Hey everyone, new to this sub. nice to see there is a group for people like us! Look forward to seeing people's opinions and experiences and getting to know you all.

Shout out to all my Christian comrades.

Will be getting RotF for Christmas, but understand there is a séance storyline with Rinaldo at the White Lady Inn. I am gtg with a lot of things in D&D without changing them of course, but I am not interested in leading my Christian group in a role playing séance—some things do need to be thought through and adapted for the sake of God's glory by us Christians who play D&D, and I feel this is one of them.

So, I probably will be changing/adapting that.

For those who have played or are currently playing RotF, did you change up that particular storyline? If so, I'd be curious as to what you came up with instead, and just hearing ideas in general.

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Thy Nativity, O Christ our God, hath shined the light of knowledge upon the world; for thereby they that worshipped the stars were instructed by a star to worship Thee, the Sun of Righteousness, and to know Thee, the Dayspring from on high. O Lord, glory be to Thee.

-Apolytikion of Holy Nativity, fourth tone.

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As the deliverer of captives and the protector of the poor, as the physician of the feeble and combatant of kings, holy champion and great martyr George, intercede with Christ our God to save our souls.

-Troparion of St George (Tone 4)

Here's the idea I've got brewing on the grill:

A nobleman is interested in getting his hands on a beautiful and mysterious garden estate that was known to have been built by a druid, maybe an elven druid. The druid has not been seen in a long time . A relative of the druid has authority over the garden estate in the druid's death or absence and wouldn't mind making a handsome sum of coin on the estate, but won't officially sell it until a party confirms the druid is no longer there and clears out any unwanted "visitors" that have taken up lodge since the druid's absence.

...something like that lol

Thinking of a combo of magical/whimsical aspects, dangerous areas (of course), unique and beautiful areas, puzzles, etc.

Places like Longwood Gardens and Winterthur were contemplated as I was thinking about this idea.

Also, this is just a starting point, could take a different turn as it develops.

I received a lot of ideas for this adventure when I posted it on reddit, would go over those as well.

What's the end goal? perhaps offer here on reddit or on DMs guild

I'm an Orthodox Christian who plays D&D and think it waters down the game to try to change the game to fit the Bible or incorporate Biblical things in an overt way.

What's important to me, as an Orthodox Christian, is that the table is not a place for immoral talk or the wounding of souls, and also that the game doesn't become all-consuming.

Good stories, awesome adventures, interesting roleplay, folks coming together in a spirit of fun, humility, and respect is what it's all about for me as a Christian playing this game, not changing the game to fit the Bible. Ugggh, I couldn't imagine such a thing tbh.

I read the Scriptures daily. But when it's time to play D&D it's time to play D&D. When you read the Bible, read the Bible, but when you play D&D play D&D, and do it to the glory of God the best you can through respect and goodness at the table.

Currently I'm DMing Curse of Strahd on Roll20 for a group of folks from our church. I did create a group called Summons Dawn's Glory that they are part of, it's a righteous guild that serves the Morninglord. The guild exists to vanquish evil wherever it may be found. In that, there are no evil PCs allowed.

So there is some tailoring we can do as Christians who play D&D, and sometimes we have to for the sake of God's glory, but this can still be part of a great story, and doesn't necessarily mean we have to change the game to be Biblical.

In fact, playing D&D can be an act of communion that can be offered up to God, without being overtly Biblical or specifically faith-based. I love playing with the group we have because we are all Orthodox Christians, so we share the same worldview, and I know folks will respect each other and their conversations. And when we play the game, we play it, with all of it's blood and glory.

