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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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Congratulations to last weeks winner

https://www.redditraffler.com/raffles/1wjpglt

u/urosko

Winner will be edited in below

This is a piece I was commissioned to make recently.

His name is Ealthan, he's a character in a homebrew campaign. He was a human priest, devoted to an acient dragon deity. When that deity was in danger he was called upon to be transformed into a dragonborn warlock to defend her, gaining the ability to cast spells and unmatched combat prowess. He and the rest of the dragonborn warlocks managed to defend their deity and set off to guard the various temples devoted to that deity throughout the land. Ealthan was unexpectedly contacted by one of the people that wanted to destroy his dragon deity, making him suspect that she might have hidden motives. He’s now traveling to investigate more about this.

I'm currently open for commissions in case anyone is interested! you can see prices and stuff here:

https://www.deviantart.com/vanharmontt/journal/Commissions-OPEN-1196934099

you can contact me here, or on instagram or Deviant art, or you can send me an email to [vanharmontt@gmail.com](mailto:vanharmontt@gmail.com)

https://www.deviantart.com/vanharmontt

https://www.instagram.com/vanharmontt/

First off, the winner of last week's giveaway: https://www.redditraffler.com/raffles/1wjpfdo

Congratulations, u/BackOffImaSloth! I'll be reaching out to you to get the necessary information to fulfill this giveaway.

A little while ago, I came out with the Magical Code of Regulations, 500 pages of law governing the use of magic. It started as a fun little project while I was working as an auditor at the IRS, and turned into a whole worldbuilding project I don't think I'll ever truly stop. It has laws governing everything ranging from necromancy, magical conservation easements, and familiars, to dragons, fireballs, and Chosen Ones. Great for D&D players and DMs, lawyers, accountants, worldbuilders, fantasy writers, and people that just want a really cool coffee table book. I promise it is the most in-depth magical law you've ever read.

Here's what some people have had to say about it:

"An unnecessarily comprehensive and deeply inconvenient framework. Several of my longstanding plans now require prior authorization." -Glorgon the Destroyer, Antagonistic Entity of Prophetic Significance #33

"Clear, thorough, and appropriately burdensome. I have no notes, though I will be requesting additional documentation." -Arthur B. Wexler, Senior Auditor, Department of Magical Affairs

Since release, I've officially made over 5k sales, this book is #1 on IngramSpark in fantasy over the last 90 days (for you booksellers looking for a cool book for your store), and will even have an officially licensed Chinese edition on the way (more details to come later)!

As a way to give back a bit, I will be giving away one signed copy of my book with a free digital version, a customizable authorized spellcaster license, a few stickers and a bookmark, and a no-change audit letter. All you have to do to enter is comment below! The winner will be selected randomly on 10/2 using redditraffler, with only caveat being that your account must be at least 3 months old.

I appreciate all the support I've gotten from this community and others over the past couple of years, and if you'd like to support this project independent of this giveaway, you can find the Code at the following links:

Amazon (preferred): https://www.amazon.com/Magical-Code-Regulations-Spellcasting-Regulation/dp/B0GZF9PVQL?maas=maas_adg_47FC0A8EE6B4473FD3BD31EA1AC9CE35_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas

NOTE: If the shipping seems extremely expensive, you may need to go to your country's storefront. If you live in the EU and your country doesn't have one, Germany (amazon.de) is usually best. I'll try my best to find options for anyone that has trouble getting it!

DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com//product/566282/the-magical-code-of-regulations?affiliate_id=5121378

Can also be found on TikTok, but I run out of stock often there (too expensive to always be ordering copies myself).

If you're still not convinced, and wanted a sneak-peek, Questing Beast made a great video on it!

https://youtu.be/ffP-xvpRS5Q?is=YXo5uFPHC4cDXeTo

If you're still not convinced, know that the second edition will make ownership of the MCOR compulsory, so you might as well give in now.

On another note, a few weeks ago, I mentioned a handful of projects I was working on, and you guys seemed to like Principles of Magical Physiology the best (the magic physiology book). I may or may not have already anticipated that and have been working on this project for a long time now, lol 👀

I'm nearly done with it (took upwards of a year and a half or so), now I just have to format it all nicely and figure how I can swing a bunch of money for all the illustrations (there will be ~90). But I think it'll scratch a certain itch in some people's brains.

Here's a random page to fend you off for a bit:

https://imgur.com/a/emujPsb

DMs and players: what’s a D&D ‘rule’ you’ve completely stopped following because ignoring it makes the game more fun? Follow up what is the best house rule you have?

