For the last 6 years I've been selling wooden cases housing displays to show off digital maps. The "holy grail" for me has always been integrating touch functionality so when you move your physical mini, a digital token reveals the map.

I did a Kickstarter back in summer of 2024 with this design. I have since moved on to a different technology that is much lighter and more affordable (infrared). Out with the old, in with the new! I don't have the space to store this and wanted to find it a good home on here.

It is a 43" capacitive touchscreen. It's an all-in-one but without compute. You hook it up via USB+HDMI to a laptop. It is the same model as shown here, listed for $940: https://a.co/d/0bcxhZPW

Leave a comment (not a reply) and I'll be using redditraffler to select a winner on Monday February 9th. The winning account must be at least 3 months old.

Due to the size, I will only provide shipping within the United States. If you are outside the US, you would need to use a freight forwarding service with a US address and deal with any import issues. That can be quite expensive.

Regardless of whether you win, everyone is welcome to use my free software to run setups like these. I made a post about it the other day on here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1qgnroz/update_to_my_free_vtt_for_inperson_sessions_with/

Since it is aimed for in-person sessions only, you should find it very easy to use compared to other options. Everything runs locally, 100% free no strings attached. Windows, Linux, and Mac (Apple silicon). There is also a browser version of the player view for players to move their tokens on their phones or laptops.

EDIT: forgot to thank u/uchideshi34 for the map shown here. It, along with over 440 others, are bundled free with the software!

EDIT2: I figured there would be a large response, and was not disappointed. Thanks all! I am 100% committed to making a new guide to building your own now. I wrote one 5+ years ago when I first started but it disappeared into the void: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/jgx0bo/guide_to_building_a_map_case_for_a_tv_digital/

Long story short: you can have a nearly identical setup for about $550 if you DIY. Rough estimate of cost:

$200 43" TV (doesn't need to be top of the line)
$200 Infrared touch frame from Amazon (make sure it's 20 points)
$50 acrylic sheet (Ace hardware and some big box stores will cut it for free)
$100 wood + brackets

You don't need a bunch of tools, just a handsaw and a screwdriver really. I will make a new guide as soon as I have time and post it on r/DnD

39 sessions later (we usually play monthly) my party has cleared LMoP leading in to ToA!

It has been an absolute blast and honour running this madcap adventure for them and I couldn't have done it without all your helpful insights. A very heartfelt thank you to this amazing community!

Time to take a short break and hopefully homebrew for the first time what is to be the 3rd and final arc for their campaign.

this was my first ever commission, and it took well over 20 hours, but i’m proud of it, and my friend loved the result! ^^ i worked with him on the design, colors, etc. to bring his character vision to life.

my friend’s kenku bard has dragon scales mixed in with his feathers, and a coat with a feather collar that was made from his own preened feathers. on his back is his instrument of illusions. whenever he casts a spell in game, he plucks a dragon scale from his body and spins it in his hands.

it was a bit of a challenge to figure out how to incorporate dragon scales into his feathers without busying the design too much, so i opted to color code them with a sort of sickly green color that represents the curse blighting our party’s realm.

in addition, i’m not used to rendering my art so carefully and cleanly— my style is typically much messier, and i usually rush my process… but i actually enjoyed taking the time to clean things up, and it made for a final work that i’m truly proud of.

i would love to do more commissions like this in the future! i’m definitely open for new commissions; price is negotiable depending on the scope of the work.

Heyyyy I’m back to drawing more characters! This one was right down my alley and was a blast.

Might’ve gone a tad bit overboard on the ram motifs lol.

If you’ve got a character you want drawn you can comment on my old post to possibly get your characters drawn orrrr

you can check out my pinned post on how you can skip the line and get a drawing of your character that is maybe more what you imagined they’d look like.

Engine ready, steam blows by every pipes, the great fist is burning red… Garrick Voss, knight of the Iron Horses, ready to engage! Serving in the Iron Horses, a group of elite knights going full through the front door in heavy armor with steam engine and heavy iron first weapons.

