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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.

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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!?

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Painted my OC Maeve on one of the worst days of her life! Her eternal love, a lady knight by the name of Ysendra, got kidnapped by the same people that initially burned her at the stake on the claim that she was a witch (she was but that's besides the point LOL). So she set out on her trusty, cute rat mount heh. She's a homebrew character & the lore is very much inspired by slavic folklore, strzyga to be exact!

Maeve and Ysendra knew eachother from Maeve's human years and became close before Maeve got turned into a vampire. They spent years apart because the turning was very violent and she had find herself in her new powers & role first before she could venture out & find her love again. She was lost for years but managed to make an abandoned manor her home. One day she ventured out to find her old life. When she finally found Ysendra, she was visibly older & couldn't believe her eyes. She believed Maeve to be dead. They quickly went back to how it was before and lived happily for a couple of years before THEY found them again and kidnapped Ysendra.

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When the horns sounded at dawn, she was already awake. The city behind her still slept, unaware of the shadows gathering beyond the fields. Once a scout of the borderlands, she learned early that wars are not decided by heroes charging forward, but by those who stand their ground when retreat would be easier. As banners rise in the distance, she tightens her grip and waits, not for glory, but for the moment the enemy crosses the threshold and choice is no longer an option.

Narrative Illustration - private commission - Painted in PS

Hi! I made a post a few months ago about this but deleted it because i was worried the players would see it. But stuff has gotten worse and i really need some advice and just want to share this with others.

So for starters I, 19 F, joined a horror campaign with my fiancé back in July ago with 4 other players. This is my first long-term campaign ever. Everything was really good up until we hit level 4. I was playing a bard but really wanted to multiclass into rogue. So our problem player, ill call him M who is a good friend of the dm (this is important later), offered to help me with my sheet and build because I wasn't sure how to level or set up my character sheet. everything was really good for about 2 weeks until M started direct messaging me on discord almost every single day away from table. I thought he was just being kind until he started talking to me about highschool dxd and other hentais involving minors. At the time when he first started this, I was 18 and he's 34. I just ignored these messages and tried to change topics. M also started cheating on my sheet by giving me 13 cantrips at level 5. I obviously told the DM about this and asked him to fix my sheet. When we are at the table he tends to treat me like his personal service dog. "Hey (insert my name) come do this for me!" or trying to get me to play my character how he wanted me to play it. I'm a bit of a people pleaser so id just do it to avoid problems. But then one day, my fiancé wasn't at session and things went sideways.

Our cleric, well call her E, was roleplaying a scene where we had to break into an office. I wasn't really comfortable with roleplay so id just sit back and enjoy the show, commenting when i needed to. M then harassed me for 10 minuets to roleplay the scene instead. It made me super uncomfortable and E ended up yelling at M. I messaged the DM about this after session and he told me he would talk to M. At this point M is still direct messaging me every single day about random things that aren't always appropriate. He would make comments in direct messages that made it seem like he was trying to romance my character as well.

A few weeks go by and we move onto another part of the campaign where we have to kill a demon. We kill her vessel but then M makes a deal and literally becomes the demons new vessel. This was NOT in the book. The DM said he didn't have anything repaired for this because the book assumed nobody would take the deal. So M now has a demon sword and is a vessel for a demon who's killing the villagers. This caused M to go full main character mode and ever since, the entire campaign revolves around him. There's been a huge shift ever since. We have been pulled from one location to another with no chances of interacting with villagers, role play, investigating etc. And every time there is, M interrupts whoever talking to try and talk to his demon. We waste around 20-30 minuets each session because M keeps trying to make the whole session about him. He even full on argues with the DM and players about his new demon sword.

After this M has started messaging me EVEN MORE to talk about his plans. Here's where it gets weird. His demon has a cult with a base that he has to go back to every few months. M has started saying that he is trying to shift the campaign to have the same plot as highschool dxd. Ive never watched highschool dxd but from what I've heard its a hentai about underage kids having sex to make demon weapons? He started spamming me about all his weird plans and trying to get me to "back him up winkwink" yes he would say winkwink. i told him off saying its not my thing and I don't want to be apart of this because me as a player and my character, wouldn't agree with this. but he didn't stop.

One week later my fiancé isn't at session again and it just keeps getting worse lol. We had to play liars dice against a gambling demon to save the lady of the land. I made a deal with this demon so i can achieve apart my character goal (this was approved by the DM because there wasn't going to be long term affects like when M took the demon sword.)
Pretty much i had to play against my teammates during the liars dice game and work with the demon. During our 15 minuet break, M kept pressuring me to cheat to help him win and even changed stats on my character sheet to help him. I told him no straight up in call. When i said no for the 5th time, M said "Well I'm just going to knock you out. I'm a demon so I can do this. Now you cant play against us." I get very pissed off at this point since this has been going on for 10 minuets and send a message to the DM when this happened. The DM assured me he doesn't allow pvp at the table. When the DM came back from break, M was still going and E (the cleric) started standing up for me. The DM ended up yelling at M that he has no control over my character and what my character chooses to do, but M kept messaging me all through out the session. This was around 4 weeks ago and M keeps trying to boss me around and is trying to make the campaign all about him. Also, M only does these sort of things when my fiancé isn't in the call or at session. This feels really targeted and I don't know if I'm over reacting.

