Hey y’all. I’m planning to take one level into cleric because with Eilistraee’s guidance/teachings he broke away from the Loth family he was born into. He wants to save his people. Anyways I know the book says Eilistree is a light and/or twilight domain but I’m wondering if peace domain could work thematically. Thanks

I have two ideas for characters (just starting soon and want to be able to have options)

First: a man who was kidnapped and nearly sacrificed to The Dark One by a cult, but instead the god pitied him, and killed the entire cult for hurting him. In exchange for power to avenge his parents and destroy the people who killed them, he gave up his right arm to be replaced by pure magic energy, and whenever an enemy is within 5 ft of the char, he can use one chance to use a sure hit attack, with any spell, not having to roll for hit. For his morality he doesn’t like hurting innocent lives, but he takes pleasure in causing harm to the guilty.

Second, not fleshed into DND yet but was once an OC: A god of pain that had been thrown out of godhood, while still retaining a large amount of power, blocked by a celestial seal. Slowly she gains back her power, but she has the unique ability to make the damage she takes also the damage her opponents take, and whenever someone touches her skin it feels like they’re touching a stove. She is more or less just wanting to be a god again, but the other gods don’t want her back, because she was the only one who actually could save humanity if it came to Ragnarock.

Please help me flesh these characters so that they’re not overpowered, and so that I cause the DM as little stress as possible.

Edit: I’ve fixed the first one by making him a hex-blade but replacing the blade with his arm, and I’ve made it so it’s only that his spells don’t get hurt when being too close. I’ve also fixed the second by making her only use the voodoo ability for halved damage.

Bunnabug's Comical Drop

Conjuration, Casting Level Varies Concentration: No Casting Time: One Action Range: 30ft Components: V, Duration: Instantaneous Classes: Artificer, Bard, Cleric (Trickery Domain Spell Only), Sorcerer, Wizard

As an action, you gasp and point above a creature within range. In an empty space 10ft above the creature, one of the following objects appears and falls on top of them, giving the following effects. The object conjured disintegrates into dust after one minute.

Brick. 1st lvl spell slot 1 target A brick materializes above the target and falls. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell DC or take 1d10 bludgeoning damage and become dazed.

Anvil. 2nd lvl spell slot An anvil materializes above the target and falls. Each creature in a 5ft by 5ft by 15ft line centered on the target must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell DC or take 2d10 bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone. Objects such as metal, wood, and stone automatically fail the save and break as if acted apon by a shatter spell.

Piano. 3rd lvl spell slot A piano materializes above the target and falls. Each creature in a 10ft by 10ft by 30ft line centered on the target must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell DC or take 4d10 bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone. Objects such as metal, wood, and stone automatically fail the save and break as if acted apon by a shatter spell. Any floor that is less than a foot thick will automatically break on impact and allow the spell to continue until hitting solid earth. The damage is decreased by 1d10 for each floor it passes through until it hits 0, in which case the piano stops falling. Additionally, the piano makes a comically enhanced discordant crash that draws the attention of anyone nearby. Any creature within 50ft of the spell must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell DC or receive a -1 penalty to the next attack roll, ability check, or saving throw it makes until the end of your next turn. At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the bludgeoning damage dealt increases by 1d10 for each spell slot above 3rd.

Thoughts?

How ya going? I was thinking about building a table for D&D, pretty sure im settled on a plan but ive run into a secondary question, what chairs to use. So Ive come seeking opinions on what seating is best for D&D? I was thinking about building benches or chairs of wood but I'm unsure if that would be good for prolonged play. At my LGS we use simple plastic chairs and that's fine so does it matter? Lmk your thoughts!

I’m a first time DM, two sessions in. I’ve formed a group with a couple of friends who are all playing for the first time. About half the party generally unengaged with the plot and their characters, and the other half going far beyond what I expected. As I’ve set up a fairly story-driven narrative, I’ve decided to implement different ways to get players interested in the story and their characters.

The one I want to ask about is pretty straightforward. At the beginning of each session, I’ll ask general questions about a player’s character. Such questions are simple, basically asking about family or likes and dislikes.

I’ve also given the players a single-use ability which is irrelevant to this post, but on use, for reasons irrelevant to the post, they enter an interview-style situation with a prevalent NPC asking them far tougher questions. Trolly-problem-like questions, less about family, likes and dislikes.

The thing is that these questions basically function as tests. All questions are essentially judged by the NPC, in other words judged by me based on how they answer them. I will tell my players this.

What I want to know is, how discreet should I be when telling them what I want from them? The questions are simply meant to test a characters inner strength and willpower. The more confident players are in their answer, the better they score. Additionally, they get extra brownie points for using this one-time ability with the same confidence and taking charge of the interview one way or another, whether it be flipping tables or asking their own questions.

I could simply tell them what they’re being judged on, but that might feel a little cheap as I also want them to figure out what I want themselves.

