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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've seen dozens of tables where the DM will ask some variation of "how do you slay it?" when a PC drops a bad guy to 0hp. Those moments tend to be the ones where I see players get excited, because they get to express something about their character in a generally cool or fun way. So after 6 years of forever DMing for 3 different groups, I decided to test out some new ways to incorporate opportunities for players to express how their character does a thing.

My attempts have been pretty hit or miss, with the exception of asking characters how they dodge/block/or tank a hit. It has been a ton of fun as a DM listening to the players describe how their high AC paladin doesn't flinch after taking 6 hits to the plate, or how the monk effortlessly moves out of the way when the boss swings and misses with their club. I usually limit the question to when multiple attacks miss the character's AC (for expediency and novelty), and the feedback so far has been great.

Does anyone else have things you do at your tables to encourage character expression?

I'm sharing this cuz I think it's funny. So we have a party with the druid, wizard, artificer, soulknife skill monkey, and Paladin/Bard. So we'll all fight something like a death tyrant and or purple worm and when it's the rogue's turn, he'll be like " all I have is daggers so I'll throw one" meaning that he's the only one that doesn't have spells. He even turned down a javelin of lightning cuz it just didn't feel Rogue enough for him.

And this complaining happens every session. Our DM lets us respec our characters at level up, if we feel that we need to. The wizard did it, so at 9th level, he switched to seven levels of wizard and two of warlock but it also had to do with the story.

So last time the Rogue complained about using daggers instead of spells, we asked him, why don't you just respec to arcane trickster? His response was that he just likes the idea of complaining about not being a spellcaster all the way to level 20. LOL. Ok, fine with us.

Hey everyone!

I'm a new DM running D&D 2024, and I have a question about one of my players, who's playing a level 2 Druid.

His character is heavily focused on reptiles, and I've been looking into what he can transform into. Honestly, some of the numbers seem crazy to me.

Last session, he transformed into a Giant Venomous Snake, and I was shocked by the damage.

Another time, he transformed into a Giant Constrictor Snake, using:

Constrict: +6 to hit, 2d8 + 4 bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16). While grappled, the target is restrained.

That seems incredibly strong for a level 2 character, especially since he gets the animal form's HP to tank damage.

We looked at the damage together during the session and found conflicting information, so I let it happen at the time.

My questions:

• Can a level 2 Druid actually transform into these snakes in D&D 2024?
• Are the stats and damage from the monster stat blocks correct?
• What are the actual limitations on Wild Shape at this level?
• Can he exclusively choose reptile forms?
• How do you handle unlocking new forms through RP?
• His ultimate goal is to transform into a dragon. Any advice on handling that progression?

I'm not looking to nerf my player. I just want to understand the rules properly and make sure I'm not allowing things that shouldn't be possible at level 2.

Any reliable sources or advice from experienced DMs would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks! 🙏

Hi sorry not sure if this should go in this subsection im fairly new to reddit but I just needed some advice.

I'm just wondering if theres any fellow players that could give me some advice on how they deal with their dyscalculia during combat and just general dnd gameplay, recently I've been told that I'm making my GM feel like I am disrupting the flow of gameplay.

During combat, I normally have a plan for what my action is, I roll and add everything (i use a calculator) but sometimes I'll double check and ask if i need to roll for anything else as i feel overwhelmed reading my stats or the description of a spell card and feel like i have missed something, (im not asking every 5 seconds or anything) but this causes frustration for my GM. We are causal players, and there's things I've organised for myself like a dice chart because I often struggle to tell the difference between them.

But I dont want to feel like a burden and im not expecting anyone to "hold my hand' or do things for me like, especially leveling up I think that is something I have difficulty with regarding changing all the stats.

My GM will often help all players when it comes to that bc we're all newbies, but i often find myself not realising til next session that I haven't changed something properly.

We have another friend/player that has ADHD so its not like the GM doesn't understand learning difficulties, but I do feel my dyscalculia is a bit harder to explain why I am slower to certain things, its not that I can't do maths its just difficult to read and comprehend sometimes.

Not sure if that makes sense? Any advice or general tips would be helpful

There is a Bonus Action named Steady Aim, and it says it says "As a Bonus Action, you give yourself Advantage on your next attack roll on the current turn. You can use this feature only if you haven’t moved during this turn, and after you use it, your Speed is 0 until the end of the current turn."

So we get advantage by giving up our movement.

AND

Sneak Attack damage ability says "You know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe’s distraction. Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack roll if you have Advantage on the roll and the attack uses a Finesse or a Ranged weapon. The extra damage’s type is the same as the weapon’s type."

So it can be done with any attack with advantage.

SO

Does this mean we can give ourselves a free Sneak Attack on an enemy without an ally attacking them from melee or us hiding from them?

Okay so my friend and I were talking about what our stats would be, and I am under the opinion that my friend would have a low con score, while he does not believe so.

My arguments are his DEATHLY allergy to dogs, severe asthma for which he never takes his inhaler, he's chronically got a cold/sick, always exhausted and dead tired.

His argument is that allergies or being chronically sick don't count for con, and are just general weaknesses not refective of what his stats would be.

Any points/opinions that would help my side would be appreciated!

