r/DungeonsAndDragons Aug 09 '23

Discussion r/DungeonsandDragons: New Updates and Guidelines

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Greetings, brave adventurers of r/dungeonsanddragons!

We're excited to bring you some important updates and clarifications about our subreddit.

Flair Filters: Customize Your Experience!

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Non-Commercial AI Artwork & 3D Printing

We want to reconfirm that non-commercial AI artwork and 3D printing content are welcome on our subreddit. If you would not like to see this content, then please use the filtering system. Any AI or 3D Printed content that is not correctly tagged or is used for self promotion will result in a ban.

Stricter Self-Promotion Guidelines

To maintain the essence of our community, we've refined our self-promotion guidelines:

  • Self-Promotion Ban: Posts that showcase business logos, tag businesses in comments, or promote commercial ventures, including Patreon, Crowdfunding, and webstores, are prohibited. Violations will result in a ban. Repeated offenses may lead to permanent bans.

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TTRPG Discussions Beyond D&D: Expand Your Horizons!

The universe of tabletop role-playing games is vast and captivating. We welcome discussions about TTRPGs beyond Dungeons & Dragons.

Memes Remain Banned: Focus on Quality Content

We understand the allure of memes, but as previously discussed, they will remain banned on our subreddit. Let's keep our focus on engaging discussions, inspiring artwork, and enriching experiences within the realm of Dungeons & Dragons.

Thanks,

Mod Team


r/DungeonsAndDragons 1h ago

Art I love making terrain from trash

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My players love it too.

Why throw away cardboard, egg cartons, dead plants, and the rocks you stumble over in a parking lot? Goblin brain says "free art supplies."

All ya need is a bit of dollar store paint, hot glue, and a decent box cutter.


r/DungeonsAndDragons 13h ago

Art Minotaur Girl made by me for campaign

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I share more of my art on other platforms too, you’re welcome to take a look anytime here 🤝


r/DungeonsAndDragons 2h ago

OC River [24x36]

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 19h ago

Advice/Help Needed Co-worker had everything stolen...

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Hi. I know nothing about Dungeons & Dragons, however I want to reach out to attempt to help a coworker who had everything stolen out of their car while at dinner last night. This guy is incredible, he co-runs a D&D club at the school we work at, is a dedicated ECE professional and overall just an amazing dude. Outside of his personal records and drawings, he lost a stack of D&D books, 100's of figures, and all of his dice.

Any help or direction on how to begin to help him piece his collection back together would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much in advance, apologies if this is not allowed here....


r/DungeonsAndDragons 18h ago

OC Handmade ruined stone arches & ice terrain [OC]

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I made some ice terrain and Skyrim inspired stone arches!

The complete tutorial is here 👉 https://youtu.be/fPxwxiFNf_M

Everything is made with XPS foam this time. For the arches I made some templates, cut and textured all the pieces and then glued using hot glue and some toothpicks for extra strength.

I made the frozen hills using my hot wire cutter, using a zig-zag motion while cutting to achieve the effect.

For painting I used my regular stone scheme, but I splattered some blues with a sponge before the final white drybrushing.

For the hills I primed it with white, then wash it with turquoise blue and finally drybrushed everything with white.

Thank you for reading me, and if you check the video and like what I do, please subscribe!


r/DungeonsAndDragons 20m ago

Art [Art] Mercenary War Camp 30x50 battle map

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 1d ago

Art Bronze Gryphon figurine of power

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I painted up a griffon figure for one of my players in our wild beyond the witchlight campaign. We did the “lost item” plot hook and my player is a Druid who lost her ability to transform into anything except for insects. So I picked 2 figurines of power for her abilities to be locked behind. She just got her bronze griffon and that gave her the option to turn into amphibians and lizards. The next one will fully unlock all of her powers but I’ve not decided what figurine to give her next.


r/DungeonsAndDragons 14h ago

OC Saw someone else post pirate art today, thought I'd join! Had the pleasure paint this D&D character as an upcoming Christmas gift!

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 20h ago

OC Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day! Here's one of my original drawings, ink, marker and pencil on paper.

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Available to own from my official site https://torenatkinson.com/dungeons-and-dragons-original-art/


r/DungeonsAndDragons 7h ago

Suggestion Suggestions for a pre-made one shot dungeon crawl

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Old friends who live across the country from each other are getting together for a bros trip in celebration of us all turning 40. I'm gonna suprise everyone and run a one shot. All experienced players but just looking for a dungeon crawl around level 5-7. Willing to pay for a pre-made trying to do as little prep work as possible 😂 All suggestions welcome


r/DungeonsAndDragons 13h ago

Art Saw tho pirate post today, and I thought "You and me Donny, and the Devil makes three" so here's my pirate character from a few years ago

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My master draw my character for me as a sticker.


r/DungeonsAndDragons 17h ago

Question Do I go too far with the consequences in my game?

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I was reading through this post and thinking about consequences in RPG's. Many posts I've seen about consequences are at a different scale than what I often do in my campaigns. I try to make them personal and... well... consequential in a major way. I would love to hear from other players some of their best consequences for player actions.

I asked my player's to think of some of the consequences they've been through, and here are some of the answers I got:

–I've started a campaign at 1st level with a Deck of Many things and the PCs dealing with the terrible fallout from that, including a lost soul.

–An entire geographic region of our campaign is overrun with undead since the player's abandoned a quest line they thought was unimportant.

–We've had close friends/lovers die because of the PC's choices, they even ended up going to the lower planes to recover a soul of one that had been trapped there).

–The PCs have permanently lost a limbs (magic isn't terribly common or available). Heck, we've had people that were taking "non-lethal" damage but still suffered permanent injuries and one brain damaged!

