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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.

Howdy folks,

IMPORTANT PSA: If you backed kickstarter campaign for TWR print: Rocketship is planning to start shiping the print editions of "The Weekly Roll" with all the supplements soon, and they're asking all Kickstarter backers to check their addresses. Kickstarter post with additional information, if needed: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rocketship/bucket-brigade-weekly-roll-webtoon/posts/4806893 thanks to u/Irvitzer for reminding me!

This one features Kate, the fourth Kickstarter backer who wanted to get murked in the comic, featuring an armor set made from scavenged bug parts (first time drawing that, fun challenge)!

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I have a D&DBeyond screenshot to prove it, but I’m rolling up a pugilist so I’m gonna dump Int or Cha. Please help me decide which is funnier!! This is going to be so fun I’m literally so pumped.

So me and two other of my friends are currently playing Curse Of Strahd. Our DM is also our friend and he has been running campaigns for at least 5 years. After our last session he told us that if one of us died we would either have to end the campaign without ever finishing it (we are in what he calls "the true middle") , or be revived ONLY if it made sense with the plot. His reasoning is fairly logical. He says that our party has been through many things that a new character joining wouldn't make sense. We are level 3 still, one of us already died at session 3 and was brought back as a dhampyr by Strahd. I have mixed feelings about this as I really love this module and I wouldn't be able to ever play in it as a character. I'm also a new DM myself playing a sorcerer with all the mighty AC and HP of a sponge and I'm really struggling to play as my character would normally fearing the consequences of one PC death. I try to avoid metagaming and act like my character would but I think that it will really put a strain in what we as a party are willing to do(my friends feel the same). Both of them(tanky half caster and war cleric) tend to reach 0 HP fairly fast either cause their character would rush in to save someone without making a plan or waiting for the rest of the party or just because they fight their way out of situations. I talk my way out of most encounters but we all have collectively made some pretty wild plans that have just barely worked. Us fearing that our campaign could end just because one of us did something stupid will put a strain at our actions. Is this rule like a common thing for some campaigns? what should I do?

Im no nativ English speaker, have mercy pls :D

We got a first small look into what the WoW Classes in DnD will be like and what Classes/Subclasses they will be based on.

Most of them write themself.

The obvoius ones being, Druid, Rogue, Monk, Warlock and so on, but even tho some of these are not the perfect fit for all (Sub-Rogue beeing based on Soulknife Subclass feels weird, but the base Class is still Rogue so it feels atleast right), they are making sense most of the time.

Then there is Shaman being worked into Barbarian. I dont see it.

I thougt Shaman would be a Fullcaster, especially Elemental and Restoration, and Enhanc would get somthing to empower Meele Attacks with Spellslots (Divine Smite but called Stormstrike)

There is no perfekt Fit for the WoW Class Shaman in DnD, but wouldnt there be better Choices than Barbarian?

Druid is in my Head the best one for the Job.

Primal Order - Warden gives u already proficiency with Martial Weapons and Medium Armor, add Shields to this and remove Swords/Polearms.

Wild Shape - Shaman cant use Wild Shape in the Druidic way, but maybe use it for Totems, Ghost Wolf, Feral Spirits or Elementals.

Spellcasting - Give Enhance somthing for Stormstrike, maybe a changeds Divine Smite, like the Death Kngihts got. A Way to expend Spellslots to enhance, see what i did there, your Meele capabilitys
Elemental might only need an expendet Spell List and Elemental Overload.

Same way Restro getting a expendet Spell List for more heals.

Now is this Perfect? No

Is it better than Shaman being Barbarians ? I Think so.
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We could obvoiusly also Talk about other Classes being a better fit for Shamans.

Warlocks because you are making a Pact with Elemental Spirits? Genie Warlock does exist but w/e

Sorcerer cuz your Ancestors maybe had fun with Elemental Spirits?

What are your Thoughts on this and are there maybe some other weird Choices they did?

Another thing that bothered me was them making a new Subclass for Disc and Shadow Priest while other Specs might have needed the sew Subclass more

I used to DM for a group a couple of years ago and I really loved it. It was a nice group (or so I thought at the time) and we were all kinda friends outside the group. When I had my baby I still tried to DM but life was too hectic for me with learning how to parent my firstborn and planning/running the campaign. I sat my group down and explained that at that time I wouldn't be able to continue to DM. I stated that I would still like to play with them and posed the question if anyone else would like to DM in my place either for a few months while I got more sorted in my new life or permanently if they enjoyed it. I wasn't about to storm back in going right I'm ready you need to step down now. I offered to loan the new DM all my resources such as the sourcebook I was using, DM handbook, players handbook, and a few manuals- monsters, tome of foes that kind of thing.

Nobody took me up on the offer. The girl who hosted us at her house told me she had spoken to everyone and they'd decided not to continue as a D&D group but still do stuff outside D&D. I accepted this and moved on focusing on my new little family. Despite trying to arrange stuff either with the group or individual members, I didn't hear from any of them for almost 2 years. On the rare occasion things were arranged they got cancelled last minute. I moved on.

