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You pry open the heavy earthen door that has been keeping you from the tomb's inner-most sanctum. You are buffeted by a thick cloud of dust that is almost as bad as the stench of fresh corpses that rushes out to greet you. Wait, why would the corpses be fresh? Supposedly none have entered the tomb of the praetors in generations. A shadow moves, defend yourself!

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With the final nothic slain, you are finally able to take in your surroundings. Piles of bodies, some of whom you recognize as the missing clergy, are in various states of decay. You doubt the bishop of Tyr is going to be willing to hand over that bonus now...

I teach D&D to middle school students ages 11-13 (I’m an art teacher at an art school and convinced them to let me teach it as an elective this year).

We start off the curriculum learning about the history of the game. We had a great conversation about some of the problematic beginnings and tseparation of the art/artist. One of the things I mentioned was about Gary Gygax’s views on women playing D&D. The class is a diverse group of kids and there are a lot of girls. I was basically saying something along the lines of how perfect of an age they are to start learning about D&D, coming into it now and recognizing how it’s evolved to be what it is now. Well, the next day a student brought me this. They made it for me!

Hey everyone! I've recently been invited to play DnD with friends and had to come up with my first ever DnD character.

I decided to go for a tiefling bard. Her name is Zeal and she's a happy-go-lucky kinda gal, a vagabond of sorts aftee fleeing her previous life in Baldur's Gate in search of purpose.

Ngl, DnD lore is just so extensive, I'm very new to this universe but I tried my best researching as much as possible in order to give Zeal a plausible, worthy backstory. I think I managed okay. I mostly find her absolutely adorable and I'm glad I managed to bring her to life with this drawing I made. Hope you like it! 💛

TL;DR - I made a big list of the top third-party campaigns for D&D 5e. Please see below.

After many years of being a D&D fan, I'm finally looking into GMing myself. I've been doing a ton of research on the considerable corpus of adventures and campaigns currently available for 5e to see what options are out there. It was a pleasure to discover how much high quality third-party material is currently available amidst the vast ocean of more amateurish fan content.

I’d like to share a list of third-party campaigns I’ve come across that seem to have the strongest fan endorsements, highest ratings, and most community support. These are what seem to be the best of the best. I haven't actually played any of these, so I'm including my own opinions just based off of a high-level review of what info is available online. (Please take them with a grain of salt.) If you’ve actually played or run any of these, I’d love to hear what you think!

If you haven't heard of some of these and end up enjoying them, then I'm glad to have shared this. But for those of you who have played some of these campaigns, please do let me know if there are any I've missed, or if some of these don't quite meet your expectations. I want to learn a lot more about these books before I consider buying any of them, and I certainly don't want to fork over my hard-earned salary for a pretty cover if the contents are no better than hot garbage.

Kingmaker's List of Top-Rated Third-Party 5e campaigns
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Call from the Deep - JVC Parry’s passion project. A swashbuckling nautical adventure set along the Sword Coast. With mind flayers. Would probably fit really well with Ghosts of Saltmarsh or the Waterdeep campaigns.
Chains of Asmodeus - Designed by the legendary James Ohlen (formerly of BioWare fame) and produced by Arcanum Worlds. A sourcebook and high level adventure set in the Nine Hells. Would be an excellent follow up to the Avernus campaign.
Courts of the Shadow Fey - Courtly intrigue among the fey nobility. Set in Kobold Press’ Shadow Realm. Relatively easy to tuck in between the Feywild and the Shadowfell for campaigns set in the astral planes. Run it after Witchlight.
Crooked Moon - A giant folk horror sourcebook and campaign introducing the Druskenvald setting. The artwork is a little too Burtonesque for my tastes, but I do see it consistently praised.
Crown of the Oathbreaker - A truly massive 900+ page tome introducing the Kingdom of Aglarion setting. Includes a huge campaign taking the players to the fey and shadow planes. Not really to my tastes, but it definitely has its fans.
Dungeons of Drakkenheim - Probably the most highly-rated third party adventure I’ve ever seen. Designed by the Dungeon Dudes and published by Ghostfire. Available for both D&D 5e and Daggerheart. Appears to be heavily inspired by Warhammer’s grimdark Mordheim setting: a cursed city devastated by an eldritch meteor strike. Could easily be grafted onto the Forgotten Realms as a lost Netherese city pulled into a different plane during Karsus’ Folly.
Empire of the Ghouls - Another adventure by Kobold Press, this one is set in the Ghoul Imperium in the Underworld of the Midgard setting. Likely too many content warnings for my players, as it leans pretty far into the grotesque and gruesome.
Grim Hollow: Saga of the Seasons - Another title by Ghostfire, this book introduces the world of Etharis. This one is also folk horror-themed like Crooked Moon, but the art seems to be more to my tastes. People who’ve played it seem to love it.
Odyssey of the Dragonlords - Very highly-rated campaign set in Thylea, a world inspired by Greek myths. This would probably mesh much better with WotC’s Theros setting than the Forgotten Realms. This one is Arcanum Worlds’ big project.
Raiders of the Serpent Sea - Another offering from Arcanum Worlds. Where Odyssey is the Greek mythic setting, this one is a comparable Norse-themed campaign. Lots of Viking-style marauding and mayhem. This one actually looks really good to me. Might be a nice follow-up to the Icewind Dale campaign.
Rise of the Drow - An Underdark mega-adventure set in the city of Holoth, the authors’ homebrew setting. Could easily be repurposed for Menzoberranzan if you rename a bunch of characters. Available for both D&D 5e and Pathfinder 1e. Could possibly be run concurrently with Out of the Abyss albeit with a lot of effort.
Scarlet Citadel - One more from Kobold Press. This is an impressive megadungeon campaign set in the Midgard setting. Also includes a bunch of new monsters and a fully developed town to use as home base. Could probably be pasted into the Forgotten Realms without any problem.
Lost Tales of Myth Drannor - Adventure anthology released by the Adventurers’ League on the DMs’ Guild site. Not a lot of quality art in this volume, but it does have the advantage of actually being set in the Forgotten Realms.