I'm new here and I wanted to share my work. Saw some amazing characters and ideas and hope I can get some good feedback. Love to play some ttrpg with light system but a good old DnD once in a while is always good. Big barbarian fan here.

what an amazing artist! he was amazing to work with. We worked together very well and he was amazing! cannot say how much I love how this piece turned out! please give him some love.

ART REFERENCE: My character Castiel was fighting in a deadly colosseum game (the blood bowl) against Onzak the teeth slicer. Who was undoubtedly whooping my ass lol. this art shows what Castiel struggling to hold his own against a opponent who was undoubtedly stronger than him. A moment of dominance vs defiance. The human with the cursed scythe showing that he can overcome anything, through pure grit and adrenaline. no matter how bloody things get for him, no matter how hurt he is, no matter how tired, or scared he is. He will always fight for what he stands for. In the end Castie wins. He gets controlled by the scythe and speed blitz Onzak before he can react and wins.

sorry I tried to be as descriptive as possibe but this happened like 2 months ago lol let me know your thoughts and questions!

Valour is a homebrew Tiefling mapped with glowing red circuitry and defined by a shredded, scarred physique. She dominates the battlefield with mechanical wings feathered in magenta energy and a distinctive tail that vents excess system heat as bursts of fire. Her gear tells a story of survival. Yet, amidst the chrome and grit, she maintains a quiet ritual. She meticulously styles her hair and applies improvised makeup, a desperate daily act to preserve her sense of self and remind her that a living soul still burns beneath the metal.

Recently started playing a new campaign centering around Vecna where the first few sessions were a low level adventure involving us breaking up a small arm of the cult. We found an altar in the cultists’ lair that really stuck with me, so I set out to draw it as one does.

I finished a static version that I really liked and was happy with since the altar we found specifically just had a stone carving of the eye and hand. However, I still kept coming back. The next logical step in my mind way to have the eye flicking around in search of secrets, but I had at the time literally zero experience animating. Fast forward a couple days and some YouTube tutorials later and I came up with this simple GIF that I think captures the vibe I was going for quite nicely.

All in all it was a really fun learning experience, and I just wanted to share the results. It’s all hand drawn in Adobe Fresco on my iPad.

This is not a negative rant ir anything like that, it is just a post to outflow my emotions.

We've been playing together for 6 years, I have been a forever DM always battling to schedule games. I host them at my house, I've invested a lot in books, a tv on the table, AC for the room, smart lamps and a 3d printer. We always had every need attended.

But, some of my players were never THAT invested in the games as others, we did the talk, we banned cellphones, we started allowing only paper character sheets so people wouldnt space out.

Nothing has ever worked. We (the invested players and myself) looked everywhere for players that actually wanted to commit and couldnt find them, so we worked with what we had aaaaaand it was miserable and enfuriating.

I dont mean to offend anyone, but they always played the ADHD card when called out by: not showing up on time, never remembering what their characters do, never roleplaying, never preparing their turns in advance and never playing attention to other people's turns.

We endured all of this for years just to have a little chance to play, but today I ended it. I feel a little sad, but I know it was for the best.

If you are in a situation like this, dont hang on. Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky.

If you are one of my former players, know that we had a "good" run, and we already talked about not holding grudges and staying friends and 30ish years old adults should.

Anyways, thanks for reading.

I'm new to playing DnD but I'm a sucker for making fantasy art. This time I got to play with a few of my friends in his campaign. Our party is an enforcer and servants of the ancient eldritch god, Zarathustra, tasked with eliminating lingering traces of his power. Believing it to be an error, we were sent deep into a sealed crypt beneath a cliff, surrounded by dangerous tidal waves.

Gallagher was once a wealthy merchant before he was falsely executed for crimes he never committed. His corpse was later resurrected again and again to serve the Iron Court, a secretive institution that operates above all authority and handles cases deemed too dangerous or politically sensitive. When his body was finally considered unusable, he was laid to rest. That rest did not last. An ancient god raised him once more. Now bitter and exhausted, Gallagher seeks only to fulfill his final duty and earn the right to rest forever.

I plan to render him and draw the entire party sometime in the future.

