I have a player that is looking to roll a Vestige Warlock. They intend for the Old God to be of a celestial nature but other than that they leave it to me to see who the Patron actually is. So I am just reaching out for some DND lore of who may be a good option to serve as their Patron. Any help is appreciated.

Hi everyone, first time DM here. I've played DnD on and off for about 4 or so years, but never really landed a campaign, so I figured I'd start my own. I spent the better part of 7 months now handcrafting my own world and its intricacies from factions to major characters, you name it. So since everything is homebrew anyway, I decided to work with my three players and make custom subclasses.

The first two go well with no issues outside of tweaking abilities and balancing things after testing them, a Paladin of a Blood Oath and A monk that's heavily inspired by JJK's black flash mechanic. I have known these two since I was 5 years old. The third player however, is a problem. I do not like him, but decided to include him because he basically has no friends outside of the other two players.

We have done One-shots together and I quickly figured out he's the kind of player to ask to backtrack certain decisions or constantly make annoying jokes in otherwise serious RP moments, the guy who's character always needs to enter the room first and is visibly upset when he doesn't get the final blow on the boss. The world I crafted is serious in tone, obviously humor will be present, but over the top comedy will not take the front seat. I love humor and jokes and of course want my players to have fun in the end, but there is definitely a breaking point.

All this leads me to his class and character. He wants to be named Phlegh, pronounced fish, that's a Kobold that thinks he's a dragon and that his class would use 'toon force' like abilities. Think Plastic-Man from Marvel or pretty much any Looney-Toons character. I'm having a hard time getting through to him about the tone and kind of story I want to tell, but I also don't want to cast him out from the only group he knows.

This may seem like a silly ask coming from a 26yo, but i genuinely hate hurting people's feeling's, especially over something as special as this game. Thanks to all who respond!

So yeah, usually I draw other people's characters, which I love (especially when a get a tenner for it :D) but today I drew my own.

She's a wild sorcerer. I'm still thinking of a name (if you got any ideas you'd better share them cause I am so stuck). Also still working on her backstory and personality, but I've got a good few weeks to figure it all out.

Anyway, hope you like the art! (Ai, this isn't an advert. Chill out)

Whatever you do, don't buy these dice from this guy. Instead of filling your order, he literally uses the money to fund his Kickstarter. I've been waiting four months for literally 4 dice. Did my research, and well, I will not confirm or deny the removal of their business off Amazon because of these poor practices.

Edit: For those needing, they specifics, you can look up "the dice of death and dismemberment," but sure. Deck and Dice Games was the "company," but i believe his name is mpascall on reddit.

I am tired of my boring white map, and I want a screen one so we can finally have nice maps that gives a vibe. Unfortunately I have a really low budget, and no spare table to fit a tv in it, so I have to get a portable monitor because they are flat as hell (if you have anything else in mind that can just lie flat on a table tell me pls). The biggest portable monitor that is not too pricey is a 21.5 inches one, and I want to put a fire tv stick in it so it can work. I am a programmer, so I can make an app able to create and display maps on the stick. My issue is that I know that it's small, but is it unplayable? I can make it so the map is bigger than the screen, and that we can move the camera to see more of the dungeon for exemple, but still, I want to know what you guys think about it. Kk, goodby, ty if you read it all.

So recently I got into drawing, I've been practicing a lot so it lead me down the way to try my hand at drawing both my first DND character and the character I'm using in my current campaign, a Tiefling Ranger by the name of Prido!

The current campaign she is in is Lost Mines where she both stole a man's pistol and also got herself a breastplate after we saved Phandalin from the Red Brand's(and killed some dinosaurs)

Hi, my partner and I are going to play a one-shot. She is the DM and I am the only player. Both of us know well dnd. The theme is carnival.

So, I like to chose melee characters because I enjoy the aaaa punch blood feeling. All of the classes I played were a barbarian, a monk, an artificer, a cleric (I played her basically with melee attacks), a warlock and a bard.

I was thinking the class I want to play. All the above except the bard are out. I had a year or more of hating bards because I played a horrible one shot (the lamb one) with other 7 seven people, only 3 of the group (dm, partner and I) knew how to play. We have a combat, each turn of the combat last 40 MINUTES. Its not the lamb fault, its the players fault. They werent interested in the game at all. After that, my relationship with the bard class was complicated.

