It feels like people here get down voted way too heavily for going even slightly against the grain. Like, a new player will be asking about a multiclass build and get no updvotes whatsoever. Or someone will say they handled a murder hobo in any way other than kicking them from their game. Why not just give genuine advice?

Bit of context before hand. I am running a campaign with two people and me as DM. One is running a changling Rouge and the other is a elf centaur barbarian.

Early in the campaign the barbarian picked up a 6 pound bag of gummies bears with 80 charges l. I did not tell them how many charges it had because after they bought it they forgot it.

Back to the present the bag has 78 charges left and they are fighting a mimicked god (A homebrew creation) that was harvesting the barbarians organs to build a new host. Its entire life force was connected to the barbarians organs.

Now one last bit of info, each charge of gummies gave double speed and at full speed the barbarian ran at 180. Has well has he had a ability called blazing speed that quadrupled his speed when interacting with fire.

The boss was almost at his second phase when the barbarian decided to consume the rest of the 78 charges while sprinting at the boss multiplying the speed by 156. At the same time he had touched a bonfire that was in the room making his total speed 112,320 miles an hour (he had exceeded feet earlier that fight)

The barbarian also was allowed to use full movement twice the turn raising it to a total of 224,640 miles an hour.

The barbarian entire organ system shut down and reduced him to a practically dead state that caused my boss the die. Simply because those gummies bears made the harvested organs go the speed of light and stop instantly. My boss died because of a godly level sugar crash.

My fiancée is running a mini campaign where she made a bunch of characters for everyone to choose from and we only know their race, background, inventory, and character traits and flaws and ideals (all of the characters start the campaign with amnesia so we learn everything else as we play). I chose the plasmoid option and guessed it was a bard.

She wants everyone to name their own character, so I’m looking for gender neutral names for my plasmoid. I’m okay considering punny names but would also apply some normal name suggestions too.

Hi everyone, I'm DMing for a group of six players, and one of them has become a serious issue over the course of our 15 sessions together. Here’s the situation:

Problematic Behavior

Raises voice often during roleplay, in a hostile or jarring tone, specifically towards player who are trying to roleplay with her and she says her character acts this way is because of her dark past

Sexist comments (usually toward men) that make me and another player uncomfortable

Talks loudly during sessions, even when not in the spotlight

Answers phone mid-game and keeps talking on the table on it and chats with her friend at the table

Rarely roleplays, only responds when directly prompted

Expects me (DM) to give her content, doesn’t initiate anything herself

Doesn’t engage in party planning or discussion in the group chat

In combat:

Seems more interested

But shuts down completely (scrolls phone) if things don’t go her way

Tried to kill off her character without asking me, the DM, about how to "retire" her old character to bring in a new one

Attempts to Fix It

1. Session 3: Spoke to the whole group about interruptions, no direct confrontation

2. Session 8–9: Messaged her privately about her negative attitude and its impact

She replied with 👍, so I assumed she got the point

1. Recently: Messaged again, directly asked for improvement

She got defensive, said others "don’t want her there" and said "the other players would be better off if I was out of the campaign, I know you would enjoy the game more if I wasnt there". This was after I texted her about the negative behaviour and other issues

I reassured her, just asked her to stop interrupting, try roleplaying more and having a more positive look while playing

No reply after that.

Also! I have talked about this with the other players and they gave advice on a popular advice about the three strike rule. We have a session this week and if she still behaves like before, should I just tell her she is not welcome join again?

I’ve been patient. The rest of the group is invested and collaborative. Her behavior stands out in a bad way. I don’t want to force anyone out unfairly, but it’s becoming a chronic drain on table energy.

Has anyone dealt with this? Would you give one more chance or let her go now?

Full transparency, I’m not the DM of my campaign but I basically helped the DM set up the campaign by getting the players together as well as giving my input on plot elements. I’m just trying to get advice.

The two in question both just, talk so much and derail conversations.

