So I need some help figuring out the calculations for: advantage on damage rolls, rerolling ones for ability scores, and rerolling ones for damage.

These are so I can find the median on these things, I have been stumped for a while and could really use some help.

Hi my name is Rowan and I'm looking for people to play DnD with.if you would like to play my discord is Messymango_16#8534🙂☺️

So I created a lv4 Archfey Warlock. It's a Tiefling about in his early twenties. I imagined him as a kind and loving, playful character. Probably he will be the one in the party who tries to solve problems without physical harm. So I'm looking for a fey/arcfey patron who is the opposite of him. I mean Aiden (my character) is chaotic good so I'd like to find something chaotic evil who fit into his story. Because I'd like his patron to be an important part in his life and make it little exciting that a good character just goes into total madness time to time.I was looking queen of air and darkness especially because the dark is fit to his skillset but her intent hardly fun in our story. I mean she is just defending unseelie court. Other seemingly good options was Iggwilv especially because she is familiar with demons but I couldn't find a reason why would she just drive my character into madness. I felt Koliada close too but not close enough since she is really focused on ice and her sword and my character nor really ice.

So long story short I need a chaotic evil patron who is crazy and would kill just for fun using some tricks like not just killing them but using illusions or crazy voices in the darkness so like joker or idk. Oh and if it's somehow connected to demons that's a good point since my character is Tiefling

I wanted some kind of engine I can use to write missions in a billboard of the style outside of taverns where people can put "Wanted" posters. Obviously if it's free to use better.

So I'm looking through the exalted feats for an upcoming campaign. I'm wanting to make a monk with vow of poverty, vow of non violence and vow of peace. The question I have is do the bonuses for AC stack? Like are they all the time? So I get a +2 natural armor bonus, a +2 deflection bonus and a +2 exalted bonus to AC. Does that mean I get a total of +6 to my AC? or is the deflection bonus only for ranged?

I'll start.

Hell no Jello.

Hello everyone,

Been loving this game a lot! Just started playing and I’m still in my first campaign. I’m looking to become a DM myself as I enjoy making stories or visualizing so many possibilities in my head just by looking at my character sheet. I wanted to ask what should I look into BBEG wise and NPC/Villain wise. Also any way to move the story would be awesome. Thank you all and may all your rolls be NAT20s!

I’m looking to get into DnD but I’m not sure what I need to buy or things that I need to know. I already know about some of the classes and stuff. Can someone please help me out

Let me set the scene: After a 2 year campaign, where the players have ascended from L1 to L20, the final battle is upon my party. The crazed villain of our story is about to complete his great spell and sink the continents of the world beneath an endless ocean, and after 5 hours of combat, he is in his final form and down to just 10hp.

The party is exhausted - the wizard's spells are spent, the fighter is drowning inside a water elemental, and the near-dead ranger and cleric are all that stand in the world's defence. With a final strike the villain lands a crit upon the cleric, smashing him to the ground, unconscious.

With trembling hands, the ranger is about to make his final attack to end the campaign. Barring a Nat 1, victory is all but certain. Yet at the last second, he throws aside his bow, and my player shouts "I cast Cure Critical Wounds on the Cleric!"

The Cleric's players face spreads into a feverish grin - it's now his turn - his character rises to their feet, snatches up their warhammer, and smites the villian down!

A great tension drains from the table. The campaign is over. I'm not sure how many players noticed, for it never got mentioned, but I know my Ranger sacrificed being the one to get the final shot on the villian, to ensure that every character could share the glory of a campaign well played. Never in 20 years of playing was a more noble act performed at my table.

We hear so much about problem players on this sub. So this is a shout-out to the real heroes, the great players, who sacrifice their own glory for their party, who raise up their companions in unsung acts every week, and who make D&D the greatest game in the world. Bravo to you all!

Sorry this is a bit vague but I remember reading a playtest for a monster that was polluting a city (fantasy setting) and was in a lighthouse or small island near the city. Anyone know what t his might be?

So I am making a Fathomless Warlock and i need an original idea on Arcane Focus and how will my character cast eldritch blast. I am literally out of ideas Can you please help?

A player of mine who has never DMed before is trying to write an adventure, and had a neat idea for a room. I wanted to help them, but don't have any astounding ideas.

