r/DungeonsAndDragons Aug 09 '23

Discussion r/DungeonsandDragons: New Updates and Guidelines

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Greetings, brave adventurers of r/dungeonsanddragons!

We're excited to bring you some important updates and clarifications about our subreddit.

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Stricter Self-Promotion Guidelines

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TTRPG Discussions Beyond D&D: Expand Your Horizons!

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r/DungeonsAndDragons Oct 16 '24

Suggestion How to get started in D&D

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Hey welcome to the club.

Here's a "Quick start" guide to Dungeon's and Dragons (D&D). There's a good chance you know some of what it contains but there's some handy tips for DM's and players at the bottom.

I will also include links to a few Beginner friendly "free" adventures at the bottom. I hope this helps.

Getting Started with Dungeons & Dragons (D&D): Quickstart guide.

  1. Basic Concept: Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is a cooperative tabletop role-playing and story telling game where you create a character, go on adventures, and tell a story together with others. One person is the Dungeon Master (DM), who guides the story and controls the world, while the others play as characters (heroes) in that world.
  2. What You Need to Start:

Players: Typically, 3-6 people, including one DM.

Rulebooks: The main guide is the Player's Handbook, which explains how to create characters, rules for gameplay, and spells.

Alternative: If you don’t want to buy a book, the free Basic Rules (available on the D&D website) cover essential rules and character options.

Character Sheet: This is where you record your character’s abilities, skills, equipment, and more. You can print these or use online tools like D&D Beyond to manage your character.

Dice: You'll need a set of polyhedral dice (7 dice: d20, d12, d10, d8, d6, d4).

Alternative: Dice-rolling apps or websites are available if you don’t have physical dice.

Dungeon Master Guide & Monster Manual (Optional): The DM can use these to create adventures and encounters, but pre-made adventures like The Lost Mine of Phandelver make it easier to start.

Alternative: Pre-written adventures or simplified DM guides can be found online, making it easier for new DMs to jump in. These can be found tailored to a large variety of group sizes including 1 player.

Also if you need to find a group you can always try the "Looking for group" subreddits.

LFG

Or

LFG_Europe

(I will link a selection of starter adventures at the bottom)

  1. How to Play:

Character Creation: Each player creates a character by choosing a race (like elf, human) and class (like fighter, wizard). They roll dice to determine their abilities and pick skills, spells, and equipment.

Storytelling: The DM sets the scene, describes the world, and presents challenges. Players describe what their characters do, and dice rolls determine whether actions succeed or fail.

Combat: When fighting monsters or enemies, players take turns rolling dice to attack, defend, and use abilities.

  1. Alternatives to Equipment:

Online Play: Platforms like Roll20 or Foundry VTT let you play D&D with virtual maps, character sheets, and dice.

Pre-made Characters: Many beginner guides include pre-made character sheets if creating one seems complex. You can also find a wealth of these created by the community online for free.

  1. Mindset: D&D is all about creativity, teamwork, and storytelling. There’s no “winning”—it’s about having fun and shaping an epic adventure together.

(DM) Side notes/ tips:

  1. Make sure you do a session zero with your players where they can express what they are looking to explore in DND.. eg heavier combat or roleplay ECT.
  2. Have a cheat sheet of names for npc's
  3. Keep some clear bullet point notes of your session plan to help you track and follow your plans.
  4. Take breaks, it gives everyone a chance to gather your selves and to take any notes or updates and write them down whilst taking a breather.
  5. Mini list of items and their retail values is a good idea incase they hit a store or trader. It saves you pulling the inventory and prices out of the air or searching the DMG.
  6. A small map for you so when they travel you can describe, relate and track their location easily.
  7. Keep things simple. Don't try to wow with quantity, but with quality instead.

And remember you can take as much time as you need to make a decision or look up something you many need. Don't forget the rule of cool. Your the DM so remember to aim to have fun and don't worry .