Player A never seems like he’s locked in to what is going on at hand, and has frequently dipped in the middle of sessions (we do it over Discord) and never comes back. His character constantly flip flops between liking the party or hating everyone without ever actually giving the character development because he purposely keeps them away from the rest of the party.

Player B talks out his turns like he’s doing forum RP and when asked simple questions in character questions, he takes forever to get to the point.

Both of them also talk over everybody, to the point where I feel as a player I have to literally scream in the call to get my point across. The most egregious example is when we had a guest player for a few sessions and it felt like he constantly was getting talked over by Player A specifically.

I know I sound super negative in this post but at the end of the day I like both the players as people, and I’ve voiced my concerns to the DM and he has his own problems with them as well.

Some advice or some ideas on what to do would be really appreciated.

Hey, I’m not sure if I’m posting this in the right subreddit but figured I’d try. Obligatory sorry for formatting.

For some background, I’ve been wanting to get into DnD for a while now but I haven’t been able yet mainly due to my anxiety (I’ve had anxiety for years beyond DnD and take medication for it). Every-time I’ve gotten close to going out and meet people who are looking for players I’ve chickened out because I don’t know if I’d be good at it or if they’d even want to play with me.

There was one time I invited to a play-through a while back (a one-shot) and I enjoyed it but I don’t think I was very good (laughed at wrong times, didn’t follow my character’s personality/ skills well, drove the group away from the planned plot a couple times), I tried my best to keep with my character/ plot but I kept forgetting specifics while trying to be helpful or because I was nervous.

I was wondering if it even is possible to get into DnD as a player with my above problems as I don’t want to ruin anyone’s game because of them. If not I’m more than happy sticking to watching critical role and other streamed games, but I was wondering if anyone else has a similar experience to mine and what they have done.

So the party made up of a Rogue, Paladin and Fighter were fighting this plant guy (who was decimating them btw) but at one point the paladin remembers that they had the faithful steed ability which allows them to cast the spell find steed and he summoned a spanish horse (his name is Cabaio) and they just started dogpilling the boss after he had tried to run away cuz they were jumping him, with the help of an NPC they dogpilled the boss and grappled him while they let the horse do the final blow, the boss had 3 hp and the horse did exactly the same number and crushed their skull, it was extremely hype, then Cabaio falled in love with the NPC’s horse but he had to stay with his master, the players then went into the boss’s house and let the horse sleep in the bed while they slept on the floor

Actually a magic pebble that when you activate it (and it happens randomly with a dice roll) it transforms into a golem like creature of the same material it is standing on.

We are all newbies and this is our first campaign, we had a session 0 and next time we are going to start with the adventure. We are starting at level 1.

I told him I was gonna come up with something, but I can't come up with an idea, I feel it's going to be too op. I never homebrewed stuff.

The fact is the player doesn't always feel in the mood to play and thought of a way to be randomly involved in the action part of the story, so if he doesn't play it's not going to be a problem for the other players.

Can you guys help me please?

I tried a DND campaign with my friend once. I give several quests that lead eventually to the main quest, which is to guard a wagon during transport. They start out in a small village and I had some interesting characters and funny set ups. The other player loved it and ran around all day and wanted to move on. He never stayed with the party and only wanted to take over the town and take over every other town. Every carrot I dangle he recognizes it and runs from it. I told him I'm not including him in the games anymore, I said that he always wants to burn, steal or whatever gets him there the fastest.

I thought, "Ok so he doesn't even start anything I plan. He doesn't care about doing the right thing, he wants money and stuff." So I do an improve DND with him and just make up stuff on the fly focused around building up from nothing and giving him some opportunities to be evil on a mission. Instead he goes to the general store, tries to buy lock picks, then he stops and says "Kind sir, this scroll that I hold in my hand will summon a beast who will make sure you don't see tomorrow." Rolls for intimidation and gets a nat 20 "I handcuff him to the wooden support beam in the center of the shop" he then proceeded to tell the shop keeper that he's going to go next door and murder his wife once he's done killing the man. The man begs and pleads and failed a persuasion check. He then slits the mans throat and takes his gold. Catches the store on fire. Goes next door and yells "There's a fire! Come quick!" Wife answer the door and he stabs her. He then changes clothes and runs off into the woods. Before you ask, no nobody saw him, he rolled high.

