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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.

I (22 F) have been playing DnD with this group for almost two years now. We just finished a rough campaign where my character, the secret traitor of the group betrayed our group for an evil goverment organization, with the other player's characters ending up getting experimented on by my character, who was a doctor/scientist.
After that was over the same DM (24 M) wanted to dm again, but in the same world and setting (post apocalyptic fictional island riddled with undead and mutants) just with new characters. Now, to give more context in the last campaign I was the only woman, not to mention I made my character be a plus size lady. That earned me a whole lot of sexistic and fatphobic jokes which I tried to laugh along with while lowkey dying inside.
Anyway, since I didn't feel comfortable playing a guy just to fit in, I decided to make a nonbinary character. I already drafted up their design. They're a somewhat femme presenting person with no real focus on sexuality or gender (Again, the setting is post apocalypse, ain't noone tryna look like the Tomb Raider).

So I send my draft to the dm with a picture of the character and just the summary of the class and the fun fact about them being non-binary. His first response is "Bruh" before adding "Why not make things complicated?" I was confused, thinking he didn't like my choice of a class, which ig fair, we still needed a medic and leader, but given that I was the medic last campaign, I didn't want a repeat. So I asked what exactly was complicated and what could be complicated about a non-binary character. I just saw it as a shift in grammar and not just being seen as "The girl" of the group. His response about the issue is "How to reffer to you? How will the others react to you?" Which is annoyingly vague and leaves me wondering if he was reffering to the other players or the NPC's. I gave him my suggestions to how NPC's could call out to my character and then he goes "Right, but then one will go 'That lady' and your character will loose it and go on a rant about misgendering and not identifying as female."

The whole interaction overall left me feeling bitter about the whole thing. I just wanted to step out of my comfort zone in roleplay while also giving myself more of a chance to blend in with the group. But now I'm second guessing everything. I don't want to back down so easily at the first pushback, but I also don't want to make it a whole annoying thing. But at the same time it really sucks that the last message he sent is "Like I told the others, ok, go ahead, but control yourself" which I have no idea how to interpret.

Am I overreacting?

We recently wrapped up our final day of games aboard the Event.Cruises D20 Cruise to Bermuda, and it was an incredible experience from start to finish. We shared unforgettable adventures, rolled a lot of dice, and created some amazing memories together with an awesome community of players and GMs.

I had the chance to run two very different groups during the trip. One campaign followed a pirate crew searching for a hidden treasure to fulfill their captain’s dying wish. Their journey eventually led them to a mysterious hidden island filled with vast treasures, ancient dangers, and the discovery of a powerful wish orb that could change the fate of the seas.

The second group found themselves trapped aboard a cursed cruise ship. During the day, every cursed passenger believed it was their very first day setting sail. But when night fell, the passengers transformed into horrifying monsters who remembered every terrible event from the last 100 years aboard the ship. The players had to investigate the mystery during the daylight hours and survive the horrors that emerged each night.

I did the Invincible meme with my DnD party, and this was way too funny to draw. I was laughing the entire time while making it.

Don’t ask questions about the catgirl’s gadget. It’s her main weapon and somehow the strongest weapon in the party, but nobody wants to touch it for very obvious reasons. It’s her weapon, after all.

Maybe I’ll do one for my other DnD party too, where I somehow ended up playing 3 characters at the same time. Roleplaying as 3 orcs at once is honestly hilarious. These Invincible memes are just too funny not to draw.

Race: Dark Elf
Gender: Female
Age: 297
Class: Trickery Domain Cleric
Level: 8

This character is a cleric of Lolth, dedicated to worshipping specifically his domain of betrayal.

She has devoted her entire life to the worship of her deity, sowing betrayal and misunderstanding among friends, allies, and lovers, all to please her.Everything within her reach is an instrument of evil: a knife, a word, and even her own body can bring about the destruction of a relationship and even bloodshed.She is ruthless when drunk and even more cruel when sober.

After betraying her Mother Superior in the temple, she now roams freely to continue pleasing her deity.

