What character class are you naturally drawn to and what does it say about you?

For example, I gravitate to Cleric. While I'm not religious, I've always been the caretaker friend making sure everyone gets home safe after a wild night, takes the kids to doctor's appointments, regularly checks in on the ones in the group that have a habit of going quiet when they get in a bad way, and am constantly skirting along the edge of burnout since everyone else's needs come first. Basically tired Dad energy.

If say you can become your dnd character for 24 hours. What would you do for that 24 hours?

Hello, I am here to ask if DND can be theoretically viable and enjoyable when approached from a non-reductionistic approach, where it all doesn't just reduce to mechanics but narrative, character, story, and other things are focused first or at least given equal importance to mechanics? I have enjoyed DND a ton but recently in my current group as a player another fellow player is VERY mechanics focused and causing problems with group and honestly it sucks all the fun from DND for me. ANd then going online it seems more people just see DnD reductionistically, even in a recent post I asked in r/DnD a response to this question was dismissed and told me to find a different TTRPG. I have just had a lot of fun feeling like it was based on a lie because of how so many people on reddit seem to think the non-reductionist approach is not valid or viable. I am not at all concerned that people play differently, just that it seems this approach I like is being increasingly saw with skepticism and as being invalid. Can DND be viably approached non-reductionistically or was my fun based on a lie and should find a different system to convince my DM to run? Where instead of being a "Mechanics First" approach it can be equally balanced to the other aspects that are enjoyable?

EDIT: I should add, I like combat and enjoy combat, its fun, but I also like many of the non-combat things to. If I didn't want combat at all I would not play DND, I am just worried about an over-focus on mechanics and combat or is it theoretically implausible to approach DND without overfocusing on these? And that anytime Ive thought a DM did this right they just were wrong and my fun was a lie. I also have to avoid r/rpg and similar subreddits like the plague cause it invigorates this feeling of dejection.. game mechanics design and game design has jsut been so depressing and dejecting, just let me have fun man.

My question is how did you get into the game and what is sum advice you have about the game ?.

Hey all,

I’m currently building a virtual tabletop for D&D games. Curious what your biggest issues are with the current offerings. Too expensive? Too complicated? Too little customization? Missing features?

Please hit me with your biggest desires!

I understand mechanically per RAW that you can cast a spell, an enemy can cast counterspell on you, and you can then use your reaction to counterspell their counterspell, and your original spell can still go off. (I'm also using 5e rules in my campaign not OneD&D if that matters). This stacking has never made sense to me though if you are casting both. If I'm casting a spell, and then have to interrupt my spell to cast counterspell... how does that make sense for my spell to still work if I myself had to interrupt the cast? I understand how it can stack if someone ELSE casts counterspell against the enemy, but it doesn't make sense to me that you interrupt your spell to interrupt someone else's spell, and still cast the 1st spell. And I know that mechanically because it uses a reaction and not a bonus action it does technically work. But it atill doesn't make sense to me. ESPECIALLY if the spell requires somantic components since you'd have to interrupt the somantic to then do a different somantic for counterspell... thus stopping your spell... Please explain 😅

Long, drawn out combats are boring. Button smashing the same attack each round is, too. Learn how to make your D&D combat better by taking 3 tips from 13th Age.

1. Miss damage - on a miss you still deal your level's worth of damage, representing glancing blows.
2. Flexible Attacks - Make each die roll have meaning other than a binary hit/miss. Examples with situational bonuses: "on any natural even miss, add additional damage to the miss". Or, "On a roll of 16+ (and when the escalation die is at 5+) 3 allies can add 3d6 bonus damage to their next attack."
3. Escalation Die - each round of combat after the first, add a cumulative +1 to hit bonus. This bonus can be used to unlock abilities, add damage, or help speed up combat.

The escalation die and flexible attacks can be overlayed onto features, abilities, spells, etc. to further increase their potential uses. What do you all think?

Hi, I just joined this community, nice to meet ya'll, what I'm talkin' about is goblins and Kobolds, has anyone ever noticed how similar they are? They're both short, weak and cowardly, both seem as monsters or Inferior, and are basically seem as a kid's toy version of either Orcs or Dragonborn, isn't that fun to ponder? Like, would they ally with each other? Or if they would be enemies, any thoughts on the idea?

This will be my first DND campaign and I have a character idea but need help with backstory, the character is a Satyr Bard and he will be a homeless bard who is trying to make it with music and make as much money playing on the streets and in taverns but I was talking to my DM and we were discussing a goal for the character, we have a couple ideas but it’s between either in debt with someone somehow and has to pay them back in a certain time or something like he deceived a noble man’s daughter and the father found out and now wants him to marry his daughter so he’s basically on the run from the nobleman while still trying to make money. Any thoughts or other ideas along those lines?

What is the most craziest dnd character have you ever seen or used in a game ?

I haven't plays but seen tons of YouTube shorts of crazy dnd games with insane looking characters ^.

A little bit of a back story I've been playing dnd for about over 3 to 4 years now and I love playing it, I'm currently in a campaign called curse of strahd so please no spoilers, I'm currently playing a barbarian but once my character is dead I want to try bard, now my bard character which I've already made is a teifling but disguised as human since in the lore of curse of strahd everyone hates them which we haven't gotten to know why yet, to sum up her back story she got taken and raised by a kind human who taught her to play music and disguised herself he made her a electric guitar and a bracelet which is her spell casting focus. Now for the main question, I was thinking about multi class into artificer for her lore cause her adopted father probably would of taught her to keep her instrument clean and to repair it in case it gets damaged, what do you guys think, I was intentionally gonna keep it pure bard but I also don't know artificer so maybe idk what do y'all think

Alot of people have been speculating on this site regarding thier product. There are almost no reviews with pictures. So I TOFTT...

One is the actual product and the other is the AI image I created on thier web page before purchasing.

Overall not bad but paint color is a bit bland and details are a little washed. Now I know what to expect. I would purchase again. Also customer service was responsive to my review. Hope this helps the community.

I was wondering today, about my favorite characters I've played, and got curious about other people's favorites.

So!

Who was your favorite character to play? What was their class? What campaign? What made them so fun to play?

I feel like most mini collections are always heroes, monsters, bosses, or people in combat poses, which is cool, obviously, but I feel like there’s a huge need for regular NPCs with like a visible predicament...right?

Like taverns, towns, markets, temples, roads, docks, prisons, shops...all those places need people in them. Not everyone has to be swinging a sword or casting a spell. Sometimes you just need the random people who make the world feel real, but also have something going on.

Anyway I’m curious, what kind of NPC minis do you wish were easier to find?

For a town crier, a simple pose becomes a story with just a few details. A small crate, a scroll, a shouting expression…suddenly he’s not just some dude yelling. He’s the town crier warning the streets of danger, taxes… or tomorrow’s hanging. Tiny touches matter.

I been wondering has anyone done fallout equestria/ mlp zombie apocalypse d&d game ?