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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.

Finally got around to building a DnD table. We have a pretty steady 6-7 player campaign going in a unique and custom build sandbox world. The table isn’t done yet but this has been a pretty ambitious first game table build and I love it. The wood is going to be painted black and each seat is going to get a small 8” shelf in front of their chairs which is where they will be able to roll their dice, it will have inset cup holders, and where you can snack. On the table top is a TV for our move into Arkenforge from hand drawn maps. TV is a 42” Toshiba with a piece of 1/4 plexiglass over top so we can still use our minis. On each side of the tv are power strips because we use DnDbeyond for character sheets. This was also build to double as my personal computer desk as well. There is a sound system under the table along with my computer and there will be led lights around the corners of the ceiling instead of the lamp which will run to a remote so I can change colors of the room on the fly depending on the tone of the game. Unfortunately this was the smallest I could make the table but still make sure it was a 7+1 table for myself and my PC’s. I’m open to any ideas on how to make it better. I am only a hobby woodworker and this is the first thing I have ever upholstered so it’s not the best, but it works for our needs for sure.

(Im not sure why but I am not able to upload any other photos)

So my players managed to talk their way out of a combat encounter that I had prepped pretty extensively for. Made a map I was proud of, designed a unique mini boss enemy with its own heroforge (we play online). All in all I was quite proud of what I had put together and I was excited to run it. But the players found a good way out of the combat encounter and we carried on.

I’m glad my players did this, it allowed for a good emergent bit of narrative and player choice is the best part of DnD in my opinion. But I’m a new dm and this is the first time this has happened to me, so I feel disappointed and sad that my preparations, both with the mechanics and visuals of the fight, got glossed over.

How does everyone handle this personally? Is it just part of being a DM that you will plan something cool and your players will occasionally find another way around it or avoid it? It takes me a while to make maps and plan combat which I know will get faster with experience but part of me feels like a couple of hours has gone to waste if that makes sense?

Would it be bad if I as a dm ask a player to kindly leave after killing an npc important to the main group they will need to complete the campaign, because I know the whole idea is to have fun ect, but with them as a player they have already said that they just enjoy breaking me, idk tell me if im wrong but just be aware that this is my first campaign and its a homebrew. Just thought I'd ask before I did anything.

EDIT:I will have a conversation with him in the morning about it and I'll ask him to not kill random NPCs, but thank you for the comments they helped me figure out what I should do. I'll update in the morning

By a gimmick I mean, the trendy scenario, character archetype, or gag pertaining to D&D that gains traction within the community, but actually isn't fun for you at all. Maybe you hate it irrationally or maybe you have a good reason for the way you feel.

Now it could be recent stuff from big streams or recent online, though honestly these trends have existed as long as D&D has been a thing (i.e. Drizzt Do'Urden clones and Monty Python Gags go way back).

I have a few that always tick me off personally even just reading about them, so I thought I'd see what others come up with or if I'm just an old grouch.

Modeled in Blender, printed in resin, and painted by me. This thing took forever, mostly because the first version collapsed under its own weight. I learned two main things while making it: filament printers are used for large props for a very good reason, and cosplay artists have a tough job.

You can find my other mimics on my social medias:

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I think most of us can agree that an "ideal" D&D party consists of:

-A Magic Person: Wizard -A Strong Person: Fighter -A Steath Person: Rogue -A Healer Person: Cleric

I'm not saying that people should only play this way, heck they can play as 4 bards if that's what's fun for them.

My question is which class should be the 5th party member?

From a free Patreon post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/148007088

Here's what I propose for the paragon wizard:

[...]

Let's keep spells and slots of levels 6 and higher.

[...]

A wizard gets five level 5 spell slots. They regain those slots when they take a 1 minute rest. Is that busted? It sounds powerful, but compared to what other characters can do I think it's reasonable. Fireball cast with a level 5 slot does 10d6 to everything in an encounter. That's 35 damage. At level 11, you can expect to fight CR 8 and higher creatures in numbers. Those monsters have well over 100 hit points. The fireball leaves a mark, but it is not much of one. As you'll see with the fighter, that output looks nice but falls short of classes throwing attacks down range. If we re-orientate epic level encounter building to big fights rather than a war of attrition, this should work.

I do not know about this. Mike still seems to think "Fireball" and not "Banishment" or "Wall of Force."

What do you think?

I understand they can only copy wizard spells into their spell book, wich either comes from another written source or the user of said spell, but can that user be a non-wizard? I mean fireball is a wizard spell that a sorcerer can have or dispell magic can be used by a paladin, and so on.