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u/120mmfilms — 15 hours ago
True Sight [OC]
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True Sight [OC]

True Seeing is a sixth-level spell for a reason... some things should remain unseen. Kayra's potions are so strong, her True Sight can see through the fourth wall. (At least, that's my interpretation of what's happening here.) Not a bad hook for a campaign.

  • More comics
  • There's also a Love and Hex book (just search for it)

This is a Love and Hex guest strip by u/CrazyGnomenclature... you have probably seen her work before. I reciprocated with an insane Tiff & Eve comic of my own.

u/bondjimbond — 15 hours ago
[OC] A little doodle I've done for my players to commemorate ending a year-long campaign
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[OC] A little doodle I've done for my players to commemorate ending a year-long campaign

u/sleepingArisu — 9 hours ago
Luria or "The voice on the waves" [oc] [comm]
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Luria or "The voice on the waves" [oc] [comm]

I created this piece about six months ago for Kaiserfrideric but never shared it here, as I wasn’t know if mermaids fit within D&D at the time. All design choices were based on the client’s specifications, and I wasn’t given any lore beyond her name.

I was especially proud of how the tail turned out

the scales took a lot of time and effort, but the final result was worth it

If anything about this piece doesn’t align with D&D, please let me know.

u/Artisticjade — 14 hours ago
[OC] I cosplayed my character, a tiefling barbarian named Ragnar.
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[OC] I cosplayed my character, a tiefling barbarian named Ragnar.

Ragnar is a wild heart barbarian.

She was born in a guard family. Her parents are caravan guards.

During her childhood Ragnar growing up in her grandmother's house in a small village near a wood while her parents are off to work.

She became a friend of a barbarian in the village who is a friend of her father and learned how to fight from him.

Ragnar started to travel with her parents and their caravan when she is 15 years old and started to work as a caravan guard just like her parents when she is 18.

Now she is 28 traveling with caravans and her co-workers friends. (Her parents are still alive. They are just retired from their job.)

She loves her life. Travel from a city to another city, camping in different places, sit on the caravan's roof under the stars, pat cute wild animals, get to new taverns, meet new people everyday, get money, having fun.

u/scarless1234 — 13 hours ago
The Boy’s first campaign!!! [OC]
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The Boy’s first campaign!!! [OC]

A group of friends and I play together and during that time he and the dm’s daughter hang out and watch youtubes and stuff. He recently asked me if I would make him a campaign and I excitedly agreed! He built himself a dragonborn fighter and I’m homebrewing. First time dm and first time pc and this evening was AMAZING!!!

We worked through how to roll checks, attacks, damage, and consequences! I swear a kid’s face when they roll a nat 20 and a nat 1 are even more amazing than when we do it. Maybe I got them rose tinted glasses, but HOLY WOW!!! His was to much fun. Gonna build for an every other Friday schedule and see where this all goes!!! Big shoutout to construction paper and a ruler for the maps! Golly, I hope I have enough characters to post this now… ya know… npcs and all that jazz. 🤣🤣🤣

u/Bukthed — 1 hour ago
[Art] Dee Barnett complete portfolio - Estate sale find
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[Art] Dee Barnett complete portfolio - Estate sale find

I still can’t believe what I walked into at this estate sale. What looked like just another forgotten pile of old paper turned out to be something way bigger: an enormous archive from Dee Barnett’s portfolio, easily 750 to 1,000 pieces. Dee Barnett worked as a graphic designer and artist for TSR, and buried in this mountain of material were pieces tied to the visual history of classic fantasy gaming. Not junk. Not “crap.” A legitimate time capsule.

That’s the part that blows my mind.

The auction house clearly had no clue what they were looking at. From the way it was talked about, they saw stacks of production art, mockups, overlays, sketches, proofs, and design boards as little more than leftovers from a house cleanout. The kind of stuff that gets shrugged at, boxed fast, and sold cheap because nobody takes the time to understand it. Their loss. Big time.

What I found was the behind-the-scenes DNA of an era. Hand-drawn concepts. Paste-ups. logo work. Printed proofs. Original layout material. Pieces connected to TSR properties that helped define fantasy art and tabletop gaming for an entire generation. You can see the process in these items—the rough thinking, the revisions, the craftsmanship, the physical labor that went into creating game books, boxed sets, and visual branding before everything became digital and disposable.

That is what makes this haul special.

These aren’t just random old pages. They are working artifacts from a legendary company, made by someone who helped shape how those worlds looked on the page. Some pieces are polished and presentation-ready. Others are rougher, more mechanical, more process-driven. But together, they tell the story of how fantasy publishing was actually built in the TSR years—by hand, one board, one sketch, one overlay at a time.