If you don't agree with me, that's also so fine I'd love to actually learn that pov and am open to being wrong, but I would then like to gaslight my friend into thinking I'm right <3

/jk of course but also please I need to win this my credibility is on the line T-T

Thanks all!

Tldr: Help define Con in a way that will help me win an argument that a chronically ill/allergic to everything friend would in fact have a low con score. Thanks<3

Edit: I understand I may be wrong please help me gaslight him and win

Second edit: I want to reassure people that this is all in good fun. Argument is probably a bad way for me to have phrased this, but there is absolutely no tension or real fight happening here. We're just joking around

The spell itself seems pretty fine/balanced, and its roleplay-wise also great in terms of it fits her character and her background, I'm just wondering if its okay to allow my players to homebrew their own spells/equipments and if thats a slippery slope.

Here's the spell btw:
Minds That Meld

3rd-level Enchantment

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

All alive were born of a Single Consciousness. You reach into the minds of nearby creatures and temporarily return them to the cosmic awareness, intertwining their senses.

Choose a point you can see within range. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet of that point must make a Wisdom saving throw.

Melded Enemies

On a failed save, a creature becomes Melded for the duration.

While Melded, the creature involuntarily receives fragments of the sensory experiences of every other Melded creature. It hears sounds that its allies hear, sees flashes from their perspectives, and feels sensations that do not belong to it.

A Melded creature has disadvantage on attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Additionally, whenever a Melded creature makes an attack roll or casts a spell that targets a creature, it must roll a d4. On a 1, the creature must choose a different legal target, if one is available.

At the end of each of its turns, a Melded creature can repeat the Wisdom saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Sympathetic Meld

Alternatively, you can cast this spell targeting one willing creature within 30 feet.

For the duration, you and the willing creature share your senses. Whenever either of you makes an attack roll or ability check, you can choose to have advantage or disadvantage on the roll.

When one of you chooses advantage, the other creature receives disadvantage on its next attack roll or ability check before the end of its next turn.

The two of you cannot benefit from both advantage and disadvantage on the same roll.

The spell ends for both creatures if either creature moves more than 60 feet from the other.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you can target one additional willing creature with Sympathetic Meld for each slot level above 3rd.

For a little bit of context I'm a baby dnd player, i have only played a one shot once with an experimented dm who was showing people how to play in dnd. Since then i've been trying lightheartedly to find people to play dnd with. A week or so ago i joined a discord server and a person messaged me in private asking if i was intrested in joining a campaign (which is a big yes, very much so.)

But something feels weird. The player who asked me told me that it was a free campaign and that the only thing to pay for was the artist to draw our characters (which is entirely valid). She asked me to contact the dm, which i did. I explained that it would be my actual first campaign and that i might need help with creating a character and have a lot of questions and the dm was chill about it.

But it felt odd when he almost immediately asked about the payment for the artist. He gave me a few example pictures and the art is nice and all (not exactly my jam but it's okay) and when i mentioned that i wouldn't be able to pay much this month (and that i didn't have much money right now) he already went on about instalments to pay now and i had to explain that i get payed monthly and not weekly. The commission for the artist is 30$ as insurance and 69$ later when the commission is done. I'm not exactly fond of the art but it's the dm's campaign so he can choose who he wants especially since it's to be coherent in the art style for everyone.

It only feels odd now for me because he doesn't answer my messages at all. In the mornings i don't expect answers since we're in different time zones but i had a question for my character creation (because i've been doing research on the internet) and he hasn't been answering at all for a few days. I feel like it's kinda weird especially with the fact that he isn't on the server i met his friend in..

Since i'm new to dnd and all i don't know if it's normal or not and honestly i'm getting a little scared since i don't know those people. I haven't talked with them before i was asked about the campaign in private messages out of the discord server i joined.

Sorry about this long message, i'm just anxious and i hoped more experienced people here might be able to help me.

Edit : thank you everyone for the help and telling me that it is a scam, i didn't know about it at all since i'm new to dnd and ttrpg's. I blocked both people and reported the profiles thanks so much for confirming my fears before i did anything dumb (i'm very lucky to not have had any money this month for fun stuff, it helped me avoid bieng scammed)

I recently ran my first ever session as a DM and during that session I accidentally placed a building that was supposed to have a secret basement on a „floating market” that just consists of a bunch of huge wooden rafts tied together and floating on water at the coastline with some market stands on it. The problems here are A: An actual building is way too heavy for the floating market and B: it’s impossible to have a basement when the building is on a raft on the water. I can’t just move the building because I had an npc show my players the location of the building on a map. How tf do I fix this?

Edit: I really didn’t expect this many responses and there’s so many great ideas! Thank you all so much, this community is so nice

Every week on the day of our sessions I ask my dnd group a question related to their characters, even our DM gets in on it with some of our prominent npcs! It’s a great way to tap into our characters before game time and learn about the other pcs and npcs through information that may or may not be revealed organically. However after a while I start to run out of things to ask, so I was wondering if anyone had any questions they like to ask their players or fellow party members? (For example, I ask things like “What is a food that reminds your character of home?” and “Describe an ability that your character uses and how it might look unique for them”