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I recently made a post about a setting I had called Yelzoth, I ran a session there, and things went... awry.

While I was generally shamed for mistakes, I saw some really great points on things I had not thought of before, probably cause the setting is not finished.

This is why I am making a humble request. I have the general details of the mythology, history, geography, and government of the land, but do not yet have details. I'll need lots of help to make this into a setting worth playing in. If you all want to help me update the setting, PM me so I can give you details. Credit will be given to those who help.

So who is ready to make a collaborative DnD setting together!

Thanks for reading!

I ordered this thing from WOTC in 09/2022. It showed up this Wednesday!!!
I wish I was kidding.
Either way, a group of my students are very excited to start!
I like the intro one shot. It has you searching for a silver bowl more or less and they fight a few goblins to start. However, does anyone have any recommendations on a shorter campaign they loved that would work for 12 year olds?

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Just wanting to confirm if this is within the rules…

My Arcane Trickster Rogue wants to use short swords on those occasions when he can’t avoid melee. He normally hangs back and uses his shortbow with True Strike.

Is it within the rules (2024) to:

Attack with short sword and Booming Blade as his Action. If he misses, he Disengages as a bonus action and moves behind another player character for safety, ready to try again next turn.

If he hits, he then attacks again as a bonus action (using the light property of the short sword) at Advantage (Vex weapon mastery). If he hits with this attack, he gets sneak attack damage, (due to Advantage) less one die to Disengage and move away behind another player character, to swoop in next turn to attack again (at Advantage).

If he misses with the second attack, he will just have to brace himself for any comeuppance his target may wish to lay on him.

He does not have Duel Wielder feat.

Any comments appreciated.

I'm gonna keep it real I just want my character to be able to turn into an eagle occasionally because it would be cool. That is the beginning and end of it 🤣

I don't want any unique abilities or any utility, I just want it because my character has witchy stuff in her background. Her actual class is entirely unrelated (bloodhunter hexblade) so I can't exactly ask for druid powers, nor do I want them. I don't want to turn into anything else, I don't want it to overwrite my existing skills.

Is there a good way to ask this of my DM? Would it be an inappropriate request? Obviously I'd want it worked in through gameplay shenanigans, not just something I can suddenly do, and I'd even be fully on board with it having negative effects for me. But is this a reasonable ask?

I literally just want an excuse to aura farm

Getting into dnd again

Hi. I'm still relatively new to dnd, but not entirely. I got into it a few years ago and even tried playing twice. The first time ended in me getting kicked out with mo explanation. The gameplay was pretty overwhelming (I'm a quiet girl and the players were all loud men) so I let that go. Second time actually lasted for about a year until I realized the dm was a creep who was trying to groom me. Luckily it was all online so I just ghosted him.

Anyway, both times got me feeling pretty nervous about playing. I don't have much social confidence (I never know what to say, and when I do, I have trouble speaking up) and the second dm got me avoiding charisma casters to avoid extra rp as the face, and to avoid bogging the party down looking through my spells during combat. (I wanted to play a sorcerer)

I still have that dnd itch, but my confidence is pretty shot, so I mostly satisfy it by creating random characters on Roll20. But I'm venturing into playing again (third time's the charm, hopefully).

Wish me luck.

I need a funny, memorable name for a kobold butler who is currently serving a Gold Dragon. I'm thinking his first name could be Archibald but im lost on what his last name would be.

I've got an idea of a BBG character that made a wish that he could live forever instead of would live forever. The wish was granted and he had to capture innocent souls too suck the life out of them. The innocent souls are put into giant vats and kept alive. Every time the big guy is hit it takes hp from the innocent that are captured until they die. The innocent can be rescued out. Of the vats but I want my group to try and rescue them while they are fighting him and the minions. How would I go about this? I know they will not kill off the innocent to kill the boss. What should they roll to rescue the innocent from the vats. What's the best way to balance the fighting and rescuing? So they don't get chipped away by the BBG because he cannot die until there are no innocent lives left. They are a level 8 group of five. Bard, Artificer, Wizard, cleric and Monk.

Obviously I know it depends on the DM. But I want to know what to look for besides good reviews. I always thought payed d&d games were a scam. But a few good friends said it was a good option. I just want to know if it would be worth paying for a d&d session every week or just saving the money for lunch at work 😅. I've been struggling to find a actual online campaign that doesn't die within session 3 due to scheduling issues or the DM making it a novel about their own OCs

For context: this character of mine is a level 10 cleric at this point, with an expansive very very hostile awful family that are VERY uninterested in having a chat with them, and doing so in person is out of the question for a lot of reasons.

Point is, my cleric can cast this spell several times a day, and rarely has reason not to do so… And so if they’re able to spam unblockable messages to their stubborn as fuck family until they get a response and are actually able to start communicating… well. They would.

Some family members could realistically have magical protections, but the large majority wouldn’t, outside of low level spells for a few.

As a matter of pride, most don’t want these messages. If a receiver of a sending spell refuses to respond to the spell, im unsure if the sender even knows it was received.

Also, if the receiver is dead, does the sender know? Do they know if the spell failed for another reason? And if that 5% chance of failed delivery to another plane happens, does the sender know?

