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ladyknightradiant:

WHERE GHOSTS WALK–

When Threnody and Kailia are hired to reclaim a lost set of armor from legend, they expect it to be a fool’s errand.

It is. But not in the way they expected.

Used to only relying on each other, the pair must learn to trust the
rest of the hired band if they are to escape the Underworld. It’s a long
road of trials, but the group is determined to make it back to the
other side of the river Styx…and get revenge on the employer that left
them to die in some ancient elven ruins. But not all goes according to
plan, and escaping proves to be much harder than they’d imagined. After
all…souls aren’t meant to leave the Underworld.

Even if they don’t belong there.

(Where Ghosts Walk is the NPCs’ backstory for the D&D campaign I’m currently running, called Path of Ghosts–you might have heard me shouting about it.)

(aesthetic pictures) (NaNoWriMo 2k18) (PoG)

theglowqueen:

Matt Mercer as DM: “You bisect the enemy, spilling it’s entrails across the floor. You bathe in its blood as you hear the pieces of its body hit the floor with a wet squelch behind you *makes squelching noise*”

Griffin McElroy as DM: “And then you just cut the dang thing in half. Are you happy? You literally cannot ‘non-lethally’ cut something in half. It’s super dead now”

lawfulgoodness:

whispered-sparks:

lawfulgoodness:

prokopetz:

A D&D party is just half a dozen people who each think of themselves as the only adult in the room.

I appreciate the sentiment, but has any bard, sorcerer, or barbarian ever considered themselves the only adult?

Considers themself the only adult: Cleric, Monk, Paladin, Wizard

Knows they’re maniacs (will not stop): Barbarian, Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock

Depends on the day tbh: Druid, Fighter, Ranger, Rogue

This is the kind of content I’m here for.

probablyottrpgideas:

dnd-atlas:

Table: Pickpocketing

[In my current oneshot campaign I am DM’ing, one of my players seems obsessed with pickpocketing the crowd of NPCS at the event, so I decided to create some roll tables for loot he gathers.]

[The contents range from mundane and useless to unique and interesting to actually valuable and/or magical. You never know what a person could be carrying, but worry not, none of it is too uncommon.]

@ineedyoutoroll something for Iago

aquamanisnotuseless:

being a first time dm is weird bc you go in expecting the hardest part to be managing player arcs, writing campaigns, and planning epic battles and conflicts. but no. nooooooo. the hardest part is keepin your dang excited mouth shut about plot secrets to ALL your friends wHO ARENT ALLOWED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT YET

My Dungeons & Dragons 5E bookmarks folder

dndfreak:

nodhero:

Here’s all the bookmarks in my 5e folder. Not everything may be
specifically 5e related but since we’ve started playing this edition, this is what
I’ve collected so far.         

Player Help

D&D 5th Edition

           Discuss D&D 5E rules and products.

D&D 5E Character Sheets

DnDTwit

A Collection of Guides | WotC

           A collection of player made guides
           

Pre-Generated Character Repository | WotC

           A Resource for Players and DMs
           

List of 5E|Merric

donjon; RPG Tools

Zenith Games: 5th Edition Guide to the Guides

Tabletop

           Original, 10 minute ambiences and music for Tabletop Role Playing Games.
           

Candlekeep Forum

How to search this rules forumn | The Wizards Community

           Searching this forumn does not seem to work for me.

Barbarians
           

I’ll NEVER Die! (A Guide to the 5E Barbarian)

               Seen guides pop up the last few weeks for
rangers, wizards, clerics, paladins, and warlocks, but I don’t think
there’s one for the 5E barbarian yet. Seeing as it’s so straight
forward, I feel like it might not be needed, but because it’s so
straight forward, it’s also really easy for me to make it, so here you
guys go

Graceful Destruction: A Guide to Dex Based Barbarism | The Wizards Community

               Graceful Destruction

Contents:

Intoductions
Stats and Races
Class Features
Path Features
Skills, Backgrounds and Feats
Weapons and Armour
Multiclassing
Sample Builds

           

Clerics
                        

The Devout and the Dead: a guide to Clerics

               The Devout and the Dead
a guide to Clerics

Clerics

               Greetings, Playground!

