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Here's a bit of a PSA from our friends over at U.W.U for an early Halloween special! Got a bit carried away and made 8 panels instead of 4, but if you have a VISION, you just have to follow it! Unless it leads to a quest to find your destiny, those things get nasty quick.

Stay excellent out there! Peace and carrots

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My 40k fancomic Rogue's Retinue: Rogue's Retinue

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My first cosplay meant to portray my OC campaign character (TOTALLY NOT SHADOWHEART-INSPIRED OKAY?) half-elf cleric of Shar with an uhm, slight increase in Strength compared to the tabletop version.
Except for the tiara and ears everything was made by me and making of will be posted to my IG (karo_the_one, just please be patient cause my ADHD effectively prohibits me from doing stuff in a timely matter). Any tips welcome, especially fantasy/dnd make-up wise cause that's one of my weakest points

Kolbo is a monster hunter who travels around dealing with dangerous creatures using a trusty javelin. He was raised by a dwarf after losing his parents when he was young, and much of what he knows comes from the practical lessons his adoptive father taught him. Kolbo has a distinctive appearance, with scales that are a mix of red and turquoise and beige-colored skin. He's used to life on the road and prefers solving problems directly rather than making a big deal out of things. While he's experienced his share of hardships, he doesn't dwell on the past and focuses on the work in front of him, taking on monster-hunting jobs wherever they're needed.

In a fantasy world, there are long-lived races. Should prison sentences vary depending on race?

For example, 25 years in prison could be half of a goblin’s life, while for an elf it could be around 5%.

(Assume prison is a safe place where someone can serve their sentence without threats to their physical or mental health and then be released.)

I'm running a level 20 dungeon crawl culminating in my party facing down a lich. Of course, they need to destroy its phylactery first--but oh no! The lich has several decoy items placed around the dungeon, any one of which could be the real phylactery!

Looking for funny ideas or suggestions to help me fill out this dungeon and send my players off on several wild goose chases. What would your phylactery be?

I just created this character for a player that requested a changeling witch with a massive bird familiar. The bird is blinded by a cloth to keep it at bay, only released to attack and reach hard places. 

It often rests on the witch’s legs, that explains the scars she proudly shows off. 

she casts spells using these rune-engraved orb tied to a rope, swinging them around like a church censer while chanting, using her familiar’s magical feathers to channel her magic.

spent a bit struggling with the pose & picking the right colors, but super proud of how she turned out. I love the blue and purple combo that gives that magical but evil effect

Lilac is a young looking nature dryad with light purple skin, dark purple eyes, and long, pointed ears. She wears a crown woven from thorns and roses, her turquoise hair styled into a messy bob, and her armor is made entirely of living wood and vines. A thin steel whistle hangs from a simple necklace at her throat. In one hand she carries a long, thick claw that doubles as her spell focus, functioning like a small sickle, while a simple wooden staff rests across her back.

Monks are proficient in simple weapons, and all simple weapons (as long as they are not two handed or heavy) count as Monk Weapons. A monk weapon affects the monks features further, including that the damage die they use for them is equal to the monks martial arts die. In the item description of the torch it says it can be used to make attacks and counts as a simple melee weapon that deals 1 fire damage.

I am a freelance illustrator and animator who loves to focus on dnd characters and stories, and have comissions open till the end of the year, if you are interested in working together on a character of yours, a story illustration, book cover designs, or even animated projects, feel free to check out my portfolio:

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Three hundred years of spite! D&D Character Design - Undead Cleric illustration

After a supposedly easy capture of a necromancer went particularly badly, a captain of an order of undead hunters finds himself both jobless as well as lifeless, burried in a tomb with honors and left to rot on his way to the afterlife for over two centuries. Albeit his well deserved rest is cut short by an ethereal voice, beckoning him once again to pick up the duties of his long forgotten order setting him once again on a path of seeming righteousness to complete a task for his god on borrowed time. The skeleton of a man however, has other ambitions.

TLDR: first time DM asking: what apps / systems / software do you use for session music / ambience sounds?

Hello all. Last night I DM’d for the first time (it had been a long time coming), and loved it. I’d spent time putting together a story and battle map, how each character was intro’d and the group really smashed it with what they brought to the table. Was rounded off with proper level 1 combat against giant rats, with the party all getting into slicing / dicing / sniping / blasting!

