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Pretty much the title. I made a shop called "Temu's Traveling Treasures," staffed solely by a little fellow named Temu, wearing bright orange robes. Instead of products, his store just had catalogs of different products you could buy from him, all about 90% less than what you'd expect to pay for them normally (potion of healing for 5gp, Broom of Flying for 40gp). You pay, then come back the next day to pick up your products. The reason for the delay is that he "stores his inventory in less expensive parts of town to save on overhead and reduce prices."

After purchasing any item, the players roll a straight d20 for each item. On a natural 20, it's exactly the item they purchased. On anything else, it gets a...quirk that the DM reveals at the relevant moment. Here are some examples of products my players bought, what they rolled, and what the quirks are:

1. Broom of Flying: Rolled an 18. It can only fly 30 ft high, and only for 1 hour a day (the player hasn't figure the second part out yet).
2. Returning Dagger (for throwing): Rolled a 3. Only returns if your attack roll was an 18-20.
3. Greater Healing Potions: Rolled a 7. Still heals 4d4+4, but could do anything from giving you the poison condition to reducing your STR to 5 for 1 hour.
4. +2 Longsword: Rolled a 17. If he uses it more than 5 times in a day, it'll break.
5. Bag of Holding: Rolled a 1. Haven't decided what to do with this yet but am SO excited to.

This was a SUPER fun little encounter that my players loved. They new things wouldn't great, but still pretty much immediately feel into the "It's only 5gp, why not?" trap and bought over 20 items.

P4-X, also said as just Pax, is my character for a campaign I’m in with my friend’s own homebrewed setting. He’s an Artillerist Artificer who’s flavored his true strike attacks and other spells to be Spellfire. Having also taken the Spellfire Adept feat, every time he uses the feat it causes his body to crack and exposes the elemental energy that runs through his body because of the Draconis Fundimentium that powers him. His Eldritch Cannon is the claw attached to his back.

During a recent table dispute, the DM defended his actions by saying he has to punish us.

I said “do you really think that you’re supposed to punish the players? Like us specifically, not our characters but us.”

He said “of course, that’s the DM’s job!” like it was crazy for me to think anything else.

Now. When it comes to this dispute, I know the advice is going to be “leave the table”, and I’m way ahead of ya. I have. It was a bad table dispute with a lot of childish defensiveness from the DM even before that comment, and I don’t want my fun time to be spent with a person who uses the game as his place to be a petty tyrant for 3 hours a week.

But why is this attitude so prevalent? I’ve seen it pop up in a lot of DND discussions, and while there are also lots of people who’ll jump in to call that out, I also sometimes see people who perceive it as just some people’s table style. I know that 2024 takes extra care to tell DMs that they aren’t there to compete with their players, but I’d argue even 5e makes it clear that you’re supposed to be guiding something fun.

"Veruca is a spores druid in a Curse of Strahd campaign that I am currently a part of. She joined the party after my first character died. She is bubbly, unfiltered, and speaks like Jester Lavorre from Critical Role (lol). She wears a porcelain mask to hide the burns on her face. She also wears tattered robes, and a hood. She is secretly a spy for, and the adopted daughter of Baba Lysaga, an evil swamp witch, who is the one who burnt her face. Lysaga then gave her the mask to "hide her ugliness" (intense mommy issues). She is currently lying to the party about her background/motivations, but is also internally conflicted, as she is coming to terms with Lysaga's abuse. The party has not seen her real face."

Art Commission - Bahamys… you saw it and you know it. Coming from the flames, ready to help the helpless and smash the wicked. Wearing his shield as a wall against everything is evil, he’s a light in the night, a servant of a dragon god… he’s Bahamys, cleric of Bahamut.

Well, I always enjoy making a new dragonborn. Best race in the whole game hahaha but now i think about it, i don't receive a lot of female dragonborns, hmmm. Well really enjoyed this character. I maybe want to go a little more "high fantasy" sometimes on my armor designs, trying to go more WoW in the style but I have to try.

Tell me what you think and if feel free to come talk in DM or in Insta (@krabyx).

My LEGO creation of a fisherman’s cottage perched atop a giant turtle. While a fantasy trope almost as old as the genre itself, I think it really well captures the vibes of the Zaratan. I know the Zaratan have been depicted as both sea and land turtles, but in this case it’s the sea version. However, with it could be turned easily be turned into a tortoise by changing the flippers to legs and removing the fishing poles and the anchor! It’s currently on LEGO Ideas gathering votes so there is a chance it can even become an official LEGO set one day!

If anyone hasn’t seen it yet, the new Ravenloft backgrounds give characters the choice of Dark Gifts feats. These are powerful and heavily flavored feats that also offer a cursed negative traits.

The idea is that these curses force you to make a saving throw to be stunned or incapacitated if you roll a 1. This applies to all rolls that use a D20.

They look super fun in theory, however, just like any fumble table, if you’re a martial class these curses will hurt you more than the other classes. A fighter who takes 3 attacks in a turn has about a 15% chance to roll a single one in a full turn. Meanwhile many spellcasters have many spells that don’t require them to make any roll for their turn in combat. All this will do is force a fighter to use their indomitable uses on their own feat or get stunned for a whole turn. I feel like all these feats are way too risky for any martial character and were poorly thought out by WOTC.

Edit: I can’t change the title but people pointed out that nerf wasn’t the best term. It’s just disappointing bad design from offical material.

Dogs are some of the most common and beloved animal companions in fantasy adventures, but 5E never really gave the ordinary dog a proper basic statblock.

So I wanted to create a simple foundation for a regular dog, then give it a clear progression path: Dog, Guard Dog, War Dog, and Battle Hound. The goal is to let a loyal pet grow into a more capable companion, trained guardian, or encounter creature without immediately jumping into magical options like the Blink Dog.

This is part of Growing Pets and Animals Statblocks, a 5E manual designed to let animal companions grow with the party instead of becoming irrelevant after a few levels. The idea is simple: each animal has multiple scaling statblocks, so a small pet, scout, mount, guardian, familiar-like companion, or wild creature can progress into stronger forms as the campaign continues.

The full manual includes 60+ scaling animal statblocks, with progression paths for dogs, cats, owls, ravens, panthers, horses, tigers, spiders, and more. It also includes suggested progression tables for different campaign styles, including standard campaigns, gritty realism, low magic games, and high magic or epic campaigns, so DMs can decide when an animal companion should advance in a way that fits their table.

Since the original version did well, I went back and made a full V2 update with totally new commissioned and licensed art, a cleaner presentation, and additional statblocks. I also expanded some animal lines, including higher-CR dogs with special abilities focused on guarding allies, leading packs, protecting companions, or serving as dangerous sidekicks for villains and encounters. There are also more feline options, giving cats and larger predators a stronger progression path.

You can find it here: Growing Pets and Animals Statblocks on DriveThruRPG. If you already own it, you can download the updated version there.

For a longer preview, more statblocks, and the rules explanation, you can also visit r/JonnyDM.

For more of my creatures, items, and manuals visit DriveThruRPG, my Linktree, or r/JonnyDM!

“V”, real name Valentine de Clairmont, is an exiled young nobleman hiding in a distant land, disguising himself as a commoner after a criminal conspiracy threatened to destroy his family. Now V has fled to the desert kingdom of Dominion, where he hopes to fade into the city’s shadows. However, his mannerisms, skills as a swordsman, and stark blond hair and blue eyes threaten to betray his disguise, revealing his nature to anyone perceptive enough to recognize his noble blood and training.