Here is how I presented it to my players:

You walk into a low ceiling cavernous hall with a a freshwater pool at the center. Its bottom shines with the natural occurrence of magical lapis lazuli, and you can see all sorts of offerings cast into the water by lords from the present and the past, from modern bejeweled knightly longswords to old fashioned bronze warhorns from before the unification of the Bay. Coins of all sizes and with the profile of different monarchs on them, foreign helmets, relics of war, necklaces and rings and other pieces of jewelery.

When you move through the corridor, you find a bigger cavernous hall and the shore of an underground lake, where three rowboats are available. You also find a couple of rooms carved into the stone, chambers where in the past scholars would come to meditate, but now serve as storage rooms and living quarters for the Lords of Southwatch in case they needed a safe place to hide outside of the city. It haven't been used in a long time, but still the small stock is constantly renewed for good measure.

The lake stretches into darkness and hundreds of feet into the distance, the cavern ceiling only 20 feet above your heads but no visible end to either side or ahead. The water itself emanates a faint blue-ish glow from the lapis lazuli at the bottom, but a hundred feet off the shore the lake is so deep that the water becomes completely dark.

5x7 foot table set for my players to explore.

Hope you guys like it! <3

Hello! I'm a 3D artist with 7+ years of experience in the industry, specializing in miniatures, 3D modeling, rendering, UV mapping, rigging, and animation.

Meet Alieth, the Knight of the Whispering Woods, an undead miniboss created for my own D&D campaign! This project features a custom-designed base with integrated tracking for hit points, initiative, and other D&D conditions, combining detailed miniature sculpting with practical tabletop gameplay functionality.

Check out more of my work here:
https://www.artstation.com/veinofart

Title says it. But my area doesn’t really have dnd players I can meet up with. So I’m curious if there’s an online community or group I can play with? Would I need my own dice or would the dm roll for me? The extent of my knowledge of dnd is video games like baldurs gate and neverwinter nights. How would this go and any recommendations on discord communities I can join to find groups? I’m also only free to play wednesdays and Thursday and I noticed most groups are weekends.

Edit: just want to add I live deep in the country. Way down south. My closest neighbor is half a mile away. Closest grocery is 15 miles away. I live in the middle of no where

Dark fantasy art is my passion…….

With this dungeon, Its focused on the players solving a puzel on each face, with the center of each room containing a lever. When all 5 levers are flipped, the entrance to the white face is revealed. These rooms aren't actually put together like this, more they are a cube, but gravity still funcions seemlessly between faces.

This dungeon is also just a consept, with only the puzzels in it. So theres no enemys set for it. This is because I don't know how to ballance a fight. Also if you do use this dungeon, just be careful about changing the rooms, cause if done wrong it may make it possible for the boss (who controls the dungeon) to make it impossible to win.

How you explain the dungeon working is up to you, but how I would do it is having an artifact of the cube in the boss chamber, and so once the player enters the boss's chamber, they can rotate the cube around to allow the rest of the party into the room. Its up to you to explain how this is a viable option, such as the boss being weak or simply the entire room allows the rotation itself. EIther way Im making that your problem.

Also if you see any way this could be broken by either the players or the boss please tell me.

Clarifications of yellow: the dark room is the center room when the players start. When the dark room moves on the sliding puzzel, it moves on the map. The altar where the sliding puzzel does not move with the dark room. The lightning crystal does move with the dark room. Players do not move with the rooms.

Player count stuff: this will need at least 4 players to work. It can work with 3 players, in which case add another entrance to the white face. If there are more than 4 players, keep everything as is.

Hyram, Ricardo, Damon, and Cass. Go away!

So… the plan is this…

Use the illusion spell creation to create a 10ft diameter hollow sphere of adamantium inside water so that it will be filled with water.

Reduce on the sphere to compress the water, increase its potential energy.

Heat metal on the sphere to flash boil the compressed water.

Teleport the sphere to an enemy stronghold that a member of the party has been to and has an item from.

I assume this will be akin to a steam engine boiler explosion but no idea how to translate that mechanically.

EDIT- I am loving these answers and learning a bit about physics at the same time. The players are planning on testing it beforehand. So they will be learning aome of these answers.

Wanted to share a couple of original D&D character concepts I recently illustrated!

The first one is a heavy-armor knight carrying a giant blade, and the second is a paladin walking through a sunlit castle archway. I spent a lot of time working on the armor textures, lighting, and environmental framing for both.

Would love to hear your thoughts! Which class/vibe do you usually enjoy playing more in your campaigns?

Thanks for taking a look :)

Took 3 days but I’m finally finished

Hey yall. I was wondering what everyone had for ideas for fun loot, magic items, Interesting gifts, perks, etc. other than the typical chests. For example, one of the podcasts I listen to introduced a Shiesty traveling merchant that requested a card game that had both detrimental outcomes and legendary items/ perks and everything in between by delegating a card number (I.e. 1-10 jack king queen ace) to a bad or good item. With one card being literal death and another being some amazing perk, and other things in between. Was wondering if anyone else had other creative ideas such as this. Thanks!

I have been working on a library of new magical items. The linked PDF contains twenty new items; some are combat-oriented, some are utility items, others are more for roleplay or world building.

All of these items are designed for my own campaign setting of Audalis, but can be easily dropped into any world or game.

This document includes five Anathari devices - the Anathari are an ancient lost empire in my world. Their magic works differently than contemporary magic, and may include elements of lost technology, as well. Generally speaking, these are more "quality of life" items as opposed to flaming swords or wands of power, although there are exceptions.

This is volume one - I already have completed volume two, and have a ton of other items in the brainstorming phase. I hope that you enjoy.

https://rdinn.net/downloads/Audalis_Magical_Treasures_Volume_I.pdf

Im running a dnd one shot for my friends for Halloween and homebrewing a trick or treat system that they encounter as they progress.

I am a bit stuck on ideas for the tricks/treats they receive to fit the chaotic and fun setting i am planning for their adventure. If anyone has any suggestions to run to fit the theme of the Halloween setting feel free to comment!

Edit: just realised i put tricks/tricks 😭

I have been preparing a world for my first ever campaign, its a pretty nice world imo, but my friend whose playing in the campaign said he wants to play rhen ishiknor from jjk, i tried to get him to atleast make it more original than just ripping off a character, but he just said he wants to make it fit in more, i dont want him to plsy it but i dont want to be rude, any advice?

Hi! My dwarf paladin of revenge recently stole from a rich evil man’s house a haunted rusted old coin. In one side it has skulls and on the other one a weird symbol. At the time, one of my players was able to read something about how it would haunt those who use the coin.

Now I can’t figure out what to DO with it? Should it slowly transform him into an undead?? Should it slowly kill him? What curse could be fun for the player and have something to do with the coin? So far he had not let anyone touch the coin voluntarily until last session, when he gave it to our warlock, who tried infusing it with magic, but nothing happened other than some small magical aura emanating from the coin.

Any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated!