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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.

I don't trust digital dice rollers. I can't see the RNG, so it always feels off. So I built a dumb little thing that rolls real dice in my garage and sends you back the photo and video as proof: https://icanroll.com

It's free. Solo project in my free time, so bear with me, only a d20 and a d6 are wired up right now, and I'm adding more dice as fast as I can build (and afford) the hardware.

If y'all actually care about it I'll keep posting updates here and on the site. Feedback welcome, would love to know what's broken or what would make this actually useful at your table.

Had a group of four players. Bard, druid, cleric, and wizard. They wanted to be a traveling band of casters putting on shows. The wizard handled Pyro technics. druid handled decorations and nature flair to acts. Cleric handled healing sick and bringing a wholesome and legit sense to group. Bard did illusionary and musical enhanced performances. The group hit level 9 on a very quick leveling campaign. Leveled up about every third session.

Bard and wizard are female players, cleric is a male, and druid is non binary. Group is finishing up a show in a city when they catch a thief breaking into their wagon. They are able to subdue him and question him. The bard is a bit heavy handed to the thief and the party asks them to chill. Bard says they have a new trick they want to try. And they cast Geas. Succeeds with thief rolling a 3. The command she gave is "Never leave my side".

Nobody really knows what happened until the thief is cooperating more. The bard says "Thats a good boy now bark for mommy". Nobody saw that coming and the Druid player says that's kind of messed up. The thief didn't do what she said and she smacked him which he went to run away. This triggered the geas which 32 damage later the thief is nearly dead. The bars says she walks up to the thief on the ground and says to him "Your gonna listen to momma or you get that again" I told her to roll deception because the spell only works once a day but she bukt that bard to pass any kind of deception.

I end the session there because I'm feeling something about this and with 2 private messages later from the druid and wizard, they felt disgusted by this. Up to this point the game had been PG13 with some language and violence pushing to R rating.i contacted the bard and she was accepting of what me and the others felt. She said she would fix it and not to worry. I messaged the others and everyone breathed with some relief.

Next session we started and picked up with me saying the group had a night to sleep off issues and wake up...

Bard cuts me off saying " Oh before I went to bed I would of walked into the city with my new friend" I said "okay what did you want..." cuts me off again. "I walk with Keith, yeah I'm gonna call him Keith. I walk into an alley and tell Keith if he doesn't do what I ask I'm gonna make it hurt and I dig my nails into his arm"

I immediately say "No, Hell no. We just talked about this and you said you wouldn't continue"

She giggled and said "I'm not doing it in front of the party" the Cleric spoke up saying "I'm out, this is fucked up, you got something wrong with you" and left the Discord. Other two I had known for years and said she has to go. I ended the game dragging bard and me into a separate discord channel. She immediately starts saying she is doing what her character would do. That phrase is a trigger for me in ttrpg gaming. I said no and she crossed a line and had to go.

Kicked her from everything. I got ahold of the cleric about an hour later and he said he was gonna have to stop. He shared with me about it bringing up bad memories of an abusive ex. I told him I 100% understand but hope he keeps in touch. Which to this day he does. Best R6 siege pulse I know.

Sometimes make me worried because none of us saw signs till one thing flipped a switch.

Have you had any party ending WTF moments?

“Oh, hi there, little buddy! You’re so cute! Let me just—AAAAAAAGGGGGHHH, NOOOOOOO!” These are the last words of the most recent person to die to the doom duck. Don’t let its cuteness fool you, this duck is actually a demon in disguise. Those downy feathers? Razor-sharp. That cute quack? An earthquake trigger. Those adorable eyes? Lasers. You see this monster, you run for your QUACKing life.

The doom duck was created by Felix Irnich and illustrated by Justin Chan for Fool's Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds.

GIVEAWAY: Voragheel, the Vampire Dragon

To enter the giveaway, leave one first-level comment on this post.

Help keep this comment visible so the giveaway rules and entry details are easy to find for everyone.

With Archvillain Encounters: Death & Beyond now live on Gamefound, we are giving away one huge Voragheel miniature, professionally painted by the Minis for War, ready to dominate the table or display shelf.

Here’s the link to our campaign: https://gamefound.com/projects/archvillain-games/archvillain-encounters-death--beyond?refcode=-92s1a9jd0G3DTQXCEkoYw

The raffle will take place after the Early Bird period has ended, on Saturday, May 16, at 7:00 PM EEST / 4:00 PM UTC.

A mausoleum was built to keep him buried.

It failed.

Voragheel is one of the dark-fantasy boss miniatures featured in the campaign. You can see him, along with more 5E boss encounters, miniatures, battlemaps, lore, adventures, and campaign content here.

Once a mighty shadow dragon, Voragheel was betrayed by the Shepherds, an ancient vampiric order that feared his rule over the night. They entombed him beneath a mausoleum soaked in blood rites and let his name fade into myth.

But the rituals never truly ended. Century after century, spilled blood seeped into the crypt below until death itself gave way. Voragheel rose again as a vampiric horror, crimson-scaled and ancient-eyed, no longer driven by hunger, but by vengeance.

The painted giveaway PVC miniature measures approximately:

Head to base: 6.8 inches / 17.3 cm
Base to top of wing: 10.2 inches / 25.9 cm
Wingspan: 13.5 inches / 34.3 cm

Unpainted versions of Voragheel are also available through the Archvillain Encounters: Death & Beyond Gamefound campaign, along with the material needed to bring him into your 5E games.

To enter the giveaway, leave one first-level comment on this post.

You can comment with anything, but if you want to make it thematic, tell us what kind of party you think would survive opening Voragheel’s tomb. That would be interesting!

