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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.

As sickness laid upon the forest and all withered, once familiar and safe, now rotten and abandoned. Elders of the First Stag clan rose at natures call, rejuvenating places of corruption and death, seeking the source of the darkness. Along their side is a mystical lantern that illuminates the way, guided by its glow. Amidst the branches and fallen leaves there is something watching, waiting............

This character was a commission i had the pleasure to work on! I hope youll like her! :3 "Radhika Sharma is a Tiefling whose bloodline was influenced by the Endless Bog of Minauros. She is a warlock of the Fiend, tasked with collecting debts for her Patron in exchange for her powers. Said Patron, however has been nothing but helpful and kind to her family, protecting them from anyone that wouldn't take too kindly to the Yuan-ti traces in their heritage. So they decided on their own to help out their patron since the more powerful their benefactor is, the better their own situation gets. Of course, anyone familiar with the Hells knows Minauros if where new souls are processed and minted..."

Hey, so my friend group is about to start a campaign in 5e and I decided to play as a monk. I’m using a quarter staff as my weapon. Monk weapons are defined as a short sword or any simple weapons that don’t have the two-handed or heavy properties. Quarter staffs have the versatile property but my DM says that versatile isn’t a property and if I two hand my quarterstaff, it counts as having the two-handed property and is therefore not a monk weapon. I want to know if this is true or accurate to how the rules work because I think that is a load of bull. This is important because martial arts gives me a bonus action attack if I attack with an unarmed strike or monk weapon. Thoughts?

Hey there,

I recently joined a new DND party with a new DM, and I’ve found some of their rulings a little odd. I thought I’d share them here since some people might find them funny or interesting.

For context, I’m a DM myself and I’ve also played in sessions and campaigns with four different DMs so far, so I feel like I have a decent range of perspective on this. I joined this new campaign a while ago, and some of the rulings feel a bit ridiculous at times. I’ll list them from least to most absurd (at least in my opinion).

1. The DM changes monster stat blocks, but only to the players’ disadvantage. This one isn’t as wild as the others, but I still find it interesting that it’s only done to make players suffer, not to make monsters more interesting or give them cool new abilities.

2. The DM sometimes says our characters do something instead of asking what we want to do.

3. Every single NPC or animal needs “official art.” It’s gotten to the point where we meet a random guy at a bar and, instead of having a quick two-minute conversation, the DM stops and says, “Hold on, I’ll find art for them.” This often means using AI or reusing one image for multiple NPCs. As a DM myself, I don’t mind using imagination sometimes, cus not everything needs a picture.

4. Players have to declare everything. For example, we bought climbing gear for everyone because we planned to climb a mountain. Later, when we were at the base, we said we were preparing and starting the climb. A few minutes later, the DM said a small rock hit one of us, causing them to fall all the way down because none of us explicitly said we put the climbing gear on. For us, that was obviously part of preparing.

5. Inspiration has to be declared before the roll. So you have to say you’re using it and then roll with advantage. No rerolls allowed. Last session, I used it and rolled a 17 and an 18, both of which would have succeeded anyway. In my opinion, it just feels petty and unfun.

6. Spells like Shield have to be declared before attacks are rolled. This one is especially funny. I don’t have access to the spell, but our wizard does and when he’s about to be attacked, the DM says, “Three attacks are coming your way. Are you going to do anything about that?”. It turns out the DM changed the spell so it has to be declared before the attacks are even rolled. Last session, our wizard panicked and used it, and none of the three attacks would have hit him anyway.

7. Finally, the DM always points out female NPCs’ breast sizes when describing them. We don’t even encounter female NPCs that often, but when we do, we get a disclaimer about their cup size. As the only woman at the table, I find it unnecessary and honestly disturbing.

Overall, I just find these rulings weird and uncommon. I absolutely love my character and everything else makes me want to stay in this campaign but I’d love to hear what others think, especially if anyone wants to defend some of these (particularly the last few).

Map size is 25x30

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Hiya everyone!

I’ve got a mushroom/fey circle variants of this map here for you. The original is a creepier map that feature a staircase leading to nowhere (based on the Search and Rescue Officer r/Nosleep series).
This one is much brighter and colourful, but still kinda creepy, or at least dangerous considering the Fey.

If you want the high res, gridless version you can get access to that and my entire backlog on my patreon if you’d like to support my work and need a bunch of cool maps.

Happy adventuring!

Krane

I painted this cursed party a while ago when we played a three shot in our home group.

Those guys all were cursed by a night hag and they teamed up together to venture to her lair in an abandoned castle.

We had a lot of fun in this short story line and my character Agrippa (the cleric with the bee keeper mask under which she hides her cursed undead appearance) sacrificed herself in the final fight to ensure the breaking of the curse.

I wanted to honor this fun short campaign with this illustration.

Let me know what you think about it!

I'm going to be roleplaying a character with 6 int, 14 Wis, and 18 Charisma. I've been mulling it over in my head and, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm starting to think Philomena Cunk from those comedy interview skits might be a good template to start with for my character. Earnest, likeable, can hold a conversation and has a professional demeanor, makes a lot of connections between concepts, but just doesn't have any idea how the world works and her knowledge of things is often wrong.

A couple quotes: "What was the world like before Isaac Newton discovered gravity? Was everything just floating up to the sky?"

"If gravity is real as you seem to be claiming, how come it doesn't work on kites?"

"How did sir Walter Raleigh invent the potato?"

This is a character I've played in two of my DM's one shots, and she's just showed up in our longer campaign as an NPC (my DM does an interconnected universe based on Forgotten Realms), so I wanted to illustrate her as I never had done so before! She's an Astral Elf from the young nation of Sembia, born as a chosen of the goddess of the moon and the stars Selune. She's currently about 300 years old, but one of her core traits is her absolute lack of expressiveness with her emotions and her unshaken stare. No matter what's happening, her face and her tone never shift. Is that due to her divine connection to the goddess? Or is it that she's just a little strange? Well that's up for debate, but her sereneness is unmistakable...

I actually painted 5 minis at the same time (2 mimics and two elves) but I loved the way this one came out. It is the standard Wizkids unpainted Beholder.

I started out with a black wash and worked up from there. The scales and spikes are iridescent and the eyes, teeth, and blast effects are glow in the dark. I also added holographic glitter to the blast effects and iris. I still need to work on pupils more and I think getting a stronger black paint would help.

I did an enamel matte finish and gave a gloss varnish to the mouth and eyes.

Pretty happy with the way it turned out and I’m looking forward to painting more.

This is my maybe 4th or 5th time trying to post this, I hope it works this time 🤞