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I understand that D&D Beyond includes useful tools, searchable rules, and character-builder integration. But it still bothers me that after paying full price for a digital book, I cannot download a normal PDF and keep an independent copy.

I’m not asking to distribute books publicly. I just want to download the product I paid for and share it privately with the people actually playing in my campaign.

Does this bother anyone else, or do the convenience and digital tools make the restriction feel reasonable to you?

His name is Reni, an orphan (real original, I know) who has lived a life of crime and is now in a mostly unwilling pact with an evil marid (water genie). He may look gruff, but is really a sweet little baby under all the fur and tattoos. It's very fun to play a strength-based blade warlock.

This is his updated looks after a 6 month long downtime, where he's now more punk looking than ever. The mohawk was an improvised bit but I can't see him without it now.

Art is by my boyfriend, who generously keeps drawing my characters. Check him out at @avery.rain.arts on instagram

I'm the DM for a homebrew D&D campaign, and after our latest session we ended up having a 30-minute debate over map colors.

At the beginning of the campaign, the party met a mysterious NPC who exists in a dark blue spiritual realm. They already know he's connected to a special resource called Souls, and they know he's important.

As they explore the dungeon, they got a map after beating a mini boss. One room is highlighted in blue and marked with "???". The idea is that this blue room on the map represents the location where they'll be able to meet that NPC again.

Later, after the party collected their first Souls, I explicitly told them that the question marks on the map started glowing brighter, almost as if they were calling them, as a hint that something had changed there.

One of my players then said his character was looking for "a room that is blue."

I assumed he meant the room highlighted in blue on the map.

During the search, I described a door located exactly where that room was on the map. As a joke, I also said that his character found "no signs of a room that was blue." What I meant was that there wasn't a room that was literally blue. However, he interpreted that as confirmation that such a room existed somewhere else in the dungeon and that he simply hadn't found it yet.

A few minutes later, I realized he wasn't actually looking for the room marked in blue on the map. Instead, he believed that because the room was blue on the map, there had to be a literal blue door somewhere in the dungeon leading to it.

From my perspective, the blue color was simply a player-facing map/UI indicator. In the game world, neither the room nor its entrance was actually blue. The real clue was that the room marked with the glowing question marks was connected to the mysterious NPC the party had already met—the one who would later teleport them to the spiritual realm where he resides. The room itself is a normal one, and they would be teleported back to the room after the meeting

We eventually realized it was all just a misunderstanding, but then we spent about 30 minutes debating whether I should have made the actual door blue to match the map.

I argued that the map colors existed only to help the players identify important locations and weren't meant to represent the physical appearance of the dungeon.

My player argued that if a room is blue on the map, it's reasonable to expect some in-world visual cue—such as a blue door—leading to it.

So... who messed up here? Was my map misleading, or did my player just take the map too literally?

Edit: Just to be clear, this wasn't an actual argument or conflict. We all found it funny once we realized what had happened. The 30-minute discussion happened after the session as we joked about whether the map was misleading or whether my player had taken it too literally. Nobody was upset, i was just curious what other DMs and players think.

Solves a very minor annoyance in my life. When I run the dishwasher, I flip it to 'clean', that way someone else in the house doesn't accidentally put a dirty dish in with the clean ones before I've emptied it. Once I empty it, I flip it to 'dirty'.

If you'd like to print your own, I've uploaded the files to MakerWorld: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3074944-dnd-themed-d20-clean-dirty-dishwasher-magnet#profileId-3462219

Lore: Kaela Lenore Catherine von Ravenscroft III was born weak, hidden away by her noble family of monster hunters. Desperate to prove herself, she died grasping the ancestral blade. The shattered sword fused with her corpse, rebuilding her as a Reborn Warlock. Now, she serves sword entity, and divide your body with the Mara soul, the spirit of vengeance from the House of Lament, wielding her cursed blade and armor. She is a living curse, forever caught between the frail girl who died and the monster she has become, driven by rage and a need for answers. (Warlock for Curse of Sthrad Campaing)

I drew her the way I’d like to draw other D&D characters; I handle various types of commissions for the D&D and RPG universe, so if you like this and want something similar, feel free to contact me! ;)

Whether it had real utility or just worked in a way that made the moment at the table. Official books, old editions, homebrew, whatever. I'll go first.

4e had a lesser ring of featherfall that pretty much abandoned the 'feather' aspect and just read, "The wearer takes no damage from a fall." This led to the DM getting to make *horrendous* descriptions of my character caroming off rock faces, pinwheeling, projectile vomiting, shrieking all the while, ultimately splattering in a moaning, wheezing heap that would be found minutes later by the party descending via more civilized means. 5 stars.

Here's a small illustration to introduce the Ninth Ultronaut, the band of heroes from my greek inspired campaign, which I'll be illustrating little by little this month.

The adventure unfolds as a spiritual sequel to the Odyssey of the Dragonlords, set in the world of Thylea, a land of heroes, living gods, and epic myths, so anyone who played said adventure will find a few familiar names and faces.

I accidently just had my first PC death (5e)

My level 3 warlock has been trivialising combats until now with the sleep spell...turns out kobolds are weak to that spell! At the end of the dungeon they are in they had a couple of stronger kobolds for a boss battle...my parties druid went wolf mode and charged in and got caught in the sleep spell...and ONLY THE DRUID as the stonger kobolds had too much health. My slsspy warlock was under the impression wildhapes counted as TempHP rather (despite playing for years in our group, we have only ever had like 2 druids

This caused the warlock paladin multiclass to charge in without any backup because...well, their druid friend was in danger!

And I FORGOT THAT HOLD PERSON MEANS CRITS so I had the kobold priest cast hold person on the pala/lock...and then a kobold with sneak attack stabbed the paralyzed PC...and I forgot about the crit thing so what I thought would be a downing of the PC was an instakill

Oops