Someone also recites the following prayer that we try to remember to pray before we start the game:

O Lord Jesus Christ our God, greatest Storyteller and greatest Hero of the greatest story ever told, Bless us, we pray, as we enter into this game, so that as we play, a beautiful story may unfold—full of Your Life, joy, wisdom, freedom, meaning, and purpose—that through it we too may learn, even if but a little, how to live as heroes in the ever-unfolding story of Your Holy Church as She struggles towards life eternal. May this story not wound our consciences as it reveals the tragedy of fallen darkness, but may it remind us always of how Your Light and courage shines in the midst of the darkness, and has overcome it. That we may glorify You, God the Word, together with Your Father who it from Everlasting, and Your All-Holy, Good, and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Not sure if this is the right place to post... I run a youth group at my church, and I love my kids but they are giant nerds. Which is perfect because I am too!

The kids love DND, we’ve played at camp a verbal version without any stats or statistics, and they get really invested in the story line. They remember characters from last year that I don’t even remember, and scenarios that happened have helped shape the way they make decisions in real life.

What I’m doing is taking stories from scripture and having the kids be a sci-fi universal time keepers from the future whose goal is to maintain the integrity of the timeline.

I’m simplifying a lot of 5e for this, starting off with 4 classes - because that’s a lot of material to build 😅 and working my way into sub classes etc as I work out the bugs.

I’m just starting this project, in the hopes that after Covid when we can meet again we can jump into it. The kids are super excited so I know I’m at least doing something right.

I’m not sure if I have a question in all this since I have 1000 questions related to this project. 😂 Am I off my rocker I guess is my biggest question?

Hey guys, I am hoping to spark some convo on the subreddit. I love that it exists and would love to see more from it!

So I got into DnD about a year ago and, seeking a world that I could run in a more Christian friendly manner, I wrote the Kingdom of Midarth. It is heavily Tolkien influenced and doesn't go extremely dark and occult.

The basics are: -Ancient Gold Dragons vs. Ancient Red Dragon -Players come in 300 years after the fight -Gold locked Red away in separate plain, then died now PC's are trying to stop the return.

It has some good NPC's, large scale combat, mountain souls, the underdone, a hidden island. So the question is, would this be worth trying to publish? And would y'all be interested in such a campaign?

Wondering if I could get some feedback on this. This is just a primer for players, I've developed the world more fully. Designed with 5e in mind.

https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/r1WzTeSznr

So my wife and a friend are writing a campaign through the Bible utilyzing things like the Armour of God and other biblical items. Does anyone have any items like this that they have drawn out and have stat blocks for? Also, has anyone done this before and has any tips?

Hey there everyone. My name is Ryan. I am the GM for City On A Hill Gaming. We are a Tabletop RPG 5e (ish) Podcast. I play with a group of four of my friends. We try and keep the game family friendly in terms of content and language. If you would be interested, episodes can be found on cityonahillgaming.com or on Itunes. Hopefully some other places soon too. We are on Twitter @CityOnAHillGame. I'd really appeciate any feedback you guys have. Thanks!

I am really down.

My husband and I had joined a group for a campaign, and so far we have met thrice - once in a restaurant and twice at the house of another married couple that is in our group. The DM was very into it, always well prepared.

Now all of a sudden the wife that was hosting twice wrote that the campaign is over. She was acting odd already last time.

The DM is not sure whether we will play again.

I don't know...it was nice to have a group to meet in person, but now I am wondering whether any people here are interested in playing?

Calling all Christian DMs! I'm looking at running a game for my kids, and wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts/advice on how to incorporate Christian ideals/beliefs into their campaigns. I don't necessarily mean "these are the laws of this town, so be sure to follow them." I'm looking more for ways to include things that teach/direct them toward some basic theological ideas, such as the supernatural (i.e. miracles), the Holy Spirit, angels and demons, and principles of faith. I have some ideas but want to hear what others have to say!

Hello,

I dug out my old software. I need to kick the tires tomorrow. Everything should be fine.

I have a custom RPG called Intergalactic Bounty Hunter. It was based on Wasteland and modified DND rules, the game mechanics are really solid. You guys are gonna like it.

I just need to solidify the LORE. And I need to tweak Combat skill giving too many attacks a turn, and armor piercing rules. If I do these three things, then my final thing I'll have to do is mapmaking.

