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I wanted to see what a journey across almost the entire Forgotten Realms map would actually look like, so I plotted one in Toril Explorer, an unofficial FR interactive map I've been building.

The route starts in Baldur's Gate and ends in Chunming, a city in eastern Kara-Tur, in Shou Lung, on the coast of the Celestial Sea.

Most of the journey follows established roads. From Baldur's Gate, the route runs east to Westgate, a major port on the Sea of Fallen Stars with a rather notorious reputation.

From there, the route crosses the Sea of Fallen Stars by ship to Sultim, a port in northern Mulhorand. Then it's back onto the roads, heading east until Lake Brightstar, which requires another water crossing. After that, the route continues east, crosses the northern reaches of the Yehimal Mountains, and enters the vast plains and hills of Shou Lung, following its roads all the way to Chunming.

The complete route is about 8,328 miles: roughly 6,828 miles on roads, 1,342 miles over water, and only about 158 miles of trackless land. The distance itself is calculated geodesically using Toril's planetary model rather than by measuring straight lines on a flat map, which matters quite a bit over a journey of this scale.

Using the 2024 D&D 5e rules, normal walking pace, 8 hours of travel per day, and a vessel speed of 3 mph, Toril Explorer estimates the journey at about 347 travel days. That's very much a best-case baseline: good weather, no encounters, no magical shortcuts, and so on.

I'm more of a tech/map guy than a lore expert, so I'd be interested to hear which part of this route would actually be the most dangerous.

Hi All, I just want to share a few things that happened with game that make me wonder if my expectations are too high, or my DM is just a jerk.

Some background: I'm 61 F, never played before but found a local gaming store that was starting a new campaign. Yay, I'm in! DM is 50ish M and his two sons 16 and 14 play along with their friend also a teenager.

In our second session both sons tried to solve a puzzle and were instantly dropped to 0 HP and lost a level (reverted to level 1!). I told DM afterwards that I'd never heard of this happening and it's a great way to make players never want to touch anything and always be scared. Not great for adventurers. He said that's life sometimes. I said we're playing a game for fun.

6 months later DM told us we found a broken item that was still worth about 75G. Went to sell it and asked for 100G thinking we'd need to haggle. Shopkeeper says they'll pay immediately. PC said we'd shop around and shopkeeper says they'll pay 150G. Now the team is doing everything they can to determine why it's worth so much when the DM said it was only 75G.

I said to one of the sons, "I'm not playing this scene. The DM is being a jerk and I can't sit here for it". He said it happens all the time. But my response was that now our level 4 players are going to spend the next 45 minutes trying to figure out what the deal with this item is and we can't with our abilities. He's being a dick and wasting our time.

Ten minutes later DM convinces us to go to another shop and the shopkeeper there is surprisingly forthcoming about the item.

Do things like this happen all the time where the DM says things that are either not true or, I don't know what? Is there an in game reason the DM would give us bad, or misleading info?

Thoughts?

Edit for clarification: This is 5E.

He is not good at telegraphing danger and consequences. In the puzzle where levels were lost, we decided to give up and move on. At level 2 we didn't have a lot of options. DM said "So you're just going to leave?" Prompting ten more minutes of trying to figure things out which led to instant death and level loss. Had he said, "OK you go back to the cart" we'd have been fine. I also asked about the puzzle after the session and he said we couldn't solve it at our level. So for us, the best we could have done was leave, but his prompting led us to believe we could have solved it, which was not true.

For the item, when we found it DM said "you find a crystal. It's a broken arcane focus but still worth about 75G". There was a roll involved to find more info (I think it was a 16) but got the same info. We didn't dig deeper because the DM already told us that when we found it.

Also, I want to point out that many of our sessions are fine. I think the issue is that what's happening at home with his kids gets brought into the game. Neither I nor the friend lost levels, only his two sons, and we were all together when it happened.

Basically, in one of my settings because of the nature of agriculture in the world meat(specifically pork) is exponentially cheaper than grain or vegetables, which would make horses much more expensive to feed and care for, so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for low CR d&d creatures which eat meat and would be a good alternative to horses for this world as mounts and beasts of burden.

I took some time and took my empty dining room and turned it into something fun over the past few weeks. Repainting measuring, adding accessories, and taking the time to do it all was exhausting, but rewarding. Ive been sitting in this room, working on my laptop, and prepping for sessions, so excited for the group to see it finally. It'll be a nice surprise next session vs 4 blank white walls. [OSHA cat pictured during inspection]

At the end of todays session an npc prayed to one of the gods for the safe passage of someone who passed on which summoned the little devil dressed in a bespoke suit and a long smoking pipe named “Abacus” who tells them that they are the one who keeps track of all that pass away and gives the npc a number to keep track of the soul.

The players asked where all the souls go to and Abacus told them they are suspended in a sort of purgatory and described it as “all the souls that were meant to pass on are now in a bag and that bag is stuck in a deep dark pit” and really emphasizes the fact that the souls were in a “bag” and talked about it as if it were something so inconsequential and my players told me that both in and out of game they felt unsettled at the idea of such a purgatory
[note: my players liked this because it was creepy.]

I wanted to play DND with a few of my friends (12-13 year olds) and I asked my brother to be the dungeon master for it, he said sure but after he finishes school. When it was brought up to my mom, she said my brother could get in trouble and be arrested and that my friends parents wouldnt let them play because of my brother. My brother isnt a weird person and he's really kind. I'm starting to doubt if I want to play DND with my brother and friends now. Is it weird for my brother to be the dungeon master?

EDIT: To clarify, I'm a girl and I'm likely inviting mostly girls, I also live in USA (It's a bit hard to read everyone's comments so I will try to reply if you ask something)

EDIT (2): Also please don't put anything super weird, I'm too curious for my own good and I will likely deep dive to find out what some of you guys (as in everyone) are saying

My old warlock died (rest in peace), so here's my new character!

They're a warforged artificer struggling with amnesia. They woke up a few years ago in a scrapyard and have now worked themselves up to decent wealth by working as an engineer, and gambling. With lady luck seemingly always by their side, they're a regular in the city's fancy casinos.

Art comes courtesy of my boyfriend who likes drawing my characters, his instagram is @avery.rain.arts

Pixel art is NOT my forté but i was messing around with it since i haven’t done it in years and made this!

In retrospect I’m not sure I got the proportions right but it’s identifiably Karlach so I think I did good 😎

If you like my art be sure to let me know! The Wolves Den tavern could always use some inspirations so lmk if you’ve got a cool idea of some kind of art I could do!