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Not my art but I did commissioned an artist by the name of "iladeni". You can find them on Discord. They are fantastic and I have been exclusively hiring them to draw my dnd characters for over 5 years now. I highly recommend them

Meet Akatosh "The uncracked" the clanless

Originally he was supposed to become a omelette but fate had other plans and he hatched early saving himself from becoming someone's breakfast. This would later give him the nickname The uncracked

I've been sketching up some of the NPCs for my home game recently, and this is one of my recents. I enjoyed getting to pull in more of the boar-like elements in the design, particularly because I've felt like the only difference in a lot of people's orc or half-orc characters comes down to fashion sense, and having some of them inspired by the varieties of real pigs and whatnot that exist gives opportunity for more distinct visual identities.
Anywho enjoy!

In June this year, one of our friends wanted to do a one shot for her birthday. Our friend group consists of an old school 1/2nd Ed. And our friend who agreed to DM for the one shot. Ultimately, 6 players and our DM. None of us had played 5E, with most of having never played before. As such, I expected a certain level of growing pains, as people learned the game, rules, checks, etc.

Fast forward to now, and we have done about 8 sessions. I expressed interest in DMing and our DM was happy to let me try. I worked really hard on our side mission-created terrain, got minis for bosses, painted them up, looked at maps, drew maps, came up with treasure to help with the greater world (Curse of Strahd), all with my DM’s approval.

Our group had an annoying habit of not being prepared for their turn, and taking an hour to decide how to open the door, so to speak. I built a room with the intent to give them something to help them survive the boss encounter. Rogue decides he wants to step through the portal. I caution that will trigger something if he does it. I ask multiple times if anyone wants to do something else. Rogue insists, they step through, lose the treasure options. I quickly rethink how to get the items to them, and it works out…mostly.

We didn’t get to the big boss but should next week. I am exhausted and frustrated. All of the players do not know their character sheets, and continuously ask me what dice to roll, what modifiers to add, if they can do multiple actions (with no bonus action abilities), don’t know what their specific spells or cantrips do, and then ask me. I have to stop and google because I also don’t know. I get that they are new, but we have done this for about 80 hours now, and we go usually every other week. We are all working adults, etc. but I feel like writing out your spells, or typing them (whatever) wouldn’t take super long.

I feel like a taskmaster. In a previous session, we sat in the same position for TWO HOURS while people argued about the best way to get a woman away from the bad guy and sort out if there were enemies in a village. In order to combat that, I added a five minute sand timer, with the notification that if the sand ran out with no decision made, they would face a consequence (wraiths attacked, or they received damage from the environment).

To one of my player’s credit, he asked if he should learn his character sheet before next session, and said he would “do his homework” there, and recognized it wasn’t realistic for me to have everyone of their spells and modifications memorized.

So I guess: was I expecting too much? Did I over prep? Anyone have any advice? I’ll finish what I started but it doesn’t make me excited for this week’s session or playing DnD.

TLDR: first time DM who put a lot of work into this world and game, with reasonably new players (80 hours in) who don’t know their character sheets, expect me to know their sheets, creating frustration. Running last night’s game has sapped my excitement for playing. Advice requested.

The prompt I chose for smaugust was Dino, so I had an idea where a dino adapted to the regional effects of a dragon or magically transoformed by it. This one is a spino that perhaps have grown up near a lair of a black dragon and adopt some of its feature that helps them hunt or fend off against other predators. This was only an hour sketch so I wished I could've made some more distinct feature from a black dragon I might have to revisit this later after I learn more about speculative evolution

It just bothers me that this community specifically has an insane pattern, repeating day in day out.

1. People come and share their ttrpg table problem.
2. Other people spend lots of effort to give their nuanced takes on the subject.
3. The person is embarrassed and deletes the thread.
4. All the replies are wasted, now the people looking for assistance with a similar subject will struggle to find the threads matching their issues.
5. The cycle repeats.

It's really upsetting because at this point it feels like more half the sub is just helping newbies with their table drama. (It also feels like at least another third is just people who know they are in the right complaining for validation).

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Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons is coming in 2027. My combat strategy is already decided.

New enemy appears:
Eldritch Blast.

Another enemy:
Eldritch Blast.

Boss:
...Eldritch Blast.

Hello, there lovely people!!!

This is a piece thats I am working on that shows this warrior returning to his home after a long time on a distant battle.

I was thinking about the feelings that he had from the distance. Thinking about his little baby and her, the love of his life. How is the feeling of not knowing if you are going to see your baby grow up? The first teeths? The first words (Dad is any of those??). Your loved one getting older with you?

Well, here I portrait a moment of relieve, where his little fellow had the oppportunity to come back.

What do you think? should I color it?