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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.

Actually my first time drawing an anthro-type animal all to fulfill my dreams of a beautiful big muscular minotaur woman. Lucky lucky me

General idea of she's a gladiator that loves money, bitches and hoes.

She's not in play, rather she's a silly little idea I had in my head and had to draw she's obviously going to be a fighter or a barbarian of some kind but I would love, love, love suggestions for her! Hooray!

A while ago my party lost one of their most treasured magic items: an Immovable Rod. I wrote about this before. tl;dr version, they got up to a lot of shenanigans with it and used it to nope what was supposed to be a brutally difficult encounter. They got a bit careless with it during a later melee, however, and a demon pirate ran off with it. The party was sad. I was happy they'd stop breaking my campaign.

After a few months of them lamenting the loss (not whining or begging, just genuinely looking like kicked puppies when reminiscing) I decided to throw them a bone and give them something that might soothe the hurt a bit: an Instant Anvil. This is exactly what it sounds like: a 1-inch miniature anvil that once a day can be activated to instantly enlarge to a normal-sized 200-pound anvil. No real pre-determined mechanics besides the transformation, because... it's an anvil. What are they gonna do with it?

I did not think this one through.

The first clue I had that this would be a problem was when the party was interrogating some captives who weren't being cooperative. The monk says that he puts the Instant Anvil inside the mouth of one of the prisoners, and... The look of slowly-dawning horror you're currently experiencing is exactly the same one that I had.

Alright, war crime, and a particularly creative one at that, but this is D&D - players are supposed to come up with creative war crimes (right? RIGHT?) There's no reason this item is going to be game breaking.

Did I mention that one of the characters has some limited flight ability?

Imagine my utter horror and frustration as a DM when a character states that he's going to get as much altitude as possible in one round, hurl the Anvil at the anti-paladin below who's been kicking the party's asses, and enlarge it just before it hits. And imagine that they Nat20 the attack roll.

The climactic fight of the 2004 movie Kung Fu Hustle concludes with a move called Buddha Palm Descending From Heaven. This was that, by way of an angry meteor. The dice were... not kind to the anti-paladin. He was driven into the ground, John Henry-style.

This maneuver has since become a standard part of the party's playbook. Most recently they curb-stomped a tyrannosaurus with it. And there seems to be no stopping them.

It's too late for me, but please, do what you can to save yourself. Looney Tunes magic items are ALWAYS a bad idea. No matter what your intent, your players WILL find a way to turn you in Wile E. Coyote with them, then meep-meep off into the sunset.

Spoilers for Lost mines of Phandelver

I DM Lost mines of Phandelver (LmoP) for 3 of my friends. We are 4 sessions in and so far everything is great (they are currently in the Redbrand hideout)

The wizard in my party learned about the lost spellbook of which Agatha knows the location.

The issue is that in the module there practically is no spellbook but my wizard is making grand plans on what to do with it. I don’t want to disappoint her. Any advice on how to fix this?

Note: we are all (including me) first time players, but we all played BG3.

Born with a celestial guide and a destiny to fight evil, Amara was raised to be a shining champion of justice. However, she never quite fit into the role she was given. Her deva taught her to oppose evil wherever it appeared, and yet the older she became, the more she questioned what evil really looked like. Monsters are easy to identify, but a corrupt official, a greedy merchant, and abusive nobles were not. Over and over she watched those with power evade justice through their wealth and influence. Her deva insisted that fair judgement requires mercy and restraint, but Amara disagreed. Determined to do what the heavens would not, she began hunting down those she believed deserved to be punished. This path cost her the guidance of her celestial mentor, leaving her a fallen aasimar who continues to fight against evil, whether or not the heavens approve.

"The forest was silent, for all them who didn't know how to listen".

This is some sort of ranger-like archetipe for the project I am illustrating for. The setting develops around a post-apocalyptic world, defined feudal sci-fi as I said in the title. I'm having a lot of fun in exploring ways to include advanced tech to medieval stuff, mixing the two worlds to make them cohexist.

Also, I am actually open for commissions, and you can see more of my works on ig at simone_tammetta_art . Don't hesitate to DM me!

This is just one of the many art I am working on lately, so stay tuned and be ready to know more about it!

Hope you will like this in the meantime!

So, I've painted this piece (painting tablet & Krita / no AI involved whatsoever) as an mtg fanart but I wanted to share it here as well because I figure it's on theme. I'm real pleased with how it turned out and I'm hoping some of you guys get a kick out of it as well. It depicts an early morning in an enchanted forest. The nature is being woken up by three gigantic treefolk. One might say they're the ones that get the day started in these woods. Another take on it would be that they're simply enjoying the nature and hanging around woodland critters and other trees. Either way - they're in good spirit. In the foreground, there are two people present, they're observing the magical scene from afar as if not daring to draw nearer so as not to spook the animals or spoil the athmosphere. Finally, one of these guys has a dog and he's taking the scene in as well. :)

I had just started a new campaign. Three players, one of them I've known for a long time. The other two were new, people my friend knew.

On session 2, one of them decided to arrive almost 45 minutes late. No message letting us know. He just arrived late and then asked "what time were we supposed to start?". On top of that, he barely knew his character or the basic rules for that extent.

Same session, the other new guy arrives high as a kite, barely able to talk (I wish I was exaggerating) and drooling. Literally drooling. Absent half of the time (no wonder), and making racist jokes. At some point he said Khenitra (a town's name, see picture attached) sounded like n****r. Yes, he is American.

So I called it off. Following this subreddit's motto, "no D&D is better than bad D&D". Oh well, onwards.

Bonus content: the map I had prepared for the session. Desert town taken over by the undead. One of the characters got eaten by the ghouls.

EDIT: Thanks kind strangers for the award and all the well wishes and compliments. I didn't expect this to blow off.

A couple of clarifications because people seem to be getting a bit confused:

1. I never knew the two other players before we started playing. My friend barely knew them for a short time before that. They probably qualify as acquaintances at best.
2. I live in Saigon, so the community here is *very* small. Hard to find players.
3. This is the second custom campaign that I have to cancel in a year's time. I'm going to hang my DM screen for a while. I really don't do online because I love building terrain and painting minis. I'm too old school for that :).

Hi everyone!

I was invited to a D&D-themed party, where we’ll play a one-shot and everyone will dress up as their character. Since I’m the DM, I have no idea how I could dress up. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

My players are in a dungeon and got separated after a brutal fight. They're all still alive, but hanging on by a thread.

Their resources are drained and they are in enemy territory.

One group is barreling down a dead-end tunnel they collapsed when entering the dungeon with dozens of troglodytes hot on their heels.

The other group is thundering through the streets of an underground village full of enemies from a clan of troglodytes they have been methodically slaughtering with deep prejudice. So needless to say, they know they're getting it on sight from anything with a pointy stick.

They have been fully split and are traveling in opposite directions.

Meanwhile, one of the three big bads of the area has set siege to the village the second group is in, seizing his opportunity to take power in the underground since the party has weakened his enemies being the destabilizers that they are.

So now the second group is in the middle of an active siege behind enemy lines while the first group is being cornered in a dead-end tunnel. All of this has been caused by their own hand, whether they fully realize it or not.

My question to the greater community is, should I give my players an underhanded toss to help them get themselves out of this situation? Or should I sick the sleeping dogs they woke and have them reroll characters?