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So I introduced a quest to save Dave Gnoll of the Fae Fighters who was captured by some bandits while the band was enjoying some time exploring the coast south of Waterdeep (they were hired by A Perfect Cantrip to lessen the competition). In order to have a reason for the band to be there, I created a Battle of the Bards music show with several bands including A Perfect Cantrip, Wizard Eat World, and The Casting Pumpkins.

I have a player who is an experienced player while I am a new(ish) DM. Our party consists of path of Devotion Paladin, Bladesinger Wizard (the player), Thief Rogue, College of Eloquence Bard, College of Whispers Bard, and Battle Master Fighter. It’s already a strong party and the two bards can throw a wrench in a lot of stuff.

My groups last session was maybe the best in the 15 month campaign we’ve been playing (they just hit level 7 at the end of it) and I feel like I did a few things that really helped.

I’m running a newly created campaign (2 sessions yet), and my players asked, if they should check the new contents, or am I planning to migrate to the PHB 2024 edition.

I’m running the Pathfinder 2e Abomination Vaults adventure for a group of 5 players, though I’ve set it in my own homebrew setting and have not shied away from deviating from the published adventure. I’ll try not to, but I may let slip some minor AV spoilers

Hey gang.

This is for D&D 5e.

I’m going to be starting a pretty short campaign here soon. I’ve mostly got the plot figured out, and when I was helping a player with character creation they asked if there was a good patron for their Warlock character. My initial thought was, “well the BBEG would be interesting.”

Hey all, I’ve done a lot that I’m proud with in the past for random tables while traveling. Weather, encounters, and even the environment are all dynamic and changing in ways that my players enjoy.

I’ve been a DM for about 3 years, and have predominantly run one-shots and short campaigns in DnD5e and PF2e. I have a player who persistently builds primary caster based characters, but then won’t do anything in combat but “I stab it with my dagger.” They rarely use cantrips, and basically won’t cast a leveled spell unless I suggest it immediately before their turn. They seem to enjoy playing despite the fact that they’re far too squishy to be a front-line melee character and don’t utilize most of their class features. I’ve talked with them explicitly about how their play style seems to be discordant with the kind of play they want to do, and that maybe next time they should try a paladin/champion or a fighter/rougue subclass with some minor casting. They agreed at the time that sounded like a good idea, but low and behold showed up to the next one-shot with a primary caster, and over 3 hours of play and 3 combats never cast a single spell, including a cantrip.

I need help/input/inspiration with a campaign I am planning. Without going into too much detail, in the world I’ve built there used to be a historically important and very powerful council of 7 mages (3 elves, a human, a gnome, an orc and a dwarf). They’ve each left behind a magical artifact of some kind. My group (druid, rogue, cleric and swashbuckler) is eventually going to hunt down all these artifacts.

I’m running a homebrew of Monster Hunter as a first time DM, with sort-of first time players. They treat it like a Disneyland ride where they “go here do X” and so I set them up for the first major boss fight with Teostra (cr13) against their group (lv4) with the inte t that they do 1/4 to 1/2 it’s health to drive it away. (I know they can’t kill it).

I’m finalizing my next campaign, and am looking around for an online tool to create a world map. I really just need to make one map (maybe two), so I’d prefer free to use or a small fee to get started.

Hi everyone!

Overall it seems like Larian made an improved version of 5e. I almost want a PHB based on these rules. It’s like an Advanced 5e.There’s definitely some things that wouldn’t transfer to the table top as well like handling 4 boons and buffs to every roll.

I’m a beginner DM running Lost Mines of Phandelver for a group of 4 newbies, and they have a party “familiar” who is really just one of those goober characters that the party thought was funny and convinced them to join.

Do you have a list of tasks you do every in-game morning as a DM? For example: - roll for weather - keep track of that curse time bomb - roll for encounters for the day - check for public holidays - ….

I’ve only DM’d for ~3 times so far, and only once in person (this past weekend). I was introducing two friends to the game, and we’re all excited to continue.

I want to have my players travel through the Elemental Plane of Fire for a short period of time. None of them are immune to fire damage. How could they prepare themselves to survive this ordeal?

How do you all handle ready action for your players? Do you only allow calling of a single scenario or multiples?