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Greetings DnD, @Devil_Master and I are bringing this topic to the community as a whole for discussion rather than making an executive decision like we had to on Piracy.

Welcome to /c/dnd! Glad to have you here.

Hello friends first time DM here who foolhardily decided to jump into world building rather than running a cookie cutter adventure.

We used to have several more people. Right now it’s 3 players and a DM. The DM is my cousin, and our rule right now is if one person can’t make it, the whole thing is called off. They really don’t want to just have 2 players, which I can understand.

I’m asking because the question the other day about silliest characters had a lot of funny comments.

I will be heading off to fight the morally grey fight as an Oathbreaker paladin in the service of Kelemvor this afternoon. I believe that we are going to steal a boat, sink that boat, get mad about not having a boat, steal another boat, and then set out on our adventure.

Mine was a shark person male named Susan (he didn’t understand the idea of gendered names but liked how human names sounded)

I used to use OneNote, which worked ok but it got really crazy organizing and reorganizing every time we started a new chapter of our years-long homebrew campaign. Frustrated, I started looking around at other tools.

Like adventures that are just laid back traveling and doing easy quest for NPCs?

This has probably come up somewhere but I am keen to hear your guys creative or interesting items you gave your players. I think there is a lot you can do but sometimes I get stuck in my head when thinking of cool items that are not just overpowered.

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I am planning a set piece that involves some NPCs deceiving my players. The short version is that my players will meet some simple farmers trying to bring their crops to market, only to find that they’re actually smugglers in a Hatfields and McCoy’s type feud, which the party then gets messily swept up into. I generally don’t trick my players; I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it but I imagine some tables would take to it more than others. Do you trick your players? Are there some tricks you find acceptable and others that are unacceptable? For me, I have no qualm getting my players swept up into the seedy underworld of drug or artifacts smuggling, but I don’t think I would run a plotline on human trafficking. That I think would be difficult in an unpleasant way for everyone involved.

Everyone has bad dice days. Everyone has that one time you get a Nat 1 at a critical moment.

As a kid and teenager in the 80’s and 90’s, my brother and friends used to play dungeons and dragons (Mostly adnd 2e, and my forever dm brothers homebrew rules). I got back into it again as an adult a good 35 years later, and everything sure has changed.

Hello fellow nerds.

Here’s all playlists I collected, from different users across Spotify and Apple Music. All genres covered, from horror to fantasy. Enjoy!

Also they can’t do birds in flight, makes them too dizzy.

Im trying to create a DMPC who used to be a 10th level fighter in his youth but hasn’t adventured in decades. I want to weaken him in a semi-realistic way, while keeping his skills.

Is there any source material or canon info detailing how elves in the Forgotten Realms setting handle crime and punishment?

Hello peeps. I’m part of a small DnD 5e group that plays through Roll20 and Discord every Sunday at the mentioned time (8 to 13 GMT). It’s only 4 players and the DM, so quite tight-knit. However, one of our players has begun to attend less frequently due to life doing what life does. So, we’ve decided to try bringing in an additional person.

As a DM, my biggest complaint about the magic item shop generators online is the lack of exact price. Most come with a rarity, but I personally feel like the vast range in prices is too great for me to just plug and play. For example: I feel like a cloak of displacement is much more valuable than say a Berserker’s Axe, even though they’re both “Rare”. So I felt like when players asked for a shop, I had to take time and read up on the item and then assign a price.

I was thinking recently that intellect devours, are a pretty easy for if you have good intelligence. On the other hand they are absolutely deadly if you have a bad intelligence score. It got me thinking, as an exercise, what other monsters are like that for the other stats?

Hello!

I've been toying with the idea of running a campaign that has a kind of doom system. And when I say that, it is in reference to World of Horror's doom system.

I bet this question gets asked a lot. I have been DMing an in person group for a couple months now. My first game back since around 2008 or so and I'm hooked again. The downside is that we're all parents and scheduling is a nightmare (per the norm). We are only meeting once a month or less.

Hey all! I want to get her something DnD related which is more personal than just dice or something. I was thinking of getting her art of her cats as DnD characters, which ones are best? And is there any other present you'd suggest?

A saving throw—also called a save—represents an attempt to avoid or resist a threat. You normally make a saving throw only when a rule requires you to do so, but you can decide to fail the save without rolling. The result of a save is detailed in the effect that allowed it. If a target is forced to make a save and lacks the ability score used by it, the target automatically fails.

The good ol' fashioned "You all meet in a tavern, answering a poster offering gold for help..."? The action-scene, "You're all engaged in mutual mundane task, when suddenly a band of thugs/goblins/whatever bust in looking for the plot coupon and chaos breaks out"? The "Elder Scrolls classic" - all being prisoners thrown in together? Tie it in to a character's backstory and let them lead the other party members in?

Hello. I plan to run a campaign with three of my friends. I will be the DM. I have been the DM before and I have been a Player before (in DnD 5e and also other systems). For my three friends it will be the first time they play a tabletop RPG. So which of the offical campaign moduls do you think is best suited for my friends?

Basically the title. They sent me the photos, they found them when clearing out parents house. Said books are used but the game is unused

Next week, I'm going camping with my wife, my brother and his wife, and my 9-year-old niece.. My brother asked if I'd prep a DnD game to play. My niece knows the basics and I'm modifying rules to make it easier for her, and I'm making a bunch of characters for them to choose from based on Gravity Falls characters.

My friends and I recently finished a campaign and are having session 0 for Ghosts of the Saltmarsh. My wife challenged me to create a character who's not angry, so I want to play a small race mad scientist Armorer Artificer who rides around in a suit of armor like a magical mech. Which small race would I pick to maximize the fun of this little chaos gremlin?

Great for DnD’s Spelljammer but also Starfinder, Numenera, SWN, Mothership, EclipsePhase, Shadowrun and also Cyberpunk. Listen always in shuffle mode.

My paladin has the savage attacker feat from the soldier background. Hitting level 2, id like to take great weapon fighting. I often use a maul and divine favor, so I’m rolling 2d6+1d4 per attack. Savage attacker really isn’t improving my damage much, and with gwf; I think it’ll have even less of an impact. Has anyone run into this issue?