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Hello everyone! ✨ I’m excited to share this commission featuring Althea, a Human Barbarian. Once a fierce Viking raider, her life changed when her young son, Arkyn, vanished during a raid after stowing away on her ship. Refusing to believe he is gone, Althea left behind her husband, village, and former life to search every land, sea, and even other planes in hopes of finding him. 💜

Race - elf.

Class - sorcerer.

Sneeze is an orphan raised on the streets of Talantis - a huge sprawling island city.

From the very early age he was a part of a gang of street rats - orphan children - same as he was. When he found a talent to magic he became a powerful assets for Elleanor - the head of a local gang.

But at the age of 20 he tried to distance himself from the criminal activity. However his past doesn't leave him be...

I would like to preface this by stating that I am already planning on leaving this campaign despite this happening and it’s outcome, as I had a friend that I know reach out to me about joining a game that he is planning on running and personal life shit happening too

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I have been playing in a game for the better part of a year now that I found through reddit and I have truly enjoyed it but recently I have been busy with real life stuff and haven’t had time to see what has been going on in the discord that the group is using besides the weekly check in’s for who is playing that week.

To my surprise, I find that the DM has posted the past three weekly sessions as a podcast on Spotify. To the DM’s credit they did mention that they were going to record the sessions so that if anyone missed them they would be better able to catch up, as well as gave people the chance to ask for that not to happen.

However they didn’t mention anything of Spotify nor any public platform that the recordings were to be posted on. At the time I assumed that they would just be posted in the discord or something like a private youtube video so I didn’t care.

This wasn’t anywhere in the boundaries that were set at the start of the campaign and I personally feel like my trust has been violated as the dm didn’t reach out to everyone individually for confirmation of consent.

I don’t know how I should address this, I don’t want to go full scorched earth but I know that I want to have the three sessions that I was a part of to be stripped from Spotify

Update #1

I have reached out to the dm with my concerns and my leaving the party, and they said that they would take the recordings off of Spotify and to a more private way of sharing them.

Other than this one thing the Dm has always been considerate of the players feelings, so I think that this was just a momentary lapse of judgement.

Clarification : the dm was announcing when the things were being posted with links but due to aforementioned personal life issues I wasn’t mentally available enough to process that they weren’t private.

Commissioned by my DM.

The moment our party accepted the mission to bring back the daughter of one of the guild founders. The group consisted of a human sorcerer, a shadar-kai monk (NPC), an unknown-species druid, and an orc barbarian.

The meeting took place inside a very dark room, illuminated only by moonlight coming through a hole in the ceiling. While the mission was being discussed, a familiar green eye could be seen observing the scene from the darkness, watching the party as their journey began.

New DM here. My party is now level 3, and we are doing the Dragon of Icespire Peak campaign. All of my players have 17 or 18 AC, and typically +5 or +6 to hit.

Yesterday they were doing a quest (balanced for level 3, says the book) that involves two types of enemies:

- Harpies: 11 AC, two types of attack: +3 hit and 6 dmg, +3 hit and 3 dmg

- Anchorite of Talos: 13 AC, has spells that use saving throws

When a harpy attacked, it would need to roll between 14 and 20 to damage the player with 17 AC. That's a 35% chance to hit. The player with 18 AC never suffered any damage despite being attacked six or seven times.

On the other hand, when my player attacked the harpies, with +6 on rolls it meant they only needed to roll a 5 or above, that's 80% chance to hit.

On the big bad of the quest, the anchorite, they had a 65% (or 70%) chance to hit, and that's before abilities that modify rolls, which they did use.

Aside from the boss casting a lightning bolt for 30dmg (player failed the saving throw) which put the orc at 1HP (due to species trait), they were never in any kind of danger.

As a DM, should I just make up whatever numbers I want to scale enemies to my players' strengths? Are the rules meaningless, and should I work around my players' good choices that made them tanky?

So the the party (Lvl 11) I am DMing has a bit of a problem. And I would like to have other DMs oppionions on how they would have dealt with a specific situation we had the other day.

The Problems that I feel we have:

1. They dont have a support PC anymore because our Cleric left the table (about 9 Month ago) and right now they can punch realy hard but die pretty quickly (Monk, Sorcerer, Hexblade Warlock, Fighter).