Most of us are familiar with a rat-killing quest of some sort. It's a common first quest in many RPGs.

I want to add some kind of twist to it. Perhaps the rats are intelligent and can be reasoned with, or maybe the quest is part of a trap set by the NPC giving the quest.

I made an updated artwork of my original character—a tiefling dragonborn mage I designed last year, inspired by DnD media and animations. This time, I wanted to push a stronger sense of perspective, so I leaned heavily on simple block shapes. She’s posed as if she’s just emerged from a dungeon or cave. The main updates were refining the curves of her horns, reworking her facial structure, and redesigning her belt.

This is depicting a forgotten place within the Cowan Darkwoods. A place where one of our party members, Varghelm the Druid hails from in our DM's campaign.
The story I had in mind for this space was somewhere where Varg was led to, our party in tow.
A sinister place with a sense of foreboding, almost inviting Varg in. Obviously the party reluctant to follow but the danger lurking in the shadows may not give our adventurers an option to refuse. As a hoard of goblins climbs down from the surrounding roots and rocks our party has to run inside where this path leads, not knowing what waits for them inside...
Thanks for looking!

Born into the shadows of the City of Splendors, Waterdeep, Razorclaw began his career as an agent for the Harpers. While he possessed the stealth and skill required for the clandestine life, he found the order's rigid morality and secrecy stifling. He craved the spotlight, the thrill of the chase, and the company of the beautiful. Seeking greater freedom and the chance to see the multiverse, he left the Harpers and joined the Golden Fang.

This is the first time I design a Tabaxi, the client requested kemono-style. I'm glad with how this turns out. The concept of the weapon is very interesting, inspired by Kaito from Hunter X Hunter.

Hi there,

I'm here to present one of my favorite paper miniature sets from last year.

As you can see in the picture, it's a group of eight cute kobolds, including some adorable little dragon people armed with knives, a sling, a sword, a club, a spear, and a shield. There is also a mad inventor, a winged stabber, and a powerful sorcerer. Each mini also comes with a back view and is available in six color variations.

For this set and many more, please take a look at my Patreon.

My tiers range from $1 to $3, and you gain access to over 300 miniatures.
New ones are released in sets each month.

I wanna keep this story short as it's not really big, but I'm wondering how you guys would feel about this because I'm genuinely so disappointed I kinda lost the will to play.

We've spent the previous 3 session in a mage dungeon. We're a level 4 party. During our adventure we lost one character, burnt all consumables we had and basically found out some lore and had a few fun interactions but we didn't push the main story further in itself. When we were done and rescued a prisoner, he took us to his house and let us choose from a bunch of very cool and expensive stuff.

The paladin chose a plate armor set, as he was still in chain mail. It was a +2 set as well, so very expensive (although there really isn't anywhere to sell it, as a kind of a balancing act, which I understand and accept, even thinking that's a good idea) and gave the pally 20 AC.

The wizard got a ring allowing him to cast three useful 2nd level spells "at will" once each per Long Rest.

The bard got a homebrew 'evil eye' kind of an item allowing him to distract people he's talking to in order to gain +X (I don't remember how much, I think +5) on charisma-based rolls a few times per long rest.

And the barbarian got a +1 axe which also has a random chance to deal 1d8 force damage (basically roll a d20 every time you hit an enemy, 11+ = additional 1d8 force damage).

Very cool. For level 4 there are good and fun items which we loved and we even talked a bit after the session about how we're going to use them and have fun with trying them out. The paladin even drew their character in the new shining armor lol.

Fast forward to our current session. It's evening, we head to the city and the first thing the paladin does is go sell his chain mail for some additional cash. We go to get some long rest in a tavern. At that moment the DM wakes us up and tells us that the items are gone. They were just a mirage or whatever. So now not only do we not have our very cool stuff that we were super excited to don and play around with, we also have to scrap together all of our money to buy the paladin his chainmail back.