And honestly, that is exactly why estate sales can still be gold mines. Sometimes the best finds are sitting right in front of people who don’t recognize them. They see paper. You see history. They see clutter. You see lost production material from one of the most important names in tabletop gaming.

I bought the lot because I trusted my gut. Now that I’m going through it piece by piece, I’m even more convinced this was one of the wildest estate sale finds I’ve ever made. It’s rare to find one item that matters. It’s almost unheard of to uncover an entire creative archive like this.

This wasn’t a lucky grab. This was a rescue mission. And I’m damn glad I was the one who showed up.

u/Revolutionary-Toe-58 — 3 hours ago
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Players: DO NOT IGNORE WHAT YOUR DM SAYS (story for context)

I was DMing a game for a single player who was doing a personal espionage quest, they get to some lake in the mines, and swim down because there is supposedly treasure down there. he finds a body with a pickaxe, a backpack, and some strange boots.

he starts to swim up but realizes he’s going to drown if he tries to take the whole body, so he just takes the boots. I start to explain “these boots, don’t look like ordinary boots, they’re made of” and he goes “ok I don’t care yet tell me later, i’ll figure it out then“

meanwhile, some fish swim over to him and start to bite him, eating him and weighing him down. he just barely manages to swim to the surface with these fish all swarming him and collapses on the beach, making death saving throws. fortunately he passes, but just barely, and lies on the beach at 0 hp, slowly stabilizing.

when he wakes up he looks at the ”boots” strange, flat boots, made of a material that doesn’t decay in water. flippers. of all the times he could have used flippers, that was the time, and he decided to not learn what they were.

I could have told him anyway, but decided to adhere to his wishes. luckily nothing bad came of it, but this is just a reminder that sometimes the things your DM says are important.

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u/JaxTheCrafter — 21 hours ago
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Sylune’s Viper 2024. Are you kidding?

Please, game designers, please.

Just stop making spells. Stop describing them. Stop looking at them. Stop thinking about them.

“Level 3 Conjuration (Druid, Wizard)

Casting Time: Bonus Action Range: Self Components: V, S, M (a snake fang) Duration: 1 hour

A shimmering, spectral snake encircles your body for the duration. You gain 15 Temporary Hit Points; the spell ends early if you have no Temporary Hit Points left.

While the spell is active, you gain the following benefits:

Climbing. You gain a Climb Speed equal to your Speed.

Venomous Bite. As a Magic action, you can make a ranged spell attack using the snake against one creature within 50 feet. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 Force damage and has the Poisoned condition until the start of your next turn. While Poisoned, the target has the Incapacitated condition.

Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. For each spell slot level above 3, the number of Temporary Hit Points you gain from this spell increases by 5, and the damage of Venomous Bite increases by 1d6.”

The sound you hear is me banging my skull against an oaken table.

First person to understand the problem gets 5 Reddit karma dollars.

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u/DnDGuidance — 10 hours ago
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Steel Wind Strike

Bit of a rant and it is a cool spell but why isn't this just a martial class ability? Like I can see this being a Champion fighter ability they get to use maybe once or twice a long rest and fits the whole fantasy of that subclass being the peak physical fitness or maybe even a Barbarian too

Seen a lot of things about the martial vs caster discourse and it feels a little silly this is a spell and one a wizard can cast- ik this would fit a blade singing wizard but it's a little silly to have a spell specifically for a subclass although it being for Rangers and War Domain Cleric seems reasonable.

Just a thought whilst I was looking through spells, it's strange how they came up with this spell but could see it be a class feature to give martials an AoE option or as a cool big damaging move.

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u/kkmalayBruh — 1 hour ago
How do I made my Owlin more, Owlin? [OC]
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How do I made my Owlin more, Owlin? [OC]

This is my character, Mortvale, for original intend they are a bird(as shown in the right side of the image) but due to DM's demand for wanting our game being more traditional (and less confusing) he decide that my character will be an Owlim

I made the humanoid design for fun at first(on the left side of the image, before they decide Mortvale will be an Owlin) and never thought about my character will happen ended up being humanoid in the final adjustments

Which that kinda bugs me since Mortvale doesn't remotely looks like an Owl in my eye, how can I made them looks more like what their race are?

u/No_Trainer6000 — 34 minutes ago
[OC] [Art] Sir Phoenix of Solstice, the Vengeance Paladin for CoS
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[OC] [Art] Sir Phoenix of Solstice, the Vengeance Paladin for CoS

u/_holydove — 6 hours ago
[OC] Courtesan, A Femme Fatale Subclass for Rogues [MOD APPROVED]
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[OC] Courtesan, A Femme Fatale Subclass for Rogues [MOD APPROVED]

Hey!

I find femme fatales fascinating - they're a popular trope in movies, novels, and games - but I feel like D&D never delivers that tantalizing concoction of sex, espionage, and danger that I crave. You can find the full subclass on Imgur, free to keep.

