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I recently wrapped up this commission as a surprise gift from a DM to his player: Jimmy Fallon as a warlock, with Jay Leno as his patron! xD The character is like a mobster who talks in a cheesy Italian accent and is obsessed with money, fame, and power.

His backstory is that he was a total nobody before striking a pact with Jay, and now he’s rapidly climbing the Hollywood ranks with dreams of becoming the biggest star ever. He even hands out autographs to strangers.. whether they know him or not.

He also has a familiar: a floating spotlight that shines on an ally twice a day, giving advantage on Persuasion and Performance checks.

Props and thanks to Joshua and his player for the idea, this was a lot of fun to paint and draw!

Hope you guys enjoy!

https://eepystew.carrd.co/

Not sure about the 18+ tag but seems appropiate for this situation.

I want to make a campaign based in hell and while working on the lust sin i couldn't think of a good place for my PC to play. I thought of a city but it seemed too basic. Do you have any idea ?

NOTE : this part of the campaign is not supposed to have any irl erotic event. It's purely for the thematic

My son requested this painting and I don’t usually paint on canvas so this was a really interesting challenge for me. I typically paint miniatures in my free time and they’re almost always historical figures so doing something fantasy based was a lot of fun.

My son is five but been getting into lots of fantasy lately and has really enjoyed looking at the various creatures in the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Along with owlbears he is also very fond of Tiamat. We have been watching the original D&D show on YouTube lately and he really loves it.

I painted this in about 3 1/2 hours with a few breaks in between, and I used various references that I found on Google search to help piece it together.

Thanks for looking 🤘

I have been running a campaign set in a homebrewed Percy Jackson Universe for the last three years, and we are doing the second half of the final battle against Nyx tomorrow! The whole campaign has been light on magic (The party consists of a monk son of Hypnos, a Barbarian daughter of Poseidon, a Fighter son of Nysos, a Witch daughter of Aphrodite, and a Ranger daughter of Demeter), but early on, I introduced the idea of God Gobs to all the characters.

They each get an amount of God Gobs equal to their level and can cast certain spells relating to their divine parentage (I.E. a daughter of Aphrodite can burn two God Gobs to cast charm person at a second level. The son of Hypnos can cast sleep at a 3rd level by burning three God Gobs, etc. Mostly 1st and 2nd level spells that narratively make sense.) Well, come this most recent final battle, the ranger daughter of Demeter burns some God Gobs to cast conjure volley and mentions how that's the last of their spells. This leads to a conversation about the magic the character has access to and a realization that, as they leveled up, they had actually gained more spell slots and spells from their class.

She thought her only magic was God Gobs, and her class only gave her the listed level benefits and bonuses to her butterfly swarm (Swarmkeeper Ranger). In this campaign, where every character has quickly grown overpowered (the fighter has an AC of 23 and can cast shield, the barbarian has the +3 Wave, the ranger has Psyche's wings with a fly speed, the witch has Moros' doom cloak and the monk turned out to be a punished Morpheus who has legendary resistances), and every character received an epic boon from an olympian three sessions ago, this ranger still felt underpowered. I've been racking my brain about why, and just now realized the ranger has been skimping on spells, believing it to be a very limited resource the whole campaign!!!

How can I make it up to her for the final session?!? I sent over to her some third-level spells she can use her slots for that will be massively impactful in the last two rounds of our final combat, but I'm so bummed that we are only realizing this literally with two rounds left of combat in the whole campaign. We're planning on having a pretty chunky epilogue where maybe we can flavor spells being very helpful, but combat has been a big part of the last chunk of this campaign, and I can't help but regret the lack of badass moments for the spell-starved ranger.

This has been such an awesome game to run these last few years and I'm so excited for our next campaing moving forward (which will be a humblewood game run by the fighter) but I'd love to hear any thoughts on how to make this last session a little extra special for the ranger. Thank you!

Update:

Some clarification for common points made here!

