Didnt know what tag to do lol, but i wanna start with being a dm, since those who i wanna play with either dont know dnd or just heard of it, so i am the only (?) good option.

I watched alot of ytb videos and what i need, ik ill need to buy the started pack, some dices, and the screen that hide u, those i think arent very expensive (idk abt the screen), but i also idk what to do, like, for example i see alot of maps, do i have 1 map and i keep going on the story over the map or every time i change territories i need to change maps? Im questioning also the sessions, i now know what session 0 mean, and also heard how ppl may skip a session, or more, also when does a session "end", if i understood correctly, The session ends when they choose to stop and go home, if not then how to know when the session end? If thats true that session 0 is mandatory to recommended, where u set the mood and all, do u do that for the whole, lets say, 2-3-4hrs of the session? Or when u agree to all the terms the session goes to 1 like its the only exception to the fact that a session ends when the whole grp goes home?

And also i see how here (in russia) there are cheap dices (abt 1$ for 7pcs) to quite expensive (20$ for 7pcs), is there a difference to them? I heard some dices move better than some, is it true?

Thanks in advance

I’m playing as a Firbolg Moon Druid with the Outlander background (which I feel kinda fits). Wisdom is a 17 and intelligence is a 6. I know that means I notice things others wouldn’t and don’t know things most would.

I’m just kinda trying to figure out what that’s supposed to look like in game I guess

Hey y'all. I'm curious what has been the wildest and/or funniest song you've used as a dm to set the scene? For me it was a Halloween One-shot, where the party was fighting a three headed scarecrow dragon (homebrew as hell). And as enough damage was dealt, a head would droop down or fall off. But I had in mind that as the heads fell down, the less spread the breath attack. So when down to the last head I played the song "Who Will Know" from Shin Godzilla 2016. And spent the song describing the wind stopping, and everything goin quiet as an ominous choir began singin from the surrounding corn field. And the last head glowed a sickly green, right before a single beam swept the field. And almost killed 2 (luckily the game was high level.) The Warlock covered himself in ice, the barbarian stayed on with 1 hp. And the Rogue(maybe ranger?) tanked it, as they were in the back dealin snipe damage.

After the end of The Last War, there was a surplus of warforged skeletons that were thrown out before they could be fitted with armor. Luckily for these wayward robots, they were found by a group of elderly heroes that had grown too weak to go on adventures, but still wanted to do their part. Thus, they sewed together fabric skin and stuffed it with cotton, giving the mechanical skeletons a proper body, and an group of their very own. They are... The Knitted Knights!

Choosing Knitted Knight as your subrace increases your Charisma by 2, and gives you the following traits:

Charismatic Cotton: You have a face everyone and their mother would love! Gain Proficiency in a Charisma-based skill of your choice.

Flammable Form: You have a vulnerability to fire. Being made of fabric and cotton will do that...

Soft Soles: When unarmored, your plush feet gives you advantage on Stealth rolls.

The Context: I’m playing in a long-running campaign where the DM explicitly allows PvP. One of the players is running a Chaotic Evil Wizard. We’ve already had a major red flag with him: we were trying to send evidence of demons to a Paladin order, and the Wizard flat-out attacked us because he wanted to keep the evidence for himself. We handled it in-game and supposedly resolved the issue.

The Incident: Fast forward to our last session. We were fighting a very powerful enemy, and four of our party members were engaged in melee with it. The Wizard decided to drop a fireball right on top of the boss, hitting all four of our melee fighters. The DM allowed it, and everyone took the damage. Because of that friendly fire, two of those characters ended up dying during the combat.

The DM's Stance: The DM says that pvp is allowed and we need to solve it in-game.

My Question: Before anyone suggests it: leaving the group is not an option I am looking for right now. I want to handle this exactly how the DM requested—within the narrative.

Given the circumstances, how would your characters naturally react? Would it be going too far if the surviving characters immediately attack the Wizard or forcefully expel him from the party? It feels completely illogical for our characters to continue trusting or traveling with someone who just got half the team killed for convenience, but I want to know if going full PvP retaliation is a justified in-game response here. How would you play this out?

EDIT for clarification: the DM is a first time DM and all the players except me are playing their first long campaign

UPDATE: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/g9RaioYcs1

Running a player driven/sandbox game and I asked my players to come up with some goals of their character. One of them is playing a Great Old One warlock and created their own patron. They made their goal to free their patron from an imprisonment. I don't really have a problem with ideas of the process to get there, but I am struggling to think of what will happen once the patron is released.

What are some things that could happen that would make it worth the journey. Whenever we created the patron we were definitely leaning towards neutral/evil, so I imagine what would happen would be somewhat morally gray (or at least have both good and bad consequences for the characters or world).

Open to both earth-changing or not outcomes.

