Hey guys, im actually Kinda new to DnD and just played 3 sessions yet with a DM that really knows the Game. Now some other friends want to also start playing DnD and asked me to become a DM and i could really use some help over here. I actually started creating some cheat sheets for the races and classes but how do you guys choose stories or get the knowledge on how to do everything in the app ?

Please give me all your tips and let me know how i can make them just a big fan of the game as im becoming.

Till then Floros the air genasi

I'm running Rime of the Frostmaiden for a group of family and friends. We started in Easthaven (chosen at random). In our second session one of the game they come up on the hag (in disguise) at the cauldron. As there's plenty of new people I make it clear that in this world cauldron!=witch. It is a cooking tool, like a huge pot.

The second I say 'pot' the eyes of one of the wizard light up and she goes on about wanting the pot. They attack the hag, drop her fast, but not fast enough. The frost giant skeleton was summoned. The wizard who wanted the pot grabs it and runs. As she dumped the contents and picked up the pot I called that her action. Everyone else dashes away. The skeleton catches up to the wizard and swings the axe. It does 25 damage, and she had 7, max. The axe comes down and cuts her clean in half.

Here's all the jokes I can remember that followed. Mostly made by the artificer. I don't even remember half of them.

She split

She was beside herself

She fell to pieces over a pot

She's twice the woman she used to be

We got to know her inside and out

We'll miss both her personalities

This wasn't originally going to be a story about the murder of the leader of a corrupt healers guild, but now I definitely have to make it a story about the murder of the leader of a corrupt healers guild. Suggestions welcome

Hey all!

I want to share a discussion about this topic which made me think for a long time.

So if I make 3D printable miniatures from the DnD playbooks and sell them for money it is illegal. But then how some of the creators can still alive on Patreon and MMF who makes 1000+ 10.000+ dollars per month by creating miniatures inspired by WoTc content?

How much do they need to change the miniature or its name to fit in the legal circle?

How these things work?

Or your favorite NPC if your a forever DM like me

My group wants to switch to 5E. haven't played in quite awhile. No one feels like switching editions because of the time and money involved.

Is it still possible to use D&DBeynd for 5e? If I want to buy 5e digital stuff on there, is it going to stick around?

T be clear...we all already know 5E as it was a few years ago. Nobody wanted to learn the new version that had been releasing lately. We really know nothing about it.

Currently i'm making a character who is a shadar kai hexblade warlock who just wants Shadar-Kai to be free from their suffering and feel true happiness again. From my understanding they remember past lives so this would affect how he acts.

The thing is my friend is playing a blood angel space marine and he's killing everything that he considers Herasy or abominations. (Which is almost literally everything in a classic fantasy setting) And I know it's only a matter of time before the black rage comes in as a plot point. (Will see everyone as an enemy blinded by rage). I thought of making a sleeping potion or arrow but his character is immune to poison. Is there a magic item or something I could make or brew to put him to sleep or restrain him?

Tbh it's was funny at first but it's getting old quick and it getting hard to interrogate or talk to people when his first action is to rip everyones head off and drink their blood.

Wanted to make a Noble Cleric’s family antagonistic to the Cleric. They don’t want to hurt them in any way. It’s just that sudden religious fervor and with a god that appears antithetical to Nobility (or at least their version of Nobility) is highly concerning.

If this was IRL, the family’s afraid they joined a cult.

My only thing I’m looking for is a God that is Good that fits this idea.

hello fellow dungeon delvers and divers, this is a druid fifth level in a party of fourth level characters.

our first encounter was to walk around a castle that was inhabited by a bunch of guards that welcome to us but there may have been some sort of political or Intrigue or plot going on underneath all of the activities such as something like a Gothic theme.

other than our aerial battle using the Castle's guards Griffins to battle some manticores it was utterly boring investigation trying to find out who these people were.

the next session next week was walking through the forest heading towards the coast and coming across some pack of goblins and the Goblin Chief three hyenas at 130 ft distance from the party of one barbarian warlock that acts like a barbarian AA warforge, a BattleMaster and a pacifist.

the Barbarian decided to yell out his war cry in the middle of a river drawing all of the Hobgoblin and all of the Goblins to us and thus the dragging the entire party into a unsolicited battle with all of the goblins.

as the Druid, I ended up in the thick of battle and set up a spiky spiky Spike growth so that the Barbarian and other characters could shove the attackers the Goblins into the spike growth to lower all of their hit points and make it a quicker, cleaner battle.

after announcing to the other five players throw people into the spike growth no one did so therefore resulting in me becoming me the Drew to becoming a pin cushion for anybody that was available to attack me.

