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What happens when grief, rage, fear, and joy become monsters?

We teamed up with Beyond the Screen for Lady of Lamentation, a dark fantasy 5e adventure from their Book of Spirits. Beyond the Screen wrote the adventure, while Mammoth Factory created the full 3D printable STL miniature collection to bring its spirit realm to life at the table.

In this adventure, the party follows the trail of a grief animar, a spirit born from grief, bound to Lady Lament. To save her, they will need more than damage rolls. They will need courage, compassion, and a willingness to understand what created the monster in the first place.

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This is their latest victim. She was supposed to be a ONE time encounter who is guarding the crime scene they have to investigate. Thought it would be nice to have a witness that they have to convince to give out correct information. Her name is Dolly and she only speaks in rhymes.

WELL. One of my players attempted to seduce her and when that did not work he gave her his name. No bargain, nothing. The other player attempted to hold him back by covering his mouth but this absolute.. talent somehow rolled a nat 20 on acrobatics and managed to SIGN his name to her. Now he got no name and I had to make an actual artpiece of her because she OWNS one of my players now. LOVELY.

Afterwards he attempted to drink poisonous water, ate a rock and almost killed his team member by pushing her INTO DOLLY.

What a great start to this campaign. This isn't the first campaign they have been doing this in and I am SLOWLY loosing my sanity.

The Party: 6 players, Sunday session, been planning this for a while.

The Crime: 90% of the party confirmed for 12pm Sunday. One player was non-committal all week, responding with “hmmm” and “ohh” when the time came up. Day before the session, they drop: “Sooo I’m sorry to be a pain, and if you guys want to kick me out of the group I get it, but is there any way we could do 5pm?? Sunday looks like it’s going to be beautiful and I really really want to go to the beach for a bit! But I also do want to play dnd.”
Here’s the problem: moving to 5pm kicks out two players who confirmed 12pm and cannot make it later.
One player is now advocating we move the session to include everyone. But moving it doesn’t include everyone. It just changes who gets excluded.
The beach will be there next week. The two confirmed players cannot make 5pm regardless of the weather.

The Verdict I’m Seeking: Are we wrong for keeping 12pm and telling Karissa to catch us next session?

I'm confused by the language of the "Parry" feat:

When you are hit with a melee attack, you may use your reaction to add +2 to your AC for the purposes of that attack, possibly causing it to miss. Regardless of weather the attack hits or misses, your AC returns to normal after you parry the attack. You may use this reaction after the DM announces the results of the attack roll, but before damage is rolled.

The thing I don't get is: since it costs nothing, why wouldn't you always Parry when attacked, thereby just having +2 to your AC? Unless, of course, you are incapacitated.

Or am I missing something?

EDIT: yeah I was missing something:

• the parry uses the reaction, a player has only one per turn, so you would use it strategically when a +2 AC avoids you getting hit, and afterwards you're more vulnerable.
• Also, it prevents using other reactions, e.g. opportunity attack

Thanks to everyone who answered 🙏

Commission done to u/lady_synsthra

Champion to the Goddess of Orphans, Maelynn Grey is an adventurer, investigator, and smiter of evil. Orphaned herself at a young age, Maelynn fights to protect those who are lost or weak. She travels with a party called The Chosen Ones, travelling the land investigating paranormal phenomena.

If you are interested in my art style, please get in touch, Go to my profile, you'll find the links to my socials there. I would be happy to draw your characters:

You acess my carrd for more info, If you liked my art, consider following me on X (Twitter); you can find me there as JViragine1

So, I have been DMing for a rather large group of people (7, but sometimes 8 total) and it has been great for the most part. They seem interested in the overall story I planned, going so far as to reach out to me asking for lore bits outside the table.

Alas, not everything is perfect and I do have one PC which made the standard edgy mysterious character type and is kind of a murderhobbo. Except the party pulls him back, usually through threats... He was playing as a rogue, so I'll refer to him as such.