Selandra is my PC in our ongoing campaign. She's a lvl 11 fighter currently, and the bodyguard aswell as closest confident of another PC, a mililtary officer and strategist (monk).
Her most prominent character traits are her deep loyality for her officer, her fierce sense for justice and care when it comes to protecting the civilians we encounter, and her incredible patience with the higher born members of the party whenever a situation arises that shows how out of touch with normal people's lifes they can be. :'D

They kicked the problem player.

This guy came in with 9 people in his backstory, all experts and part of an adventuring guild, all ready to die for him. "And this is his adopted aunt, the best alchemist in the world. And his best friend, and master artificer who gave him a flametongue sword. And etc."

Either he just read a book and wanted to throw all the characters in, or he just had major main character syndrome. He also gave himself like 4 magic items from his backstory, and "forgot" to remove them from his character sheet after the dm told him to.

He also kept trying to force a romance with the single girl at the table, despite her character literally saying "my characters lesbian brain hates this," every time he tried. He did not stop trying.

He also declared himself the group leader. I could go on.

It got to the point that I was dreading the game, until the DM reached out to all of us and said he was going to kick him. Sent the dude a message when we all agreed. Never heard from him again. And above all, I was like, holy shit it's that easy?

Changed the way I think about toxic players a lot. I think a lot of people just let shit go because they don't want to seem harsh or cause problems. But all of our sessions are 20x better now. Lesson learned.

Original Character design I made for my friend Kristian Stenslie for his DnD Kickstarter project.

An ancient librarian who witnessed cosmic war and survived it. She is an elegant, intelligent and quite powerful being. She appears to be 30 years old, but she’s actually 300+! Her looks make everyone believe she belongs to a royal court and a forbidden archive beneath the earth. Her strength doesn’t lie on the physical, her powerful magic and sharp intellect makes her a threat to every being who dares to defy her. She could summon from distance all the repertoire of grimoires she possesed to cast powerful spells and destroy the enemy, but that ability was bound away by a powerful enemy in an ancient war. Now she travels throughout the realm to shatter the scattered enemy seals to reclaim her lost archive. She fills two vital party roles: top-tier battlefield control/damage and an in-universe encyclopedia for the Dungeon Master to feed lore through.

EDIT: I’m not the GM, only a player :)

I’m in a campaign that has lasted nearly four years now, and it genuinely means the world to me. It meant the world to my fellow GM and players, too, for a really long time. We’re all IRL friends that split up across the country at university, and everyone was having a very rough time when the game started, and it was people’s lifelines. We all really, really cared. One of us even said they’d probably not have survived a year without this game. It was really special, and people said so really regularly.

Now, everyone else’s lives have improved by getting into relationships or moving jobs, and now every week the session is getting cancelled for something else, like date nights with their partners or going to the cinema with friends. This started this past year. We played weekly, and it was untouchable for so long, but now it isn’t. I’m the only one who never cancels, mostly because I still don’t have a life and nothing else to do, but I wouldn’t cancel anyway. Nobody wants to talk about the game anymore. It just happened out of nowhere, and I try to send when2meets to reschedule but nobody fills them in. Now when people cancel they apologise specifically to me because it’s obvious that I’m the only one who still cares, and it’s humiliating.

I’ve been clear with them that I’ve got really poor mental health right now and I need something regular to look forward to. I’ve asked to be told if there’s a cancellation once people know so we can reschedule, but they have plans in the diary for weeks and still don’t say until days in advance, and then nothing gets rescheduled. And this isn’t just some normal online game, these are my best friends for years. My only friends. I can’t help feeling like it’s my fault, like I did something wrong to cause this, either in game or just by being a bad person in my daily life and the universe punishing me haha.

I know the solution is to just find another game with strangers, and though I don’t like playing with people I don’t know, probably I will. But I just wanted to vent, and see if anyone has been in a similar situation? Or ask for advice on how to talk to people, I just don’t want to seem pathetic and desperate? I try to come across chipper and like it doesn’t bother me, but obviously people know since they apologise verbally to me when telling the group they’re cancelling.

Sorry if this is annoying, can delete if you don’t want this on the sub :)

Hi, new to here and looking for a book my dad lost.

My dad came 2nd in the first ever international tournament of DnD and won a signed copy (by both creators) booklet of the rules. Over the years the book got lost (he blames his brother and still brings it up every family reunion with bitterness)

We are aware the book might be worth a bit more than it was, and im just curious if we can find out if this book has been found and gone into circulation in auctions etc. Is there anyway of tracing this kind of thing?

My dad thinks the book would be worth something now, but im not in this world and so am unsure. Part of me wants to find it for him, but if this book is worth a lot then I doubt it is possible. (Theres also a possibility my grandmother binned it)

Anyway, if anyone has any details that would be interesting or useful, id appreciate it. Thank you!

Sincerely, daughter of a hopefull nerd ❤️