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Ah, travelers! We don't get many such as you in these parts, not since the Marquis' men took control of the pass. I suppose you're wondering why you can't post images or links on this Fifthday?

Thursdays are Text-post Only Days on /r/DnD. We're disabling picture and link posts for 24 hours to encourage discussion posts.

We originally began this trial about six months ago and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. I've personally enjoyed a lot of the conversations that have sprung up on these days (and a smarter mod would have bookmarked some of them to use as examples* in this post).

As of now we're planning on keeping the experiment running indefinitely. We're always looking for feedback, so please let us know of your experience. Have you been enamored with a discussion post that arose one Thursday? Have you mourned having to wait one more day to see your comic update? We welcome all takes.

The switch is still happening manually, so it will happen around about midnight Eastern US time. If anyone is aware of a way to automate the process, please message the mods.

Perhaps you could discuss this...we've heard tale of a path through the eastern ridge. If such a trail exists we could circumvent the Marquis' blockade and supply this rebellion. Won't you help us, strangers!?

* The first Thursday after making this post, someone posts the most classic question imaginable. This is what it's all about.

My DM absolutely broke me this session.

My characters (a bard) parents were killed for their musical instruments. She has mudered the killers, and is now seeking answers as to why they were killed in the first place. We had an awesome combat round where my character finally locates her mother's lyre. A voice echoed out after touching the lyre and my dm had a recording ready. I was so excited to hear the lore. As soon as I heard the voice my face and heart just fell.

It was my long distance best friend (who I NEVER get to see) playing my characters mother. I couldn't contain myself when she started saying how much my I (my character) means to her and she's sorry she didn't get to tell me more about our life story. She ended with "Never forget, we love you so so much" and I was a ball of tears and snot on the floor.

I love my DM 🥹❤️

I was researching dragons for a characters backstory and wanted to look through the monster manual to see what features the different dragons have and which ones could be relevant to my story.

But when I looked at the Adult red dragon I couldn't believe my eyes when I didn't find Frightful presence, one of the most iconic and interesting features of John Dungeons and Dragons.

The only still existing version of Frightful presence is now reserved for the Adult black dragon as it can cast the 3rd level spell Fear.

A beast so Legendary and powerful that just it's mere proximity strikes fear in everything that can perceive it. Reduced to a lvl 5 spellcaster.

I think a dragons frightful presence is as iconic as its breath weapon and taking either away or simplifying it to a low level spell is taking a lot of flavor out of all the dragons. Especially since there are multiple dragon related features that are based on the frightful presence in previous dnd editions.

I know this was an attempt to make dragons/ monsters easier and each dragon more unique but I don't really see how taking away this iconic feature significantly helps either.

For martial classes I know that it will probably be a Echo knight or barbarian who can do the most, and for Spell classes I have no idea, but I was wondering how many attack could a character do in 1 turn or round, I know that a base fighter can do 9 at lvl 20 which is like 1 attack per 0.7 seconds, but just in general how many attacks can you do in 1 turn as a PC.

She comes from a tribe in the swamps and her tibe uses bones to make clothing and stuff :)
This is my fav outfit I have made for her so far :D

She is also a Cavalier Fighter! She dose have a horse too and her name is Iris of the Night! I wanna draw them fighting but im not good at drawing horses yet -w-*

At the moment- She dosen't get to have her tribal clothing on cause she is stuck with people who she hasnt had much of a chance to bond with. Love the party so far but we all seem to have very diffrent mind sets when it comes to bonding haha.

I can't wait to draw more outfits for her as i have had a lot of fun trying to come up with cool things to do with her tribe and how they live in the swamps that is ruled over a old black dragon. I think my dm made him one of the oldest dragons in the setting but i forgot :p

Sorry if i messed anything up- I kinda struggle when it comes to adding descriptions to my art.

Thanks for reading! :3

Hello everyone!

I haven't posted on here, or reddit in general for a good while, some very heavy stuff went down in my personal life but off socials I'm still a very prolific career TTRPG artist.