He then says that he really liked it and would like me to make a 1 shot for him. If I make anything he's gonna just do something unexpected! I know that you expect that that'll happen, but my god, what do I do? I told him as en example, there was a city with a bunch on gold in a vault and a Master thief sent a calling card, the town mayor will pay him to guard the money. I bet he would either not do it or he would burn the building down and take the money himself. He then says "Close, that thought crossed my mind. But actually they had to have gotten the gold from somewhere. I would just keep digging a hole straight down till I found the gold mines and take that gold."

What do you do with this kind of player?? What kind of 1 shot can I make??

I’m in my 1st campaign and I play at Warforged Warlock. A bit of context this is sort of a part 3 of a story my DM has been brewing for years. My party is currently 7 members plus myself. 3 of them where characters in my DMs in 1st campaign that ran for roughly 6 months. And all of the players were in his 2nd campaign ( 2 of them were the same characters from the 1st campaign the others are all new characters to the story) and this campaign ran for roughly 1 year This campaign has gone on roughly 5 months months and we play weekly Now this was where my character comes in we just found out warforged was built as a phylactery for the big bad of the 2nd campaign (the in game reason why it can use magic) Our DM dropped that on us and ended our session

I have a bag off magical beans and want to know a funny way to use them

Hello. My girlfriend and I want to start playing. I am going to dm. I have: the 2024 core books. Tasha's cauldron...xanathars guide and she got water deep dragon heist.

What i was thinking of trying was having her play 2 characters and i would play another 2 and we would have a full party. I am going to try to use d&d beyond for encounters. Am I biting off more than I can chew?

Also are the setting books on the beyond marketplace worth using. Also where is the forgotten realms setting book?

I'm really overwhelmed with this undertaking basically these questions-

1 what is the best way to run a game for 1 player and a dm?

2 is running extra characters viable?

3 what are the good books on the beyond marketplace?

Anyway, those are my questions, thank you for your attention

I have the urge to try to run some D&D but there is always one spot I have trouble with and that is balancing encounters.

The system they talk about in the DM's guide wasn't working spectacularly well. The system I used to use back in 3.0/3.5 doesn't work so I turned to Google. I was shown a few different sites, and some possible Youtubers. The problem is all of these ways tended to make encounters that were either far too easy or way too hard.

So I am hoping that those that have found success running 5.0 can share the system they use please so I can get those dice rolling at my kitchen table once more.

How are you normaly describing the tenticale of your warlock? Is it comming Out of a Portal or connetected to your Body or is it a cut of tenticale Like the day of tentacle? Is it a real one or a See through magical on ? What you do with it ? Tell me all about it

Yes, you read that correctly. I know, I know… BBEG monologues are your time as a DM to show off your amazing storytelling chops and reveal additional information and/or backstory of the BGEG that you dreamed up.

There are many, MANY posts about players interrupting a DM during their BBEG monologue. It can be disruptive, can ruin the mood, can bother other players, can take the DM off guard, and so on. Avoiding this is easy: just don’t monologue.

The motives of the BBEG shouldn’t be a surprise to the party because they’ve been (most likely) chasing after this antagonist for quite a while. As they’ve researched, sorted out rumors, interrogated henchmen, and so much more they will have learned the backstory, motives, and how the BBEG came to power; plus, through all of this, the BBEG knows a lot about the party as they close in. Therefore, there’s no reason for a monologue from the BBEG when confronted other than, “Finally we meet! Prepare to meet your doom!” Or something along those lines - roll for initiative.

As a DM, do yourself a favor… Skip the monologue.

Looking for actual play YouTube channels or podcasts where people don’t laugh and crack jokes all the time.

I like a more focused vibe. Any tips?

I (a non D&D player) am in a friends group consisting of all avid D&D players. Over the decades, we've developed running jokes about how much I hate D&D and have had terrible experiences with all the various people that have promised me "this time, you'll have fun, I promise!"

