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I love that you can still see the indents left by the many character sheets filled out on top of this old copy of Dragon Magazine from July 1983. It feels like a small link to the past. The characters may be long gone, but traces of those old games still remain more than 40 years later.

Wherever those players are today, I hope they’re doing well, and that at least a few of these characters survived.

So my characters are in a mission to rescue a kid from an orphenage run by a Hag. They are invited as guest for as long as they aren't breaking the rules, and one of the rule was "You are not to set a foot on the second floor."

So obviously they immediatly went to the second floor and used some clever tactics not to break the rules ( winged boots, fly spell, etc... )
Until one PC decided that the rule didn't matter and just started walking willy nilly on the floor.

It happened at the end of last session so I have tome to come up with something interesting. Would you have some interesting and thematic ideas on what curses might be inflicted upon them ?

( Funfact the character is already cursed because he ate some of the hag's food. The curse they got is now they have a set of teeths in their mouth that eats whatever they try to consume, so they get very little nurisment and are slowely dying of hunger. That's the kind of twist I want but it's hard to come up with one right now )

I still mostly play with 5E stuff but I occasionally check in on 5.5e

And with my autistic superpowers I noticed there were 3 things that seemed really different.

1) The lack of flavor disclaimers. All of the 5e books had these fun, tongue-in-cheek disclaimers on them.

This is the one from the 5e PHB:

*Disclaimer: Wizards of the Coast is not responsible for the consequences of splitting up the party, sticking appendages in the mouth of a leering green devil face, accepting a dinner invitation from bugbears, storming the feast hall of a hill giant steading, angering a dragon of any variety, or saying yes when the DM asks, “Are you really sure?”*

That's just not a thing anymore.

2) Lack of nuance where some worlds might be different. This is from the 5e PHB:

https://i.imgur.com/m5sfTzi.png

A whole sidebar explaining not every race will be in every world, and how things can be different depending on where you go. Coupled with now every race has a "human equivalent lifespan" and matures all at the same rate. Everything has been homogenized.

Even Greyhawk has aasimar, goliaths, and tieflings, now. It's like they are reaching Bethesda-levels of being terrified of ever telling a player "no."

3) The "inspirational reading" sections of the books and lore bibliographies. In the 5e books, there were things like this:

https://i.imgur.com/4qWuhhB.png

https://i.imgur.com/mYEv0GC.png

It felt like it gave you these ideas that there was more to this universe and there were other places to check. What does 5.5e say?

https://i.imgur.com/vV4fmf9.png

"Baldur's Gate 3, Baldur's Gate 3, Baldur's Gate 3! Astarion! Astarion!" Don't forget Brand Movie, Brand MMO, and other Brand materials! Like they are pushing absolutely nothing but current retail Brand.

I dunno, maybe I'm just a 30 y.o. grognard but I feel like 5.5e is so bland and flavorless. It feels very "consume product." Even moreso when now WotC is locking exclusive class features and monsters behind a monthly subscription service.

A few days ago, I had applied for a play-by-post campaign and contacted the DM. We had a chat about the character I wanted to play and he seemed to really like my concept. We spent a while fleshing out the backstory and connections that could be made to fit the character into the setting. And I left that meeting feeling like I made a decent impression.

The next day, I get an invite to the Discord server and was chatting with a few of the other players who got accepted, talking about the party comp (3 wizards, 1 sorc, and 1 rogue) and what we've been up to irl. I was still making adjustments to my character, which I was gonna post onto the server the next day after I finished.

Today, I was unable to reply in the morning since I had to go to work early. During my bathroom break, I checked my phone and noticed I was no longer in the server. I thought it was weird, maybe I got desynced or the internet where I worked was being iffy or I left the server via butt dial (seemed the least likely). So I rejoined the server and let the DM know about the situation before returning to work. When I looked back at my phone during my lunch break, I checked my phone and realized I was no longer in the server again. This time, the DM sent a message and told me he kicked me intentionally. He talked about how we had different momentums and thought it would be best if I searched for a different campaign to be a part of. I told him to enjoy his campaign but also asked if he could elaborate and so far, he’s been ghosting me.

I’m not exactly sure what he meant by “momentum” and still don’t really understand. From what I saw before I lost access to the server, only one person had their character finished. I had spent a lot of time working on my character too and was really looking forward to the campaign, especially with the amount of attention the DM and I had put into fleshing out the character a few days prior. I’m a bit disappointed, especially since his first resort was to just kick me rather than explain or give me a warning.

TL;DR: Joined a PBP campaign with a friendly DM, got kicked with no explanation. Rejoined and kicked again, with the DM's reasoning that we had different momentums.

EDIT: Thank you all for the advice! I still haven’t heard back from the DM and I doubt I will anytime soon. Think I’ll take a break from applying online for DnD atm. But I’m definitely gonna keep this character in the archives for when I’m ready to try again.

Karva is a Gnoll Kensei Monk who uses a blade as her melee weapon and a scabbard on a 20 ft string as her ranged weapon. Since we already taking liberties with the character - her Gnoll-ness is really just a reskinned Swiftstride Shifter. Karva is on a never ending quest for revenge that only seems to grow bigger and bigger as the campaign goes on. Whilst not the smartest tool in the shed, she is also not the quietest tool in the shed. Instead, she opts for raw violent power and quick senses to slice through her ever expanding list of enemies. Don’t mistake her violence for anger though. She abhors rage, seeing it as a weakness, and actively fights the urge to throw hands at every occasion. Art by me.

(This is just a sketch) Navanna is a forest gnome who's also a druid. Since she's my very first one, i fear she's not the best out there. She has an artisan background. Neutral Good. I rolled for her abilities but, i might change that since i recently read that way i get an overly skilled character lol plus the gnome and artisan bonus, i think that's true! her bigger numer is 16 and the smaller is 11! She also owns a short bow and a punch knife, i'm pretty sure i got suggested a scimitar but i can actually remember if i added it.

RQ SHOUTOUT/CRED I did not draw the base body but stenciled it off of the og image "Eredin" by kartinaru on Pinterest. and then added in a few of my own edits and obviously a new color pallet, shading, lighting, background etc etc.

stats; idk still figuring it out

Getting in a feywild campaign soon and was allowed to make a Dhamphyr/Vampire son of Kannoth. I've been debating whether or not to make him something like an unwilling Oath of The Crown Paladin, Champion Fighter or maybe even an armored Hexblade haven't decided fully yet. I also thought of being generic and just naming my boy "Htonnak" because of course.

Class wonders aside I'm proud with how it turned out and I'm still new to drawing and using GIMP my only gripes with it is i wanted to try and show his fangs but couldn't get it right where I liked it, and I wish I could have made his eyes glow effect around his eye sockets a bit more present.

Quick shoot for his backstory idea. he's the bastard son of Kannoth and was born with a visage of a more monstrous or feral looking vampire with a mouth full of fangs and sharp teeth and undead pale eyes and no nose. Later in life he was tricked by the archfey into selling his own soul.

(Extra fluff for the backstory of why he sold his soul)
After his dad chucked him out into the real world at a young age but with a bit of illusion magic on his face to help with the whole being birthed f ugly thing, Decades later a "Coincidental" sickness took him. the price for his soul was getting to go see his at the time wife and children one last time. Kannoth however also took away the illusion so when he returned to his family they saw a monster with fangs bared and eyes pale and hollow. they chased the monster from the house and returned to their mourning. Kannoth then basically popped back and was like "Whelp thems the breaks pal" and took him into the feywild to serve as a knight, also to twist the knife a little Kannoth also made sure to give his kid the illusion spell back so he looks as he does in the image above again and not monstrously deformed.