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Standard stuff because unless the weapons have curse of vanishing or have a timer that self destruct, the party could just take it for themself.

So remember when you are making an encounter because you need to plan the story ahead even if the party didnt take the weapon.

Just a heads up type of stuff

I'm making a Full Metal warforged and I kind of just want it to be a robot. Are there any major differences or can I just pick no gender or do I have to choose.

I’m saying this to all you folks out there who want to make a unique or edgy character: YOUR CHARACTER NEEDS TO HAVE MOTIVATION THAT WOULD MAKE THEM BE IN A PARTY IN WHATEVER WORLD YOU ARE IN. The attempt to make something different leads to other players and your DM trying to work around you and it stops being fun very quickly. The PC can be an asshole but they are your party’s asshole. If your character has trauma use it to fuel their growth not to slow down the party or constantly throw a wrench in whatever plans are already made. I am saying this as someone who has played with problem PC’s and tried to fix it in game but now we’re at the point where no one is having any fun because there is an evil “traumatized” character to refuses to actually do anything that party is doing.

They can be dark, edgy, whatever but they need to work as a team or you will be killing the fun of DND. ITS A TEAM SPORT! NOT A SOLO RUN!

I have a brief encounter that I will be putting in front of my players, the mysterious npc will gift them with a glowing ember of coal that has been created by the cult attempting to free Asmodeus from the Nine hells, is there a way that I can work this item where detect magic or identity won’t reveal the curse? It ties into the broader campaign and will provide clues to the cult’s existence but I want them to figure it out through game play rather than a simple spell. I was thinking of having this being an item from the nine hells, would it being from a planar dimension prevent detect magic or identity?

So my buddy is starting up a campaign and the long story short of it is the God of death is the big bad and we're supposed to be against him and his evil self, now we have some Rugrats in the group (a street rat rogue etc) but nothing as bad as this guys character, he's playing a War forged Artificer who's back story is that he murdered his creator and now wears his skin as a suit every single day... Like what? Thats just villainous like it seems like a Taboo and the setting is a massive city with more than half the population of our world in said city.. Am I wrong for having a huge problem with this guys character? Do I bring it up to the DM? (I'm not exactly UNCOMFORTABLE with the character and more just not sure how the character fits the party as he seems evil)

Edit: Brought it up with the DM and they simply said that the plan for the War forged character doesn't end in him being a villain and that he doesn't see it as an issue, I pushed for a change and he said "Don't bring it up with me, bring it up with him." Now I don't know if I should just leave the group or deal with the character regardless.

Is there anything stopping me to use mage hand to send a message to my party members using Common Sign Language? Situation would be when my character is up ahead scouting the dungeon.

Hey! I’m fairly new to this game, just started our first campaign in February. I currently have zero exposure to the game besides our own sessions and would love to watch some YouTube videos of some other campaigns to get some ideas of how the game is played because currently our DM is the only one who’s actually played before and I feel like I’m missing opportunities to do cool stuff I just have no clue about.

I’ve tried watching a few videos but would love to hear what your favorite groups are. I would prefer a group that’s more funny than serious as that’s the vibe of our campaign.

I’m currently a level 13 Dragonborn wizard and I’m having so much fun learning about spells and magic items!

A young green dragon fight is incoming soon. It's been hinted at and foreshadowed.

I have 3 PCs that will likely be level 6 by the time it happens. War cleric (power gamer) fey presence warlock and fighter. I know my cleric has some silly nonsense plans to try to cheese my dragon.

I'm a new DM and I've never run a dragon before, so I want this fight to be COOL. I want it to be DANGEROUS and cinematic. I don't want some strange interaction of spells to completely neuter this fight.

I am a pretty generous and forgiving DM but a dragon is a dragon. I will likely give him a few legendary resistances and maybe one or two legendary reactions. There's only 3 PCs so maybe just 1 reaction.

Our Cleric and Warlock scheme together so I'm concerned about some strange interaction of spells they could have that would make this fight a cake walk, and how to counteract cheese strats.

My style as a DM is to play fast and loose with the rules but I like to be consistent about it. If a rule as written doesn't make sense narratively, I will play it differently. And if my PCs can explain why something would work differently than RAW, I will usually allow it.

I don't mind power gaming and I don't want to punish my party, but I want my first and their first dragon to be a MOMENT.

Jason, if you're reading this, I'm taking the Sentinel Shield back you lousy meta gamer!

I like playing the ones that look mostly human. I don’t care for elves tho, because they seem a bit basic and the animalistic species aren’t really for me.

The other day I presented this group with some options for four characters that I wanted to play in Curse of Strahd, all four were a bit edgy I'll admit and I'm amenable to advice and rethinking character ideas, So I came up with an idea I think might fit the setting a bit more.

The Concept is a Ms. Rachel inspired necromancer. Instead of playing an edgy and brooding character, how about a Necromancer that is cheerful. happy, even optimistic? Instead of undead thralls, they're reflavored as her "undead friends" and she treats them as equals, asking them for advice and their opinions on topics.

Moreover, Instead of just taking control of bones or corpses, She uses speak with dead to ask permission before she reanimates them?

Think "Gentle Parent" meets Necromancer meets Environmentalist hippy.