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I had a rough day yesterday and a friend of mine spontaneously dm‘d a little oneshot for me online to make me feel better. I love Tieflings but never really get to play them because I usually go for little chaotic goblins as they’re more fun. I drew a little sketch for the character I made up yesterday and ended up liking her a lot so I thought I’d work some more on her. This is Faye, she’s a Tiefling Bard and always accompanied by her little Quasit familiar Squibbles (I‘m gonna draw her as well, she‘s got a little bow on her head 🥸). Would you add the tattoos on her shoulders? I feel like they make her look a bit mean but she’s actually quite nice 🌸

This is my best friend's character. Her name is Selene, she's a healer who's currently looking for her missing brother. She's quiet and pensive, so I wanted to draw her in a way that would give her an aura of mystery.

Our campaign is set in a world where everyone died and have got their memories replaced by the Gods who are ruling it. This was done to give both a second chance and a new perspective on things.

In her "fake" memories, she comes from the desert and has moved to another country to study ancient artifacts that belong to a past civilization. But in reality, she is the daughter of a powerful God (who's at war with the Gods of our world, yes, there's a war between two factions of Gods) and her brother has something to do with these artifacts, and has been missing for a long time.

I don't know how she died yet but her story sure is interesting! Our group is investigating on this right now, so hopefully I'll know more in the next session.

That's it for now, I'm planning to make more of these!

Hello again :)

A DND party I drew. A bit of text from the description the client gave me:

"Nick, the DM. Nick is our wonderful DM who has been working hard to wrangle our group of miscreants while weaving an amazing story. His passion for games and story telling comes through in every session. He is loved by his players, his wife, and his friends.

Gaelin Cuhulinn. Deep Gnome, Wizard. Gaelin and his brother grew up in poverty, Gaelin was seen as the ugly smart one while his brother was easy going and charming. Through his stealth and inquisitive nature Gaelin was able to learn things that important people wanted to keep secret, he used this as blackmail to get others to pay for his studies at the school of magic. Eventually Gaelin and his brother opened a P.I. business and solved cases while also learning more secrets to be used as blackmail. Gaelin now travels with a new group of allies, hell bent on getting revenge on the person who burned down his business and all the blackmail that was inside.

Lena. Half orc, cleric/fighter. I came from a family that's just getting by as the only child of an elf and orc in the capital city. I found out I had healing powers from the church of the grey dragon of balance Mal'kain. I learned and trained with the head cleric while healing the injured, being a bodyguard, and rooting out people who strayed too far. I am on a mission to keep my friends safe and save my friend who joined the evil side and protect the world from total servitude under an evil dragon while not letting too much light blind the world. I just killed my teacher and nearly died myself.

KY-02. Warforged artificer. He has had a long life full of confusion and a loss of meaning. He was forgotten after the war and was deactivated for a very long time he when he came to he didn't recognize the world around him and anyone that he knew was long past gone. He has since made friends and would do anything for them. He recently rediscovered he is the son of a dragon god who's consciousness was transfered into a war robot so he could preserve his body while he was at war.

Minera. Fire genasi drakewarden ranger rogue. I grew up in the mountains. ive held a bow for as long as i can remember. i snuck out of the house growing up to sleep within the trees, or under the stars. the earth. the air. it has always been my home. Drax changed my life. they taught me everything that i know. how to track. how to hunt. how to survive in the wild. how to be free.

Arahala. Female Tiefling, blood hunter.

Thotham. Goliath, Barbarian/Fighter. "

I hope you liked what I did :) To see more of my characters, I invite you to my Instagram. See you there! :)

I’ve played twice (both times where under 3.5E) a long time ago, and got into a few actual play podcasts lately. My son watched stranger things with my wife and I and expressed interest in playing DND, and that’s the green light I needed. I started creating my own home brew world and story, but he is obsessed. I can’t create this story fast enough for him, so we got the starter set (borderlands) to play in the meantime. I’ve created a few NPC’s to help his wizard out with the combat, and removed the spell slots from him so he can cast as many spells as he wants.

