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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 was recently approached by a player that I had already done a character illustration for, to paint the same character, but this time in a post battle setting. They also asked if I could include Lae’Zel from BG3.

It was cool to paint another illustration of the same character, Marcus, but in a different pose and lighting. It was tricky getting the armor consistent with the first illustration while being in a different pose, but in the end I feel it worked out well.

Lae’Zel was interesting, as this was my first time doing any art of her, and her armor is very intricate, but I feel I simplified it in a way that made it much easier for me to handle.

The player requested that there be a bit of blood on them and their surroundings, and I figured some arrows and vultures would also be a nice touch.

Overall I’m very pleased with how it all turned out, it was quite different than much of the work I typically do, but I definitely enjoyed it.

The avaricious dragon is the result of a true dragon who takes their obsession with gold to the utmost extreme. By allowing their lust for wealth become all consuming, they transform into a grotesque tyrant who holds personal wealth above all else!

Their breath weapon petrifies enemies into gold statues (to be added to their hoard), and precious metals seem to answer their beck and call as if animated by some magical force projected by the dragon's will. But they aren't entirely without weakness. They are vulnerable to weapons crafted from wood!

The avaricious dragon is one of my favorite pieces commissioned for a 5e/5.5 bestiary I've been writing over the past year, The Game Master's Menagerie of Monsters!

I am so grateful to the artist (Dakota Curry) who reluctantly (but skillfully) painted hundreds of tiny little coins to act as the dragon's scales. Here's a link to Dakota Curry's website/portfolio if you want to check him out! He did all of the art for my book and absolutely crushed it.

The Game Master's Menagerie of Monsters includes;

• 5E/5.5 stat blocks guaranteed to present your adventuring party with challenges they've never faced before.
• Tons of lore and worldbuilding information to ensure each monster feels like a living, breathing, part of your campaign's world.
• Random tables to assist with fleshing out fine details and motivations of each creature.
• Knowledge tables adventurers can roll on when encountering a creature for the first time to determine what they know, or if they roll poorly, what they think they know.

It feels kinda wild to be putting a hardcover D&D book out in 2026 without a Kickstarter or anything, but this book is just going straight to store shelves on February 2nd, 2027. So I have no crowdfunding page to link you to, but if you want to check out the bestiary, here is a link to all the pre-order options for depending on where you live! (If you live outside of Canada, the USA, or the UK, don't worry! Global options will be available soon!)

TL;DR What if a dragon was part of the 0.1% and that gave it magic powers. Also a new bestiary.

So here is a living version of my character As'bel Iscarion. A litch version was the BBEG of my first campaign as a DM. Later played him as a reborn artificer in another campaign. This is As'bel as a human, before he became the cowboy litch BBEG. Animation is made with Heroforge and Photoshop's timeline.

I have an intro animation for a tiefling/aasimar tiwlight cleric I plan on posting in the future.

I have various animations from my Sunday campaign I run and might post them in the future. I was thinking of doing animated commissions, but it's too much work. Hope you all like this one.

You know, the "player brings in a character from their other campaign", "and now (character) tries to flirt with (other character)", "DM makes a whole new magic system", or what have you. (I can't recall all the examples I've heard offhand.)
The stuff where if you're watching or reading DnD horror stories, someone inevitably makes a comment about "do not do this ever" or "I immediately leave the game if this comes up" or something.

For me and my friends, it's definitely DMPCs. I'm basically the forever DM for the most part, (slightly out of necessity rather than choice), and I prefer being a player, so it'd drain my motivation really bad if I didn't get to play alongside my friends like that. I think the biggest reason it works out (aside from everyone's temperament 'n' stuff) is just because the emphasis is on the player character part rather than the DM part.
Everyone else shares their Character Sheets, I do too. Everyone else shows their rolls, I do too. Level ups, gold, relationships, everything else is treated as you would normally treat a regular party. (Sometimes I use my ~Grand Powers as the DM~ to inflict, like...drawbacks on my characters because it's turned out very funny for us. Like, having a character of mine being unable to swim or something. I can imagine some of the things I do for amusement would be a pain for someone else to DM, which is why I bring it up.)
I'm not sure if this would actually work out if our group was larger, but it works great for us currently.