I am going to be playing a Cleric soon, and, (being unfamiliar with 5e)
come to you guys to figure out Clerics and their Domains.

For God and Party-A Cleric’s guide. | WotC

                Table of Contents

Dictum Mortuum’s The Cleric Handbook | WotC

               Hello All

Celestial Link Evoking Radiance Into Creation – CLERIC guide | WotC

Druids
                        

By your Powers Combined: A Land Druid Handbook | WotC

               By Your Powers Combined: A Land Druid Handbook
               

5e Druid Handbook – Land & Moon

               5th edition D&D Druid Handbook
Version 2.0

Druids

[WIP] Thy Fearful Symmetry: A Circle of the Moon Handbook | The Wizards Community

               A holistic guide for Circle of the Moon Druids.
               

Druid Guide & Discussion

               5th edition D&D Druid Guide
Version 1.7        

Fighters
                         

The Art of War: A Fighter Guide | The Wizards Community

               The Art of War: A Fighter Guide

Fighting Styles Overview/Discussion/Whathaveyou

               Ok So I havent seen any thread that
specifically deals with the fighting styles in 5e

Bow Bond: An Eldritch Knight’s guide to Archery | The Wizards Community

               Bow Bond: An Eldritch Knight’s guide to Archery

An Optimized Polearm Master Fighter Template | The Wizards Community

               VARIANT HUMAN BUILD

Eldritch Knight Tactica – A Guide | The Wizards Community

               This is a work in progress – but open for discussion.

           

Monks
                    

Meditation, Mediation, Devastation: A Monk’s Guide | The Wizards Community

               How does one Monk?
               

The Good, the Bad and the Monk, a 5e Monk guide

                I’m not going to explain why you would play a monk, or what the role of a
monk is

Paladins
                      

Oathbound: The Paladin Guide | The Wizards Community

               “It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
— Aeschylus

               

Good is Not Nice: A Paladin’s Guide

               "My good blade carves the casques of men,
My tough lance thrusteth sure,
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.“
             

A Guide to the D&D 5th Edition Paladin through the eyes of a 3.5 Player

               Guide to the Dungeons & Dragons 5E Paladin through the eyes of a 3rd Edition Player

Rangers
                   

Not All Who Wander are Lost: A Ranger’s Guide

                “All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
               

Into the Woods We Go: The Ranger Guide | The Wizards Community

               “You’re no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.”
— A Game of Thrones
           

Rogues
                  

Dealing Death: Handbook of the True Assassin | The Wizards Community

                “Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.”
— Alamut by Vladimir Bartol

Wizards
               

Arrive on Time – A General Guide to Wizardry | The Wizards Community

               Overview: What is a Wizard?

               

A Compilation of Useful Spell Lists | The Wizards Community

               A Compilation of Useful Spell Lists

Know Your Rites: A Guide to Ritual Casting | The Wizards Community

               A guide to casting ritual spells.
               

D&D 5e Spells Index

5th Edition Spells Spreadsheet

               I spent some
time and put together a spell spreadsheet that lists all the spells by
class, level, school, and some other quick reference items.

               

Find Familiar confusion | The Wizards Community

               Hi,

So here’s the thing.

               

Ultanya: Dungeons & Dragons: Thaumaturgy

Treantmonk’s Guide to Wizards 5e – Google Docs

Treantmonk’s Guide to 5e Wizards – Google Docs

Backgrounds

What’s Your Story: A Custom Background Guide | The Wizards Community

               

What’s Your Story: A Custom Background Guide

In this guide I will be using the standard CharOp colour scheme:
               

[5e/D&D] Backgrounds

               A forum for discussing roleplaying games.  Speak your mind here without fear!
               