My issue IS....

the Game Master played the NPC characters, as the three hyenas ran off into the forest or were completely non involved in the combat. the chief Goblin came up and battled with our party Barbarian.

the goblins and the chief Goblin all fought to the death without any kind of strategy other than charging and flailing weapons.

the entire party because of one barbarian, is my complaint, dragged every Player into a murder hobo Fest and it showed absolutely no intelligence by the chief goblin and the Goblins or any kind of self-preservation drive.

though the GM/ game master was doing an excellent job up to this point, I felt that he really missed an opportunity to penalize the Barbarian for his lug headed, clunk attitude and lack of strategy rather than showing him( Barbarian ) that he should have coordinated with the Druid and the Warlock in the party to devise some sort of battle strategy.

there was a team failure to use battle strategy and Battle ground Control in order to defeat the assaulting party, there was a failure on the part of the GM to have the Goblins act in a more semi intelligent and self-preservation way in order to create a better challenge to our party.

the GM could have encouraged future strategy by having the Goblins engage with the party and then Retreat into the forest therefore making the combat and melee more Guerrilla tactics necessary; where the Goblins had the advantage and sneak attack as well as engaging the three hyenas also for sneak attack. ..as well as handicapping and hobbling any kind of range attacks by the warlocks or any range weapons such as arrows crossbow bolts or javelins.

the next session is coming up in a day and I want to know how I as a Druid player can more compel a less

psychotic I love me jacket rubber room sort of battle tactic and more of a strategy yes using and allowing and encouraging the Barbarian to act like a barbarian as he wishes.

Again, my strategy is if the Barbarian or the party accent is rushed into battle no tactics when the opportunity presents itself I am going to have my player character walk off and go achieve one of the other characters personal missions. I have twice the Spells and at least the proficiencies to execute their personal mission with pretty much without breaking a sweat.

as frosting on the cake I would give a totem animal and a magical scroll.

What other tactic do you suggest?

do you suggest cooperating with the murder hobo Barbarian and allowing myself to be pulled back into battle and becoming a pin cushion for a fight that could have been half as much effort and much more rewarding?

or do you have another idea?

I know nothing about the game but my brother is a DM and I’d like to avoid just gifting a steam gift card for Xmas.

I’m a watercolour artist and hate getting art related gifts because I have all the tools I need, and any I don’t have are too expensive to expect as gifts. Is this game/hobby in the same vein or am I overthinking it?

Also, I keep seeing these dice spinners, they look cool but are they actually junk that won’t be appreciated?

Hello all, I am a DM who’s ran a few short adventures and one shots following modules. Currently, I am running a campaign set in my homebrew world and I’m looking for someone more experienced with world building would be willing to deliberate some of my ideas.

The general concept for the main region is that an expansionist empire faced a coalition of multiple enemy nations and its own civilians who rose up as militia to end the continuous bloodshed by invading the palace which would be impervious to outside forces. They captured and executed the imperial family and their leader was a general in the imperial army who became the minister of defense. In order to avoid anarchy, they allowed the cabinet of ministers who advised the family to step up into their roles with full control of their respective jurisdictions. However, some of them are more interested in ways to line their pockets or use their position for other purposes. The party will navigate this atmosphere while seeings how factions involved in fixing of races, drug/potion trafficking, and other underground activities relate to the rest of society.

We are currently on session 2 of a short adventures set in a different region of floating islands which is meant to serve as a way to test the interactions of the new members of my group with the members who’ve been with me for some time. However, the next session will probably wrap this little arc up and we will begin with establishing the system I brought up earlier. I am confident in my abilities to come up with somewhat engaging stories and characters, however, I’m struggling with how to drip feed information to the party since they seem to keep asking for more and I don’t really have a reason to say no.

What exactly would one need to start one, what would they require materials wise for upkeep, this is calculating distribution, nor is it calculating magical costs like say someone wants to print with magical ink for the newspaper im simply curious about just the base costs might look like

So I'm pretty rubbish at backsories. I'm playing my second campaign (first one is on pause) and i have absolutely no idea how to write a backstory. Any help is massively appreciated

So, my question is. Are all wildspace systems floating in the astral sea supposed to be part of the same universe, as different solar systems? Or are they each their own individual universe or "timeline"?

It feels confusing because the way that modern pop culture uses the term multiverse is to refer to the many worlds theory of different timelines, but D&D refers to the different cosmology of planes as the multiverse.

