Not every D&D reddit post is worth going in the "Dear JB" mailbag; here are a few:
[note: this is not an April Fool's joke]
So basically I'm in a campaign and our party consists of A sorcerer (me), a monk, a fighter, a barbarian, artificer and a rouge. We are all level 2 and we just beat our first encounter and we realized oh shit we don't have a healer (our artificer has one healing spell)! I thought I could subclass into cleric for healing spells but I don't know if sorcerer and cleric mix well and I want some outside input/help! Please help!Help! We Didn't Coordinate!
Um...your party is all level 2 and you JUST beat your first encounter?
My character has a personal weapon taken from a family member that was slain (it's complicated) but she is a Dex based fighter with no strength and it's a strength item, a trident. Would you allow your players to narratively shorten the haft or lighten the weapon to make it Dex based? Or is that abit of a stretch?Modifying A Weapon In Character
"Narratively shorten the haft?" That's not a thing.
My Fairy Divination Wizard level 17 wants to be an Archfey, its like my personal quest besides killing all the evil witches from the Feywild. I know its a DM call, but I want you guys to give me some ideas and a bit of lore, what kind of stuff could my character get by achieving something like that? I know that Archfeys have a little bit of the Feywild territory for themselves and stuff like that.My Character Wants To Be An Archfey
I hate you 5E.
Good day to all! All my successful characters were strange, crazy, idiots, and outcasts. But I had a great experience with them, as well as nice interactions with NPCs and party members. And here comes the problem. For my next campaign I'd like to play a detective who saw life and different crimes, worked undercover. And I just can't imagine him interesting. He supposed to react and interact normally some strange and scary things are not so strange and scary for him. I just have a pic of him in my head and wanna do something with that, but playing a normal person is way harder for me than someone strange. I want to ask what makes others interesting. How calm, normal, logical, not too emotional person can be good.How To Play A Normal, Healthy, And Sociable Characters?
If you have to ask what "normal" is....
Dying and being resurrected. How would that change you?
*sigh*
So my DM is a full time college student and works full time but still makes time to DM for my DND group. We've only done about 4 sessions (2 of them one-shots) and I got to asking him about background music. I'm not to worried about the music knowing he's working and going to school and probably doesn't have a lot of time to prepare a full playlist for every encounter. So this morning at work he got to saying that I should put together a playlist, 'since I watch the most anime'. I'm ok with this and will make a playlist on YouTube for him. My question is, does anyone have any advice to make this playlist easy to navigate.Playlist Advice
Are YOU in college? Because that's not the correct spelling of the word "too." The rest of your post is nonsense.
I've never tried dnd before, I kinda know how it works, I have a few concepts for characters, not even drafts, my main question is how should I go about creating a character? And if you have an active dnd party and consider inviting me, I'd be more than happy to join, I hear dnd players are a welcoming bunchI Want To Start Playing Some DND
This is trolling, right? On the off-chance it's not...have you read the instruction manual?
Am I Playing DnD Wrong?[post deleted by JB]
Yes...yes, you are.
We were doing a dungeon crawl where the DM matched us mostly against skeletons. During a break from play (the session was quite long), I thought I'd look at the skeleton stat block on my phone. After finding out just how low their INT scores are, I extensively used Mind Sliver for the remainder of the session to target their INT saves. Another player caught onto me doing that and asked why I started using a cantrip I haven't touched in the first half of the session. I explained my thought process, to which they said that's metagaming and that I shouldn't look up enemy stats.Is It Actually Frowned Upon To Make Decisions Based On Enemy Stats?
As D&D is a game, "metagaming" is an acceptable form of game play. However, many DMs (including myself) would not allow a player to access a Monster Manual for intel during play. Also, how does a "mind attack" spell have any effect on a mindless skeleton?
I Rolled 3 Nat 1 In A Row…It Wasn’t Fun
Quit D&D now before you are further disappointed!
I have been playing D&D with a group of IRL friends for a few years (I am not the DM), and one of my friends has been consistently making their characters share the trait of being hypersexual, and by this I mean that they roleplay their character as someone who (in-game, not OOC) finds 99% of NPCs attractive, constantly flirts and tries to initiate romantic or (non-explicit) sexual encounters.How To Deal With The Hypersexual PC At The Table
*sigh*
My Player Said My DM Style Is Unfair.
Boo-fucking-hoo.
How Do I Tell My DM I Don't Want To Play Anymore?
Say: "I don't want to play anymore."
Player acts aloof and does things against the party just because. "But their backstory is why they act like that"Does Backstory Excuse Shitty Player Behavior
No.
I'm new to D&D. Our DM has dinged us twice with "If you ask if you level up then you don't level up" and we've missed 2 levels from this under the milestone system. Which was a surprise to even his regulars. He said 'it's an unofficial rule of the game'. Is that true, has anyone heard of this? Once was when I just mentioned something about leveling in-between sessions and another when a fellow player asked directly at the end of a session. So we have got the feeling we might be facing CR5 stuff as level 3 next session, is that how it works? Before someone asks, the DM is in his late 20's.If You Ask If You Level Up Then You Don't Level Up
Mm. Mmmmm.
What could the motivation be of purposely killing half your party with Thunderwave?
Maybe he/she hates 5E?
Should I Kick This Player Out Of My Campaign?Should I Bail On This Campaign?
Two for the price of one! The answer to both is: if you have to ask, you already know the answer.
TL;DR: I joined my wife’s group after watching her 4 year long amazing campaign and her DM bashes my character every single session despite her saying that this character is essential to her overall story and everyone’s back story.I'm Pretty Sure My Wife's DM Hates Me
I'm pretty sure he does, too...especially since you refuse to see him as your DM, despite now being part of the campaign.
I Designed A Puzzle, But Don't Know What For
*sigh*
So I just started a campaign for people in my major this is second session and I just have some whiskey so I drink it anyway turns out that when your drunk playing d&d is really fun and roleplaying is a lot more expressive apparently this was one of my players best session ever. So to all DMs alcohol.Dungeon Master Pro Tip Get Drunk
Helps when reading Reddit letters as well.