We played for almost 4 hours today, and it’s helping him a lot already. He’s autistic, so social queues aren’t his strong suit, but through the role play he’s had the chance to explore dialogue options without a rush. I’m getting questions from him like “what if I don’t believe that guy, or what if I’m trying to trick (insert NPC)?” It’s amazing to see his brain work. He’s met a Goliath Barbarian / Gnome Rogue combo (very George/Lenny) and he came up with the idea to have our Barbarian friend, throw our gnome friend into a tree like a spear so he could sneak attack a bandit leader from a tree branch if we couldn’t talk our way out of getting robbed.

We’re having a blast, and I wish he’d slow down so I could make his full story. We’ve made it through 3/4 of the Stranger things box set, but those were old school dungeon crawls. I’m happy the borderlands set has more RP elements to it. Loads of fun, and I’d like to thank most of this community who answers the same question asked here, 50 times a day here. Cause I’ve read almost all of them (I’m new, where do I start.) thank you all, and much love to you all.

Last night was a big one. Earlier in the week she came to me with a fun question, what if we kill my character off a the surprise resurrect?

I was like gooo on?

Big fight is planned, we are pushing into a massive fortress to save an npc from big bad and honestly we are not at a proper level so stealth is important.

We got to a point where we had quick minor fights where everyone was just rolling god tier, right at the end we missed someone and the alarm went.

We had to run at that point, it was then she gave me the sign.

My little kobold fighter made a stand so everyone could get out, rest of the team was hurting more than myself, she gave me this wild flavour ability, music hit and everyone watched as my rune knight focused all his power and runes into a single shot, think vegeta trying to nuke buu if anyone watches dragonball.

A massive explosion and the dm ends the music, big bad got away but there my husk stood in smoking ruin with a decimated pile of baddies.

The team was shocked, just like that my character is dead. (New character to be introduced) but dm is actually planning on resurrecting my kobold because of this selfless action, being reborn as a dragonborne.. aparrently this can happen to kobolds if they prove themselves.

Can’t wait too surprise everyone

Commission I did for russianWraith 🩷

The piece was created based on the character details provided by the client, i had a great time drawing this beautiful character 💕

Nihila Mythwind is a drow Sword Dancer of Eilistraee, blending grace and steel in equal measure. Her movements are as much prayer as combat, honoring the Dark Maiden through dance, music, and the arc of her blade. A character rooted in elegance, faith, and quiet defiance.

Hey everyone,

I’m a long time DM who’s been working on a 3D map making tool for TTRPGs because I got tired of spending hours on prep and fighting with existing tools.

After about 3 years of development, I’m preparing for my first public demo and want to make sure the Steam page and trailer actually explain the value from a GM’s perspective.

I’d really appreciate honest, constructive feedback on:

• The Steam page messaging and screenshots
• The trailer (clarity, pacing, what’s confusing or missing)
• Whether it’s clear who this tool is for and why a GM would want it

Steam page (demo coming soon, trailer is live):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4057640/Master_of_Realms_Demo/

Thanks in advance, critical feedback helps more than praise. :)

Hello everyone, I hope this is cool to post & I will try to keep this as succinct as possible!

So this past week was session one of a brand new campaign I was really excited to start. Normally I GM & that is where most of my experience with the game lies. I’ve been able to find one shots here & there but I was really excited to join a game & finally get to make my own PC that I was a little more serious about compared to the often “jokey” or “fun” characters I usually play for the one shots because they just end up getting scrapped when I’m done, & I was really excited to develop that character over what would hopefully be months or years. Well as you know from the title, my PC was killed, here’s how:

There were six of us, we were all separately tasked with a sailing voyage, which sets sail & we get to the first checkpoint & it’s a little island where we get off & mingle with the locals & try to get recruits to work the ship with us or buy random supplies, my character decided to buy some inks & paper & go sketch wildlife by the beach for her studies, the rogue went on a hunt to try to get us some more meat, the others are working on recruiting or just bumming around town..

Cue the tsunami. I try to warn people because me & our cook notice it first but he doesn’t know what it is & I do. I fail the save to convince people & roll an 8+1, I know not great but it does nothing at all, not even a single person on the island is remotely convinced even though a massive wall of water is now visibly barreling towards them. Okay cool. Other players are scrambling to get to safety, I roll a 19 & shape water myself out of the wave as does our genassi, danger averted. Lost some town folks but the party survived. Sick.