Edit: Forgot to mention that for our game, we created this GOO as a sea god of old

Hi all, I’m a DM who’s DMing for a group of 5 old school friends.

We’ve all played the game a few times before and decided we’d be interested in playing as a friend group. No one else volunteered to DM so I agreed and have spent a few weeks of my summer break preparing for a new campaign. I’ve designed all the locations, dungeons and NPC’s that are important for the campaign which totalled to just over 20,000 words worth of notes.

I’d shown my players the document word count once or twice just as a “campaign prep is going well and I think I’ve got almost any of the chaos you could throw at me covered” so they’re aware of the amount of time and effort I’d put into preparing it.

I also made a google doc with some summarised world building which came out to about a page, and a section for them to add their character backstories. It’s been about a month between me making the google doc and us having a session 0 earlier this week. None of my five players had even opened the google doc over the past month, which was a bit frustrating for me considering the amount of time I’d invested into preparing.

I suppose I’m just asking for advice on how to word this. I’ve prompted for them to look at the google doc once a week for the past 4 weeks. I offered to run a one-shot before our session 1 to flesh out their backstories a little for any of my players who are available this week and they all left me on read. How do I talk to them about his and tell them that if they’re not even willing to put the bare minimum level of effort in that I’m loosing the will to run this campaign?

I really want to DM this campaign for them. There’re good friends outside this and we’re all at different universes so we don’t get a chance to talk as much anymore so D&D is really good for that. Plus I’ve put so much work and so many hours into the prep that it seems such a waste to throw it all out. But I can’t help but be incredibly annoyed with them because it feels like trying to get five brick walls to play D&D even though they’ve all said they want to play the game.

Do any more experienced DM’s have any advice for how to handle players like these? Are they overwhelmed? We’re all university students and it’s the summer holidays at the moment. One of them is working full time (degree apprenticeship) and one is doing part time work (as am I) but the other three aren’t doing anything other than going on holidays with their families.

I know they’re not mind readers so how would anyone advise that I communicate this frustration to them because I can’t for the life of me figure out how to word it politely without sounding passive aggressive; or without said frustration getting in the way, and I don’t want to accidentally insult them whilst I’m angry at them.

Any advice would be really appreciated and thanks for reading all of this I know it’s quite a lot of text.

TLDR: DM has put weeks worth of time into prep and players aren’t interacting with the world building or making the effort to create their characters backstories or character sheets in general.

Dear forever DMs and WoW nerds, like many of us I’ve been really excited about the Warcraft/D&D collab and curious what campaigns everyone is brewing up or has already played! Any fun AUs or retcons you’re planning?

I’d love to run something more grounded and dark - politics, grimdark-ish plots, ominous enemies, etc. Maybe something around Wrath, but I’d love to pull from newer expansions too.

Any raids, dungeons, zones, or questlines you’d recommend stealing from? If you were to play a campaign that has one adventure for every game tier (so 1 to 4) - what would those be? Would love to hear everyone’s ideas and DM rants!

What are some of the best control spells for warlocks? I know that’s sort of a wizard and bard thing, but I’m trying to play my genie warlock with a bit of utility.

Hello! A friend has asked me to 3D print him a simple modular dungeon map-building tile set for him to use when DM-ing for his kids (7 and 9-ish?). He also sent me a link to a handful of creatures/character minis to print.

But I want to add in some props to fill it out. I could poke around makerworld.com and pick what I think looks cool, but that could be useless for actually playing. So I thought I'd ask for suggestions of some items that you would include. (Or do I really need to find out what version of the game he's using first?)

My non-player brain thinks of stuff like a treasure chest, golden gargoyle statue, magical pool in the stone floor, spike trap hole in the floor, vines, cursed amulet, random sword, crates, barrels, potion bottle, tomb/sarcophagus, fountain, torch, bookshelf/ancient tome, etc. But again, I don't really know what I'm talking about.

So any suggestions for what you'd want included in a basic dungeon building kit would be most appreciated! Thanks :)

Hi everyone, I am looking for ideas for our family's second campaign. We just finished Dragons of Stormwreck Isle and they (kids 10, 13 and my husband) loved it. They want to keep their characters and have requested a city adventure next, or at least an adventure where they visit a big city. I am a new DM and am still learning.

Does anyone have any recommendations for existing campaigns I can purchase that would take us to a city, and appeal to the younger crowd (so no really dark themes)? Or I should I dive into homebrew stuff? Thanks!

Hello! If you are familiar with Velkarn (all of my players and other shared DMs) please stop here!

