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I noticed this at the last session. During the heat of the battle his AC was 22. They’re level 3, and I was like ‘how did you calculate that AC.

And he said thats because he’s a warforged, which resulted in me pausing combat and having to check and indeed warforged get a +1 AC.

But Chain mail is 16 AC, with shield is 18, and warforged trait is 19. Where does he get the other 3 from?

Also eventually he got hit and he asked what kind of type damage it was, i said slashing and he told me he was resistance to slashing damage. I asked him to show me the rule and I proceeded with combat, eventually he couldn’t find it and stated that it is probably and older rules of the game…

The character's name is Tobik Calvero, a cavalier fighter of the Faith who rides his faithful mount Winifred. To summarize what I've been told, he's a young goblin from a wild region southwest of Daggerford who lived in a semi-nomadic community of resource gatherers, fishermen, and trap setters. His community is very peaceful, however, one day they were unjustly attacked by strangers, and a knight defended them. This demonstration of honor impressed Tobik, who was knighted by his countrymen and set off on a journey to become a knight himself.

"Faraam was born into the proud Dawnmane tribe of the Leonin, nestled in the sun-drenched savannas of the Shaar. The Dawnmane were everything to him — his family, his heritage, and the source of his identity. Known for their fierce warriors, wise shamans, and skilled hunters, the tribe lived by the rhythm of the plains and the roar of the sun.

From a young age, Faraam was immersed in tales of valor and honor, which instilled in him a profound sense of duty to protect his kin. Under the watchful eyes of seasoned warriors, he trained relentlessly in the art of combat, honing his body and will to serve as shield and spear for his people. His fierce spirit and unshakable resolve quickly earned him respect among the pride. By his third hunt, elders spoke his name with quiet approval. By his tenth, they spoke it with expectation.

It was during his rise through the ranks that Faraam met Serenya, a prodigy sage of the Dawnmane — a woman whose calm voice could still the fiercest tempers. She was no huntress, but a reader of omens, a keeper of the tribe’s ancient wisdom who saw the rhythm of life and death as clearly as others saw the plains. Where Faraam burned with action, she burned with understanding. Their bond grew quietly, like roots beneath dry earth — steady, unseen, unbreakable. Serenya taught him that strength without patience is ruin, and he taught her that patience without courage is silence.

When their daughter, Kyrah, was born, she was called the harmony of sun and storm — her mother’s insight, her father’s fire.

One fateful day, Faraam’s life was irrevocably changed. A wandering horde of gnolls, led by a demonic Fang of Yeenoghu known as Stainfang, descended upon Dawnmane territory.

As war-chief, Faraam marshaled the tribe’s warriors and struck out to meet the horde on the open plains. He believed that by cutting off the head of the beast, he would save the entire tribe. But in his zeal to face Stainfang directly, Faraam stripped too many defenders from the village, leaving its heart vulnerable.

The gnolls’ strategy was cunning. While Faraam and his war-band clashed in a brutal battle from dusk until dawn, a second force of gnolls circled behind and fell upon the unguarded hearth. The elders, the cubs, and the fire-keepers were left to defend themselves. Serenya, wise and steadfast, fought not with claws but with courage, shielding their daughter with her body as the beasts descended. By her sacrifice, Kyrah was hidden and spared — but Serenya fell beneath the gnolls’ blades, her voice of wisdom and love forever silenced.

When Faraam returned, wounded but triumphant after driving Stainfang into retreat, the village was already awash in smoke and blood. Serenya was gone. The tribe had suffered grievous loss, and though Kyrah clung to life, she was forever marked by the terror of that night.

To the tribe, it was no victory. It was ruin born of pride. The elders declared that Faraam’s reckless ambition — his hunger to slay the Fang rather than defend the hearth — had doomed his people. Before the eyes of his surviving kin, he was stripped of his honors and cast out.

Exile burned deeper than any scar Stainfang had left upon him. It took from him not only his tribe, but his life partner, his home, and the trust of his people. He carried only grief, guilt, and the memory of Serenya’s last stand.

Now, Faraam roams the world beneath foreign skies, his wanderlust no longer the aimless roaming of a curious spirit but the heavy penance of a broken one — a vow to protect where once he failed. Though his voice has quieted and his pride has hardened into solitude, compassion yet lingers beneath the scar. Each stranger he saves, each life he defends, is an offering to the memory of those he lost.

His travels eventually led him north, to the frontier settlement of Phandalin, nestled in the foothills of the Sword Mountains. Drawn by whispers of monster raids and the shadow of a white dragon, Faraam feels the old pull of duty once more — the echo of the leader he was, and the father he longs to be again.

