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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.

So in my campaign, my son created his own weapon he calls the Titan. In game it’s a combination punching weapon and buckler. (Not a full glove, more like an oblong shield bent at a right angle and added ‘knuckles’).

1d8 bludgeon damage, chance to knock an enemy prone and +1 AC.

The full size version is cardboard, hot glue and paint. It’s his first cardboard project and he knocked (pun intended) out of the park.

Do you think the stats are fair?

Thanks for looking

Some of the pages on my 5.5e players handbook (specifically 355 and 358) have this weird separation of red and black writing when on other pages the writing doesn't have this 'affect' and it doesn't appear to interact with the black writing. Is this normal?

I don't know how to write four hundred characters worth of description... Sooo because of this colour separation thing it's kinda giving the sprite a chromatic aberration effect that looks cool, the quasit not so much the colour separation is happening to all brown text so the name stats even the size is being seperated from different grays and the box's that house their stats is also being seperated. Not even the page number is safe! It happens in those two pages though and I don't think they have any relation other than they're both stat blocks.

Modeled in Blender, 3D printed in resin, and painted by me. This was a mimic idea chosen by my Patreon members, and it was super fun to create!

Without having ever seen a lawn flamingo "in the flesh", I have no idea how large one is meant to be. But after some guess-timations based on Google searches, I think this sculpture is almost as big as a typical lawn flamingo. The metal poles I purchased to stand them in the lawn are 18 inches long, if that helps you visualize how big they are.

I have a video going into a little more detail on the design process on my social media:

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For several years I chickened out of DMing. I was scared of messing up, not being good at it, not knowing enough, etc. Well, I took the plunge a few months ago and it's been going really well. For context, my group is online and we have camera-on sessions for maximum roleplaying and interaction. Well, as I began to close out the session last night, I looked at the cameras in Discord. To my absolute HORROR, my boyfriend was standing around in the hallway completely naked, fully facing the camera as he closed the linen closet. It apparently never occurred to him that anyone would be able to see him in the hallway. By some miracle I noticed before anyone else and shouted at him to move. My friends' eyes were saved.

The lesson is this: things will inevitably go wrong. But you'll probably be the only one to notice, and you can all have a good laugh about it later!

The human barmaid, a half blood aarakocra pickpoket, a zombie rogue, an infected fly man, a nocturnal sorcerer with pink flame hair, a young fighter,a mage apprentice and a senior gunsmith.

I pretty much only work in pencil these days. Digital doesnt do it for me anymore, I need to feel the sketchy lines.

Each little sketch takes about 5 to 15 mins and it helps everybody remember the story elements for the next weeks session. I'm in the middle of a big dungeon crawl, and there are taverns in the dungeon for convenience. Its been fun to draw mare and more high level npcs the further down we go.

I will crop all of these out and post their full descriptions so they can pop up in your sessions too.

On The Cover…

In this piece by Nacho Lazaro, the influential devil Hasphermet scries the many layers of Pandemonium, from the Dragon Steppe to the Stygian Sea. Her command over the realm of Dead Tiamat is greater than many, even within the shattered hells themselves, suspect. After all, in a plane of mighty demons and ancient dragons, what can a lowly reborn mortal do? Many things, as it turns out.

The Giveaway!

We've recently released a 90-page sourcebook all about our take on the infernal plane of Pandemonium. This is our take on the realm of chaos, unrelated to that of the Forgotten Realms, but with plenty of fiendish goodness that you can drag-and-drop into *any* hellish setting you fancy.

As is tradition for us at the Codex of Strings, we're doing a giveaway for this amazing community that propelled us from a brutally anonymous writing duo into a small studio full of talented and passionate creatives <3

Find out how to partake in the comments below!

I started a new campaign with a great DM looking for a classic DnD campaign. The world he has is very deep and interesting with a really interesting map to explore. It was going to be a 1 on 1 game, but we decided to seek out another player to make it a duo. This was a paid game so I am in no real place to dictate terms of the game and I generally get along with any player so I didn’t expect any problems.

Anyways, the player that chose to join the game wants to play a Tiefling from a different campaign. It’s inspired by some anime and definitely does not fit the setting. He plays a child version of this same character in a separate campaign and want to try an adult version in this one. They describe her as a party girl type, she wears sweatpants and sneakers with an oversized sword. The description totally took me out of the game, as it does not match the serious fantasy tone of the world. Also I’m open minded, but something about an adult male playing a female child (even if it is in a different game) gives me a weird feeling.

In fairness to them I did mentioned how I felt to the DM and they said they would not have them be from an alternative universe as initially planned, but I think for me the issue is just that this kind of character is going to ruin the experience for me. I feel bad because the DM and I set up the game and the story behind it and I don’t want that to go to waste. I agreed to let another player join in but I feel I have lost my excitement knowing the only other PC is going for a completely different tone of a game. I will also add that this player has not put much time into the game, and doesn’t feel invested, so i don’t know if they are truly interested in staying for the long haul. I would like to stick it out and see how it goes, but ultimately in a paid game I don’t want to waste anyone’s time, including the other player and the DM who sets everything up for a reasonable price.

Is it fair for me to ask the DM or other player directly to step away or should I be the one to just respectfully leave (which would probably cancel the game anyways as a result)?

Why are little pieces of plastic so expensive? Even the “cheap” knockoffs seem a little ridiculous. Am I the only one thinking this? I’m new to this and looking for some monsters for my kids.

This can be something exclusive to your character/build or something open to everyone. Basically anything where you're using mastery of the rules to maximise your chances of success. I'll start with a few my party have used, some are pretty basic but figured I would include them.

Our Druid transformed into a Giant Octopus vs a Dragon. It's auto restrain on hit meant the Dragon either had to spend its action escaping or be unable to move.

Grappling enemies to drag them into a line or spell effect radius.

Dropping prone at the end of every turn vs ranged opponents. Preferably behind cover to give extra AC and disadvantage to hit. You do lose half your movement though.

Using Sleep to almost guarantee an opponent breaks concentration on a spell, this usually requires either some luck or really paying attention to the damage a creature has taken.

Dropping you turn in initiative until just after your target for Sanctuary has acted, ensuring they get the full rounds benefits of the spell for little to no draw back.

If you're about to heal someone who is on low HP, hold the action until after they've been hit. They may go to 0 and you can get them straight back up again without skipping a beat and maybe mitigating more damage than healing immediately would have.