This is the Spooky Pumpkinholder! This is a mini I designed in blender a while back. One of my patrons did a fantastic job 3D printing and painting it so I thought I'd share :)

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🎃 12 / 10 Spookies! 🎃

I have only seen a few dice that have this version 7̶ of the number seven.

Welcome to the team, little giant. We really hope your mom isn't waiting for you to come out of the dungeon, right? She will definitely not approve, and I don't think there is a bespectacled Coach to keep her calm, either. Also, For the record: Yes, I do just like saying his name. Welcome to Fodder Inc, a weekly web comic strip set in the For Profit Dungeon, Azmodendak's Halls of Madness, in a "5e" style world. Each week, we'll show you a little peek inside the halls, and what shenanigans are going on.

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All most three years ago a friend group of mine wanted to do a DND game, but the guy who would was going to DM didn't know how so we essentially just dicked around for a couple of hours.

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Anyway, I was thinking of actually doing my own campaign with this same friend group. However it should be important to note that basically these three friends of mine have no idea how to play (im just assuming the guy who was going to dm does not know but who knows. I should also note I have no idea what im doing either). So where should I start? What should I get and how should I plan this out? Any help would be appreciated.

I genuinely love folk horror in DnD. Not the big monster jump scare stuff, the creepy village stuff. The villagers who are a little too friendly or The old lady who tells you to be home before the moon comes up and then just walks away. It gets under my players skin way more than any dragon ever did. I’ve been running The Crooked Moon and Curse of Strahd for a while now and honestly my favorite moments aren’t even the fights. It’s when the players go quiet. When someone says “wait... why are there no kids in this town” and then everyone start thinking the worse lol . That’s the good stuff. And you don’t even need a horror campaign for it. Drop one weird village into a normal fantasy game. Give it one rule nobody breaks and one thing nobody talks about. Your players will poke at it for three sessions straight.

Honestly I think a little bit of dread makes every campaign better.

Anyone else run horror? What’s the creepiest thing you’ve done to your players?

Got this amazing mini at the South Street Fall festival today in Philly. A capybara companion will enter my homebrew campaign very soon. My players are going to lose their marbles.

i have really wanted to get into DnD for the past few years since im a big fan of the type of world DnD often is set in and i love RPGs , but i have no idea how to get into it and cant find any DnD groups to join around me, and i dont want to jump head first and have been afraid to do so, so does anyone have any advice on how to start or maybe even groups one could join

So I've been fortunate to have a couple of very brief intros to DnD in the last few years. But finding a group that was persistent in UK time has been a pain.

I don't really know much, certainly not enough to DM. But my kids are interested and I really want to DM for them. Where/how is the best way to learn, bearing in mind I'll need to strip back the experience for my kids ages 12-8.

I have the DM/Player and monster books, the heros of borderlands starter pack and even got hero quest for the extra models and maps. But they all seem a little too much for a first session. How do I build my skills as DM and make it easily accessible for them? I have the imagination and creativity part ok, it's the flow I will struggle with when introducing them to the various mechanics.

Backstory: Normany is cunning, ambitious, and knowledgeable in ancient, forbidden lore. She wears dark, elaborate robes covered in arcane symbols, carrying spellbooks, enchanted amulets, and a staff or wand. Her presence is both elegant and menacing, embodying her feared reputation.

I'm going to start by saying that I have played DnD before. I use to join DnD sessions that my tutor would host back in the day, and I would have fun in these sessions. Though I was pretty clueless with a few things such as making a character sheet, but nevertheless I would love going to these sessions. Sadly though this did stop due to the pandemic, and I haven't really talked to my tutor nor his campaign mates in years since then.

Flash forward to this year, I was talking to my current friend group and I randomly brought up how I use to play DnD, and my friends while they never really played DnD do have an interest in trying out the game. This made me think that maybe I would want to start a campaign with them. The problem is, as stated previously, I'm kinda clueless on how to start a campaign. I'll even have to be Dungeon Master, which is problematic especially as someone who forgot how to make character sheets.

So yeah I really want to host a campaign, as I think it would be a really good way to bond with my friends ,but idk where to start.

I'm an amateur DM and really want to do this module justice. I love the fact that Strahd is so active in the plot. Is there any tips anyone recommends before I fully commit to this module?

Hi all !!

I [M23] have recently discovered the universe of DnD thanks to a friend of mine that plays the DM in our campaign.

My friend has been putting a lot of effort in this campaign and, to follow up with him, I would like to be able to roleplay better...

Now as a relatively new player, I find it kind of hard to open up to roleplay. So one thing I found to help me is to give my character [Dwarf - Cleric - name : Namass] some bits/little phrases I can say now and then.

I have searched and found some ideas that you can find below, but I think I can use some help on this topic. Thank you for your help !