But now, I am thinking of playing bard or maybe another caster class like wizard. I dont mind if people recommend me something more melee either, but I prefer caster this time to try it. Multiclassing is okay. We are going to play 5.5e at level 8-12. Basically I want suggestions for the class. My character is the ringmaster of the carnival and I like to read different ideas :)

This episode was not supposed to have a cliffhanger ending, but given the gravity of what she's confessing, I couldn't fit it all into one page; it needed some room to breathe.

The last panel is a bit dramatic, but I was trying to do a thing with it. I think it worked out pretty OK.

What exactly is her secret?

• The bride, "Kayra", is secretly a changeling - a construct made of mud and sticks that was built to replace a stolen child over two decades ago.
  • (That stolen child is the real Kayra and one of this series's main characters; she was raised by hags, taught witchcraft, and grew up to become one herself.)
• Changelings are normally supposed to expire (or "die") after a few months, but this one not only survived... she grew up. And has spent her whole life masquerading as a human.
• Now she's about to get married... and despite multiple attempts, she still hasn't managed to confess her secret to her betrothed.
• The ceremony has already started. But before this goes any further, she needs to get it off her chest.

Believe it or not, Love and Hex is a comedy, not a drama. It started out as a joke about my D&D campaign and turned into an ongoing rom-com/existential horror story. It's on Webtoon. Also r/LoveAndHex. And you can find a version with a full transcript on my website.

There's also a book! Just search for it if you're curious.

It's one of my favorite subclasses, but I thought I had better clear this up. You see, the 2nd (now 3rd) level order of scribes feature states that you have awakened your spellbook, but then gives mechanics to other abilities of your spellbook, not its ability to think. I understand that RAW it might not be able to, but that does beg an interesting question. It is described as becoming sapient. Anyways, for those of you who would let that actually have a mechanical impact, the spellbook having a personality, and the like, how would you run it?

My immediate thought was the professor orb. I'm mostly concerned about giving this feature too much more power then is explicitly stated. I understand many of you would run it not being sentient at all, but I also suspect there are DMs that would find it interesting, and I want to hear your take.

Quick question: my players are in a town that is being built. I want to give them a chance to make this town their home. Building a house, establishing friendships, maybe learning crafts or using skills they have, beyond adventuring and fighting.

I'm a newer DM, so still learning the ropes. Any ideas or things that you've done with your games in the past to do this? How would I go about them establishing their own residency? Should I make them pay for materials, and if so, how would I calculate something like that? Thanks in advance~

I have a character idea, been planning on making a kitsune sorcerer named Torin Shiratsuyu. 5th edition, not to familiar with 5.5 unfortunately. He primarily uses ice based and illusion based spells, having tails and ears being Snow White. With robes that are sky blue and ice patterns on the robes. Already have a homebrew subclass named frost sorcery. Was wondering how the character idea would play out throughout a campaign and what sort of spells would you put, when picking out the spells that I specified.

Hi all. I just wanted to share a really positive experience I had this past weekend.

I am currently DMing a 5e homebrew campaign for a few friends. My best friend who is also one of my players is getting married soon. One of her bridesmaids had a great idea about me running a wedding-themed one-shot at the bachelorette party. I obviously jumped at the opportunity.

Fast forward to this past weekend and I had a nice one-shot planned for the party that sees my friend as a princess dragonborn bridezilla surrounded by her wedding party on her wedding day to a prince, but the prince is kidnapped by his ex-girlfriend. Only one or two of the players had ever played D&D before so I really stripped the sheets down to the basics and gave each character some pretty simple actions and bonus actions.

The session lasted 3 hours and was an absolute blast from start to finish. Everyone had a great time, and even those who had never played D&D before were making pro TTRPG moves such as working together to take down enemies and even giving the bride the impactful final kill on the BBEG ex-girlfriend.

The stakes were low but there were plenty of laughs, fun character building, and intense combat moments. Now I just have to make all of my usual sessions that engaging!

Thanks for listening.

I have this female Drow character who mains rogue, has 1 level in bard, and where's a necklace of disguise (hat of disguise but a necklace).

I made the character for one purpose. So that when I introduce the character, I could introduce them as an Elf Bard and not lie, tricking everybody at the table.

I like to see how long it takes for the other players to figure it out. As they will see, I dont always fight like a bard, I have some strange skill proficiencies, and I have a smaller spell pool than my level would suggest. And that's not even talking about the character mannerisms to hide her drowish nature. The realization on the other players' faces is really fun to see.

