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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)!

We're hosting Mark Hulmes (GM for High Rollers DnD) and Michael from the suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM).

Two days after the AMA, on Sunday, Dec 7, High Rollers will be streaming a life-saving one-shot as part of Jingle Jam 2025 to raise vital funds for CALM which you can join.

Meet your guests

• Mark Hulmes: The highly-regarded GM for High Rollers, Mark is also known for guesting on Critical Role and writing an adventure for Candlekeep Mysteries.
• High Rollers DnD: Celebrating 10 years as one of the world's top D&D Actual Play shows, with appearances on D&D Live and loads more.
• Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM): A leading suicide prevention charity who exists to help people find a way forward, offering a free and confidential helpline and webchat seven days a week.

This AMA is your chance to ask Mark about campaigns, writing D&D adventures, or what they've got planned for the Dec 7 stream! You can also ask Michael about the incredible mission the fundraising supports.

Want to play your part against suicide? You can donate now through the High Rollers fundraising page.

Howdy folks!

Today marked my 32nd birthday, which I will sign off on by posting the final The Weekly Roll of 2025! Alas, the the Klara vs Daddy dearest showdown will have to wait until January as I'm on now a break now over the Holidays!

I'll be back after the new year!

Casual reminder to everyone that you can still become a late backer and get in on all the goodies from the first Weekly Roll collected volume! Production is getting there (been some delays as per usual) but there's still time in case you missed the Kickstarter! Link here!

Stay excellent out there!

Peace and carrots!

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My 40k fancomic Rogue's Retinue: Rogue's Retinue

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This was a commission from u/FloofGoddess of their OC, Pharah. I got to do this and a cute little reference sheet for her, it was a lot of fun. The character has a lot of personality, and this was fun to portray in the art. I'll put the description below that I was given to summarise her as a character!

"Pharah is, overall, a person of pride. She loves to be the best and to be acknowledged for that. She operates, in fact, at such an ego level of confidence that she doesn’t bother caring about status, race, or even capabilities. She's a very open person in regard to most items or situations, leaning on her pride as a “higher being” to take away any sort of concern or distaste that might arise from dealing with certain actions. When she's around people she likes, or in a situation that leaves her as the centre of attention, she's very smug and rather giggly in such cases, letting the attention further stoke the embers of her pride and ego."

Hope you all like the art, and happy holidays!

We play as a DM (Me) and 3 players, they are newer players so i made the rules way, WAY simpler at first, to not intimidate them like i was. At the point there are no stats and its just rolling, basic enviromental rules and status effects, sometimes they do dumb stuff like objecting to their rolls, of course i enforce the die rolls but thats about it, after a few sessions i told them standart rules of DnD is more immersive and adds more flow and personality to the game, i introduced them to strength, dexterity, charisma etc. and they just ignored everything, is it my fault to expect them to take the rules after i handed them a babys game? or are they just that lazy to do simple a 2+2? Can someone tell me how do i explain this "complex" system without yelling at their face?

The idea for a sunken knight mentally flash-banged me and i had to scribble him out to get it out of my system, hopefully people here will appreciate him :>

For convenience, here's a link to the full ruleset PDF:

https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/Fr5kqyis7k1O

Im playing in a campaign rn as an Astral self monk (can summon hands that let me use wis for attacks instead of dex or str), and im feeling like something is wrong here.

Since the start of the campaign (almost a year and im level 8 rn) i stunned MAYBE 3 targets. And its not like im not using the feature a lot, but its either "he succeeded the save" or "it has no effect" and its really start bugging me.

I have high wis (20) so the save DC is 16 rn. Every time I use stunning strike i feel like its prob gonna fail but I still feel the need to at least give it a try or else my turn will be just "i did 1d6+5 and finish my turn", the pressure of just "doing it or else your turn is wasted" is always there.

is it a bait? Do most monsters have just too good stats for it to make it work? Is my DM is a d*ck for making monsters with high con/immunity to stun?

Should I just stop using stunning strike? Should I ask my DM for a rework for this feature?

Edit: I talked with my DM about it. He said hes not "DM metagaming" for specific party but rather build a world that act the same to every party that will play at it, so no there is no "spcific monsters that immune to stun becauseof me" and things like that. Hes said hes sad to hear that I feel like "im not contributing to the team in combat" and suggested that while he enjoyed being my dm and play with me as a friend, if I feel like its too much for me I can leave the campaign without any bad feelings.

Not sure how I feel about all this but thanks a ton for your perspective and advises!

Spent most of the evening making this two sided dice tower out of cardboard! I saw it in a video and wanted one immediately but I'm poor so I made it myself. Next step is painting it, probably purple and black 💜

In a nutshell, our DM gave us a roll on a gift table for Christmas and my reward is 12 seconds of DM power to do whatever I want. The problem is i'm having a bit of option paralysis and dont know what I should do with unlimited power. I dont want to do something to completely ruin our campaign like "the BBEG dies instantly and the world is saved" but I want to make sure the party makes the most of the opportunity.

Some ideas i've had are:
- making us unfathomably rich.
- granting some crazy boon to each of the party.
- increasing our levels to 20. (we are currently level 15)
- giving us some kind of all knowing insite into the BBEG's plan and how to defeat it.
- giving us a magic map that shows us the location of any item we think of.

Obviously some of these break the game so im asking reddit instead.

So what do you think Reddit? If you were given 12 seconds of DM power what would you do with it?

Third session with this party. Up until now it was all roleplay, social encounters, and investigation. This is our first dungeon and our first combat.