## Thread Rules

​

* New to Reddit? Check the Reddit 101 guide.

​

* If your account is less than 5 hours old, the /r/DnD spam dragon will eat your comment.

​

* If you are new to the subreddit, **please check the Subreddit Wiki**, especially the Resource Guides section, the FAQ, and the Glossary of Terms. Many newcomers to the game and to r/DnD can find answers there. Note that these links may not work on mobile apps, so you may need to briefly browse the subreddit directly through Reddit.com.

​

* **Specify an edition for ALL questions**. Editions must be specified in square brackets ([5e], [Any], [meta], etc.). If you don't know what edition you are playing, use [?] and people will do their best to help out. AutoModerator will automatically remind you if you forget.

​

* **If you have multiple questions unrelated to each other, post multiple comments** so that the discussions are easier to follow, and so that you will get better answers.

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 (22 F) have been playing DnD with this group for almost two years now. We just finished a rough campaign where my character, the secret traitor of the group betrayed our group for an evil goverment organization, with the other player's characters ending up getting experimented on by my character, who was a doctor/scientist.
After that was over the same DM (24 M) wanted to dm again, but in the same world and setting (post apocalyptic fictional island riddled with undead and mutants) just with new characters. Now, to give more context in the last campaign I was the only woman, not to mention I made my character be a plus size lady. That earned me a whole lot of sexistic and fatphobic jokes which I tried to laugh along with while lowkey dying inside.
Anyway, since I didn't feel comfortable playing a guy just to fit in, I decided to make a nonbinary character. I already drafted up their design. They're a somewhat femme presenting person with no real focus on sexuality or gender (Again, the setting is post apocalypse, ain't noone tryna look like the Tomb Raider).

So I send my draft to the dm with a picture of the character and just the summary of the class and the fun fact about them being non-binary. His first response is "Bruh" before adding "Why not make things complicated?" I was confused, thinking he didn't like my choice of a class, which ig fair, we still needed a medic and leader, but given that I was the medic last campaign, I didn't want a repeat. So I asked what exactly was complicated and what could be complicated about a non-binary character. I just saw it as a shift in grammar and not just being seen as "The girl" of the group. His response about the issue is "How to reffer to you? How will the others react to you?" Which is annoyingly vague and leaves me wondering if he was reffering to the other players or the NPC's. I gave him my suggestions to how NPC's could call out to my character and then he goes "Right, but then one will go 'That lady' and your character will loose it and go on a rant about misgendering and not identifying as female."

The whole interaction overall left me feeling bitter about the whole thing. I just wanted to step out of my comfort zone in roleplay while also giving myself more of a chance to blend in with the group. But now I'm second guessing everything. I don't want to back down so easily at the first pushback, but I also don't want to make it a whole annoying thing. But at the same time it really sucks that the last message he sent is "Like I told the others, ok, go ahead, but control yourself" which I have no idea how to interpret.

Am I overreacting?

We recently wrapped up our final day of games aboard the Event.Cruises D20 Cruise to Bermuda, and it was an incredible experience from start to finish. We shared unforgettable adventures, rolled a lot of dice, and created some amazing memories together with an awesome community of players and GMs.

I had the chance to run two very different groups during the trip. One campaign followed a pirate crew searching for a hidden treasure to fulfill their captain’s dying wish. Their journey eventually led them to a mysterious hidden island filled with vast treasures, ancient dangers, and the discovery of a powerful wish orb that could change the fate of the seas.

The second group found themselves trapped aboard a cursed cruise ship. During the day, every cursed passenger believed it was their very first day setting sail. But when night fell, the passengers transformed into horrifying monsters who remembered every terrible event from the last 100 years aboard the ship. The players had to investigate the mystery during the daylight hours and survive the horrors that emerged each night.