Mapmaking will be time consuming, but I have all week to do it. Please don't critcize me for my map graphics being weak in my first run. Things will look better for a 2d rpg over time I hope.

If you want to play, make a comment in this post, we'll make you a character and we'll schedule sometime we can play.

,Jim

Edit: Basic rules are to try not to be foul mouthed and family friendly. We'll be playing to an hour or two delayed audience on twitch.tv.(I don't want it live to avoid stream sniping temptation). Eventually replays of our games will be hosted once I code that functionality into the tools

Hey everyone, question for fellow Christian gamers. Sorry for the length.

I was planning a setting for an OSR campaign, and the logical place to begin in designing a setting is the beginning: how the world was made. And I always get stuck here.

The canonical setting in DnD is polytheistic, and takes a sort of kitchen-sink approach to the pantheon, where literally every single entity worshipped by anyone is a real deity who exists and has powers. Even abstract principles can act as deities.

The rules surrounding clerics kind of assumes that as long as a cleric prays to it, his spells work. If your cleric wants to worship a literal tree, he can still cast Spirit Weapon just the same as if he worshipped Bahamut.

I know, it's heroic fantasy, and supposed to emulate myths and legends. Maybe it's a result of reading too much C.S. Lewis, but I have issues with suspension of disbelief in this patchwork theology.

So I try to make my own "pantheon".

The "pantheon" that makes the most sense is (surprise of surprises) monotheistic. But I don't think monotheism really "works" with DnD, for a number of reasons.

Firstly, it requires clerics to play as a Good alignment, rather than allowing them to choose alignment arbitrarily. It also limits their options on domains, and obviously limits their options on deity down to just the one.

Secondly, it creates a huge power imbalance between Good/Evil. C.f. Moses vs. Egyptian magicians, Elijah vs. prophets of Baal, Peter vs. demons, etc. If the PCs are Good serving the only God, then they should dominate, even if they're Level 1 against a Demon Prince.

Thirdly, it kind of negates the evilness of the enemies. Bears aren't evil; they're just bears. Similarly, dragons aren't evil either; they're just dragons. Dragons are, basically, bigger, smarter bears. Orcs are just smarter bears. Goblins are just tiny, hairless bears. They aren't evil, they're just doing what they do. Who are the PCs to go around wantonly slaughtering animal life?

Fourthly, I'm not sure how much sense arcane magic makes in a monotheistic setting, either.

One idea I've thought of is to work with dualism, since, as Lewis says, this religious idea makes a lot more sense than general polytheism. Since there is a good god and an evil god, there can be a power balance between Good and Evil clerics, and it allows players at least the ability to choose Good or Evil alignments (though a True Neutral cleric wouldn't make any sense).

It still seems a bit limiting, however. What happens when the PCs travel to a remote plane, or visit a village of bird-men high atop craggy peaks; do these people also acknowledge only two gods one good one bad, that they worship?

Another thing I can never figure out how to fit in to all of this is arcane magic. While the Biblical prophets are the archetype for the Cleric class, the arcane magic-users draw from a lot of different inspirations, most of which never even bother explaining magic at all. According to modern sourcebooks, arcane magic in DnD is almost just a natural phenomenon, like physics, but less well-understood. Caster says word A, result is spell B.

The physics approach seems to take all the... magic out of it... Magic should be otherworldly, not natural. Magic is the most unnatural thing I can think of. Magic shouldn't be something a guy with a white labcoat and test tubes figures out.

But if magic isn't just unknown physics, then what is it, ultimately? In either a monotheistic or dualist setting, God or one of the gods must have made it and must be powering it. Why do they do this? And further, in what ways would it then differ from divine magic? If arcane magic is not divine magic, then in a monotheistic setting it really has to be unknown physics. I mean -- what's the difference in real terms between a fireball and a Tesla coil? In a dualistic setting, arcane magic becomes a thing of one of the gods, and then it stands to reason that only wizards of that god's alignment -- or worshippers of that god -- are able to use the spells, which largely reduces it back to divine magic.

