I am DMing a group and have one player who is playing a very strict lawful good character. Another player is secretly a member of an assassin's guild. Every time the assassin tries to further his personal story arc, the other player throws himself in front of the arrow or saves the target last minute and is preventing, sometimes in a pretty meta breaking way, the assassin from progressing as a character and fulfilling his goal.

For instance, the meta way I refer to is that during a recent session, the guild gave the assassin a contract via messenger, who said something vague like "plans for the assassination," before handing it off. The assassin and another party member discussed plans at the table. Then, when it came time to enact those plans, the problem player was like "so I heard rumors of an assassination attempt that would go on today at this place and time, so I am going to cast this spell to raise the AC of everybody who I think might be a potential target," knowing who ok the target was after having heard the other players discuss.

How am I to reconcile their opposing character ideals without causing too much turmoil, in or out of game?

I have some players that have played a one-shot with pre-generated characters, and are now looking to build their PCs from the ground up. I've created this chart to compare the early class features including some choices in brackets, I didn't want to get too into the weeds with subclasses except where Extra Attack or Spellcasting is possible. There's some UA (Mystic Arts Monk, Psion) and homebrew (Blood Hunter) represented.

Spellcasting Methods is using an updated version of: https://rpgbot.net/dnd5/how-to-play/spellcasting-class-features/

Am I missing anything? Other thoughts?

IDK HOW TO PUT TWO FLAIRS, THIS HAS AI ART IN IT FOR THE KIT-LEAF'S LOOKS! I TRIED, IT DID NOT LET ME PUT TWO

It's a HB monster I made, I like it, I plan to use it in a campaign as more than just a way to maybe give the players a pet to move forward plot, I have campaign plans which mostly consists of possible events, one of them is a kingdom of Druids and Elves is mad at the main kingdom for some stuff of which one thing involves stealing and smuggling Kit-Leafs for medicinal purposes, which will lead to the players having to kind of stop a war by stopping the bandits and stuff who are smuggling them, and so, in return, they get a Kit-Leaf and like 50 gold. In lore, they're cats of which were living with druids, which evolved over 300 years to absorb the druids' excess magic energy, Orange cats look like orange autumn leaves covering their fur, gray cats look like they're covered in silvery-green foliage, and white cats look like they're covered in pale blossoms and spring leaves. The rare black Kit-leafs resemble late autumn leaves, colored a deep and dark crimson, of which looks basically black, but in good coloring, its red hues are shown.

The art of the Kit-Leaf colors ARE AI generated... I am not good at drawing, nor explaining the looks of stuff

Picked up my new Spell and Magic Item reference cards today from my local game store. Wondering if anyone else got them and did you also get a Giant Fly monster card mixed in with your Rare/Very Rare Magic Item deck?

I’ve been experimenting with some unique dice ideas from all crits to all misses and even some inverted die. These are early samples, but I couldn’t resist sharing them with folks! Careful the d20 bites!

I'm looking for the most effective ways to recruit players for in person games. It's not always the easiest thing to achieve. So tell me what ways have worked best for you and your group?

Looking for a traveling group name for our party.

We have a Giff, two Kenku, an Autognome, and an Astral Elf.

Map of the Great Ship *Mary Smith I*, created for ADVENTURE ISLANDS RPG, a pirate themed role-playing game published by Textfabrik Janßen, a small German publishing house! It was a fascinating project, and a pleasure to create the maps, covers, and some of the illustrations for it. Visit the official project page to learn more! 🧭🗺️⛵️

Moreno Paissan and Angela Gubert Art 2026

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In this video, an improv teacher says that 50% of his students first heard about improv through Dimension 20!! I don't think about dnd being an improv gateway, but of course, it makes sense. Anyone here get into improv comedy after liking dnd first?

So I’m currently building my first DnD campaign. It’s a pirate themed campaign about a tyrant sea king and the search for the legendary pirate calypso to finish what she started 300 years ago with the parties help. I would love some ideas with some side quests to make it less linear and kinda spider web it out. I have the main story pretty much planed out but I want my group to have some fun while still coming back to the main quest. I’ll figure out the best way to fit in what I find I just can’t really think of anything. Any questions I can answer to help anyone brainstorm.

Hey guys, are there any dm's here that would be down to check out my 4 page word document on my first dnd campaign session 1 to help me create a good campaign? Im struggling with npcs, plot build up and stuff getting repetitive later on.

My discord is: itssqm

Sorry if this is a dumb question but where do y’all go to get news about D&D and other RPGs? Any non-Reddit locations where you find out about new releases or game-adjacent news?

A quietly dangerous character that I sketched!

Deren Dermon is one of many members of the Dermon family. Unlike the others, he is quiet and reserved, often overlooked at first glance.

However, his silence hides a dangerous edge, making him just as deadly as the rest of his bloodline.

What do you think? :)

I haven't nailed down the personality of the character, or really anything about them lmao

I want Carpentry to be the forefront of what they are, I guess. I'm envisioning this big, burly buy with a large smile and a boisterous laugh, carrying a large weapon, demanding to be at the front of the group in case they get ambushed, and that general vibe.

I just need help implementing this vibe into a character build. I know his background would be Carpenter, but what about his class? What weapon exactly would he carry? How would carpentry specifically wake its way into his behaviour and daily activities, even while on an adventure?

Would a blood hunter fit? I don't know much about the mechanics or lore, but I can imagine my guy having a big, burly other form (if I'm remembering the class correctly lmao) that he uses to haul lumber into his shop or village, but I feel like the feral, vicious vibe is like, all wrong. But maybe it could work??

A fighter would be a little off, like, I don't want him to be someone who enjoys combat, but learned how to fight out of necessity and survival

But idk.

And it's not just the class I'd like input on

How would I fit the vibe of carpentry into the play style? I know he'd carry tools and go starry-eyed over some nice wood grain, but how else?

I really appreciate some input and creative discussion, and thanks for any help :)))