His idea is that in the middle of a temple is a large mural in the floor, possibly containing a magic item of sorts.

What do you think the mural would contain? And what do you think would protect it?

Party is level 3 if that helps.

Hello, I was just wondering what I would need to start DMing for a Local Library. For context, my dnd group and I have been playing together for 4 years. We recently found out that our Library is looking for people who know D&D and are willing to run and a couple of us are willing to run some tables. We are expecting about 20 players maybe a couple more maybe a couple less. What generally do we need to run for a group of around 20 new players? We have a couple of the source books like Phb, Monster Manual, Xanathars, and Volos Guide. We do not have any modules but we have been creating adventures for a while and would not be opposed to making homebrew worlds. As for age groups, we don't really know we're assuming around 16 and younger (there might be some adults because it's a library program but we aren't 100%).

So I'm a new DM (have Dm'd a little previously and played from a few months but not much) and am trying to establish a work DnD thing. There's been a lot of interest but due to our work patterns it's hard to do a campaign. I'm thinking of running some one shots to see if people have fun and maybe establish a campaign from there but wondering if there are any particularly good one shots that people recommend for lvl 1 characters who are just starting off.

For context I'm setting this up as the players are all part of an adventurers guild and are sent off to solve problems the locals have.

One of the one shots I'm thinking of running is the death house from the curse of stradh book with a few tweaks but wondering if there was anything people recommended.

Also any general advice is very welcome.

I am running a homebrew 5e campaign. This next session during travel they are going to come across a cave that is the under the rule of a demigod. This specific demigod has mainly two powers 1) the power to control elementals and 2) the power to return any life that has been taken by his hand. The demigod essentially gets off on watching humans combat his elementals. However, he does not take it easy on those who wander into his territory. He locks them in the cave and each time they beat a wave of elementals, he returns their life force (hp and spell slots), and sends a stronger wave of enemies. There are going to be 4 waves but CRAZY loot if they survive all 4 waves (and loot based on each round they survive).

To be completely honest, I expect all four PCs to die in wave 3 or 4. However, he is going to return the life to them if they die. They’ll wake up outside and the cave gone if they lose. The main reason I’m doing this is 1) to engage them in some different and wild combat that would be more difficult to come across in our campaign, it’s a pretty diplomatic campaign. 2) I want to offer them some nice loot and gold, and this is a way they can earn some. Do you guys think they might enjoy this?

It’s 4 level 5 PCs, a moon path Druid with a pet giant badger, a chronomancy wizard, a fighter, and a cleric. Do you think they could possibly survive all four of these rounds with max health and spell slots each time?

Round 1: 2 Awakened Trees (homebrewing into an elemental) Round 2: 7 Magmins Round 3: 3 Water Weirds Round 4: 2 Air Elementals

It's been bugging me since I found out about the Pact of the Undead, do you make Undying pacts with Liches or Undead Pacts, what counts as Undying now given The Pact of the Undead scoops up the Undead. If anyone can help me understand the difference I appreciate the help

I’ve got a concept for an aasimar oracle of flame, but it looks like they’ll never be played. What class would y’all suggest to port them to? Cleric of [whatever fire ones are]?

I have a few homebrew monsters for a campaign I'm running, what would be the best hp pools for them if the party is level 2-3?

What you absolutely need for this build is 3 beast barb/2 monk, but this class really takes off at 6+ kensei monk, which is necessary RAW if you don’t want your attacks to be resisted, which I’ll explain later. It requires more then a few good stats, so I’d recommend only playing this when rolling for stats, and getting multiple good rolls. But anyways, enough will the small talk and into the build.

For level 1, I’d personally take monk. This build requires strength as the highest stat to work best with Barb, so dexterity should be an afterthought after strength first, then wisdom and constitution, but no less then 13 dexterity to allow the multiclass. I value Dex saves higher then con saves, so that’s why I take monk as level 1. But you do get evasion with monk, making even a negative Dex save semi viable against the worst dragon breath attack, or a casting of disintegrate. So barb 1 is just as strong, maybe even stronger because you’re more well rounded with your saves. If your Dex is 13 and want to grab feats or crank strength/wisdom to their maximum, forget worrying about unarmored defense, be a tortle for 17 AC.

