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I witnessed a partial eclipse recently, and it gave me the idea - an eclipse (which never ends) seems like the perfect device for Auril's darkness spell.

That's all I've got so far, just dropping it here in case it inspires anyone else or anyone wants to help fill in the details.

I come from Warhammer 40K but my family and friends enjoy DND much more and want me to join in. I really quite enjoy much of DND and it's systems but I often feel like I personally have no effect on overall combat.

In Warhammer whenever a unit just misses all its shots or doesn't do much it's okay since you still have many other units and opportunities to do something and every turn feels like I have accomplished something. In DND I miss my attacks three turns in a row and I sit there for half an hour doing nothing and contributing nothing. This is especially felt since I'm used to playing competitive Warhammer and the other player at the table is my enemy and we're not supposed to be having fun.

I've tried to fix this by playing some kind of min-max dubiously-ruled nightmare builds, which does at least make me the asshole who's turn takes three times as long to finish my turn, but I'm still not completely dominating and sometimes another player in the party seems to be doing more than me. What's the best way to win at DND while keeping it highly competitive? Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I'm assuming everyone in this group is more knowledgeable about D&D that I am.

I've only ever played one campaign of D&D, which I never got to finish because my DM ended up having a mental breakdown and my library stopped hosting D&D events after that.

I've never actually played D&D.

My first ever campaign - Dragon of Icespire Peak - was disastrous.

I didn't have any of the miniatures I needed. I couldn't even figure out how to start the campaign so I just dropped my level one player right in front of the dragon.

I used a red dragon figure because that's all I had at the time, and hoped they survived.

Is it bad?

I'm making a character who's a chess player, and carries a chess set around with him.
What do you think of this build?

1 king, 1 queen
2 knights, 2 bishops, 2 rooks
7 pawns

I have one piece left to choose, thinking it should be a pawn since that's the only legal option but thought I'd ask reddit to see if anyone has any cool ideas or opinions.

One of my players (a restaurant critic) decided to walk into an inn and start searching guests' rooms without permission. The innkeeper told him he couldn't do that and asked him to leave. The restaurant critic threatened to LEAVE A NEGATIVE REVIEW* on the inn and BE MEAN TO* her if she didn't let him through. The rest of the party apologized to her and dragged him out.

(I let him get away with it.)

That afternoon, the restaurant critic went back to the inn, where he was already banned, and ADMIRED* a window from the street. Since he escaped quickly on horseback and there were no witnesses.

(I let him get away with it.)

That same night, once his companions had gone up to rest, the restaurant critic decided to go back to the inn. In his own words, he wanted to "walk in and wake up the innkeeper with a FEATHER* to her throat to TICKLE* her so she wouldn't disrespect him again." He confronted her, threatened to LEAVE THAT NEGATIVE REVIEW*, and smashed a beer mug against the wall.

(I let him get away with it.)

Some goons asked him to leave without causing trouble. He punched one and broke a bottle over another one's face. That escalated into a 1v6 CUDDLE*, and they left him FEELING NEGATIVELY REVIEWED* in the street (no death saves needed).

(I let them get away with it.)

The party's baker, a pastry chef, asked if he could use one of his AI TOKENS* to "dream" that this was happening, so I woke the rest of the party up and they went looking for him. When they got there and tried to heal him to carry him off, the restaurant critic CONTINUED TO LEAVE NEGATIVE REVIEWS*. The war veterans HUGGED* him on the spot, then the baker cast a fireball inside the tavern, which was full of guests and went up in A BAKING CONTEST*.

(I let them get away with it.)

The baker LOST THE BAKING CONTEXT*, and they have no way to bring him back. His player said he doesn't want to make a new character. The rest of the group is sad and, on top of that, angry at the restaurant critic's player for making choices that forced them into that situation.

I need advice on three fronts:

1. What to do about the baker's player, who's sad and upset, so he wants to keep playing.
2. What to do about the restaurant critic's player, who justifies everything with "that's what my character would do".
3. What to do about the rest of the players, who now want to mutiny in-game, hand the restaurant critic over to the authorities, and force him to make a new character.

Everything we'd built over these six thousand years of campaign fell apart yesterday, along with what I had planned for the future. Is everyone the asshole?

EDIT: I forgot to mention that we play with Matt Mercer.

My standard composition ruling is:

• Players Handbook 2014 (default, ALL OK)
• Xanathar's, Tasha's (probably OK, but let me know)
• Anything else (probably not OK, but you can ask)

I will probably allow it anyway to see what happens.