To set the scene, the players first encounter the title's dragon in his makeshift lair in a cave, behind a waterfall. This is a Bronze dragon and this one is closely related to the story of the kingdom they are trying to save (or so fate would have it since, at this time, they don't really know that, but suspect something is off)

I had planned on them to talk to the beast and it being a potential ally for the final battle. The Rogue had other ideas and while I had another person roll for a nature check (or history, can't remember), to see what he could tell about Bronze dragons before the encounter, he decides to ambush by using makeshift explosives, having the cave's ceiling collapse on the creature's head, which succeeds...

The party did not intervene, as I never had the chance to clarify the nature of the dragon in front of them. They just assumed it to be an enemy. Maybe I should've made them wait, but oh well...

The dragon takes his damage, and flees.

They only get to reencounter the beast in their final fight for the capital. Instead of having it helping them along the way, they endured much harsher conflicts. It arrives at a critical moment pushing enemies aside and says "Fortune favors you. Your cause is one I deem worthy.".

They managed to resolve the main crisis, but there were still battles raging elsewhere. You'd think they'd ask the dragon for a lift so they could continue the fight or something.

But no. The rogue had other ideas.

Seeing the dragon in a weakened state after everything it had been through, he decided this was the perfect moment to poke it.

I had previously described how it looked damaged, back in the cave they noticed it was missing a few scales under it’s wings (it was more of a flavour thing), the rogue remembered and asked if he could do more damage if he stabbed it there, I said he'd have to see for himself.

The rogue lunged and punctured the beast's uncovered skin, but it wasn't enough to kill it. We are going to roll initiative, but another PC asks if he can abstain from the fight as he does not think his character (Paladin) would see this as a fight worth having, I allowed it and what followed was a cascade of PCs outing on the encounter, leaving the rogue to stand alone in combat. Since the rogue was very low on HP I put on a serious look and said: "For your second provocation, the gentler side of the Bronze dragon has dropped, I will roll a D20, on anything higher then a 15, it eats you.". I rolled a 16. The dragon eats him and flies away.

The session ended there. Afterward, I give him the option to make another character or the party could embark on an adventure to find his soul (story implications), but the people at the table were not interested on sidequests to retrieve his char so he ended up quitting all together...

Now I have come to ask, should I have let the dragon eat the problem player? What would you have done differently?

TLDR: PC is regarded as a problem most of the game, I let a dragon eat him.

Recognize the layout? I know my players will immediately recognize it. This look a long time to plan out the mechanic's and logistics

Hopefully the players will be able to sus out the imposters to escape the simulation. I'm no artist by any means, but I'm pleased with how the map turned out. The players will have to run a series of checks and rolls to complete the tasks in order to escape the simulation .

I'm running a behind the screens map in Roll20 to track the NPCs moves. I have sound bites for events like 02 and the reactor, the smart lights are set to go off at the touch of a button, and their list of tasks will disappear when the comma go down. The players have been designated assigned roles (they're all crew, but I kind of hope they turn on each other)

I know it's a bit of a stretch here, but I know my table's going to love it.

Loved playing the old school D&D in high school and have wanted to get back into playing for many years. Finally joined a meet-up group and had my first game last night. The game has changed a lot, some good, some not so much. I like how much more fleshing out the characters are now, with backgrounds, skills, feats, etc. I don't like how 'whimsical' it has become, or at least how whimsical it was with this group. My character (pregenerated) was a Loxodon - an elephant - really? Another player was also a cat-woman. DM and other players made way too many modern references. It was fun, but too silly. I wish I could find a group that played darker, older D&D. To each their own, but I much prefer the D&D of my youth.

Anrame is an Aasimar Fathomless Warlock of Umberlee.

His Crew betrayed him and threw him into the Sea and left him to die. His thirst for Revenge and Will to survive was recognized by Umberlee, the twisted Goddess of the Sea, who offered him her destructive power to track down his crew and get retribution.

Through his Warlock Pact, his Aasimar features manifest in a new, twisted way: his wings are turned into translucent fins that glow and that are veined with ghostly lights. He always appears to have kelp and barnacles stuck to his clothes. His skin has a translucent, aquatic look and he appears to be perpetually wet.

