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The mod team of /r/DnD is excited to announce a special joint AMA this Friday, December 5 (5 p.m. - 7 p.m. GMT)!

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This is a commission a friend made for me of Little Sister, the youngest family member of the Kurzman family - vampire slayers who were created by a brilliant dwarven alchemist, Doctor Hendry Hurzman, who lost his previous family to a powerful aspiring vampire and then proceeded to lose his mind, creating monsters in the image of his lost family - often by stitching together the bodies of other unfortunates.

Doctor Kurzman attempted to clone his dead wife Silke but could only manage to complete the brain, housing it in a jar with a warforged built around it that was christened “MOTHER”. (Eloquence Bard)

To replace his eldest son Otto, the Big Brother of the family, the Doctor stitched and spliced together a bugbear that somehow survived a bullete attack with numerous creatures, resulting in a hideous chimaera mutant. (Order of the Mutant Blood Hunter)

Ilse, the Big Sister of the Kurzman family was put together from the husk of a Goliath found barely alive in a destroyed mind flayer colony, and augmented with clockwork and the essence of a fire elemental. (Artillerist Artificer)

Little Brother was left for dead in a carriage attack and only survives thanks to a hermetically sealed body suit (Echo Knight)

Having been dealt a pretty bad hand in life as a Duergar prisoner, the young drow that became a grotesque imitation of the “Little Sister” Una Kurzman was “freed” from her captivity by Kurzman. In exchange for her new life, she was heavily modified by the Doctor through alchemy and unethical experiments, creating a weretiger capable of immense carnage. Thrilled with violence and bloodlust, and the promise of returning pain that had previously been dealt to her, Little Sister became the Doctor’s vicious enforcer, reveling in her monstrous power, focused into the work of destroying her “father’s” vampiric nemeses.

I haven’t really played evil characters much, so I had a lot of fun creating a “monster” that was nevertheless able to work with other folks to achieve a common goal. As long as she had a task to work towards she is a capable team player, but this is definitely not someone that you want with idle time on her hands.

The other members of the Kurzman family occupy a spectrum of morality, ranging from folks who are trying to do the right thing to stop the rise of vampiric dominion, to those who want to do the same but who are less choosy about how it’s done. Little Sister, however, is just in this for the love of the game.

I'd love to go out and buy/create minis for all of my PCs and monsters, but I just don't have the money for that, plus this is the like the third time I've ever actually DM'd, so made a budget friendly option. These are (mostly) to scale for a 5" square on a 1 inch grid too!

From left to right:
Alphonse - Leonin Barbarian
Ernie - Half-elf Sorcerer
Achaeos - Mothman (Reskinned Aasimar) Druid
Kibble - Kobold Paladin
Lume - Tiefling Sorcerer
Lucien - NPC that acts as the party's benefactor
Elevern - Kitsune Bounty Hunter

I’m DMing my second ever campaign soon and wanted to know your thoughts on this. I think I would like to include encumbrance, for example, but what other unpopular rules do you enjoy? (E.g. lifestyle expenses, potions as main action, etc.)

I wanted to explore the idea of what the Wish spell would look like. I thought that something so powerful should be colorful and grandiose, even destructive, regardless of whether it is ultimately used for good.

Unfortunately, in this case, it's used to fulfill the goals of the bad guy :]

I can think of few things cooler than playing a campaign where the BBEG has achieved their goals from the start. I guess our heroes' job would be to reverse the effects of whatever he wished for.

I hope they succeed hehe

Hello! I’m fairly new to dming so this might not be like the best idk- But i’m running a campaign and we just had a encounter with some goblins that had taken over a town. This one guy (i’ll call him L) decided that he didn’t want to deal with the goblins and he left! Now L does this frequently, he won’t be involved unless it’s his lore, he’s a total edge lord and yelled at another player for something they did ‘wrong’, so nobody really likes him. After the players defeated the goblins and freed the town, I had them level up and L is pissed that he didn’t get to level up too. I told L that he wasn’t there for the fight so he wouldn’t have done anything to warrant a level up but he just will not listen

Am I doing too much with this? Should I just let him level up anyways?

Edit: Please keep in mind this is my first time dming and i’ve never had to deal with stuff like this before, even while playing as a player

So, my DnD group recently had a campaign, and the DM had originally planned to have a bunch of rats be mob enemies to fight, but our party decided to tame the rats and got ourselves a rat army. In the same adventure, I attempted and failed to tame an undead dragon that I named Sapphire. So, after we killed Sapphire, I took a scale that was the size of a shield and worth like 1000 gold, as a memorial for Sapphire.

My character, Dem, was a runaway aristocratic heir who had a bounty for his safe return, but every time we had a potential bounty hunter or guard come after us, we just sent our army of man-eating sewer rats after them and scared them off.

We got to this miniboss, and he asked for Sapphire's scale as payment for information we NEEDED to get through. So, not wanting to give up my memory of Sapphire, I rolled for intimidation and got a 20. My party mates did the same, and they got 18 and 20, then we rolled for the rat army's intimidation, and the RATS got a 20.

Dem walked up to the miniboss in an unsettling way and just said thank you after he pointed at the door we needed to go through. After that, the DM rolled (jokingly, I should add) to see if the miniboss was so scared he'd die of a heart attack. The DM rolled a ONE on the saving throw for the miniboss, and he died.

No one attacked anyone during the miniboss 'fight.' We just rolled for intimidation, and we all got higher initiative than the miniboss, so we all got to go and ended up killing him before he could attack us.

And if that isn't the most DnD thing ever, idk what is.

edit: Changed the flair because I was told to

He's a neutral evil warforged arcane trickster charlatan, all about makin a living off of others, even if his customers aren't aware how much they're supporting him. his methods may be dishonest sure, but no one needs to know that irrelevant piece of info, and its not like they were gonna spend their coins wisely anyways. of course if anyone does find out, its nothing some shocking introductions and and a few rays of frost to keep the captive audience any good performer deserves cant fix.