We are a fully online group that met in college but has played online since COVID. It is hard to lean over and check each other's character sheets through Discord, especially because I want players to feel free to make choices without me as the DM breathing over their shoulder and plotting to counteract every ability they take. The Ranger does have difficulty with keeping all the numbers straight on their character sheet, and help has been offered frequently, but not to the degree that we caught this lack of spell slots. I thought the character had been using spell slots to cast hunters mark and Pass Without Trace, but the player was instead always using God Gobs. Few encounters went by without a long rest in between, so the sparing use of spells never felt so stringent as to be unexplainable. I had assumed the player was sitting on spells just in case, keeping some in reserve, or had difficulty keeping what they do straight, so they just chose to opt for simplicity and take her two attacks.

I tried my best at the onset to make it clear God Gobs were separate from spell slots, but I did little to make that clear as the campaign went on. This was my first time adding such heavy homebrew to a campaign, and it did become a little messy.

I appreciate everyone's suggestions and will be taking them into account for the final session. This campaign has still been incredible, and the Ranger has had a central role in the narrative, trying to free their father from her divine half-sister, saving Psyche from the government confines of Area 51, and earning the right to be her champion. and most recently dying, going to Hades, and refusing the gates of Elysium to return to the mortal plane and help her friends finish this quest. I think the player has had a very fun time, but I do think her swarm might offer some ultimate ability in the final moments to thank her for her sparing use of their more dangerous capabilities.

Thanks, everyone! Happy rolling!

Howdy folks!

Quite a few commented on the fight with Klaras mother was quite short and as you may notice, it turned out similarly with dear old papa as well. Wanted it longer but this fight has gone on for a WHILE and I wanted to wrap things up sooner rather than later, so between the two evils, I chose expedited. We can justify it by saying the fight was balanced because of all the ads!

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Normally, I have so much fun playing dnd every week. but this week was hard, so I'm here to vent. you can read all you want, but honestly it'll go pretty hard, cause I do have multiple instances where this player has caused small issues, but right now I can't handle him anymore.

so, I've been playing dnd for years now. at first with my high school dnd club, but for the past three, almost four, I've played at a local game haven, with a nice group. it surprises me that we have stayed together this long, and have done so many campaigns together. when we finish one, we start a new one, and we switch out who DM's.

there's one player who's been not so great as of recently. let's say his name is Gavin. Gavin is an adult man, Gen X. (I'm terrible at guessing ages, that's what I've got) and he's a complete Loot Goblin. like, to the extreme. he's literally had his character rip open the guts of large enemies we've killed to see if there is any extra loot in the stomach of the beast. multiple times.

Gavin plays a dwarf fighter with the same name, same character, almost every game. He can branch out, but he really likes his dwarf fighter. which I don't think is a problem. he likes to play an outlander dwarf fighter, he's pretty good at fighting, that's not what the problem is. the problem is we sometimes lightly tease him, as good friends do, and he does not take it well.

today, during our session (we play every Saturday) our party fought a group of devils. at the end of the fight, our DM started describing the loot they dropped. When Gavin's character (who is actually not the same fighter, he was playing a rogue now) picks up a glaive, the DM says to the two tiefling party members that the glaive seemed to call to them. specifically, the tiefling paladin. who is probably the only member of the party who could use it. the paladin's player asked if she could see/have this weapon.

Gavin then went on a tirade for about twenty plus minutes, stopping the game completely in it's tracks. he said that he'd given this paladin the mithril plate mail that he'd recovered earlier already, and that he did so instead of selling it for a thousand gold, which is what he'd rather do, but he didn't, so she should be grateful. he then demanded 200-300 gold pieces from her so he could buy more magic items. this player usually plays a rogue in our campaigns. and she's DAMN GOOD AT IT. but this time, she let Gavin play the rogue, and she's trying out the paladin.

