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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.

Actually my first time drawing an anthro-type animal all to fulfill my dreams of a beautiful big muscular minotaur woman. Lucky lucky me

General idea of she's a gladiator that loves money, bitches and hoes.

She's not in play, rather she's a silly little idea I had in my head and had to draw she's obviously going to be a fighter or a barbarian of some kind but I would love, love, love suggestions for her! Hooray!

A while ago my party lost one of their most treasured magic items: an Immovable Rod. I wrote about this before. tl;dr version, they got up to a lot of shenanigans with it and used it to nope what was supposed to be a brutally difficult encounter. They got a bit careless with it during a later melee, however, and a demon pirate ran off with it. The party was sad. I was happy they'd stop breaking my campaign.

After a few months of them lamenting the loss (not whining or begging, just genuinely looking like kicked puppies when reminiscing) I decided to throw them a bone and give them something that might soothe the hurt a bit: an Instant Anvil. This is exactly what it sounds like: a 1-inch miniature anvil that once a day can be activated to instantly enlarge to a normal-sized 200-pound anvil. No real pre-determined mechanics besides the transformation, because... it's an anvil. What are they gonna do with it?

I did not think this one through.

The first clue I had that this would be a problem was when the party was interrogating some captives who weren't being cooperative. The monk says that he puts the Instant Anvil inside the mouth of one of the prisoners, and... The look of slowly-dawning horror you're currently experiencing is exactly the same one that I had.

Alright, war crime, and a particularly creative one at that, but this is D&D - players are supposed to come up with creative war crimes (right? RIGHT?) There's no reason this item is going to be game breaking.

Did I mention that one of the characters has some limited flight ability?

Imagine my utter horror and frustration as a DM when a character states that he's going to get as much altitude as possible in one round, hurl the Anvil at the anti-paladin below who's been kicking the party's asses, and enlarge it just before it hits. And imagine that they Nat20 the attack roll.

The climactic fight of the 2004 movie Kung Fu Hustle concludes with a move called Buddha Palm Descending From Heaven. This was that, by way of an angry meteor. The dice were... not kind to the anti-paladin. He was driven into the ground, John Henry-style.

This maneuver has since become a standard part of the party's playbook. Most recently they curb-stomped a tyrannosaurus with it. And there seems to be no stopping them.

It's too late for me, but please, do what you can to save yourself. Looney Tunes magic items are ALWAYS a bad idea. No matter what your intent, your players WILL find a way to turn you in Wile E. Coyote with them, then meep-meep off into the sunset.

I think it could be worth wile for mage armor to increase by one point for every other level above first. 14+Dex at third level slot 15 at a fifth level slot etc. Seems fair for someone with max dexterity to achieve an ac of 20 for a fifth level spell slot.

Hello everyone! I was just introduced to what Dnd is and completely fell in love with it. I want to play all the time now, it is so awesome.

That's it. That's the post. Just wanted to share my new enthusiasm with everyone!

Spoilers for Lost mines of Phandelver

I DM Lost mines of Phandelver (LmoP) for 3 of my friends. We are 4 sessions in and so far everything is great (they are currently in the Redbrand hideout)

The wizard in my party learned about the lost spellbook of which Agatha knows the location.

The issue is that in the module there practically is no spellbook but my wizard is making grand plans on what to do with it. I don’t want to disappoint her. Any advice on how to fix this?

Note: we are all (including me) first time players, but we all played BG3.

I really need some advice before I lose my mind at the table. I'm a player in a campaign with a group of friends, and we've been playing together for at least 2 times a month for 2 years. The problem? They STILL don't know how to resolve basic rules and mechanics.

I feel like I'm going crazy. I've tried teaching them in every possible way. I’ve tried being patient and helpful, I’ve tried the "tough love" approach, 2 sessions ago I literally killed my friend (not proud, it was a mistake, but it served as a lesson).

To give you an idea of how bad it is: in our last session, they literally stood still for 3 turns doing nothing because they simply didn't know what to do or how their characters worked. Apart from that, the turns are too long. Iusually do my things in about 30-40 seconds and they take 10 min each. The pace is 1 battle per session, doesn't matter what we're battling and my gameplay is to sit there and watch they making the same questions again.

I don't know what to do anymore without sounding like an absolute jerk. They are my real-life friends, so I really don't want to abandon the table, but my fun is tanking hard.

Has anyone dealt with a group like this? How do you force players to actually learn the game they've been playing for 24 months without ruining the friendship? Is this how DM's are born?

PS: I know there's gonna be the usually "maybe DnD is not for them" or "not everyone plays for combat" but they asked me and the DM to teach and help them and we do play others systems (we still have the same problems lol)

5e and a new player. I'm familiar with the rules but not enough to make this into a viable idea and didn't see an option for this type of character. I'd like to make a monk, soft-spoken and generally good natured, not a party face or a combat power house, just the one who chimes in with nuggets of wisdom and helps out with difficult situations. The part that I'm looking for help with is the fighting skill: I like the idea of throwing tiny pebbles with enough force to actually do some damage. Like the old myth of Buddhist monks being able to throw a small needle hard enough to break a window or something. The closest thing I can come up with would be to treat the pebbles as darts when I'm the one holding them but I wasn't sure. The dm is open to ideas we have that don't fit neatly in the rules and of course has final say, so I thought I'd gather some ideas here to pitch to hopefully lightening the amount of work he has to do if he goes for it.

Edit: wow was not expecting so many responses and I love the discussion. Thanks so much everyone, I think I've got what I need but am still more than happy to read anything anyone else wants to contribute.

"The forest was silent, for all them who didn't know how to listen".

This is some sort of ranger-like archetipe for the project I am illustrating for. The setting develops around a post-apocalyptic world, defined feudal sci-fi as I said in the title. I'm having a lot of fun in exploring ways to include advanced tech to medieval stuff, mixing the two worlds to make them cohexist.

Also, I am actually open for commissions, and you can see more of my works on ig at simone_tammetta_art . Don't hesitate to DM me!

This is just one of the many art I am working on lately, so stay tuned and be ready to know more about it!

Hope you will like this in the meantime!

Born with a celestial guide and a destiny to fight evil, Amara was raised to be a shining champion of justice. However, she never quite fit into the role she was given. Her deva taught her to oppose evil wherever it appeared, and yet the older she became, the more she questioned what evil really looked like. Monsters are easy to identify, but a corrupt official, a greedy merchant, and abusive nobles were not. Over and over she watched those with power evade justice through their wealth and influence. Her deva insisted that fair judgement requires mercy and restraint, but Amara disagreed. Determined to do what the heavens would not, she began hunting down those she believed deserved to be punished. This path cost her the guidance of her celestial mentor, leaving her a fallen aasimar who continues to fight against evil, whether or not the heavens approve.