However, I found managing the music / ambience the in background whilst doing everything else a tad clumsy. Anybody have advice on systems/apps/software they use to manage the music? In particular if music or ambience moves on, best way to have it flow rather than feel like a sudden stop in sound and another cutting in.

Thanks all.

Image attached just to mark the “first time DM-ing” occasion - the party eradicate on giant rats that have infested the city supplies.

I just joined my school D&D club, it’s my last year, I’ve been wanting to get into D&D and I thought it’d be fun. We began our first session today, and I had a lot of fun! However, the ending of that first session was probably among the coolest I’ve ever felt in my life. Basically we were fighting an undead Bugbear(party was four level 1’s). Our sorcerer was already down(she was fine in the end), the rest of us were low, and I had a crazy idea. I’m playing a rock gnome artificer, and my main attacking spell is Tasha’s caustic brew, which requires a piece of rotten food, but earlier our DM said rotten animal flesh was also fine. Anyway, I came up with a crazy plan, and I told our rogue(who had the most health left of the three of us) that if she could cut off even a tiny piece of the Bugbear’s flesh and throw it to me, I could activate my spell. So she goes for it, and when she rolls to hit, she gets a nat 1. But… she’s a halfling, so she rolls again, and gets a 17! She slices off one of the Bugbear’s fingers, and throws it to me, after a close dexterity roll, I catch it in mid air and cast the spell. The undead Bugbear is doused in acid, and after an attack from our Paladin, it goes down. Sorry if that was kind of a basic story, but we all felt so cool doing it! Long story short, I am definitely sticking around long term!

My Patreon is turning six years old this week! That’s a lot of maps. 🙂 Time to celebrate....

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I release a new map pack every Tuesday, and a new Sci-fi/Modern map pack every other Saturday. Often animated, and always setup on Foundry VTT and Fantasy Grounds.

The trial is for my Trailblazer tier, which gives you access to logo-free versions of every map I have released over the past six years... all created by me, with no AI!

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I’ve just started running a game for my kids recently and I’ve tried to go all in to make it magical for them and really immerse them into a magical and great adventure. I’ve seen the healing dice in glass bottle a lot on all sorts of YouTube videos and I thought I’d give it a go rather than spending an arm and a leg to get premade ones. I’m hoping they don’t look too low-effort and I would love some suggestions to improve them and also suggestions on immersion for this campaign I’m running for my kids.

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My first ever campaign with my now husband was back in 2019! We played as a group of children who were just trying their best lol. I wanted to redraw them as adults and look back on how far i've come as an artist and how much the character changed. This campaign is finished by now but the characters still cameo in others. Its always nice to see them.

This post isnt the case but it would be cool to see someone draw art of their party at the beginning of their campaign and then redraw at the end. ours usually last a year or two so I bet the improvement would be cool to see.

Drew my circle of the stars druid tiefling and her raven familiar! I hope to someday have the energy to do dnd character art commissions, but for now here is my oc. :)

I originally mocked up her design in Tomodachi Life, funnily enough, then brought her to life in procreate! Her name is Yuita, and she's a bit spacey, but super fun to play. You can't see it very well here, but she's wearing an earasaid, which I thought was a fun addition!

Walked in and joined a Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign last year, became one of it's more reliable players, along with one other guy, and we with a couple of new guys finished up and got the Teleported to a Different Plane of Reality ending (some weird donut-shaped planet, can't remember the name). The rest of the group decided on a new campaign with new characters, I am sad to see my little kenku cleric be stranded beyond all known reality, but the dm said they're on vacation.

It was a great journey regardless, with many a great achievements, like that time I pile drived a dragon out of the sky, or that time I gave a roc a sore throat. Started out as a little guy, ended as a seven foot tall bird who could turn into a bear at will, wild ride.

Sorry in advance for the length of this post. I'll put a tldr at the bottom if you dont wanna read it all

Hello there. I have kind of a difficult situation here I wanna ask for advice on. It's mainly caused by a miss match of expectations between how I dm for my DnD group and how another person in the group DMs. Currently I'm taking a break from DMing as we hit a good stopping point in a homebrew campaign I was doing and switched over to another person DMing a campaign (also homebrew). Well we're a few sessions in now and I'm really just disappointed in how its going and I'm not having fun at all.

