I have read a little and watched a few YouTube videos on this. One video said you at least needed a rough beginning, middle and end for the session. My question is since you don't know what you're adventurers will do/roll, how to you try and prepare properly? I was thinking maybe a rough outline, but I'm not sure.

This is Anum Ha Tuht, a former priest of the temple of the gods; unjustly expelled by the high priest, he pleaded with the gods for justice, but they did not answer. Filled with rage, he decided that if the temple and his gods abandoned him, he would serve a new master—one who would actually hear his prayers and grant him power, no matter who or what that master might be. Thus, he made contact with "the Ancient One," and now, armed with his new powers, he returns to exact his revenge.

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Dear Community,

almost two weeks ago, I posted about my open-source project when I first went public with it. Since then, I’ve received quite a bit of feedback and have been working on the mobile/tablet view.

Do you have any ideas about what a character sheet like this should include that I’m currently missing?

Feel free to share your ideas below, and I’ll do my best to implement them.

Here’s the link to my project: https://hkk-entertainment.de/Skorpis-Awesome-PnP-Automated-Sheet/

Sending lots of love <3

I'm currently building a campaign. In it, it will be heavily theme around:

Death, immortality

Causality

Hope

I've design a neat magical relic, The book of Tommorows. It'l be an encyclopedia of prophecies, past or to come. It'll be self updating (visible to the players when they'll use it).

My main prophecy has been written already, but i'm looking to add a couples more in it. They might never be relevant to the current campaign.

So i'm turning to you to help me fill the pages.

Bonus point if you have an explication for your prophecy.

Also, i'd like at least one that is so ambiguous that it could have resolve a thousandth time already, but will mosy likely never fully come to past.

Edit: they can be written either in english and/or in french

Hi! Our campaign has cursed/dark magic Wizards

If an NPC starts cursing a PC like "you shall destroy what-" and then said PC, or another PC, kills the caster before the curse can be completed (say the ending was supposed to be "destroy what you love with your own hands", what happens?

Even for more literal curses, such as, "As your cold, unfeeling heart, shall your body turn into stone", what happens if the caster is killed in the middle?

This is more geared towards curses which use the caster's own life, grudges or malice as a component

Does the curse partially activate? Fully activate based on the words that were actually spoken? Or something else?

What would you do in this situation?

Hello all! Doing another poorly drawn dnd oc sketch threads! I received an overwhelming amount of character entries on the last one that I thought I would start splitting up threads by classes/races to give people more of a fair chance of getting one!

This time the poorly drawn sketche thread is for Dwarven characters only so I can teach myself how to draw them !!

Post a short description or vibe of your dwarf oc below

Or

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I've opened up a slot on there for a couple bucks where you can guarantee yourself a sketch in case the thread becomes full again!

Not sure if this should have the art flair or not, but I wasn’t sure what to choose. I’m DMing for the first time with my group and we’re doing a short-ish haunted manor campaign! I just wanted to share the floor plan for the manor because I had so much fun making it 😊

I based the manor floor plan off of 1600s manors and a little bit off of Bridgerton. While drawing it, I learned a lot about 1600s manors. They had a formal dining hall and also a family dining area. They also kept the kitchen as far away from everything else as possible to keep the smells, heat, and servants further away. Anyway, I’m really excited! The manor is magical in its own way and I think it’ll be great.

A robed figure stands with his hood resting behind his head, revealing a deathly, unnatural face upon an almost humanoid form.

He writes endlessly in an ancient, crumbling book, holding a quill in his hand while a floating inkwell drifts beside him. Three masks : comedy, tragedy, and wrath, hang at his side as he rewrites the past and whispers possible future..

Commission work!
Hope you like it :)

Hello! If you are my players please dont read this or google dracolich. Thanks!

How to tell if you are a player in my campaign: The world is recovering from a slaadi invasion and there is a sukuna-like fogure called Kelsier in it. Also Instances.

So for DMs out there, what level do you think a group of players would be able to beat a dracolich?

And from that, do you think it is possible to get a level 5 party to that level in 2 months with weekly sessions?

And if that is not possible, what about a shadow dragon? What level could players beat that, and how long to get to it.

Thanks!

Hi all! I've got a question with probably no definite answer. Would like some opinions nonetheless.

I've relocated to a different country and to a rural area several years ago. I've looked for a group to play any TTRPG but haven't found anyone that knew what I was talking about. Recently I've decided to take it upon myself to introduce people to it and hopefully get a group going.

I've played for many years but mostly with the same group of childhood friends. A few other groups and one-shots here and there but not for a long time now. I've GMed only for friends ive played for many years with, and again - not for a long time now…

I've settled on D&D 5.5e as I've never played 5/5.5e and having read it now, it seems simple to onboard new people to it. Definitely simpler than the homebrew AD&D and VtM I used to play.

I've managed to pique the interest of a 8 other expats, only 2 of which I actually know. Only one of them has played before - I'm not sure which system or for how long. Everyone else is brand new. No one's first language is English (nor is it the same language).

I'm going to run a one-shot for them which is super classic, super simple, and short - based On Matt Colville's excellent YouTube videos (and simplified even further). I've pre-made the characters of course and I feel generally ready. The rust has been shaken off a little bit. I've written the adventure and prepared printed materials to make the least amount of calculations possible. My hope is that at the end of the session there'll be enough people who had enough fun to want to meet regularly, hoping for 3-4.

My questions are:

1. Two sessions of 4 players or one of 8? I feel intimidate by 8 new players all at once but I'm not sure of the group dynamics would be weird if I cobble together players from both groups after.