2. Their approach to most encounters is "head through the wall"

3. They rarely prep., shop or often even loot enemys so they dont have many Item with them like healing potions etc.

Usualy they completly nuke any kind of bosses in 3 rounds max. so I wanted to give them some mechanics to make it more challenging without just doing something along the lines of raising AC to 25 or similar. To balance it I lowered the dmg, AC and HP of the BBEG herself so she would be more of a disruptor than a fighter.

The Scenario:
Group against BBEG, a bunch of Minions and two elite henchmen

The map was basicly a big rectangle with some Pillars on the sides

BBEG = Rouge/Bard mix that mostly buffs allies via a kind of inspiration mechanic and as a LA can make them hit in between their rounds. Also the BBEG had a hypnotic aura (Homebrew) that, as long as she moves 15ft., could hypnotise an enemy (via WIS save DC16). That aura was explained as some kind of dance and hypnotic tattoos, meaning no movement, no hypnosis. During hypnosis they couldnt move or attack for 1 Round exept if someone else frees them from it.

Elite Henchmen = two Assasins that were hiding and sneak attacked the PCs at the right time

Minions = just some 1HP Goons who had so low attack mods that they barely even hit anything at all. They were mostly used to pin down PCs

How it went:

The fighter, warlock and monk all charged to the right side of the map and got swarmed by minions. The Sorcerer was left behind and some minons charged him through the big opening in the middle/left.
The Hypnotic mechanic succeded a few times an cost the melee chars probably each at least one round during the fight.
2 Elites sneak attacked in round 3 and hit two of the players pretty hard

Sorcerer went down in round 3 and in the end was at two failed death saves.
Warlock and Monk went down shortly after the enemys damage dealers went in.
The Fighter was at maybe 5HP and still had 2 Minions and one ELite to go (The BBEG was at maybe 70% HP at this point).

So TPK was imminent....

The fighter had a single potion of superior healing and since the fighter, warlock and monk were all super close together, I allowed the fighter to throw it on the ground and the splash would heal all 3 (but with the 8d4+8 healing dividet evenly by 3).
Before that I made the BBEG lose a round through monologing because she was sure to win and the PCs are so weak and big plan blah blah....
The other two came back up, ignored the minions, charged the boss and completly nuked her within 2 rounds.

Before I allowed them to use the potion in that way they were very dissatisfied and thought the encounter was to hard. I agreed that there were to many minions and that the elites probably should have dealt less dmg per round (mostly because of the LA and inspiration of the BBEG), but remarked that their strategy and party comp realy makes things harder for themself than they have to be. They agreed on that one.

The whole thing is not a who is wrong here but more of a how to avoid this in the futur. Big bosses should be tough in my oppinion and give the players more to do then to just charge in and reduce an HP Pool to 0.

So what are you guys thoughts? How would you make an interesting Bossfight last longer than 3 rounds for a party of glasscanons that cant last longer then 4, without making it feel unfair?

(Btw. I realy dont want their PCs dead and so do they. After two years of playing a PK sould be more meaningfull then to just die to the villian of the week)

Edit: I forgot to mention there were two friendly NPCs tied up that could have helped if freed. A big brawler and a rouge type.

For example, i have a freshly cloned body lying in my lair and for some reason i have to flee the lair (without taking the clone with me). Could someone with the scrying spell use the cloned body to locate me more easily?

So This is a Part of a twin character project me and my friend made together. My character Vaelis Noctis uses fire magic while theirs uses ice, so we designed them to contrast each other in both powers and personality. This one’s definitely the more chaotic twin. We didn’t come up with the lore or backstory yet, we kinda just did the designs for fun and ended up liking them Although mine is still unfinished since I didn’t do the rendering yet

Archetype: Corwyn is a kenku charlatan turned adventurer who relies on his cunning and magic to navigate his adventures.

Origin Story: Corwyn is a charlatan who operates in the Trade Ward of Waterdeep, swindling wealthy, greenhorn adventurers with fraudulent goods and services. He successfully carried out eight cons before his web of lies was finally exposed and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Hunted by furious victims and the City Watch alike, Corwyn fled the city, desperately seeking a place to hide.

“The name’s Corwyn. One thing you should know about me—I never run out of tricks up my sleeve."

Art by @Artofz