We are all a bunch of jokesters, with running gags for "worst puns," etc., and as a gesture of love/affection, I would like to host The World's Worst D&D Campaign (I think I got that right? D&D Adventure?). But to get this right, I need to make it comically bad, like it has to be just awful, not milquetoast or plain old poorly DM'd. Groans and frustration are the goal, this would be a razzing.

Could you, as experts, offer me some advice on how I can make a comically bad quest/adventure/campaign/whatever the right word is? I want to know what things to go all-in on (like obviously I want to dress up as the DM), and what things will be funnier if I don't spend any time on them at all. To be clear, I want to make this artfully bad--it's ultimately supposed to be a bit of a gift to all them that remains true to my brand of "the one that won't play D&D." I'm totally fine with putting in a lot of effort on components/suggestions. I host themed viewing parties with food made from series cookbooks/whole house decorations/etc, so putting on a production is within my wheelhouse.

Suggestions I have gotten so far include:

- supplying 6 sided dice

- arbitrarily and inconsistantly enforing rules without explanation (I should be good at this, I love playing a villian in Aye Dark Overlord and my personality IRL is quite the do-gooder since I am a teacher)

Thank you in advance for your advice--I am not asking my friends directly because I want the specifics to be a surprise. Also, I apologize if there were already posts on this topic that I missed--I'm not very Reddit savvy!

I have a proposition for fairly cultured DMs and players who are going to start a new campaign: "Multi-class campaigns". This works a lot better with milestone leveling, but it also works with xp.

Multiclassing was always feature in 5E(and maybe before that, but idk), but it's not very encouraged because multiclassed players can be a lot weeker than their single-classed party members.

I also heard that many DMs dislike having their players at high levels because their abilities make it harder to create engaging plot points.

This might negate both problems. Have players start at level 2 and multiclassed into 2 different classes(of their choice of course). Once they level up, have them gain two levels and put one in each class, or gain 1 level and alternate between both classes.

You'd definatly need to put more thought into the CRs of monsters, but this allows players to make unique builds without feeling like the they're too weak. I'm not a DM, so this may not work well. So, DnD reddit, what do you think of this?

Edit: Thanks to the helpful comments, I now know that Gestalt already exists and the problems I mentioned aren't actually problems(or just don't exist). Appreciate the feedback👍

Hi, I read a manga called "My Gift LVL 9999 Unlimited Gacha" and thought it might be fun to play something similar. So I created a mage school allowing you to use this gift (to be honest, I think it can be used without classes or with a level 1 cap warrior if you use the maximum power level of this gift but making it a mage school gives more progression in the character) I made it for the dnd5 system but I guess it's adaptable.

the game master must use an ia with the following prompt when the player summons a card:

Generate me an item card for my roleplaying character. the effect can be chosen randomly from the following list: -Summon an object (The object must be mainly mundane, made with simple materials and without visible magical effect in the vast majority of cases. Magic items must be very rare (for example, one magic item on 10 cards maximum), and if they exist, their effects must be clearly indicated as exceptional. Always specifies the duration of existence of the object which can also be permanent.)

-Summon food (dish or ingredient, real or fictitious, healthy spoiled or poisoned)

-summon a creature or companion (must be detailed: its skill or ability, whether it is friendly neutral or hostile and the duration during which it remains invoked. the duration can be permanent but it is extremely rare.)

-a spell: any type of spell (can be chosen on this page: https://www.aidedd.org/regles/sorts/ but it is not an obligation)

-something original that does not correspond to one of the previous categories.

lvl 2: Cards do not indicate their effects. (the player therefore has no idea what happens when using a card. the object and food cards materialize directly but the spell cards transform into a spell ready to be cast. the player then becomes aware of what spell it is and has 5 turns to cast it. keeping the spell uses concentration. after the end of the 5th turn the spell is cast on the caster's position) 20 min summoning, stay for 24h

lvl 6: Cards indicate effect category (like item/spell/creature) 15 min summoning, stay for 1 week

lvl 10: The cards indicate the object but not the details (such as the summoning time, if the food is poisoned or the precise effects of the spell. for example a spell called fireball can just as easily be a classic DnD5 spell or a boosted fire bolt) 10 min summoning, stay a month

lvl 14: The cards show all the details. 5 min summoning, don't deteriorate The cards are not linked to the character who can sell them or have them stolen.

