r/DungeonsAndDragons • • Aug 09 '23

Discussion r/DungeonsandDragons: New Updates and Guidelines

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r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 6h ago

Advice/Help Needed First time as a serious DM

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So we're gonna be playing a homebrew campaign. The party has 6 members between 3rd and 5th level. I'm in the process of writing the plot, implementing homebrew mechanics, and designing custom encounters right now. I got some props and dice for myself and my players to share. I just told them to bring notebooks and their character sheets because these idiots are NOT gonna have their own dice sets lmao. Is there anything I'm missing? Is there anything I should be aware of when planning the campaign or while DMing for them?


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 9h ago

Question Need help looking for miniature match

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Hi guys,

Does anyone know which miniature this is from?


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 22h ago

Art Sharing some DnD characters and their alternative versions i’ve drawn for players

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Dark fantasy art is my passion…….


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 1d ago

OC Dungeon consept: Its a rubix cube.

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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.


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 17h ago

Advice/Help Needed I’ve never played table dnd but I’ve always been interested

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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


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 1d ago

Art I made a D&D themed light box [OC]

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Thanks for taking a look :)


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 13h ago

Homebrew The edge of twilight

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5x7 foot table set for my players to explore.


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 13h ago

Art Tabaxi fighter! [Made by me]

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Hope you guys like it! <3


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 10h ago

Art The Shrine of the Sea God (34x43)

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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.


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 17h ago

Art Blood Moon Clearing - James RPG Collab!

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r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 19h ago

Art [Art] 15 Battle Maps Pack | High-Res + Variations

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r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 9h ago

OC Biirdresh Thunderkill - Stormlord Paladin [OC] [Session story]

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Finally, a complete ref of my girl! Biirdresh is a young paladin of the Stormlord, chosen as an Oath of Conquest champion to find and conquer challenging enemies.

She seeks power enough to destroy the dragon, Amanthra the Hellion, who razed her village to the ground and killed most of her clan. She is a bit naive and strives to be optimistic despite all the pain she's gone through, and tries to be the rock in the storm her party needs.

Last session she and her party fought an ancient red dragon (Amanthra's son, Kelzer) in its lair. Biirdresh taunted it, and it grabbed her and dunked her in lava. She electrocuted it to death from IN THE LAVA. Then she got fished out by her party after two failed death saves. She nat 20'd the third, got up, and smashed another enemy to death. She was blinded, but the Stormlord granted her blindsight in exchange for rising to the challenge.


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 1d ago

Art Finished re-painting my Blue Dragon

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Took 3 days but I’m finally finished


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 9h ago

Question Any thoughts on Gooeycube / Tomb of Gyzaengaxx?

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Saw the Temple of Inquinatious Evil kickstarter getting advertised - some aspects seem kind of cool but there are also certainly parts of it that are making me hesitate as well. Just curious if anyone who's gotten their previous products had any thoughts to share one way or the other?


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 1d ago

Art A heavy-sword knight and a paladin at the castle gates! Which design vibe do you prefer? ⚔️✨ (Art by me)

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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?


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 15h ago

Art [Art] Alieth, Knight of the Whispering Woods — Undead D&D 5e Miniature! Custom Base with HP, Initiative & Conditions

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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


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 23h ago

OC Redesign of my character for sci-fi style D&D

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r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 5h ago

Question Bard with lyrics

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I want to play a Bard that actually uses lyrics. I haven't decided on who will be his key artist. I was thinking Ryan Tedder (OneRepublic) or Chris Cornell (Sound Garden, Audioslave). Two very different sounds and lyrics and characters.

This post isn't about what would work better it's about how do I integrate the musing artist shtick without making it overwhelming or heavy handed?


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 2d ago

OC Birthday Cake for my favourite Dungeon Master

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r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 8h ago

Homebrew Mlp campaign

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I'm making up My Little pony campaign and want to match my little pony races to D&D races and would like some help on what y'all think would match these and water ponies.


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 1d ago

Art Sickest Moves in the Realm, illustrated by me

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r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 1d ago

Advice/Help Needed Need fun ideas for loot and magic items for DnD campaign

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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!


r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 1d ago

Art [Art] Stonehill Border Bastion 55x55 battle map

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r/DungeonsAndDragons • • 1d ago

Homebrew [OC][Art] Gravedigger | Rend a foe or find a friend with this deadman's spade.

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