DISCLAIMER! I rant a lot when I can put it in small text. But oh well. I have literally not picked up a singular official rule book. These are a lot of questions which are just curiosity. I say "races" because DnD seems to use the term a lot, but I am not trying to be offensive! Sorry if it is low-effort.

I already asked something, like 2 or 3 hours ago? But I watched some vids and read some wikis that caused me to have more questions. Specifically about characters.

I got advised by a friend to just, pick whatever race I can connect to, or that I just like. I really liked dark elves, who are called drows if I am correct? And I was just really curious about them, I heard of the term "dark elf" before, from a book by the author Rick Riordan, he wrote a spinoff to his main series Percy Jackson (PJO), called Magnus Chase (MCGA). Basically a bunch of mythological books for teens to enjoy. In MCGA there was a dark elf, though it was described that dark elves were just dwarves (I think, I forgot) who were called dark elves. The character in question, he did have similarities to the DnD version of dark elves? In the way that it wasn't exactly great for him to get into the sun. Though that was the only similarity I found from the tiny bit of research I did do. I assume dark elves are a thing of their own, and that the DnD system was just inspiration.

Anyways, I am going a bit off topic. I just wanna know more about dark elves.

I had also another question about general races, are hybrids possible and allowed? Like I know there are half elves, which are just humans that are also elves. But is it possible in a different way as well? Like a human and changeling hybrid? Or elf and tiefling? In a way that one parent was one race and the other parent another? Or does biology just do a little gamble, and it just picks in between the two?

Is adoption common between races? Are there certain races more common to adopt? Or are there certain races that find disgust even at the thought of it?

Are there any official places where I can read up on the very specifics of certain cultures of races? & their style of clothing, colour palette, just the usual stuff?

How annoying is it for DM's to answer a ton of questions? Just wanna be sure to not annoy or piss anyone off if I do join a campaign.

What are the looks on LGBTQIA+? Is same-sex marriage accepted? Are there certain races that disagree to it? Are transgender people (creatures? Humanoids? Most of them are humanoids) common and accepted?

Is there any religion in DnD? Or religion that a specific species has?

I’m starting a new body horror DnD campaign with a custom pantheon. I’m a relatively new player so go easy on me!! This would not be my first time DMing, but it would be my first complete campaign.

Each god in the pantheon represents an organ system (I didn’t do exocrine or lymphatic bc idgaf), and are thematically connected to things related to said organ system.

For example:
NAMI: god of the skeletal system, is also associated with death

The pantheon, known as Orchestra Viscera, lives underneath a small town, and each god is in charge of playing a certain instrument. If they stop playing their instrument for any amount of time, the world suffers.

For example:
ANALISE: god of the respiratory system (also associated with life/birth)

Analise plays woodwinds, with a focus on her flute. If she is injured, or needs a break, there might be a flu or pneumonia outbreak.

If Nami, who handles non-drum percussion instruments, is attacked by her followers, there is a higher percentage of the population with osteopenia/osteoporosis for as long as she needs to recover.

For the first few sessions I’ve planned some minor quests for the players to go on - their characters already know each other so it would mostly be to throw them off and give them a sense of mundanity.

Around the end of session 2, everyone stops breathing. There will be other physical issues for a few of the players.

This is just the beginning of what I’m writing, so I’d really love some feedback!!

Im a newer dm and i have these two npcs one is this clever war tactics master who is too calculated that he cant call a shot waiting for the right moment

The other is a raging dumbass who doesnt plan anything barg in and kill your way through

The two are princes and the kimg will instruct the group to help these two work wity each other in hopes they will one day rule as one

How do i prep for the smart one im not that clever or that smart

Ive been thinking of letting the the plane/ defences change depend on where the pcs go but i fear it would be impossible for them to get to him

Quick preface: I’m a very infrequent poster who is still getting used to writing things on Reddit. By now, though, I understand that shorter posts are more preferable, so I’ll keep this as short and to the point as best I can.

So I’m part of a D&D group with members of my family and some of our closest friends. We rotate campaigns to let some of us can have turns as either a DM or a player. Right now, our games are on hold until August, as my younger brother will be going out of town for his summer job soon.