Full Subclass on Imgur: https://imgur.com/gallery/courtesan-femme-fatale-subclass-rogues-dnd-5-5e-wRMVviZ
Full Subclass at on DnDHomebrew: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDHomebrew/comments/1s9rcrs/courtesan_11_a_femme_fatale_subclass_for_rogues/

Content Note. This subclass involves sex work, and touches on themes of dehumanization, marginalized groups, and violence in the midst of sex.

Tricks of the Trade, A Key Feature

Our profession hinges upon proper preparation. Don’t ever forget that, ma chérie.

You gain access to an assortment of tools and clever devices to aid you in your work. Select a number of Tricks of the Trade equal to your Proficiency Bonus. Then, gain the chosen Tricks.

When you finish a long rest, you may choose new Tricks. Lose the old Tricks (if possible), and then gain the new ones. Only courtesans are proficient with this equipment. If a Tricks of the Trade requires a saving throw, the save DC is: (8 + DEX Modifier + Proficiency Bonus).

Feedback

Thanks to the helpful folks at r/UnearthedArcana and r/DnDHomebrew, I've think I've honed in on something interesting. But what do you think?

You can get the full, DRM-Free PDF of Courtesans' Guild supplement and check out my other work at www.catacolytegames.com

u/WhitemanesLight — 12 hours ago
[OC] Thalia Pendragon dnd character illustration [ART]
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[OC] Thalia Pendragon dnd character illustration [ART]

Thalia Pendragon is my dnd character for a campaign that I am playing with my friends.

Thalia is a royal princess of Silvanus, kingdom where druids

thrive

She was known for being friendly with everyone, liked going

out to the bars so she could have her dance performances,

even though her parents weren't very approving of it, she

also likes hiking with her panther Nyx, who she got from her

parents, they bonded

immediately.

One day, her parents wanted to find her a perfect wed, but

she refused because she was not interested in being tied to

a one person, nor being wed to a person she doesn't know,

well, not after the incident that happened with Azel, her

lover that one day disappeared after Azel got married.

Thalia packed her things, took Nyx and told her parents that

she had always wanted to go out of the castle and explore

more of the world, and work on her magic.

u/doraagon — 10 hours ago
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'Given the chance, players will optimize the fun out of the game'. Have you seen examples of this?

This is a famous quote from the creator of the Civilization games.

I was recently in a game where the DM decided to give bonus feats at character creation and allowed characters to reroll until they got stats and HP they were happy with. They believed that balance did not really matter as long as the players had fun, seemingly oblivious to the fact that balance is often a large part of what makes a game fun.

He ended up with a Bear Totem Barbarian with Polearm Master, GWM and busted stats. It was absurd because every single turn he would deal more damage than the rest of the party combined and could take more damage than the rest of the party combined. The DM then made a bad situation worse by trying to balance combat around that one character which resulted in the other characters getting instantly beaten to a pulp. After that, they decided to fudge everything instead so combats lost all tension and took forever.

It all came to a head when the Monk missed two full rounds of attacks because everything had to have high AC for the Barbarian. She then said her character was going to sit down and meditate because it was pointless before switching off her camera.

Arguably, this was almost entirely self-inflicted by the DM and a learning experience. If he had just used the standard character creation rules, everyone would probably have had more fun in the end. I found it interesting because it was my first time seeing how a player could unintentionally optimise the fun out of everyone else's game.

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u/Zestyclose-Sound9854 — 17 hours ago
[Art][Comm] Hollow Knight inspired Races for dnd
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[Art][Comm] Hollow Knight inspired Races for dnd

Having now finished all of my subclass's and got their arts commisioned (for now...), I felt the next most thing to begin getting art done for, was my dear little bug races, known within the setting of The Below, that i have created. Within this setting the group term for all of the numerous races I've been creafting is The Kin, but each has their own culture and history, starting with my first and most simular to the characters we love so much! The HornForged! these are the beetle kin of the setting, coming in numerous shapes and sizes with two of their own subraces, the Herculeans and the Stagshells. The Stagshells are quicker and possess antler like horns (as shown in one of my subclass's) while the Herculeans are unsurprisingly the far tougher and bulkier type. Hornforged as a people value hardwork and Family more than anything else in the Below, and can get very competative between themselves over who is working the hardest and whose family is the largest and most wealthy. To the point where you might find two different guilds, each run by a Hornforged family, trying to outdo eachother haha.

honestly a ton of fun to make and I cant wait to show off the rest of them.

(personal project, please dont smite me.)

u/Adventurous-Craft-25 — 16 hours ago
[Art] How many of you adventure in Cormyr?
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[Art] How many of you adventure in Cormyr?

