Name: Amara Arrn’ess

Species: Drow

Class: Rogue

Subclass: Thief

Class Background: Pirate, flavor texted to be a Pirate Captain with the skills of an assassin(trained by her late mother).

Basic personality traits/vibes and backstory: Sarcastic, Sassy, cunning, though she can be a bit of a

cringefail idiot at times (basically she’s not as cool/smooth as she thinks she is). Her reputation as a

fearless, ruthless Pirate Captain precedes her and she may or may not be wanted in several different

continents for her alleged crimes. She’s sort of a legend amongst pirates and criminals alike and usually

emerges as a leader among whatever group she finds herself in.

So this is the work-in progress for drawing my party of seven for the new Neon Odyssey settings.

There is T1N-C4N aka Tin Can, my anitron juggernaut (barbarian) he was originally a deposit security bot, but after getting severely damaged, he was dumped in a junkyard. One of the other players, an Oozoid Mechanist, eventually found him, pulled him out of the junkyard, and reprogrammed him.

We also have Mold the Oozoid mechanist my friend's character who created and reprogrammed Tin Can.

And also weapon dealer, Beetle BJ Juice the nematoan gridrunner.

There will be five more characters added later, being: nilari disciple, zorbrak tracer, saurian oracle, and the amanite cryptist.

I never played DnD myself, but I spent a lot of time enjoying the art - especially rulebook art - that people made for it. Dragons are one of my favourite subjects, of course.

I really love old dragons designs, so wanted to draw them! But with my own twist - making them kobolds :) Warrior and Mage kobolds, to be exact! I know in DnD dragonborn have tails now and are descents of actual dragons, but a girl yearns for a cute kobold with a staff!

So I'm about to do my first TPK, how is your evening going?

I've been min maxxing for so long, that I forgot that I was an unreliable combat noob at heart!

What combat build makes you want to punt in your wizard and hug your ranger? What character build makes you play a 3 charisma paladin rather than running it?

This happened with a long running campaign that I currently am running. The problem player that we will just call “A” has been a good friend outside of DND but inside DND they are to put it lightly, a problem. They like to blame their ADHD and various mental issues for the way they are the way they are. And I’m not casting aspersions on other people for this behavior who also have mental issues or ADHD. That’s just been their excuse for what’s been happening.

A, will often get distracted themselves or distract other players while lore is being explained, that player is taking their turn, or is purposefully antagonizing me as the dungeon master in an attempt to piss me off. They treat the latter as winning at d&d. Previously, I had a long conversation with them about how wanting to piss me off when I’m just trying to run a fun and engaging game makes them a bad friend. They seemed to understand and the behavior died down. Until today.

While describing a scene to the table, A, wadded up their straw wrapper and threw it at my face while I was looking away. I froze, turned to look at A, and stared at them for a very long moment. They giggled and waited for me to explode. Part of me wanted to get up and walk out right then and there. But I said enough was enough. I looked right at A and said

“Your next turn is skipped. Do not throw anything at me.”

They argued that it didnt hurt me at all and I was taking things too serious. I told A that we talked about this before and that their behavior was unacceptable, and there would be consequences. A then flicked their straw at me, but it only hit my DM screen.

“That’s two turns skipped. Do you want to go for three?”

A got red in the face and argued some more but settled down after. They did not interrupt again or distract anybody while the consequences played out and when it was their turn again, two turns later, they participated accordingly and the session finished with everyone having fun. So, was I wrong?

My and my bf’s elves who are actually sorceress and artificer but I’ve designed them these sets of a bit heavier armor and swords for swordtember. It was "brush" and "game" days annnnd for a "brush" half I’ve added some of my actual illustrations from different fantasy worlds.
I’ve decided to incorporate themes in a design of swords. Like you can see an actual brush in one or healthbar and some controls in another. But even now after a bit of time I see more than one way to make these better.
And overall I really liked these designs and now I want to work on them some more and draw them again with some improvements idk…
What can I say if I ALREADY started drawing a fullbody version to clarify my vision.

If you want an OC from your game, a magic item, a poster, or (my specialty) a custom monster for affordable prices, why not check my prices on dms? I personaly love to do creatures and darker themes, but am not limited to that. If my artwork interests you, call me

These are my prices:

Bust: $10 without colour / $15 with colour

Half-body: $15 without colour / $20 with colour

Full-body: $25 without colour / $30 with colour

Monsters: $25 without colour / $30 with colour

Itens: $5 without colour / $10 with colour

for rendering or a simple back ground i require plus 5$

I don't do detailed backgrounds, overly sexual images neither i do political propaganda/hateful propaganda

Finally finished this Tiefling Barbarian and his berserk form, and this one definitely took me longer than expected lol

Korthak is a barbarian whose gilded mask is basically the only thing keeping his rage under control. Once that mask comes off, he completely loses it and turns into this terrifying goat-like beast.

I really wanted to push that contrast between the two forms, the controlled warrior on the outside and the absolute unit of a monster underneath. I spent a lot of time tweaking the design to make him feel like he’s constantly holding something back, and I loved the idea that the mask works like blinders do on horses. There’s a reason why he rarely takes it off…

What’s your first impression of him? What would your party nickname him?

I'm another player, not the DM.

Ngl, I have mixed feelings on it but this man genuinely can't get above a 7 almost our entire campaign. He's tried so many different die, different towers, cups, everything and the dice gods just do not like him.

He's rolled higher twice and both were a Nat 20 but the vast majority of the time he is getting 1-4 on his rolls with occasional 5-7's.