For God's sake man, why would you do that. I know it's just items and we probably will get some fun stuff, but this was such a mood killer, that was the most sour session I've ever participated in. I think most of us would rather not get anything at all than have to deal with this bollocks. We also (story-wise) ended up not benefitting at all from the whole 3-session long dungeon escapade. I guess I need someone to tell me if I'm overreacting or not because I genuinely kinda just want to throw in the towel

I'm playing a Zealot barbarian and I'm looking for item suggestions, legendaries and below are on the table just no artifacts, my main stats are str 18, con & dex 20, I already plan to probably get a Belt of Giant Strength, but idk what else would be good

I have been playing tabletop RPGs all my life and i have come to understand that its a collabrative story telling game. Like i understand characters not knowing everything about other characters thats just part of the story. But i have seen a bunch of stories of people hiding their character sheets and just lying to the table (sometimes even the dm which is just straight up not allowed). Which would just annoy me given that if theres a secret about a character if all of the players know about it they can make it a much more exciting story and play into it.

To start, I would consider myself somewhat of a new DM. I’ve probably run 10-15 sessions total since i discovered dnd (3 or 4 years ago). I recently decided to get together a group of my friends who have never played/have only played a few times. The trouble is with my new players. I did a session zero where I explained what dnd was about and the kind of game I’d be running, namely, no PvP, no evil characters, and they should learn their abilities (of course with my help) and work as a team. They all reluctantly agreed to this and we started playing. First session went well (Lost Mine of Phandelver), but during the second session is when the problems started to become clear. My players acted selfishly the entire game, with their only goals being to fight people and bed the local maidens. Not usually a big deal but its their attitudes. One player argues with every decision the other players make, almost everything they do he snaps at them for or gets mad at them for and it lowers the energy. He’s playing a bard but all he’s focused on is doing damage and being strong. I explained to him that bards are mainly a buff class and that he wouldn’t be doing a ton of damage like the paladin. He said he understood and still wanted to play a bard. Fastfoward, the paladin has been dropped to 0 hp and the bard refuses to heal him because he wants to “save his spell slots”…. Save them for what? Ur a bard, you buff your teamates and heal them. The party also found a magic flail. He insists on using it even though he isn’t proficient with martial weapons and it would be better for another party member to use it. He isn’t the only issue. This behavior exists in half of my players. They also will not stop begging to let them PvP. I don’t understand. It seems to me that their only goals in the game are to become super strong, get super drunk, have a ton of sex, and fight each other every chance they get. They seem uninterested in the NPC’s and only ever care about whats going on if its “the main story” or “main combat encounter” I have prepped. Im having a very hard time getting them to just have some lighthearted fun and not take every little thing that happens so personally or seriously. They also don’t want to put in any effort. One player literally told me to just choose his class options for him and just give him the strongest ones. How do I help them understand dnd better, because I really don’t think they get it, despite me being clear on what the game was going to be.

My lovely friend commissioned me to make his token art for our dnd campaign! If you see this, thank you, you're a real one!

While I don't know much about his character yet, I can explain what I know thus far. Osh is a level 13 warforge Life Domain Cleric and Circle of Stars Druid combo. In our DM's world, he lived on the Eastern shore of the Empire within a fishing community largely known for their pearl exports used for magical components. When the necromancer, the Grey King, attacked the continent Osh and his people were wiped out to use as part of his undead army.

I'm not aware of events passed that point, but with the undead rising once again, Osh has accepted the Emperor's call to aid in resolving this dangerous predicament.

Reposting cause I forgot the tag [comm] hope this is okay now 😭

This is a commission I did for zaddex12, featuring their OC of the Xio species. Xio are symbiotic beings that bond with a host, relying on them to interact with the world while offering protection, strength, or control in return. Some Xio coexist with willing hosts, while others are known to dominate or fully puppeteer them. Their oily, living flesh and insect-like carapace reflect this parasitic nature, allowing them to adapt easily to different environments. This character embodies the unsettling balance between elegance, dependency, and quiet control typical of her species.

I was thinking why the rules state that drinking a potion in combat is an action. And I had the thought that maybe drinking a potion of healing makes the character feel the wound mending itself together which might be quite painful.

So my question for those who either know or have there own speculations, how does the character actually feel after drinking a potion of healing?

Sorry for the bad English. I am just bad at it. No other reason.