How many of you adventure in Cormyr? What adventure modules based in this region do you run?

I loved Wyvern Crown from NWN and just discovered today an adventure module called Tail Of The Wyvern by Dave Coulson on DMs guild i want to get.

And that had me curious who else enjoys this area enough to play in it? I look forward to hearing from everyone. I'd also love to hear your stories!

u/SFW_OpenMinded1984 — 3 hours ago
Combat Rogue (updated) - a 2024 Rogue Healer Subclass
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Combat Rogue (updated) - a 2024 Rogue Healer Subclass

Note: the Art included is by Bjorn Hurri, and is concept art for *The Evverain*.

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For a while now, I’ve thought about the possibility of a dnd build that is a non-magical, medic-style healer. Then suddenly I realized: rogue could be a perfect combat medic! The class is based around expert skill and tool usage as well as mobility and evasion. These would pair excellently with the idea of a battle nurse.

I made a first attempt at this (https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/T56MOLSaPi), and after some feedback, I decided to make a few changes mostly to slightly buff what I had designed. The homebrewery link below contains both versions of the subclass if you’d like to take the features and make something if your own!

https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/UV8Wyb8lqoMK

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The first level 3 feature is a series of small buffs to hone in the medicine theme. Some bonus proficiencies. Limited extra uses of cunning action. And finally, an ability that ensures you can sneak attack and punish enemies that down your friends. The healers kit synergy is key to making the subclass compatible with the Healer feat, which I think could really help this class when it’s healing pool runs low (NOTE: I would apply the healing dice reroll on 1 to apply to this class’ features).

Field Medicine is the core feature of the subclass. It takes strong inspiration from Circle of Dreams Druid, Celestial Patron Warlock, and Lay on Hands. Comparing to Dreams Druid, I decided to add the Int modifier (instead of extra temp hp per dice) to make up for the Touch range of the spell. I also decided to go the route of recharging the pool on a short rest and giving it a total charge of about half of what these other features get (sneak attack equals about half level). A short rest recharge makes sense for a martial class and one whose abilities are physical, not magical. As a result, I think the feature is fairly balance to these other existing features

Level 9 lets you spend extra die from the pool to do remove negative conditions from creatures you heal with Field Magic. This is very similar to the “spend 5 HP from lay on hands to cure poison”, but is more diverse. It happens as part of the heal.

Level 13 is a near exact steal from 2024 Assassin, but with a slight variety feature added. In nearly ALL circumstances, it is even with the Assassin ability. In rare cases (vulnerability to fire) it’s better. I figure since this is the features only big combat ability, this power seems fair. The flavor of the ability is to add chemicals from your bag to your attacks, giving the enemy chemical burns or toxic poisoning.

Level 17 lets you inject your friend with meth. Aka, Haste syringe. I bugged it from just Haste to reflect a more capstone ability, also giving the creature temp HP and letting them resist death once. Basically: you put them into Berserk mode. They should become reckless as a result.

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Honestly, given the fact that most features presented are modified from existing subclasses, I think the chance of this being balanced is reasonable. It would be REALLY nice to have another martial option that pairs well with the healer feat to get a combat medicine vibe (other than Mercy Monk, that is).

I hope that by adding just a bit more variety outside of stab and sneak, this subclass can make playing a rogue more fun for the player and the party. Let me know what you all think and how you might change or tweak the build. Thanks!

u/TheShadyMerchant — 14 hours ago
[OC] Map for My 6-Year DnD Campaign that Recently Concluded
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[OC] Map for My 6-Year DnD Campaign that Recently Concluded

Here is my hand-drawn map of Oranthyr, the main continent of my first DnD campaign as a DM that recently ended after 6 years.

The continent is a hodge podge of homebrew and cities/areas from popular fantasy series that inspired the campaign. From nordic peoples in the frigid north, to a complex Roman-inspired empire to the east, and classical fantasy kingdoms in between, I wanted the continent to be a classical fantasy setting for my player's first campaign. I originally drafted the map on a piece of notebook paper and wanted to make a fully realized digital version as the campaign came to its close.

The party formed in the city of Conthas in the center of the continent, and played the majority of the campaign in the neighboring kingdom of Arcancia. They battled against a united horde of orcs, goblins, and gnolls lead by a feral elven druid bent on disrupting civilization to awaken an ancient primordial of hunger and primal savagery.

I learned so much about DMing over these last 6-years, crafting better adventures, homebrewing items and enemies, balancing combat for a large party, and working with those players to inform worldbuilding a create narrative hooks. I fell in love with drawing maps as a way to inspiring further writing and expanding this homebrew world.

It was a highly rewarding experience to DM for a great group of players who stuck around for so long. If anyone is nervous about DMing and getting a group together, just do it!

u/Deltatone8046 — 13 hours ago
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