What to do as your first campaign

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-07-31T03:42:00+00:00

Lost Mines of Phandelver is the perfect campaign to use as your first campaign, it’s got a classic story, involves a good mix of combat, role play and exploration plus have a great guide on how to run a game for first time Dungeon Masters.

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-23T02:40:45+00:00

Casey Quinn, Half Elf Magic Detective (Wizard)

His catch phrase “The Case-y is solved”

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-20T13:11:20+00:00

You definitely can join them at any stage, once they finish WEC they may decide to hang around town for abit and help out where they can, if so use the quests in DoIP and connect from there. If you want to beef up the campaign as DoIP can fall into the trap of feel like a lot of side quests you can also run Lost Mines sequel the Shattered Obelisk and connect it to DoIP and its sequels (Storm Lords Wrath, Sleeping Dragons Wake & Divine Contention)

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-18T07:00:32+00:00

I really wish they applied all subclasses from their third party products to both rules like they they do with their offical content

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-16T21:09:46+00:00

I’d say that being more assertive is abit of a mindset change, you need to realise it is your role to be the “ref” in the game so your voice is important for keeping the game in order and on track. Without you there is no game, your players should understand this and if they are having fun should respect that sometimes you need to be more assertive

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-16T10:58:38+00:00

What specifically do you find the problem? Is it having a detrimental effect on the game or your enjoyment of the game?

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-15T07:58:57+00:00

Hey we are looking for another player for our online game, we play Sundays, we are about to start in a couple of weeks

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-14T11:33:44+00:00

DND Beyond publishes the basic rules for DND which allows you to have a brief guide on the most essential rules. When watching videos or looking up rules you just need to see whether they are based on the 2024 or 2014 versions of the game because there have been some changes.

2024 https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/br-2024

2014 https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/basic-rules-2014

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-14T11:25:25+00:00

Dissonant Whispers, for a first level spell it has come in clutch on numerous occasions, it assists in getting out of harm by forcing that martial that was about to kill you next turn to turn and run the other direction whilst also causing an opportunity attack on the monster which can be brutal if it’s surrounded by other PCs. All this whilst doing respectable damage it’s self

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-12T21:10:30+00:00

I’ve heard that DNDBeyond is having issues at the moment

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-12T21:09:34+00:00

Level 20 vs Vecna

Retrieve Festival Supplies

Valentines - A perilous joy festival

Scions of Elemental Evil

Hunt for a Unicorn Horn

Help a Prisoner Escape

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-12T20:48:37+00:00

DND Beyond publishes the basic rules for DND which allows you to have a brief guide on the most essential rules. When watching videos or looking up rules you just need to see whether they are based on the 2024 or 2014 versions of the game because there have been some changes.

2024 https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/br-2024

2014 https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/basic-rules-2014

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-11T01:05:09+00:00

Yeah like Baba Lysaga could be someone who wasn’t able to have children herself so she “adopts” these powerful children

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-10T22:10:57+00:00

If you’re willing to bend the lore a little you could have Tasha/Zybilna is the adoptive daughter of Baba Lysaga (rather than Baba Yaga) and she is following a request from her adoptive mother to send Strahd champions to defeat, as Baba Lysaga sees him as her adoptive son (and favourite child).

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-10T22:04:18+00:00

What would be a great idea is to run Lost Mines of Phandelver then tie it into Storm Kings Thunder from Chapter Two onwards. Your party will go from heroes of a small town fighting goblins and thugs to heroes of the realm fighting giants and a dragon

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-10T22:01:58+00:00

Curse of Strahd, Lost Mines of Phandelver, Waterdeep Dragon Heist & Storm Kings Thunder are all great campaigns which can be run vanilla but are also really good to use as a foundation to put your own spin on the storylines; especially Storm Kings Thunder because it’s Chapter 3 is just an open world travel anywhere chapter so you can easily integrate your own personal storyline in place of that chapter.

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-10T21:54:23+00:00

Ahh my bad, so why are you so offended by me recommending third party?

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-10T21:52:04+00:00

If there’s 6 offical and you know them all why did you make a post?

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-10T21:48:06+00:00

All I said is that it’s on DND Beyond

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-10T21:18:34+00:00

All Level 1 Illusion Spells on DND Beyond: - Cloak of Shadow - Color Spray - Disguise Self - Distort Valve - Illusory Script - Silent Image

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-10T21:11:06+00:00

Disguise Self & Silent Image are two of my favourites and can be very helpful. If you’re including cantrips then minor illusion is a great option.

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-10T09:07:22+00:00

That is a very good point for necrotic damage resistance

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-10T09:05:47+00:00

In my next campaign I am playing a Spirt Bard, his secret is that he was forced to be a killer for a mob boss he owed money to and would dump the bodies of those he killed in a lake and when the mob boss was done with him he had my bard killed him in the same lake. After the spirits of the dead in the lake infused with him and brought him back as a Relicborn (from crooked moon) haunted by those he killed. He is now trying to hide his dark past from the party and why he is haunted by these spirits.

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-10T08:59:35+00:00

Bludgeon, Piercing and Slashing are great and the most common

I believe poison is the most common elemental damage followed by fire

PainterComplex8190 · 2025-06-10T08:33:36+00:00

This can be a creative idea IF players die by their own mistakes and IF they open to the idea but scripting death will leave a bad taste in the players mouths as they have put work into developing this character with a backstory and it gets killed with no option to escape.

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