5E Backgrounds Database

               The D&D 5th Edition backgrounds database!
               

Hack & Slash: Backgrounds

A Gamers Point of View: Custom 5e Backgrounds for the Forgotten Realms

List of All Personality Traits, Ideals, Bonds, and Flaws | The Wizards Community

           If you are like me and you like to scan through all
of the backgrounds to find the perfect set of personality traits,
ideals, bonds, and flaws for your character, then these lists might come
in handy.
           
           

Musran
           

Guide to Mulhorandi | Arelith

Nephthys – Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nephthys – The Forgotten Realms Wiki – Books, races, classes, and more

                   Nephthys (pronounced nef-thiss ) is a vain but caring member of the Mulhorandi pantheon. She is…
                   

Nephthys | Humus | Obsidian Portal

                   Protector of the Dead
* *Symbol*: Horns around a lunar disk
* *Home Plane*: The Offering Fields
* *Alignment*: Chaotic Good
* *Portfolio*: Death, grief
* *W
                   

Nephthys – Deities of Faerûn – Mulh Pantheon

                   Realms Helps: Nephthys – Deities of Faerûn – Mulh Pantheon
                   

Mulhorand – The Forgotten Realms Wiki – Books, races, classes, and more

                   Mulhorand is one of the Old Empires in eastern Faerûn. The Mulhorandi were brought to Toril from…
                   

Candlekeep Forum – Mulhorand

Candlekeep Forum – Which Faerunian gods could go to Mulhorand easily

Gnomes
                        

Gnomes; The forgotten folk of Faerun | Neverwinter Nights – The Forgotten Realms – The Savage Frontier

Gnome – The Forgotten Realms Wiki – Books, races, classes, and more

               Gnomes, or the Forgotten Folk as they are sometimes known, are small fey humanoids

Realms   

Glossary of Phrases, Sayings & Words of the Realms

Candlekeep Forum – Glossary of Phrases, Sayings & Words of the Realms

Tools
           

New Automated Tools for 5E | The Wizards Community

               Instead of starting a new thread for every set
of tools I create, I am going to use this thread from now on. I will
continue to make updates to it as I create new tools.  Here is the
complete set of tools I’ve created to date:
               

Fantasy Name Generator

               
Name generator for RPGs, video games, novels, etc.. Can generate names
for elves, dwarves, barbarians, “evil” names, “Lovecraftian” names,
modern English names, and others.
               

D&D 5e Pre-Made Characters – Table Topping

Efraim’s 5e Adventurers Pack

Dungeons and Dragons 1E-3E-5E Monster Converter

1d8: Point Buy Calculator for D&D Next (5e)

Javascript DDNext Character Generator Lite

RK’s D&D Treasure Generator (5e) – Setup

Dungeon maps for RPG. Create maps online, download as PDF and PNG.

               Dungeon Painter is a powerful rpg map design
tool. Scene Viewer is a free encounter mapping tool that you can embed
into forum or blog posts
               

[Resource Guide] World and Map Generation : DnD

               In an effort to better serve the community, the
moderation staff will be creating a series of guides and collections of
resources over the next…
               

Cartographers’ Guild – a community for maps of fantasy, sci-fi and real world locations

               A forum for cartography enthusiasts.
               

D&D 5E Tools: Attribute Point-Buy Calculator

               A point-buy calculator for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition
               

The Elf Name Generator: Your Sindarin Elf Name

               Elf names. Create elf names with the Sindarin
elf name generator! View lists of elf names, generate random names, or
choose an elf name based on your own name. Great for rpgs and mmorpgs.
               

Fantasy name generators. Names for all your fantasy characters.

               A fantasy name generator for every fantasy
character. From Chinese to Viking and from dragon to werewolf, I have a
fantasy name generator for all your needs.
               

Kobold Fight Club: The first rule of KFC is ‘Yip yip!’

