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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.

A dragonborn piece I finished recently. He's a fierce, intimidating, yet kind dragonborn barbarian with a strong lust for battle, almost to the point where he thinks swinging his axe can solve all the world's problems.

At a glance, everyone would mistake him for a brute, muscle-brained barbarian who wrecks everything in sight. But once you take a good look and try to befriend him, he's surprisingly approachable and enjoys nurturing young warriors, indirectly acting as a sort of mentor figure.

This character actually came from my backlog of sketches and was once used as the base design for another character, which was ultimately scrapped. I thought it would be a waste to simply put him back into my backlog, so I decided to properly work on this dragonborn character, and boy, I'm glad I did! :D

If you'd like to see my other works, kindly visit : Bluesky - Cara - ArtStation - Instagram - Threads

for inquiry, email me at: [rudiindra4art@gmail.com](mailto:rudiindra4art@gmail.com)

I was looking at Create or Destroy Water and was thinking about how heavy the rainfall would be.

10 gallons(US) over 30ft x 30ft would be roughly about 0.453mm of rain. Now that doesn't sound like much but that is only over the course of 6 seconds.

That would be an hourly rate of 271.8mm (or 10.7 inches) which would be similar rainfall to a cloudburst or hurricane. Putting 270mm/hr into https://rainsimulator.com/ provides a good idea of what the spell would look like over 6s.

It turns out 10 gallons in a 30ft cube is a bit more violent than I expected, I feel like in the 30ft cube you would have little to no visibility and hearing until the start of the casters next round.

Edit: Thought I would have a bit of fun and look at the destroy water part of the spell. The volume of water destroyed in a 30ft cube of fog would only be ~38.2ml, to destroy 10 gallons of water as fog we would need close to ~300ft cube of fog. That's all very quick, rough maths though.

My party has been playing together for about 5 years at this point and I woke up to our group chat a few days ago letting us know that one member is leaving. Everything seemed fine and we had plans to play this week. We are all friends and I haven't heard of any personal issues within the party. I texted her after I saw the message and I still haven't heard anything. I hope everything is okay, but this just feels so out of character for her. Maybe I'm being dramatic, but this feels like a break-up. She didn't mention anything about us all still being friends in the text. It was a "thanks for the memories but I'm going to go now" message. Thanks for listening. I just needed to get this off my chest to a community that understands how heartbreaking it is to lose a good party member.

Edit: Thank you all so much for your kind words. It truly helps. I agree, I think something happened outside of the party and they need to take care of themselves. I don't think it's a suicidal thing because of the wording, but I appreciate those who were concerned about that.

I sent her a text along the lines of "I know this was a hard decision, but I support and care about you". Like you all said, trying to convince her to stay isn't the move. Especially since I know it wasn't easy to leave.

I really can't express how appreciative I am of your comments. I didn't expect anyone to respond and was kind of just shouting into the void. Thank you so so so much.

This little guy is about 4 inches tall and carved from basswood with a knife and a couple small gouges, then painted with the cheapest acrylics I can find...

I was going for an old, tired wizard who looks like he’s been adventuring about 40 years too long.

And before anybody asks... No, I totally did not trap a wizard in a block of wood. That would be ridiculous...

Also probably illegal in at least three kingdoms!

He was definitely carved. By hand. With normal tools. No spells involved.

The fact that he occasionally whispers from the shelf and keeps asking for his staff back is completely unrelated. Thats just how realistic i made him look. Totally!

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Getting folks into carving is my passion, and you read this far.. want to give it a go, but need good advice? Consider me your wierd whittling uncle (but without the creepy vibes)

You need several things, a sharp knife, a leather strop with compound for honing your blade, safety gloves (A5 or better) and basswood (to carve like i do at least.)

Solid Knife brands, Flexcut, Badger State Blades (USA), Mstein (Europe) there are a lot of great knife brands. Stay away from kits on amazon of several knives. (Except the flexcut, thats actually a solid option) They're much much lower quality with inconsistently tempered steel. (What that means is its not hardened, and so it won't stay sharp easy, meaning you're fighting the knife and dont understand why its harder for you to carve when its easy for others.)

Why Basswood? Its softer than other hardwoods and holds detail well. Learning to carve with basswood is akin to learning to drive on an automatic. It simplifies and streamlines learning. Woods like Walnut and oak can be carved, but learning to carve with them as the starting point is like learning to drive on an 18 wheeler Semi Truck with manual transmission. Its needlessly difficult.

In europe, the equivalent is Linden, in Asia, Jelutong, and in south America Caxeta is a good substitute

Piece for a client on VGen! they were very enthusiastic about my interpretation of the drawing they provided me of what they wanted. Unironically I think I had the most fun doing all the dinks in the leather - but battle damage is always one of the funnest bits for doing adventurer portraits.

Turn around was just shy of a week for finishing this up. Always glad to help bring people's stuff to life, you know?

My warlock recently acquired a new magic item, not realizing it was cursed. He is now afflicted with the inability to knowingly tell a direct lie. The issue I hadn't anticipated, however, is that the art of deception by way of spoken truth is not as universal as I'd assumed, and said player is asking where he can learn it. I very sadly do not have the time to instill in him the particulat parental traumas that taught me, so does anyone know of any sorts of guides in how to craft your words to avoid telling lies whilst avoiding sharing the truth?

This is my character Zhúzi (it means bamboo). Originally I had her for a campaign two years ago but that never continued, so this is a remade version from this year!

Originally she is inspired by the chinese jiangshi, the hopping vampire. That is what's written on her forehead. She also suffers from amnesia before the reanimation so me as the player, have also no idea what her backstory fully is which makes things interesting. She'll be a monk in an upcoming campaign :)

(DnD 5e)

One of my players is a warforged and they wanted to try and use heat metal on themselves. How would you handle the situation?

Let them roll the Saving Throw and take damage, let them roll concentration to see if they keep up the spell and then letting them add fire damage to an unarmed strike?

Or maybe they're harder to grapple then?

I love that they're being creative with their spells and I dont want to just say "no thats not working"

I'm a fairly new DM and don't really know how to handle it tho.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

For me personally, I want magic items that work directly off of my class features. Like how the Arcane Grimoire works directly off of Arcane Recovery. As a fighter, I want something that gives benefits when I use second wind or action surge.