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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.

Do any other DMs ever feel like anytime they're starting a campaign with a new group, and their characters are just extra-fantastical that you kind of groan and roll your eyes because you know this is going to be a dumpster fire.

Like someone just asks if their character is okay for a medieval setting and it's a half fairy half tabaxi artificer that uses a gun and I just want to be like "look, I know you've been watching critical role and dropout shows and were like 'wow I wish I was funny and interesting' but you don't know how to be so you're trying to fake it with what is essentially a costume, but when you drop off this scrappy doo with a gun cardboard cutout in my world that I cherish and worked really hard on, I'm gonna be pissed off."

Like I dunno maybe I'm just burnt out and turning into a cantankerous old man, but so many new (to me) players just always max out the fucking zany nonsense on their characters, but barely bother with a backstory and ask no questions about the setting beyond "can I" and then can't roleplay worth a fuck and like every session just stalls out repeatedly as I carry every conversation they enter and they do the kubrick stare into their webcams like they're hoping dialogue options will pop up.

This is a post just to vent. As the title says: We are about to start a campaign. It's a short story original by the DM. We already have another table with him and its cool, he's great. Stern but fair and usually notice details about characters and decisions. But in this new table, with other people, he seems different. Very strict and rigid. Anyway we were supposed to be beginning at level 5 and he asked characters backstory, previous adventures, and explanation as to how we were a party and why we had experience. Last week the players (we) had a call and we agreed on relations, personalities and shared experiences. I like writing a little and so offered to put all that on paper. I made a big effort. We're understaffed at the moment on my job, im on a couple of seminars and overall I'm exhausted and mentally overloaded, but still I found time and energy and wrote.

Last night the DM reaction was "ok... This is all? That won't be enough for a level 5, all of you didn't take the chance i offered so you'll be starting with less level".

Honestly I was pissed. I get that maybe we didn't kill a dragon, but the adventures and background were funny. The characters took down a stone giant, a whole group of bandits, saved a town, helped one of the party with his tabern, resolved the mystery about dissaperances on a mansion and county, took down a necromancer with N number of skeletons, and with interactions and cool stuff happening between them. The reaction was so... Flat. Very jarring and underwhelming.

So yeah :( Not having the best vibes atm towards this new campaign.

Edit: thank you for your comments guys. This is the first time i have so many reactions. I wrote to my DM, who's also my friend, a while ago and told him I was sad and disappointed by the reception of the effort. I wrote but the adventures were planned together by all of us players. He apolgized, acknowledged the effort and content, and said he was frustrated because he couldn't communicate clearly that we needed several milestones and reputation so his story could work. So he will have to make several adjustments because our characters will be starting with lower level. So we cleared the air and hopefully it will be a great campaign :)

I had a bit of a polarizing boss fight. Group of 4, we've all been playing like 10 years. They show up to BBEG, last session of the campaign, who has an amulet that sets off an illusion spell which made the players swap bodies. Mechanically I told the group to give their character sheet to the person on the left, "dont tell anyone how to play your character". 2 of them loved it. Their jaws hit the floor, they got all excited etc. The other 2 got upset because I didn't have them make a saving throw. Under normal circumstances I'd have done the throw, but the whole swap was kinda the gimmick of this entire encounter. Else it would have just been a standard fight with an orc with flaming swords. I told them my rationale, and to just roll with it and have fun with it, but they spent the entire boss fight irritated.

I guess I could have deceived them with an impassable saving throw but that's not really my style.

I dunno what do you guys think? Was I wrong?

EDIT: I just wanna clarify the campaign wasn't very long. About 5 sessions. So I wasn't expecting a ton of attachment to their characters. I would not have done this in a longer campaign as the final boss fight. We've been playing as a group for a long time, but this specific game was short.

I've got a new player joining the party; she'll be playing a life cleric. She wants to make it one of her character's convictions that the character will not kill 'people'. That would apply to all playable races, but she obviously can't have her elf say: "I will not kill playable races."

She also can't say 'humans', because that applies to only one race, or 'humanoids', because there are humanoid monsters. So, what would you have her say?

