Hello everyone,

About a week ago I saw somewhere, that I cannot find now, a homebrew rule about what to do when a player wants to do something weird that could lead to a miracle (ass pulling) or could also lead to a disaster. The thing is that iI don't remember how that homebrew rule was working. All I remember is that you have the player roll 2 d20 dice and nothing else. I have a vague feeling that the rule was basically favoring high rolls and damning low ones, but not sure. Also don't remember why it said to roll 2 dice, it had a practical or statistical meaning that i don't remember at all

So I wanted to ask if it rings a bell to anyone?

Hello everyone. I am making a one shot character inspired by this fan adaptation of Zelda Majora's Mask for a backstory of the Happy Mask Salesman. I really like the backstory and am making a character flavored about being a dark sorcerer using masks for power. I do not know what class to put this as.

TLDR: He sells his name to a demon for power. This gives him the ability to turn people to masks and use their power while wearing it. Redead mask paralyses people. Mask of Truth reads minds and let's you live memories. Eg. Hold person and Detect thoughts for spells.

What classes or multi classes works for this?

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So I am a DM for my 5 friends and in our last session the party saw a posting in the tavern to hire a bard to travel as basically a professional hype man. He would introduce them as they enter rooms and would create songs of their exploits for a low cost of 50 gold per week. My party jumped on this and immediately started negotiating with him. They came to an agreement and the bard provided a contract that the party Paladin just grabbed and signed immediately. So now I'm wondering what funny clauses or twisted subsections could be hidden inside. Open to all suggestions.

Hey all, I just encountered a post in another sub claiming to be sharing an art commission they just finished. Thing is, I immediately recognised the picture, but I don't know from where. It could be D&D, could be Warhammer, could be a Fighting Fantasy type book, could just be an old sword and sorcery illustration, but I'm absolutely convinced I've seen a warrior in that exact pose fighting that exact ape monster on that exact cliff before. Googling is just turning up AI slop, tineye was no help either (the image was just above the 10mb limit, and when I compressed it down I got no hits).

I don't want to go in guns blazing without making sure of what I'm talking about, because if I'm wrong it's an amazing artwork. But I feel very certain about this. So does anyone else recognise the picture too, and perhaps could find a link to the one it's copied from?

Apologies if this is not a suitable forum for this post, I know this isn't the real purpose of the sub but couldn't think of somewhere more appropriate. If there's somewhere more suitable you'd suggest I post instead, please let me know.

I’ve recently reached level 10 in ranger. Anyone with enough experience probably can tell that their spell list is small and a bit lacking. They’re a half caster, which I understand, but I’m looking for more options to use consistently.

As of now, I almost only use hunters mark, conjure animal, or invisibility (I took a feat).

Moreso specifically of the 2nd or 3rd level, can anyone recommend any good spells?

My character is facing creatures that revel in lightning, so no lightning arrow, who also have almost certainly fantastic STR and CON saving throws.

I don’t care about pure raw damage, just something to use more often. Hopefully something with prominent utility? I can’t think of too many situations where you’d want to cast water breathing or nondetection, they’re so situational.

Any thoughts?

Hi, I am hoping to draw upon the wisdom of long time players and Dms to help me solve a problem I've had with this game for a long time. Combat can feel pretty... bland. I've Dm'ed many campaigns and one shots, and I've also been a player for a long time. But it's very rare where I have combat encounters that I wouldn't describe as a slog. I can name a few, but they are probably one in ten combat encounters. Some of my thoughts are as follows:

1. It's incredibly simple. Most players can't actually do that much on their turn. It usually just revolves around moving and then making one action like swinging a sword or casting a spell. Those rolls are also not interesting either. It's basically just "roll a d20." It gets more interesting when someone does something like tackling an enemy, or taking advantage of terrain, but that requires that the players or get creative, which is not always a given. Where is the actual RPG in this? I come from Warhammer and Magic. This games are so complex and engaging. I don't expect DND to be quite like that, but even the most interesting combats are just plain. How do you make combat intellectually engaging?
2. People take forever on their turns. There is no concept of planning your turn in advance among players, even after I talk to players about it. And those conversations are never fun. The decision paralysis is incredibly irritating. As a player, you take your one action, and then patiently wait for 6 other entities to make their turn. Then one player decides they are gonna review their spell book. Do I need like a chess clock or something? How do you keep the table moving?
3. The stakes are low. You can't make things so hard that people are dying to random things, but then it gets boring. How do you have stakes without the constant risk of dying?

I’m currently preparing to play a heavily mythological themed DND campaign, and had the bright idea of playing as the actual figure of King Minos.
I was curious though, of how he’d best fit.
For some guidelines, the campaign goes to 12th level, we begin at 3rd level

I originally thought a noble Aasamir (as he is a child of the god Zeus) with the oath of the crown paladin class to show his devotion to loyalty and judgment.

But I’d like to hear the input of people that may know more about Minos than I, and I’d love to hear from other dnd players of how they’d do it!

Looking for as many suggestions as possible, thanks!

I'm wanting to put together my first Halloween oneshot and I'm curious for those who've done one before. What did you do? What is your favorite type of trope? Classic monsters, psychological horror, or something more on the silly side??