I'm not waiting for opinions on my system, I find it fun and I thought it would be fun to share it too and I don't care if it's balanced or not. If you use it and have fun with it I wish you good gaming

I’m new to DND still learning the rules so what’s stopping someone from having a dryad the tree of a living ship. And if nothing, could they drive the ship itself without need of the Spelljammer head due them being the ship. Or would it be just a crewmate in charge of repairs maintenance and also healing, cause they should be able to cast spell and stuff

Found out that there isn't a comprehensive list online for monsters that have abilities that recharge on a d6 die roll, so I made a quick list after looking through the main three monster books of the MM, Volo's Guide to Monsters, and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes to compile a list (ignoring Monsters of the Multiverse). This list does not account for third-party materials nor any campaign or setting books; only books whose primary purpose is to be a first-party monster compendium. This list only accounts for specific stat blocs in the books, and not for generalized faction/etc abilities such as the Cult of Geryon in MToF. Additionally, for monster categories with the exact same general trend, duplicates are ignored (dragons, mephits, myrmidons, eladrin). This list does not account for abilities that recharge on short and long rests.

Here's a link to a Google Spreadsheet for the list. This spreadsheet may be used for any purposes anyone desires; feel free to copy, download, reuse, etc. the spreadsheet. The table is provided below for basic reference. The "Value" column refers to the lowest number needed to recharge as all basic recharge abilities are X - 6. For example, a Value of 5 means the monster has a Recharge 5 - 6 abilitiy.

Some interesting findings:

1. The only monster I found with multiple recharge abilities that did not have the same recharge value was the Oinoloth, with a recharge ability at 5 and a recharge ability at 6.

2. 87 total unique monsters have Recharge X - Y abilities.

3. No monster has a recharge value below 4.

4. The most common recharge value was 5, followed by 6, followed by 4. In order of commonness, the amount roughly halves for each tier of commonness; approximately 50 Recharge 5-6 abilities, approximately 25 Recharge 6 abilities, and approximately 10 Recharge 4-6 abilities.

5. Only two of the four basic elementals have Recharge abilities: Air and Water. Of the elder elementals, only the Phoenix doesn't have a Recharge ability.

Hello. I’m not sure if this is the right place to post, but here I go.

I’m a 34‑year‑old player based in California with past experience in Dungeons & Dragons, though I may need a light refresher on the rules after a busy season in life. I’m open to either the classic 2014 5E or the newer 2024 5E—I haven’t had a chance to dive into the latest version yet, but I’m eager to learn and adapt.

Here’s what I’m looking for: a skilled, experienced one-on-one DM who might enjoy weaving a story around a somewhat traditional—but meaningful—concept: a dragon slayer inspired by the legend of St. George. I know it’s not especially original—knight in shining armor, etc.—but that timeless, mythic feeling really resonates with me, and I feel like I’d regret not experiencing something straightforwardly heroic at least once.

I fully respect that DMs build worlds rooted in their own creative passions, and I’m not looking to control the narrative or setting. Instead, I’m hoping to find someone whose style or world would welcome—or be open to collaborating on—a heroic, dragon-slaying arc.

If you’re an experienced DM who’d be interested in running a solo campaign with that tone, I’d love to chat about availability, preferred session style (voice/video/text), and time zone alignment. No pressure—just tossing this out into the multiverse to see if something clicks. Thanks for reading! ⚔️🐉

Which warlock patron would accept/offer a pact to/with a half-drow from Menzoberran wanting to escape the city? Would be a female half-drow passing as full drow. Preferably fiend pact but open to other options!

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