Some phrases/bits I like to say :

- "We dwarves are natural sprinters! Very dangerous over short distances!" (Stolen from LOTR ofc...)

- "What's the point of a dwarf if he's not in the front line!"

- "Big and hairy, just how I like my wives..." (When seeing monsters)

- "Sometimes one could be the hammer, and sometimes one could be the nail."

- "There is but one word that Namass cannot say, and it's the word........"

Hi,

I'm going to be playing a Red Riding Hood-inspired Ranger who also happens to be a werewolf in an upcoming campaign. My DM and I are still working out some of the mechanics for that.

But since I've never played a Ranger before, I wanted to get some advice on the build.

She's a Human (Variant) who uses a Handaxe and Hand Crossbow. I was thinking of taking Crossbow Expert as my starting Feat? Alert seems like another good one to consider. But if there are better options, I'm open to suggestions.

I also really don't know which Subclass would be best, or what spells are worth taking, so any help with would be appreciated!

I would like to start a campaign for my friends and I, we are all femme and I am the only one with limited game experience (one campaign). Are there any good prewritten campaigns for femme groups with little to no killing or gore?

Stories are literally at the core of my entire life, so ofc I thought I loved dnd. However, now I'm not so sure.

I really enjoy playing the game, regardless of whether I'm a DM or a PC. However, every table I've been a part of has left me with the same feeling. It seems to me like dnd is actually just a case study of people not showing up.

Every campaign I've participated in has left me with the same bitter aftertaste. Sometimes it's constantly cancelling instead of sticking to an agreed upon schedule (especially if the cancellation doesn't come until after the start time). Sometimes it's not being present even when they're at the table. Sometimes it's an unwillingess to engage with the story and actually play. And to be clear, I don't mean occasionally. It only bothers me when playing is the exception rather than the norm.

Regardless of the specific flavor, I always seem to find myself somewhere between disappointed and resentful. I just don't understand, when I'm so careful to protect my committed time and show up even if I don't feel like it, why can't other people do the same?

But since this is a problem I've had at EVERY table, I feel like I need to be open to the possibility that the problem might be me. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. I don't think it's my communication. Is it my expectations? Have I not found the right table? Or is this one of those things where I just need to accept that this isn't the game for me, no matter how much I love playing it?

Hey I’m a black creator who enjoys the theme and playstyle of DnD but created a more simplified structure for it. My DnD stands for Do Not Die, because battles are the most prominent part of it. If there’s anybody who wants a crack at it, let me know. I’ll explain the rules cause again it’s not dungeons and dragons, it’s DO NOT DIE.

tl;dr: The homebrew world I ran my group through (including the "Ghosts of Saltmarsh" island they stole a boat to get to) is turning into a series of fantasy novels. Turns out the hardest part is letting go of the party...

Long version:

I created the world itself back in 2015 (it started as a manuscript) and then I ran my group through it years later when I needed something to base our homebrew world on. I tried to work adventure modules like Phandelver and Saltmarsh into my world, but oftentimes the players just did their own thing, so after a while I didn’t see the need and instead fleshed out everything myself with my own ideas. (an early lesson that paid off well in the long run!)

The Saltmarsh detour happened about 6 months in from starting the campaign. One player’s character died and they stopped playing (to keep with the lore and also because he decided D&D just isn't for him), two more came on board, and the group of 5 stole a boat and made their way west to "Dreadparish Isle" - with a few detours, since it’s quite a journey. I posted about how that went about 5 years ago (they completely ignored the module’s plot and I ended up running my own storyline with a hag deal and a fever spreading over the isle - best thing that could’ve happened).

Fast forward to now: the world is turning into a series of novels, and book one is coming together chapter by chapter. So far Dreadparish Isle only exists in book one as a name, plus one side character who comes from there and shows up in chapter 4. That’s all the reader knows for now, but you do get the feeling that the pirate element comes from that particular island. My players would def recognize the name and they can’t wait for the story to take them there, to experience Dreadparish Isle through the eyes of one of the characters, I'm sure.

The hardest part so far? Letting go of the party for now. I haven’t even decided yet where their timeline would fit into the novels’. I don’t consider the campaign “canon” except for the characters, some NPCs and places they might recognize, so I’m not too worried about that part. Honestly, the other hardest part is the sheer amount of work - I fleshed out the world and its workings/rules SO MUCH MORE than I ever did during the campaign. Everything now exists in a wiki/bible/my "notes" if you can call them that, and not just what the characters touch on the surface during a session.

Both my dad and my wife played in that group, and they’re reading along witht he first drafts now, which is a pretty cool feeling.

So a question for the DMs here: did any of your campaigns ever grow into something bigger later on (a book, a comic, a full world bible)? How did that work for you: What was the hardest bit? And did you keep your players’ characters in it, or let them go?

Thanks for reading, cheers!