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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)

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?

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?

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

Context: We‘ve been doing this pirate based DnD campaign for about 2 and some change years now. A few months in, we encounter a magical lady named Malice, who we eventually learn turned most of the people on the island she was on to stone. Long story short we don’t end up fighting her like, looking back, it seems the DM intended, and flee the island. This story takes place a few months ago (I started getting invested in this subreddit recently), where we learn the island we’re on, which is the capitol of this world, is having a concert, starring none other than Malice.

So the party of 6 splits up before the concert starts, one half going to gather some reinforcements of NPCs either on our ship or throughout the town, and my half, consisting an artificer, a warlock, and me, who is a rogue, go and see if we can get recon on what Malice is planning to do. We used a combination of disguise self from them to look like security guards and my stealth to sneak backstage, in front of her dressing room, where we believe she’s inside. We come up with the plan that I’ll sneak inside to try and gather info, and they will pass the time by setting up a trap while I figure out if malice is doing anything.

I sneak inside the room, and she’s FLOATING IN THE AIR AND GLOWING, while holding some orb in her hand and is CHANTING THE WORDS OF A FLOATING BOOK in front of her that we later learn was written in Celestial. Turns out, despite my decent stealth roll, she has BLINDSENSE, and spots me. She instantly stares at me and casts hold person, which succeeds. Now, this is actually some sort of modified hold person the DM made that allows us to have a conversation while holding me in place, so she can figure out why my dumbass is sneaking into her dressing room. After me not giving her any info and she not giving me any info, I ask the DM if I can use some sort of spell while being held in this modified hold person (I’m an arcane trickster and have some spells). He says only cantrips and I have to roll really well. I try and break her concentration by hitting her with chill touch. I roll, NAT 20 TO HIT. Roll to see if concentration is affected, HORRIBLE ROLL. I escape and run out of the room with her chasing after me.

While all this is happening, the warlock and artificer are making the dumbest goddamn trap you can imagine. It’s one of those circle rope on the floor traps that if something steps in it, it can be pulled over a pulley to catch the person‘s feet and dangle them upside down. With help action from the warlock, the artificer rolls like an 18 plus modifiers on survival for making the trap. The warlock also readies his own hold person in case Malice leaves the room and falls in the trap, as the artificer holds the rope to activate the trap.

I run out of the room. Successful Dex save to dodge the trap. Malice? BAD SAVE, steps in the trap. Flat roll to catch her in the trap from the artificer? 19. Trap catches her and she is dangling upside down. Warlocks hold person on Malice… once again BAD SAVE. Malice is held in place. Without missing a beat, the Artificer shoves this woman, who where we currently are, is one of two candidates we have for BBEG (DM is keeping it a secret), into a BAG OF HOLDING. He shuts it right as the Warlock releases hold person and all we hear is „fu-“ before she’s gone.

Our dumbass completely awful Looney Toons ahh trap, just caught one of the strongest people in this universe due to sheer luck. And since there’s no air in a bag of holding, our DM had to make it so that Malice had PLANE SHIFT so that she wouldn’t die to this and could come back later.

We meet up with the rest of the party shortly after sneaking out of the concert venue. All we say is, „we took care of Malice.“

Hi all,

For advent each year I have gotten my kids a book each day. My son, 15, does only online books at this point so I was trying to figure out what I could get him each day. He is a DnD fan and plays regularly. I was looking at old magazines but I'm not sure they would be relavent to today's game. I did get him a few books, like Tasha's cauldron but that is more of a real gift than something for advent. I am not a DnD player so I really don't know much. Do you have any ideas of smaller books or something similar?

Thank you all!

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• I wonder if they used the Rocks from here to build this..
• We were told to arrive by Sea at Night in order to fulfill the prophecy.
• To think something this large could be located in this Desert!
• This has been here in the Sea this whole time. How did we miss this in the Daylight before now?
• I told you the gods would curse us with Snow if you touched it!
• This used to be a water basin, how did it end up Dry like this?

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