at the start of this session (literally an hour before his freak out) Gavin bought his rogue a +1 rapier. he spent about 300 gold on it. he also tried to convince the book keeper to give him 300 gold for a spell book (that no one in our party could use) instead of the 200 that the book keeper had offered. when the DM informed him that our campaign is on a secluded island, and there was literally no one else he could sell the book to, he admitted defeat. he also complained that he couldn't flirt with the storekeeper to get more money, because the character was canonically gay. (his character was female)

Gavin haggles with every transaction. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. and we've played for almost 4 years. that's every time he buys something, multiple times per campaign, multiple campaigns. he tries to get the items he's buying for a discount, and he tries to sell his items for more money than the shop keeper offers.

during his tirade, he told the entire party that he should get more from us. we never pitch in when he buys his plate mail for the campaign. which he does often. he will save up and buy plate mail for his character. but we never pitch in so he can buy it earlier. he also went on and on about how we shouldn't judge him, and should stop causing fights with him. our group has been around for a while. we lightly tease each other sometimes. we tease Gavin about his wife, (which he seems to have a healthy relationship with, thank god) they tease another party member about his love of dinosaurs, (we found out during a oneshot and sometimes lightly tease him) some party members tease me about my horrific lack of understanding social cues. I'm autistic. they don't do this because they are ableist. they do this because they are my friends. they do it out of love, they don't mean any ill will. and I, again, an autistic individual, have known them long enough to understand this. most party members understand that this is just fun teasing.

Gavin doesn't respond well to the light teasing. and to be clear, we do not tease constantly. it's not something we do all the time. it just lightens the mood. well, when I joked to Gavin that by demanding the paladin pay him 200 gold he was probably extorting her, he went off on me, saying that I should keep my mouth shut and stop making fun of him. at some point during the meltdown, I realized that there was literally nothing I could say that would get him to calm down. and if I said literally anything else, he'd just keep going. he kept trying to keep fighting with me, and even when I let him know that I was now going to stay out of the argument. he then continued to tell the others that I was antagonizing him and getting in his way, and couldn't keep my mouth shut. even when I had stopped talking for minutes beforehand.

one party member handled it okay, and explained to Gavin that dnd is more fun when you help other members of the party. if you sell the plate mail instead of giving it to the paladin, then you are doing the paladin a disservice, and by sharing magic items, everyone benefits and has more fun. he still was pissed off. he eventually shut up once the DM stepped in and told him to drop it.

he ended up giving the glaive to the paladin. begrudgingly. she does an extra D6 of damage while using it, because of her infernal heritage. no one else can use the weapon that way. and to top it off, Gavin's player perished during this session, and the entire party pitched in 60 gold pieces each to pay for the revivify spell. and he still grumbled about plate mail.

Gavin hasn't always been argumentative to the extreme, but it's happened a lot more lately, and I'm getting tired of it. I refuse to help him haggle for more gain when we buy items. I don't pay for his plate mail. he got that part right. I don't want to use my hard earned gold getting him shiny armor when I could be using it for potions, or magic items, or even weapons for myself. he expects everyone to pay for his items.

I texted my DM to tell him that I was very bothered by his outburst. I don't expect him to do anything about it. I honestly don't want or need him to. I just wanted to share how I felt. I'm honestly at a loss for what to do about Gavin. any advice, or even if you want to share sympathy for having to deal with Gavin, would be appreciated. if you read this far, thank you for listening to my rant.

I've been playing and DMing for over 40 years. I grew up with the same group I gamed with, but not with them forthe last 10 years. We decided early on that we would keep a "Kitty" of everything we got during the game. This meant, one player recorded the loot and put it into a "pile" a bag, chest BoH, PH, whatever. That was the kitty. Anyone could grab from it to USE. When we got somewhere to sell stuff, we'd go through the kitty and make sure no one wanted to use an item before selling it.

This pretty much continued in how loot was used, up to the two games I currently run. I have had no influence on this. I find it odd that there are posts about people being greedy, in game. That will always happen, even so. The party is "trying to save the world" so why not make sure your buddy, who's bleeding with you and for you, has the best gear you can lay your hands on to help keep your ass alive too.

How does your party handle loot?