#dnding

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!

First off, when we started the session, an unseen creature gave us the effects of a long rest while insulting us. I made a joke about it also giving us a level up, and was told I took 10 damage for it, which, if you don't like a joke just fucking tell me to stop, don't treat me like a kid

Then our artificer got paralyzed. When the player tried to strategize with the rest of us, he was told he couldn't because he was paralyzed so he had to stay quiet. Like, as a person. Which is fucking bullshit as we all know

Then during our turns the DM (who uses the above method to forbid metagaming) kept asking the players he was going to hit what they were immune to for like, two turns. Presumably so he wouldn't waste his big stuff

And the last straw was when the artificer tried to use telekinesis against one of our enemies, a Huge creature. He had to use his flash of genius AND bardic inspiration on it, and at the last minute the DM hits him with "what you didn't read is that objects over 1000 pounds can't be lifted"

So I said the target was a creature because it is and because objects and creatures have separate rules for a reason, to which he responded with "This is where you and I are going to have a fucking fight because I'm tired of this shit, 1000pounds is 1000pounds"

To which I replied that I was tired of him applying rules inconsistently, then cut myself off because I knew I was gonna get mean if we kept talking about it

So then I said "this is why I'm not joining the next campaign, and now I'm going home"

Like, I was eating my lamb wrap today thinking "I wish this wrap was only the salad additions" and uh. It's not very convenient :/

Me, internally and autistically: I will bite your fucking head off

Editing for context: he has a homebrew rule that necrotic damage reduces hit point maximum (which is why I'm currently at 36/45 at level 16) so there IS indeed a difference between restoring the HP maximum to it's normal number (in my case 193) and healing (getting my current health past 36)

The part I find frustrating is that TO ME this is a very basic rule to know when playing a healer in a campaign w the necrotic damage rule, so even though I know more than one of my co-players need the reminder, my level of appreciation for it is somewhere between a parent telling me I don't know how to teach languages and that one guy years ago who tried to tell me I didn't know how to speak French

Trying to decide on a design and general vibe for my male Cinderella!Tiefling warlock (Arch fey patron) and I'm not sure what to go for... Give me food for thought?