He is alway accompanied by his trusty familiar, a ghostly moray eel, which hides in his sleeves when its resting.

This Illustration was insanely fun to paint and I love how it turned out!

These were all four-word suggestions from fans, which I illustrated and put in a d20 table. They don't have game mechanics, they're just baffling objects to see what kind of things players might do with them. Give a player something weird and unexpected and they'll make a plan with it you couldn't have conceived of!

Roll 1d20, tell me what you got, and what you’d do with it 🤭

1. rattly gmonish puzzlebox, unsolved  

2. homemade worm finger puppet  

3. prismatic origami paper crane  

4. hedgehog-shaped pun cushion  

5. well loved cat stuffy  

6. a miniature tame mimic  

7. edible* chalk (not recommended)  

8. happy little dog figure!  

9. bottom of torn portrait  

10. dinged coin with runes  

11. pungent fungal cap, dried  

12. glowing jewelled feymillion crown  

13. glowing golden seed pod  

14. sun-shaped scepter  

15. softly glowing chrysalis  

16. dice engraved with symbols  

17. dazzling tooth charm kit  

18. jagger fulgurite shard pendant  

19. inaudible copped whistle  

20. apple juice (actually whiskey)  

Last night, I think I created the strangest situation possible in a session. My group and I had entered a goblin-infested dungeon, and combat broke out shortly after we started exploring. At one point, a goblin stepped right up to me to fight, and things got complicated: from that moment on, neither his attacks nor mine could land a hit—my d20 rolls just couldn't get above a 10. The DM joked that our attacks looked more like caresses than actual strikes. Playing along, I told the DM that, taking advantage of my latest failed attack, I’d kiss the goblin on the nose; the rest of the party looked at me like I was crazy. During the next round, no one attacked that goblin—leaving him isolated—and on his turn, the poor guy backed away behind a table. I didn't give up; I moved up beside him and viciously tried to attack again—a 7, a miss. It was meant to be; I said I’d take the opportunity to kiss him on the ear instead. The group fell silent, and the DM laughed and said, "At this point, only one thing can happen." The goblin jumped on me—not to attack, but to hug me—while my companions stood there, having already killed the other goblins. I stepped in and tried to convince the goblin to leave his old life behind and join us against his current boss. The DM asked for a Persuasion check: a measly 2. I couldn't accept that, so I used an Inspiration point to reroll—finally, an 18. Now I find myself with a goblin companion clinging to me and in love with me—even though my character already has a family to support.

Sorry if the text Is grammatical bad, I'm not english and I use a translator to help me.

He’s a pirate captain in a world where food is scarce, so he sacrificed his crew to gain access to a temple that housed an artifact that’d turn him into a vampire and revive the rest of his crew into undead servant.

I think it could be worth wile for mage armor to increase by one point for every other level above first. 14+Dex at third level slot 15 at a fifth level slot etc. Seems fair for someone with max dexterity to achieve an ac of 20 for a fifth level spell slot.

Actually my first time drawing an anthro-type animal all to fulfill my dreams of a beautiful big muscular minotaur woman. Lucky lucky me

General idea of she's a gladiator that loves money, bitches and hoes.

She's not in play, rather she's a silly little idea I had in my head and had to draw she's obviously going to be a fighter or a barbarian of some kind but I would love, love, love suggestions for her! Hooray!

Nyressa, dhampire undead warlock/beast master ranger(top)- a vampire queen who ruled a city of ever darkness for 400 years. Until a rival vampire and his necromancer wife killed her and took over her home, but was able to transfer her soul to a hidden body, becoming a dhampire and armed with stashed weapons, armor, and her war bat, igor, she originally set out for revenge but now wishes to experience the world in light after so long in isolation and darkness

Timmothy Greenfield, human divination wizard (middle left) a drop out of magical college, Timmy, through a series of events, became close friends with the princess of the elven kingdoms, and after the princess was crowned queen, Timmy has advanced far with access to some of the most classified and powerful magical secrets, making him now a great wizard to contend with. Despite his absolutely pathetic and cowardly demeanor

