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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?

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

We're giving away this complete set of sharp-edge resin polyhedral dice to one person here on r/DnD.

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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

I made an amazing (imho) cake for my son’s birthday, it only went a tiny bit awry! The party had to put down their forks and grab the swords to defeat what turned out to be a delicious mimic cake. A swarm of jello gelatinous cubes were also in attendance. The cubes were a surprise hit, not only are they cute as heck, but you make them double strength so they’re surprisingly tasty as well. His friends enjoyed it tremendously, and apparently his DM worked it into this weekend’s session!

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]

We were playing a session with our DM today and i get how fun it is now whenever you see the workings of your DM crumble. I could totally tell that our DM planned this extreamly epic fight for our party with 3 epic monsters in a cramped room after fighting some wights and getting our health lowered temporarily. It was supposed to be a tough fight from what i can see that our DM had planned cause he initially showed only one monster but then revealed there was another hiding on the roof and then another hiding in a passage. It was meant to be glorious, but we decided fuck all of that. The wizard of the party cast web and that covered the entire space creating difficult terrain while we were still in the corridor looking in the room. i (The warlock of the party) cast hunger of hader which constantly destroyed their health at every turn. Everytime the monsters tried to come close to us. They had to do a strength and dex save to realease them from the web and if they failed. More damage from hunger of hader. If they got too close. Used Eldritch blast(repelling blast) to send them back into hunger of hader and everyone in the party just kept spamming range spells. Faced 3 epic monster. No one lost any health cause hunger of hader tore them to pieces. My DM laughed about it cause that wasnt what he was expecting at all. It was supposed to be this epic battle but it was just pure bullying. This is my first time playing DND and first time ruining/surprising a DMs plan. It was fun to subvert all his plans.

Edit: some of you seem to think i see the DM as some kind of adversary. Hell no. I love our DM, he helped me fall in love with DND even more. He makes the game fun, gives advice when its needed and helped me planned out the build. It was just fun seeing for the first time that even DMs cant control everything if the players decide to be tactical with how they fight. Before i started playing and just watching. I always had this idea that DMs were just gods and every plan and everything you do was up to them. It was fun to know that sometimes they find the chaos funny as well and weaving a story within that chaos really raises the respect i have for em. Not everything or everyone is looking for a fight.