#For DND Newbies

[terresdebrume]

There's a not insignificant chance I'll get to open a DND club at my school so I made these quick charts to help. They're made to be printed in A5 format, and if anyone is interested I can try and put a link to the PDF version on drive.

First image covers the type and names of dice. Image 2 explains ability scores, img 3 explains what modifiers, HP, AC, Proficiency, DC saving throw & death save mean.

Image 4 & 5 are also lists of words but they have a big red logo with white axes in it. Img 4 explains flanking, advantage, disadvantage, melee range, critical hit/fail, area of effect and ranged spell attack. Img 5 explains the elements of combat: Initiative, what a Round is, movement, action, bonus action, reaction, attack of opportunity.

My next step is to make one of these per class to help players remember their main level 1 features and main rolls, but that's probably going to have to wait until later.

This effort was inspired by GinnyDi's video about how to help new players like the game on YouTube. Please reblog if this seems useful to you!

ETA: There are now two more booklets in this collection: The Little Book of Level 1 has all the essential mechanics of each class, and Conditions, conditions, conditions! Sums up all possible conditions in the game. You can find them through the pinned post on my blog :)

[junipermoonlite]

*First time playing DND* ... I'm all in

DM: that's not-

*Pushing all my chips into the middle of the table*

DM: where did you get those

[ieidolon]

only ally beardsley could go "hey can i roll for a nat 20 and then be alive?" after three successful death saves, get the go-ahead from their DM, roll, and then actually roll a nat 20. God (or... philosophers of comparative religion i guess) bless their audacity, luck, and probable future healing output

[zombie-the-derg]

yknow I have like. literal pages on pages (180) of 5e Homebrew content ive made but like. I dont know how to get it out there. Making it into a book aint the option I wanna go with (not anymore) so like. do people follow Homebrew blogs on here? I figured i'd just make a homebrew blog and post stuff there every now and again. Although im not sure if you can have multiple accounts linked to one webpage like twitter. i have no idea

[lotusquil]

DnD sketches! Plus bonus attempt at Astarion because of course.

I started DM'ing for the first time and made these concepts for some NPCs. Very happy with them.

[pristine-starlight]

glancing at pathfinder just on the level of what races/classes there are and goddamn is this thing really Ridiculously More Complicated than dnd 5e or am i just too used to having known the basics of dnd (with no play experience) for years

[icedcoffeeandsleepdeprivation]

YA'LL.

I have literally been waiting for over 5 years to get to play - for a variety of reasons.

And Saturday I *F I N A L L Y* get to.

THIS is my Christmas. I'm so freaking excited.

[quasar-concept]

I've finally figured out that I really like gothic fantasy dnd (ie Strahd) more than classical dnd which is fine! except that the newer campaign I'm in is... classical dnd. And I dunno how (or if?? it gives the vibe of being a no-no in dnd etiquette) to say that I would prefer some more gothic/darker elements

it's very very possible that it will get there, since we are still only level 3, but... yeah

[nooskadraws]

rogues definitely flirt through fencing ✨🧡⚔️

[pricklylittleloaf]

[terresdebrume]

Last of the class cheat sheets! For the Sorcerer and Warlock classes, I just included a list of all the official subclasses available and the books you can find them in, mostly because it was a choice between that, leaving the second part blank, or doing one for each subclass...

Other class cheat sheet as well as a super condensed rundown of basic rules are available on my blog (see pinned post) as well as links to get the files in PDF format. Everything is optimised for A5 paper.

[noxdetox]

This is Perry.

My halfling DND character

[gravityrulez]

It's awesome but also kinda really wild how much time you can spend just thinking about your dnd character lmao

like the campaign hasn't even started yet and my little half elf rogue (not Vax) is already living in my head rent free 24/7 and I absolutely love it

[zombie-the-derg]

they are calling me hitler on reddit for not allowing multiclassing in my dnd games <3 thats why I stick to tumblr, you guys wouldnt do anything like that.