I'm preparing for our (now annual) summer fao mily D&D campaign. This year, we have a new player at the table! Sorta. They can't even hold their head up yet. But that didn't stop me from making them a character.

To help the other kids, I made a flow chart to help them decide what to play. The main categories being: sneaky, smart, or strong. Maybe I'll make another post about the flow charts. I'm digressing.

Anyway. With a D6, I rolled for the baby's character so it's totally random.

The character is a human guard bard.

I named him Beauregard the Guard Bard 😆

Gonna make him an NPC somehow. Super excited

This is something that's struck me playing both Pathfinder and... most editions of D&D, in addition to my recent runthrough of CRPGs Baldur's Gate 2, 3 and Wrath of the Righteous (in which they had to re-homebrew the Assassin class because they messed it up so bad).

In 5e, the Assassin procs his 'special ability' only on Surprise which is basically entirely GM dependent, and means that after the first round of combat the trained Assassin is indistinguishable from a basic Rogue.

If that wasn't strange enough, they then introduced the Gloomstalker class, which gets an additional attack on the first round, improved initiative and a bunch of tools that are arguably more Assassin than Ranger, and fairly inarguably more Assassin than... well... Assassin! Why do Assassins have to multiclass to properly realise their class fantasy?

Then they tried to fix this in 2024 with a sort of half-baked 'Assassins do more damage equal to half their level'. This feels like such a lazy, underdeveloped bandaid on the problem, and as far as I know has been met with an equally muted response.

What about Pathfinder, then? It, too, has a fairly underwhelming Assassin... and then it has the Slayer.

The Slayer studies it's target for bonuses to knowledge skills about that target and bonuses to hit and damage - something essential for a Rogue with it's lower BAB.

So what gives? Why is there another class that's had very Assassin-like abilities loaded into it, rather than into the Assassin class?

Studying targets, making extra attacks at the beginning of combat, reacting quickly at the beginning of combat? Outisde of janky surprise rules, these seem like things that belong to this class.

My friend and I want to settle this.

Does prestidigitation allow you to completely change the flavor of a food as in salads can taste like steak?

Or is it just seasoning like salt and pepper?

Worked on this for a client recently! Here’s some description

Human Paladin
A tall human woman with sharp amber eyes and intricate black tattoos framing her face like sacred script. Her polished armor is dominated by a massive engraved steel neck guard covered in holy markings, giving her the presence of a battle-worn saint.
Half-Elf Bard
A charming half-elf with warm olive skin, soft green eyes, and long chestnut hair tied loosely behind his head. He wears elegant traveling coats and carries a finely crafted lyre, his easy smile hiding a quiet melancholy.
Tabaxi Swashbuckler Rogue
A lean tabaxi with dark striped fur, piercing aqua eyes, and a long muzzle. Dressed in fitted leather and layered belts, he carries himself with effortless confidence, always looking one step ahead of everyone around him.

basically, we each agreed to do a heist on a tavern, but instead of stealing the wine or the coins, they literally stole the glass pane windows and tables before selling them to a merchant who later just so happens to sell them to the same tavern. This happened no joke, 10 times. genius or stupid?

Hello all, I'm looking for other people to bounce ideas off of here. So we all know Wish happens at the leisure of the DM. Essentially the magnitude of what you're asking for can end up backfiring if the Wish itself is too ridiculous. In my case I've been trying to mull over what would an appropriate consequence for what I would call a mid-tier Wish. Said wish being removing a vampire's weaknesses.

For example our vampire in question has already used a wish spell to atone for their previous victims and in exchange for returning their mortality to them he's stuck permanently as a vamp as a consequence. Like no true resurrection or anything is going to work here.

So say a love interest of theirs in the hopes of mitigating the their situation manages to acquire a wish of their own to remove vampiric weaknesses. The vamp willl still require blood to survive and cannot see the their reflection in mirrors. But garlic, holy water sunlight etc. no longer apply. What would be the drawback if any to making that Wish because it's not like they're asking for godhood but modifying a curse is a heavy lift I think. It's hard to figure out a balanced take here.

Any feedback would be much appreciated thank you.