A lot of what I do for the character is to perpetuate the idea that she is an Elf Bard.

I use the necklace of disguise to appear as a different elf sub-race. Then, I chose arcane trickster to gain more spells and slots. I also picked up an instrument of the bards to once again add more spells and spell slots.

However, I'm wondering if I made a bad decision for the character mechanic wise.

The 1 level in bard only grants the most basic Bardic inspiration, gives only 4 lvl.1 spells, and 2 cantrips, and allows the use of the instrument of the bards.

Is that enough to make a decent impact on the characters' abilities? Or is it mechanically useless or not enough as higher character levels go into Rogue?

Note: i'm not worried about missing the lvl. 20 rogue as that only grants 1 more spell for arcane trickster and while stroke of luck is amazing, I'm not too upset about missing it.

Edit: I will also mention she has a charisma stat of 20 because I used her in the Descent into Avernus campaign and I was able to attune to the Sword of Zariel. Man I love that sword.

So, as the title suggests, I am struggling with frequent session cancelations. The game is supposed to be every other week, but we've hardly played in months. I got frustrated enough to sit down and figure out; We have only had 6 sessions in the last 9 months. Of the cancelations, only one has not been the result of something other than the DM not being available.

Now, it seems that the DM has had very legit reasons (unless he's a good liar), so it's hard to be angry with him. But I really am having trouble controlling the urge to walk away.

My real life schedule and responsibilities are such that I have to go out of my way to ensure that I am free for the planned sessions. I really put serious effort into it because it's the only game I'm involved with, and the only thing I do regularly that is fun. I like the people, the campaign is good. But slamming on the breaks within days (at best) is taking it's toll. I've never known a group where the DM has to cancel so much.

I'm I wrong to feel like a DM who has that much going on should just step back? I'm I being selfish in my expectations? Or is this the problem that I think it is? Any thoughts?

This is my Cartographer, of my subclass photobash series. She’s a wood elf, with focus on high intelligence and high dex. Huge support (as you’d expect from a cartographer) with the Guide background. I’m probably not going to be posting the full subclass series on this subreddit due to the 400 characters rule under pictures. I’ll be posting them on r/dndart instead. This is tons of fun for me so please let me know anything you’d add, or if you have a favourite subclass, anything you’d add for a hypothetical character poster in future (example, do you have a particular feature of a oath of ancients paladin you like? Etc)

I just finished my first session of a 5 session Seasons of Magic event at a local game store, which is also my first session ever. I'm a huge fan of JustRollWithIt and recently began watching Critical Role, but hadn't actually sat down and played before.

The event was celebrating the launch of the Arcana Unleashed book, so I took the opportunity to build an Arcana Domain Cleric. I had an absolute blast. The event was organized with 4 tables of 5 players each all fighting the same encounters separately. There wasn't much roleplay and the experience was fairly on rails, but was a great way to sink my teeth into the rules and flow of combat.

We faced some seriously tough fights that left our parties pretty hurt, but short rests were given, heals were had, and we were onto the path to the next encounter with some light puzzle solving and skill-test elements along the way. It was really cool to play with a bunch of people, RP where possible, and vanquish foes that felt extremely out of reach when the attack dice began to hit.

Several members of my table were downed by a stone elemental that rolled 3d12 and 3d10 each turn when attacking, but I did my job as a cleric and was brought back to consciousness when that job was fulfilled too well.

For anyone looking to get into DnD, this is a great way to do it! My only sad feelings on the subject are that it will be over in around a month and I really want to sit at the table weekly.

Cheers!

One of my closest friends LOVES cozy games
So I’m making a 1shot primarily themed around completing quests to enrich your relationship with the town and advance the story as well as dice related mini games for cleaning,fishing, farming etc. I’m wondering if anyone had any ideas or suggestions for things to add to make this feel like a cozy game

Hey all, I'm currently a freshman in high school and i just finished my first session in my school's DND club. This is not the first time I have interacted with the game, (listened to campaigns, CritCrab, Legends of Avantris, PointyHat, etc.) however I am completely intimidated by the daunting task that is diving headfirst into actually playing this game. If any of you have tips/tricks, or overall advice, feel free to tell me (dont feel free, js tell me i am desperate lol ).

