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DMing for my family. Two players. I ran them at level 5 so they'd have enough toys to feel powerful: my wife rolled up a Trickery Cleric, and my 8-year-old daughter played a Wild Magic Sorcerer (she picked it entirely because "chaos sounds fun," which, correct).

I ran The Wild Sheep Chase because it opens with a talking sheep and I figured that was the right energy for my kid's game.

It started exactly as goofy as advertised. The half-orc enforcer cornered them for the sheep, and my daughter first tricked him with a Minor Illusion of the sheep running off — then, while he was distracted, she hit him with Suggestion. Her suggestion? That he was her best friend and they should go get lunch so he could tell her everything about the villain. He failed the save, and it turned out this guy had never had a best friend in his life. So she happily took him out for sausages and he spilled every secret his boss had. I was already having a blast.

So then they get down to business.

They snuck into the bad guy's compound and a fight broke out with the guards, who were secretly people polymorphed into apes. My daughter's Fire Bolt helped drop one, and when it died it turned back into a human man on the ground. She went quiet. Then she cried. Real tears. "Omg. I didnt want to kill him i didnt want to roll that good." I wasn't ready for that.

After a break for some hugs. As DM, I decided that the other GuardApe was molified by the real tears for his dead guardsmam. She rolled with advantage to persuade him to stop attacking. "Enough bloodshed" mom said and so did the best friend ex-enforcer.

Then, my wife, without missing a beat, cast Revivify on rhe killed guard. He gasped back to life. My daughter cried again, this time laughing with per joy. She was so happy she thanked her mom. She didnt know mom had that power.

And then the ending. They get to the villain. An apprentice who spent thirty years being bullied by the wizard that's now trapped as the sheep. My daughter rolled a nat 20 to intimidate him... and then immediately felt bad about it, because i pretended to shake and stutter in fear. So...what did she do?. She apologized to him, and offered to protect him from his old master (the sheep) if he'd just stop hurting people. She talked the big bad out of being the big bad. In exchange for an apology from the sheep, he handed over the polymorph wand and walked away. She cried a third time: relief. She said, that "he didn't have to be the bad guy anymore."

Eight years old. Her instinct wasn't to kill the villain. It was to save him. I had to look at my dice for a second so I wouldn't lose it at the table too.

No character died. Everyone got turned back into a person. The insufferable sheep got his thumbs back and turned out to be completely broke. Perfect one-shot.

I know these wholesome posts show up here a lot, but I get it now. Best game I've ever run.

Highly recommend Wild Sheep Chase for new players, and even higher recommend playing with your kid.

Here's one of my latest character commissions! This is Amara Arn'ness, a drow pirate captain whose name has become a legend across the seas. She's confident, cunning, and carries herself with the kind of swagger you'd expect from someone who may or may not be a wanted criminal in several continents.

Huge thanks to my client for trusting me with such a fun character!

For commissions, I am available on VGen: https://vgen.co/LuniiBun

I'm a guy, but I want my next PC to be a girl. I don't want to just use my normal voice and insist I'm a girl. I also don't want to be really grating or annoying (I'm fine being cringe, I just don't want to make the others at the table want to kill themselves). I don't need to be a full on VA, but I want something. Way I see it there are two paths. Either go absurd (like Nott from CR) or just kinda try to make my voice a bit softer to kinda suggest at a more feminine voice, even without significantly raising pitch (which I doubt I could do well).

If anyone has some yt vids I could watch or exercises to practice stimulating range, that would be helpful too. Thanks!

Edit: seems like most people say speaking softer/more breathy with a slight change in tone (mostly ignoring pitch) should be good. I'll be practicing a bit. Character should be introduced next Friday so wish me luck

Considering playing a grumpy old man Paladin for next character. As someone who’s not played much of the non 5E editions (I’m joining a 3.5 soonish I hope) I’m looking to be satirical with making him a completely out of touch former hero.

Some reasons or annoyances I do have thus far.

