#dnd questions

[firsttimedmsendhelp]

Technical question here for DMs, so when the players roll initiative do I as the DM roll for the monsters individually or just collectively. Meaning let's say there are four goblins, do I roll four times, one for each? Or do I roll once and let them all go based on that turn? What I understood is both ways are used but I’m not sure what are the rules as written or which of the two is widely acceptable and used more often. I personally feel like it might be overwhelming for them all to go in one turn but I want to hear about your experiences and which one of those two methods work best for new timers!

[flipflopstoastingonanopenflarm]

Can DnD be described as a friend group collectively writing a fanfic together about themselves and each-other?

I’ve never had the opportunity to learn/play DnD. But I’m extremely curious about it.

[artsy-writy]

Sorry yall, I'm new to dnd but can the dungeon master make the setting ANYTHING? Like, I can make it into the 1800s England with flying dragons sitting on the buildings when they need to rest? With a Sherlock homes-ey character smoking tobacco on a fricking skyscraper?

[anerdylesbianidiot]

400 lbs (181kg) of cheese

so recently in my dnd campaign my character Kvoth (CE) decided to steal some cheese from a large cheese shop and i rolled really well and now i have 400 pounds of cheese and i dont know what to do with it. any ideas?

[afearsomeartisan]

Discuss: is it okay to write/draw fanfiction about an NPC in a game you are playing in? What about another PC?

[cptapathy]

In the tags of a recent reblog you started to go into the lore of your icon, you had me at "Demon who's in a polyamorous relationship with a viking and a witch". So who is your icon? And would you do me the honor of telling me more about their lore?

Child of corruption,

destined to fall

The alchemists daughter

Abandoned and small

Past claimed by flames

And death and destruction

A future of danger

yet heart open and welcome

With lives on the line

Her mind held her tongue

Her lover was lost

When her feelings were young

Doomed to end

Yet others died first

She blackened her soul

To break their curse

Her family reforged

Her love kindled new

Her future in sight

Her drive renewed

I'm gonna edit this post on my PC when I get home from work for like layout and more art

Alarë Awarthiel meaning she-who-grows daughter-of-abandon

Later Vanya meaning fair or beautiful which was a name suggested by her witch girlfriend

She is a traditionally beautiful woman, with dark purple skin, long flowing brown hair, leathery wings, cloven hooves and a dump truck of a rack and arse. She underwent a bit of a corrupted transformation and her hands are now distinctly more claw like with glowing infernal tattoos up her arms, she has glowing magenta eyes and a dark scar across her face.

Are you ready for a (heavily condensed) lore drop, because this is a big ol lore drop below the cut.

First a bit of background, in this setting use of magic or "sins" corrupts a soul, functionally this means if you cast too many or too powerful a spell you risk becoming corrupted, or if you go about killing people. Get too corrupted, and you turn into a monster.

No One really knew how tieflings came about but, the were always more vulnerable to corruption and would almost always become monsters when they were in their mid 40s or younger. Usually the transformation would occur due to strong negative emotions. (Alarë was not aware of this curse)

Alarë is a tiefling, on her fathers side, she grew up in a small village where her father was the village alchemist and she took to botany and alchemy readily.

When she was 15, her mum died of a disease and her dad, broken hearted, became a monster. Alarë killed the monster that was her father to protect herself. She then ran away and for 6 years was a travelling alchemist, before heading north to find the origin of her curse and to maybe stop it.

On her journey, she met her two girlfriends

Sigrid arnaulf, city guard, turned eldritch ranger. OC of @rebockey

Sigrid is a muscly boat building warrior who is trying to figure out who/what to listen to and how to find her own voice. (Has very recently, it seems, come into her own)

Sigrid has bright red hair which has been shorn so short on the sides, although she used to have long braided hair and wode markings in various places across her body

The other girlfriend, Oksana Bosko, OC of @primalsavagery

Oksana is the weird, little, witch boy who hangs around and is also a midwife. She is blunt, argumentative and "off-putting" but an excellent medic.

Oksana has shock blond hair which has also be cut away at the sides and has tattoos of the phases of the three moons all across her body. She is also dog.

Together the three of them are founding a witch coven very soon to become the "Sisters of The Shifting Seasons"

So that's the light lore and descriptions now for the story

Alarë came to the forest with this group, she was head over heels for Sigrid pretty instantly, she was strong, kind hearted and friendly. Honestly kryptonit to gaining Alarë's affection,

Oksana was a bit different at first Alarë was afraid of Oksana, she was blunt and unsociable which had been a red flag in the past but eventually she began to see how much Oksana cared about everything and that melted Alarë heart

Oksana was murdered by another member of the party (after Oksana went werewolf and almost killed and definitely infected said party member) and Alarë became so enraged that she struck down the other party member and partially transformed into a monster her hands growing into claws, the markings on her arms in a demonic language appeared and her eyes began to glow.

For several weeks (IRL months) they did the oblivious lesbians thing, and were just pining at one another with moments like "you can share my tent if you aren't comfortable sleeping alone"

Together with the group she went to the home of some necromantic hags hoping to bring oksana back to life, the hags were unable to aid but in the end the barrier between the living world and the dead was broken and be returned Oksana's soul to her body

After her transformation Alarë started calling herself Uvanima, meaning monster, Oksana wasn't particularly happy about that and suggested Vanya instead.

When they reunited with Sigrid, she had been cursed with an uncontrollable desire to drink blood, so the other two stepped up to help her deal with the impulse

"We can let you feed on our blood,

we have a blood letting kit,

it's hot,

I mean,

not a problem"

Shortly after that the three began fucking on Sigrid’s birthday!