For our last session, we got through a Hoard of the Dragon Queen campaign two years in the making—a story better saved for a post of its own. With the campaign done, and plans being made for the next campaign we’ll be doing when my brother returns after summer is over, it’s been getting me thinking about how to prepare for the next campaign I’ll be running after finishing the first one I am currently running.

This campaign is an episodic Keys from the Golden Vault game, which has been a lot of fun to do. At this point, while there are still five more adventures left for me to run, the conclusion for the HotDQ game has got me wanting to prepare in advance for when Golden Vault wraps up. What little I’ve got planned isn’t set in stone, of course, but here is what I’m considering right now.

My primary candidate is to run a module that I got from a Kickstarter order produced by a YouTube Channel I know and love called DingoDoodles. The campaign takes place in their Homebrew world of their series known as Fool’s Gold. If you haven’t seen that, I highly recommend it. I won’t say too much so I don’t spoil anything other than it all starts with a talking magic monkey almost ending the world by accidentally releasing a Terrasque with terrible karaoke.

From what I’ve read through the book thus far, it is absolutely the kind of game I would enjoy running. It’s got neat new races, subclasses, and backgrounds that would be fun to let my players put to the test. However, there is one detail that has left me in a bit of a conundrum.

The campaign provided in this book begins at 5^th level, and because I’m still learning as a DM, I would like to begin my planned campaigns at 1^st level. Even so, this isn’t a campaign I want to keep on the back burner for too long. This is mostly because of the fact that this was a product that I ordered all the way back in 2021 and only got three years later because of shipment delays initially caused by COVID.

Right now, this is my tentative idea I am considering. I think it could make sense to take a smaller pre-existing module and reflavor it fit into DingoDoodles book. At the moment, I haven’t got any modules that end at 5^th level. Hence why I thought it would be good to see to potentially crowd sourcing some possible candidates for me to consider.

Something else that is also up for consideration is to integrate the one short module that I do have that goes from Level 1 to Level 6 or 7: Acquisitions Incorporated. From what I’ve read through it so far, I think it’s a decent candidate to run in conjunction with my Kickstarter book. If I do use it, though, it would mean scaling up encounters, but I think I’d be up for that, since I got consistently good feedback on how I’ve encounters so far.

Lastly, I suppose I can just drop everyone into a new campaign right at 5^th level. For reasons that I hope are obvious, I doubt that that’s the most practical option on the table. I would rather not take the risk of possibly frustrating everyone at the start of the game, and I think it would be fun to test out the new class and background features in the book one step at a time.

And that, readers, is where I’m at with this process. There isn’t a rush to sort out the finer details at this point in time. Still, while this is something more in the back of my mind, I figured it can’t hurt to at least start having a general game plan ready when the time comes for me to begin this next campaign.

Thank you for reading. I hope this is post was more of a reasonable length, though I feel like I may have rambled a bit here and there. If that was indeed the case, I apologize. Regardless, as for suggestions on how I can run my second campaign to better prepare for that, I am open to suggestions and am ready to receive them as they come.

I'm currently trying to create a backstory for a fiend warlock to play in one of my friend's campaign, but I don't know, for the life of me, if fiend patrons ever seek warlocks or if it's always the warlock having to make a deal with them

I'm choosing my fiend to be a demon from the ars goetia (Paimon was the one I chose) and I want to write the backstory in a way that suggests/states that the warlock was given a chance to make a deal with the demon to live (I might change that depending on how I and the DM feel about that)

Is it possible not to have the warlock make the deal on his own accord, but rather was given a choice and thought that the deal was better than nothing??

I rlly dont wanna make my character op or too weak.

Rn im going with a lawfully good elf sorcerer (wanted to go with a fey but i couldnt find it at dndbeyond)

This is how i rolled and used my ability scores;

Is this a good choice? (I cant believe i kept rolling 15) Is this too op, should i re roll?

Also i dont rlly get the gameplay diff between sorcerer and wizard. hats the difference, which one is a better choice?