Let me first explain how I DM cause its important to explain my feelings how the other DM in my DnD group DMs. And I wanna preface this by saying I'm not a perfect DM. I have difficulty with balancing, I sometimes railroad the players to the story, and I have difficulty with improv and making things up on the fly. Flaws aside, for every session, I make detailed maps and plan out rooms individually with different encounters and loot. I try and do different voices for characters, I listen to my players feedback and try and change things to be most fun for everyone, I put aside different music to play during sessions to make the campaign feel more atmospheric, and I try and have an overarching story for the players to follow, it loosely (not a big sandbox dm as I mentioned before where Im not good with making things up on the spot). Overall I put a lot of time and effort into dming and making as quality a game as possible.

What I'm looking for in a campaign is akin to what I give in a campaign. I want a well thought out story, I want to play my characters like they're actually people with flaws, a backstory, motivations, and not just a character sheet. I want to see at least some effort put in visually on maps so I can understand better whats going on. I want a dm who will work with me and take suggestions for how things should change to be more fun. Unfortunately, in the current campaign and really all the other campaigns done by this DM and the other players in my Dnd group who have DM'd, its just not what I've been getting. The sessions are pretty boring. Its obvious to the players there's no actual plan for where the story is going even though the DM said it would be a story based game with heavy rp. Everything is made up on the spot and its so awkward and half baked that we actually had to wipe the first session cause it made no sense and we didn't do anything. I've multiple times given the DM ideas for how I think different parts of the sessions should go so I can having interesting story moments for my characters only to be ignored and those moments instead be... well nothing. I made maps for the DM for a session since it involved a bastion my played would have and I wanted it to look cool as we explored it but he kept the main conflict in the starting room and didnt let us explore the rest after we defeated the main enemy. He just skipped us along and said "Alright you all empty out the rest of the dungeon." still angry about this because i spent multiple hours on it only be send to an unbalanced boss battle in the first room and then not get to even see the rest of the place even if i know what it looks like.

I know I shouldn't put expectations on other DMs for how they should be DMing its not fair. I'm just disappointed cause in a way I feel like the main DM in my dnd group kind of holding the whole thing together cause none of the other peoples campaigns last longer than a few sessions but I dont want to be the DM all the time. The process burns me out quite a bit. I like being a player. The most fun I have in DnD is creating a character cause I love putting a lot of thought into my characters and I get so angry when the campaigns in my DnD group die because the campaigns weren't anywhere near planned out to begin with.

My advice that I want is how to deal with this. Has anyone else gone through this kind of thing before? Im sure i just have to accept that people have different dming styles and I cant expect someone to put in as much effort into dming as I do. I'll have to find another table to play at. I just need to hear it from someone else cause I've been a little depressed about it the last few weeks and havent really decided what im gonna do cause currently spending 3 hours of my already very limited time every week isnt working for me anymore.

TLDR: I put a lot more time into dming than other poeple in my dnd group and its given me expectations for how I think the games should be run when the other players take a lot less time to prep for sessions and the games are less fun to me then overall because of that.

So far I have been studying the rulebook to try and learn how to run a DND game as a beginner DM. but I can't tell which rules do I really need to learn. does it really need to be everything cause it seems a bit much to remember all of it?

if not, what rules/mechanics are the most important to understand as a DM?

This is Mael, my planeswalker dueling our antagonist "Shar's Nameless", a Netherese wizard king who sacrificed their very identity to Shar for revenge on Mystra, goddess of magic, after the fall of Netheril.

Mael is a wild mage in possession of the Greater Mark of Passage. He lives in Sigil and travels the multiverse trying to master magic from every plane in hopes of learning something capable of restoring Athas. His staff is called The Last Branch, and was bequeathed to him by the Last Tree of Athas as part of a vow to restore the world. He has defied and counterspelled Mystra at our table which led to her appointing him as her "Rogue Chosen".

Due to Shar's Nameless' entire Netherese civilization collapsing due to defying Mystryl this made Mael a target for our antagonist as they despise that Mael was seemingly rewarded for what wiped their entire nation.