Players are walking down a hall in a dungeon. Rogue's passive perception picks up some random scrapes on the floor. Rogue then rolls and the DM says, definitely scrapes but try as you might, you can't locate any secret door mechanism.
Queue players puzzling out the trick.
As they're thinking and trying things they're attacked by bad guys...

Because, you see, it's not a secret door at all, just some scrapes the bad guys left to slow people down and give them time to muster their forces and attack.

OR

What if they're literally just scrapes (red herring)? DC 20 check. Player makes it DM says: they appear to be just scrapes, you find no door or mechanism.

Is one or both of these a jerk move?

I am working on a dungeon and would like to throw some interesting challenges at the players...but I don't want them to be un fun or to be a nozzle about it.

As a wizard player, how often do you hope to find scrolls or spell books to copy from while playing? As a DM with a wizard in your game, how often do you give them out?

I’ve been playing in a game and we’re about to hit session 25. Been plying since level 3, now hitting level 6. The game is amazing but one thing I’m not the biggest fan of is that there’s a distinct lack of scrolls or other spell books or sources for me to copy from. We’ve come across two scrolls so far.
One was for a spell I couldn’t copy so it went to the cleric. The other was one that I actively went out and tried to find at a shop, and had to roll for and it was found for story reasons not for more power essentially. We’ve faced a lot of spell casting enemies but none of them seem to need a spellbook. I’m also not picky about what scrolls I find. I don’t actively search for particular spells to copy, but am happy to take whatever I’m given and make use of them. I take the spells I want as my level up options.

The DM is very chill and has a great relationship with everyone in the game so I’m not nervous to speak with them and ask to talk about the situation, and I plan to do it before next session. More so just curious how often you want to find scrolls as a wizard?

In the ash-choked valleys beneath the Black Crag Mountains, the goblins of the Carrion Wing tribe feared only one thing more than fire: silence. For where silence ruled, the crows no longer spoke — and without the crows, death came unseen.

Among them was a crooked, hollow-eyed goblin named Skritch.

Born during a blood moon eclipse, Skritch entered the world clutching a dead raven feather in his tiny clawed fist. The tribe’s elders called him cursed and tried to cast him into the swamp. But before they could, a murder of crows descended from the sky, pecking out the eyes of two shamans and scattering the tribe in panic. The message was clear.

The crows had claimed the child.

Skritch grew up among bone totems, smoke fires, and whispering wings. He rarely spoke to other goblins, preferring instead the company of the black-feathered flock that followed him everywhere. The crows brought him secrets: where enemies marched, where corpses rotted beneath the mud, where forgotten spirits lingered in ruins older than memory.

As years passed, Skritch learned the forbidden rites of the Crow Shamans — an ancient goblin tradition older than kings and empires. He painted his skin with ash and crow blood, wore necklaces of polished beaks, and carried a staff crowned with a living raven skull whose eyes glowed blue at night.

The tribe began to fear him.

They said he could steal memories with a glance. That he spoke to the dead through the throats of birds. That every crow in the valley shared a single soul, and Skritch was its prophet.

But the truth was worse.

Deep within the mountains slept the Hollow King, a forgotten spirit of famine and decay. The crows were not merely messengers; they were its watchers. And Skritch, chosen since birth, was destined to become the bridge between the living world and the endless black sky where the Hollow King dreamed.

On the longest night of winter, Skritch climbed the ancient gallows hill overlooking the tribe’s camp. Thousands of crows gathered above him, blotting out the moon. The wind carried their screams across the valley like a storm of knives.

The goblins watched in terror as Skritch raised his bone staff and began the Rite of Unfeathering.

One by one, the crows fell from the sky — dead at his feet.

And then they rose again.

Not as birds.

But as shadows with wings.

I've been thinking this over for days...

So far, I've tried to match words that follow the theme of [characterization of element] + [what it does] in single syllable words so it sounds natural. For example, fire licks at wood before it catches, frost imprints a pattern onto things when it freezes

Running with that train of thought I thought that "Stormfall" was ok for air, but I have nothing for earth

please help