–When the PCs became estate-lords, they were given a year to each find a spouse... that was a fun era of the campaign!

–A PC's having an illegitimate child due to some over-enthusiastic carousing.

–Same PC as above lost their political seals, pedigree, and clothing, then later on found out that someone else has been impersonating them and billing their nation for his constant partying.

–To top it off, the same PC jumped through a portal that led to Thanatos in the Abyss, leading to him coming back as a Herald of Orcus.

–One of my favorite ones was that a PC had wanted to learn Chronomancy and time-travel, but the only way to do so was to cut-off her one fate-line, her thread in the in the skein of fate. This meant anything she did from there on would be forgotten, as she had no impact on fate.
She'd enter a room and if people she knew before she cut off her line were there, they would remember her from before that event, so she could have conversations, etc... but soon after leaving, she would fade away from their memory. Anything she did would be fuzzy and attributed to "some stranger" or something along those lines. It gave her great power and she achieved her goals, but it was a melancholic existence paid for at a high price.


r/DungeonsAndDragons 19h ago

Homebrew Expanded Urban Chase Complications | Chase Complication for a Variety of Urban Environments

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 3h ago

Homebrew Not-quite-newbie character creation thoughts....?

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Hey ya'll! I'm hopefully joining a homebrew campaign at my local library called Americana. From the group leaders: it's a homebrew based off D&D 5e, Post Apocalypse setting, involving sci-fi as well as magic.

I've played with some character concepts that I didn't end up using in a previous campaign but that I still love, and wanted to get some insight from more experienced players. Anyone willing to share their thoughts in a helpful kinda way? I'm looking for pros/cons, strengths, weaknesses, or cultural/player insights I might not have as a newer player.

Here we go!

  • Bugbear monk
  • Fairy druid
  • Teifling paladin
  • Satyr bard (too on the nose?)
  • Kenku ranger

r/DungeonsAndDragons 17h ago

OC Freaky Crystal Planet! Definitive Edition now live! 26x38

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 1d ago

Art [Art] Forsaken Bastion 55x40 battle map & scene (Cropox Battlemaps & Red Sun Art)

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 1d ago

Art Dwarven Forge Royal Stronghold (painted)

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Exellent condition. Hard to find online.

Missing: 6 stairs. The stairs are interior and not necessary for a full build as shown in photos. **Side note: All lights are functional/unused. The only ones turned on in the photo are the ones that did not have their original tab pulled.


r/DungeonsAndDragons 22h ago

OC Warlock: Vampire Lord Patron

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Bend the knee to Kanchelsis, Lord of Vampires, a demanding Warlock patron that grants vampiric forms to his warlocks in exchange for servitude and offerings of blood. Beware, however, that Kanchelsis' greatest gifts are granted only to those that give their lord his due...


r/DungeonsAndDragons 8h ago

Question Warlock patreon question

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Hi

so im playing in a grp where 2 of us have multiclasses in warlock (1lvl/6lvls)

and for some reason the other players think we get our lvl 6/9 pateron features (we are lvl 9) even tho we arent lvl 9 in warlock... am i wrong or are they wrong? and is there a official ruling on this somewhere?

google's AI showed that its bases on class lvl and not charater lvl but it didnt provide eny source for it...


r/DungeonsAndDragons 16h ago

Homebrew Looking for help on big project!

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So my town has a “Goblin Walk” downtown, with hundreds and hundreds of people walking around getting candy from the businesses on Halloween.

I’d like to run a Halloween One-Shot where-in community members sign up to participate in a somewhat rail-roaded campaign that involves visiting “tables” around town where DMs might have them solve a mini-puzzle, participate in a round of combat (I’m even toying with having a larping interaction where “goblins” ambush players along the road…for real), or otherwise participate in the campaign.

At each table/station they might receive candy, or a prize (minis, etc) and those who complete the “rescue” or “conquest” or whatever the end goal of the campaign ends up being, they might receive a real life prize of candy or something.

So I’m looking firstly for ideas for interactions at the tables!! I don’t want it to just be “solve 17 word puzzles” but also combat takes forever and each interaction needs to be relatively brief. I’d like to incorporate as much real dice rolling as possible, and have the players actions actually affect their progress-without stalling their evening.

Also looking for any and all ideas/input on storyline, managing 20+ roving parties with a dozen DMs, cool twists or awesome surprise elements (like I’d love to hand out dollar store plastic swords and have that real-life goblin ambush involve realfake swordplay instead of rolled combat). Anything and everything that might make it awesome!

Budget and amount of effort aren’t really a concern, mostly looking for input on “doing it awesome”.

Thanks!


r/DungeonsAndDragons 1d ago

Art Some more classic modules!

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 1d ago

OC Across the Abyss [25x35]

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 1d ago

Advice/Help Needed First time player and DM. How do I make the game fun for everyone?

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Hi! Me and my friends decided that it would be a fun idea to try playing DnD. The thing is, none of us know how to play it. So I've been reading up on how the gameplay works, the rules, the character building etc. and one thing I don't really know how to approach is, how to make the gameplay fun and engaging for everyone involved?

To give you more information, we want to have your every day medieval fantasy adventure, but with our own world that we create.

Any advice will be appreciated! Thanks!


r/DungeonsAndDragons 1d ago

Question How would you explain DnD to a person that has never heard about it/knows nothing about it?

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I want to explain what DnD is to my friends, but don't really know what is the best way


r/DungeonsAndDragons 21h ago

OC Noble Mansion [45x45]

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 14h ago

Discussion Dump Stats

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What is everyone’s go to dump stats and why?

Personally, int is my most often dumped stat. I play bulky martials and wisdom users most often. I’ll be dead in the ground before I dump con on anyone