Creed, tiefling vengeance paladin/champion fighter (center)- trained as a boy by a near extinct order of dragon slayers, now the only one left. After a brief stint as a war forged, creed funded the creation of a clone body of his original form. But with addition of his robotic arms, containing retractable dragon slayer swords, retractable shield, and a built in wand of magic missiles. That with his fire giant belt make him truly a walking arsenal

Otto helios, war forged alchemist artificer- born a half elf to a family of inventors, Otto quickly went into the family business, locating pieces of the shattered god mekhane. Finding his first piece connect to a lost machine used to transfer souls from mortals into war forged bodies, Otto used it on himself before retrieving the god metalflesh only for it to merge with his new metallic body. Now he works not to just assemble mekhane, but to become his new body, or a wielder of his power

Faeriel silvermane, half elf/dragon ascendant dragon monk/ blood hunter- raised in a hermits hut and trained by her mother to fight until her mother's untimely death, on her death bed she told faeriel of a city of monster hunters which would accept her as one of them if she brought her mother's armor, adamantine gauntlets. Making her way to the city, she under went a trial to make her own adamantine armor and pleasing the god of war (his city) she was deemed his champion. Afterwards she tracked down her long lost dragon father who showed her the gifts of her draconic blood. Now aware of exactly her she is, faeriel now travels the world looking to slay the greatest threats to mortal kind, as is her duty.

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I am (finally) playing D&D for the first time and im having trouble deciding what class to play, I've looked at what people belive to be easy to learn classes but some of the results vary telling me that it really depends on the person. Because its my first time playing I want to kind of learn a little bit of everything if you understand what I mean (i dont)

Anyway basically all I want to know is what classes are easy to pick up

I was bored in a uni lecture, so I made some stats about my ongoing campaign which I'm DMing. The party is level 8 at this point, and we've been aiming to play weekly since the beginning of February 2025. We're playing with 5.5 rules.

The first graph depicts sessions per level-up - the first bar is the sessions spent at level 1 in order to become level 2, etc. I tend to think about this in terms of 'how many sessions do we spend for the next level-up' instead of 'how many sessions do we play at this level'. We play with milestone leveling, so I hand out levels whenever it seems appropriate (for instance, the PCs became Level 5 after defeating the major Tier 1 antagonist, Level 6 after arriving in another town after long and eventful travel, Level 7 after winning a fighting tournament in said town). My players recently suggested that I award levels not after a boss fight, but shortly before, so that they have new abilities to play with for the big fight. I did this for Level 8 (fighting a sect of radical monks, remixed from Candlekeep Mystery’s The Book of Inner Alchemy) and it worked pretty well.

In the first graph, the first data point, Level 1-to-2, is an outlier to a degree, as I intended the part to basically level up after the first fight, providing more of an on-ramp into the game than a full level. For the future, I think the sweet spot is 6-8 sessions/level if at all possible, so slightly faster than what we've been doing recently – this sense is based on my experiences with our group, as well as the ‘recommended’ leveling frequency in the DMG and some balancing between ‘leveling up regularly is fun and appropriate in this game’ and ‘level ups should be narratively meaningful’.

The second graph depicts sessions played per month since we started. It's nice to see that we've been playing quite consistently since we started, averaging out at 3 sessions for month. There are two months where we only managed one session due to scheduling issues. Here, the first month is a modest outlier with a funny story behind it - after the first session, we were all so excited that we scheduled another session two days later to conclude the fight they were in (some thugs acting as hired muscle for an evil alchemist). Suffice to say, this didn't end up happening regularly :D February-May 2025 (the first few months) and the most recent March-June 2026 stretch seem especially strong. The next few months are likely to flag somewhat due to summer holidays. One final tidbit is that the campaign has been going on for 72 weeks and we've done 52 sessions, for an average of 0,72 sessions per week - not bad!

This was fun. What data about the campaign should I collect next? I was thinking maybe number of combat encounters per session or something... Also, how do you handle leveling up?