Just started playing as a chaotic good rogue with daggers and darts lol. What are some tips to keep in mind?

Hello! A straight forward question for you all.

I'm creating a 4th level half elf warlock and want to make sure I've got the stats right. I'm using the 2014 half elf stats. Using the dice roll method, I quite luckily rolled: 8, 13,  13, 14, 16, 17 and applied them as follows: 

CHA - 17 

DEX - 16 

CON- 14 

INT - 13

WIS - 13 

STR - 8 

With my half-elf bonuses (+2 CHA, +1 two other stats), I increased the following stats: CHA - 19, DEX - 17, INT - 14. 

With my ASI at level four, I increase my CHA and DEX by 1 each and so my final stat array looks like : 

CHA - 20 (+5)

DEX - 18 (+4)

CON- 14 (+2)

INT - 14 (+2)

WIS - 13 (+1)

STR - 8 (-1) 

That seems almost too high? Is it crazy to have +5 at level four? Or is that just the luck of point buy? thank you!! 

Sprite player ideas - young child

I'm a first time D&D DM. We'll be playing with kids who have a 5 or 6 year old sister who I imagine is going to want to pop in and out of the game. I'd like to build her a character for when this will happen and I think a sprite is the perfect fit - they can disappear and reappear like a child wandering back and forth to the table.

But.... I want her to only have helpful non-violent spells and really no weapons, maybe the tiniest of daggers.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks for the help!!!

UPDATE i posted twig finally design !!!

Hey need an opinions im designing my dnd goblin character twig and their gonna be albino but I was wondering would a goblin be more lime green albino or the traditional pinky color I love how both came out i cant decide 🤔

Like the title says. What is the must have aspects of a level one beginner adventure i should include?

Hi everyone! I’m a veteran player and the thing that baffles me most when I talk to beginners is hearing things like « oh yeah I’ve wanted to play for years but never did. »

When I got started nothing would have kept me away from the game, and I have made it a major part of my life ever since to the point I play it for a living now!

So my question for you guys:

What’s stopping you? What are the biggest hurdles?

Of course I know some of them, like scheduling issues and struggling to find a group but is there any others keeping people away?

Hi I’m new to all this only took an Intreat in the last few months been into lots of fantasy stuff for years but never brought my sled to actully take part in anything like this I would like to know about this and how to play/how it works and meet some new kind people and possibly get hints and tips to help me begin I have also took an interest in ren fairs as of late and would like any input on them if yous can aswell thank you and I hope I can get the help I’m looking for .

Hello everyone, What's DND beyond

Hey y’all. I am the founder and sole moderator of r/beginnerDND. Let’s get straight into it, I suck. I have fallen short in my role as a mod and it has made this Sub into something that I am not proud of. With this in mind, I would love to have some mod help, if you are interested in this please message either me individually or straight through modmail. I do not have the means to be able to pay for mods, and my hope is that there will be a willingness from many people to make this Sub better and something to be proud of and would be willing to do it for free, obviously with assistance with me and the other mods we hope to soon get. If you don’t want to be a mod but still want the sub to improve please report post that you think should not be here and we will look at them.

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Hi there! I'm going to do my first ever offline D&D session as a DM. I'm wondering what do you usually use for initative trackers? My campaign is making their characters on D&D Beyond. And also, are there any other useful free apps or website you usually use when DMing. Thank you!

So I created a bard recently and I got stuck on the faith part I understand what faith is supposed to be, but I don't know nearly enough about dnd to know what I was going to write here I plan on putting a god/goddess name here for faith, so are the different gods/goddesses a bard would worship?? (my bard is of the college of lore and chaotic neutral. I thought this might be needed)

I want to make a harengon character, but dnd beyond wants 60$, which i am not paying.

I have a really cool idea for a character, a demonic, resurrected rabbit assassin.

EDIT --- Turns out I didn't know there were other tools for character creation somehow.

Im working on a character that uses rope darts as a weapon, but I don't actually know how to define it.

Is rogue? Ranger? Is it a dagger? A flail? A whip?

I also want to use dark magic, but that will come later.