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A piece I painted for my D&D campaign :)

A young priestess devoted to a Spider God. Chosen as a child to serve as her voice, she walks a path where faith is unquestioned, but respect has to be earned. (Being a kid and a spiritual leader is not an easy feat)

Each dawn, her robes are woven anew by the faithful, a sacred ritual symbolizing her bond with the deity. This painting is part of a larger worldbuilding project exploring the campaign setting.

Had the chance to do this drawing recently. Fun character to work on!

Description from the player:
Silas - Born the son of a village miller, he traded a predictable life for the open road after realizing he was better at solving problems with grit. Years of guarding caravans, drilling with mercenaries, and surviving impossible contracts shaped him into a level headed warrior. Has a very dry sense of humor. Somehow his hair always looks perfect, even in battle.
Focused on Polearm Master, Sentinel, and Precision Attack. High Strength and Constitution, Athletics proficiency, solid Perception.

Yes, D&D is a place where you should play the sort of characters you want (well, okay, barring any r/rpghorrorstories fodder). Of course you should never shame a person for how they play a character (again, unless it's r/rpghorrorstories). But even then, there are some character aspects that annoy you, even if you don't admit it. (Because again, D&D is meant as a means to forget about life for a while.)

So....what character traits/cliches annoy you?

(For me: barbarians who are Grog rip-offs and "wacky" murderhobos who blow up everything because "random violence is funny rofl." Joke characters can also get very cringey a lot of the time- especially when they're only funny once/the player constantly tries to get people to laugh at them- but I've actually seen a few that are pretty well done.)

I understand that D&D Beyond includes useful tools, searchable rules, and character-builder integration. But it still bothers me that after paying full price for a digital book, I cannot download a normal PDF and keep an independent copy.

I’m not asking to distribute books publicly. I just want to download the product I paid for and share it privately with the people actually playing in my campaign.

Does this bother anyone else, or do the convenience and digital tools make the restriction feel reasonable to you?

I need some advice on what to do.

I’m playing a level six alchemist artificer (I am using the 2025 version) in my current campaign and I really love my character however, it seems my DM does not.

Before starting the campaign, I talked about my character with my DM and they seemed very on board with it. My character would be the parties support by crafting Health potions and other supporting items while still having magic and weapons to attack and do more healing.

I thought the sessions were going along really well. I was having a lot of fun with the group and liked the world my DM made but as more sessions were going on the more it became apparent that my DM does not like artificers.

When I try to craft potions it’s “you don’t have the right ingredients”. When I tried to craft tools and items for the party using the normal crafting system cause we had some downtime it’s “alchemist can’t do that”.

When I would try to look and forage for ingredients to make potions, my DM would say that there are no plants and herbs you can find. LIKE NO HERBS OR PLANTS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOREST!?! NOT EVEN LITTLE DANDELIONS IN CREVICES IN THE TOWN!?!

So I thought ok maybe I could plant some herbs as we have a garden in the manor we are staying in and have our Druid speed up the growth but my DM said that I cannot plant medicinal herbs as they could be seen as bad and would get us kicked out of the manor.

Whenever I try to do any action or class features like replicate magic item or make a homunculus we have to stop everything and go on like a 10 to 15 minute journey to look through the rules cause they think I’m lying or doing something overpowered.

I don’t think I’m doing anything overpowered, and there are definitely people in our party that do crazy crazy damage or effects that do not get questioned.

I have played with this DM before and had no problems with my other character that was a warlock that have definitely done more wild things it only now that I’m an artificer that gets me questioned and raised eyebrows.

Hope this is okay to post here, this is for a modified 5e for a Stargate RPG. This Eldalote, an Aturen medic from the House of Stars who recently became a member of the new Phoenix Site's SG-21 team. She's a pacifist and refuses to pick up arms, but she will wade into any danger if it means helping others (or researching ways to cure her home planet's Great Shame, a scarred area which no longer supports life after a great conflict many years ago).

Art by u/Specialist-Drink6014 !

His name is Reni, an orphan (real original, I know) who has lived a life of crime and is now in a mostly unwilling pact with an evil marid (water genie). He may look gruff, but is really a sweet little baby under all the fur and tattoos. It's very fun to play a strength-based blade warlock.

This is his updated looks after a 6 month long downtime, where he's now more punk looking than ever. The mohawk was an improvised bit but I can't see him without it now.

Art is by my boyfriend, who generously keeps drawing my characters. Check him out at @avery.rain.arts on instagram

Lore: Kaela Lenore Catherine von Ravenscroft III was born weak, hidden away by her noble family of monster hunters. Desperate to prove herself, she died grasping the ancestral blade. The shattered sword fused with her corpse, rebuilding her as a Reborn Warlock. Now, she serves sword entity, and divide your body with the Mara soul, the spirit of vengeance from the House of Lament, wielding her cursed blade and armor. She is a living curse, forever caught between the frail girl who died and the monster she has become, driven by rage and a need for answers. (Warlock for Curse of Sthrad Campaing)

I drew her the way I’d like to draw other D&D characters; I handle various types of commissions for the D&D and RPG universe, so if you like this and want something similar, feel free to contact me! ;)

I'm the DM for a homebrew D&D campaign, and after our latest session we ended up having a 30-minute debate over map colors.

At the beginning of the campaign, the party met a mysterious NPC who exists in a dark blue spiritual realm. They already know he's connected to a special resource called Souls, and they know he's important.

As they explore the dungeon, they got a map after beating a mini boss. One room is highlighted in blue and marked with "???". The idea is that this blue room on the map represents the location where they'll be able to meet that NPC again.

Later, after the party collected their first Souls, I explicitly told them that the question marks on the map started glowing brighter, almost as if they were calling them, as a hint that something had changed there.

One of my players then said his character was looking for "a room that is blue."

I assumed he meant the room highlighted in blue on the map.

During the search, I described a door located exactly where that room was on the map. As a joke, I also said that his character found "no signs of a room that was blue." What I meant was that there wasn't a room that was literally blue. However, he interpreted that as confirmation that such a room existed somewhere else in the dungeon and that he simply hadn't found it yet.

A few minutes later, I realized he wasn't actually looking for the room marked in blue on the map. Instead, he believed that because the room was blue on the map, there had to be a literal blue door somewhere in the dungeon leading to it.

From my perspective, the blue color was simply a player-facing map/UI indicator. In the game world, neither the room nor its entrance was actually blue. The real clue was that the room marked with the glowing question marks was connected to the mysterious NPC the party had already met—the one who would later teleport them to the spiritual realm where he resides. The room itself is a normal one, and they would be teleported back to the room after the meeting

We eventually realized it was all just a misunderstanding, but then we spent about 30 minutes debating whether I should have made the actual door blue to match the map.

I argued that the map colors existed only to help the players identify important locations and weren't meant to represent the physical appearance of the dungeon.

My player argued that if a room is blue on the map, it's reasonable to expect some in-world visual cue—such as a blue door—leading to it.

So... who messed up here? Was my map misleading, or did my player just take the map too literally?

Edit: Just to be clear, this wasn't an actual argument or conflict. We all found it funny once we realized what had happened. The 30-minute discussion happened after the session as we joked about whether the map was misleading or whether my player had taken it too literally. Nobody was upset, i was just curious what other DMs and players think.

Edit 2: A few people have said I should have corrected the misunderstanding immediately, and that's fair. One thing I forgot to mention is that we play online. After I described the door in the correct location, my player went quiet for a bit while he processed that it was the door leading to the blue-marked room and also because he can't type well because of his device.