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Left: Bonnie the Celestial Druid played by my wife

Middle: Mighto the Path of the Muscle Wizard Barbarian played by boyfriend of highschool friend

Right: Mavy the Light Domain Cleric of Waukeen played by my long time highschool friend

Ran lost mines of Phandelver before but this group was such a blast to play with! Two of them never played a D&D campaign before. I have added two more fans of this game to our community ✌️ doing the community a service hahaha

I've just released my giant d20 dice on my website. I've been prototyping these for about half a year and now they're done! I'll be giving away 3 of the dice out of my first batch.

They're made from a 2 part 3D printed core with laser-cut wood faces inset. Available in 6 colours: red, green, blue, purple, grey, and black. Also with custom 1 and 20 face options!

They're available on my site with free international shipping: jackandevey.com/products/giant-d20-dice

Giveaway info:

3 winners will be selected to receive a giant D20 in a colour of their choice (depending on what is left of the first batch)

Leave a top level comment to enter

Reddit Raffler will be used to draw the winners

Giveaway ends in 7 days [9/06/2026 2pm GMT+10]

My son found out there was an after-school D&D program at his school. He was excited because the D&D club at his previous school was full of cliques, and he only got to watch but never play. I even bought the 2014 5th-edition books for him, since they were required by the club. He never got to use them.

Day 1, and he comes home dejected. While the program is welcoming, there aren't enough DMs. The program is staffed by one teacher and a parent volunteer, neither of whom is familiar with the game. There is a single student DM, but the poor kid has his hands full with eight players, leaving 11 players who mostly just stare at the kids who get to participate.

History wasn't going to repeat itself. I hadn't played since The Player's Handbook had the cover with the huge red demon statue on it, but I figured I could create something quick and entertain a group of kids for an hour and 15 minutes on Friday afternoons. The hope was that my participation would inspire another student to take the mantle of DM, and I could go back to being just a parent.

So over the weekend, I gave myself a crash course on 5th edition D&D. Ow. That was hard.

It wasn't that the premise was unfamiliar. As a DM, you set the scene, set up challenges, and the party tells you how they react. But the rules had changed quite a bit. I discovered I was quite the D&D fossil. Back in the day, initiative was rolled with a d6, armor class ranged from 10 to -10, and rounds lasted 1 minute (not 6 seconds as they are now). Most of the struggle was in unlearning old habits and discovering that the mechanics of spells like shield and bless now worked differently.

I didn't want to go into the program unprepared, so I created an outline of an adventure that I had used decades before. I'm not familiar enough with the Forgotten Realms, so I placed the adventurers in the Shield Lands, on the borders of Iuz on Oerth (Greyhawk setting). This choice proved to be fortuitous. While the players had never heard of Iuz, they had heard (via Stranger Things) of one of Iuz's implacable enemies, Vecna. Being in a setting where they could possibly meet Vecna tickled their fancy considerably.

What I didn't account for is that the modern D&D game is quite different than the dungeon crawls of my youth. I've seen Critical Role before, but hadn't anticipated how much influence it had on the game. It gives you pause when an 11-year-old looks you straight in the eyes and asks what their character's motivation is.

This emphasis on story actually made things a lot easier. Instead of having to prep elaborate battle maps and set up challenging fights, we spent some afternoons haggling with a potion seller, rolling to see if a giant rat could be tamed (which made the game feel like Pokémon for a while), and divvying up loot, which mostly consisted of low-value, non-magical trinkets.

There were some surprises. The current generation of kids has extremely low attention spans. Getting them to focus on the scene in front of them took constant urging and reminders. Literacy was also pretty poor. The kids struggled to spell words like dagger, chaotic, and platinum. Blame this on the prevalence of phones or the interruption of their education by COVID. I gained a healthy appreciation of what teachers put up with.

Overall, I really enjoyed it. It's motivated me to learn more about the hobby and perhaps continue to DM my kiddo and a few of his close friends.

My vote is for prismatic spray.

I'm a relatively new DM preparing a long-term 2014 5e campaign.

One of my players asked if they could use Silvery Barbs. My initial answer was:

"It's currently banned. But if you really want to use it, then enemies will also be able to use it."

The player responded that this would be unfair because the DM controls multiple enemies and has access to far more resources than the players.

This confused me a bit.

My reasoning was:

If the spell exists in the world, why would only the players be able to use it?

If a spell is considered fair when players use it, shouldn't it also be fair when NPCs use it?

I

f everyone agrees the spell feels miserable when used against them, isn't that an argument for banning it in the first place?

For context, I'm not talking about giving Silvery Barbs to every goblin, bandit, and random mage. I simply meant that enemy spellcasters could potentially have access to the spell if the players do.

Was my response unreasonable?

How do other DMs handle Silvery Barbs at their tables?

Long story short, had a particular player constantly saying "you can't do that!" when i'm running monsters that can for example attack twice and cast a spell, or take multiple reactions etc etc.

After a handful of times I kindly told them "As the DM, I am not restricted to PC rules and monster stat blocks reflect that, i'm not making this up as I go along"

So DMs, if you want to give that monster an extra attack or reaction to make the combat more fun, go for it.

It's called The Lurch because it lurches when it runs. The lore of The Lurch is that an evil man killed a unicorn, and brought its corpse back to town to brag. The townsfolk, horrified that the spirits of the swamp would punish the town for killing a unicorn, knocked the man out, sewed him into the unicorn's stomach as justice (for the man planned to eat the unicorn), and threw him back into the swamp. Unfortunately, this did not goes as planned, as now the spirit of the man lives on in The Lurch, an amalgam of animals it slaughters through suffocation and drowning.

This is definitely the edgiest thing I have ever written lol.

My DM watched ZachTheBold's video on the really old (and really awful) short campaign "The Forest Oracle" and set his mind on running it while fixing many of it's worst parts.

We also decided we'd create our characters based on the Backyardigan characters. Mine is inspired by Tyrone in the episode where they're knights (Tai'Onnet is pronounced like "Tyrone" with a soft R). She's also based on Noelle Holiday from Deltarune.

The premise of the campaign is simple: A magical plague is ravaging the region, and the adventurers must seek the forest oracle, a powerful druid, to sort it out. Tai's village has been suffering a lot with the sickness, and when her mother is infected, she decides she must go out into the world and try to put a stop to it. She's a sweet and meek satyr girl who was adopted as a child when her mother, a proud human ranger, found her lost in the woods. She was adopted by her and her husband, a halfling smith, who made her the armor she's wearing. Totally taken out of her domestic and simple life, she must contend with the difficult choices and terrific dangers that lurk the path to the oracle. And she must do it quickly, lest her mother succumb to the disease.