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Found abandoned as an infant near a forgotten woodland shrine outside Baldur’s Gate, Elaria was raised by Vaelor, a retired elven Painbearer who taught her that true holiness lies in carrying the suffering of others. Within the quiet sanctuary of druids and wounded creatures, she grew deeply connected to the spirits of the forest, able to feel pain, grief, and decay as if they were her own. During her First Suffering, a violent forest spirit awakened after desperate loggers invaded sacred land, and Elaria sacrificed herself through an ancient rite to absorb the spirit’s wrath and save both sides from slaughter. The ritual left a scar along her face, transformed one of her arms with spectral nature magic, and crowned her with antlers like the ancient guardians of old. Since then, she has wandered the realms as a mysterious druid healer known as the Elf Druid of the Emerald Veil, carrying the burdens of both mankind and the wilds alike.

Something happened at our table that was too funny not to share.

Our halfling fighter was getting annoyed at our DM for seemingly targeting his pony mount all the time causing him to have to buy several mounts over the course of the campaign.

After watching a Zee Bashew cartoon he got the idea of marrying his pony to get the +2AC bonus and if the DM killed the pony he would technically be a widow and be able to marry a new pony and continue the cycle.

He prepared for the bit and role played it well only to get stopped when the cleric pointed out the pony wasn’t a humanoid and that the Ceremony spell wouldn’t work on a beast.

Without missing a beat the halfling said that the church of Tempus was discriminatory and that he would find a different religion that would accept the love between a halfling and pony.

We all laughed but he’s now made it part of his characters quest, asking new religious figures what their position is on pony marriage and if they would use a miracle to make her a humanoid.

It’s been a lot of fun and he doesn’t even care about the bonus to AC anymore because as a side effect of the drama the entire part is now committed to keeping the pony alive and the DM no longer deliberate targets it.

"Roleplay Your persuasion"

It is such nice idea on paper. After all, there is RP in RPG, we need to roleplay, it's what makes it fun. So come on, convince me why should I give You a discount. Why should I let You in. How do You distract me?

Just imagine all those wonderful scenes that get created because.... you force players to roleplay.

But after getting older and more experienced, I found out how selfish this approach of me was. I was judging others by what I like. I know that I can squirm my way through any social interaction. I know that I am good at impromptu bullshittery. So why not others? They should also be capable of it...

but then I was DMing a simple one shot, dungeon crawl, rogue was disarming a trap. And he described whole process of how he does it. I was amazed, it was great to listen to, but halfway through the questions I just asked "why?". His answer was that previously DMs required him to do so. That if he would take wrong approach, he would fail or get higher DC for the roll. And then it hit me.

I do not require wizard to cast spells in real life. I don't require fighter to hit me with a sword. I certainly do not expect barbarian to bite through our friend's skull in fit of rage. So why do I expect it from charisma based encounters?

All in all, that is a bit of unorganized rant, but did any of You also fall into this "trap"? Or do You think it is not a trap at all? What made You realzie that it's kind of stupid if You had this rule before?

This cake was actually a wedding cake - unusual but epic nerdy wedding :D they slayed the cake with a sword of course.

What do you think of it? Would you like to have this as a wedding cake with all the teeth and drool?

It took about 20 hours to sculpt and was over 30 kg/66lbs heavy for 100 guests.

I also posted a making of video in other communities if you want to see how it was made :D

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1hkv6z2/other_player_wants_to_roll_dice_instead_of_point/

A while ago I made a post about our new campaign where one player, “Seth,” was upset that our first-time DM, “Jeff,” wanted to use point buy instead of rolled stats. Click the top link he you want to read about that.

Well, here’s the follow-up.

Our group had six people: Jeff the DM, Seth the Paladin, Shay the Fighter, Blake the Rogue, Josh the Wizard, and myself playing a Druid.

We all sat down and discussed the stat issue. Since the module was supposed to be more roleplay-focused than combat-heavy, Jeff wanted point buy to help keep encounters balanced. Eventually we reached a compromise where everyone got 4 extra points for point buy, and we could spend 3 points to raise a 15 to a 16. Everyone agreed, including Seth.

Then somehow Seth also started with a feat because he was using a “homebrew Dragonborn.” When I checked it, it was basically just normal Dragonborn with a free feat attached. Jeff clearly didn’t want to argue about it anymore, so he allowed it.