Roast me, or convince me to nerf or forbid it.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Wizard and fighter, bard and rogue, cleric and monk, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

The casting class, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his 'natural superiors,' and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, callous 'experience points.' It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Extra Attack. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

The casting class has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the fighter, the barbarian, the rogue, the monk, into its paid wage laborers.

The casting class has torn away from the party its sentimental veil, and has reduced the party relation to a mere combat attack.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Martial revolution. They have nothing to lose but their abilities that recharge on a short rest. They have a world to win.

Martials of all settings unite!

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Often times I read problems in DnD groups that consist of family, colleagues, close friends that lead to real consequences.

In real life I do a lot of counseling in organizations on people relations, I even do coaching and mentoring from time to time and the dynamics and where it breaks is the same as in DnD sessions between players and DM.

I'm wondering would people pay to try to save the games? Surely every horror story can be saved by a brilliant and expensive expectation management specialist such as moi.

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I want players to tear apart these character sheets. Did I do something wrong when I came up with character sheets for these characters this is for one of my more unique ideas and I don’t really know how to properly fill out a character sheet back in the day, I thought you had to roll a D 20 for everything, including your stats. I basically have no idea what I’m doing in DND and I’d like whatever help I can get and if you can give me any suggestions on what I should do when making future character sheets you can tell me.

Bolt-curious, I've been playing around with easyarmy to see what's what.

I'm not too fussed about tournament rulings, just wondering what people generally do for club / friendly games.

A few queries:

1. Does anyone mix platoons from different nations in the same force?
   e.g. SAS British platoon + Partisans platoon + Italian CIL platoon + American Recce platoon.
   Even mixing axis and allies seems to be allowed by the app, I suppose there's occasional precedent...

2. Does an armoured platoon really need two vehicles and why?
   I don't see how bringing a single tank would be an issue. Likewise for any other short platoon, really.

3. Does platoon membership matter outside of list-building?

4. Do you ever take the "wrong" upgrades for a section or team?
   e.g. a "Chindits" sniper team in a non-Chindits platoon, just for the Ambush and Fieldcraft which seems like a good fit for other snipers imho.

Hello. I'm running (at least some of) RotFM, I like the setting and the first few chapters.

I've been skimming through later parts, and feel like I'm missing something.*

Why is the entrance to Ythryn sealed with "poem magic"?

Is "Auril's secrets, including ones buried deep under the glacial ice" the city itself, or something in there?

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* Edit: seems like I'd forgotten about the Mythallar, but otherwise it is pretty vague, and there's more connective tissue on this post now than the original text ever suggests. Nice one.

That's all.

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Just recently picked up the Gaslands rulebook from Amazon to try to use it in my Hot Wheels D&D campaign but I'm not really sure if converting this book for a post-apocalyptic D&D campaign will work for my Hot Wheels racing campaign like I said I'm kind of new to D&D and I have a lot of unique ideas for converting campaigns but this Hot Wheels campaign is one that I've had on the back burner for quite a while and I can't even get my first campaign started because I have so many different ideas for campaigns that I'm not even sure what my friends would be interested in probably I should talk to them first before I try to convert like a hundred different campaigns like beyblade Bakugan pokémon Yu-Gi-Oh magic the gathering Yu-Gi-Oh and I was even planning on replacing the deck of many things with Yu-Gi-Oh. So does anyone have advice for a new DM like me who can't seem to settle on any one campaign or how to convert my weird ideas into campaigns for D&D

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No more pesky electromagnetism in my games.

I'm basically the D&D expert in our group now, so I should be able to handle this.

Title says it all. I would not being using a fucking AXE in a world with fucking MACHINE GUNS. This completely ruins the setting and world for me. Maybe I could get a machine gun now? Doesn’t matter. I don’t want to play in a worries with machine guns giant ass fucking mechs.

I probably won’t play again if this is the world we’re in.

I’m currently sitting at the table fuming. Should I say something? Is talking about your feelings even allowed in pathfinder 2e?

EDIT: Dm now wants me to take a dex save or something. Can't he see I'm busy on reddit?

EDIT 2: He's getting suspicious now, he keeps asking me if everything is ok and I keep telling him yes but he's definitely getting suspicious.

EDIT 3L Dm is now checking reddit. I'll delete this post and post it again when he's stopped looking.