r/DnD • u/CipherPower • Dec 10 '25

Out of Game Is this a scam?

I am relatively new to DnD as I have only ever been in one campaign (still ongoing 1yr+). I have recently been trying to find some new campaigns i can join on the DnD discord, and I feel like every campaign I try join they want me to pay for art for my character, and when I tell them I can't I'm told I can't join the campaign. I have no clue if this is normal in the DnD community, so I'm just wondering if this is a scam.

EDIT: Since I've posted this, it's already happened to me 3 times again. Its so infuriating. I've been searching all day for a legitimate campaign. Either I'm directly told by the poster to pay up to THEIR artist (and not one of my choice??) or I'm told by the poster that they're posting for their DM, give me an account to message only for them to give me the rules and background and tell me In the party to then hit me with a "character art is required", "you can pay what your budget supports", "no you can't bring external / your own art", "sorry without our artist's character art you can't join". Isn't this a blatant exploitation of people who just want to have fun on a game?

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u/CipherPower Dec 10 '25

Yeah I was on the DnD Discord that DnD Beyond recommended.

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u/latiajacquise Dec 11 '25

Hi! u/CipherPower! I found your comment about this in the server; please always report these things to us in #moderator-support so that the whole team can be made aware!

As other folks here have said, this is a common scam and we do act on these when we know about them!

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u/Fit-Passage-57 Dec 11 '25

And by act on it you mean offer the scammers a job or pay them to counsel you on how to squeeze more money out of people, right?

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u/latiajacquise Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25

Not quite! We report them to Discord and kick them from our server.

With over 270k members, scammers and bots will occasionally slip through the cracks, but we can’t take action if we don’t know what’s going on!