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How an NPC’s Death Broke My Heart

I wanted to post this here because I feel like most people here would understand. An NPC died in the campaign I am playing in right now, which has left me heartbroken. My character is named Gaelwyn, and she is an elf wizard. Her backstory is that she was tricked into killing her family at...

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How a Cleric of the God of Death became a Spectre of Death itself

I should notate that this story takes place in my homebrew campaign of The Hidden Heavens. In my world, it is very high fantasy and mortals and gods interact far more often than in traditional D&D. My general philosophy as a DM is to find a way to say yes if the players want to...

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How I killed my entire party, including myself

Session 0: We're a group of 4 people. We each have our own preferences in classes and roleplay, so we stick with the usual: Friend 1 usually plays a magic user, but after being annoyed by the lack of hitpoints of his previous characters, decides to go Aasimar Paladin (which he decides should be a...

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How our dwarven cleric BBEG spy became a living sword

I'm a proud DM of a group of 4 players. We starting D&Ding in february 2019 at work. We were all colleagues back in the day, spending our 1 hour lunchbreaks in my fantasy realm. In this campaign one of my players came up with an interesting backstory for his Dwarven Forge Cleric, named Gurum. He...

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The Rebirth Algorithm

I’m just gonna say this now, this is going to be a multi-part story and its going to be long. I am a player in this campaign that has been on going for the past year and a half. I am also going to start at the beginning and work my way to the end...

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Tales from the Broken Glass – A Bard’s Last Ballad

This tale begins not long after the Glass Breakers began exploring Wave Echo Cave, having been led there by Gundren Rockseeker – whom they had rescued a few days earlier and was the one that contracted the party to help him in the first place. They had just dealt with two giant spiders that were...

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How a Farmer came to Reap more than Grain

It happened when I was 17 years old. My twin sister and I lived with our parents on a wheat farm. Farm life was all we know, just the simple life of sowing, harvesting, animal husbandry, and waiting out the cold winters. Our father taught us how to hunt and fight well enough to fend...

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The Rogue’s Epic Fall!

The Blight a dark and morbid setting where the dead walk the street to pay off taxes they earned in life, the party are all convicts and was set free by a lady in black and tasked with finding out where her mole had gone within a mafia type family. our adventures lead us to...

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The Horrors Of 1st Death

Well, to start, my DnD campaign started like any other. My party was a team of 7 and I was the DM (Comprised of 1 druid, 1 fighter, 2 rogues, 1 ranger, a paladin, and a bard. They have just been tasked to go to a nearby dungeon and slay a lich. It is important...

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DnD Story #249 – Mind the Gap

So my team is a High-elf Ranger (me), Wood-elf rogue (Lee), Dragonborn fighter (Gerroth I), Dwarf Cleric (Danny DeVito), and a Gnome warlock (Frankie Silvers). We're doing some cave campaign, and we're charging through with very few problems. We eventually hit a platform with a mud-bridge connecting to another platform. There are two enemies on...

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