Giveaway terms

No purchase is required.

Worldwide shipping any customs fees, import duties, or local taxes are covered by Archvillain Games.

One entry per person.

Only first-level comments count as entries.

Multiple first-level comments will disqualify the entrant.

The winning Reddit account must be at least 3 months old.

Winner selection

The winner will be drawn on Saturday, May 16^th, at 8:00 PM EEST / 5:00 PM UTC.

The winner will be selected using Reddit Raffler.

The results will be announced here and the winner will be contacted by DM.

If the winner does not respond within 72 hours, another winner will be drawn.

Good luck. The tomb is now open.

"In today's society, people misuse the word hate so often. They toss it around for the smallest of inconveniences. Citizens claim to hate taxes, or they hate their daily jobs. They do hatred, injustice. Hatred itself, is an all-consuming emotion that is rooted in all of man. Hatred, is the very embodiment of wanting to kill and erase something from existence."

"Hatred is when a little girl is chased out of her village for a crime her ancestor committed centuries ago. Hatred is when an elf mage offered help to the struggling family, only to take advantage of this family in an elven rich society where most others are 2nd class citizens. Hatred, is when your mother becomes bed ridden with an illness and there are Paladins and Clerics among the great Candlehollow . . . yet do not lift a finger for a dying woman; all because of her race."

"What happens when you strip a child of everything? All she is left with, is pure, unfiltered, hatred. And I plan to teach the world, the true meaning of hatred."

Nine Lives is my BBEG for my Monday Campaign, a Warlock to the Aspect of Hatred, and the Crimson Arcanist's Leader, the Abyssal Arcanist herself. Her virtue name, Nine Lives, is due to how many times she'll kill someone and bring them back, nine times over, to send a message. She takes every stereotype given to her kind, and twists it around to her victims to endure, all out of pure hatred. Art was made by the wonderful and talented LLDelphin. (Adult content warning on Author's homepage given it's on FurAffinity).

Please show them much love and respect for their hard work.

Meet Gabriella Sylpherena, my latest original character, a Half-Elf Bard. She represents a perfect blend of elven elegance and human energy, always ready to turn secrets and legends into captivating melodies for anyone willing to listen.

I’ve been truly enjoying spending my time creating these illustrations for my own characters lately. It is such a rewarding process to see each of them come to life with their own unique personality and style through my art. It gives me a chance to really dive deep into their stories and imagine how they would interact with the world.

What do you think of Gabriella’s design and concept? If you enjoy this type of post, I’d love to share the character sheets for the other party members I’m currently developing. I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments!

Vane was the prodigy of the Amethyst Order, a clan of hemomancers who used blood control exclusively for healing. During a devastating plague, while his masters sacrificed their own vitality to save the sick, Vane discovered a dark satisfaction in feeling the power flow through his hands. He realized that instead of giving his life away, he could accumulate the lives of others.

Betraying his oath, he stole and perverted the clan's medical instruments, creating a suction apparatus attached to a reservoir on his back. Armed with a pneumatic syringe, Vane began to forcibly extract blood from his victims, treating every life as a disposable resource to fuel his own arcane vigor. Today, he wanders the world as a predatory physician, collecting rare essences in pursuit of divine immortality, leaving behind only pale and empty husks.

What do you guys think?

Just a funny story about how giants in my game became unable to lie.

It all started when my party entered a castle built in giant proportions. They did some exploring and learned the castle was home to a giant, so naturally they wanted to do some nature checks to see what they knew about giants before they went in to negotiate.

They rolled pretty high, so I asked them what they wanted to know about giants. They asked what giants were into, what they liked and disliked. In my head I said "giants are big so they like big things". But what came out of my millennial mouth was "they like big butts, and they cannot lie". So there's two facts about giants I guess.

What sealed the deal was the players' reaction. The tiefling fighter immediately stood up and started doing lunges and squats to get that post workout booty pump. When I say she stood up and did this, I mean the player stood up and did lunges and squats in the middle of the living room. I had to give her advantage on the performance check plus inspiration of course.

Needless to say, the giant was impressed with the buns on the fighter and spoke only the truth during the negotiation.

Fairly new DM here running a home brew campaign, overall my players seem to be enjoying the campaign. Group of 5 level 6 PC's. No details on campaign. But I have to ask.... How do you get them to stop long resting after every fight?? We just did a decent sized fight (one lieutenant boss, small horde of enemies) at the end of the fight HP wise they were banged up. They went into the fight fully rested. They had not short rested yet, all of them had at least one spell slot of each applicable level (most had at least half) or equivalent resource so not completely spent.

One of the players made a comment about if they don't get a long rest they are dead the second the party does anything else. All of the other players are previous DND players and DM's. All of them are aware of how short rests work and the table rule is you get full hp back from any hit dice used during a short rest. I had a small encounter planned afterwards that would lead them into an area that would allow them to explore, have chances and options for RP, exploration, and a little combat if they wanted. Literally the equivalent of "oooh Squishies. *Fireball* yay combat over" short. Nope. They completely ignore the request by the NPC's for help, "we aren't doing anything until we long rest."

So...... What's the point of trying to do multiple fights in a single "day" between long rests when your players just.... Ignore it?

I have tried the "there were consequences" by making the fights that would have been simple harder, or having the place attacked wind up being completely demolished. They don't care. If they can't one shot a lieutenant-level enemy in a single round or wipe half the board with a single fireball, they don't care for combat. I'm just..... Kind of at my wits end.

Edit: thanks all for the ideas. I'm gonna crash, been up trying to plan whats happening after the long rest and realized I'm just too burnt on it to keep trying to figure it out. I'll respond in the AM. Past midnight here. Ty all again!