Level 3 Beast Barbarian: When you rage, you manifest a natural weapon. It counts as a simple melee weapon for you, and you add your Strength modifier to the attack and damage rolls. You’ll manifest claws every time, because “Once on each of your turns when you attack with a claw using the Attack action, you can make one additional claw attack as part of the same action”

Now, time for monk. As a monk, no subclass required, you get a dedicated weapon. And, you guessed it, your manifested claws hit all the check marks to be one of your dedicated weapons. They can scale off martial arts die (inherently worse monk levels 1-4, 1d4 martial arts vs 1d6 claws, and useless until monk level 11, when martial arts die becomes a d8). Before going kensei, talk to your DM. All Monks make all unarmed attacks magical at level 6. RAW, this does not apply to your claws because they are considered simple melee weapons, but they are a part of your body, so maybe your DM is nice and allows it (another way around this RAW is 6 levels in beast barb, which does exactly what you need from level 6 kensei monk). If they don’t allow it, kensei becomes necessary. If they allow it, kensei becomes redundant, so choose any other subclass. A Tortle ascendant dragon harnesses the power of a turtle dragon. Long death is an even deadlier “living weapon”. Mercy is like wolverine and can regenerate, or just a good teammate and can heal your party. Shadow is the stealthy killer. Open hand makes your living weapon spirit a Swiss Army knife. But kensei does play into the living weapon idea the best IMO, because your kensei weapons are you. At level 6 kensei, your kensei weapons become magical (once again, necessary RAW if you don’t want resisted attacks or 6 levels in barb), and you get 1 to add more kensei weapon, so wield a long sword while not in rage to use kensei weapon features like agile parry.

At 3 beast barb/6 kensei monk, you can rage 3 times a day. In rage, you attack 3 times with claws, and bonus action flurry to attack 2 more times, all of which are magical. Maybe even throw a stunning strike in there while you’re at it. At kensei monk 11, you can make your claws +3 claws, and the damage becomes d8 by then, making 1 attack in rage 1d8+STR+5, and you can have 5 of those attacks in one turn with a little bit of ki, 4 attacks at will with the martial arts bonus action attack, and 3 at will when not raging.

In ancient Chinese literature, there was a magnificent horse by the name of Red Hare mentioned during the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It was a horse said to be unmatched in speed and was ridden by some of the greatest warriors. It's because of this that I have begun to notice something about D&D and mounted warriors in particular.

There are three main types of horses available to players. Racing, Draft, and Warhorse, but the variations end there! One warhorse is no different from another in terms of their stats, speed, and even use in combat, but cultures have recognized special warhorses that were greater in breeding and training than the common types you would seen ridden by the rank and file. So, as a DM, I felt the best way to provide this for players is by providing a Warhorse with "Normal" levels in Monk, essentially meaning you provide levels in Monk without most of their class abilities. This would allow a powerful Warhorse, who on paper would have five levels of Monk to benefit not just from extra HP, but also from 10ft bonus speed, and if you're feeling particularly generous a proficiency in saving throws specific to Monks.

This method can also be used to empower animal companions, providing them with more HP, and even can use the Monk's unarmed attack damage to further their growth. By removing all of the major class traits that come with Monk, it also prevents any sort of animal pet, companion, or mount from overshadowing any player at the table, allowing the players to feel a bond with the animal that is growing with them along the way, without making it feel like they are gaining too much from having said animal.

I felt it was something worth sharing and I hope you guys like this, if nothing else, as a springboard to help you come up with your own ways to give your mounted players a reward for choosing what is becoming a dying playstyle in my experience.

Humans adapter very fast compared to other races and in real life people can train themselves to need 5 hours of sleep instead of 8. And in comics Batman takes power naps of 20 minutes and he is energized for days.

Hello! 😁

Im a New player in dnd and ttrpgs in general (been playing since 2020 i think??? And only played some self created system iirc)

Anyway, i found a group to play and the dm is super flexible with classes and Race and we gonna have a session 0 next fryday (im super excited and he Said i could think about the character until then)

so i wanted to know If is possible to make a vampire Pc (Receblntly i hyperfixated on Castlevania and played Sotn like some 7 times last the week lol)

Sorry for the poor english (Its not my main language and im still learning It lol)