The concept for Alkinimic Rex was created by Mike Hollik and illustrated by Mariya Sviridova for the Big Bads project.

Alkinimic Rex is a terrible facsimile of a red dragon approximated by a mimic. Its rows of red mimic eye spots and characteristic purple tongue belie its true nature. Its red scales are patchy, separated by sickeningly pale flesh, and adjoined by vestigial wings that could never lift the dragon's weight. Alkinimic Rex's minions are not kobolds, but "kopybolds," mimics that have taken on the appearance of kobolds. Combining the abilities of a mimic and a dragon, Alkiminic Rex has a unique pseudopod breath and a corrosive aura.

Hey all!

My friends and I hired a professional DM on StartPlaying.

We are a package deal so all three of us will be leaving. The issue is that it is a Monday morning session for two of us, starting at 9am. We are both in Vegas and sometimes work asks us to be out late on Sundays. (We don't work the same job, that's just Vegas, time works differently here.) Which we have both declined for the past three months in order to get good sleep and show up on time.

Our DM is consistently late and underprepared and has canceled on us twice at 10:30pm our time the night before. We do not have a set end time. This is on Mondays where work is a concern, and the one other player in the party is in Europe and not ending on time often goes past his limit for needing to be asleep, we end up finishing without him.

It feels rude and unprofessional to be so lax on their end about the scheduling.

So-

Here's what I have so far. Help me tone it down?

Hi DM!

Unfortunately we, collectively have decided that the scheduling for Mondays doesn't really work for us and we are switching to a different campaign. Michael and I are on the west coast and 9am is early.

And I won't sugar coat this and make you wonder. It is beacuse we both work evenings and sometimes have Sunday night obligations we leave early for to wake up on time. We have both made sacrifices with work and family and our schedules to be able to play Monday mornings. Starting late, ending late, and being canceled on last minute after we made concrete plans to make it on time is not a schedule we can continue making exceptions for.

Because Lei is one of my best friends and we come as a package deal Lei is coming with us as well.

So sorry to leave you three players short.

Edit! Thanks for all your feedback. We went with-

"Hi DM!

I'm so sorry but timing and consistency isn't working for us, so unfortunately Michael, Lei and I are withdrawing from the campaign. It was really great playing with you!"

A ship from Loot Studios, 3D printed in Bamboo Lab P2S and Anycubic M5S pro. The colors were primarily inspired by Lady Vengeance from Divinity original sin2. It took about two weeks of printing and a week of painting. The ship was made for my boyfriend's sea adventure. The most interesting part was painting the sails using a very wet fan brush and heavily diluted acrylic paints to create an imitation of the fibers in the fabric. It looks absolutely fantastic on a gaming desk with a monitor, but the guys' homemade desk turned out to have a screen that wasn't big enough, so they immediately started making a new one (they had been planning this for several years).

Many years ago I joined a campaign with a DM who was a massive JoJo's fan. So as a meme character I built this guy simply called 'Vainglorious'. The intention that his whole vibe was meant to be a JoJo character with lots of posing as his means of inspiring and all of his Bard magic would look like a Stand. I know Stands are all named after songs so I referred to it as 'Don't Stop Believin''.

All of this was short lived however as Vainglorious pretty much entered the dungeon and IMMEDIATELY died to a trap. The whole experience reminded us all of 'The Guy' from Spy Kids 3.

This is the first time I've attempted to draw the character in a JoJo's style but mixed with my own. I'm hoping to rebuild Vainglorious one of these days to make him a proper character while still keeping the tone and vibes the same. :P

What do people think? :D

After doing this for a few years, I thought I'd get better at improv, but I'm not.

Party got some ponies from a treasure hunter (Jari) for free that would have normally cost them around 5 gold in total, and money is sparce in my campaign.

The treasure hunter bought them off the local (corrupt) horse trader with stolen jewellery, that the Bree town law enforcement repossessed from the horse trader, so said trader (John Ferny) decided that the best course of action, rather than confront Jari in jail or discuss thing with Bree town council, was to go to the party and take the ponies back himself.

The rogue threatened John with a dagger in his side; those ponies were like her babies. The Ranger in the party started demanding deeds for the ponies sold to Jari, I hadn't even considered he would ask that.

I froze. I had got to John trying to take the horses back, but had thought of nothing beyond that. My head started rushing with possible things to say;

"I'm the only trader in town, why would I need dee--" wait, no that sounds stupid.
"I'm not going to deal with the council after what they did to me---" wait, no, does that work
"You've just messed with the wrong guy in town--" no, why would a trader declare war on adventurers.

The rest of my roleplay just felt embarrassing to me, fumbling through hastily scribbled out deeds and John rounding up townsfolk against the party, when I just wanted to get the party out of the city and on to quests. I wasn't expecting Law and Order: Bree edition.

Most Merfolk stick to the reefs, but she always preferred the weird,corners of the abyss. She found this ancient Mola Mola fish drifting like a stone moon, frozen, ancient, and totally drained of magic..

Instead of just passing by, she reached out. That 'Michelangelo moment' wasn't planned; it was just a spark of recognition. The second her finger brushed its side, the starlight trapped in her veins jumped to the fish, lighting up its runes. Now, this big, floating space-pancake follows her everywhere, acting as a literal arcane shield..