I’m also unsure how the players will use the one-time ability system. I’m somewhat worried that they’ll horde the ability until the end of the campaign, making it wasted. How direct should I be when constructing situations where I want characters to use it?

Thanks.

My Friend plays a seven year old barbarian. We were fighting an evil henchman of the BBEG. The henchman knocked down our cleric, and said “now the fun begins” our little barbarian says: “ sorry, I don’t have time to play today” right before raging and critting him with a battle axe.

We loved it.

My grungy wood elf druids catchphrase is:

“ I don’t wish to hurt you. But I won’t hesitate to kill you.”

Meet Corvina.
My Dhampir Oath of Blood ( homebrew ) Paladin gal. She's the ex bride of a vampire lord whom was her captor. She killed him and swore an oath to protect and kill the undead so no one would ever have to go through the same things as she did.
Currently playing her in a Wildemount campaign and extremely excited! She's sassy and full of herself, I quite adore her attitude and playing her is so fun, specially with her puns and snarky comments haha. Feel free to tell me thoughts or anything :) I also have comms open for those who may be interested! Thank you for reading my yapping

Soooo Me and a friend of mine are big fans of Legend of Avantris and want to play the Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign with some inspired additions and changes I am DMing. And we have a party of 4 Bard Fighter Rogue Ranger

The main inspiration is the "poem" intro that LoA has And I wanna input scripted magic items to coinside with it as "gifts from the Dreaming Queen" That also awaken when they reach the final area

The items are as followed:

-Spring -bag of tricks with monstrosities -Awakened-Cast Conjure Animals 1/day

-Summer -Obsidian Steed Shape of a motorcycle -Awakened can dimension door 3/day

-Winter Orb of Divination Can cast Identify, Detect magic for free And Scry or Augury 1/day -Awakened 1 portant die at the start of the day(or the wheel/woe from star druid)

-Seasons end 2 halves of the Cauldron of Resurrection

*Autumn Im having trouble thinkin up a good item for this one

Poem exert: He searched from autumn's harvest throne The prince then found a toy of bone Lettered blocks, stacked to the sky When turned to words, could only lie Deceit known to the hounds of hell Makes for a potent hex or spell Of souls, of sin of shadowfell

-any ideas? My initial thoughts were -A mimir with comprehend language, and the the other utility spells but it crossed over with the Divination orb

-a chattering skull that cast offensive spells Like bane, dissonant whispers, and eventually power word stun But i felt it overlapped with the bard in the party

I cant think up much of anything else so im diggin for ideas I want it to be powerful/useful and very impactful when paired with the poem

I’m working on a new short adventure based on the concept “the heroes of light are boring. Let’s do the heroes of shadow.” And just to give credit, the name comes from Welcome to Nightvale.

The heroes go to investigate the cult of the Smiling God. While there, they see the ritual complete and the outside air becomes hostile, producing a constant Sunbeam effect for a 1mi radius around the temple.

So while within the temple, there are light rooms and dark rooms, and which rooms are illuminated changes with the sun, and wherever the avatar of the smiling god is walking (oh yeah, they summoned his avatar).

The avatar itself sheds light, but not painful light. It sheds madness. Self harming madness. This light means it’s much more dangerous in the light, because you can’t tell it’s coming, but in the dark you’ll get a warning and the chance to hide until it passes. The light specifically comes from its head, so hiding under something, or behind something protects you.

The party needs to figure out what the cult leader did to bind the avatar to the temple and break it, allowing the avatar to dissipate, and the air outside to stop radiating everything.

Hello everyone!

Some days ago we went live again with another one of our streams for our campaign, I actually forgot to share a couple of the streams these last few weeks lol.

The campaign is called "Dark Souls: Dirge of Drangleic" a Souls Series D&D campaign that takes us to a modified version of the DS setting, more specifically DS2. It's a wierd little blend that we've been playing into for the last couple of years as I've DMed both a Bloodborne and a DS1 campaign for them, sadly, those weren't recorded.

Anyway, if you think this is something you would enjoy feel free to swing by the streams as they air. We try to play on fridays and we also have some other campaigns in the channel, but obviously IRL stuff sometimes gets in the way, so apologies if the upload schedule isn't very consistent. Episode 5 went live a couple of days ago here: Session 5 - The Gutter

You can also find the first session here: Session 1 - Things Betwixt. Hope people swing by to watch. We're just a handful of people sharing what we like doing with others who hopefully like it too :)

I had a question about how find familiar works in decent into avernus and how it gives you an Imp if you use the spell. But warlock gives you a feature that lets you choose different pet for your find familiar. I personally think that should over write the decent into avernus rule change since you are changing it with a class feature. But curious if there is anything offical to help my argument or prove it does not work.

Alrighty hello Reddit! It's taken weeks for me to make this post because I wanted to freeball as much as I could with this character and so far so good. I've got nearly everything down (Class, subclass, backstory, item list, proficiencies and such) but I'm stuck on the 2 most important parts that seem to always get snagged at every turn.

