35 Dungeons & Dragons Memes for Weary Adventurers Looking for a Long Rest

Author image for Ayala Sorotsky
Ayala Sorotsky • Writer and Editor
Oct 12, 2026 10:30 AM EDT

At this point in the timeline of real-life historical events, all I want is to gather with my friends to escape the magnitude of real life and collectively imagine fictional historical events we create ourselves.

If that's not the meaning of D&D, I don't know what is. Like, yes, I think D&D is really cool, but after the last few years, I feel like it leveled up and acquired a new feat called "self-inflicted historical events." This would probably be the description: "When you add this feat, you provide a better imaginary dreamscape to the people who play you, giving them the chance to experience imaginary historical events their characters cause themselves, given they have reached a high enough level. If your Charisma is 16 and above, they will also enjoy it."

Yes, this was me trying to imagine a feat given to D&D itself. It's all imagination, as D&D players we can do whatever we want. I'm just tired of having to go through real-life history - it just keeps on happening, and there's nothing any of us can do to stop it. I just want to go back to the days when we all sat around a table, rolled some dice, and there was literally nothing else to worry about. But those days are over - we're adults, doing adult things, worrying about adult worries, and setting schedule conflicts (you know exactly what I mean by that).

So in difficult times like these, I take up the mantle and make it happen myself. I'm brewing a D&D campaign as we speak because three of my friends wanted to play. One of them brought in another friend of his, and there's me - the humble DM. I'm writing a homebrew campaign where they'll start as shady workers for a low-tier mafioso (inspired by the beginning of the Second Darkness adventure path), sent by him on a mission to steal important and remote treasure, only to betray them and lock them in (inspired by Bartrand Tethras from Dragon Age 2), flying away on the back of the hideous dragon that guarded that treasure (inspired by the last Harry Potter book), only to then discover they have awakened an ancient locked-up god the dragon used to serve (loosely inspired by Rovagug of Pathfinder).

I can't wait to make them chart the course of history in our collective imagination!

Advertisement
  • 01

    Hurting nature was never an option

    DM: How do you want to introduce your Chaotic Evil Druid to the party? Me:
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 02

    Jokezilla has arrived to save the world

    When your joke character reaches level 20.
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 03

    I see myself in this picture and I don't like it

    The face you give the DM when you roll a Nat 1
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 04

    How is it a universal concept?

    CAMPAIGN EXPECTATION CAMPAIGN REALITY LICE @_dnd_memes
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 05

    Just one more for good measure

    CAMPAIGN EXPECTATION CAMPAIGN REALITY @_dnd_memes
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 06

    As a DM, I like elaborate character backstories

    DMs about to set off on the long, arduous journey of reading the Party's multiple 17-page backstories @_dnd_memes
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 07

    It's always time to play D&D

    Would you look at the time... @dnd_memes Play D&D
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 08

    Monster bod, buddy

    Adam Levine adamlevine 9:48 AM @_and_memes 9:50 AM Holy f Holy That body of yours is absurd
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 09

    The DM be brewing some trouble

    That look the DM gives you after rolling a ton of dice Д B&D ragens ragons
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 10

    It's the best feeling in the world

    @_dnd_memes I'm the luckiest Man alive I rolled a Nat 20 on my final d th saving throw You're clearly luckier
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 11

    Natural 20 doesn't mean infinate power

    Ok so I roll Persuasion to get the guard to k his companions and set us free @_dnd_memes That's not how a Nat 20 works!
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 12

    A DM is a psychologist, right?

    Explaining to your friends your connection to DnD This is exactly why I don't need therapy.
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 13

    Does anybody actually calculate that?

    Heaviest objects in the universe The sun Neutron star Black hole *The party's PCs if we paid any attention to encumberance whatsoever @_dnd_memes
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 14

    Be more creative with your bards!

    Bard The rest of the party I have an idea! incorrectgotquotes @_dnd_memes Bard No Seducing I no longer have an idea
    via @_dnd_memes | incorrectgotquotes
  • 15

    Followed by: "All normie humans after me."

    No one: My players: I'VE GOT DARKVISION @dnd_memes ISAGI
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 16

    Pretty much how I craft my campaigns

    @_dnd_memes Every fantasy book and TV show I've ever encountered My campaign
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 17

    That's one way to break up your group of players

    @_dnd_memes The DM always having one more mimic in the room than you think there will be Their Players' trust @cardboardcupboard WIZA
    via @_dnd_memes | @cardboardcupboard
  • 18

    That's exactly how my druidbarian friend looks like

    When you multiclass Druid and Barbarian @_dnd_memes
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 19

    Every D&D party got to have at least one YOLO character

    @_dnd_memes Me The rest of the party The obviously cursed magical item I just grabbed
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 20

    Oooooh, demonic kitty, so cute

    Tabaxi Warlocks be like @_dnd_memes
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 21

    The depths Chaotic Neutral can dive into...

    @_dnd_memes LG Paladin Your insolence goes too far! A CN Rogue Wrong. It can go a lot further.
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 22

    Literally the current campaign I'm writing

    SUT 117 LOTR, Anime, The Witcher, etc W @_dnd_memes MI 11/ XI7 AIL 117 "My" Campaign Ideas AL AL AL
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 23

    Warlocks are just frustrated wizards

    Warlocks desperate for a single spell slot @_dnd_memes I'm willing to give Satan my soul right now.
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 24

    Your luck had to turn sometime

    When you've been rolling high for the past turns and suddenly roll a 1 AWM I guess things were just going too well for me.
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 25

    The secret is letting them invent the solution...

    DMs daydreaming about a simpler time before this campaign started while the party argue among themselves about the best way to solve a puzzle a goat could figure out @_dnd_memes
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 26

    Believe it or not, playing a paladin is actually fun

    The Paladin when they hear the Rogue talking about all the rioting and looting they plan to do when they reach the next town @_dnd_memes
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 27

    Just schedule it already!

    Trying to organise a D&D session in a group chat be like @dnd memes
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 28

    It's a serious matter!

    Could you not? DM trying to tell a serious story Jokes
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 29

    D&D is basically kindergarten for adults

    How the party see themselves How the DM sees them @_dnd_memes
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 30

    And you just have to let them roll with it

    DMing a session with lots of role playing, fast-paced combat and story development DMing a session where the players spend 2 hours out-of-character discussing how to start a bank purely so they can disrupt the town's economy out of spite @_dnd_memes
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 31

    Oh, my, that's a way to end a battle

    When your Attack rolls are terrible but your Charisma is off the charts. @dnd_memes 21
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 32

    Necromancers, unite! BYOB (bring your own bodies)

    Necro- -philia -mancy @_dnd_memes
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 33

    Hotter than the sun

    Some of the hottest things in the world @_dnd_memes TAPAT Casting Fireball as a 9th Level spell slot
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 34

    Paladins are problem solvers

    When the Rogue has been annoying you the whole adventure so you turn them in to the City Guard for that murder they did @_dnd_memes Paladin problems require paladin solutions
    via @_dnd_memes
  • 35

    Skipping session zero looks like that

    When the Party makes their characters before they know the setting @_dnd_memes art by @mr_werewolf
    via @_dnd_memes | @mr_werewolf

Want More? Follow Us and Add Us as a Preferred Source on Google.

Tags

hilarious geeky geeky memes gaming funny memes dungeons & dragons d&d memes funny dungeons and dragons
Scroll Down For The Next Article