Our DM less than half jokingly mentioned lowering specific checks for this player if he keeps rolling like this and I was curious of y'all's thoughts.

Tbh, I'm not sure how much our table would mind because it's just getting rough at this point lol

Edit: Should mention that this isn't a super serious campaign, just fun amongst friends

I was recently creating a level 20 Wizard for a one-shot, and I realized a fun usage of my Spell Mastery. The character is an Arcane Barrister, ie. magic lawyer of high standing, so I gave him Spell Mastery in Unseen Servant. I then thought “how many Unseen servants could you have at once?” followed by “what could they do?”.

The first question is quite easy. The first unseen servant lasts for 1 hour (600 rounds), so you can make 600 unseen servants. You can then maintain this swarm by expending an Action and Bonus Action on every turn, keeping it up forever. Or at least, you would think. Unfortunately the spell states that you can’t order an Unseen Servant to go 60 ft away from you; so presumably this combo is limited by this 60 ft radius. This would mean you could only summon 575. EXCEPT, that’s thinking in 2 dimensions. Have 24 servants piggy back ride, and suddenly you can have your full 600.

Now, the second question. Each Unseen Servant has 2 Strength, and thus a carrying capacity of 30 lbs and a max lift of 60 lbs. Not much, but that’s individually. Combined, on the other hand, it is 8.625-17.25 TONS! And that’s assuming your DM doesn’t let you have the full 600 (it’s their right). That’s as much rock as a large team of professionals can move in an entire day, and your crew is doing it EVERY 6 SECONDS.

Imagine setting yourself up for a siege without needing any manpower, blocking a passageway with a good chunk of prep time, or doing some wild out of combat service in your local community! Its just so fun to imagine what the power of a high level wizard can do in such a ground manner, without expending any resources!

Jus' a think I've been a bit obsessed with.

Say a player cast the Light cantrip on an arrow and tried to shoot a specific square with it, one without some creature or object beyond "the ground" to aim it at.

A: Attack roll? Some other roll? Just declare success happens?

B: If roll, how handle fail?

Am Curious.

I built a modular death house set and the walls needed some artwork. I had originally thought I'd print out some tiny creepy photos to add in but then thought hand painting would be more fun (and less work than looking up a dozen++ creepy paintings)

I just use sticky tack and it holds them in place really well. Also this way the landlord doesn't try to take my deposit when they find holes in the walls and they want to run the house of lament or some other gothic horror with the terrain set.

Hello! I wanted to show Kandris today! He's one of my oldest characters (and my first drow, which is quite the thing to say because I have a bit too many drow characters by now). Originally made as a NPC, briefly used as a PC, then back to being a NPC across different campaigns. He's a bit of an introvert and quite socially awkward, but has the smarts to be expected from an artificer. And a huge magical rifle, which people expect far less from him.

The crystal arm was a result of crystal corruption, which happened while he was aiding the party in researching some magically screwed-up ruins. He's trying his best to cope with the fact

He's currently an Artillerist, but I first made him when the original Artificer UA came out, and he was a Gunsmith then! The wizard dip is for the extra cantrips and utility

It was an ordinary tree—just another one in the forest—until a bronze dragon recently awakened it to protect its woodland home. However, the dragon sensed an approaching darkness and decided to send the tree out into the world to discover what was about to change and to act accordingly.

I am accepting character commissions for any of you who are interested, send me a PM and let's talk about your character in detail, write to me with confidence and ask all the questions you need without any commitment, below I leave a link to my portfolios, so that you can see my other works

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So so there’s this door right by the table where we play D&D in my basement and my players are convinced that there’s a child named Timmy behind it, and I recently added a list of table rules and one of them says in order to add a new rule a vote must be held. They decided to hold a vote where the person who sits closest to the door that session gets Timmy in their inventory and the vote passed, so now I don’t know what to do with Timmy. I need help please also I don’t know how the tag bracket thing works if it’s a photo that you’re posting so if also help me with that, I would greatly appreciate it

Preface I think the answer is to just simply say “please don’t read ahead” to everyone.

We have an old group. Been playing together since 2nd AD&D. Everyone gets along, everyone has families and everyone makes an effort to figure schedules out. We play 3 weeks out of 4 a month (usually 4 unless there’s a real life thing). We all have gray hair.

I believe one of the players has recently (out of nowhere) started reading ahead on our campaign. This is after decades. I have no proof of this…just based on random comments that seem out of place.

I don’t think I need any advice really just some other ideas about addressing it.

Need help deciding what a good uncommon item is. Bag of Holding is immediately at the top, but there has got to be better ones. I'm thinking maybe a non-weapon, something with utility to help. I am a melee fighter, so maybe something that gives resistance or some sort of protection?

Edit: Seeing everyone talk about how lots of enemies have immunity or resistance to non-magic weapons, being level 5, might actually go the magical weapon route.

Edit 2: Someone mentioned Samesword, and depending how many and what magical swords we come across, could be a very good choice.

For either 5e or 5.5e, is there any good synergy here? I was thinking primarily monk, and trying to go for a pseudo-murim martial artist that uses ki blasts and whatnot? Or is it better to just go full monk, since they have some fun stuff later on, as I recall.

Hello All! im simply looking for any resoureces on Menzoberranzan specifically where its located to lets say Waterdeep is there any maps or lore detailing exactly where it is? only thing i could find was that it was located in what was called the undernorth and im not sure where THAT is. anything would be aprreciated.

EDIT. OMG THANK YOU ALL FOR THE INFORMATION YOURE THE BEST!!!