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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.

All three players have come back with just great reasons why their character actually didn’t grow up here… Not sure what I was expecting, really.

A little background; I'm new, like this is my first campaign with a party, and we're playing online. I've played a few sessions with a friend of mine who is teaching me mechanics, but for the most part, playing D&D is new to me.

The group I'm playing with is pre established. They have been playing together for a few months and needed someone to fill in for someone who couldn't play anymore. We finished my first day where the group finished an encounter and ended by meeting my character. The group leveled up and was picking their subclasses. I'm playing a monk, and so is one of my party members. I asked them how they were doing so much damage at level 2 and they showed me how she changed unarmed strike to 2d6+dex instead of the basic 1+dex like I've seen written everywhere else. It also looks exactly like a martial arts hit, which, by itself wouldn't be an issue. It's where they're dealing damage for two or more martial arts hits a turn due to monk mechanics and making fights seem trivial.

The other monk may not know what they are doing, or worse, they do.

Now being that I'm super new, I'm hesitant to bring it up as I don't know a ton and I don't want anyone to feel like I'm policing them or anything. The DM didn't seem to notice and I also don't want to be telling on anyone.

I need help. What is the best course of action here?

Before I (27M) receive a load of hate in the comments, I really was looking forward to playing the game. A buddy of mine (28M) was bugging me for months to join the upcoming game he and his friends were going to play. I eventually agreed, and got really into creating the character and the unnecessarily long back story.

The issue is my mind is constantly wandering. It's not that the DM's story sucks...I'm just not into it...I find it too slow, on top of that players will talk about non-game related things making it harder to focus. When it's my turn, I end up making a complete fool of myself as I barely know what's going on leaving everybody question my choices or rolling their eyes.

I'm trying to get more familiar with my character's personality, but if this continues, I'm thinking about just quitting the game. Any advice is welcome as it would suck to just drop out, I just hate being "looked down" by everybody

TLDR: Looking for advice or if should just quit

Hey everyone! I’m excited to introduce my character, Lucy. I’ve put together this character sheet so you can get a better look at her design and personality. Creating this piece was such a fun process, and I’m really happy with how it turned out!

I’d love to hear your thoughts on her, so feel free to leave a comment below. I have many other OCs in the works, and if you like this format, I’ll definitely be sharing more character sheets soon. Hope you enjoy the art!

I have read about how less experienced DMs have a tendency to raise eyebrows at the rogue's Sneak Attack and knee-jerkingly call it overpowered, especially at 3rd and 4th level. The 2024 Rogue seems to suffer this perception to an even greater degree.

My go-to character when I enter a 5.5e pick-up game is a Rogue (Soulknife). I find it appealing and reliable. Inexperienced DMs seem to dislike how Psi-Bolstered Knack makes it hard for a Soulknife to fail ability checks. This goes doubly at level 7, when 2024 Reliable Talent creates a solid floor (particularly for a Rogue who has taken Skilled for an Origin feat, as I like to do).

Once, I managed to succeed on an ability check that I rolled a natural 1 on, by rolling an 8 on a Psionic Energy Die. I had to talk down the DM from ruling that a natural 1 would be a "critical failure" (the DM never previously laid out that this would be a house rule).

Another time, with a level 7+ Rogue, I rolled a natural 1 on the ability check. The DM (entirely separate from the previous one) sent a smiling devil face emoji. After I pointed out that I now had Reliable Talent, the DM specifically called it "OP" for 2024 Rogues to get Reliable Talent earlier.

I do not know. Less experienced DMs seem to give spellcasters a free pass (and are generous about handing out a Long Rest after only one or two fights), and yet harangue rogues for being reliable skill-users. It is as if a good deal of these DMs get giddy whenever a player fails an ability check, and get disappointed whenever the rogue succeeds anyway.

When you True Polymorph a creature, it gains the mental statistics (intelligence, wisdom, charisma) of the new form it takes, so is it technically OK for Nanny Muk to hit on Charlie? Or does it matter since she's a green hag and has probably done a lot worse?

I am aware that this episode will do nothing to quiet the people who think that Granny Dismal and Nanny Muk are alternate-universe Discworld witches. But when you've got powerful witches, a fancy event, and a feral monstrous pet, what other option do you have but to bring him into play?

What's going on here?

• Kayra lives with her "husband", Singing Cricket, a retired adventurer named Singing Cricket, and her coven, who are her mothers and teachers.
• They were invited to the wedding of the strange creature that replaced Kayra as a baby.
• They don't normally look like this -- Kayra and the rest of the coven are in disguise as a human family. Hags are not usually welcome in society, but these ones are special to the changeling.
• Charlie is an owlbear that Singing Cricket adopted by accident while trying to protect a baby house. Now they're all one big family.