“Everyone has an “oath” these days nobody follows a good old fashioned god anymore! It’s all personal fulfillment nonsense”

“All goblins are evil what do you mean? Fey? What do you mean they’ve always been? Next your gonna say drow are good”

“You kids have it so easy. Death used to be everywhere and you know what we moved on! Things were more fun when we didn’t talk through everything”

Stuff like that

Edit: did forget to mention he is going to be a massive hypocrite trying to hide his failures behind this “all knowing” former self he is now a shell of

I'm working through a couple of designs for a tiefling performer NPC for our campaign!

Evie is a dancer who puts on various acts alongside her overprotective brother, Arson. She's charming, sweet, and personable, in contrast to her sibling, who tends to be moody, abrasive, and has a quick fuse.

The campaign is set in a city inspired by 1910s Paris, so I referenced performers active during this time. The middle outfit was strongly inspired by circus costumes!

Which one do you guys like best?

So my group will be going from the 2014 5th Edition to the new 2024 rules in the next campaign, and one of the players wants to be a Monk. So I compared their abilities between rule sets.

In the 2014 Monks Deflect Missiles description it uses words like "catch" and has a requirement of having a free hand if you want to throw the missile back at someone.

In 2024, there is no references to any sort of physical motion in the Deflect Attacks that the Monk needs to make, or any requirement that involves having a free hand or any kind of limb.

Meaning that a 2024 Monk could be completely restrained and still be deflecting attacks as long is it can use their reaction.

Which gives me the hilarious/absurd mental image of a bound Monk focusing so much that they are returning arrows to sender and reversing axe blows just by staring at them real hard.

Hello everyone, I recently, finally got into D&D. I found a group of friends who also have been curious about the game, but never played. So I decided to bite the bullet, read through the rules and everything and set up the game.

I decided to purchase the "Heroes of Borderlands" starter set as well and it's honestly been a godsend for me. Though there isn't a full story, it's easy enough to string something along. I have plenty of dungeons and monsters and NPCs and everything and it's very simple for my new players to get into. Partially because none of them really read or looked up much to begin with.

We have played two sessions at this point and they have mostly been fun. Before we started I told them what the theme and setting is. That, despite their character backgrounds or anything, they are new adventures, trying to prove themselves in the world. They are, in essence, heroes in the making. And that this entire setting is build with heroic characters in mind.

They seemed accepting of it and the first session (mostly combat and a dungeon) went off without a hitch. The second session however, due to being a lot more NPC focussed, was riddled with problems. Mainly stemming from the fact that they treat everyone like they are not worth their time.

Doesn't matter if it's like a shopkeeper, a group of npc adventures or the damn ruler of the keep. They always demand, sometimes threaten and generally act completely disrespectful.

Part of it I feel like may be because, at this point, they have only succeeded at everything. They act like they are unbeatable and the strongest around. And of course my goal is for them to be the heroes of the keep by the end of everything, but they are behaving already like they are almost too good for that. And even when I bring it up ooc they maybe act a bit more friendly to the next npc, only for (most of the time) my rogue getting some ideas again and completely derailing the conversation "Because they used to be a thief" or something.

It's to the point where they got thrown out of the rulers castle, because they were just about threatening one his right hand man with a knife.

I am now considering maybe humbling my party a little. I feel like part of the issue is them being too overconfident and feeling like they can do anything. So I am planning to have a higher level knight challenge them to a friendly bit of training and mostly wiping the floor with them.

I feel like it would show them that no, they aren't the strongest around. They aren't as special as they think. If they are always disrespectful to people, that will have consequences.

But I have also heard of a lot of horror stories of players being upset at their DMS for basically playing "against them" or making unfair encounters. And I'm not sure if this is already too far into that region and I should go about it a "better" way.

I'm sorry this one took so long. I had another painting completely finished and ready to go, but the longer I looked at it, I just wasn't happy with it. So I ended up starting over from scratch. And in the end, I'm much happier with how this one turned out.

Tressyms are believed to be the creation of wizard experimentation. They're described as more intelligent than the average house cat, but not quite human level intelligent. This one however, on account of being orange, only gets two brain cells. Still more intelligent than it's orange cat cousins.

If you're enjoying this series, consider following me on Instagram and Tumblr, @tomfoolerytotality. And let me know what monsters I should paint next! I've received a request for an elderly Kenku, and to that person I want you to know I'm working on it. And also I've learned quite a lot about how ravens age thanks to your very specific request.