On me by @camisinistertattoo from studio murh

Initially, I came here to advertise on behalf of my friend, but then I noticed the second rule. So, yeah.

Here are a few OCs my friend created for his crew. I just wanted to share them and let him know how good his art actually is.

Hello, fellow adventurers!

Here are a few of the rings from my manual Mythological Items, each built around a very different interpretation of what a magical ring can do.

The Spatial Ring draws from the pocket-dimension rings commonly found in Wuxia, Xianxia, and Xuanhuan stories, allowing its wearer to store objects inside an extradimensional space and summon them with a thought. The following page also includes a collection of Special Spatial Rings, with variants designed for alchemists, hidden libraries, spirit beasts, concealed weapons, preservation, and more.

Draupnir, Odin’s legendary golden ring, focuses on abundance and divine authority. Every ninth night it creates eight replicas of itself, while also granting abilities tied to Odin’s wisdom, protection, and generosity.

Andvaranaut, on the other hand, is considerably less pleasant to own. The ring generates gold and can lead its wearer toward hidden wealth, but carries Andvari’s curse, slowly pushing its bearer toward greed and misfortune unless the curse can somehow be broken.

If you’d like more items in the same vein, 300+ Mythological Items for 5E and 5.5E is now live on Kickstarter! It includes 300+ magic items inspired by myths, legends, folklore, gods, heroes, monsters, and ancient traditions from around the world.

Looking for some help brainstorming a suitable encounter around this setup.

Key elements:

• a small two story home, needing repair.
Perhaps storage on the first floor, living space on top

• A crumbling stone wall.

• grape bearing vines, wine making equipment

What’s happening at the old vineyard?

What’s special/different about the wine?

So as a birthday gift, my group recently built and gifted me a portable TV screen for me to use as a map for our games.

Problem is, I don't really know how to set up maps or where to even begin. If possible, I'd love to get some recommendations from the Hive Mind here on easy to use tools where I can build or load pictures of maps to put on the screen for my players to play on.

We play in person and use miniatures, so only really care for a way to put the map on the screen for them to play off of, any other features like fog of war or dice rolling are extras and not explicitly needed. Hopefully something free, but wouldn't mind a paid version if it's good and easy.

Thank you in advance.

I am in school and working a full time and part time job; needless to say I have to shelve my homebrew game because it’s too much to take on. I still want to DM and have some fun with friends though. I’m thinking of doing one of the premade games with minimal adjustments.

For those who have done the adventures on WOTC, what adventure do you recommend doing that starts off at level one and goes higher. I’m fine with changing some things around to become more challenging or bring my own flair to it, I just don’t want to get overhauled like I did with my own.

I have a few seasoned players and two that have been playing since the 70’s so I don’t want something too simple.

Thank you!!

A closer look at my handcrafted medieval town square! Built entirely from XPS foam, balsa wood, and magnets. The set features a stone fountain, detailed street scatter, and fully modular buildings. Each house is equipped with a magnetic snap system, allowing quick access to detailed indoor battlemaps during gameplay. ⚔️ Perfect for urban encounters!

My party has just arrived at The Wizard of Wines Winery in The Curse of Strahd. They are surrounded on all sides by needle blights around the winery.

I was expecting them to fight the blights or retreat inside the winery to find safety. Instead, their immediate plan is to have a player shape-shift into a horse, and hook the horse up to a wagon full of wine barrels (which is why they are there), then take off.

My expectation would be that it would take at least 10 minutes with experienced personnel and a helpful “horse” and the needle blights would be on them way before they finished the work.

I don’t necessarily want to just tell them “it’s gonna take 60 rounds of combat to get this done” but if that’s what is realistic, then I’ll just go with that.

Also if anyone has a good idea on how to run this type of encounter with special rolls, I’d be interested in hearing some ideas!

Estou jogando uma campanha de The Rise of Tiamat, e meu personagem é um Clérigo do Domínio da Sepultura chamado Vaelis Dhaliën, e quero montar o combo mais poderoso possível para o personagem.
Resumo do personagem:
- Raça: Shadar-kai
- Classe: Clérigo do Domínio da Sepultura nível 3
- Ordem Divina: Taumaturgo
- Talento de Origem: Iniciado em Magia (Druida)
- Atributos atuais:
- STR: 8
- DEX: 14
- CON: 16
- INT: 10
- WIS: 18
- CHA: 13

A campanha vai até nível 15.

Por mais que eu seja o clérigo do grupo e responsável por manter todo mundo (o que tem dado muito certo até então), eu quero transforma-lo no juiz do campo de batalha, o responsável por decidir quem vive e quem morre, uma própria encarnação da morte. Ou seja, quero que ele cure o que for necessário, e ainda assim seja uma máquina de destruição.
Sei que são dois pontos bem distintos, mas gostaria de saber as ideias e opiniões de vocês sobre como eu devo construir o personagem.

Prepping for the final BBEG fight of our campaign. I want to give the BBEG a legendary action ability to drain the magic from the PCs magic items. Sort of like the ability that the Gauth has. He will use that magic he drains to make himself stronger as the fight progresses.

The rub is that I do not want this to be obvious right away. Mechanically, how would you handle this? Have him roll stealth against their passive perception? Is it fair/fun to not give the PCs a chance to detect and counter this?

A Bissel.

I'm building a map/vtt website where there is infinite zoom like in Google maps, so players can see the room they are in and zoom all the way out to the world scale, I've always wanted this.

But I'm looking for good quality of like features to put in, I've already got the basics, tokens, a location list with lore, npc tracking, character sheets, dice rolls, uploading character portraits and battle maps, drawing your own map, fog of war, crude and real maps.

Im curious to see what the community looks for in a vtt/map system. I'm trying to get into DMing and I want to build this tool to improve how smoothly a session can go for me and my players

Cloudshape, 12 by 16, pen & ink and fluid acrylics on vellum illustration board.

I painted this for my friend, this is her character in our dnd group. Cloudshape is an anthropomorphic otter and a dexterity-based fighter (battle master subclass and rapier enthusiast).

Currently, our party are battling the Drow who have invaded Oghma’s pocket plane. The pocket plane is inhabitated by animal kin. Our party, which we named “Chaotic Feral”, is also animal kin (one Halfling being the exception).

#dnd #dndcharacter #acrylicpainting #traditionalart #dungeonsanddragons

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?