Love and Hex started out as a joke about my D&D campaign and turned into an ongoing rom-com/horror story. It's on Webtoon and other platforms. Also r/LoveAndHex.

There's also a book! You'll find it on Amazon (just use your country's site), or Comcraft.

I give this beauty from Out of the Abyss:

"Sloobludop simmers with religious fervor and sectarian tension. While many of the kuo-toa still worship the goddess Blibdoolpoolp, a faction has shifted its worship to Leemooggoogoon the Deep Father, a vision influenced by the manifestation of the demon prince Demogorgon from the depths of the Darklake. Initially, the archpriest of Blibdoolpoolp tolerated this—but then his own daughter declared herself an archpriest of Leemooggoogoon, and the cult began to grow."

I also love it when they say something like "He believes (incorrectly)."

My first time DMing in a couple of years, and one of my players is a sorcerer who wants to base his damage around a lightning theme. He asked me if he could maybe change the Fireball damage to lightning. He then informed me he's planning to take the Elemental Adept feat and choose lightning, but basically only if I agree to let him swap the damage. If I don't, he said he'd be fine, but that he'd pick fire for his EA feat. His point is that if I don't let him, he's he'll be choosing his EA damage type fire, and he'll anyway be ignoring resistances, so it doesn't matter if it's for fire or lightning damage either way. I'm kinda hesitant because I know how broken changing spell damages can be, and I'm also feeling kind of blackmailed by him (even tho it probably isn't). I don't really know what to do. Any help is massively appreciated :)

EDIT LATER ON

(I hope this is the right place to ask this, I also hope this is the right flair lol)

I am a first time DM, we are a few sessions (~7) in, but it is still my firth time dming a campaign. Before we started playing I told my players that I struggle with voicing/giving characters voices in German (our native language) and asked if they were fine if I did dialogue in English, with recapping important information in German if there was anything that wasn't understood (they all speak English quite well, but this was sort of offered as a "middle ground"). I don't even know what it is but unfortunately I just simply cringe when trying to give characters interesting voices in German, not in English though. However, party said they'd rather have the campaign (dialogues included) in German.

I've grown a bit out of my shell and TRIED having more immersive and more importantly different voices for characters more and more throughout the sessions.
Last session however, there was a moment I personally was looking forward to from a narrative standpoint. As in, the players make contact with a deity two pc's are worshipping, having said deity restore their honor and telling them that something that has happened in their backstory, which has given them trauma, is in fact not their fault. All of that ontop of some lore dumping of course.
When I introduced said deity and the players asked for their name, I responded and a player proceeded to laugh. I KNOW he meant no harm, he also apologized profusely. But holy fuck it has completely broken any form of confidence I've built up. I am deadass even worse than when we started when it comes to cringing about myself when voicing characters.

I genuinely don't know what to do. It's affected my overall energy for this campaign now (all written by me, lots of homebrew stuff, so a bit of effort and work goes into the preparation of each session) and when I try to prepare stuff now, I lowkey just feel defeated lol
So I guess my question to more experienced DM's is:
How the hell do you deal with building up confidence more when it comes to stuff like that in roleplaying? How not to cringe when roleplaying in your native language???

EDIT to answer some things:
First, I think I should clarify: Saying "confidence" probably gave off the wrong impression. I don't think it was my confidence that was broken, but moreso my comfortability with roleplaying in German. I just think it sounds sooo cringe. Again, in English I have no problem with voicing shit, even over the top stuff. In my last campaign with another group of friends we played in English, I was REALLY enjoying being in character (though I was a player in that campaign, so I only had to voice ONE character lol)

Second: We're playing in person and we're a group of friends. Overall I think the campaign IS going quite well but I really just struggle with voice acting in German I guess and it fully is a personal reason (and I know I am not a professional voice actor, so I shouldn't expect professional voice acting work from myself but eh), just messed with the one session I put in the most work in BY FARRR so far (bossfight, custom items, battlemaps, navigating digital tools for battlemaps, bigger narrative moment we've been working towards, etc. etc.)

Third: It wasn't even a comical name. I asked (through text) the two players involved in this backstory if there's a deity they wanted to worship and I would try to change aspects of them to fit the setting we're in, they told me they want to go with Lathander. (No clue how to pronounce his name, maybe I should have researched that, but I guess the way I decided to pronounce him was absolutely hilarious to that one player)

Fourth: I'm no baby, it's no thing that broke me mentally or anything, (thanks for the concern tho!). I just think German doesn't lend itself so well for that (I always disliked German voiceover in games, movies etc. for that reason as well by the way)

Last: Thank you so much for the tips and for the resources!! Roleplaying tuff, I swear