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Ive been running my campaign for the last year, with 3 of my close friends and they absolutely adore and care so much about what we have created. They create artwork for the characters and the NPC'S in my world, they create playlists for their characters, in between sessions they create battle strategies with their characters to give them an advantage in combat, it's all they talk about outside of the session. There is no doubt in my mind they care very deeply about my campaign. However, two sessions ago we had a session that was particularly rough. My party seemed to take a more chaotic route to things and begin to kill innocents, destroy other properties, and get upset at me when a plan didn't go their way and argue with a lot of my rulings. This confused me because prior to that the party was very respectful of each other and me. I just brushed it off and thought it was a bad session and things would go up, so this last session we started things up again. We were all laughing, and I thought it was going very well until one of my players looked up at the other and said "I got a bingo" curious, I asked what he meant and he showed me the bingo card. On this bingo card was various things criticizing my campaign and session. For example "no gold at end of encounter", "skipped over perfect character moment", "start argument over the smallest thing.". I will say this one player in particular lacks social intelligence, so he saw nothing wrong with this card but as he read it off the other 2 players gave a look like "he was not supposed to know about that". I put on my best poker face, smiled and I said "you guys must have been very bitter about last session huh?" And one of my players says "well we got a bingo didn't we?" And after that, I was not into my session anymore, and I wrapped it up as soon as I could.

I would also like to add that I do have a Post-Session Form where my players can write feedback on the session, what their characters want to do next, what they liked, what they didn't like, and none of the feedback was ever negative. I feel deeply hurt by my friends knowing that after all of this writing and effort, they talk behind my back and criticize my dm'ing and campaign, and then they turn around and create artwork, and talk about how excited they are to play my campaign at the same time. I am heavily considering to take a break from DM'ing after this. is this not a really fucked up thing for them to do behind my back?

Look, there is no shame in it. Delving dungeons means stumbling into traps here and there and after one trap you get a little on edge. You start checking everything, touching as little as possible. You expect anything with an obvious solution to be a possible death sentence. And so you slow down, talk everything through. Scrutinize the smallest details so you don't get caught unaware. And when your party comes to a door you become suspicious and spend 2-3 hours poking and prodding what might just be a normal- unlocked door.

Well sometimes you're right. This door wants to beat your ass.
The Door is a phased bossfight encounter I designed (honestly sort of as a joke) to throw against those overly cautious parties. Every anxious dungeon crawler deserves their chance to tell their party I told you so. The obvious next true BBEG map I need to make, ”Scheduling”.

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It's my understanding that the old school medieval fantasy archetypal Cleric wields a mace because maces were better suited for fighting undead. Swords could land critical hits for better damage, but undead (the Cleric's enemy #1) were immune to critical hits, and the higher damage (but lack of critical hits) from a mace was preferred for Clerics.

To fit into the archetype idea, Clerics use Maces, Knights use Swords, Barbarians use Axes, but why?

Maces had better flat damage.

Swords could land critical hits.

What did axes do? What reason was there for a warrior to specialize in using an axe? Was it something that synergized with an older RPG's mechanics for Barbarians, or just that a greataxe fits the ~vibe~ of a Barbarian very well?

For story reasons involving a Fey, I need to temporarily change a PC's name, and I'd love some community suggestions. Just the most comically unappealing fantasy character name you can think of. It's for a very elegant female Tiefling but it doesn't have to be a Tiefling name, and the less feminine the better. The idea is a name so repellant that no matter how attractive the person, the name is an instant dealbreaker. I'm currently leaning towards Grundlegor. Suggestions?

This tiefling sorceress is my character in the Icewind Dale campaign, which began nearly two years ago! She has grown a great deal through the trials she has faced in the cold lands surrounding the Ten Towns. I love playing it!

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She comes from a powerful, wealthy, influential, and well-respected family. The Astrantias are distinguished by their long and ancient lineage; every member possesses innate elemental magic and is sought out by many mages and scholars. They have been involved in the development of Deepwater for several generations, have forged strong relationships, and their name is widely recognized. The family has dwindled over the generations, as some members simply chose to leave Deepwater or escape the overly stressful pace of politics.

Amarah is the sole heir of the Astrantias of Deepwater. Her parents are loving but have already planned everything out for her. She received a strict upbringing: etiquette, the study and control of magic, history, genealogy, laws, values… she is accustomed to conferences, dinners, receptions, and “public appearances.”

Now, her parents are getting quite old, and Amarah will have to assume her role as heiress. That’s when an unexpected turn of events forced itself upon the young woman: she’ll have to prove herself before taking office, but is hastily sent to Icewind Dale. Surprised, she asked no questions and obediently followed her family’s instructions, but her parents seemed worried and preoccupied...

She is, therefore, a noble character loyal to her family, wielding a violent innate fire magic, and who knows almost nothing of “real life.”

This is Peri! I wanted to imagine what an "urban" type of elf would be like if I were running a modern setting campaign. I like to think she would be a monk, mixed with a bit of cleric and she heals with good vibes. Additionally, I wanted to expand my portfolio with a more diverse selection of skin colours, so I took this as an opportunity to learn about shading/highlighting a darker completion. I definitely want to try to modernize some more characters!

Art by me, absolutely no ai

TW: Torture/Horror/Fate Worse Than Death

Context: My campaign takes place in a mercenary company the players are helping rebuild. I want to introduce a villain who is an evil surgeon with magic. The setup is the party is going be sent to check on another group from their mercenary company that has been missing for days and find each of them with various spells permanently cast on them. Mechanical rules: Villain subdues target for X hours (X=Spell Level) and operates on them weaving the spell into the soul of his patient. If something would end the spell besides a wish spell, the spell reactivates 6 seconds later. (An antimagic field suppresses the effects)

I want to set this up as a fate worse than death type situation, so each of their allies will have revivify as part of the package of spells cast on them. So even if the effects of the spells would kill them, they keep coming back. The four spells that came to mind as most unpleasant would be Tasha's Hideous Laughter, Otto's Irresistible Dance, Power Word Pain and Blink. But for the fifth and final NPC to really sell the point home I need the worst of the worst. The last NPC is one of the party's favorites and a mentor, so I need something that can be truly upsetting, heart wrenching and/or terrifying. I want them to hate and fear this villain before they ever even see him.

Edit: NPC is an autognome because I think they're neat, but it does set up limitations.

My buddy has been working on this table for over a year now, in and out of normal life stuff. He designed the most amazing table for our group.

I posted a photo of the table a couple of months ago and it got nearly 20k upvotes, it seems you all called this table the star destroyer table and that’s what it’ll be, but with the leaf installed—this is the chunky variant.

Comfortably seats 7.

We still have some things to do especially in the dm cockpit like adding shelves for dice tray/laptop, but other than that it’s almost done, functionally.

We also added four more legs and moved them based on feedback from all of you guys.

Just a little bit of work left, and she’ll be all set.

OG post: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1sji6tu/oc\_my\_friend\_spent\_the\_last\_year\_building\_me\_a/