All Dungeons, No Dragons

The Misadventures of a DnD Nerd

[dungeonsnodragons]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I started adding Nídhien’s story to my AO3. I wrote about her a lot this year and hope to make it into something that makes sense.

[imreadingapplesauce]

with five minutes and access to canva i can do anything

[dungeonsnodragons]

so going to that community ttrpg group tonight and last time they said just bring everything... idk how I'm going to carry it tbh. I need like one of those wheely baskets

[dungeonsnodragons]

As a background, I live in a small community and we have various clubs--mommy and me, senior evenings, bunco, etc. New for the summer is a ttrpg club! Well, that's cool! I've really been wanting to play dnd again since I haven't really played since before covid.

The flier said bring food, ok well I have celiac so I can't eat anything anyone brings but I'll bring a fruit tray because that's safe. I am the only person to bring food (until about an hour later a mom and her kid bring cookies and crackers). MOST of the people that showed up didn't show up until 7 so I could have safely had dinner at home and then gone without missing anything so good info for next time.

Talking with the couple of organizers and early folks, a couple of them are already active in the community and they're all already friends. They seem nice. One guy though... listening to the way he talks about how he plays. It's not my thing. I don't want to play in a game where the DM is trying to kill people. I want to be friends. I want to build something together. I don't want an antagonistic relationship, in or out of game. Several people also seem to not be keen on dnd and want to play more board games and that's cool. After awhile some more folks showed up and we had some good discussions about systems and what we're looking for. I think it will be ok.

I of course am the difficult one where don't ask me about how we want to handle food because I'm just going to bring my own for myself and I don't use facebook so you will have to email me!!

[criticalrolo]

losing my mind at this amazing story from r/dndmemes some people’s dnd adventures are just. So Fucking Cool

here’s the link and the story, it’s Amazing

[ashes-and-static]

THE FUCKING REVEAL AT THE END LIKE THIS GUY IS LEGIT LIKE

THATS MY WIFE AND I LOVE HER

[notimportantjusttrue]

Just some quick math, a long rest is 8 hours, so you can get three long rests a day (theoretically), meaning 9 days and 16 hours is

Twenty-nine resurrections

There were nearly 30 deaths and every single one came back. It musta been like the Endgame portal scene except with like, your brother and your dead wife. Incredible.

[dungeonsnodragons]

Pulled out my dice and gave one a roll.

[lizaoverlord]

Yoooo look at my DnD party! :D So happy to draw them all again. ♥ Our Dungeons and Dragons campaign is now truly becoming a classic hero story! Victory!

It is interesting to me how the story shifts when seen from a specific character's perspective though.

For my own dark elf warlock Deimos, the in-game story is like this:

A runaway warlock gets lucky as he stumbles upon this starting-up party.

Only five days later his warlock patron Vannatir finds him. (!!! x_____X)

Thankfully Deimos persuades his patron to let him stay with this powerful group. (Absolutely nerve-wracking moment!! x_____X Persuading an archdevil is not easy!)

Vannatir added a condition; Once the party is strong enough, missions need to be carried out on his orders.

Deimos truly hopes he can stay with the Grey Wardens as long as possible.

[dndprofessor]

[dungeonsandconjecture]

Dnd opinion of the day

I'm probably going to make this an ongoing thing, so starting simple for now

I'd be interested to know why in the comments

Your favorite dnd class

Warlock

Wizard

Paladin

Cleric

Fighter

Druid

Ranger

Sorcerer

Rogue

Artificer

Monk

Bard

Voting ended onMay 16

[oakenshieldsimp-deactivated2026]

Smaug ❤️

[parakeet]

#MyCoin

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Every dragon's hoard has to start somewhere

[chimaerakitten]

So the banner ad didn’t scale down for the mobile browser and it took me multiple minutes to realize that this stock photo of people in business suits was not, in fact, an illustration of what oathbreaker paladins in service to an evil power are supposed to look like

[sirenknights]

Dice Shaming

[t3mp0r4ry-deactivated20181205]

Literally the best photoset I’ve ever seen on tumblr

[yourhighness6]

This queen really conquered Ba Sing Se like that

[unnameablethings]

knight who is constantly searching for a good and noble king to serve but cannot fucking find one for the life of him so he has to become the good and noble king himself.

and now all these other knights are coming around like "please let me serve you" and like obviously hes going to let them serve him thats the point of being a good and noble king but its also. very annoying. one of you become the good and noble king for once lets trade

[pixiemuse]

[wheeloffortune-design]

DnD is a way to show your friends how bad you are at adding very small numbers under pressure.

[sharkodactyl]

my dnd party has run into an npc who may or may not be evil and may or may not decide to betray us and the dm was in chat today like “just so everyone knows…not addressing this comment at anyone in particular…his favorite colors are red and black…wink” so now i’m desperately trying to get a real physical friendship bracelet done before session tomorrow in the vain hope that i can somehow stop this npc from trying to do a murder on my party

[sharkodactyl]

UPDATE: the npc was in fact a shapechanged adult black dragon with violence and conquest in his heart. however he did let merry put a friendship bracelet on him and then when she was like “hm okay how big is your wrist in dragon form” he was like “you wanna see?” and then turned into a dragon and let merry measure him for a second, dragon-sized friendship bracelet. the dm described him afterwards as being deeply confused as to why he did this or let any of this happen to him. call that the merry effect

[sharkodactyl]

this guy is now a recurring npc because merry was SO determined to make him her friend that it actually somehow worked. he cast dream to talk to one of my party members like “hey…how’s it going…how are the tieflings in the party…not that i care…also i’m not lonely. bye” and the player was like “is he still wearing merry’s friendship bracelet in this dream” and the dm was like “yeah…”

[sharkodactyl]

fsdfjhskdf the dm just sent us all this image