Then I get a message out of the blue from one of the other girls in the group asking me to come back and DM for them. It came out that they'd been running at least monthly sessions without me for 2 years. The guy who had stepped up to DM in their words wasn't good (more to follow) and as such the group had split up for good this time because they couldn't take all his rules anymore. Half of them sticking with the new DM but the others wanted me to DM this new group of 3 players. I barely got an apology about being ignored for 2 years or explanation just would I come back and DM for them. It hurt to know that they'd deliberately left me out for 2 years when they knew I'd wanted to be a player in their group and still attend sessions. I already formed a new group so I'm not going to be DMing for them I just wanted to have a little rant I guess.

Complaints about their DM that stepped up in my absence

-They do not believe in campaigns only one shots, you cannot take items between one shots but have to play the same character

-The banned in-character flirting between anybody on the table as he feels it's cheating and if anyone tries any in-character flirting it's an instant nat1 roll on whatever they were doing because he won't be unloyal to his wife

-Each session the DM adds a +1 to the dice roll you have to succeed so say you needed a 10 or above to pick a lock in 5 sessions time you'd need a 15. One of my friends gripe was to successfully pickpocket they need to roll a 26 or above (with bonuses) which leads me onto

-DM does not agree with nat20s as they are too overpowered. You get no instant success for rolling a 20. My friend rolled a nat20 and had a +4 on sleight of hand to pickpocket in a crowded market but still did not pass the roll so got arrested because of the +1 each session stacking

-DM does like levelling up and has only let them level up twice. After 25+ sessions the characters are all level 3. They levelled up to level 3 in the last session they did together before the fallout.

-If you argue with the DM or correct the DM you lose your next turn in combat and take 1D4 damage

I'm sure there's some more stuff that I'm forgetting but those are the ones that really stuck in my head.

I named her a cute name after he surprised me with it on session 1. Now I’m willing to lay down my life for her after she saved me from wolves. We’re running Curse of Strahd. I am getting her through this campaign ALIVE.

I feel like some of the most memorable encounters in D&D come from monsters that nobody takes seriously.

Everyone expects a dragon to be terrifying. Nobody’s surprised when a beholder nearly wipes the party.
But a clever DM can turn something as simple as a pack of kobolds into an absolute nightmare.
And honestly, I think that’s part of what makes D&D so great. A monster doesn’t need an impressive stat block to be memorable. It just needs to be used creatively.

So I’m curious:
What’s a monster your players underestimated that ended up becoming one of your most memorable encounters?
Bonus points if it was something ridiculously low-level.

This was a bit of a debate I had with some friends. Would it be easier to have a pacifist player, someone who will go out of their way not to fight, much less slay a foe. Think in a group that plays more traditionally, deadly encounters and such. Or an evil PC in a group of good/neutral characters.

I kind of went with evil just based on the mechanics of encounters and balance. Working around a character that doesn't fight seemed like a hard balancing act to me. Whereas an evil character really just needs to share the overall goals of the party, or at least find reason to work with them.

But like I said, it was a debate, so interested in the community's thoughts.

I had this old monitor lying in a closet for years, and last night I had the perfect plan for it! Strip off the polarizing film that allows the light to be focused and the image to be viewed properly, and then cut that film into player tokens or AOE circles for Darkness and Fog spells!

I need to mount the monitor into a box now, and I’d like to make the tokens and shapes uniform and use film that ain’t sticky on one side. But as a prototype I threw together in 30 minutes it looks amazing! As DM I can wear polarizing lenses to view the entire screen while my players are just as lost as their characters! Immersion!

I'm the DM, and I have lost faith in being able to run any games with friends.

I have been organizing games for a few years now online with my local discord, created the server with the sole intent of TTRPG play. I had to step down for about a year since my wife and I had a baby and couldn't find the time to prepare a campaign.

I ended up picking up the new 5.5e Deadfall book and thought it would a great way to get sessions running again. I set an event and had 5 potential players interested and when it came time to just talk Dnd after so long... heartbreak.

Only 3 players showed up. The two that didn't show were the main guys who knew how to engage in the story and generally were the players I could trust to keep playing.

1 of the 3 that did show actually was there to talk! We started looking into the new classes and origin feats, actually talking about builds and how to create new paths for players, 100% on board to roll digital dice.

Now the other 2 that did show, they single handedly destroyed any chance at getting together for games. Both of them were both playing a game before it started and I started the event in a seperate Discord channel so gamers can game and join when done. They both ended up joining my event chat but were still playing.

I spoke up and asked if they were finishing up so we could talk classes and gameplay. All I got back from them was a we can do both right now.

To go out of my way to come back into DMing, create an event to get the ball rolling, and put energy into group play that takes away time from my family just to have a non engaging Dnd talk/session 0.... frankly broke me.

I didn't think it was a huge ask, you're interested in playing dnd so please stop playing the shooter game you both are in and let's see what you want to do. Both kept playing, talking in game chat and giving callouts, while me and the only other person were actually talking. After about an hour of trying to keep it going, I thanked the sole person who engaged but said this probably isn't happening anymore.

About 30 minutes later 1 of the 2 missing guys joined and at least apologized, but I explained that it probably wasn't happening considering I can't get a group of people to join at a concise time to even talk let alone play. Said it maybe a little snootily, but I was defeated by this point.

The 4 let downs are people I know and can actively meet up with and who I considered to be the close friends in the group. 2 of them have DMed before and know the struggle... sorry kind of spiraling at this point.

There's always a chance for future adventures, but sad that one can't get off the ground anymore. Thanks for listening to my SAD talk.

TLDR: Players hurt DMs feelings, DM is going to put the books away until the baby can read.