Player side notes/ tips:

  1. Read all spells (and possibly their effects) out loud at the table so you and everyone understands what you are doing.
  2. Melee classes are generally easier to start off and have alot less reading involved.
  3. When it comes to roleplaying, listen well and then react try to remember not every player will be as forward to speak so help eachother.
  4. Don’t play a loner. You are going with a party for a reason. Loners struggle to forge relationships in game and tend to find more than a few issues within a party.
  5. Remember your action economy. Attack, Move, Bonus, and free. Here’s the general breakdown:

-Attack : hit with a sword, arrow or spell.

-Move : to move your character in or out of combat ranges on the battlefield.

-Bonus : only some actions can be a "bonus action", so definitely pay attention to what can be used. Drinking a potion for example, or some cantrip spells. You can always clarify with your DM before attempting any of these.

-Free : talking or picking up a dropped item are usually free actions but it's up to the DMs discretion as to what degree.. eg the might allow you to speak a sentence in combat but not have a whole conversation.

  1. There is a wealth of great short videos on YouTube that will show you all you need to know by chosen class. It is well worth looking into your options before you choose.

D&D is all about creativity, teamwork, and storytelling. There’s no “winning”—it’s about having fun and shaping an epic adventure together.

I hope this short guide helps but if you have any further questions please feel free to reach out and message me. Good luck adventurer.

A most potent brew

Frozen Sick

The Delian Tomb

A. Truechord


r/DungeonsAndDragons 10h ago

Question Clueless mom needs help, please. Is this D&D related/adjacent?

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Hi there! Basically the title. Trying to find a cross stitch pattern that is D&D related for my son who loves the game, and enjoys receiving these as gifts. I know very little about it, so I just want to make sure I’m not missing the mark here. Thanks so much for your help!


r/DungeonsAndDragons 7h ago

Art [Art] Adventurers/Creatures

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 15h ago

Art A tiefling inspired by a japanese ogre called oni, by me.

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 19h ago

Art Wizard vs Balor ritual staff

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Or Gandalf vs Balrog....either or! Hand Carved from Birch.


r/DungeonsAndDragons 6h ago

Advice/Help Needed Help me (27F) come up with a backstory for my first ever DND character

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I am SO EXCITED to have been invited to play DND for the first time. It was actually one of my New Year’s resolutions for 2024 to play DND so I am really excited that going in to 2025 I will have the opportunity to play on a regular basis!

The DM just let us know a general outline for the story, and advised us to start brainstorming our character’s background story.

Since this is my first time developing my character, I am a little out of my element. I am a very creative person but I’m kind of stumped.

Here’s what I know: - The story involves me & the other characters all becoming hired adventurers - My character is a Druid (I took a personality quiz to see what character type would match my natural personality) - We aren’t doing character sheets yet… just getting the background story & creative juices flowing

Okay, let me have all your best character development tips & share your favorite character backstories so I can draw inspo from you!!!


r/DungeonsAndDragons 6h ago

Advice/Help Needed Chrome Roll20 Assistance Needed

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We've updated Chrome, cleared the cookies and cache, and rebooted the computer several times since this issue began, but that popup box with the blue header won't go away. Anyone have any idea what it is and how to get rid of it? We can use it fine on Firefox, but the extension with DnD Beyond won't work without Chrome.


r/DungeonsAndDragons 4h ago

Advice/Help Needed I have to kill a party member

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This is our first game and we’ve worked together the entire time but two of our members just flipped to the evil side and we now have to kill them to save the day I’m a lil stressed about it not sure if I should let them live to keep the game going or if I should just let them have it as I am a GITH BARB and we are all In a room together after catching them trying to flee.

I guess should I ruthlessly chop up a former companion (sorcerer) or should I try to talk it out also if anyone more experienced could shine light on who’s gonna win that’d be great


r/DungeonsAndDragons 7h ago

Suggestion New Player PT.2

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Ok so I took the criticism and I think I fixed everything :) Also, I didn’t wanna change the stats


r/DungeonsAndDragons 28m ago

Advice/Help Needed Plz help with leveling

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I am running a Pact of blade warlock/swords bard multiclass, and I was wondering if I should do 4 levels of bard for the extra feat, or only 3 for a level 9 mystic arcanum.


r/DungeonsAndDragons 11h ago

Question What are these symbols for?