Also, are the different planes different to each wildspace system? Or are they all shared among all wildspace systems? I understand that the inner planes are specific to each system while the outer planes are all shared, but idk if this is true.

Harpers in Barovia

My DM and I are having an argument.

Are Wereravens (Keepers of the Feather), the Barovian equivalent of Harpers?

Are they essentially the same?

I made a big poem for the upcoming module my party will be entering, which is a modified version of the Sunless Citadel module. For the uninitiated, the module is about a vampire tree that grew from the stake stabbed into the chest of a powerful vampire. To build up the events I made a poem regarding the campaign lore surrounding this event that I will use to build up off of. The players responded well to it, so I figured I'd share it here:

'Here be a tale most dark, inspiring and bloody,
Of the four heroes who fought monsters, so evil and mighty! 
Hail to them, the saviours, our heroes of light! 
Felling dungeons and dragons and the vampiric blight!

Mongan the Poet, bathed in fire from his friend 
The phoenix of hearth whom stayed with him till the end. 
His songs were legendary and his tales so sublime, 
That Goddess of Music cried when the bard finally died. 

Wolves howl in delight, fairies sing for all! 
The hero of the fallen, praise be to Durendal! 
His glaive created glades where the fae folk rule. 
In a one-on-one, always bet on the King in a duel. 

Blessed by the sun, Isis walked the thin line. 
Her holy words brought such a feeling, sublime!
A whisper from her lips left a lake clean, purified. 
She could never lose faith even if she had tried.

He’d come to converse, the one who won't die
You will end up torn asunder if you think you can lie 
A thousand devils as his patrons made his power unfurled! 
And so in his name we say: May Kheos take the world!

They fought the Demon Generals, they wiped away the debt, 
They started from goblins and the plan from fate was set! 
They engaged the black dragon, preventing the great world fell
But it wasn’t long after that they heard their final bell. 

Gulthias’ strength rocked reality’s foundation, 
It took the cleric's miracle to turn off his regeneration. 
The terrible giant’s speed was far faster than sight 
The Warlock vanished while entrapping him with his might. 

The arrogant monster’s roar ripped the land asunder, 
So the fighter created a weapon before he was put under, 
A fortress, floating in the air overhead,
 It fell upon Gulthias and pinned him to his final bed 

The bard now alone wielded the last efforts of his friends, 
Drove the wooden stake into its heart before he succumbed in the end. 
His phoenix cried out for the loss of these heroes of light 
With a cry into the sky, it burned and took it own life 

Khaos alone lives, his adventuring days done, 
But he said he’ll return should he hear Bard’s hum. 
Do not cry for their sacrifice, no matter what my tale does compel 
For their souls watch over here from the Sunless Citadel.'

Honestly the fact that WotC are giving 'free gifts' - which so far have mostly consisted of things that were already free all the time anyway - should be on the same level as hiking a price then putting it on sale for the normal price.

I won't complain for free things, but pretending that you are getting something which isn't usually free is a problem for me.

Edit: Alright fine, as so many people only care for negativity. WotC are big stinkers for mostly giving away free things while pretending they were not always free.

I'm joining a friend's campaign with our other friends, they're currently lvl 17 and I chose to be a variant human astral self monk. What feats should I go for or how many ASI i should take, I rolled STR 16, DEX 18, CON 15, 11 INT, 17 WIS & 14 CHA.

Hey everyone!
I am creating my first very own one shot and for it I wanted to create 3/2 major custom monsters (third one is not that crucial to me):
The premise of the one shot is very simple - the party came back after a long campaign to their favorite tavern to celebrate their victory. However, their favorite barkeep vanishes out of nowhere, and they hear a crazy and playful character, who heard of the party's achievements and forced them to a challenge.
Should they refuse or fail, the barkeep dies.
After the party begrudgingly accepts the challenge, they are teleported to the sits of a massive colosseum. In the center of the awaits a giant Minotaur, and the mysterious character epically announces that they have to defeat the obstacles in the pit if they want to win.

At the beginning the party sees that there is a powerful protective dome around the pit which will prevent them from entering the pit, unless they defeat the right enemy, because most of the sits in the arena are filled with lowly henchmen and minions, but only one of them holds the key that will allow them to shut off the dome.

When the party finally enters the pit, they will engage with the Minotaur, expecting it to be a powerful foe, but on contact, the creature will pop like a balloon, just to find out that the Minotaur was just the tip of a tale of an even bigger rattlesnake, that was well hidden at the edges of the pit.