Despite that, the campaign actually started off great.

Jeff was inexperienced, but he handled things really well. If we tried something creative, he usually rolled with it. If he made a ruling someone questioned, he’d openly check the books instead of pretending he knew everything. He admitted when he didn’t know rules, and honestly I respected that more than someone bluffing.

Meanwhile Seth seemed checked out almost immediately.

He was constantly on his phone, even during combat. Every turn he had to ask what was happening because he hadn’t been paying attention. Then he’d spend several minutes rereading abilities and spells just to say, “I attack with my greatsword and Divine Smite.”

A few weeks in, Seth also started missing sessions frequently. Usually he wouldn’t tell us until a few hours beforehand, sometimes less. The problem was that Shay didn’t want to play unless everyone was there, and Blake didn’t want to play with only three players. So the campaign slowed to a crawl. We went from weekly sessions to maybe once a month, and every session started with long recaps because so much time had passed.

At the same time, Seth became more openly critical of Jeff’s DMing. He kept saying the module should’ve been finished already and constantly talked about how his future campaign would be “better.” Eventually he started interrupting sessions to call Jeff out for not knowing certain rules or lore. Josh and I were usually the ones defending Jeff.

Finally Jeff told us we were entering the final stretch of the campaign and probably only had two or three sessions left.

Then Seth cancelled four sessions in a row.

After the fourth cancellation, he posted a huge message in Discord saying the campaign was boring, Jeff was too inexperienced to DM, and he was quitting. He ended it by inviting everyone to join his future campaign instead.

Right after that, Shay quit because she didn’t want to continue without Seth, and Blake quit because he didn’t want to play with only three players.

That was basically the end of the campaign.

I called Jeff afterward because he was genuinely devastated. I told him I had been having a great time and that Seth was completely out of line. Honestly, I still think Jeff did a good job, especially for a first-time DM.

I liked playing with Shay, Blake, and Josh, but looking back I honestly think the campaign might have survived if Seth had left earlier instead of slowly dragging the whole thing down.

TL;DR: One player didn’t enjoy the campaign, became increasingly disruptive, and eventually quitting caused the entire group to collapse.

My tiefling cleric, Maiev :^)

She was raised by a retired Painbearer within a small Ilmatari church in Baldur's Gate. Given that she was found abandoned there as a baby, the clergy saw her as a blessing from Ilmater Himself, and she was brought up with His ideals ingrained deeply within her - taught to carry the burdens of others, and that to take on another's suffering was truly holy. The scar on the side of her face is from her First Suffering.

Name: Psiris Oblodra

Age: 19

Species: Half-elf (drow)

Alignment: Chaotic good

Class: Rogue, Soulknife

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Backstory: Psiris is a scion of a fallen noble drow family from Menzoberranzan, House Oblodra. Born deep within the Underdark, he was raised within an enclave of drow psi-warriors and illithid arcanists consolidated by his mother following the fallout of a pact her mother (Psiris' grandmother) made with an ancient mind flayer colony to restore their house.

Psiris shouldn't have even been born considering his mother's sole purpose was to be assimilated into the colony's elder brain. While she was initially resigned to fulfill the duty beset by her own mother, she later successfully rebelled when she learned the elder brain's true nature was not that of a collective consciousness hive mind, but rather an all-consuming singular entity. An insight she only managed to glean thanks to an infiltrating Harper encouraging her autonomy.

Psiris never met this man, his father, who left the colony not long after it was liberated. He only knew of him from stories, yet they were enough to inspire him into wanting to become a Harper himself. As soon as he came of age, he set out for the surface in search of the Harpers and of his father. Doing so against the wishes of his mother who only reluctantly allowed it due to not wanting to decide his life for him as her own mother once tried to do for her.

Psiris now drifts from place to place living the life of an adventurer. Though he seeks recruitment by the Harpers, and answers about his father, he has had no luck thus far. Nevertheless he continues to try his best to operate like his heroes do, promoting good and opposing evil with discretion and tact.

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Miscellaneous: Psiris takes great care to conceal his physical appearance while living on the surface by wearing full body bandages with the lie that he is a burn victim. For although his human half allows him to tolerate the sunlight without issue, it doesn't make him look any less drow.