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This was a backup character I made for an old campaign but never got to play them. Decided to do some art to go along with them!

Umbra was a young and rebellious Kenku, often getting himself into trouble and would simply use his wits or speed to get out of the problems he'd cause.
One day this came back to bite him however as he accidentally opened a rift while messing with an unknown artefact. He disappeared with a blink into a dark purple portal and seemingly was just gone forever.

However, 14 years later, he managed to blink back, but he was unrecognisable. Often huddled, covered in grim and blood, missing a leg and constantly seeking out all potential threats around him. He had to change into a completely different bird to survive and who knows what kind of unseen scars those experiences left behind.

(Definitely not inspired by Jumanji or anything!)

I don't know if y'all experienced this, but there is a lot of targeted marketing for DnD slop content going around, especially in IG and Facebook. It is always some form of massive bundle at a greatly reduced price, like the "10.000 RPG Maps Bundle".

Since my partner visited their family for Christmas, I did not have a lot to do on Christmas eve. So with nothing but the cold of winter and the slight feeling of loneliness, I dug deep to distract myself a little. I expected to have some fun exposing lazy slop content, but was unpleasantly surprised.

I was shocked on how weird and sometimes downright evil the creators of these products could be. So instead of some light hearted slop bashing, I wrote an article about deceptive marketing & DnD companies in Romania and Dubai. This is the story about how a setup of slop products has generated them a sales volume of over 1.000.000$. It took a lot of effort, so I hope you enjoy!

I'm the creator and illustrator of Instant Armory. It's a mobile and PC app that lets you create your own custom loot for D&D. Most of the items in this graphic are homebrew gear made by the Instant Armory community.

Say you want to make a sword. Pick from human-drawn choices for the blade, crossguard, and handle. Then choose your colors, name it, and add stats. You can output your finished item to an equipment card that you can print or send your players a share code to load it up themselves directly in-app.

Let me know your thoughts and questions. You can check it out here.

https://trapstreetstudios.com/InstantArmory/download

I’ve been wanting to create a Ranger because I feel like it’s a nerfed fighter+druid but I’ve been watching a lot of people saying that ranger class is the worst and non functional. How true is it?

This was my first commission of 2026 for u/FloofGoddess and their friend, it features their two characters from a westmarches style D&D game that they play together. We have Pharah, the wolf girl, and Alcea, enjoying a peaceful moment. They wanted a cosy feeling for the artwork. These two characters have been interacting a lot and are becoming close friends, they have quite a playful relationship which I wanted to represent in the piece. It was a sweet little collaborative project and I worked with Floof and their friend to bring all the ideas together into a piece that they both really loved! This is definitely a more detailed piece compared to some of my others but that comes with bringing characters to life in meaningful ways, and it is something I deeply enjoy when making art.

Hope everyone likes it!

I’m new to dnd and I wanna try DMing, I’ve got a little group (one new player and an experienced one) so I’ll get the benefit of the doubt, but what are some other tropes that should be avoided?

I don’t even know how to describe this honestly, but a full year into Curse of Strahd, and one of our party members used the party to commit suicide, and now the party just has to live with that as we get introduced to their new character. This was both sudden and had little buildup, with no prior discussion at the table.

The backstory is as follows: the character, whom we shall call Clay, was possessed by a demon, a fact that had come up and he expressed the desire to get rid of the demon, and that he hated being possessed that it ruined his life. All chill, okay, my character Jeane, who is a literal monster hunter, swore to help him and had been trying to do so in the course of the campaign. This overall wasn’t too much of a problem until the last three in-game days. In three days, the Clay got fully possessed (which my character broke him out of), then, without telling anyone made a deal with the devil, and only after being partially possessed Jeane, who had caught him, he admitted that the demon could control and stop him from saying and doing things because of the deal.

Everyone in the party had a bad reaction, and there were some heated discussions about how to solve the problem, but everything boiled down to the fact that we could get an exorcism from the Abbot. The only thing Clay said was, 'Yes, let’s do that I’m willing to talk to the Abbot.’ So our party spent hours hiking to the Abbey, convincing the Abbot to help arrange an exorcism, agreeing to go into our friend's mind to remove the demon and free our friend, and then also giving the demon to the Abbot in payment. We do this, we are excited that our friend will be free and above the table, very excited to do cool mind scape fuckery. We get in, we take down the demon very easily, and our warlock attempts to bind the demon into an agreement. However, Clay starts talking about how he and the demon are intertwined, and that he refuses to let this demon live; he’s going to take this demon down. We all desperately try to talk him out of it, but he refuses to listen; the demon (played by the player as well) insists that he would rather die than work with our warlock. After Jeane tries to appeal to Clay and convince him that he doesn’t have to die, he continues to talk about how he has to cause he just has to. Finally after a full 20 minute above table conversation Clay’s player admits that this has been a convoluted suicide plot and no matter what our characters said or did he was gonna force us to kill him having the audacity to laugh in our horrified faces about it and blame us for forcing him into this corner that “we seemed to want this” despite us having done so much work to save him. Additionally, he admitted he hated his character for a while and wanted to play someone new (this was news to the party). This was coming just as we had all opened up about our characters' lives and stories. In the end, our 19-year-old warlock killed him after he attacked her, and she was forced to kill him.

Genuinely don’t even know how to act as a character after having seen my friend use us as tools in his characters suicide and then laughed about it. The DM knew about this but it was never brought up to the rest of the table and Clay upon questioning got more and more evasive and upset.

As a forever DM I was constantly travelling to my friends houses for my games. Almost never did we have a large gaming surface, we either played on the floor or on small coffee tables. Heavily inspired by this subs creativity, I wanted to design something that both travelled well and was functional for my games (and something that didn't take up half a dining room table).

Roughly the size of a keyboard, it has a dice tower, initiative trackers, room for about 100 dice, some miniatures and pencils / pens. The screen portion can also be used as rolling trays as well if you find yourself without a good surface.

Pretty proud of this creation, it went through A LOT of iteration.

Edit: Here are some additional photos!
https://imgur.com/gallery/dm-screen-OoH0lRp

Just what it says on the tin. What is the proper way to play a cleric.

I've been getting flak from the tables I play a cleric at since I play them the same way that I've played them since 1st AD&D. As in "You have heavy armor, a bug fuck-off whumping stick...go and tent peg these bastards into goo."

No I'm not playing a healbot, but I do somehow manage to keep my party alive and buff and heal as the situation calls for it. But if no one is in danger of dying, I'm clubbing MFers like baby seals.

But that now offends people?

It's confusing the hell out of me since this is how I've always played AND the 2014PHB says...

"Chanting a song of glory, a dwarf swings his axe in wide swaths to cut through the ranks of orcs arrayed against him, shouting praise to the gods with every foe’s fall."

And they have a section that says "Healers and Warriors"

So with all of that...when did the D&D community decide that we should all be robe wearing party moms handing out orange slices, Yoo-Hoos and heals?