I am currently dm-ing a group of players for Curse of Strahd, spoilers for such

Currently, they are at the scene in which the Donkey-Headed man in the stocks was just decapitated in front of them. The two party members who have seen this are desperate to fix this, this is their plan

1. Cast major illusion so the crowd and the executioner, Izek, won't see them

2. Collect the head and the body of the man, put them together, and cast an array of healing spells to see what works

With the party being separated, the session being minutes from over, and me just honestly not knowing how to handle it, I used it as a good closer.

With this campaign being Strahd, I'm inclined to not have the spells work, with the donkey-headed man already being decapitated, but I am unsure on how to balance narrating how their desperate actions will not bring this man back, without making my players feel as if it is relatively unfair.

How would you go about letting them down in this?

So, I've been playing in this game for a couple of sessions and having plenty of fun. But when I approached the DM about how to proceed with my backstory (simple enough revenge plot), they told me that they weren't planning on incorporating backstories into the game. Now, I wouldn't mind if I knew this before, but we spent quite some time before the game talking back and forth to make it fit the setting and would have made something different or not made the effort if I knew it would not matter.

It has kind of drained my interest in the game since I feel weird playing a character with a dead motivation now.

Any advice on how to regain my lost interest?

Edit: I feel I need to be clear: I don't mind playing a pc with a backstory that doesn't relate to the game. Problem is that it went from building a backstory with the DM explicitly saying "Pc is hunting X for revenge" to "don't bother asking about X, not gonna include that in the game."

I did the Invincible meme with my DnD party, and this was way too funny to draw. I was laughing the entire time while making it.

Don’t ask questions about the catgirl’s gadget. It’s her main weapon and somehow the strongest weapon in the party, but nobody wants to touch it for very obvious reasons. It’s her weapon, after all.

Maybe I’ll do one for my other DnD party too, where I somehow ended up playing 3 characters at the same time. Roleplaying as 3 orcs at once is honestly hilarious. These Invincible memes are just too funny not to draw.

Players are walking down a hall in a dungeon. Rogue's passive perception picks up some random scrapes on the floor. Rogue then rolls and the DM says, definitely scrapes but try as you might, you can't locate any secret door mechanism.
Queue players puzzling out the trick.
As they're thinking and trying things they're attacked by bad guys...

Because, you see, it's not a secret door at all, just some scrapes the bad guys left to slow people down and give them time to muster their forces and attack.

OR

What if they're literally just scrapes (red herring)? DC 20 check. Player makes it DM says: they appear to be just scrapes, you find no door or mechanism.

Is one or both of these a jerk move?

I am working on a dungeon and would like to throw some interesting challenges at the players...but I don't want them to be un fun or to be a nozzle about it.

edit: Thank you all for the amazing thoughts and ideas! I'm going to take a lot of this and mull it over.

I will definitely use it, but I think the advice of not wanting to train the players to NOT investigate is good advice.

Race: Dark Elf
Gender: Female
Age: 297
Class: Trickery Domain Cleric
Level: 8

This character is a cleric of Lolth, dedicated to worshipping specifically his domain of betrayal.

She has devoted her entire life to the worship of her deity, sowing betrayal and misunderstanding among friends, allies, and lovers, all to please her.Everything within her reach is an instrument of evil: a knife, a word, and even her own body can bring about the destruction of a relationship and even bloodshed.She is ruthless when drunk and even more cruel when sober.

After betraying her Mother Superior in the temple, she now roams freely to continue pleasing her deity.

My DnD party just finished a 4 year long campaign! they got their happily ever afters and everything! ask anything you want about the campaign please!

Things like background stuff and personal things, i think its fine.
But in the campagne we play. Players constantly keep secrets from each other.
Especially the rogue. We have ONES disturbed a plotline of his. And he since basicly made his verdict to never tell anyone anything anymore unless its necessary. For some time it worked. Especially since we have one or two players that play recklessly. But the last sessions it all crumbles abouth us together. Personally I am fed up with it. How do other players handle it?

Edit:
To make it clear. I did not mean players but characters. And than force the characters to be played as constantly in the dark about big secrets of the arc is making me a bit annoyed.