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So, I'm playing in this paper/pencil 2014 5e group with a handful of people I've never meet, including the DM. I'm used to being the forever DM, so I jumped at an opportunity to play for once.

Long story short, the DM is convinced that it is "completely unrealistic" for my character to be able to attack with her Rapier and then disengage and back away all in 6 seconds. When I first tried it, he said something about not being able to use a bonus action after your main action, which I quickly tried to correct and insisted he looked it up in the player's handbook.

He read off word for word the section about bonus actions, which is:

You can take only one bonus action on your turn, so you must choose which bonus action to use when you have more than one available.
You choose when to take a bonus action during your turn, unless the bonus action's timing is specified, and anything that deprives you of your ability to take actions also prevents you from taking a bonus action.
- pg. 189 Player's Handbook

Which, in my opinion is pretty cut and dry, but after reading it he still insisted that it wouldn't be possible. In his mind, it isn't realistic for a person to be able to do such a thing. So, instead of causing a fuss, I just respected his decision as a DM and moved on. As a DM myself, I've been there and I know that during the game isn't the best time to solve disagreements.

At the end of the session I brought it up again. I asked him to look into it online and reconsider because I believe that is a really big nerf to rogues. He told me he still didn't believe it was realistic, and made an argument about how if you commit to an attack there is no way you'd be able to change your momentum and back out. I argued that fencers do it all the time with lunging techniques but he followed up saying that I would reasonably be followed by my opponent, who wouldn't let me disengage so easily, to which I fired back that of course they could follow me, but it'd happen on their turn if they choose to do so.

Do you guys have any advice how I might convince him to see reason?

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Violet was born in the river city of Larksin. She was a courier from a young age. Her life changes when one of her letters goes up in magical flames one night. Revealing to her a map and markings in the shape of roses. As she journeys to these marked places, she is slowly made an enemy of her city. She is chased by the Night Watch into the depths of the undercity. There she comes upon something she could only imagine reading about. A tear in the fabric of reality, stars glistening from across the seam. To stay is to be captured and imprisoned or killed. To move forward is to journey into the unknown.

TLDR

Super new DM, and friend lacks basic DM skills and I don't want to play their unbalanced and unorganized homebrew campaign. How to politely tell them all the work they've spent homebrewing this campaign needs to be scrapped and they should start small and simple with a pre written adventure.

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I'll start by saying they are a wonderful person and I'm happy for them that they are excited to take on this role. This is their second time playing dnd and first time DMing. They jumped straight into a homebrewed, long form campaign. I cant keep playing it.

They dont know how to balance an encounter. Every encounter is set to TPK (unintentionally). They don't really like when things go off of the path they laid out for us. We found out that their partner, who is a player is ties to a huge prophecy saying that they will save the world. Like...what about us? Now the other players feel like side characters to them. We lost a PC to an unavoidable, unbalanced, inescapable, and unbeatable ambush of homebrewed monsters that felt like a random encounter. Our rolls dont seem to matter if they even ask us to roll. When we do the DCs they set are often ridiculously high. They ask for so much homework around our characters off table but I don't want to do that knowing in a blink of an eye that my character could be dead because they cant balance a fight and we cant avoid them. There's just so much going on. We've been in 3 major cities within the last 2 sessions. Every lead just takes us to a new lead and nothing in the last 4 months of playing has really lead to any answers or felt like it was furthering a plot.

Ugh, anyway. They are passionate and super into what they have planned but my wife and I are just so done. How do I tell them nicely that if they want to DM the group then they need to start small and start with pre-written adventures and build up their basic DMing skills first before diving into something so ambitious

A few months ago I shared a tool I made, SpellCards.app, and the response from r/DnD was honestly way bigger than I expected. A lot of the feedback and suggestions from that thread directly shaped the updates I’ve been working on since then.

Originally, the site was only for making printable D&D spell cards, but it has had a pretty major overhaul since the original post. I rebuilt a lot of the UX to make creating and organizing cards faster and less painful, especially when dealing with large spell lists or homebrew content.

But the two biggest additions are:

• Monster Cards: Full stat blocks, traits, actions, legendary actions, etc. formatted into printable cards. This can be especially useful for players with summons and Druids with Wild Shape, but I also use these constantly when I am running encounters as a DM.
• Magic Item Cards: From armor and weapons to wondrous items, the SRD is actually really generous with items. But for my own table, the most useful thing is being able to quickly create homebrew magic items to hand out during sessions.

Just like with the Spell Cards, both Monster Cards and Item Cards support custom cards through Google Sheets imports. Just use the template provided on the site under the custom data field and you should be able to make your own monsters/items pretty easily.

The site remains completely free to use, and I will continue to add features when I have time. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported the project so far! And happy dungeon delving.

https://spellcards.app

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I'm going to meet my girlfriend's dad and one of the things she told me about him is he's a DnD player. I've never played a real DnD game in my life but I have played BG3. I'm wondering if the topic comes up, should I mention it or just act like I don't know at all.

[With permission from mods*]

Hey all! I just wanted to share one of my latest and most favorite commissions, Alexander ir'Roosevelt, commissioned by Joshua Bruder.

Alex is one half of the ir'Roosevelt twins. He and his sister Auriella are actually Half-Dragons; a product of their mother, a human noblewoman, and their father, a Dragon in Human form. They were raised by Eladrin in the Fey Realm for their safety. Upon early adulthood, they left the Fey Realm to search for their father. Alex is the more stoic of the twins; a skilled and practical duelist and battle master identified by the brass dragon scales on his face.

What’s fun about this character for me is that the client initially had a different vision in mind for the character, describing him as wearing “blue and white leather armor with a rose motif,” but I had the idea to design a rose-printed gambeson for him (inspired by modern-day fencing garb), and he loved it. My specialty is definitely giving that extra “oomf” to clients’ characters grounded by my vast knowledge of historical clothing and equipment. Alex is definitely one of my new favorite commissions as the client allowed me to design this beautiful Gambeson.

I am open for commissions! You can view more at my artstation, and you can DM me for prices, or check out my discounted prices on VGen (I’m new there, and I have an opening discount!).
*I can do commissions outside of VGen too~
Thank you!

I make playlists for my dnd party and the dm told me we’d be fighting bees in the next campaign.
What songs would go well for fighting bees?? What would that even sound like??

He doesn’t like sweet little bumble bee before anyone suggests that qwq