After defeating the rattlesnake, after a tough battle, thinking it was the main event, the crazy character surprises the party by teleporting them outside of the arena, just to find the character sited on its grand entry, holding the barkeep as a hostage beside him, to reveal that the whole arena was on the back of a massive turtle/elephant like creature (but with a subtle weak spot).

Allas, after the enormous creature falls, the trickster is trying to summon the final creature, our favorite barkeep cuts loose and stabs the enemy for good.

So, I have a few questions:

1. I planned this one shot to be a long one. Have I crammed too many variables for this one shot? I will emphasize that I want the party to consist of 6 players.
2. Whats the best way to create a custom monster like the rattle snake and the turtle/elephant thingy?
3. I want my players to be on a high enough level so they would have access to powerful resources, but not too high, because I want this to be a tough combat based campaign?

I will accept any comment and will appreciate your opinion. Thank you in advance <3

Hey, Im in my second campaign of dnd now and sometimes get asked by others, outside of our campaign, if I would play with them (Run a game for/with them) I have talked with my dm about this and he very much encouraged me and gave me lots of tips and suggestions. As a starting campaign he suggested to maybe get the essentials kit, which I thought looked really good but I was consented since none of the adventures included start at lvl1 (Which I think is importent since almost all players in that campaign would have their first or second game with me, and I hope it feels cleaner starting from lvl1. Both for them and for me) In general I would ask for suggestions on which adventure to start (preferably on Roll20 since we already use this as players) Except for maybe the mines of phandalin since I heard it’s pretty good but my dms already running the shattert obelisk and one of our players would join if a run a campaign, so I don’t want a to similar setting.

If you have any suggestions or tips in general I am very glad to hear them all :)

So as the title says I’m in need of help with my class as I’m new to the game. To start, I just finished my first session and I went from lvl 3 to 4, and that comes with ability score improvement, so I can either get my wisdom to 20 or get another feat, which my friends recommend warcaster, although I’m a bit torn between what would be best for me, since I’m low hp, having warcaster would be good to keep my shield of faith up, and even spirit shroud when I get that.

So please help a newbie out thank you!

Like most of us during the pandemic i was part of an online group, like most of the games it slowly became more and more infrequent as the world came out of hibernation and settled into the new normal we just didnt have synced schedules anymore and the game fell to the wayside.

But i didnt forget that game. I’d idly go back and re-read our adventure log and campaign diary and would add to the log. It became its own out of game in character RP where i would make updates in character experiencing the time limbo they were sat in when we last left the game. As weeks turned into months the posts became more and more dark, marking the loss of comprehension of time aswell as the character going through the stages of grief before excepting their imprisonment in the time limbo.

My the penultimate post was simply a message to the god the PCs were trying to stop, asking for help to end their suffering. The last post was a janky ASCII like image saying “connection is made, the gate its open”

Two days ago the DM of that game contacted me and said “WTF lol” him and I are friends IRL and didnt know what he meant and he apparently went back to the Roll20 game in hopes to restart the game and get reorganized… and he decided that i was the only person that would go back and keep adding to the characters’ decent into madness and reaching out to Tharizdun to free them. He said it was a good laugh and if you too are part of a dead game online… maybe go back and leave an easter egg for the next person to open those logs. Or check and see if someone else already has

So I’m not well versed in DnD, I’ve only been in one campaign and that was last summer. I had a lot of fun, and that same group is going to be starting a new campaign at the start of the year. We’re having session zero this week, and I know what I WANT from my character, but I don’t know the best way to actually build it within the structure of DnD. The key part of my character that I want to have is that in combat I want to wield a MASSIVE hammer and do a lot of burst damage with a single swing, but have drawbacks on mobility and stealth obviously. The big issue is I’m not sure what class best suits my needs. My friends are telling me that Paladin might be the way to go but my last character was a cleric and I don’t really love the idea of playing another character who’s decision making and character are largely rooted in service to a god/a church. I thought about doing a fighter but one of the other party members will also be playing a fighter and while that doesn’t mean I CANT it makes the group less diverse and there will only be 3 players this time around. So I ask all of you, who undoubtedly know more than me, what’s the best way to wield a massive fucking hammer to do buttloads of damage?

Hi there, I'm making a hastur following kenku warlock, I'm trying to think of more passive ways to do his bidding, any ideas are a great help

Are goblins treated well anywhere? A small town, a kingdom, a city, anything? Cause ik most places they're treated like vermin. Is there anywhere, anywhere at all, in any dnd lore, where they're treated well? All thoughts welcome!!!