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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.

I just joined a game in progress and we're level 6. One of the players bragged his AC is 24. 22 would be considered insanely high at level 6 so I asked him how in the hell is that possible and he just smiled. We have all our characters on DnDBeyond so I was curious.

Turns out he's playing a 3rd party race that gives AC 13 + Dex if you're not wearing armor, and playing a class that gives CHA to AC.

Everything I know about DnD says a Race based AC bonus can't combine with Stat to AC bonus. Dndbeyond is also notoriously bad for adding bonuses to 3rd party content.

Should I let the DM know? If he's okay with it then fine, but not sure if he is.

Edit: Here are the two abilities

Well Protected - Dhampir

Your ability to roll with even the worst attacks means that armor would only slow you down. When you are not wearing armor, your AC is equal to 13 + your Dexterity modifier.

Illrigger

Combat Mastery

2nd-Level Illrigger Feature

Your archdevil grants you uncanny skill in a certain form of combat. Choose one of the following illrigger combat masteries:

Bravado

While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Charisma modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

As the title says, I think this campaign is over. I've been in a campaign since Jan of last year, we've played a total of 12ish sessions over that time. One player has made things difficult at first but we worked through it and thought it was okay, however in November I and another player realized we didn't get all the info about what was going on in the campaign during session 0 and we brought up how we were not comfortable about the sexual assault that a character had, and the continued grooming of said character was going on since it was hard no's in our consent checklist. The player that was involved in this got mad, but a change needed to be made, and the DM made it.

At the beginning of this month, I told the DM I couldn't do one of the days and then was told that there would be no sessions this month at all. Found out today that the DM is now working on another campaign with the player who made a fuss about us not wanting that involved in the campaign, and the DM is actively not talking to me. I think within the next few days I am going to be getting a message that the campaign is over, and I feel like I'm losing a friend in the process, since I just didn't want something that triggered me in a TTRPG. It sucks since I love my character a lot, and since it was a homebrew world, I don't think I can use her again.

Long story short my character has a axe from his dad who was from a race that isn’t from where we are.

gm says oh there are some of them looking for a half blood with a axe cool here we go I get to use some of my backstory I tell everyone my backstory (I don’t know why they want the axe but it’s obviously important) we find them with some tracking the leader comes to us and starts talking then another player just literally says “I run him through with my sword” I’m like umm ok kinda rude maybe kill the rest leave one to see why and how they are here.

the gm literally had to pull some bs just to save him twice we get down to the last grunt and a the leader I kill the grunt the leader starts doing some weird stuff he’s on the floor eyes white and with some rolls we figure out his not in his body he’s controlling something but if he dies so does the thing (it was a crow) I say oh well why don’t we tie him up and bring him back the king would be please to know where they come from NOPE another player (not the first one) literally says can I go over and kill him gm doesn’t want to stop people playing the way they want so he has to let it happen like wtf you just killed my hook.

Look I know I’m new but if you can clearly see what is being put on show here at least have some common decency to let it play out is this normal is there a way I can try to progress my story like next time we are at a town ask about my axe or something it’s not just because it happens times to me it’s just like come on.

Ps the two that started it literally have no backstory what so ever one of them is just a dude in armour (won’t take it off won’t talk about himself just here for the murder ok cool if you wanna play like that but not everyone does) and the other one won’t even tell us his name I’m not talking rouge being mysterious I mean if we ask him anything about the guy who is going to be travelling with us and watching our back in a fight I would at least like to know his name

Can anyone help me try navigate this I talked to some others and they basically said yeah it was kinda messed up but they didn’t wanna get involved

Finally got around to building a DnD table. We have a pretty steady 6-7 player campaign going in a unique and custom build sandbox world. The table isn’t done yet but this has been a pretty ambitious first game table build and I love it. The wood is going to be painted black and each seat is going to get a small 8” shelf in front of their chairs which is where they will be able to roll their dice, it will have inset cup holders, and where you can snack. On the table top is a TV for our move into Arkenforge from hand drawn maps. TV is a 42” Toshiba with a piece of 1/4 plexiglass over top so we can still use our minis. On each side of the tv are power strips because we use DnDbeyond for character sheets. This was also build to double as my personal computer desk as well. There is a sound system under the table along with my computer and there will be led lights around the corners of the ceiling instead of the lamp which will run to a remote so I can change colors of the room on the fly depending on the tone of the game. Unfortunately this was the smallest I could make the table but still make sure it was a 7+1 table for myself and my PC’s. I’m open to any ideas on how to make it better. I am only a hobby woodworker and this is the first thing I have ever upholstered so it’s not the best, but it works for our needs for sure.

(Im not sure why but I am not able to upload any other photos)

I'm preparing for an upcoming campaign with my long time group (after several years, swapping roles with our DM so he gets to be a player again) and one minor encounter I want to have the players find is an alchemist having a yard sale where he's selling his failed experiments for cheap. I'm looking for ideas that are close to a real potion or spell, but off somehow so that the potion would have very limited use cases. I'm curious to see what potions my players would find intriguing to buy and how they may eventually use them. For example, I'm going to have a potion of stone to flesh, which does exactly what it sounds like.

For example, I love the Wand of Smiles because it’s fun and whimsical, but I have no earthly idea how (or if) you could use one to actually accomplish a task. It just forces a person to physically smile, it doesn’t actually make them happy or anything (technically smiling triggers brain chemistry things that do make you slightly happier, but you know what I mean). I desperately want it (and other items like it) to have been useful to someone at some point but I can’t really picture it.

I have a group that often forgets to search areas and ends up missing key items. To address this, I’ve been asking the party to make a History check. If they succeed, I give them a hint about something they may have previously seen that would be worth revisiting or investigating. What’s a better way to handle this?

From a free Patreon post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/148007088

Here's what I propose for the paragon wizard:

[...]

Let's keep spells and slots of levels 6 and higher.

[...]

A wizard gets five level 5 spell slots. They regain those slots when they take a 1 minute rest. Is that busted? It sounds powerful, but compared to what other characters can do I think it's reasonable. Fireball cast with a level 5 slot does 10d6 to everything in an encounter. That's 35 damage. At level 11, you can expect to fight CR 8 and higher creatures in numbers. Those monsters have well over 100 hit points. The fireball leaves a mark, but it is not much of one. As you'll see with the fighter, that output looks nice but falls short of classes throwing attacks down range. If we re-orientate epic level encounter building to big fights rather than a war of attrition, this should work.

I do not know about this. Mike still seems to think "Fireball" and not "Banishment" or "Wall of Force."

What do you think?

So my players managed to talk their way out of a combat encounter that I had prepped pretty extensively for. Made a map I was proud of, designed a unique mini boss enemy with its own heroforge (we play online). All in all I was quite proud of what I had put together and I was excited to run it. But the players found a good way out of the combat encounter and we carried on.

I’m glad my players did this, it allowed for a good emergent bit of narrative and player choice is the best part of DnD in my opinion. But I’m a new dm and this is the first time this has happened to me, so I feel disappointed and sad that my preparations, both with the mechanics and visuals of the fight, got glossed over.

How does everyone handle this personally? Is it just part of being a DM that you will plan something cool and your players will occasionally find another way around it or avoid it? It takes me a while to make maps and plan combat which I know will get faster with experience but part of me feels like a couple of hours has gone to waste if that makes sense?