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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.

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My 40k fancomic Rogue's Retinue: Rogue's Retinues

Writing about an important rival for one of my pc's; but I'm a bit worried. Is this gonna be fun and challenging? or just plain not fun and unfair?

Some examples of the rival's kit include: Earthbind and Heat Metal (the pc is a flying character with heavy armor on)

Do to a series of chaotic events, my players are going to wind up in "the world between" where every one of "those players." Characters have ended up.

I'm trying to build a pool of pun names and tropes as well as overly tragic backstory stuff for the NPCs

Hey there, I’m a brand new dm who played my first session a week ago which me and my 2 friends all enjoyed. One problem that I saw was that my human wizard simply wasn’t contributing at all, he said only a few sentences to me and the other player to the point that both of the players didn’t know each others characters names until the halfway point of the first session, didn’t really role play, ignored a lot of plot points and just kinda sat there for the whole session. Another thing about his character is that it is extremely bland, not in a way that there is a story but it’s boring, I mean his characters backstory is about a sentence describing him as a disgruntled wizard who got fired from a fictional subway xD. Compared to my human rogue, who has a magical pet duck who only he can hear who is extremely vulgar all the time, has a tragic but intresting backstory, and actually caught the plot hooks and played his character, I feel like I can’t help but give the rogue the spotlight. I seriously have no idea what to do with the wizards story, I tried to establish a revenge story with him but he just stared at me blankly before going back to his bland character, I have even texted him about a week ago to try help him establish a deeper lore to his character by showing him a pantheon on gods I created whilst further explaining what he can actually do with his character but I have been left on delivered for a week. Our next session is a week from now and if I’m honest? I’m subtly dreading it, they are both my friends and I want them to enjoy the game but can’t help but lean towards the rogues story considering he’s the only person that has one. Any help would be great, thanks!

So in my current campaign my party attended a masquerade to figure out who the BBEG is.

Well one of my players decided to try to question one of the suspects more deeply. His plan was to knock out the suspect and question him after tying him up. The other players advised him not to do that. As soon as he was alone with his suspect he decided to attack - too bad, that this suspect was in fact the BBEG and managed to down and kill the PC.

This obviously pissed off the other players which caused a bit of a debate.

Anyways while the other players kept playing, the player started to think of a new character and honestly cooked; a while back his now dead PC started a romance with an NPC, who originally was a tavern maid but eventually moved into the bastion of the party.

His plan now is for her to create a pact with a demon to become a warlock to get her revenge and possibly get her lover back. He really wants to embrace the struggle between good and evil, playing a Chaotic Good Warlock of the Undead.

Im really hyped to see his new character and the reaction from the others. Just had to share this little story

Greetings gentlemen! I'm trying to return to DMing after quite a while, and checking up 5.5E rules, and I've come along Enspelled Weapons. Which for 3rd level spells are still Rare, so 4k gp, or actually 2k since every one of my parties will have a guy with Fireball trained in Arcane.

Isn't that like totally broken? 8k gp, and the entire party opens every encounter by blasting everything to smithereens. Anything besides 1 Big Bad is no longer an issue for like the next 5 levels, maybe more. And they can do it all day, 6 charges is quite a lot, and yeah it's only 1d6/day but my adventures generally include some downtime.

Was this or something like this an actual issue for some of you, or am I overthinking things?

I have found myself at an impasse while coming up with a character. See, I felt like playing a big ol snake person, my only issue is that, the more snakelike a Yuan-ti PC is, the harder to justify them not being evil is as well (especially when my brain is saying "You should play an abomination", just looking for any suggestions that might make it work better. Thanks!

In my last group, even when I was brand new to the game, the 2 DMs in it didn't like that I wrote descriptions for what spells and abilities do. I cant name every spell or tell you exactly how they work, same goes with abilities. Given the sheer number of them I would write brief descriptions of what they did in a character sheet I made in Google Docs so I wouldn't have to open the rule book constantly to see what the damage on a spell was for example. Something I assumed would be common apparently became an issue when I made a brief comment I was writing down what my new spells did after a level up, with the DMs telling me "you should already know if your playing a Warlock" or "study out of game." For reference I was still new to the game and they knew it at the time, I was also a college student at the time so any time I could've spent studying D&D spells and abilities was spent studying IT stuff. I found it odd that simply taking notes of what a spell did was enough to cause a problem, thats like playing Destiny and being expected to know what every Exotic weapon and armor piece does right out of the gate. Or playing War Thunder and being expected to know every vehicle's weak spot as a new player.

I started playing again recently with a new group. I haven't mentioned any of this yet but is writing down spell and abilitie descriptions really frowned upon or was my old DM just crazy?

Edit: for added clarification, this was during an online campaign with a DM who didn't want to use D&D Beyond, Roll 20, Tabletop Sim, or anything like that. This became I problem when I made an off hand mention I was copying and pasting a spell description from the D&D wiki before the session started, when the DM said something like "how do you not already know if your a spell caster?"

Yo, I'm planning on doing my first dnd campaign, I've opted to do WoW because I know the lore via playing warcraft games since i was a child in 97, starting with warcraft . Anyways I'm very worried and need input from strangers since if i ask players they'll probably tell me what i want to hear instead of what i need to hear

I did some party votes and the players have voted for a Horde side campaign in the classic/tbc era. I Plan on treating WoW as sort of an adventure module, with the expectation that i will have to adlib and adapt when people go off course

my plan is to run them through durotar, adapting and mildly rewriting many of the game quests to be compatible with DnD, starting them in the Valley of Trials, As a quick example, the first several quests in wow are to kill five boars, get a dozen cactus apples, and find a bunch of scorpid venom sacs for antivenom.. I'd adapt this as to a quick semi joke quest where they get tasked with finding supplies for the camp: several pounds of meat, supplies for antivenom, and any other food they can scavenge... with the adventure path being the Burning Blade questline

Now here come the restrictions: as we opted for classic era,

I decided to ban any retail classes or races that could not exist reasonably within the time era.

-no vulpira/nightfallen/drakthir

-allowing goblins and worgen with caveats just to open the pool

-no evokers

-death knights are a quest for a player if they want to be one, but they cant be a DK at level 1 because of lore, instead they'll have to die and be reanimated by a process based off of warcraft 2 lore in which their soul is placed into the body of a dead enemy using forbidden magics

Additionally I'm having the race restriction be to horde side only.

I opted against banning race/class combinations, with the minor note that class choice may have an impact on roleplay if its exceptionally taboo in lore such as a Tauren Warlock or Orc Paladin

Thoughts on this? Am I being unoriginal or derivative? Is this a bad strategy? am I being overly restrictive?

If you read all this thanks, I know i'm terrible at formatting

We're constantly mounting creatures in the campaign I'm currently playing. The module we're playing has some tweaks to the mounting rules but overall the core stays the same. You use half of your speed to mount a creature.

But my DM is ruling it differently.

If we're trying to use our hands, they rule it as an athletics check (I'm sure the DC oscillates between 12 and 15). And if we use a tool it's an acrobatics check.

But I think this is unfair to the players that don't have a lot of strength like the sorcerer or the bard. On top of it, this check requires an action, which is kinda punishing.

What do you think?