Wait, not sick, there’s a pirate ship now, & it’s full of hyenas & gnolls. Cue naval battle. We are not doing well. There are a total of 18 enemies. We start trying to deal with a wave of six hyenas swimming at us. We take care of four in the water, two make it to shore & start fighting some of our guys & then the next group comes, six gnolls in a boat. I’m out of spell slots at this point being a level 1 wizard, & my cantrips can’t do damage. I’m on the bow of the boat & had just magic missled the gnolls & my last act was reaching down & telling a little seaweed person that we just recruited to crew to run as far away as possible & hide. This is the point that the DM shot my character with a cannon. No rebuttal, no death save because it was 32 points of damage & my character’s HP was 7. I ended up playing as the seaweed person for the remainder of the game & avenging my character by shattering the gnolls who killed her (the seaweed person ended up being a level 4 bard).

What’s worse is that the enemies ended up getting away. We couldn’t finish taking out four of them & they were retreating. We left the game with them sailing out of range. So now the other players are stranded on an island that was just destroyed by a tsunami, our ship is destroyed, & the only other possible mode of transportation just sailed away. I’m really struggling to see a path forward going into to session two.

Thank you to those who are still here & reading, I know it’s a lot but I think the context of how everything went down is pretty important.

So my main issues are that:

1. After the session the DM did message me & said if I really want to revive my character that there is an antagonist coming up that could *potentially* revive them for a penalty. Sweet, you bloodmisted my PC in session one & the only way I get to have them back is if I take a negative effect? That seems really whack.
2. Encounter was way too difficult & this was not even remotely discussed. Player death was mentioned specifically if it made sense. Shooting your Level 1 PC with a weapon meant to deal damage to a ship with 100hp & not a person with 10hp was a really wild choice. They saw the opportunity to outright kill my PC & immediately took it.
3. What would’ve happen if it was the person who’s first time ever playing DnD was that night & you went all malevolent GM on them & murdered their very first ever PC in their very first session & not me? I’m actually glad it was me of all people at the table because they could’ve very easily turned someone off of the game forever. It just seems like such bad form & shows a really extreme lack of consideration of the player’s experience..

If it were me & I was the GM & realized I accidentally threw my level ones into an unwinnable battle because maybe I’m used to designing encounters for level 10s & didn’t quite nerf it enough, ended up killing someone, & left them beaten with no resources, I would pull a “it was all a dream, we used magic to simulate a battle to determine your offices on the ship based on your performance” or *something*, like it could be such an easy course correct & no one ends up feeling sore.

Anyways, I’m pretty sure I’m going to politely bow out, I’m just unsure if I should raise concerns about why I’m leaving that could potentially leave the discussion open to debate or pushback, or just politely yet firmly say our play styles don’t seem to mesh & I’m going to continue the search for another table.

To those who stuck with me to the end, thank you so much & any advice is greatly appreciated!

I’m up next to DM and I wanted to try a crack at the newly revised Spelljammer world set. To try to challenge myself , I downloaded Procreate and I am attempting to create concept / reference art for it. I’ll be periodically posting for feedback, so all feedback is welcome! I am a complete beginner when it comes to physical art, so I’ve been trying to just make stuff (while learning the foundations and doing a few follow along tutorials). So far it’s been a lot of fun! Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts

So this happened at my last session and I am still fuming about and am wondering if I'm overreacting.

I was added to a campaign to help new players actually play the game. Our small party of 3 Rangers and a druid (the main issue in this story) were traveling to s mine and came across a disguised hag. We all failed our nature checks and the druid, falling for her fake drowning, goes to "rescue" her. She ends up attacking us and casting polymorph, turning all the high damage rangers into badgers with 3 hit points and only able to deal 1 hit point of damage, if we got the chance to hit, which was next to none. The druid decided not to hit us to turn us back to help fight her and when initiative ended, the druid decided not to turn us back, but planned, out loud, to keep us as pets that he could commit beastiality against all of us. My character gets her powers partly from being a virgin, so this would make me throw my character out entirely because there was no way she would allow herself to live after that and kill herself out of shame. Eventually the druid was forced to read a spell to change us back and, understandably, my character is pissed and doesn't want anything to do with him. I don't think my character can trust or work with someone who would do that to their teammates, so am I being stupid, or was the druid out of line and should be viewed as dangerous (face the consequences of his actions)?