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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.

Happened in my game last night. I got killed by a lich casting power word kill. A few rounds later when the lich was dispatched the paladin attempted to cast revivify on my corpse, and the lich's henchman counterspelled it.

The other players were a little surprised, as was I.

Then the henchman dimension doored away, and the paladin cast it successfully, but at the tune of my last diamonds (I am the party's Cleric).

Resources are scarce in the campaign, so having to burn two diamonds to bring a player back to life is painful.

I've never experienced such a thing.

Just wondering if any of you have ever had this happen to you before or experienced it at one of your tables?

*Edited for typo.

**This is 5e not 5.5 sorry I did not specify this when I first posted.

***I was killed in a surprise round, so no initiative roll

It would make more logical sense - looking at history, the skeletons of medieval archers are actually deformed because of their constant muscle straining working with longbows. Heavy ranged weapons are NOT elegant weapons - they are very difficult to work with and use, and require immense strength. Also, from the gameplay perspective, Strength is very under-utilized, while Dexterity is over-utilized, and maybe it's time to "balance the scales" a little bit. Also, it would open up the door for heavily armored archer builds in DnD - I don't know any RPG that does that. It's always: archers are "lithe and graceful". Just a quick look back at history proves how misguided that is. What do you guys think?

EDIT: I'm seeing the same argument over and over again, saying that this would make ranged martial characters depend on both strength and dexterity, but if what if their hit chance was also changed to strength, with heavy ranged weapons specifically? They wouldn't need dexterity anymore. Logically, it would also make sense - strength would help you keep your aim steady with a heavy weapon. Now you might be thinking, what if I like dexterity, and want the advantages of a heavy ranged weapon? They could easily introduce new weapons that increase the damage more based on dexterity. Now that the Arcana Unleashed book came out, it would be logical for the next book to be oriented on the martial classes, and NOW would be the perfect time to look at things like new weapons.

EDIT #2: Now, I'm seeing a lot of comments saying: "What about rangers? They still need DEX". This might be a little controversial, but in my opinion, rangers should be completely re-designed from the ground up again. I know they just did that, but I think they missed the mark.

asking this cause i have a mind flayer friendly npc and wanted to know if a colony could just go by and take him back, and if there's a way to prevent it from happening

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So the Makeship campaign for the Trevor and Grogna plushies have both reached 200 units, meaning that they will be entering production and ship out in early December! Congratulations to everyone that pre-ordered so far, and to me because I get a bit of money, which goes toward supporting my dumbass decision to abandon my Law career for the life of a struggling (relative to my previous work in government service) artist!

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I've seen a couple of youtube videos about clerics that mention offhand that after wisdom, you should sink points into your constitution score. Yet I've seen videos on youtube also talking about how it's not all that helpful to have a high constitution score because it won't help your hit points all that much unless you max it out and it's not something you typlically have to roll against. (at least this is what my understanding of what they were saying.)

Can anyone explain why this is recommended?

Edit: I appreciate the overwhelming response that this was totally a dumb question or dumb thing to consider 😂 thanks guys, my Cleric will not neglect their con ability and I’m sure my party will appreciate this fact. 🥲

We play as a rogue, wizard, sorcerer, and barbarian team
When we’re out of combat, I am able to do basic intelligence checks and even study the enemies mid combat, but that’s really about it.
The source are on the other hand, has the ability to cast stronger spells with the meta magic. I feel like in general their spells are always doing more than mine. Despite the fact that we have around the same power spells, it’s just the meta-magic that makes a difference
And they had the ability to talk to anyone.
It gets to the point where if I have a good idea, I have to message it to the source for so he could say it because I have a minus to charisma.

I’ve never played a wizard before so I may be doing it wrong and the DM will allow me to respec somewhat if we have an issue with our character

I've played dnd for a while now, but I struggle a lot with roleplaying.

I don't need advice like "just think what your character would do", it doesn't help because I overthink. And I don't know how to improvise and I suck with imagination because of my literal thinking. And I struggle with words overall even tho I know what to say and do.