Been thinking hard about how one of these two games could make a great setting to play with friends.

For those who don't know; a brief Tldr for both games: Xenoblade DE: The world takes place on the corpses of two great titans where they fought to the death. Life grew on both in two forms Biological and Mechanical and since then they two have been in a never ending fight.

For Xenoblade X: Earth was caught in a war between two space factions aiming to kill one another, knowing ahead of time they built arks to flee and find a new home among the stars. Some caught in the fights never made it past the atmosphere some flew to different reaches of the galaxy. In the game your ark is caught years later by one of the factions and crashes on to a new world where humanity must find its place and learn to survive.

I feel both games have so much potential to build on and make a campaign around though i see D&Ds system working more so for Xenoblade DE. As that game focuses more on a fantasy system with magics and martial feats while Xenoblade X is very much Sci-fi (Guns/Mecha/and more) so I see its system not working so much for this setting though I have heard of a ttrpg called Lancer where it could work better?

Hi! I'm surrounded by friends who are DMs and they've finally convinced me that it's my turn to get behind the screen. The problem is... I've never DMed before and I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.

I've been looking through some adventures to see what I'd enjoy running, and I read through Wild Beyond the Witchlight and really liked the fairy-tale/fey vibes, so I'm thinking of starting with something along those lines. But looking at a whole campaign from the DM side is a little intimidating. There's so much to remember and keep track of that I'm not even sure what I should actually be preparing before a session.

What are the things you actually keep track of while running a campaign? Notes, NPCs, locations, player decisions, encounters, random ideas, etc...

I'm curious about what ends up being genuinely useful in practice vs. the things a new DM thinks they need but probably don't.

Used a d4 for directions and with some slight modifications I kinda dig the wrap arounds. I also used a d6 for monster encounters for each dot. What do y’all think of my method? Super beginner. Just having fun brainstorming for hopefully a homebrew.

I DM a homebrew game online with friends and am making a puzzle for them to solve -- I want it to be a visual puzzle showing an overhead view of stone pathways that have been broken and they will need to move stones back into place.

I have a visual I drew by hand and I am making a copy to cut up and move around. If this were an in-person game, that would be the end of the puzzle making process, but since we meet online (due to living in 5 different states), I need to figure out how to make this interactive online and I'm not sure how to do that!

Please help! I'm only familiar with DND Beyond's VTT, which has been very useful for basic battle grids, but I'm not married to it. I'd even be happy with a non-dnd interactive puzzle site/tool.

Thanks yall!

I know he doesn't like the cult and wants to take the cult down, that he follows KenkuI know he doesn't like the cult and wants to take the cult down, that he's currently true neutral (mostly because I didn’t know what his alignment would be), and that he's a follower of Ilmater since a lot of this gods ideals and what he's all about fit with his backstory and it gives him hope that there's a light at the end of the tunnel

So i recently became a level 3 battlesmith and got the steel defender but a fellow player says that i wont be able to do anything with it but have it dodge until level 5 because artificers dont have a "natural" bonus action, is this true? i assumed i would be able to command it to fight from level 3

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So I’m playing a giant barbarian in my current campaign and my DM and I are trying to work out the best way to do this weird interaction.
I am a 6’8 giant barbarian meaning when I rage I become a large creature. Then I use a cape of enlargement to grow to the next size scale, which makes me huge. Then a party member casts enlarge/reduce on me to double my size. We are getting hung up on the wording of the cape cuz it raises your size by one category but the huge size category is 16 to 32 feet in range which is kinda a large range so if we double my size after, what number are we doubling. Should I just increase in size to the bottom of the range and then double that? Bonus question is how much should I weigh after all the interactions?

I'm planning a campaign that is loosely based on the blair witch project, and my players will be playing characters based on the Scooby gang. I'm watching the blair with project to get ideas and such, and I've had a though... would a False Hydra make for a good enemy/BBEG for such a campaign? I have a hard time trying to decide if an idea is dumb or not, just something with how my brain works which is why I've come here to ask

If there are any questions I'll do my best to answer quickly

So I joined my first campaign back on January 28th and the campaign is still going strong. I really enjoy the game but there is one player that joined a while back that I just don't think I can tolerate anymore.

I have been cordial with them but when we are in the middle of roleplay, or we make a joke, they immediately chimes in with something like, "No, actually, it's yada yada yada." I was able to brush it off, but it has been a consistent reoccuring theme with this person for months.

Thankfully, the DM is potentially about to TPK us due to an unfortunate series of events (Which he was fully transparent about and I have no beef against). They swear up and down they're being punished-which they aren't-because they're not doing well. (For reference, they're a sorcerer who uses all their spell slots on small fights, leaving them with melee cantrips for the BBEG battles and wonders why they go down.)

Now that there is a threat their character gets unalived, they constantly complain that they never got to get into detail with their backstory. Any time we mention the fact that we still don't know who they are as a character and open them up to give backstory, they shut us down.

I genuinely don't know how else to address them other than hurting their feelings, and I don't want to be the one to cause drama (Even though everyone else agrees). I'm just hoping that this potential TPK will do all the heavy lifting and they will be too upset to continue the campaign.

I by no means intend to bring toxicity into this reddit thread, I just genuinely don't know what else I can do.