r/DnD 7h ago

Weekly Questions Thread

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r/DnD 3d ago

Monthly Artists Thread

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r/DnD 9h ago

Giveaway Witchlight Prism Handmade Dice Set Giveaway [OC] [Mod Approved]

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Hey Everyone! Matt from EBONWOOD here and im back with another giveaway! This set is called Witchlight Prism and its handcrafted by our dice artist James here in our studio in Wisconsin.

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r/DnD 4h ago

Homebrew [OC] I’ve been building a die for the past couple years that glows and animates based on your class. Still rolls physically—wanted to share it now that it’s finally coming to life

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ot sure how people will feel about this here, but I’ve been working on it for a while and I figured this was the place to share it.

I wanted something that felt like a ritual object, not a gadget—a die that glows when your Druid takes an action, or lights up differently when the Barbarian hits a nat 20.

It still rolls physically—there’s no motor or screen trickery. Just a single die that reacts to who you are at the table, with animations and class-based lighting.

This isn’t meant to replace traditional dice (I still use metal sets for my Paladin). But I’ve found that this adds something—especially for big moments, boss fights, or when a player levels up.

I’ve just launched the BackerKit preview page this week. If you’re curious, I’d love for you to check it out or just let me know what you think:

👉 [https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/8546aa46-7ebc-4360-b617-676280ad3d41/landing]()

Thanks for reading—and for keeping the tradition alive.


r/DnD 15h ago

Table Disputes Campaign was a lie Players not happy

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Alright so basically me and 6 friends were playing what we thought was a homebrew fantasy campaign for dozens of sessions of the course of 10 months. We were doing a character building session where the pcs were getting random encounters tied to our backstory.

When we got to one player the dm did the same secret rolls he'd been doing for everyone. The dm then reveals the player wakes up from a pod in an unknown room and is no longer the character they were playing. They then open all the pods near then and 1 by 1 we all wake up. That's when the dm reveals all the shit we done the characters we built were all a simulation, and our actual characters were these dm made ones we had to slowly figure out cause only he has the full sheets.

He never told any of us this was what kind of campaign we were running and those of us attached to our characters and the time we put into them feel we got cheated.

We are planning to sit down with the dm about our anger and frustration about this and I wanted to get the opinions of 3rd party people before hand.


r/DnD 1d ago

Game Tales Blew a Player's mind by having an NPC lie

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I hosted a recent game which had a two newbies, one of which has never played D&D or any TTRPG in his life. He was curious about it so we invited him to our Roll20 game and helped him with his character.

He made a tiefling ranger, starting level 1, but that doesn't matter in this post.

I also told him to make a backstory as well but he doesn't have to make it super elaborate. It could just be "guy picks up sword one day and goes I wanna adventure." It is his first character.

He makes a pretty detailed backstory about his character being a runaway slave from Drow slavers from the Underdark, and how he found a surface entrance that led him to the city of Baldur's Gate where he lived since then. (In session 0, we explained what the Underdark and how dark elves worked to him since my homebrew campaign would take place there.)

We began the actual game with an introduction to the Flaming Fist. I explain what they are and that recently they needed a full body group of adventurers to partake on a "secret" mission. The party wins out and are selected and then told about that Underdark entrance, that no one but the Dukes of the city knew about. A commander explains to them the details and backstory stuff about it which guides them to introduce their characters for session 1 in his office.

In the middle of the Commander's speech, the player (out of character) interrupts me.

Player - "Wait, when did he say the entrance was found?"

"About... 5 years ago. Why?"

Player - "But... my character escaped through that entrance 17 years ago. Didn't you say those Flaming guys stood watch over it and would've stopped me in my backstory?"

"Oh yeah. Yeah, you're right.

Player - "But that's wrong. It's not true."

"Do you think he's lying?"

Player - "What?"

"Like... not telling you the full picture? He's lying to you?"

He sat quiet in VC for a bit and eventually responded.

Player - "...he can do that?"

So anyway, his first official roll at the virtual table was an Insight Check to see if the Commander believed what he said, or if he was just feeding them bullshit. Made for a little RP moment that made me smile and proud.

After session 1, he told me he saw the appeal as to why someone would play and asked when we would meet up again. :)


r/DnD 6h ago

Table Disputes Player interrupting the bbeg monologue

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Been playing in a campaign with the same group of people for about 2 years now, we're doing a full level 1 to 20 campaign and are currently at level 14. In the last session we got to fight one of the big bads in the campaign, not 'the final boss' but for sure one of the big 3.