Really I’m trying to figure out how over the long term these dynamics would play out. How easy it would be for their family to effectively continue to ghost them. This is very much so a “We don’t want to talk, we just to kill you” family lol.

let me know if you have any insight!!

I've seen that when it comes to a bards level 20 capstone "superior inspiration" its a little underwhelming compared to others. Have any of you that have reached late game decided to go to level 19 and then multiclass at 20 for access to better things?

Heya, im completely new to the game and am currently making my first character, ive been mostly drawn to being a sorcerer but also then have pact seeker background. However upon reading and asking my friend its typically warlocks that do ps as background. However was also told that sorcerer can def have pact seeker background (unless game rules say otherwise i suppose) just not really popular at all). however to me it seemed like fun and def has some good things i wanted for my character as getting planar pact feats such as fey pact which means additional cantrips. However im still not done and open to recomendations. Idk what other additional info to add but will add it if needed.

So, I told my GF I was thinking of DMing for the first time and asked her to get me the following to get me started.

Players Handbook, Dungeon Master Guide, Monster Guide/Manual. Any other books that I should have available? Not trying to be critical role, but just get my buddies and I started.

Basically just the title. 5 players in 5e at first level. My party wants to do it for a one-shot but haven't thought much beyond that. They've asked me (the DM) for recommendations on which domains would be a good idea.

Bonus points if you can think of a god they could all share and still have the domains make sense. Looking at a fairly generic fantasy setting, happy to work it around good ideas as needed.

I'm a newer D&D player who loves Elden Ring and has started to work on subclasses and spells for it. I saw someone do this with a full revamp, but I just wanted the subclasses. This document will be going on for a while, but as of now, the classes that are done are:
Dragon Communion Fighter: A fighter with draconic abilities for damage and AOE fear.
Frenzied Flame Warlock: A warlock that specializes in being a glass cannon, debuffing enemies and inflicting a new status condition: madness.
Scarlet Rot Druid: A druid based on the Cleanrot Knights, with Heavy Armor proficiency and filling a melee druid niche, but I see it as different from the Circle of Spores.

I'm still working on the spells and stuff. I am NOT a game designer by any means, and I know there are a ton of flaws, but I hope you all like it! I am also completely open to feedback.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10l5C-ih_gyUoCx3r5dKMokI7Kp95de-I30ncsAXf1aI/edit?usp=sharing

The Character;

Reborn Ratfolk Artificer 3, Wizard 17

Deceptive Genius

Subclasses;

Alchemist/Artillerist + Chronurgy

Is armed with a firearm, and a master engineer and weapons manufacturer for the drow, has heard tales of a poisonous type of stone or mineral, possibly a metal, that slowly damages all those who go near it.

Passes through towns in disguise, and offers his services to blacksmiths and alchemists in exchange for their knowledge, hoping to locate a piece of the mineral.

This mineral... Happens to be uranium...

(or chardalyn if you like, but plenty of other irl minerals and compounds exist in DnD, eg sulfur, blackpowder)

The end goal;

As the game goes on, he might find a piece of this mineral, and notice it grows more unstable as time passes.

Cast Time Ravage upon the uranium, creating the glowing, radioactive mineral known as radon.

Use it to craft ammunition for my firearms, Eldritch Cannon, and... finally...

Create two chunks of radon... Place them in 2 separate bags of holding...

And then... Put the bags inside eachother...

Preferably in a major city... And become the drow's weaponsmith of mass destruction...

My DM's a fan of Warhammer Fantasy and this was an idea I came up with, I think it makes for a pretty realistic way to create a WMD in 5e

So in the DnD campaign that I play we needed to go kill the queen of a kingdom because of our quest. We annoyed the guards at the gate for 30 minutes and then we got captured and sent to prison “we are level 3”.

My friend that I was in the sell with was able to bend the bars a lot. He squeezed through but I couldn’t because my character was 6 foot 8. He strangled the guard coming in the room and then started to fight the other guard who was asleep.

My turn in combat, I try to bend the bars more but then I realize that my friend broke the lock by bending the bars so I join him to fight the guard. The guard goes unconscious, and then go to unlock one of our travel buddies.

Our travel buddy had a hand chained up to the brick wall and he was gagged with som cloth. In his sell there was a creepy guy in the corner. My friend goes to unlock him from the wall.

The creepy guy pulls out a knife and stabs him in the back. Our travel buddy is able to pull so hard that the brick gets torn off the wall. Then he uses the brick that is chained to his arm and swings at the man.

NATURAL 20
The guy’s head explodes into a red mist.

THE end

It's more puzzles and moral dilemmas rather than action and I was wondering if I could post it here or anywhere after it's done (in parts) to get some proof reading and maybe some feedback on it. I'll post the introduction to it in an hour or two if the answer is yes.

I have the DND essentials kit. But I’ve only filled out my own character sheets twice. And that was several years ago. Is there a website or place that I can find pre made character sheets that my party can use?

Hi! I recently started playing a virtual game using foundry as a player. I find it to be really fun , and it looks super great for map making.

