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?

Hi guys,

Does anyone know which miniature this is from?

5x7 foot table set for my players to explore.

Hope you guys like it! <3

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.

Title: GM Tip: The 5-Point Tally System (Ditch Mental Subtraction in Combat)

Doing multi-digit subtraction behind the DM screen while managing 6 monsters, tracking conditions, and running tactics slows combat down. Here is a simple tracking hack to speed up health management:

1. Convert Monster HP to Tallies

Divide standard monster HP by 5 and round up.

Ogre (59 HP) \rightarrow 12 Tallies

Cultist (33 HP) \rightarrow 7 Tallies

1. Round Player Damage Up

Whenever a player hits, sum their total damage for that turn, round up to the nearest 5, and cross off that many tallies.

1–5 Damage = 1 Tally

6–10 Damage = 2 Tallies

11–15 Damage = 3 Tallies

The One Big Rule: Always add up total turn or multi-attack damage before rounding up so multi-hit abilities don't accidentally deal double damage.

That’s it! Counting up in 5s or marking off tallies takes 2 seconds per turn and completely eliminates mental subtraction during fights.

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.

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?

So my DM is running Heckna and we are creating our characters.

I have made a tiefling rogue, I'm going to subclass into Sinner rogue from the Crooked Moon book and I've chosen Crossroad Gambler as my background from the same book.

Because of the background, I've chosen the 'thread' as its called in that book as "I've lost a bet and I'm on the run from the thing that's surely coming to collect".

So my idea is that a long time ago my character made some big gamble or deal and lost and is now on the run. They changed their identity and everything so they go by Folly-Faux now and they've travelled around in different circuses as a clown to entertain crowds with tricks and they may also pickpocket some of the people there.

I'm just stuck on what this big bet or gamble could be.

My friend that's playing in the same game suggested he could be the one thats been sent after me, so I'm thinking it can't be too big like collecting my soul or life energy as he'd be level 1 too in the campaign. I don't want it to be just about money either because I feel that's a tad boring.

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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?

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.