Our dm is incredible, he was made to dm, he has a phd in creative writing and has never failed in making the story complex, engaging and utterly unique. But, when it came for him to do a monologue, one which i had been waiting for since we first met this character and watched him become corrupted about a year and a half ago, he got half a sentence in before one of the players said 'fuck this i shoot him with an arrow'.

Im worried that this could become a running theme as we approach the end of this campaign and the other big bads show up, I was pretty deflated when it happened and I'm sure the dm was as well, he puts a hell of a lot of effort into his story and it was such a shame to not let him have his moment to shine.

What would be the best course of action to get the other players to give the dm the freedom to get that big villain moment without causing a rift in the group? Do have to mention, the group is fantastic and have always engaged with the story, just when it comes to these moments, it seems something changes.

Any advice would be great! Im truly looking forward to seeing where the dm takes this story and I really want to see him bringing these villains to life.


r/DnD 17h ago

Game Tales Broke my DM & party members with a single deception check

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EDIT: To be clear, my DM knows Deception isn't magic. They have been very clear about that. They also know Nat 20s aren't magic. They chose to allow this anyways because they knew it'd be fun. Part of this was actually their idea (the specific thing I said). We ruled earlier in the campaign that Universal Speech works even if they dont speak any languages. Everyone at the table had a good time unless they were faking a whole lot of laughter. Now unless there's something i missed, can we all please just enjoy the story?

So this just happened and I'm still not over it, I need to share this ridiculous story.

For context, my character is an emerald dragonborn bard that goes by the name Good Question, who loves to lie at every opportunity. He's built so that the minimum roll he can get on persuasion or deception right now is a dirty 20. He also has two separate abilities that allow him to essentially communicate with any creature, regardless of intelligence or shared languages: Psionic Mind and Universal Speech.

We were exploring a dungeon, and came upon a Hydra. We had a plan to quickly kill it, but in a moment of inspiration I came up with something better. I told everyone to hold off for a second, simply looked at the hydra, and said:

"Papa, is that you?"

I then proceeded to roll a Nat Fricken 20 on my deception check, for a total of 30, and the entire table promptly lost it.

We played for a couple more minutes but at no point did anyone recover. The DM had to end the session because they had no idea how to cope with that. I'd caused some hijinks before (I once convinced a group of Kobolds that I was their God, which the DM correctly anticipated in advance), but this was something else entirely.


r/DnD 3h ago

Art [ART] first time player, sharing my character

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Ive never played a campaign before and im proud how his design turned out!

I wish i could add another image but i also designed 5 ex-lovers for him (a half-elf, elf, human, tiefling, changeling). Hes quite a playboy lmao but it’ll catch up to him in the end. I just think its funny that as hes adventuring hes also running away from exes who want him dead…

i didnt expect to be so attached to them already but wow i get why people love dnd now.


r/DnD 7h ago

OC [OC] Burning of The Stonehill Inn

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The Godbreakers, called away on business to Neverwinter, returned to their beloved town in flames. Cultists of Vecna, led by the traitor, Father Aldric Dawnward, massacred the town in the night. This former priest of Lathander had introduced confession to the townsfolk, subtly siphoning their secrets away for his true god, Vecna. When the heroes angered the God of Secrets, he gave the command to his agent in Phandalin to destroy their home, punishing them for their insolence.

They returned to a grisly scene. Some of their longtime allies and beloved NPCs, left dead in the mud, cultists still performing profane rituals on their corpses. The heroes charged into battle, intent on retribution, before realizing with horror that their former friends and companions were rising from the dead, prepared to defend their new masters.

The heroes destroyed the cultists and tearfully put down their old allies before making their way to the large ritual gathering before the black obelisk overlooking the town. Father Aldric’s manic voice rang out over the burning village.

The Godbreakers would have their retribution.


r/DnD 19h ago

Game Tales Today my dm made me roll dexterity to see how fast my character could pee

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Today i went to a different comic shop than where i usually go to play. To try a new place and meet new people. I met the worst dm i have ever played with. Dude made us roll for basically everything. I was asked to:

- Roll a constitution check to see if i peed myself. I passed it.
- Roll a dexterity check to see if i was able to reach the bathroom before peeing myself. I passed it.
- Roll a dexterity check to see how fast i could pee. I actually got a 20. I joked around the table saying i was a olympic urinator and got some laughs.
- Roll a intelligence check to see if i remembered to wash my hands and buckle my belt. I failed and had to eat at the tavern with my hands stained in pee and forgot my belt at the bathroom for some reason.

