D&D Gifts: What to Actually Buy the Player in Your Life

Someone in your life has strong opinions about alignment charts and owns more dice than any person could use in one lifetime. Now you have to buy them a present.

Good news: they are genuinely easy to shop for, because this hobby runs on identity. The hard part is that most D&D gift guides are written by people who have never sat at a table, which is how you end up with a list that recommends buying dice to someone who has 200 dice.

This one is written by an actual player. Here is what works, sorted by who you are shopping for.

Start here: are they a player or the DM?

This one question narrows everything down, and most people skip it.

The Dungeon Master runs the game. They prepare for hours, they build the world, they do all the voices, and they absorb their friends derailing three weeks of planning in eleven minutes. They are chronically under-thanked. Gifts that acknowledge the job land hard.

A player shows up, rolls dice, and makes the DM's life interesting. Their identity runs through their character: their class, their alignment, their particular flavour of chaos. Gifts that recognise how they play land hard.

Buy for the wrong one and you get a polite thank you. Buy for the right one and you get the good reaction.

Gifts for the Dungeon Master

The DM does the most work and gets the least merch. Almost anything that says "I see what you do" will land.

If they DM for their kids, the D&D Dad Dungeon Master Shirt is a very specific and very appreciated thing to own.

Browse them all: Dungeon Master Gifts.

Gifts for the player

Players want something that signals who they are at the table. The joke matters more than the product category. Our most-loved designs, by how many people have actually bought them:

Not sure of their alignment or class? Go with something about the feeling of playing rather than a specific build. Long Rest works on absolutely everyone.

Gifts for the partner or family member who plays

This is where the stat block designs earn their keep. Each one reads like a character sheet for a real person, which is a joke and a compliment at the same time.

There is one for basically every relationship: wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, mom, dad, sister, brother, grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, bestie, and plain old friend. All $21.99.

Several also come as shirts, including the Dad, Mom, Wife and Husband versions, if you would rather they wore it than drank from it. The full set lives in D&D Stat Block Gifts.

Gifts for the kid at the table

Family tables are one of the best things happening in this hobby right now.

Matching a kid's shirt to a parent's stat block shirt is a small thing that people lose their minds over. Worth the extra two minutes.

Sorted by budget

Under $25. Mugs. The dice pattern mug, the cat dice mug, the Slay The Day mug, or any of the stat block mugs above. Reliable, used daily, and the recipient thinks of you every morning, which is the whole point of a gift.

$25 to $50. A t-shirt is the sweet spot of this hobby. Or a tote for hauling books and dice to game night: the Bag of Holding, the Dungeon Map tote, or the Houses & Humans tote, all $29.99.

$50 and up. A hoodie at $49.99, or a dice pattern throw blanket at $60. The blanket is the sleeper hit here. It is what they will actually wrap up in during a four hour session.

Worth knowing: shipping is free at three or more items, so three mugs for three different people in your group often costs less than two mugs bought separately.

Four things not to buy

Said with love, from someone who has received all of these.

1. Dice, unless you have seen their collection. Every player owns dice. Most own an amount that would concern a stranger. A dice set is a lovely gift from someone who knows they have been eyeing a specific sharp-edge set in a specific colour, and a slightly awkward one from someone who does not.

2. A starter set for someone who is not a starter. If they have been playing for years, a beginner box reads as "I did not ask a single question about your hobby."

3. A DM screen for someone who does not DM. These are not interchangeable. A player has no use for one, and it quietly says you were not sure which of the two they were.

4. A dice tower they did not ask for. Strong opinions exist about dice towers. Some players consider them essential. Others consider them a personal insult to the act of rolling. You do not want to find out which one your friend is by watching their face.

The safe move if you genuinely do not know: something about identity, not equipment. A shirt about how they play cannot be wrong in the way a piece of gear can.

Still stuck?

A gift card is not a cop-out in a hobby this personal. Let them pick the alignment joke that is actually theirs. Ours is digital, so it arrives instantly, which is also the correct gift for anyone who has waited until the last minute.

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We are a small family-run shop in Pflugerville, Texas, run by people who play. Every design here is our own, and the goblins in the art department are insufferable about it.