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Hello there, adventurers, here is another one sketchy character commission I drew recently. And as it was the comm, I have no backstory for her , but we can take a look to the character and see that she is not quite regular drow , I guess. But , what I love in dnd most- you can create, almost whatever you like, build your own story around it, even if you don’t p,at. Good brain exercises tbh.
Well, as for the drawing-your critics are welcomed, feel free to put some words if you have something to tell. As for Drow- pretty sure you know a lot already and you can find information in net or books, pretty sure they will tell you about drows much more better than I can.
This is all what I wanted to print here, stay safe and have a good day, see you next week with next sketch!

I’ll try to keep this one short. I’m DM’ing for a new play group, (experienced players) and during session zero there came a disagreement about a table rule I have.

In my years of DM’ing I’ve come across players who make it very clear they don’t want their character to die/will take it extremely personal if their character dies. I can live with that. That being said, I have limitations for those characters. If there is an agreement between me and the player that their character won’t die, there is also an agreement that their characters can’t:

Be cocky

Be rude/snarky/antagonistic to villains

Take advantage of that agreement by putting themselves in reckless situations and expecting the narrative to bail them out, etc

One of the players in this new group who is in the ‘don’t kill my character’ camp takes issue with the rule, specifically the first two parts, saying it unfairly limits her agency. It is not a rule I am willing to budge on, am I wrong for that?

I'm a warlock, I've never been a warlock before. My patron is a celestial and I've got the pact of the blade

I've been doing everything from sneaking around with thief tools, range magical attacks, healing, and close range melee with bond daggers.

I was told I am trying to be everything and need to "figure out my role" and redesign my character

It's happening right when a new friend is joining our group (that's been going for 7 months now) and he's playing a warlock character too but he also knows how to play dnd

Help please!

I’ve been working on a Bronze Age campaign setting for 5e, and the more time I spend with it, the harder it is to go back to the standard medieval default. I keep coming back to the idea that Bronze Age fantasy may be more fun and more meaningful at the table than the standard medieval default.

Not because castles, knights, and kingdoms are bad or boring. They work for a reason. The issue is that they are so familiar that a lot of the setting becomes banal and invisible. A village, a tavern, a castle, a church, a king, a thieves’ guild. Everyone already knows the shape, which is convenient, but it can also make the world feel like inherited scenery.

Bronze Age fantasy creates different problems.

The core question is not just “who owns the castle?” It is “who controls the canal?” That immediately gives the DM something practical to work with. Water is food. Food is labor. Labor is debt. Debt is recorded by scribes. Scribes work for temples, palaces, and merchants. Suddenly the whole polity of a city becomes playable.

City-states also feel like better campaign engines than big kingdoms. They are small enough for players to affect, but complex enough to hold real faction play. The Ensi (governor) wants order. The temple wants divine legitimacy. The merchant guild wants safe trade and favorable weights. Farmers need water. Artisans need copper and tin. Nobody has total control, so every crisis creates leverage.

Temples are especially strong in this kind of setting because they are not just churches. A temple can be a storehouse, archive, court, employer, ritual center, landholder, and political faction all at once. That makes religion practical instead of decorative.

Scarcity helps too. If timber, stone, copper, tin, grain, and clean water all matter, then a missing caravan or broken canal is not filler. It is an adventure balanced on crisis.

And myth sits closer to the ground. An omen, a failed burial, a spoiled beer mash, or a cracked clay tablet can all point toward something divine, political, or monstrous.

For other DMs: have you run ancient-world fantasy? Did it change what kinds of problems your players cared about?

We will be starting our campaign soon and our DM has told me that he is considering removing the rule that anybody gets an attack of opportunity when somebody moves through a threatened space since he dislikes how much it limits combat movement.

He did add that he might reconsider a few sessions in if it feels unbalanced.

I am not in a position where I can make him change his mind but I wanted to hear some opinions about it since I'm a very new player.

I do feel like aoos from moving are an important part of the game and that if you want your character to move freely on the battlefield then you can just built around it.

I also acknowledge though that around half our players are just as new to the game as me but don't have the passion to start picking though the rules. Therfore it could make things easier for them.

Reddit what is your opinion on this matter?

Our DM said he wanted to implement that rule regardless of which ruleset (D&D and pathfinder were on the table) we decided to play.

I have a story where I had a classic tournament/arena competition going on. And purely within the mechanics of just rolling die, I secretly tricked my players into playing Yu-Gi-Oh.

It took me a whole day to come up with the mechanics and I largely forgot it but rolling a certain number on the die equaled a certain monster, monsters with high atk and had low DEF and those with high DEF had low ATK, etc.

My players had a blast and had no idea that I had secretly tricked them into playing yugioh with dice.

Anyone else got some stories (looking for fun inspiration) where you tricked your party into a fun mini-game within the world of D&D?