Though his scars may never fade, he fights on — for the memory of Serenya, for the hope of Kyrah, and for the roar that, one day, might mean salvation, not ruin."

My commission is open so feel free to reach out if you want your character's art done!
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Being a forever DM, I unfortunately don't have very many chances to actually play in a game, but thankfully I managed to slip into an IRL group with some friends. Monks have always been and always will be my favorite class for their looney tunes logic and just being able to beat something into a fine red mist really fast with the, "screw this one guy in particular philosophy," it's just really funny to me.

Anyways, he's a Way of the Elements monk, and I wanted to do my take on a Thri-Kreen since it's a homebrewed setting that sort of grows as the game expands. Essentially, he comes from a planet where there's a magickal parasitic moon at its core that essentially crash landed millennia ago, that its dark-dwelling denizens worship as a goddess of death. The moon in question is actually the massive vessel-- a cocoon to an almighty spider that whispers ever so quietly into the heads of her subjects, lest their heads explode into bloody viscera. She chooses the mightiest of the planet's heroes as her suitors, and blesses them under her corrupted, silvery light.

My character is just a butler to one of these heroes, who has grown complacent and has begun a hedonistic life of indulgence after the Moon chose him. My character, Nocta, was essentially sent away on a task, which Nocta used as an excuse to finally break free from his unreasonable employment, and now explores a new, strange world with wide and curious eyes.

Something like that, who knows. I think ultimately I just wanted to play as a good-hearted alien doing his best to wedge himself into society haha.

Aro grew up on the streets of Stormwall, her mother having emigrated to the city from the plane of fire soon after Aro was born. She never met her father, but her mother tells her he was a violent and dangerous effriti.

Her mother struggled with raising a child, and Aro was allowed to run free, often getting into trouble. As a young woman she became interested in magic, but her mother could not afford the Arcanium’s tuition, and Aro had to teach herself, practicing in the secluded corners of Graygarden.

One day, while robbing a house for spell components, she was caught by the old elven woman who lived there. The elf, calling herself Mistress Venna, had once been a great adventurer. Mistress Venna recognized Arro as a fellow wizard, and instead of turning her in to the city guards, she taught Aro the art of Bladesinging.

This is a commission I made for a kenku rogue. And as you may guessed by their facial expression: they probably do call a very tragic backstory their own. But no matter how lost they’ll get in shenanigans at least they have a compass tattooed on their right index finger to always guide them to the right path. I love to do character design of animals in general and birds in particular. Especially giving them some kind of human facial expression is so fun to me. I struggled a bit with illustrating all the equipment on their coat and thought it might end up too messy but somehow it worked out. I tend to like the ink layer more since it gives me some old school fantasy illustration vibes but in this piece actually this dark coloring fits very well. Took me about four hours of painting work in procreate

A few of my friends and I have recently taken a slight intrest in dnd but no one plays in our region at all so it is now upto me to be the dungeon master in our first campaign in a few days.

I watched a few videos and seem to understand the game at a level but I have no idea how will I actually execute my own sessions

(I unfortunately can't use starter campaigns because my printer broke and my school doesn't allow electronics)

Hey everyone!

I've received a lot of positive feedback on my previous Fog Of War maps from this subreddit. The thing I've heard the most is that people wish that they could use their own maps. So my partner and I sat down to think about how to make that possible.

It's a really tricky problem. How do you make a jigsaw puzzle covering for a map you've never seen? We figured out an idea, made some REALLY kooky prototypes (that I'll probably share at some point), and made a final version which you see here.

The key is that we make the jigsaw, you make the puzzle:

I make a laser engraved base that has a wooden frame with embedded magnets. There are large and small squares that fit neatly inside the frame.

You cover larger landmarks with large squares, then smaller details with small squares (like roads and houses). Then you fill in the rest of the area with large and small squares.

This way, your map is hidden the way you want it to be hidden. I highly recommend having players roll to determine who gets to lift off the next square!

The new custom jigsaw fog of war map: www.etsy.com/listing/4439234043
My page with all my cool spooky stuff: www.etsy.com/shop/EnchantedYam

So in the campaign I am currently running there's quite a few boss fights and in a recent one I realized that my boss was close to death but it was only 15 minutes or so after the fight started. I obviously wanted the boss to feel difficult but because they were cheesing it a bit by spamming hold person, not an issue but I just wanted to point that out as a way to say this was incredibly easy for them, so I felt that since I wanted this person to be seen as feared and incredibly strong and decided to add more health just to make it clear and I ended up extending the play time like a good 10 minutes or so.

Also sorry for the wall of text I'm not that good at using punctuation