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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.

The past year, I've been playing a campaign with a bunch of old Gygaxian wargamers that have been around since the beginning. We're running through Tales From the Yawning Portal to dip their feet into 5th edition (2014 rules) while keeping to an old-school sort of adventure. Super great campaign all around: three PCs with one or two hirelings in tow, a D&D Greatest Hits of dungeons and monsters, and a canny old bastard of a DM who's made us work our asses off for our victory.

The one main detraction to my tastes are the DM's NPCs, and his general use of women. Now I'm no prude, and if his idea of a good time is waving big make-believe bazongas around in front of my little make-believe teenaged wizard's face, far be it for me to ruin his fun. I think its only fair, though, that I get to thoroughly take the piss out of him for his proclivities.

So, to you I pose the hypothetical: imagine your DM makes every notable female character in your campaign a voluptuous seductress (described at length, with measurements!) dressed in what usually amounts to a Princess Leia slave outfit, who just can't go more than two sentences without pressing themselves up provocatively against a pimple-faced youth and giggling at his discomfort. How does one adequately ridicule their friend for wanting to roleplay this out? The allegations, the grooming, the Epstein Island jokes have all been made, where else can I go from here?

Hey there!

I thought I'd share this one with the class.

We started a campaign in a homebrew setting about 5 years ago, and I have been keeping track of all the rolls along the way. We just finished the campaign yesterday in an awesome 5-hour combat against a titan.

What a blast!

I know there are some statistic fanatics out there, and this might be of interest to them. I pulled together some quick stats, but I will probably, at some point, update and make them fancy, so they're easier to read. Suffice to say, taking every roll during a session down and its effect has been challenging, so analysis has been cut a little short.

Maybe one of you can spruce the sheet up and show some interesting things?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bszhn6VJX_gUJkfU3sxEA3LmpezMzmp2zOL_xp_BQPg/edit?usp=sharing

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As someone who has only ever played lvl 10 and below characters, I've never once had to go into battle against a truly terrifying foe. For example, looking at the Demogorgon stat page, I'm truly curious how players, especially in a smaller group, have a good shot at beating this thing. How are these combats generally approached to make the fights fun and fair?

I’d like to start things off by saying I’m a first-time DM and new to DnD in general— my friends and I started playing just this July, and I have only DM’d since September. For context, the party is currently level 5. The problem arose last session when the sorcerer started the combat by rolling his WM because of tides of chaos, this landed him on a HB option which meant that for the entire combat, he was trapped inside a frog, with no way of getting out or having a turn for 1 minute. For further context, he never ran his homebrewed WM table by me. After the combat, I made a quick mention that I will be looking at his WM table to make sure it’s balanced and doesn’t lead to whole combats being skipped in the future.

I read through his table, and being a new DM, I didn’t realise that half of the options were from the PHB WM table, I went through the table, changing options I thought were either worded unclearly or were outright unbalanced — either too strong or too weak. I sent him the new table to which he responded with “no” “I’m not using this table” to cut a long conversation short, I was made aware that half of the options were RAW, and I decided to leave them unchanged, I went through again, picking out all the HB options and reviewing them— and after he made it very clear that he didn’t care if they were extremely negative towards him, I changed only two options (so 2/50 total, and 2/25 HB). The two options were (direct quotes): “spawn pissed off demogorgon controlled by DM in front of your nearest ally for 1 hour or until death,” and “you and any ally within 20ft of you are transported into a boss arena where you fight any CR8 enemy of the DM’s choice.” Now, the first option is the one this post is about so I’ll focus on that. I outright refused to allow this to happen, he tried to justify it by saying “we don’t have to fight it, we can run away” to which I continued to refuse, for a multitude of reasons such as: narratively it makes no sense for a level 5 PC to be able to summon a demigod, it implies Demogorgon exists in my world (which I never thought of before, but now am forced to), narratively makes no sense for Demogorgon to be hostile towards a level 5 PC —because it is infinitely more powerful, it’s a balancing nightmare, and it easily turns any encounter into a guaranteed player death (because it spawns in front of an ally) and almost certain TPK.

This player has been a bit of a problem before, but nothing as big; the only incidents that come to mind is when he derailed a session completely by randomly melting off a homeless man’s face, refusing to engage in RP with an NPC I designed to give his character attention — because I felt I was neglecting his character, and finally murdering a camp of bandits after they had come to an agreement with the party where the party was given the reward they came for. I’m not sure what to do now, I don’t want to play the “I’m the DM, whatever I say goes” card regarding his WM table, but equally, I don’t want the rest of the party being at risk of a TPK just for the sake of maintaining his player agency. I’m also considering asking he leave the table because of a comment he made about not liking how I DM. For the sake of not making this post any more confusing I’ll end with this question: what should I do moving forward in regard to this player and the issue with his homebrew?

Here's the thing: I'm a newbie and this is my first D&D group. I created a Cleric of Life Domain. He's the son of a farmer was adopted by Mishakal believers after his village was destroyed, for the PTSD, he always carries a potato while preaching.

In a recent encounter with an enemy—to persuade one to join us - he said, "The light of God will shine upon us!" while taking out a potato, and casting a Light spell on it.

The potato's gentle light enveloped everything in the dark sewers, illuminating the enemy's heart as well too. He looked at the potato in utter astonishment; "it was a miracle!"

In the end, he decided to join us.

I love potato.

Was researching hyena packs out of curiosity while making a gnoll-themed adventure, and found that hyenas are not only incredibly hierarchal, but also EXTREMELY matriarchal. From what I found, apparently male hyenas are usually bottom of the pack, just from birth. Meanwhile, female hyenas are typically top, with mothers being akin to pack "lords."

This was moreso surprising due to how gnolls have always been portrayed to me. In almost ALL depictions I've seen, gnolls are typically male, or atleast, always seemed extremely masculine (strong, gross, ravenous, etc.). Gnoll women are rare enough, I never even CONSIDERED gnolls to be matriarchal in their packs. But, based on what I found out about hyenas... maybe they should be? It'd only make sense with them growing from hyenas.

Apologies if this is already established somewhere in the books, it's just something that I found myself and was curious about.