D&D 5E Tools by Leugren

Dave’s Mapper | RPG Map Generator

               Geomorphic map generator web app for role-playing enthusiasts. Created by web designer and puzzle author David Millar.
               

Town Map Maker ©2003 Jeffrey A. Mills, DVM

Barrow of the Evensong | The Wizards Community

               An Adventure Location for 3rd-Level Characters
               

Elven Names

English-Elvish Translator

goblinoidgames.com • View forum – Maps and Map Making

http://pirateglossary.com/

MTG ART

               Magic: the Gathering Art. Best MTG Art, updated
daily with new and old artworks. Organized by artists and mtg sets, Art
of Magic the Gathering is an ever growing collection of amazing magic
fantasy artworks.
               

Names of Seasons

Pods and Blogs
                    

Stories of the Fifth Age, Ep. 0 “Beginnings…” | The Mad Adventurers Society

Godsfall

               A website and podcast following a group of 5th
Edition Dungeons & Dragons players in custom D&D5e campaign in
Washington, D.C.
               

Dire Weasels’ Podcast : A “real play” 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons Campaign

               A bunch of drunks get together and make
offensive jokes while playing dungeons and dragons.

Brave New Dungeon

               A Chronicle of one man’s heroic return to the land of Dungeons & Dragons (by bigAl)
               

Lost Mine of Phandelver (5th edition D&D) | JM Hauser’s Blog

               Starting in July 2014, Wizards of the Coast
released the newest version of their classic roleplaying game, Dungeons
& Dragons.

RPG Crazy

Samson’s Bridge: A Dungeons and Dragons Campaign built from the ground up

http://dictummortuum.blogspot.com/

DnDUI Blows

Starwalker Studios

               The home of Starwalker Sudios Podcasts

Encounter Roleplay – D&D Advice, Reviews, Comics and Podcasts!

               D&D Advice, Reviews, Comics and Podcasts!
               

Stories of the Fifth Age | The Mad Adventurers Society

Dyson’s Dodecahedron | Award Winning Dungeon Design

               Award Winning Dungeon Design
               

Adventures | Dyson’s Dodecahedron

               Many of the maps on the site have full adventures written for
them.

Nerdarchy – For Nerds By Nerds

               Nerdarchy for nerds by nerds specializing in
role-playing games especially as game masters for d20 systems like
Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder RPG games.
               

DnD Reddit

               reddit: the front page of the internet
               

The Old Road, Part 1: Sunless Citadel

Many Sided Dice

               A Site for Table Top RPG Discussion and Creation–Share it, Like It, Follow It, Comment!
               

Tribality

               Blogging about D&D / Role Playing
               

Hack & Slash

Dungeons & Dragons Chris Perkins – Archive

               Dungeons & Dragons – Wizards of the Coast
               

From the Sorcerer’s Scroll

               A geek’s musings on the games he loves to play (by Chris Perkins)

Inkarnate

Homebrew
             

Homebrew Design

           Roll up your sleeves and get working: there’s lots
of homebrewin’ to be done!

Homebrews Library

           Post your homebrew material, and share your house
rules, creations, game aids and tools, character sheets, and more

Sane Magic Item Prices

           Let’s talk about flying items.

World Builder Blog

           Just a man and his homebrew world.
       

Customized Races – The Saurials

Define your own! – Campaign Calendar

Bad Magic Weapons

Index of /pdf/DnD 3.5e and you are welcome/DnD DM 3.5e Essentials—Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master 3.5 Essentials/books

Donjons et Dragons le jeux de role

Dungeons and Dragons Adventures levels 1-3, the low levels

               Dungeons and Dragons Adventures for characters levels 1st through 3rd, 1-3.
           

