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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.

There is a Bonus Action named Steady Aim, and it says it says "As a Bonus Action, you give yourself Advantage on your next attack roll on the current turn. You can use this feature only if you haven’t moved during this turn, and after you use it, your Speed is 0 until the end of the current turn."

So we get advantage by giving up our movement.

AND

Sneak Attack damage ability says "You know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe’s distraction. Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack roll if you have Advantage on the roll and the attack uses a Finesse or a Ranged weapon. The extra damage’s type is the same as the weapon’s type."

So it can be done with any attack with advantage.

SO

Does this mean we can give ourselves a free Sneak Attack on an enemy without an ally attacking them from melee or us hiding from them?

The spell itself seems pretty fine/balanced, and its roleplay-wise also great in terms of it fits her character and her background, I'm just wondering if its okay to allow my players to homebrew their own spells/equipments and if thats a slippery slope.

Here's the spell btw:
Minds That Meld

3rd-level Enchantment

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

All alive were born of a Single Consciousness. You reach into the minds of nearby creatures and temporarily return them to the cosmic awareness, intertwining their senses.

Choose a point you can see within range. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet of that point must make a Wisdom saving throw.

Melded Enemies

On a failed save, a creature becomes Melded for the duration.

While Melded, the creature involuntarily receives fragments of the sensory experiences of every other Melded creature. It hears sounds that its allies hear, sees flashes from their perspectives, and feels sensations that do not belong to it.

A Melded creature has disadvantage on attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Additionally, whenever a Melded creature makes an attack roll or casts a spell that targets a creature, it must roll a d4. On a 1, the creature must choose a different legal target, if one is available.

At the end of each of its turns, a Melded creature can repeat the Wisdom saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Sympathetic Meld

Alternatively, you can cast this spell targeting one willing creature within 30 feet.

For the duration, you and the willing creature share your senses. Whenever either of you makes an attack roll or ability check, you can choose to have advantage or disadvantage on the roll.

When one of you chooses advantage, the other creature receives disadvantage on its next attack roll or ability check before the end of its next turn.

The two of you cannot benefit from both advantage and disadvantage on the same roll.

The spell ends for both creatures if either creature moves more than 60 feet from the other.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you can target one additional willing creature with Sympathetic Meld for each slot level above 3rd.

For a little bit of context I'm a baby dnd player, i have only played a one shot once with an experimented dm who was showing people how to play in dnd. Since then i've been trying lightheartedly to find people to play dnd with. A week or so ago i joined a discord server and a person messaged me in private asking if i was intrested in joining a campaign (which is a big yes, very much so.)

But something feels weird. The player who asked me told me that it was a free campaign and that the only thing to pay for was the artist to draw our characters (which is entirely valid). She asked me to contact the dm, which i did. I explained that it would be my actual first campaign and that i might need help with creating a character and have a lot of questions and the dm was chill about it.

But it felt odd when he almost immediately asked about the payment for the artist. He gave me a few example pictures and the art is nice and all (not exactly my jam but it's okay) and when i mentioned that i wouldn't be able to pay much this month (and that i didn't have much money right now) he already went on about instalments to pay now and i had to explain that i get payed monthly and not weekly. The commission for the artist is 30$ as insurance and 69$ later when the commission is done. I'm not exactly fond of the art but it's the dm's campaign so he can choose who he wants especially since it's to be coherent in the art style for everyone.

It only feels odd now for me because he doesn't answer my messages at all. In the mornings i don't expect answers since we're in different time zones but i had a question for my character creation (because i've been doing research on the internet) and he hasn't been answering at all for a few days. I feel like it's kinda weird especially with the fact that he isn't on the server i met his friend in..

Since i'm new to dnd and all i don't know if it's normal or not and honestly i'm getting a little scared since i don't know those people. I haven't talked with them before i was asked about the campaign in private messages out of the discord server i joined.

Sorry about this long message, i'm just anxious and i hoped more experienced people here might be able to help me.

I recently ran my first ever session as a DM and during that session I accidentally placed a building that was supposed to have a secret basement on a „floating market” that just consists of a bunch of huge wooden rafts tied together and floating on water at the coastline with some market stands on it. The problems here are A: An actual building is way too heavy for the floating market and B: it’s impossible to have a basement when the building is on a raft on the water. I can’t just move the building because I had an npc show my players the location of the building on a map. How tf do I fix this?

Not many run into a monk from The Two Stone Monastery. But they always leave a lasting impression.

The Two Stones was founded on two principles:
1) Growth and self-actualization comes from the soul, not the gods.
2) Pain grants us power. Power comes from pain. We use this pain for the betterment of ourselves and others.

Based on these two principles, monks of The Two Stones travel the lands, searching for areas where imbalance is detected. The level of assistance can be as simple as working with farmers during a food shortage or as difficult as guiding the community in matter's of state. Frequently, they will work against the church or cults who are active in the area, since they are antithetical to the monk's core beliefs. Whatever choices they make, they tend to leave the area better than when they found it.