[bigbraincel]

the quarry characters | d&d races/classes

here have this dumb dungeons and dragons thing i’ve been thinking about

dylan:

firbolg wizard (who fronts as a bard).

super lanky. a gentle giant.

magic is more defensive than offensive.

he enjoys entertaining people but more than anything, he secretly loves spending his time in a quiet, dusty library, studying arcane texts and learning spells.

is usually dragged along on quests (by kaitlyn) whether he likes it or not.

ryan:

triton paladin of tyr.

used to be a rogue (more for survival’s sake), until he was taken in by an organisation devoted to tyr.

has an insatiable curiosity about local myths & legends.

he prefers listening to folktales & gathering information that way rather than reading books (the way dylan does).

often finds himself on monster hunting expeditions.

people tend to expect the worst out of him even though he has a good heart and strong sense of justice 😔

he wears light armour so he can stay agile

although he worships tyr, he doesn’t wear his colours and sticks to darker colours with a shadowy black cloak. think batman but d&d ig lmao

he paints black runes on his scales. they don’t mean anything, he just thinks it looks cute.

kaitlyn:

halfling fighter.

she’s just a leetle creechure (full of rage) <3

she may be small but she’s got MUSCLE

her sword is bigger than she is.

tends to be the leader of the party.

probably secretly royalty or something ala aragorn.

takes a while to come to terms with the responsibility such a title brings and is inwardly freaked out at the idea, but won’t show it.

a cute lil pseudodragon sidekick.

emma:

centaur bard.

unironically wears boob window armour.

plays a lute but isn’t super good at it. it’s more for ✨ effect ✨

her true talent lies with her voice & storytelling skills.

real casanova, travelling the land and breaking hearts along the way.

here for a good time not for a long time.

jacob:

half-orc cleric of sune (light domain)

also unironically wears boob window armour.

probably goes to taverns and tells lies stories about what a big hero he is

his battle strategy is break down and cry <3

(but he will try to pull himself together for his friends and heal them real good).

he literally only became a sune convert after falling for emma... he thought it would be romantic or something

even after emma breaks up with him he still worships sune tho

he uses a sailor moon ass lookin staff

abi:

dwarf wizard.

dyes her hair pink with potions & weaves flowers into it.

she’s not super into rigorous study, so she feels a little like an underachiever compared to her peers.

a bit of a homebody. she's an artist first and foremost and doesn't tend to go on adventures.

being a bard is her idea of a nightmare as she doesn't like to perform, so she channels her creativity through the weave. she's a wizard of the illusion school and her spells look like brushstrokes, essentially paintings brought to life.

she may not be the strongest wizard but she’s hella good at creating distractions & disguises.

nick:

high-elf druid (circle of the moon)

tends to his lil garden and sells ingredients to the local apothecary.

seems like a gentle flower boy, but don’t fuck with him or people he cares about. he has a brutal side.

his favoured wild shape transformation is a dire wolf (i had to)

usually wears kinda grubby farmer clothes. idk why he’s becoming a stardew valley oc but there you go

has a lot of magical tattoos in perpetual motion on his body, painted on him by abi.

laura:

dragonborn cleric of ilmater.

she toll

yes, she’s a healer, a pretty good one at that, but she strikes fear into the heart of her enemies more than anyone in the party. her style is more offensive than defensive.

wears blood red armour.

storm-cloud grey scales.

max:

human guy in a hawaiian shirt with socks & sandals. just happy to be there

slfjsdd jk jk

max (for real this time):

drow elf warlock.

like most male drows, he’s kinda small.

kind of a tortured soul. he made a pact with The Great Old Ones, an eldritch being and has regretted it ever since. despite this, he has a sunny attitude & tries to live his life to the fullest as he finds a way to get out of this pact.

not really naturally talented at combat or magic, kinda lucked into his powers through the pact.

MAJORLY panics during combat but will do just about anything to protect someone he cares about.

his armour is whatever the d&d equivalent of a hawaiian dad shirt is

[goblincrafts]

the first project i created after years of not crocheting was a dicebag for myself - I'm going to start my first dnd campaign sooon (<3)

so what should it be? something easy, let's have a look arou.... oh. or I could make a d12? sure

step 1: find a sturdy looking pentagon pattern and crochet 12 pentagons

we are getting there

step 2 I needed numbers on them, so I was trying to find crochet numbers. they were all too big, so I decide to just create chains in white and sew them on.

this was the longest part of the whole project by the way. crocheting the pentagons? the shortest.

(on the paper next to the pentagons i was trying to figure out, how many chains will i need for each of the numbers)

I decided to use the "wrong side" for the numbers because it was slightly easier to sew them on. maybe next time i should prepare and plan things?

part 3

assembly!

and then the poor thing got stuck in limbo for weeks. i hate the finishing touches, especially hiding the excess yarn (which is like 10 minutes, but just... no) but now i finished it, so the blog is doing it's purpose i guess :)

I still have to figure out how i want to close it - i don't really like the zipper idea, so i might add picot border on both sides of the opening and use strings, but i am not sure yet. if anyone has ideas how else could i solve it, feel free to add :)

i used scrap yarn, and a 2.5 hook for the pentagons and assembly, and probably a 2 for the letters.

not the prettiest project ever, but it's mine, and i will carry it with me to glorious adventures :)