Caves of Chaos Reimagined by Weem | theWeem

Caves of Chaos Map Redux | RPG Cartography

               I think that a map can be a DM’s best friend
when running an adventure.  However, many adventure maps do not provide
much additional information other than location and a reference key
number to  that points to text in the adventure. I took the classic map
of the Caves of Chaos from Gygax (1979) Keep on the Boarderlands…
               

NPCs for the Caves of Chaos D&D Next Playtest: Sly Flourish

Belgarion’s World for Eternal Soldier: Character Creation

Stores
                  

Iron Wind Metals Online Store

Dice – The Dice Shop 

Polyhedral Dice Sets

Pathfinder Minis

So anyone have any other sites I need to add to my collection?

Useful.

Hearing The Call to Adventure when you’re over 40.

dendritic-trees:

dreadpiratekhan:

bluestockingt:

There’s a seriously delightful conversation in one of the LARP fb groups about adventuring over 40. Many of us aren’t 20 anymore, and it seems silly to have our characters not be our own age (or close to it). But they’re still starting characters (as it’s a new campaign), which implies they chose this path recently.

That thread is mostly joking around, but I kind of love the idea of hearing The Call when you’re not a teenager, and starting your in-game adventuring life later as some kind of mid-life crisis, religious epiphany, empty nest reaction, etc.

Which got me to some ficlets, and here’s the result.

—

“Well, your mother always wanted to be an adventurer – she was a hell of an archer when we were your age – but we got pregnant, and your grandmother needed some help, so we put that life off for a while. But now that you’re off at university, it seems like a good time to pick up the bow again, and go fight evil.“ 

—

“There was just something missing, y’know? I mean, I liked being a toymaker, but one day I realized – I really wanted to put on some plate mail, and go fight demons. So here I am, livin’ the dream.“ 

— 

“Sometimes, relationships don’t work out. She got the business, I get to start the life of adventure I’ve always wanted. Did you know I minored in alchemy? It’s good to get back into it again.”

—

“Your Aunt Maribel and I had always talked about doing this, when we were girls, but it just never seemed like the right time. But now that Uncle Haro has passed…Mari just wants to get out there and do it. I can’t let her go alone, can I? Someone has to watch her flank on the line, and remind her to keep her shield up.“

—

“What can I say? Sometimes you fall in love with a mage. When you do, you grab your hammer and you go where he goes. Someone has to keep cute Dukes from flirting with him. Back off, gentry! He’s all mine.”

“Kevin, you’re being ridiculous. I’m not going to fall in love with some Duke.”

“Whatever. I’m not taking any chances. It took me this long to find you, and I’m not letting you go without me.”

—

“I’m your Dad. If you’re going to go and fight evil, I’m going with you, ‘cause I support your choices.”

—

“Er…Mom’s heading off to check out some evil gate she heard about. Someone needs to go with her, ok? I squired for her last time, but I just can’t right now. It’s your turn. Make sure she does her exercises, ok? Her back is going to be horrid if she doesn’t.“

“Fine. I’ll handle the evil gate with Mom. But the next time she heads into the swamps to fight some lizard thing, you’re doing it. I freaking hate swamps.”

—

“His husband left him for an elf. He’s got some anger issues that he’s working through, ok? Better that he work through it on some bad guys.”

—

“What was that?”
“Undead again.”
“Oh, for the love of..look. They’re a freaking plague, and it’s getting worse. If we don’t want to keep dealing with this, we’re just going to have to go to the source.”
“But….the carrots…!”
“Hang the damned carrots. I’ll hire that nice boy down the street to take care of our field while we’re gone. Clean yourself up and grab your holy symbol. We’re not putting up with this for one more week.”

—

“Well, I always wanted to see the world. I got a small inheritance recently, and thought, why the heck not? No time like the present, right?”

—

“If that Sorcerer thinks he can just waltz in here and take over this town, he’s got another think coming!”
“Doris, calm down. We’ll write to the King, and…”
“I WILL NOT CALM DOWN. Sally, I swear, you drive me nuts sometimes.”
“I’m just saying – there’s diplomatic solutions to this.”
“The hell with diplomatic solutions! I WILL END HIM. ”
“Fiiiiiine. Do it your way. End him with fire.”
“Thank you!” *smooches* “Love you. Back when I’m back. He has NO IDEA who is coming for him.”

