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I’m playing an older human wizard (64M) who spent his younger years traveling from town to town dispensing wisdom and telling stories in taverns in exchange for free drinks and small donations. In his time hanging around taverns, he played A LOT of dragon chess. Despite never researching any openings or strategy, he developed a knack for the game through exposure.

The party fighter (human, late 20s) spent time actually studying the game with a wise man from his village. A wise man who, according to our DM, was a Dragon Chess Master. Mechanically, our fighter has a low INT score, but has proficiency in dragon chess. My wizard (we’ve decided) doesn’t know anything beyond the basics, but has a higher INT score.

Anytime our party has some down time, we get the board out and play best of 3 (INT check + mods, highest roll wins.) So far, my Wizard is undefeated. The fighter SWEARS that I’m just getting lucky (which is true) and that he WILL defeat me. We even RP little scenes where the fighter will be like “how did you know to counter my gambit by shutting out my rook?” And my wizard will say something like “Rook? Is that the little horsey? I like that one.”

What’s extra cool about this is that it wasn’t discussed at all before the game, it was completely serendipitous! Turns out, myself and this other player both play chess IRL, and now we’re bonding both IRL AND in the game!

Anyway, It’s a minor point in our campaign that’s brought me a lot of joy. I just thought I would share.

Thanks for reading!

I was getting increasingly frustrated when trying to find an A5 optimised character sheet that was cute AND laid out with the 2024 layouts for the stats. Cute and A5 - yes but 2014 layout. A5 and 2024? - yes but looks like it was made by a computer who's never seen a character sheet before. Cute and 2024? - yes but optimised for A4 only. So, i made my own 🥰

I love how it's coming out so far, obviously there are a few more sheets to make but they are going much more quickly. This first one took AGES. I used Canva and spent forever moving things by millimeters to make the most of the space but I think I've just about managed it. Balancing aesthetics with usability was way harder than I expected, especially because I wanted it to still feel fun and characterful rather than overly minimalist. One of the biggest challenges was making sure everything still felt readable at A5 size without sacrificing the decorative parts

There are still a few more pages and companion sheets I need to make before the full set is finished, but thankfully those are already going much faster now that I’ve established the overall style and spacing system. The first page was definitely the hardest part because it involved the most trial and error. Now that I’ve solved most of the layout problems, the rest feels a lot more manageable.

My partner runs a paladin in our campaign so I'm going to look at making a more paladin appropriate aesthetic but not I have the layout that shouldn't be too difficult. I’m also really excited to experiment with different class themes and colour palettes once the base set is fully finished because that’s honestly the part I’ve been looking forward to the most.

Also, yes my dex and strength stats are trash. It's a constant struggle in battles but also I like the challenge. I would post updates of the finished product but I struggled getting 400 words together just for this post 😂😂 maybe I'll try to take a picture that has all of the sheets in at some point.

Despite the popular opinion that Christians hate DnD I’ve been able to start a campaign with a pastor of a church and his family as my players. I got in this situation due to dating a pastors daughter and the pastor being a very opened minded pastor compared to modern standards. Today was the first session past character creation and they couldn’t be more excited for the next one. The group consists of
Me 21 M
Gf (Pastors Daughter) 21 F
Pastor 53 M
Elder Son 23 M
Younger Son 13 M

Reddit has deleted this like 3 times but I’ve been super impressed about how open this family was to playing dnd when DnD famously was demonized by Christians in the 80’s and 90’s. The Pastor’s Younger Son has even been the most involved in roleplaying and wanting to get into their character and trying to use more descriptive words to get what they want. Instead of just asking “Can I roll [skill]?”. The way the Pastor has been super into watching other players play is the best part because he’s a dad that teases a lot.

They’ve grown so much in just a Session 0 and Session 1 to a point where the pastor is spending his own free time finding Hero Forge own his own and making his own character. This is my first time fully teaching DnD as the main leader of discussion and it’s been so eye opening and cool.

Exiled from her homelands, Valera used her talents of the blade and magic to locate the lost twin swords Grief and Lament, once wielded by the cruel Empress of Roses. She pledged herself to the cursed blades to become a new Thorn Maiden to smite her enemies and reclaim her birthright.

This is just a small backstory for a hexblade warlock with a grudge. I do have a contrasting, spell-slinging, good two-shoes older sister for her as well who is a lore bard but I won't post her here. Some day I'll play them both as an NPC or as alternating characters in a campaign if I can ever find a decent group online.

EDIT: Thanks for all the praise. To quell some question, yes her stats are just the bare bones standard array. I left the options wide open for her but wanted to simply portray her strengths and weaknesses.

This is an oc of mine ive been working on on and off for awhile, and im really happy with her design but im not sure how it reads. I've played as her before but now im using her for solo dnd.

I have some questions about the impression she leaves-

How old does she look?

What creature/animal does her inhuman features read as?

What upbringing/background would you guess she had?

What dnd class would you guess she was?

What job/skills would you guess she has?

What sort of personality would you guess she has?

A wide-format poster I collaged from pre-existing 2024 D&D dragon materials. I do not claim ownership of the original illustrations or body text.

I created the poster in Adobe Photoshop, positioning the chromatic and metallic dragons opposing each other. I included sketches around the main subject matter, turning some full-color illustrations into outlined sketches. I then wrote all this crap to achieve the absurd 400+ character minimum description required to post art.

Original illustrations are by Alexander Ostrowski and thank you to u/Xi_rho and their poster for inspiration.

Meet the mighty Wind Dragon!

The Wind Dragon is another one of the Twelve Elemental Dragons, is perfectly adapted for flight. Every aspect of its body is designed to enhance its mastery of the skies. It has developed feather along with it's scales that smooth airflow and increase speed, while its forelimbs and hind legs have shrunk to reduce drag as its wings have grown immense in size.

The dragon has also evolved a massive gular pouch capable of storing tremendous amounts of air. Using extraordinarily powerful neck muscles, it can inhale and compress air with immense pressure before unleashing it in violent bursts. This ability allows the Wind Dragon to disrupt the airflow around its prey, disorienting and destabilizing them before moving in for the kill.

I used an airbrush for the first time today and although I still have some learning to do, it made painting this guy so much easier and quicker! Still had to use a tiny brush to get the finer details. If anyone has any tips for using an airbrush, let me know. Here is a link to the model if anyone is