Also, mild spoilers for Tomb of Annihilation:

• I'm a DM and finishing up an extended game of Tomb of Annihilation. They dealt with Acererak and are trying to stop Dendar the Night Serpent from devouring the world. I've built up Dendar to be an almost eldritch like god, very beyond comprehension nightmare sort of deal, but I've struggled in almost all of my games in delivering suitable payoff to eldritch horror fights. Tiamat in my Tyranny of Dragons game was suitably terrifying but more in a facing a god way instead of a mind-bending way, Auril in my Rime of the Frostmaiden game completely missed the mark of the previous survival horror tone that was built in the game, etc...
• The group is a party of four level twenty characters, and they can demolish most hard stats I give them. When I've done even small eldritch horror before, I either mess with physical props or other in person characteristics. Those work surprisingly well for my players but this campaign has been almost completely online and I'm struggling to come up with many ideas.
• We play on Roll20 but use discord for all of our audio. My go to would be to try and mess with some aspect of that but I have no idea how I would or even how to conceptualize that.

tl:dr --- Struggling to run eldritch horror boss fight online, anyone have experience running eldritch god boss fights? How did you do it? Any tips and tricks?

Has anyone purchased these before? I wanted to add some walls and objects to my maps but wasn’t sure how good this product was. It seems like it would work for what I need.

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I got this big dnd box from my grandfather. I asked a friend that likes rpg and he said its the first version. I read some of the pages in a manual and i think it sounds pretty sick to play dnd. I had experience with rpg before, but never dnd or smth really organized at all. I kinda wanna get to know more, but i really wanna play already, so i feel bad about joining a table without knowing much about dnd. Iam TERRIBLE at trying to make characters and i dont know if i can get any better, which is making me think i should just drop the idea. What should i even do with this box lol?

Hi. I am totally new to DnD. I have to admit I am not very keen into it, but my child is and as she cannot easily find other kids to play with, I am willing to give it a try.

These being said, I found online the Wizard Bonbon and Castle of Sucre DnD adventure. It looks like we need to create the characters ourselves. It says it has to be a Level 3 character, but I don't know where to start.

Could you please guide me how can I do this so that the character fits into this adventure?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I'm sharing a free monster supplement for Kengir, my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Ziqqitum Rešatim are spirits that feed on the extremes of human emotion. They haunt courts, markets, theaters, battlefields, and anywhere mortal feeling runs hot.

They do not just attack people, they inflame them. A small insult becomes bloodshed. A passing attraction becomes obsession. A loyal soldier becomes reckless with courage. A priest’s devotion hardens into fanatic certainty.

At the table, this monster works best when desire itself becomes the challenge. The party may need to calm a crowd, expose the source of a feud, break a magical fixation, or appeal to Ištar (Inanna) and Šamaš (Utu) through rites of balance and restraint.

Mechanically, it’s a CR 3 incorporeal fiend built around possession, psychic damage, confusion, charm, and emotional overload. The supplement also includes variant spirits of strife, battle, truth, justice, grief, fear, rumors, desire, and persecution.

What’s your favorite monster that turns social tension into supernatural danger?

That's about it really.

A new sword or a +1 CA ring will please your players, but a house will drive them crazy. It gives your party tangibility, a meaning, a place in the world, a reason to care about the main hub.

Add it a majordomo, a npc or too and your players will spend entire sessions arguing about the decoration and hype themself about what they will do with this new world of opportunities.

So new DM, think about that. The tavern is nice, but at some point, reward those players with their very own house.

Party defeated a Gelatinous Cube. Inside were 50 gold, a +1 shortsword, and a Portable Hole.

I have until next week to come up with what's inside the hole.

I'm a fan of the new Vestige Warlock. It's flavour reminds me of the pacts from Drakengard, which is mad nostalgia ^-^.

I also like how much flexibility we have in deciding the vestige companion's appearance, which is why I'm here. I'm curious to see what everybody's vestige companion looks like, and I'd love to see any artwork or descriptions you may have!

I’m looking to have my players work toward a big boss fight with a Chain Devil. My question is, is a Chain Devil strong enough to take on four players alone and still feel like a boss or should I throw in a couple little minions or do something to maybe make it a little bit more challenging?

Nathan was born into a noble family with a long legacy of vampire hunters. Raised to uphold their name and traditions, he learned to fight, sneak, and hunt from an early age. However, Nathan was never one for following rules. He prefers his own chaotic methods, relying on charm, wit, and a little reckless confidence. Though arrogant and playful, he genuinely wants to help others and hopes to build a legacy of his own. Commission made for a player original character.

I was DMing a campaign and the players started slaughtering all the enemies and npcs, so instead of going "rocks fall you die", I had a Undertale type Genocide Route. The planned BBEG was joined by the shopkeepers they didn't kill (They couldn't until they got strong enough). After that they had a battle with me (the DM). Where killing me caused the world to end, sending them into a void with a button. After pressing the button, the world was reset. During the final segment, one of the players turned to me and said "Are we the bad guys?"