Sybil was once a student of the Two Stones but left before graduation. The level of difficultly, and the risk of death or disfigurement from the graduation trial, proved too much for them. They left to travel alone. Currently, they works as a courier. Delivering mail and packages to area's where mail cannot be easily sent to. Sybil still consider themselves a practicing member of The Two Stones, but is a lot more grounded to communities and people compared to her brother's and sisters. Rather than focus on the big picture, she tends to work more on individuals. Helping them overcome pain or self imposed obstacles. Her work tends to send her to isolated areas where communities might be in need of a local therapist.

I'm a fairly new DM, I've run multiple short campaigns now but I still haven't been doing it for very long so I haven't picked up all the tricks yet. Recently during a session the party was exploring a cave near some ruins and one of them found a sword, they asked who owned the sword previously so I rattled off a quick "Upon closer inspection of the blade you notice a very rough and misspelled engraving, property of Bucket." My bad. I'd thought that'd satisfy them and we'd move on, except then they wanted to know who Bucket was, was Bucket a man or a woman, was bucket a humanoid, when did Bucket leave the sword here, etc. Obviously I didn't write deep lore dedicated to a random loot item so I basically kept saying "Nothing else about the sword stands out to you" hoping they'd decide to continue exploring, but the questions kept coming and it became repetitive.

I don't like breaking the roleplay or messing with a good vibe at the table so I just kept repeating myself until they eventually got bored and moved onto other stuff, but I was wondering if anyone has advice on dealing with it next time? It's a repeat thing with the group, they're new friends and some work with my partner so I don't wanna ever handle anything in a way that makes work awkward for him, but it's getting kind of exhausting from my end. Especially since I'm a parent and DnD is my time to decompress from their constant questions haha

Any and all advice is super appreciated, cheers!

Grab your friends around a table or sit on the floor.

Make a village with Watabou's Village Generator. Refresh the screen until it is a shape that interests you. If you don't like the name, edit in your own name. Save it. Make screen shots. Print it out.

Not everyone has to be born from there but they are there for a reason. Let the players know 3 problems the village is dealing with that adventurers could help solve.

They can be simple but they don't have to be easy. Don't try to reinvent the wheel, here.

Some Problems

1. Bandits
2. Hobgoblin Empire
3. Dragon is awakening
4. Griffons
5. Warring dukes
6. Tieflings and Dragonborn warring again

Or you can just list these 6 problems and say they are all happening. Maybe I like that best? Hm.

Perilous Shores by Watabou, make the continent. Hit refresh until you like it. Edit names as needed. Put the village above on the map. Save it. Make screen shots. Print it out.

Get the players started making characters. Talk about the map, write down notes, ask questions, write down answers.

While the players use the map, make a dungeon, a cavern and a dwelling. Make them fit one of the village's problems. Save them. Make screen shots. Print them out.

What is the nearest city with Watabou's City Generator. Make a city if you want to. Did someone come from the city or does someone just love fantasy cities? Cool. Talk about the city. Save it. Make screen shots. Print it out.

Start playing with the dungeon, cavern or dwelling. Play today. Nothing is forever. We are mortal, finite creatures.

Did you have fun?

Support Watabou. I don't know who Watabou is; I only know that these resources have made my gaming better. I hope they help you too.

I just DMed my first session! It was really fun and I learned a lot, but I’m getting a bit caught on how to keep the combat sequences immersive. I have one player who’s quite new to DnD, and I want to help her figure out the playing mechanics without completely breaking the scene. Any tips?

I've had a character idea for a while now, but I wanted to be a Minotaur (species) 'raised' (for lack of a better term) among frost giants with the giant foundling background and eventually the Rune Knight subclass.

I say raised but the character would have been more of a thrall; Giant society does not allow for non-Giants to be recognized or respected in the sense that other Giants are, and frost giants especially would keep them as slaves more than anything.

I'm still a little short on details, but my character would be used as a work hand, a source of entertainment (thinking gladiator style) and help with navigation due to the labyrinthine recall trait. Their name being Boliblót with boli being norse for bull, and blót being a norse tradition for offerings and sacrifices to the gods among other festivities. Of course the names' origins are not known to my character. This is not to say it was exclusively bad, the Giants provided a shelter, food and protection regardless of the quality.

Now the largest plot hole that sparked me making this post, is well, frost giants are FROST giants. They live in frigid regions where in game play standards you'd have to roll for exhaustion potentially leading to instant death after 5 failed rolls. Minotaurs would not typically live in these regions and the only thing alluding to their potential survival is the mention of thick hair on their upper torsos and head. I'm also unfamiliar with how warm clothing works in DnD, is it just something you can wear under armor? otherwise it would seem like an oversight for a minotaur raised in the tundra to be showing up in chainmail.

Is there some reasonable solution to this plot hole? Or is a solution unneeded and the backstory already seems "reasonable" enough?