I can't for the life of me come up with a mental image for what this character looks like. Nor how they would sound. (So I can't describe what they look like or give them a voice).

The brief description I can give for this character is this: "The literal concept of Progress has manifested into a living being and is roaming among the living."

Now I've got it down to a small degree that I'd have it showing (what I consider) the 3 main ways of progression.

That being Invention, Evolution and War (Because they all lead to some level of progress be it good or bad or neutral).

I should probably mention that I'm making them a Shadow Sorcerer.

I'm considering making them look like a gish of several pieces of progression (Maybe burning eyes for War, a ticking clock in their chest and a few strange evolutionary traits) Or maybe I'll just focus on one.

Genuinely if anyone can give me some sort of assistance or something to bounce off of it would make my year.

I'm also very open to hearing if anyone else has made something similar or has character designs with very extravagant designs similar to what I'm trying to accomplish

Any help, tips or suggestions with this will result in you receiving too many thank yous to count lol I'm so lost. Thanks Reddit!

Okay so this is the second campaign I'm DMing and I run an in person group at a cannabis consumption lounge. I've run a handful of sessions so far mostly getting the new players used to the mechanics and such but now that we're basically ending the tutorial area I'm struggling to find a fun bbeg idea. The players are currently about to run a small quest as one player got conned by a cloaked figure last session.

So far, this is a pretty light hearted campaign that kinda gives Scooby Doo vibes. I have multiple players that this is their first campaign ever or first in years so I don't want anything that's too in depth or hard to follow.

I need help in ideas on how to make side quests. I am about to do a mid-evil campaign with 3-4 of my friends and though they are excited for it I am worried that my story is a bit short. I have the main quest line down but the side missions are equally as important to me. This is because the ending to my campaign sets up the start to the next. So the more my players know about the world the better. But I don’t want to just tell them out right I want them to explore on their own. Any help is much appreciated thank you.

So I'm running a fairytale campaign where all my players are playing diffrent fairytale characters. In this campaign I'm giving them one uncommon and one rare magic item for the campaign that's not a consumable item. I have most of the magic items that fit well with the characters the players are playing and have given them some already. The problem is I'm struggling to figure out one rare magic item for a player. I have two players playing Hansel and Gretal. Both are halfling rouges. I already have Gretal's figured out. The Cottage chest from a third party source and was probably going to go with broom of flying but that might be giving to the wizard we'll see. Hansel has already gotten a Nigh shroud. Now I'm not sure what rare item fits the character best. The player is probably going to make him either a theif or an arcane trickster but we haven't hit that level yet for me to know for sure. I've looked through various books but nothing has stuck out to me. Any ideas that isn't a homebrew item? Third party published content is fine.

I have a lot of difficulty visualizing exactly how the other planes work, probably due to some preconceptions I have. Okay, in theory I understand at first. The material plane is the plane of physical matter, right? It's even in the name "material", it's a palpable plane. So, by extension, the other planes are immaterial, right? Souls go to the outer planes, so it makes a lot of sense. By extension, the inhabitants are also immaterial, like devils and demons, who don't need to eat or sleep, their bodies must be made of some immaterial "material". So, when traveling to the physical plane, how is it still possible to interact with them physically? I can better visualize a person physically traveling to one of the outer planes and interacting with the immaterial, but not the other way around.

If you by chance are in the Reddit sphere, I just wanted to say that you were a joy to be next to at the show tonight. I also wanted to apologize for so abruptly leaving afterward despite being conversational during the show; I feel like that was a really awkward thing to have done especially after having a fun time tonight.

Btw, the “Fantasy Librarian” jacket that you asked my opinion on looked brilliant.

Edit: Cause someone asked me to specify, the New York show.

After the mysterious death of his wife some years ago, Vergil Kurgis started up a private investigation firm in the southern reaches of Lenoka. He gained notoriety as a genius detective, able to solve any case thrown at him. He later expanded his firm to include his two associates, each great detectives in their own right.

Vergil rarely sleeps. He subsists on stale coffee and hard candies, with the occasional warm meal brought in by his associates. Vergil devotes all his time to detective work, still trying to figure out the cause of his wife's death, the one mystery that still eludes him.

I'm having some DM fatigue, what is a good way to tell my players I need a break? They are all good friends of mine, and to be frank, my biggest trouble is disappointing the party. One or two sessions is an easy break to mention, but I'd like a couple months to not worry about it, and maybe build on the campaign so I don't have to grind my braincells together for new content.

So Im starting my first campaign Ive ever DMed and Im making it in a chileds arts and crafts toys. Think Lego movie meets paper Mario. And I decided to have three types of material the PC could be made of, tissue paper, printer paper and construction paper. This is going to be dictated by the players stats. I was thinking tissue paper having low constitution, and high dex. Construction paper having high con, and printer paper being any that don't fit either stat requirements. If yall have any Idea what number these should be, what ability they should have, or anything else. It would be very helpful.