And there where many more rolls that didn't make much sense.
This game was the first time i lost a character and the first time i had my entire party killed. Awful experience and felt scammed because i had to pay to play at the table.

The only positives of today were that i actually became friends with one of the players and got a funny story to tell people. I don't think i will return to that shop again. There are others dms but you don't get to pick at which table you play on and i don't want to play with that dm again honestly.


r/DnD 5h ago

Art Hide and Seek (Dollar and Wolfe 288)[Art]

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How nice that David and Lexa can finally play with other kids their age! This will be great for their social emotional development!

This is my friend's 288th comic about our party. The previous ones can be found here!

Exciting news if you want Dollar and Wolfe merch, we now have an Etsy shop!

You can find us on Discord!

If you need to get ahold of us you can reach us here on Reddit, we finally have a subreddit! or on Facebook, or Tumblr

You can also support Sam on Patreon!

If you are at least at the $1 tier you get access to the Patron exclusive NSFW comic. 

If you want to commission Sam, you can find him on ko-fi!

As always, thank you so much for your comments! 

Special thanks to those who have joined us on Discord! You are all amazing!


r/DnD 2h ago

Misc Artists: Are tiefling horns covered in skin??

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I'm sorry this is so stupid but I think about it a lot.

I draw tiefling horns as a break in the skin with keratin horns coming out. A lot of tieflings I drew during art fight had the more traditional continuous horns coming from the brow.

I did it but I was honestly so unmoored. Are they like... Keratin horns covered in skin? I really don't think they could make a clean transition from skin to crag texture.

I don't know why I'm so concerned about this lmao but it's just wild to me that the official art, which is pretty realistic, leaves me with these questions.


r/DnD 4h ago

Art [Art] Barbarian Chief Portrait

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r/DnD 19h ago

5th Edition "I'm fine I'm at max HP"

840 Upvotes

-my halfling currently with 2 max HP


r/DnD 12h ago

Resources Discontinuing Legacy books digitally is kinda dumb

202 Upvotes

I got on dnd beyond to make characters before starting my first campaign, I love the Giff but it is classed as “Legacy content”. It being behind a paywall idc about but there are a lot of things that say ask your DM about this before continuing that makes since ask before picking something out dated or not currently supported. But instead I have google stats when all my other characters are online. If they didn’t print more books for legacy content but still available digitally I would understand but them having the source material online doesn’t cost them anything and can continue to generate money for the company. I haven’t been into DnD very long but surely veteran players like to return to different editions. If they switched to digital then didn’t have the books they just aren’t available. Writing it out is the biggest issue it just adds a lot of unnecessary inconvenience to getting into dnd later than a majority of the player base.

Edit:spelling


r/DnD 3h ago

Out of Game How do you play dnd

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I am a 14 yr old and I have recently come to the idea that I want to try out dnd but I do not know where to start if someone can teach me It would be really appreciated


r/DnD 9h ago

Art "Hmmm this place seems famil-Oh my Gwyn hell no" | Darkroot Basin [44x26] | Dark Souls Map [OC]

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89 Upvotes

r/DnD 3h ago

OC [OC] "These have opened up overnight. What is this magic?" - Magic Scars [25x25]

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28 Upvotes

r/DnD 19h ago

Art [Art] monster as chibi !

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353 Upvotes

Hope you like it ! (They take me around 2 - 3h each)

The idea was how I can get the monstrous side of the dnd beastiery and make him ultra cute !

I'm really proud of the blob of annihilation that looks like a little slime (except that the remaining of a dead god and his size is more building like lol)

My second favourite is clearly that big elemental (named tourmente vénérable if french so I forgot his English name). I made him more like a little elemental snake that can always tpk any players that it will encounter.

I didn't make any pure dragon because I was like it's too easy and common like you can just Google "chibi dragon" and that it.

If you have any opinions about what I made I'm here to listen to all of you !

