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The mod team of /r/DnD is excited to announce a special joint AMA this Friday, December 5 (5 p.m. - 7 p.m. GMT)!

We're hosting Mark Hulmes (GM for High Rollers DnD) and Michael from the suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM).

Two days after the AMA, on Sunday, Dec 7, High Rollers will be streaming a life-saving one-shot as part of Jingle Jam 2025 to raise vital funds for CALM which you can join.

Meet your guests

• Mark Hulmes: The highly-regarded GM for High Rollers, Mark is also known for guesting on Critical Role and writing an adventure for Candlekeep Mysteries.
• High Rollers DnD: Celebrating 10 years as one of the world's top D&D Actual Play shows, with appearances on D&D Live and loads more.
• Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM): A leading suicide prevention charity who exists to help people find a way forward, offering a free and confidential helpline and webchat seven days a week.

This AMA is your chance to ask Mark about campaigns, writing D&D adventures, or what they've got planned for the Dec 7 stream! You can also ask Michael about the incredible mission the fundraising supports.

Want to play your part against suicide? You can donate now through the High Rollers fundraising page.

My literal thought process:

1. Ok, so she has a big family at home, who are all alive, and they all love her!
2. If she's got a big family, she must have lots of siblings
3. I don't want her to be the oldest or the youngest, so I'll put her in the middle
4. And even if she doesn't have any trauma, I should still add something interesting to her backstory
5. If she's a druid, maybe I could make up some reason for why she spent so much time in the woods learning magic
6. Maybe all of her older and younger siblings are really close in age to each other, but she's not close in age to any of them, so she grew up feeling isolated even when surrounded by lots of people, so going to the woods to read books and practice spells was her way of escaping that
7. Yeah! And I can make it where she was low charisma cause she never developed any social skills cause she was always alone and had no friends!
8. Wait, did I just accidentally give her trauma?
9. Wait, did I just accidentally give her MY trauma?!?

Got to work again with u/Level7cannoneer for this awesome character!

Ivor the Undying: A powerful Jotunborn weaponsmith of unmatched strength. He was raised from the dead and made immortal by a powerful necromancer, and in exchange he crafted the necromancer a weapon of untold power. Visible decaying flesh depicting his undead nature with one arm which was lost when he died being replaced by a metal one that he built for himself. In the other hand he carries a giant hammer which serves him to both forge weapons and bludgeon enemies.

I am also open for commissions so don’t hesitate to reach out in dms!

Heyo. I thought about posting a lineup of my current dnd party members with height chart. I wanted to draw the characters for my group for fun and for drawing practice. I actually not that good at 2d art and illustration. I'm not good at cleanup and full final illustration. I prefer drawing the messy, sketchy kind of look like you see here.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/5martist/

Video Process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmW96o1n_TQ

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@5MARTIST

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/5martist

Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/smartist

Ayala

She comes from a little village called Redside, but never felt welcomed there. She joined the army in the next biggest city named Triboar to prove herself worthy. But after some time, she realized that the hierarchy of the military, just contributed to assholes climbing the ranks. So she decided to part ways and become an "adventurer", helping people by doing small things like and being paid with food and shelter. After a while she joined a little druidcircle an finally felt at home there. Some sort of weird weather phenomenons are taking place and she went investigating because one of her circle member didn't return. She carries a necklace with the tooth of a boar, that went havok in her old village. she saved that boar by calming it and letting it free before the people would kill it.

She loves animals and loves to turn into a wolf/bear.

She is a loner, slightly cooky and direct. She met the rest of her adventuring party in a village named Red Larch. And she loves being around them, but would never admit it.

Decided it could be a fun way to commemorate our first session of the campaign with a little piece of all our party members eyes together!

Drawing eyes is my personal guilty pleasure and given all the different races we’re playing and how different their personalities are I thought it would be a fun exercise ✨

This is a homebrew creature I've developing for a little while. Still don't have specific stats for it but that is the next step! Now for some lore...

A bombastic merchant rides into the town square of Ul Narneth. Éreibo Shīm (Mr. Shīm to his customers) is a wealthy merchant of Clan Odima, and he brings with him a gift for the town's magistrate: a novel invention called an aulthin.

Literally meaning “warden”, an aulthin is a relatively modern invention constructed, or perhaps more accurately grown, from bio-engineered mycelium. The aulthin is controlled remotely by ingesting special spores derived from fruiting bodies of the same mycelium. Once this is done, the user can manipulate and command the construct up to a range of several hundred feet.

The construct on average stands at a hulking 9 feet tall. It has short, stubby legs and arms that nearly reach the ground but is surprisingly nimble. Mr. Shīm demonstrates the construct's capabilities by commanding it gently remove his cap while balancing on an arm and leg. The aulthin does so with ease, and the uneasy crowd that has gathered around seems at least mildly amused.

It wears only a loincloth and a decorative bronze mask over its broad torso. The mask is cast in the visage of a serene human face, and protects the mycelial core embedded in its “head”. They wield no weapons, and are controlled by an individual with an activation rod linked to the node. This is the first time an aulthin has been seen on Gethulan, and indeed no one is quite sure of where the come from (not even Mr. Shīm!), but whispers in the crowd begin to circulate that it many be another abomination from Rel, the reclusive sorcerer city where many such strange inventions are known to emerge.

like if we are fighting some one with a bow for example fight ends can I ask to go grab the bow like is looting cool or do we kinda wait for a shop or the dm to say oh wow in the chest you find xyz like I hoard a lot in games and I would like to know if I can or can’t loot my way through story stockpiling for the one moment we have a weird item to help out that we probably could of found as easy long story short is how many times do I get to ask “can I search the body’s” before he starts putting booby traps in the body’s some how this is a 3am weird thought sorry about format (or lack there of) I only acknowledge complaints in meme form thank you good night

As a Christmas present for my table (I’m the dungeon master) I drew their characters. They’re my favorite group I’ve ever played with. I feel lucky to have such good friends <3

I’m offering a few free sketches to shake things up creatively.

If you have a character, leave a short description and I’ll choose a few that inspire me to draw.

These will be free, rough / exploratory sketches — not commissions, no deadlines, and no revisions.

Optional details if you want:
– mood / vibe
– genre
– a sentence or two of description

You can have the sketches if you want.