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Greetings adventures. Over the past 7 years, I have used D&D as a way to express, address, and confront themes from the trauma I've suffered throughout my life. Every week, I spin tales of horror, drama, suspense, and emotion as I sit around with a group of friends and build an adventure together. At the age of 17, I enlisted in my nation's Army as a airborne combat medic. I just wanted to save lives. Unfortunately, Afghanistan still weighs on me. I couldn't save everyone. 16 years of practicing medicine later, I now work with patients on life support. As a result. I've seen more death and suffering than I can remember, but I use this pain, darkness, anxiety, and trauma to enthrall my players into a dark campaign through the hells. After trying to stop the bleeding caused by weapons of war, I'm great at describing in graphic detail the wounds my players suffer at the hands of enemies. I tell them tales of fictional characters suffering based off of real people l've watched wither and die. D&D helps me cope. I can feel and share my pain in a productive way that provides catharsis. It's pretty common for the players and I to cry at my table. Not every campaign I try to run gets dark but it's just a wellspring of inspiration that I can tap into. Do any of you use creative outlets like this? If so. I'd love to hear about them.

once upon a time there were a group of stupid college students that travelled from far and wide to meet up at a shitty airbnb in the middle of nowhere to play dnd.

during a VERY long oneshot, everyone (except for one little loser) got insanely drunk before making it to the boss battle and realizing they forgot to bring a dragon mini for battle.

the drunkest of them all ran to the fridge and slammed a beer down on the table

“whoever lands the last hit has to chug the whole thing”

the battle took probably around 3 hours, due to every intoxicated person losing their mind everytime they saw the miller lite dragon

our DM, who was also very drunk, decided to make it worse by declaring that this dragon in game was, in fact, a beer bottle with wings and tail

then they all finished the battle, the victor chugged the beer, and the one sober little loser made everyone cry with his very bad roleplay

the end

(never be the only person sober in a group of insanely drunk dnd nerds)

Commissioned OC with an isekai'ed situation Bard/Rogue Class

"Sophie Williams grew up in a family whose identity was strictly shaped by the church and their beliefs. Her household was always strict when it came to rules and family traditions. She grew ill of it and took a more rebellious path in life especially after seeing her parents wanting to seek out the church’s favor rather than their own daughter. She truly believed no one cared about her, there was no one she could trust. That was until she met a certain person and that person was named Layla (Friend's OC - Paladin Class). The two grew up being each other's pillar or support. They shared a deep bond perhaps it can blossom into something more?"

Sophie was a stubborn, somewhat rebellious girl who was kept in line mainly by the church, she tends to be bold and outgoing the complete opposite of Layla, she can even be seen as fearless from the eyes of her as she swiftly rushes in to defend her like some white knight even if there are risks involved. Up until she met Layla throughout her early years, she can be described to be pessimistic and somewhat resentful of life, mainly her own. Convinced there was no one who truly cared or that she could confide her trust in.

If anyone's interested in their OC painted, feel free to DM me.

If you like my work, consider seeing more at darellworks.com

Thank you for your time ^ ^

So, I'm new as a DungeonMaster, and I ask my friend that first timer in Dungeons&Dragons to play with. We run a one-shot module, "Peril in Pinebrook" with some mod. It's so much fun! So I decided to draw their characters.

So, from the left is Dragonborn called "Wakijo", second is Aasimar called "Tulalit, third is Tiefling called "Jajang", and the last one is Wood-elf called "Eji"

Can you guess the classes?

At the end of our session, the DM did a cliffhanger of what would happen during our next session.

Setting: A city that has recently been decimated by an apparent attack by a god-level power. There are unnumbered survivors in the vicinity.

What's happening: Apparently a deadly rain of some substance has begun to fall. We need to get out of the city and the citizens will be an impediment to our passage.

My character's problem: I have 9 Misty Steps and flight that I could use to get away, but I'm going to want to save as many citizens as I can. So I'll pick up whatever I can (480 pound lift capacity), misty step them forward, then go back for more, concentrating on children and innocents.

The only way I see myself surviving is if the rain causes damage and the low-hit-point citizens all die so there's no point in my character going back to help them. We had encountered people poisoned by something that made them comatose, so that might happen, but that just means I'll keep trying to save people until I fail a save.

Now, my DM has been very reluctant to kill characters, so I doubt this ends up as a TPK, though the cliffhanger was certainly presented that it might be a possibility.

This druid's player developed her powers throughout her journey, based on the preservation of life in nature. Her great deeds, until reaching epic levels, made her eligible to be elevated by the council of gods to a local minor deity with domains associated with reincarnation, rebirth, and second chances.

Have you ever had a character elevated to divine status? I'd like to hear some stories that could become good ideas for art 😄

(If you're interested, I'm open to commissions, feel free to DM me)

(To see more of my art you can access: Instagram -main social media- or ArtStation)

In this article, I calculated the spellcasting capacity of Artificers using the spell-point system from the 2014 Dungeon Master’s Guide (DMG). This optional rule provides a way to estimate the “power budget” of the Artificer’s spellcasting (see Table 1 in Methods, original from DMG 2014 - Chapter 9). For comparison, I used the standard full-caster (Fig.1, dashed line) and half-caster spell progression (Fig.1, green bottom line) as baselines.

In addition, I added three alchemist builds, one battle smith build, a wizard using arcane recovery, and a ranger taking into account free casts of Hunter's Mark.

Main Findings

1. Artificers are clearly separated from martial-first half-casters (i.e., Rangers and Paladins) in terms of spell point potential.