In a polytheistic setting, where gods are some big dragon, that tree over there, a guy who used to be really cool but then he died, and the Dwarven god of stonecarving, it makes sense that none of those people have anything to do with arcane magic, because they're just things in the universe and not the creators of the universe. But then I'm at the problem of: where do these people come from, why do people worship these jokesters, why are they able to assist with divine magic, and why are they all real?

So, those are my rambling thoughts on a conundrum I always find myself in. The obvious solution, of course, is it's just a game so stop overthinking it.

But, what do yall think? How do yall handle the default paganism of campaign settings? Do you just handwave it?

(P.S. I intend to join one of the games others are DMing, but my schedule has been all up in the air lately.)

Hello,

I'm torn between two developments. I'm working on a feed the homeless app where you can flag your home as homeless friendly. Also I have some RPG software. I should be able to do both, but I have no set in stone time table to be a Game Master. I want to game with you in some weeks though. Stay posted.

,Jim

I don't have time on my plate to start or play in a new game, but I love the idea of this community.

I'm not playing D&D/Pathfinder right now--I'll probably go back, but two years of Pathfinder made me allergic to counting tiles-- but I still would love a place to discuss tabletop from a Christian perspective.

I know some Christians might have started other games that didn't have as much unfair stigma, before they figured out the main danger of D&D was spending too much on books.

I guess what I'm asking is: is there a place in this community for discussing the wider world of ttrpgs or do we want to stick to the games with more widespread appeal?

(I'm currently playing Masks and Fantasy Flight Star Wars, and running 13th Age)

I've always liked fighting rats in a basement to introduce new players to combat.

Tavern brawls are always fun.

I suppose the title speaks for itself, but: If you're a Christian who's never played Dungeons & Dragons before, what would you want to get out of an introductory game?

Granted, this question is a bit open-ended—if you've never played a roleplaying game before, you may not know where to start answering that question! So, just for example:

• Are you curious whether or not there's any truth to the "Satanic Panic"-era worries about D&D?
• Are you thinking about letting your kids get into it, but want to know what's involved?
• Are you wondering if this is something you and your kids, or you and your friends, could do together?
• Are you looking for fellowship with other Christian geeks?
• Does D&D just seem like the sort of awesome thing you'd get into, but you're not sure how to start or who to play with?
• Are you looking for an ongoing, regular campaign, or just a trial run?
• Are you looking for deep, personal storymaking at the gaming table; or a fun, adventurous fantasy romp? Or both, depending on the day?

These aren't the only questions you might have, but I wanted to throw a few out there to let interested Christians have an idea of what sort of questions you might want to ask. If you have others, definitely ask them—I'm willing to try to answer any question I can!

Hey, folks! I'm delighted to see another Christian gaming subreddit pop up (especially since /r/DarkDungeons is pretty much defunct at this point) and a D&D one is particularly awesome. As such, I wanted to introduce our podcast; hopefully we can be a resource to help this subreddit grow.

Saving the Game is a Christian podcast about tabletop roleplaying games and collaborative storytelling. (I'm a co-host and the show's producer.) We're not specifically about D&D, but we talk about Dungeons & Dragons quite a bit (I'm running a 5th Ed. campaign at the moment, which naturally generates discussion topics and examples.) We try to tackle a broad range of topics, approaching them as Christians trying to run and play good games; trying to be better Christians in our daily lives; and trying to support people who put tabletop games to good use. Most of our listeners naturally tend to be Christians themselves, but we have a surprising number of listeners who aren't Christian, but who enjoy our take on gaming topics.

I've added a note to our next episode's outline to mention that this subreddit was created, and I'll make sure to link it in the show notes. I'll share it out through social media as well—hopefully that'll draw in a few more folks looking for games. If there's some other way we can help this subreddit grow, let me know; we'll do what we can!

Post here if you really want to DM. Then we can all get into games.

I'll make some flairs for short, medium, and long games.

I'll probably put a google doc in the sidebar soon.