, raw etc but I'm not clever enough to put it into a coherent riddle. Has anybody here got any good ideas and if there's any other words that would lead to similar themed riddles I'd love to hear them. Thanks