Hungrymaster

If you're familiar with the Aria Forte campaign, look elsewhere.

So while I have a couple years experience in DMing, I'm still running my first campaign and trying to come up with interesting encounter mechanics can be tough some times.

My players are going to awake from a mass hallucination to realize a tornado is closing in on this smallish island at night. Do you have any ideas for some interesting checks or mechanics for them to survive and possibly save as many civilians saved as possible?

The party consists of a bard, Arcane Trickster rogue, and a cleric. Only one of the players can be described as experienced. The characters are level 8 and will have most of their spell slots a

I started playing ranked for the first time this season with a friend, neither one of us has previous ranked experience. First we played our Doubles placements, my friend ended up in diamond and I ended up in Silver. We went to arena ranked and my friend ended up in plat while I am silver again.

After placements my friend gets 15 ranked points and I get 6 points per win. They also lose 4 points while I lose 7 per loss for the same game. Does the individual success/kda affect the points much as my friends is a better shot than I am, but not by that much.

If you play in Aria Forte, look elsewhere.

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So in my homebrew world and campaign the God Primus (god of logic and order) has lost their connection to impact the realm and it's nature/beings. They have been trying to send messages and orders to their believers who have not listened and the realm is falling under a disproportioned world power. What kinds of increasing chaos could I start hinting at around the world as logic and order don't have a strong grip anymore?

What are the numerical differences between reputation (and other?) rewards in different difficulties? Couldn't find any info on this ingame or online, except the patch notes saying on hard you get 1400 rep.

I'm a returning veteran player so I thought I had a great grasp around the rules and ways cards work, but after playing over a hundred games this season (most in prorank), I still have no idea how Dagon exactly works.

Am I correct to assume the spell created in grave still summons new dagons even if you banish or lock the current iteration on board? I would rather not play grave banish just because of Dagon except for the couple decks I have space for neutrals in. Are there any sequencing tricks or tips that would help? Maybe a short first round or bleed on red coin?

So first of all I have little to no knowledge about crypto, and went with minimal risk here and wouldn't be terribly disappointed if there's nothing I can do.

So what happened was: A couple weeks back some random user on Reddit wanted to trade the free NFT profile pics Reddit gave last year from me for 40$. I thought it was too good to be true but still went for it as I thought there was really not that much to lose as I didn't care for the profile pics.

The user wanted to send the money to me through Metamask, and as I received it through Goerli testnetwork I didn't know better and sent the pics anyways. Now that I tried to cash the crypto it seems that test network has no actual monet

I know there would be many better RPG systems for this but I have no experience with them and my likely players have no interest in trying anything else than 5e at the moment. All of my players except for one will be beginners.

I have been brainstorming a short shipwreck campaign with somewhere around 4-8 sessions with themes of mystery, horror, and some tropes from the TV series Lost (which I've been watching this winter.) The campaign will go somewhere like level 6-8. I would like to force six classes which the 3-4 players can choose from. The unchosen classes will be NPCs. All classes will get their own homebrew feat designed around survival and a fear system kind of like exhaustion b

Players of Aria Forte don't tread further.

So our players have been babysitting a kid for a few sessions as the kid's parents are training for a fight they have to do to pay a debt which they took to pay for the kid's private tutor. The players sparred with the parents to check their skills and one shot both with nonlethal hits, afterwhich the parents were told to completely focus on their training so the players won't have an orphan on their hands.

Little did my players know the kid's tutor was actually helping the kid to control their powers as an unnaturally powerful wild magic sorcerer. One morning our oblivious level 6 bard challenged the kid to spar because everyone was annoyed w

Edit: If the plane of Aria and cities of Avardia and Cavalcadia mean anything to you, turn back.

So I have encountered a problem: I created a battle arena where players and NPCs can go make a quick buck with the pay increasing with the difficulty of the combat. However this arena is located in a city of sin where practically anything can be bet on, includingthe arena fights. So, how would you make it unprofitable or impossible for the party to pay some NPC to go bet on them while they go do a low risk low reward fight?

The only ideas I've come up so far is restricting their trustworthy allies access to the Arena's betting services, or making the odds so unfathomably bad that even if the

I'm a relatively new DM, and my party has asked for a magic item shop a dozen sessions deep into my home brew 5e world. The party is currently level 5 and my campaign is high RP with very little combat.

I have created a lot of new magic items, in addition to official 5e items. I have some questions I would like to ask in incorporating the shop for the crew.

1. Is a large selection good since the start, or should I possibly tailor the selection to contain items that fit the party's budget and motivations? Mostly I'm afraid that if the party sees something very expensive they will focus multiple sessions on swindling anything and everything to save up.

2. I've been mulling around the ide

I'm a beginner DM only a dozen sessions deep in my homebrew campaign.

I have been having trouble learning to create distinguishable voices for my NPCs, and at first I didn't usually describe any gender specific aspects of characters when introducing them to my players because as a man I do not have any idea whatsoever on how to respectfully create a voice for a femme character without it being disrespectful at best or a caricature at worst. After a handful of sessions I realized not describing gender may hurt representation of gender diversity as my deep voice may make my characters feel more masc than they are.

All this has resulted in me using gender descriptions for more characters but

My players have gotten entangled in a coup which they are attempting to carry out through creating a cult. Our Cleric was telling the others their ideas for necessary building blocks for a cult. They use a lot of hand gestures when speaking, and ended up describing a bishop's hat as a Y above their head. They continued to describe a power structure as different widths of groups under the pope as an M, after which they showed the entire idea as a pyramid scheme as an A above their head. We aren't native English speakers and the player has almost no pop culture knowledge, so after I pointed it out that their cult is still missing a C other players noticed what had just gone down and laughed,