I've had this idea for a good while, and I took some of the little free time and energy I have left to whip up this medieval woodcut style tattoo idea of one of my most beloved characters. My habitual tattoo artist is running a charity walk-in event in October so I HAD to book them to tat her on my back forever! I can't wait!

A little gift to celebrate reaching 200 supporters! I’ve created a new background inspired by the D&D campaign I’m playing, full of that sense of adventure and discovery that I love ✨

Rami and Shae approach a tower after days of walking. Strangely, it features the same crystals as Shae’s illness—a sign that they’re on the right path.

But what’s hiding down there? I’ll have to wait and see what the Dungeon Master has come up with 😂👀

Dressed in a sleek dark outfit with sharp crimson accents, tall laced boots, a dragon-entwined staff, and sporting subtle facial scales this character design came together so cleanly! A huge thank you to my private client for bringing this concept to me and trusting me with their vision. Working through the outfit details, custom staff, and draconic traits was such a rewarding process from start to finish.

If you ever want to bring your own D&D character or campaign idea to life, feel free to drop into my DMs anytime : )

My first time DMing. It was a a great learning experience.

What I planned:

- Party had to abandon ship for unknown reason.
- Party washed up on a pair of deserted islands.
- 1.5 hours of exploring and roleplay on the islands.
- Set up some puzzles for them to solve with visual and verbal hints.
- Maybe they build a raft to go to the other island or try to swim to the other island.
- 1.5 hours in, a pirate ship would appear and it would trigger combat
- Party should be able to overcome the pirates in about one hour.
- The final half hour would be them exploring the pirate ship.

What actually happened.

First Session:

- One character managed to ride a shark to the other island.
- Found a treasure chest full of gold.
- They aggroed the animals on the islands.
- Spent more than half of the first session fighting the animals.
- One character almost died after getting bitten by a shark.
- End off session by allowing them to take a long rest.

Second Session:

- Players woke up from long rest
- Half of them almost fought each other over the gold they found.
- The other half explored the two islands.
- Found a Bag of Holding on a dead body that washed ashore.
- One party member healed a shark they fought in the last session turning the shark friendly.
- I finally made the pirate ship appear.
- Party attacked the pirates before they set foot ashore triggering combat.
- Rest of session was combat.
- Had to end session mid-combat due to time constraints

Third Session:

- Continue combat where we left off
- Another character almost died.
- 1/2 to 2/3 of the session was that combat.
- Party finally finished off the pirates.
- Spent some more time exploring the islands even though I kept on hinting about the ship.
- Even though there were 3 row boats for five of them, 3 of them tried to sit in one rowboat. Failed.
- Party member rolled very well, earlier mentioned healed Shark is basically a friendly puppy now.
- Party member asked if they could keep the shark as a pet. I told them we'll roll for it later.
- FINALLY made it onto the ship.
- One final enemy on the ship.
- Managed to persuade enemy to stand down. He's friendly now I guess.
- Found and old woman who the pirates kept caged as a cook/cleaner.
- Old woman proceeded to start cooking them a meal.
- Pirate-turned-ally tried to help old woman cook.
- Finally explored the Captain's Quarters.
- Had to end the session there due to time.

What I planned for one session took them three sessions to complete.

They did so many things I did not expect them to do.

They ignored the, what was obvious to me, visual and verbal hints in how to solve the puzzles I set up.

They solved puzzles in ways I did not expect them to be solved.

Instead of having just one NPC join the party, I guess we now have two NPCs and one pet shark.

Lesson learned. Nothing ever goes as planned.

Good news is I don't need to do any prep for a few of weeks.

Edit:

I have to add this is in;

One of my players appears to be a compulsive hoarder. Player will keep practically anything the player finds no matter how worthless I try to describe those items to be.

Art Commission – Sefone

A half-elf lore bard who grew up in a family that cared for the catacombs of the city.

Always waring ceremonial robes, she not only uses her songs to heal mourning hearts, but to bring spirits to her aid. The sound of her ocarina can be the last thing you hear before death, and the first thing you hear after it.

I really liked using some Mesoamerican visual references in the construction of this one!

Tell me if you like this approach to design a character such as her!