Y'all have any examples of that sort of thing?

I 3D printed these Bulettes on my Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra 16k, models are from Rescale Miniatures. (Formerly Lord of the Print.) I made one proper game size for Dungeons and Dragons, the other I scaled up to make a display model.

Base coated and highlighted with acrylics, enamel washes for tinting and shading. Base is dry pigment, real sand and gravel (augmenting the 3D printed base) and enamels with acrylic highlighting. These sculpts are so cool, knew I had to print some up when I saw them. Lots of fun to paint!

She was my first ever DnD character. Drawn entirely by mouse.

The Forge of Faith

A short-statured dwarf with an imposing presence, accustomed to both the heat of the forge and the battlefield. Her long, braided red hair frames a young and determined face, while small braids and metal ornaments reinforce her connection to dwarven tradition. She wears heavy armor adapted for mobility, combining protective plates with leather, fabric, and blue bands. Over her chest, she bears the symbol of her faith, and her equipment blends religious elements with the tools of a blacksmith.

Her primary weapon is a forge hammer modified for combat. Originally built for shaping iron and steel, the tool was reinforced and fitted with a much larger head, eventually becoming a brutal weapon. The hammer's weight does not hinder her; where other warriors need a sword, she simply hits harder.

As a cleric, her relationship with the divine is deeply connected to the ideas of forging, repairing, and protecting. She believes that people, much like metal, can be broken by the world, but can also be rebuilt. Her faith is expressed less through words and more through actions: protecting her companions, standing firm in the face of danger, and transforming what once seemed useless into something resilient.

Arrigal Yevkos

Class - Rogue (bastard)

Subclass - assassin

He's a sarcastic dummy. he's impulsive, he's rough and tumble and when he has his eye on something, he gets it.

And he cares deeply about the few he gets close to, his brother Luvash and neice Arabelle, and is a leader of the Vistani peoples. he has a red ribbon, as those are Vistani colors.

He gained a black raven familiar named Gwyndolin. which just so happens to be Grim's mate (Elemira's white raven familiar i posted her some time ago).

Thank you guys for looking at my work!

Right now, i'm accepting commissions for the autumn season. If you're interested send me a dm for details!

Find more of me here:

Insta:

https://www.instagram.com/stamatis\_karystinos?stkn=MTNlYnlsNmRuN2h2Yw==

Artstation:

https://spite_spitfire.artstation.com/

My sweet baby Iski just had her 21st birthday in-game and our party's paladin bought her this lovely outfit & taught her to dance. It was a very sweet moment.

Unfortunately, Iski is a warlock (who thought she was a cleric for a very long time), and supposedly meant to "bring revelation" for Moander's cause. All her magic is rot and decay themed, and if she can't get out of this pact in time, Moander's will and their rot might just end up consuming her like an ant infested with cordyceps.....

Anyway. I drew her birthday present, and future! :) hope y'all like! (Open the image to see the full thing, it's a weird size)

Was watching an interview with Timothy Brown (one of Dark Sun's original designers) and he mentioned that when Wizards bought TSR, he and Troy Denning actually tried to buy Dark Sun back for themselves rather than let it just sit in WotC's hands.
Given that Dark Sun is finally getting an official return, it's wild to think how differently things could've gone if that had worked out. Anyone know more about how close that actually got, or why it fell through?

Two examples being Phandelver and Below and Curse of Strahd.

I think they provide great skeletons of adventures, but as soon as I ran my first session of Strahd and someone said "Who is the Morninglord, Donavich?" I realized how little the book actually gave me.

Phandelver and Below constantly has NPCs never mentioned before just appearing, doing 1 thing, then disappearing. Requires a lot of elbow grease to re-write some of them to show up earlier, and some to just remove entirely and replace with a different NPC who the party already knows.

So are there any adventures where you don't have to do all of this? Like you can just open the book, and run the adventure?