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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.

Howdy folks!

A dragon? In my Dungeons & Dragons game? IN THIS ECONOMY?!

Crazy stuff.

Anyway, it's the last 24 hours left of the Grogna+Trevor Makeship plushie campaigns, so get yer plushies before they're gone!

That's it for now!

Stay excellent out there! Peace and carrots

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I received a request from a player recently to paint their character, a human paladin. They emphasized that her figure be somewhat long and thin, although in full plated armor. I felt it was an interesting challenge to try and give her a strong armored look while maintaining the elongated aesthetic they asked for.

For this piece I decided to stylize her features a bit more than usual, which I felt would suit her tall and thin frame. The player didn’t have much of a preference when it came to the placement of her sword and shield, so I decided to depict the back/inside of the shield rather than the front, and paint the details of the arm and hand rests, as it’s something I don’t do very often.

Aside from the elongated and stylized proportions, I focused on simple and geometric shapes, as it’s a feature of most of my work, and elements such as the cape, I kept pretty simple, flat, and shapely.

It was a very fun piece to work on, and I am genuinely happy with how it all turned out. I look forward to doing many more pieces like this, in which I can stylize quite a bit, as I find heavier stylization much more fun and interesting to view and work on.

I've been experimenting with different tree visuals for VTTs. People told me they would prefer to see the trunk to better navigate on maps, while keeping the visual of the canopy.

The Solid one is probably the most visually appealing but obscures a lot of detail one would need in a battle.

The transparent ones are the most tactically informative but make a map loot cluttered when on a map with lots of things.

Which one do you prefer and why?

Edit: Current vote count across all posts:

Solid 13, Solid with Trunk 4, Transparent 13, Transparent Middle 3, Shadow 16

Edit 2: Current vote count:
Solid 21, Solid with Trunk 4, Transparent 26, Transparent Middle , Shadow 44

A lot of people brought up combining Solid and Shadow which would be the most ideal. I counted these replies as votes for both Solid and Shadow.

Ex: dark speech, zombie templates for animate dead, black onyx to make raised dead permanent...

Inside the world of DND, how likely am I as a common villager to know about liches? Are they a myth? Does everyone know how they work, that they store their spirits in something so they can come back to life? Would only mercenaries know of them, or only wizards, or only kings? Would actual in-world liches be known as liches or would everyone think they were just very very old people? Would liches try to pretend they are some other kind of creature to throw people off their scent?

I'd like some opinions because I have no idea how well known they supposedly are!

One of the things i have been working on for our take on Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus is fleshing out the locations in chapter three using the Alexandrian remix. One of the major locations i finished (which i actually released as a module!) is the Lair of the lost Golgari.

I had a lot of fun with the project but easily the thing i put the most time into is the artwork. i had intended for it to be even more detailed and essentially on par with my highest quality work, but because the background needed to be so detailed i ended up with something about 50% of what I'm capable of. still, I'm pretty proud of where i ended up even if its not up to the art standards of official modules which is what i like to do normally.

In the scenario where someone had a child but the child was deceased (was stillborn or died tragically young for eg) ,what would happen if that person then promised their first born to a fae.

I'm imagining a scenario where someone unfortunately has found themself in a situation where they are dealing with a fae. The Fae naturally asked for the person's firstborn in return for something. Specifically their firstborn.The person agrees to the deal because they already lost their firstborn.

Also I imagine in this scenario, the fae may even ask the person "Do you have any children already?" .Technically they no longer have any children so the person could say no. They had a child but the child died.

Would some necromancy-like thing occur or would the fae own the child's soul?

Would the fae have to claw the child from the afterlife ?

I'm thinking of this as a character concept because I have a campaign that involves the fae and the undead.

So I've been turning the idea over in my head for a little while of 'a world where everyone gets their own signature spell', at-will without needing VSM. A temple healer that can innately Cure Wounds without tiring, or an unparalleled duelist who always has Shield up, or a career thief who uses Invisibility to sneak past guards, or an inquisitor with Detect Magic to sense other people's spells, or someone with Inflict Wounds cursed to kill everyone they shake hands with, or a scout who can teleport with Misty Step, or, or, or...

I don't know, I feel like there's a lot of potential for unique character concepts and builds. I'm passing the ball to you all - make a character with the premise that they can cast something fun! How does it impact who they are as a person? Do they lean into it or away from it? What effect does it have on their day-to-day life?

This is a worldbuilding idea, it's not meant to be balanced or possible within the rules!