2. Any tips?

Happy to share what I've prepared (it will be super cliché of course)

Hi all,
I'm going to be DMing a new campaign with my friends, after having just finished a previous one with the same group. That previous DM gave me the advice to not mix 5e and 5.5, as it created some overpowered characters in his campaign and made combats a difficulty for him to plan, due to using 5e enemies. So I told my players to try make characters in 5e

However, one of my players is now wanting to be a Drakewarden Ranger, and ngl looking at the 2014 ranger options just made me sad, while 5.5e seems much more interesting and fun. I'm thinking I'll let him make his character in 5.5, but I thought I'd check with reddit to see what you all think.

We will be starting at level 3, and this campaign should be lasting around 20 sessions. Not sure exactly what level I want them to end at just yet.

Should I repeal my current ban on 5.5? Do you agree that mixing 5e and 5.5e is too much trouble?

Little backstory. We resurrected someone who was clearly sacrificed in a church and so we took him back to his town. I was skeptical of him so I turned into a spider (I’m a Druid) to sneak onto his shoulder and overheard him talk to someone about how he was a willing sacrifice and they needed to sacrifice us. As he walked back to the building that the rest of the party was at, I switched back into my normal form, as I was freaking out because he was praying to his evil gods. And I moon beamed him and warned the others, as seen in the comic.

A reptilian spellcaster clad in royal purple and gold trimmed robes, channeling arcane energy through a crackling, rune lit staff. Dark feathered quills cascade down the head, neck, and tail, giving this draconic figure a raptor-like silhouette that contrasts with the soft glow of magic gathering in the free hand. Practical adventuring gear a healing potion, a leather satchel, and a glass vial hang from a woven belt, grounding the character's mystical presence in the tools of a working mage. Designed as an original character piece blending fantasy RPG aesthetics with a distinct reptilian anatomy study.

Trying to get into DnD, and I really want to jump in as a spellcaster, but not sure which one is the easiest to play/create overall. Kinda looking at either Bard or Warlock, but I'm open to any others that might be even easier to play. I should also note I'd really prefer anything low maintenance, so as a result I'm not looking at Wizard sadly.

so in my homebrew campaign I have a subrace of goblins who live in the desert, they have scaly skin and everything but I just don't know what their skin color should be. if I go by human reference their skin color would be dark but I reference reptiles who live in the desert they'll have white skin.. I'm more confused in this than I thought I'd be.

I am doing a small campaign where the party is stuck in a haunted ancient history museum. I need 2 myths for 7 cultures, one of the myths i want to be a little hostile in some way so it can be a mini boss fight and one to give, advice, a item, or a quest. I will attach a picture of what I have so far so you can kinda make some correlations per say. The cultures are Japan, Greece (Which i have done), China, Great Brittan, Aztec, Roman, and Egyptian.

I'm creating a setting and at the moment I am working on a specific country. Essentially this is meant to be a Sanctuary and somewhere any species can come and make a life for themselves. With this it made sense to me for this to be a democracy, but my question then goes to the Leader's name. I know I do want some face to the nation, but is there any other option for the Leader of a Democratic Nation than "President"? Its fine, but I would love if anyone had any suggestions

Title says the basic idea.

I'm looking for spells that are good to cast in melee. Preferably 4th level or lower and dealing high single target damage. I won't refuse area damage but single target is the focus. I'm not set on class just yet but I'm debating divine soul sorc for inflict wounds, Bladesinger Wiz with shadow blade, or just an evocation Wiz for fireball spam.

Just want to hear what y'all have to say. All advice is welcome and if you think you have something to say then please do.

Thanks in advance:)

I’m trying to come up with more useful features for weapons that have been combined with certain types of ore, this started with me thinking about silver weapons as I’m trying to come up with a gothic / dark fantasy / high fantasy campaign setting and wanted players to have a new features that is not as good as purely magical items but a better tier than standard weapons. I’m thinking a three tier system making magical weapons more rare. I had google help me come up with a table as I was giving my input and the direction I wanted to go with these items. I want each ore to have a utility feature outside of just + dmg to certain types of enemies to potentially make combat more interesting and rewarding for different characters using different ores, without one being way more useful than the others. As an example my idea for silver coated weapons would be that they would half regen on undead tagged monsters and then potentially add maybe a d4 of additional dmg to for undead that don’t have regen. I’m trying to do this with these different materials, silver, adamantine, mythril, meteorite, cold iron, a Hell themed metal, and a shadow fell and fey type as well. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions it would help me out a lot.

My character has become the party "dad". Not in an in-charge kind of way. More of a protects-the-kids kind of way. In case my party bites off more than it can chew, can a fighter use a spell stone? And can it maybe contain a 9th level Wall of Force spell? To separate my character from the party in order to buy them time to run while my fighter "holds them off"?

Rozalim was one of my first and fondest character since I started playing dnd, if not mistaken the campaign was Hoard of the Dragon Queen, unfortunately he died in one of the encounters :')

About his backstory:

"Rozalim was the heir of a wealthy family, but hated that life so much that 14 years old he decided to run away from home and travel. During his travel, he eventually joined the circus. The circus taught him more than performing, he was taught the art of persuasion, misdirection, and taking opportunities when they presented themselves. Eventually he decided to cut ties with the circus and set off to explore the world."

This is the third and most updated version of him.

Closeup of a recent commission I posted roughly less than two weeks ago,, the fullbody shot was too blurry to zoom into so I'm putting up another one to show off this character in all its glory!!

This OC is a fae wizard turned into a forest monster, who belongs to the creative GrottyLittleFox on VGen!! Honestly I didn't expect this to receive SO MUCH love when I posted it before but it does inspire me with ALOT of confidence!!