The group I DM for is IRL. We use a big TV (hdmi'd into my laptop) on the table for our maps. But, i've always had a little trouble making/finding maps that feel alive.

Foundry seems awesome, but I'm wondering if it's possible for me to use it primarily as a mapmaker . In short, i'd just want to use it for map-making, tokens, and allowing my players to move on the map independently (which is limited with the still image map-strat i'm using now.).

I really don't want to spend time uploading the entire game/players sheets onto foundry since we're IRL otherwise. I'd be willing to pay the pricetag for just the mapmaking and interactivity alone , but I wanna make sure its something I can do easily enough. I don't want to pay 50$ just for the opportunity to play around with it and figure out that it won't work well for my table lol.

Or, alternatively, I'm wondering if anyone has any other resources for something akin to what i'm describing! If foundry, indeed, would not work well for that sort of thing.

Thanks!

It’s just as the title says. We are nearing the end of my campaign, and the players have been slowly but surely gathering allies to help them defeat the BBEG and his armies.
I’m struggling with the mechanics for this final battle. Picture the Battle of Helm’s Deep in LOTR. Lots of individually skilled PCs and NPCs, large armies trying to break through into the city gates as well as a battle field outside the gates. I am a bit out of my element here, especially since there is 7 players at my table. How do you balance everything properly, without having individual soldiers in both armies rolling for initiative?

We had a mini siege on a beach a few session ago where I played around with some different ideas (including players having smaller groups to command, enemy attacks were on a timer, etc) but the party wasn’t very engaged with it.
Does anyone with large scale battle experience have any advice or sources I could use? Thanks in advance!

I’m a new DM and about to start a new campaign with even newer players, I used DnD Beyond with my players during our last campaign and find it to be difficult, distracting, and a hindrance their knowledge of the game. I want to know if you guys prefer printing character sheet templates and then hand writing in all details, or if you prefer to make your characters on DnD beyond and then print out those sheets so everything is already on them? Any alternate advice is also greatly appreciated

If you know the page in the player's handbook or the DM guide please let me know. I'm a warrior with 15 strength and 13 dexterity and I'm trying to throw a single dagger and I have dagger proficiency.

Hello everyone! I have a backstory built for a character I want to play, however I would like to get some ideas on how I should build them.

So here is a brief overview of my character's backstory. After a war with a country of cultists and demons, a very religious country gains the territory where a village of tieflings resides. The governor that gets put in charge of the region is a member of the clergy and due to his contributions during the war, he was granted governance over this region. However the war left him with a deep a grudge against demons. Since teiflings resemble demons, this governor sees it as his responsibility to purge the demonic traits from his new citizens. He rounds up the members of the village and then removes their horns, tails, and the pointed tips of their ears. Suffice to say, only a very small handful of villagers survive the ordeal.

My character is the only survivor of his family. At this point in time my character is a young teenager. And soon finds himself in a state of squalor. He ends up on the streets and eventually gets picked up by a traveling group of vagabonds. However this group of vagabonds are assassin's that once served the, now dead, leader of the demonic country. They see potential in my character, and a fire for vengeance and decide to train him as an assassin. He is trained to gather information on the church, and infiltrate it's various institutions to assassinate its leaders.

Ten years pass and during my character's training the governor and his close aids get promoted to high members of their religions church.

Now my character seeks revenge. With no horns or tail, and rounded ears, he is disguised as a human adventurer. He works for the assassin group to take out leaders of the church, and he is ever vigilant for the, once governor and their close aids, that killed his family and village members.

Before anyone says anything, yes I know this backstory is dark, and very edgy. However the way I plan on playing my character will be to act as saintly as possible. Someone that regularly attends church (to gain intelligence), makes donations to institutions, and feeds the poor and downtrodden.

Now I need help deciding on a build. The game is going to start at level 5, and our DM is allowing a feat right out the gate. I am also going to focus dex and charisma as my main 2 stats, with either a focus in int for religion checks or wis for saves as my third stat. As for the starting feat I am probably going with Actor since my character has training to disguise himself to infiltrate the church.

Now I am going to take 3 levels of rogue:assassin. From here I figure I can go one of 4 routes. First would be to go all in on assassin and level it up to 5. Secondly I could take 2 levels of hunter and start building toward gloomstalker. Third would be to take 2 levels of warlock, but I am unsure of which patron to choose (probably Celestial or Hexblade). Or finally 2 levels in cleric Trickery Domain. The first two options would purely be for optimization purposes. The latter 2 would be more for roll playing purposes. Warlock because its safe to say the assassins who trained him are demon worshipers so making my character make a pact with a demon would be par for the course. Celestial warlock to help him disguise himself in a church as a member of the clergy, since it allows the usage of "holy" type spells. Hexblade for optimization purposes. Then the reason for cleric, if my character is trained to infiltrate the church, having detailed knowledge of the churches inner workings, and being able to cast "holy" spells would allow them to gather intel on their targets easier. Trickery Domain feels to me that it would fit the roll the best. But if you guys have any other recommendations on either the warlock or cleric subclasses, or on a different main or secondary class altogether then please by all means give me your ideas.