—

“What can I say? Adventuring pays the bills. I have a family to support, and turnip farming doesn’t make money like it used to.”

—

“Hey Phineas – for guys’ night, I have a thought. Rather than just going down to the pub like we usually do…I found a gate. No idea where it leads. Let’s go check it out. Could be fun, right?”
“A gate?”
“Yeah!”
“This is a terrible idea. I’m in.”

—

“Um….well, this is awkward. You know that Goddess who spoke to me last spring?”
“Oh yeah! Your whole conversion thing. Nice to see you found faith. It’s been good for you, I think.”
“Well, she has something she wants me to take care of.”
“What, like…a message delivered or something?”
“Noooooooo?”
“Seriously? You’re a florist. What does she want you to do?”
“Well, now when I sing, things blow up. That’s good, right?”
“This can’t end well.”

—

“We left for THREE WEEKS, and Barbarians razed our village. I swear, do I have to do everything myself? I JUST RE-DID THE ROOF, YOU JERKS.”

—

“He doesn’t think our family is good enough for him? I’ll show him who is good enough for him! My little girl is going to live in a castle, even if I have to conquer it myself!”
“I’m sure he didn’t mean it that way.”
“We’ll see what he has to say when I walk into Summertide with a demon’s head on a spike! Who’s good enough now, you two-bit merchant?!?”

—

“Your Aunt recently found out that Throgg the Destroyer is that brat she couldn’t stand at the Academy. She’s not taking it well, so we’re going to be off on a trip for a while…”

—

“So….funny story. You know that favor I owe the Countess? From like 20 years ago? She finally called it in. She remembered that I’m really good with Ancient Runes, and apparently there’s something she needs checked out.”

—

“I thought you said this adventuring thing was just a hobby, Brianna. Something we did on the weekends.”
“Well, but…y’know…I really like it. I think I could be good at it. I’m getting better with the spear, you know?”
“I don’t even know you anymore!”
“Can’t you just be supportive?”
“Well, but where does it end? First hobgoblins, now orcs…what’s next?”
“I heard about this cursed tomb…”
“Absolutely not. I draw the line at tombs. NO TOMBS.”

—

“I told you not to date that vampire. Didn’t I tell you? I told you!”
“Let me live, Sergio.”
“Let me unlive, you mean.”
“Ok, that’s just rude.”

—

“Oh, sure – one good healing spell, and you think you can conquer the world.”
“I can! I have the knees of a teenager again!”

—

“Grandpa, you’re embarrassing me.”
“What, I can’t visit my grandson while he’s adventuring?”
“Well, I love having you here, and everyone knows you’re a good healer, but…”
“I’ll be fine. I like it here. I think I’ll stay.”

—

“C’mon, let’s do it. We’ve always wanted to.”
“But…we don’t know what we’re doing.”
“We do! We’ve each read The Book, what….15 times? I know you basically have it committed to memory.”
“I don’t think ‘To Catch a Rogue Lord’ was really meant as an instruction manual.”
“C’mon…how hard can it be? You’ve seen the adventurers who come through here.”
“Excellent point. I’ll get my herbs.”

—

“Honey? There’s a kid at the door. He says you’re the Chosen One.”
“Arrrrgh. We talked about this! Come back later!”
“He says the stars are aligned?”
“Not doing it! Tell him to go away.”
“Oh, and the seal broke. The seal broke, Stephen. It sounds important.”
“But…”
“I’ll pack you a lunch.”

“Call Sharon. She and her stupid birthmark are coming with me.”
“I thought you said that translation of the prophecy was incorrect? Something about a miss-translation of verb.”
“…well, at least if we fail, I won’t have to listen to Karl talking at Guild Meetings about how he was right.”

these are perfect and everything is perfect and nothing hurts

I would read novels about all of these people.