2. However, while Artificers do have tools that distinguish them from Rangers and Paladins, the gap is fairly modest in tiers 1 and 2. The difference mainly emerges through uncommon and rare Replicate Magic Item options and, especially, the spell-storing item.

3. An Alchemist at maximum theoretical efficiency has high spell-point potential, but in realistic play scenarios they tend to fall behind the Battle Smith.

Conclusions

A. The designers succeed in creating a caster-first half-caster in the Artificer, but this identity depends heavily on features that don’t fully come online until late tier 2.

B. Levels 5-8 arguably could have used more explicit casting support to reinforce the caster-first identity during this phase.

C. Restricting the Alchemist to lower overall casting capacity than the Battle Smith feels like a design flaw. Adding one or two solid 3rd-level spells to the base Artificer list would go a long way toward improving the Alchemist’s position (and the Cartographer’s), placing them in a healthier spot relative to casting power.

D. The flip side is that even when casting 1st level spells with the spell-storing item, the Alchemist is not outperformed by much by vanilla full casters. Of course, one should take into account that high level spells are not simulated by multiple low-level spells.

Methods

Table 1: Spell point progression system.

For the Artificer baseline, I added the following features to the standard half-caster progression:

• Level 6: Spell-Refueling Ring, restoring a 2nd-level spell from levels 6-8, and a 3rd-level spell from level 9 onward.

• Level 11: Spell-storing item, storing ten 3rd-level spell equivalents.

• Level 15: Cube of Force as replicate item, assumed to consume an average of 16 spell points per day (rounded down from realistic usage patterns such as one wall of force plus multiple shield spell casts).

Because Alchemist is likely the most caster-leaning subclass, I also examine an Alchemist build:

• Level 3 onward: Each free Experimental Elixir counts as a 1st-level spell equivalent.

• Level 9: Either up to five daily castings of lesser restoration (max build) or a single daily use (realistic build).

• Level 11 (replacing baseline build): Spell-Storing Item containing either four castings of haste (haste build) or ten castings of a 2nd-level spell such as Melf’s Acid Arrow or Aid.

• Level 15: One cast of a 6th level spell in Tasha’s Bubbling Cauldron.

For the Battle Smith, I used the same baseline as the Artificer class but removed the Spell-Refueling Ring to represent competition for Replicated Items due to martial equipment needs.

For the Wizard build, I used Method 2 as described in https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/5vyx0d/arcane_recovery_and_spell_points/

Edit: As suggested by u/SnooOpinions8790, if you add Wand of Web or Wand of Magic Missiles at level 6, this largely increases the gap between half-caster baseline and the Artificer and further establishes this class as a caster-first half-caster. Of course, it is up to each player to decide whether they want to invest in these items.

After my wife and I got invited to a one-shot D&D session social thing at her work, I fell in love with it and joined a group for my first campaign. The DM from the one-shot is the DM, she is great and we get along well. We're playing Dragon of Icespire Peak. I'm playing an Oath of Vengeance Paladin.

The 2nd member of our party I had met once before when my wife and I invited my now DM to come join us for an unrelated board game and he came as a 4th player. We all enjoy a bit of roleplay but play with a pretty serious mindset.

The 3rd and 4th party members are a different story though. Goofy. Not in a fun way, in a suicidal, senseless way.

2nd Member is a Fighter, the Goofballs 3 and 4 are a Monk and Bard respectively.

The monk is constantly drunk, spends all his gold on booze, and attempts to get anything that breathes to drink with him.

As we approach the entrance to the first area where we might have to fight, the fighter and I begin to discuss.

"We're by far the tankiest, so we should go first. How about"

We're cut off by player 3, the Monk

"I run in"

Player 4, our Bard chimes in

"Me too"

The bard doesn't even stick to the monk, they just run in ahead of everyone.

A monster drops from the ceiling onto the bard.

Roll initiative.

The monster hits the bard. First attack from any mob of the entire campaign.

The bard is one-shot and immediately doing death-saves.

As a Paladin, I had the opportunity to rush over and lay on hands (heal) to get the Bard out of death saves.

I don't. I say my Paladin is concerned with avenging the exploited and smiting the corrupt, not protecting fools.

She dies.

Technically our dm has a lost limb house rule. If you would die, you can permanently lose a limb and some related stats and you don't die. Now the bard has a peg leg and less movement.

None of the other players or the DM got mad at me and the bard has been less blatantly stupid going foreword. I regret nothing. However I am curious how reddit will feel about it.

Hello there!

First of all i wanted to greet you all and wish you a happy new year!

I am part of a team that is working on an animatic project called Void Watch on Youtube (together with FaefiendArts and CorvusEquinox), retelling our adventures we have in our DnD sessions.

After talking to the mods of this subreddit we would love to show you what we are working on, with the first episode of our project being live already! If you feel like it feel free to check out our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@faefiendarts

We would love for you to have a look at it!
Thank your for your time and have a nice rest of the day!

The Void Watch Team!

Currently looking for inspiration on some characters and I want to see some of the ideas other have come up with, this could be your character your playing now or just a random character concept you thought of! I’d love to hear the ideas! And I hope this helps anyone else also looking for character inspiration!

My last character was a changeling (fighter) bounty hunter named Vale, who became the target of a very dangerous organization, so he had to go into hiding as a dwarf bard named Peppermint Pip. And because he was a fighter and couldn’t really play an instrument or use magic, any time the party wanted healing or inspiration I’d just tell them “yeah I’m not that kind of bard”.