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So, I'm in this campaign with around 6 others. I'm the group cleric, and is completely against violence (Except against humans but that's not relevant).
We were in combat with this dude who seems to be being controlled by some red smoke coming out a machine.

I say, "Hey! What if I can use create water to short out the machine?"

Guess what happens.

My party killed the poor guy before it got to my turn, since I rolled a 1 on initiative.

A couple days later, I was chatting with my DM's friend, talking about normal stuff like classes 'n shit.

She goes, "Oh by the way, your party is kinda fucked."

It's completely out of nowhere, so I'm obviously confused.

she then goes on to explain that by killing that one guy, our campaign is now 10 TIMES HARDER, because he was actually one of the most IMPORTANT NPCS IN THE CAMPAIGN. He was supposed to help us complete puzzles and advance the story, but since he's dead, we now have to do puzzles ourselves AND the DM is PISSED.

Wish us luck

Ive been playing D&D since I was about 5. My dad is a nerd born in 1982, so I was raised in every nerdy thing imaginable. When my dad DM'd, it was maybe once every 3 months and he stopped when I was about 11. When I was 13 I joined a campaign, but it was all roleplay no fights or actual game mechanics. This kinda "D&D" (lt was literally just us sitting around a table for hours talking, so moving forward, no dice rolls, no character stats-I didn't even bring anything character sheet because we played wrong) lasted until I was about 16.

Now that im 18, I have a new campaign i joined at the beginning of 2025. It's an amazing campaign, fights every session, follows actual game mechanics, and we also dive into our characters and roleplay too. My problem: My character sucks. I think I went too long without playing a real campaign, because I cannot remember how most stats work or spells or anything. And I've been trying my hardest to re-learn everything but no matter what my character seems to be weighing down on the party. I absolutely hate it, because I just feel like a burden on the other players.

How can I improve my character? 1 am a wizard (second time ever playing one), none of my spells really seem to do much. My stats seem like they're also really bad. We are level 8. I just don't understand how i can be the person in our party who has been playing the longest, does research daily, and still am shit at this game.

Ashtray is an albino kenku rogue raised as a child-spy by a hag in Waterdeep’s underworld. Glamoured as a human child and used for theft and espionage, he was different from the others; he heard a voice inside his head that was his own. When he tried to escape with his brother Finch, betrayal followed. Stabbed and left for dead, Ashtray lashed out in fear, unleashing wild magic that killed Finch. Saved by the cleric Obaya Uday, the first person to show him true kindness, Ashtray now survives by dressing in clerical robes like his savior, both to avoid recognition and as a quiet tribute. He avoids violence when he can, learns words from stolen books, and carves small wooden toys to calm his thoughts. As his vocabulary grows, so does his magic, and when pushed too far, he unleashes the same power that he fears since his brother's death. He acts with innocence despite it all, trying to face this dangerous city alongside his party members with a brave face, in hopes to save his kind from being used as weapons and tools.

I started playing DnD ~20yrs ago, with my DM being my physics professor and mentor in college. Life has taken me many places, but my love for DnD & board-gaming has always been with me.

I was inspired recently to make this gadget, it's a true random number generator. It detects quantum tunneling through a barrier depletion region in silicon via a reverse biased diode in avalanche mode, and amplifies those events through a two stage opamp. I do some Von Neumann whitening to create an entropy pool of true random numbers, and when the die is cast, it pulls bytes from that entropy pool to give a truly random number.

I've run it through a battery of statistical analysis tests (I leave the unit running overnight and extract the data over UART for stats processing), and it's cryptographic grade in randomness.

I've been geeking out about this project for the last few months, and my wife is kind of tired of hearing about it.

This version lets me select what die I want to roll (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d16, d20, d100), but I have a second version already completed that also has a second rotary knob that will let me select xDn. For example, I'll select 4d on one rotary knob, and d6 on the other rotary knob, and it will pull 4d6 rolls from the entropy pool and sum those values.

The display are authentic new old-stock nixie tubes imported from Ukraine, and the values are displayed via a HV IC through SPI comms.

I'll hopefully work with the mods in the upcoming weeks to do a giveaway or two, but, just wanted to share the project and my enthusiasm for it in the meantime.

While designing a pacifist character, I noticed there are almost no combat-oriented cantrips that avoid dealing damage (aside from blade ward and resistance). That gap inspired me to try creating a few nonviolent options myself. I’d really appreciate any feedback, balance thoughts, or suggestions you have! Feel free to critique power level, clarity, or whether these cantrips fit typical play. Thanks!

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Greetings adventures. Over the past 7 years, I have used D&D as a way to express, address, and confront themes from the trauma I've suffered throughout my life. Every week, I spin tales of horror, drama, suspense, and emotion as I sit around with a group of friends and build an adventure together. At the age of 17, I enlisted in my nation's Army as a airborne combat medic. I just wanted to save lives. Unfortunately, Afghanistan still weighs on me. I couldn't save everyone. 16 years of practicing medicine later, I now work with patients on life support. As a result. I've seen more death and suffering than I can remember, but I use this pain, darkness, anxiety, and trauma to enthrall my players into a dark campaign through the hells. After trying to stop the bleeding caused by weapons of war, I'm great at describing in graphic detail the wounds my players suffer at the hands of enemies. I tell them tales of fictional characters suffering based off of real people l've watched wither and die. D&D helps me cope. I can feel and share my pain in a productive way that provides catharsis. It's pretty common for the players and I to cry at my table. Not every campaign I try to run gets dark but it's just a wellspring of inspiration that I can tap into. Do any of you use creative outlets like this? If so. I'd love to hear about them.

It recently came up in a game that we detected a glyph on a door and our caster capable of dispelling it was down. We assumed that moving the door would set it off and attacking the door would set it off.

After discussing things like hurling alchemist's fire and the like, we finally decided to have my dragonborn to use my acid breath on the door since the line breath is outside the blast radius of explosive runes and his breath weapon does considerably more damage than alchemist's fire.

The DM ruled that as the damage I rolled completely destroyed the object upon the glyph had been etched (the door) in an instant, without actually moving it, the glyph remained suspended in the air where it had been on the door but could no long be triggered until/unless the door was replaced.

Thought this was interesting and cool. Apparently the world of The Elder Scrolls began with two D&D campaigns. You can see notes from them here!

Commissioned work of Dhampir and High-elf.

I had so much fun working on this as I don't get backgrounds requested as often ^^ plus just drawing lovey dovey scenes is always a plus into exploring how characters interact visually.

If you're interested, my commissions are open so feel free to check ouy my page to see my portfolio and other socials :D

Currently looking for inspiration on some characters and I want to see some of the ideas other have come up with, this could be your character your playing now or just a random character concept you thought of! I’d love to hear the ideas! And I hope this helps anyone else also looking for character inspiration!

My last character was a changeling (fighter) bounty hunter named Vale, who became the target of a very dangerous organization, so he had to go into hiding as a dwarf bard named Peppermint Pip. And because he was a fighter and couldn’t really play an instrument or use magic, any time the party wanted healing or inspiration I’d just tell them “yeah I’m not that kind of bard”.