Since then they have formed their proto coven (this Wednesday is when it might be official) with Oksana being the medicine witch, Sigrid being the handywitch and Vanya being the homeywitch? (Cooking and keeping the Inn and making potions and stuff)

It's a big ol' chunk of text but I have been the soul of brevity in this description there's so much more to everything.

Thank you for asking and giving me the opportunity to splurge about my blorbo

[gooseontheinternet]

hi dnd tumblr 😎 i'm beginning to plan my curse of strahd campaign for my group, and here i am wondering. pondering. considering, even.

dms, is there something in strahd you would have changed/removed/did end up changing?

tips? tricks?

i myself have never played (which is so sad) but i'm determined to run it

[ultra-luna6458421-blog]

If you cut a mouth onto a piece of Leather Armor, cast "Speak with dead" and than "Speak with animals", could you speak with said piece of Leather Armor?

Asking for a friend.

[anxiousbisexualwizard]

TTRPG DM/GM year in review questions.

A follow up to my player year in review questions. Some fun questions for DMs and GMs to answer about their games this year.

What has been the biggest challenge you've faced while DMing/GMing this year?

What are you most proud of doing in one of your games this year?

Has anything that's happened in one of your games surprised you? If so what was it?

Have your games gone the way you expected them to or have they gone a different direction?

What is your favourite encounter you've ran this year?

What has been your favourite roleplay moment at your table this year?

Have you made any homebrew this year? If so what was it?

Without spoilers (in case your party follows you) what is something you are looking forward to DM/GM in your games next year?

[capngoosey]

As I continue my solo D&D campaign, I’m realizing it’s cheaper to make a healer character than to buy millions of health potions. I can’t decide what class to make this new character though. So… I need the internet to decide for me.

[hadesgirl015]

Random thought I had about faes as I was picturing something way later down the line potentially for a story. (And I mean way later)

I feel it’s a fairly common trope that when making a deal with a fae, they want you to promise them your firstborn. I pose the following questions.

1. What do faes even want with a newborn? Like what do they do with them? Raise them? For what? More warlocks? Is this how fae reproduce?

2. Do, in general, fae not accept the first born deal from men, since what’s stopping them from going to 5 different towns, seducing 10 different women and just figure at least one of them ends up pregnant and not tell them. So after she has the baby the fae just shows up and says, ‘yeah that’s mine.’ And whoever the unlucky woman is just lost her baby from a deal she had no clue about?

3. (Sort of a 2.5) say a man did this, but then the woman had also made the same deal to a different fae. Is there some sort of custody battle?

[boomartist]

(Because I'm bored)

If your OC's where D&D Classes, what would who be?

I don't play Dnd, but I can try my best to find a class for some of them. Hope you know my OCs by name! Nix would be a Rogue Slivv would be a Wizard Mei would be a Ranger Callie would be a Fighter Jasmine would be a Warlock Cinnamon would be a Druid Brook would be a Barbarian Tisha would be a Cleric And Juniper would be a Paladin It'd be fun to draw them in their respected class outfits at some point, if that's something people would wanna see I may consider it more. Thanks for the questions! I like getting fun stuff like this to answer :>>

[lovelyscot]

Why has no one made the D&D/Pathfinder conditioner markers into like…keychains or window stickers? I, too, would like other players (everyone) to know I am stunned and exhausted.

[choshasan]

DND question...

Help??

I'm still fairly new-ish to dnd, have some experience, but I'm not an ancyclopedia..

Most recent game was a game zero(?) I think that's what the DM called it, anyway, not the point,

And I made my character, all was well, except, everyone present was pretty fucking tired during the character making, all pretty half asleep, and trying to share one PHB and google with D&D Beyond & Roll20, so I cannot tell if I did something wrong in making my character, if our DM gave me the wrong info, and all I can find of google is "you went wrong somewhere", here's what's the problem;

I'm Lvl 3 bard, I, according to google, should have 6 spells and 2 cantrips?? (4 lvl 1 & 2 lvl 2??)

Buuut, somehow, I wound up having 8 spells and 3 cantrips, and I do not know how. And I didn't note which of my spells were meant to be lvl 2 and which were lvl 1...

So I'm trying to find which is meant to be which, and I just have no clue...

My DM is 1. Currently busy, 2. Has strong ADHD and 3. Was extremely tired and half awake when he helped me make my character, so, Not really gonna get any help from him until next session, which doesn't even have a date yet, but most likely not in the near future, but I've been trynna get everything in order for it, and yeah.. I'm stuck here...

Info about my character;

Race: Asmodeus Tiefling

Class: Lvl 3 Bard

Background: Charlatan

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Spells:

Hellish Rebuke

Song of Rest

Charm Person

Disguise Self

Cure Wounds

Dissonant Whisper

Calm Emotion

Enthrall

Cantrips:

Thaumaturgy

Vicious Mockery

Mage Hand

Stats:

Str: 10 (+0)

Dex: 18 (+2)

Con: 14 (+2)

Int: 8 (-1)

Wis: 9 (-1)

Cha: 21 (+5)

Things my DM made me put in Features & traits:

Dark Vision

Hellish Resistence

Mantle of Inspiration

Bardic Inspiration

Jack Of All Trades

Weapons:

Longsword

Daggers

Instruments:

Lyre

Lute

Viola

Languages:

Common

Infernal

Halfling

Elf

Gnome

I would guess the reason I have so many spells may be because I'm an Asmodeus Tiefling?? I remember that giving me extra stuff, I just don't remember exactly what...

Thank you to anyone who's capable of helping!

(My character's name is Barbie btw, he's fun ✨️)

[snapewife-divorce-lawyer]

is there an official 5e spell that can reliably perform an abortion on a willing target? preferably with a casting time no more than a minute, and without room for DM to reject it. i’m not sure if it can be relied upon to count as a curse