So give your, maybe stupid, tips to improve your roleplaying.

This story begins, as all good stories do, late at night. I opened my usual DnD group chat, only to see a drawing from my DM of a new character she created for a different campaign (one separate from this group, I'll add for the sake of clarity).

Her character was a squat, serious Old West-looking gnome man with a bushy white mustache and overalls -- she described him as a grave cleric gravekeeper who takes his job very seriously. But the completely unserious part was the gravestone illustrated beside said gnome cleric, engraved with a name that will live in infamy one day (probably): Chunt Grugly.

Little did my DM know at the time, but that name...Chunt Grugly -- well, it would spark shenanigans that would last perhaps a lifetime, or at least well into the next day's game.

For some much-needed background info, our group is small with just the DM and two players, including me. But having only a few members has allowed us to actually schedule games consistently for well over two years. We've got one long, serious(ish) campaign that spans all that time...aaaand we've got a few silly, mostly unrelated ones scattered along the way.

So, my fellow player (who I'll affectionately call Late (as she is often late)) and I started riffing off Chunt Grugly's name, bantering back and forth a bit in the chat, pretending to be his brothers, Khunt and Chump. It seemed harmless and, at the time, it was.

The next day arrives, and all seems well -- we have standing plans for our usual Thursday game at 6pm, as per usual. Then Late messages me. I'm intrigued. She suggests showing up to the session as Khunt and Chump, a small prank in a sort of payback for last week's session, wherein our lovely DM was insultingly unimpressed by our surprise flying boots and fireball bard level-up reveal. She told us to try harder if we wanted to impress her...and those words were echoing in my head when I said to Late, "Wish I could learn to DM in an afternoon so I could force her to play with you instead," followed closely by my hairbrained "Hear me out..."

So, starting at 2:53pm, I began my mad dash to become a DM with a one-shot campaign that (hopefully) wouldn't get me disowned. The premise was obviously centered around Chunt, who I decided to make the darling of an Old West almost-ghost town called Copper Rush. Late would play his brother, Chump, and my DM, unbeknownst to her, was going to play her new grave domain cleric for the very first time.

6pm rolled around, and I logged on and made small talk with my DM while Late hung back a bit so she wouldn't be suspiciously on time and blow our cover.

Then, at 6:08pm, the coup began. Instead of waiting for my DM to start the game as she always does by asking if we have our dice, I beat her to the punch and asked, "Does everyone have their dice?"

My DM replied, "Hey, that's usually my line!"

"Not today!" I said, absolutely steamrolling in with an audacious amount of gumption to read them both my intro and drop them into Copper Rush. This was possible only due to her momentary stunned confusion at being perhaps the first DM to be on the receiving end of a benevolent coup -- before she knew it, she was a gnome grave cleric locked in a pokey with a barbarian named Chump, about to be approached by the mayor about a rescue mission to find poor Chunt Grugly.

This is a good time, I'd reckon, to tell everyone that Late and I were fully willing to let our DM veto the fuck out of us at this time. But she's a rule-of-cool DM through and through, and she allowed it. And so began my first foray into DMing, done in much the same style as the Spanish Inquisition.

The game ran...smoothly. Incredibly smoothly. We laughed, some cried, and even the BBEG got theirs in a satisfying fashion. I cannot tell you if that's because I can somehow DM quite well or, more likely, due to our close bonds and excellent teamwork. Either way, we finished exactly on time by the grace of the DnD gods or something, and everyone, including Chunt, lived happily ever after.

TLDR: I stole our usual DnD session and popped my DM cherry on the fly for the sake of surprising my incredibly unflappable, rule-of-cool DM with a prank oneshot that went suspiciously well, thus concluding an incredibly successful coup centered around a presumed dead man named Chunt Grugly.

This is a dice tower I designed and built in 2022. It was originally made for my D&D group and the Lego D&D contest, but I didn’t finish it in time for the contest, and my group also fell apart before I could build it, so I never really used it much.

The dice go from the slide on the top of the tower and follow the steps all the way down and out the door. The little windows on the side follow the path of the dice.