Some sound advice. Finding a way to make my world feel alive and part of the players lives is what I keep striving for. I have one of my players that gives me something (anything, tbh) with a backstory to fold into my homebrew campaign. It makes things tougher to have tie ins and plot hooks if you can’t create an occasional link between an npc, or bad guy to any of your players. So, I’m doing my best to create some links and a connected story with the npc’s they encounter. They seem to care about rescuing a lost (captured) druid, and are close to a major plot hook. Hopefully coming soon.

Huzzah! My brother and i are playing a 2-person game where he and i are two grung brothers. We are a moon druid and world tree barbarian, using the gimmick of being a mount and rider. He has the mounted combatant feat and i am using sentinel. Were 5th level currently. We just swapped from being a monk and rogue duo (2014) to the new stuff. We haven't had a session yet with the 2024 builds, but we've got some crazy synergy with the pair. Theoretically, so far. Lol. Let's see how it goes!

I'm thinking of rolling up a loxodon fighter/paladin mix incase my current lizardfolk fighter dies in our next session. ( it's a huge battle we are going into). Any thoughts on a loxodon fighter/paladin?

I enjoy playing my Dex and charisma based air genasi fighter/warlock with a background of dancer, now level 3 fighter battlemaster and level 3 djinni genie warlock with pact of the blade. No armor or weapon needed. Fighting style at first level was superior technique: commanding presence

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Do you do Hembrewed stuff? I'd like to hear your opinion/guide of playing Selachian by StoneStrix

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Well, I gave in and played my first barbarian at AL yesterday. A bugbear path of the giant, with a glaive. Once I figured out the math for damage, it was fun. Seriously, until I wrote it all out in my notebook, I was kind of lost. Always forgetting something. So at lvl 14, I can be huge size. (3x3 squares) and have a 25’ reach with a glaive when I attack, and 20’ reaction attack with my glaive. I had no idea the weapons grow and the damage dice increases…

Actually, Rabbit hop doesn't consume movement, Jeremy Crawford confirmed it, it adds to your movement, so no jump rule application in this specifc case, that said, i created a Harengon Barbarian, way of the beast, Got Boots of Stride and Springin and Ring of Jumping, skill expert in Athletism then the battle went as following: I grappled 2 enemies, then i used my bonus action to jump to the sky, 15 fts + 27 (from lvl 6 beast barbarian jump perk) 3x then multiply by 3 again = i slammed two enemies from 378ft high for 37d6 and a whooping Meteor Bunny title, worth lol

Honestly I simply just winged it my first time being a DM if I'm being honest but that's simply because I know that it's impossible to make a session go exactly how you planned it because I myself have unintentionally done that for example my first time playing D&D as a player I played a necromancer wizard high elf named carric who I accidentally made into an unintentional pyromaniac literally every single major location had something on fire there was a bridge in a cave that I unintentionally set on fire with a sphere of fire which was actually a good thing because the goblins would have flooded the cave if I didn't so happy accident, there was also a tavern that my zombies unintentionally set on fire because my dumbass told them to continue their normal routine they had in life there was a mansion that was set on fire but that wasn't even my fault that time that was the Pseudo dragons fault because the fighter I had in my party wanted to burn the place, there was also a wryvern and a tower full of zombies which i intentionally set on fire and finally there was a Fucking fortress i set on fire accidentally because I set a shrine to a goblin god on fire which the fire got out of hand instantly but it did kill a weird worm monster that no one knew about except for the DM of course and my DM gave me the unintentional pyromaniac 7 free fireballs which i promptly used to Kamikaze myself trying to kill a rakshasha which i didn't know was immune to fire damage so i wasted all 7 fire balls trying to nuke the BBEG in one turn and all that happened was I blow up both me and the cleric healer (I was playing both the wizard and the healer cleric at the time) but luckily my brother clutched with the win in the end

I like there being room for non-genie related reasons for them being genasi. For example, they were near a surge of elemental power or something as a child and it transformed them or they were blessed by priests of elemental gods when a baby or something (Kossuth, Amaunator, Horus-Re etc - in Forgotten Realms).

Currently playing this class in a campaign set in the fae... with an all fae (except me) party 😆

Mechanically speaking, the “Rune Carver” background from “Bigby presents Glory of the Giants” could fix any problems with this subclass. It provides a table of runes and spells that can be cast by those runes.

Tabaxi Rogue (Thief) makes too much sense.

The tragedy of this character is compelling if I'm being honest

More Soth!

New to D&D. would I be able to play as a "Tiger like" Tabaxi Lord?

Nice AI art thumbnail

When her armor is only cloth & she loves to dance, swinging a bastard sword, she's probably a Dance Bard. And that is awesome.

Not gonna lie, Lord Soth probably dumped his INT for all his dumb decisions. 😂😂

I like session 0's for setting boundaries of other players, on top of game expectations & settings to integrate your character a lot easier. Also does wonders to test run any computer softwares or shenanigans, iron out any wrinkles, mics, sound, visuals, chat, etc.

I think a session zero is a necessary thing to do if you want to tie your party closer together or you want to have players and or DM who are new to each other to get a feel of those individuals so I do think it's very helpful but it's only necessary under specific circumstances because it's a useful tool to prevent a D&D horror story from happening at the table it doesn't always work but it's useful to help prevent or minigate the backlash

My Dm and i made a deal. I would never raise more than 6 undead and in return the undead i do raise can be more powerful. For instance i can raise a CR 1/4 pair of zombies or a CR 1/2 undead of another kind. I can also upcast my animate dead and create undead spells to further this effect.

I just started playing this in a D&D campaign. While not spectacular in combat, it still has the rogue basics. However the RP opportunities are plentiful.

I think the lesson here is don't cheat on your spouse. I like the idea of being an undead skeleton inside charred armor though.

I love lord Soth!!!!!

I have a Triton she is warlock fathomless and she is cool!!

Isn't this the first death knight? To be honest this makes sense that we're doing this character since Halloween is three days away happy Halloween Sin

dragonborn are freedom fighters like the amercians when fighting the british

This species would be great for a “Nameless one” character, the protagonist from the classic Planescape torment game .

here’s a concept: everyone involved would have to agree to this, but what if the chaotic evil character was “unwillingly” restrained in some way by the other party members, and only let loose to cause havoc like a tasmanian devil when necessary. so YOU can be as feral as you want and the lawful boundaries are being enforced externally. or to incorporate the Joker example, it’s like when Batman asks the (imprisoned) Joker for help solving a clue left by the Riddler, i.e. being a useful villain for the party

Thanks this was a very helpful video im about to DM my first game and i will use these tips, because not only i am playing a homebrew campaign its also a homebrew system

Ayyy, my best GOAT goddess!! 🌚 she’s my favorite in the FR, with Vhaeraun a close second behind her. The duality they provide for opposing ways of bringing Drow back to the promised lands, and in mutual opposition to Lolth, is so fun and fascinating. I can’t wait for Vhaeraun to get his video, he is just as interesting and dynamic as Eilistraee

Dark Vador is the perfect LE character

Dude, our lady of silver is my favorite I’ve played so many characters devoted to her

I’m in a group that takes turns DMing and my dm tips would be anytime you have an idea for the campaign, write it down. Players are always going to do something out of what you expect to happen so if they bypass an encounter you had planned, save it for another part of the campaign. Let your player’s choices affect the world but make sure that npc’s do the same to make your world feel alive. Finally have fun, your enjoyment is just as important as the players.

In my opinion the spirit of this video can also help new players understand the game better but that's just my opinion