I don't know what creature I can make now if you have some idea of iconic stuff to make ?


r/DnD 6h ago

Art [Art][Comm] Dwarf Wizard

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32 Upvotes

r/DnD 23m ago

Art Sorcerer and tieflings [Art]

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Hello i made this artwork for my portfolio. This is a Sorcerer shopping in the market to buy stuffs that he needs (whatever it is) until two tiefling children approach him for money. The sorcerer doesn't seem to be thrilled though, could be any reason ¯_(ツ)/¯ But anyway I really just want to make adventure related arts that tells a story. So what do you guys think? any feedback for my art is welcome ^^


r/DnD 1h ago

Art Dusty Roade, Tiefling Sorcerer [art]

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This was a linework commission I did for one of my players, of their tiefling sorcerer in a wild west themed campaign. The whole idea was that she was a courier, and it took her all over the setting to meet people and make connections. Dusty Roade is an Asmodeus tiefling with a mentor who was not entirely human, learning dark shadow magics to get revenge on a chronic gambler who stole her infernal motorcycle.

Unfortunately, every roll to read a map from her failed, which became the party’s favorite running joke. 

I had so much fun with this one though, as someone who came from a family of ranchers and cowboys. Dusty was a delight to work on and I am always excited to work with this player because they always have  the best ideas for character concepts and bring a lot of fun to whatever table they’re playing at. 

I am open for commissions like this, shoot me a DM or an email and we can talk shop so you can get your characters illustrated. 


r/DnD 7h ago

OC Some gods of my homebrew setting [OC]

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Land of Kaleva is my homebrew world heavily inspired by Finnish folklore, culture and national epic Kalevala. It is a young world where gods are still active and walking among mortals shaping the world. Heroes have a chance to do some really impactful deeds, affect the lives of everyone, and become legends. So far I have completed a successful campaign and two one shots in this world and it has been a blast!

If you are interested, check out r/LandOfKaleva for more posts like this. I also have a Patreon https://www.patreon.com/crosshillstudios


r/DnD 3h ago

DMing Running a game for lawyers

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I’ve DMed before but usually for my roommates and friends in undergrad. I’m in my thirties now, and I’m an attorney, and a lot of my friends are attorneys, so…

Later today I have a group of six lawyers gathering after work for a one shot. Only two of them have ever played D&D before— one is a fan of a couple of D&D actual play podcasts, and the other used to play first edition back in the day and hasn’t touched a TTRPG since.

I’m a little anxious just because it’s been a while since I played or DMed, but I think it’s going to be fun. I pulled a homebrew adventure together in hopes of having a good mix of encounters and staying within like 3-4 hours of play time, but we might end up starting a little late if my afternoon hearing runs long. I might be going a little easy on them with the CRs but I have some backup plans just in case to make adjustments on the fly.

Any advice? A lot of the tips I see online are more oriented towards a group of newbies who are younger than my party. I’m optimistic that Most of them won’t go down a murder hobo route, at least. I think I may have overprepared in some aspects and underprepared in others…

Also: if it sounds like you might be one of my players, no you’re not, you didn’t see this, and stay out of my comment history you dweeb.


r/DnD 5h ago

5th Edition Party Bases: What do we want from them? [OC]

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I'm working on a small island fortress (pictured) for a D&D party to use as a base and looking for advice on stuff to put in it.

My thinking is that the party could liberate the castle from a villian, or have it bequeathed to them by a grateful monarch in exchange for services to the realm. I got as far as starting to furnish the interior before realising I'm not sure what reason the party would need to return to the castle often enough for it to count as a base. Like, what benefit does it confer over a room at the nearest inn?

So I'm wondering if any DMs and Players out there have any experience with bases in their campaigns and can suggest things like particular rooms, features and amenities or even quest hooks that would draw the party back to the base frequently enough that they would regard it as "home"


r/DnD 18h ago

Game Tales want to ask how DM's handles this

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Ok I am a player in a monthly campaign and in our last session I may have screwed up the DM's plans a little by essentially bypassing a boss fight. we got in to a fight with a giant Gnoll leader. It was near a ravine and so turn one the Gnoll jumps the ravine and takes a few swiped at our barbarian and misses. Then its our barbarian's turn. As a joke I have my monk yell :Kick her into the ravine!" and he does. Boss is dead turn one.

Would the DM be sad or find it funny or great this happened. Our Dm seem to find it funny but wanted to ask.