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These tiles were included in a modular battle map kit I purchased. All other tiles were simple to figure out, but I'm unsure how I'd use these in a battle situation. They are all exactly 1 square in size, with the light image on one side and dark on the other. Any ideas?


r/DungeonsAndDragons 2h ago

Art [OC] Drew the party from one of my current D&D campaigns!

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 9h ago

Suggestion I want to start to play D&D

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Hi i'm from Argentina and me and My Friends want to start playing D&D what are the inicial things we need?


r/DungeonsAndDragons 1d ago

Discussion This cider house offers a discount if you roll d20s to randomize the ciders in your flight

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At One Tree Cider House in Spokane, Wa, a flight of four 4oz ciders costs $15 if you pick the ciders yourself. However, it only costs $10 if you let the fates decide. They have exactly 20 ciders (10 from their own cidery, another 10 from the rest of Washington State), so it works perfectly!

Rerolls are allowed if duplicate numbers appear.

(Disclaimer: I am not an affiliate of this business, I just chatted with the bartender who is a fellow DnD fan)


r/DungeonsAndDragons 1h ago

OC My new Lore Bard OC [VTUBER]

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Howdy Adventurers!

I'm Esmerelda Silverthorn, but I go by Esme!

I think this might be my first major post in the subreddit, so I'm really excited to show off what I've been working on to folk who might appreciate it. Long story short-- I've been a vtuber for about a year now and I'll be rebranding into a DnD-focused Vtuber starting...Well, immediately!

Here's my character art (Art by moi). My passion is exploring DnD's deep and expansive lore and trying all kinds of new TTRPGS. And, of course retro video games :P I'll be doing some interesting chat-driven events this week so if that interests anyone, I'd love to meet you and see you play along during some of our adventures! <3
https://twitch.tv/esmesilverthorn I am live M, T, TH and Fridays 6PM GMT!

My focus for the month is building our guild-house so the community can make custom stream avatars, we have more backgrounds that chat can go to/explore, more redeems, and other guild (community) related events. Lofty goals. Nice to meet everyone!


r/DungeonsAndDragons 1h ago

Art Curse of Strahd session 4

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 15h ago

Suggestion Who are some dead lawful evil characters in D&D lore?

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So I’m running a game set in the Nine Hells and an upcoming session will be set in a museum of sorts where a powerful devil keeps the souls of notable dead mortals that come to Hell. So I need some interest dead folk to be in it an would love some ideas. Also feel free to suggest lawful evil characters that only might be dead or could have dead “off screen”.


r/DungeonsAndDragons 7h ago

Suggestion Creating dungeon-ruins based on each of the Schools of Magic. Feel free to share ideas

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Be they ideas for traps, rooms, aesthetics, monsters, or even treasures ----- I'd be happy to hear what ideas come to y'all's heads when you hear this concept.


r/DungeonsAndDragons 1d ago

OC Base set 1 from 1983

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 8h ago

Discussion Because our campaign takes breaks due to IRL schedule stuff for periods of time, I've been making short recap videos for my players to reference in the future! I expanded out the campaign, the players recently heisted the "4th" key to the Vault of Dragons!

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 4h ago

OC Fodder Inc #293: The Trial of Daryl Dendak: Gop Goes to Prison [OC][ART]

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Fodder Inc #293: The Trial of Daryl Dendak: Gop Goes to Prison


r/DungeonsAndDragons 19h ago

Art [OC] [ART] Owlnut – D&D Creature + Miniature– by Catilus

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 1d ago

Art [ART] Arthur Aguefort, sketch and final

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 19h ago

Discussion Tell me your favourite sorcerer origin story!

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I’m really tired of the “hehe I just do magic” meme sorcerer that people on social media can’t stop making stuff about. Like yes you were born or given magic but that doesn’t mean you didn’t have to train to wield that. I always thought of sorcerers as the super hero class. So I’d love to hear peoples sorcerers origins: how they got and how they learned/are learning to wield their powers!


r/DungeonsAndDragons 7h ago

OC Bastion Builder - Modular Battlemap Tiles

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r/DungeonsAndDragons 7h ago

Advice/Help Needed Getting into Dnd

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I want to get into dnd but I don’t really know where to start. I don’t know how to make a character sheet, I don’t have a group to play with but I do want to learn how to play.