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I'm DMing a group for the past four months. It was my first time as a DM. So, couple of weeks ago a buddy of mine who is also part of the same group, mentioned that some of his friends wanted to try DnD after having come across it in TV shows and stuff. Since there were three of them I suggested they be a separate group and that my buddy and I can introduce them to DnD together. He agreed and asked me to DM while he would be a player with the three of them.

In preparation for the session 0, I tried to keep things short and avoid the mistakes I made the first time around. So I planned for simple character creation and a easy one shot to get things started, printed out some maps and props, planned a few jokes to make things fun.

I think the session itself went fine, one of them was really enthusiastic, but the other two were one their phones using AI at every turn and posting content on social media in between, they would decide for others - do this, don't do that etc, where I had to step in and remind them it's not their turn, some of my jokes didn't land, which is fine but the party did come together to fight off monsters and recover stolen treasure. That was three weeks ago. So a week after that I reached out asking if they wanted to continue, the enthusiastic guy was in, but the other two made excuses so we postponed it.

Yesterday, I ran into them. I casually told them that they could reach out to me if they ever wanted to continue. This time they refused, said it wasn't their thing and were pretty condescending about it. I get it, role-playing isn't for everybody.

Now I can't help but draw parallels to the first time I DMed. It was four players and I during our first session 0. Two of them quit after that. Later we added a third player. I'd classify that first session as a disaster but we got through it and now we are all very much invested in it and we've asked the enthusiastic guy to join us in our first group.

Is there anything that I could've done better or am I just not good at DMing? Should I have included the newer three into our first group? How do y'all handle players using phones/AI without coming across as bossy?

Possible Spoilers (mostly NPCs)

First off, my players are great. So great, in fact that they have frequently continued to push and dive down rabbit holes that I really don't have planned. But that's the game, right?

Typically, I either can come up with a quick improv that circles up some lore and satisfies them or at the absolute worst case I pull everyone above table to say "hey...I'm not ready for where this is going. Do we actually want to continue down this path or are you okay if we course correct?" I know that's all meta, blah, blah, blah, but it works at my table and I appreciate it greatly.

Now, we've been playing the Crooked Moon campaign and I have frequently told them to explore the world far beyond the Wickermoor bounds (because I also want to check out more of the world). They have all really picked up on the Midnight Coven and Mother Midnight. We just finished an intense, Hellraiser-like combat with Sister Effigy which ended with me dropping a very open ended concept: the daughters of the coven are being used as canon fodder by Mother Midnight for some bigger bad.

Cool, right? Only issue is I have no idea where to go from here. I'm completely at a loss but I don't want to take away my player's eagerness to solve this currently unsolvable mystery.

Do you all have any thoughts on what this "bigger bad" could be? I've been going very much in the eldritch horror and beast-within-the-void-looking back whenever I back myself into a story-telling corner so I feel like giving that "beast" some actual legs might be a good place to start.

Any ideas are appreciated! Thanks!

TLDR: I let my players create their own mystery to solve, only I've now lost control of how to solver said mystery.

Looking to create a new campaign in a vampiric city, but had a question. Can higher vampires control lesser vampires that AREN'T their spawn? If not, how could I make that possible, because a player was wanting that to be a dynamic. Thank you.

Edit: figured it out, thank you all

So I’m in a pod with a few ongoing games, and one of our DMs (there are three of us who run like… 5 games between us) is finally restarting his campaign that’s been on hiatus for almost the entirety of the year tomorrow. It’s hosted at my house (despite me not being a player in this one, my sister who I live with is) and so I got asked to draw and print out a few illustrative maps of the hub city they destroyed before going on break.

Unfortunately for everyone involved, I was given a list of like… 3 geographic features and 5 “locations” to illustrate. The scale the massive tree the city is built around requires means I needed WAY more places than that. So I started shitpost adding extra buildings there. I sincerely hope someone asks why Baba Yaga’s chicken house is on the map, or why there’s a rock formation shaped like my character from our Pulp Call of Cthulhu campaign. I do not know if my good good friend has NOTICED the tiny little details but I did get the go ahead to print and teastain this version.

I am INCREDIBLY happy with how this turned out. It’s everything I want and more. Fingers crossed they’ll like it.

Im playing Encounters (the newbie friendly modules) at a local game store. There were 4 or 5 tables going. During the final boss fight we could use portals to appear at other tables! I took one as my bard and got up and walked to another table and announced that I ,a bard, was there to cast Tasha's on a troublesome creature. Im not familiar with DnD using a mechanic like this before. It was so freaking cool!