I have now messaged the dm 4 separate times about M making me uncomfortable. E has also messaged the Dm on several occasions about M. I'm completely at a loss on what to do. The campaign is nothing like how it was in the first few months and no matter how many times me and E message the DM about M, nothing is done. Me, E and my fiancé all hopped into a private voice call after our last session to talk about M because we all have reported M multiple times. We feel like M is getting special privileges because he's a long term player for DM. This is also a pay to play campaign so we thing the DM is only letting M do this because M is paying for a large amount of sessions. All of us are just at a loss on how to navigate this situation. It seems like no matter how many times we voice our opinions on M, it gets brushed off. E decided she's going to message the DM again about all of this. If nothing is done should we just leave? We really do enjoy the DM and the campaign but M is really ruining this for us.

UPDATE:

After reading all the comments, thank you all for the support and advice btw, M has been kicked! Me, E and my fiancé all messaged our DM and he apologized for not stopping this sooner. We dont have enough players to run the same campaign at the moment since one of our party members is on a dnd break for school, so DM let us choose a place holder campaign for the next 3 months. Thank you all so much for giving me the confidence to stand up for myself. Our DM admitted that he also was sick of M but wasn't sure how to go about kicking him. Thank you all so much <3

Hello wonderful people of the DnD Universe!

Posting here to share a piece I worked on recently, I feel sorry for the poor dudes that stole this big guy’s lunch, now revenge is on the way!

Hope you like it and thanks for viewing!

Feel free to send me a DM or email if interested in having me create something for you :)

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Shady

This illustration was a commission a client asked me to do for Valentine's Day. It depicts his D&D OC dancing with his girlfriend's OC (in fact, the illustration was a gift for her). From what he told me, in his campaign, both characters are married and have a child together. Throughout the illustration, I tried to include elements that represent both characters, such as the eye visible in the lantern on the right, which he always carries with him, or the sunflowers, which are her favorite flowers. https://kirke.social/luceroariste

Some of you might remember a while ago I posted my Storm Herald barbarian/Rune Knight fighter Mordaar! Well here he is again, new and improved, with art once again commissioned from the absolutely wonderful StarStrider on Bluesky! For anyone who hasn't seen him before, he is heavily inspired by Kratos and GoW Thor! I've also edited his backstory!

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Mordaar is an exile from clan Drorthesh, a dragonborn clan located in Alaron of the Moonshae Isles, of which he was the chieftain. Prior to becoming chieftain, he was viewed as an outcast due to his tail, and his faith in the Faerûnian god Tempus was questioned by many in his clan. However, ever since Mordaar was able to wield a weapon, he was known to be a formidable Berserker and commanded both the respect and fear of his fellow warriors in equal measure.

Clan Drorthesh was known to raid small settlements across the Moonshae Isles during the harsh winter months. Mordaar would lead these raids with his brother Dragaar close by his side, who was of a more strategic mind. Like many dragonborn, the clan valued honor highly. As such, Mordaar's warriors would only kill those who showed skill in combat, leaving any survivors to fend for themselves. Eventually Dragaar's opinion soured towards not just the raids but also Mordaar's method of leading. These feelings worsened exponentially when Dragaar's son Torinn was crippled beyond help during a raid. Mordaar gave the boy a choice; Die honorably or live in shame. Torinn chose the former, and Dragaar's disapproval turned to hatred.

At 45 years old, Mordaar's position as chieftain was challenged by Dragaar to First Blood combat. Mordaar would lose the battle, just before displaying a frightening lack of honor, restraint, and self-control that resulted in Dragaar's lower jaw being severed and his left eye being blinded, which nearly killed him. He was then exiled by the clan's elders, which included his father Orlaskhan. In his exile he sought to distance himself far from the clan, eventually settling in the North Jotunnhammer Mountains in Norland, to tame his rage. His adolescent son Zarkhil would willingly exile himself alongside him.

They would live in a secluded cottage in the mountains, where Mordaar would teach Zarkhil to track and hunt. First starting with beasts, then as the boy matured, gradually more dangerous monsters. They would make their living by selling game and acting as monster hunters for hire across the Moonshae Isles.

When Zarkhil came of age, Mordaar took him on a hunting trip to the northernmost reaches of Jotunnhammer. On this trip, the father and son unwittingly came face to face with the ancient white dragon Aurakatarhoon, who was hunting at the peak. The dragon would devour Zarkhil, leaving only his hunting knife behind, and mortally wound Mordaar, who lost his right arm during his deadly fall down the mountain.

Mordaar would be found barely clinging to life by a handful of druids near the base of the mountain and remained in their care while he recovered. During this time he learned from the druids to better channel his rage, eventually abandoning his former life as a Berserker and becoming a Storm Herald, though in extreme situations he struggles to reign in his rage. He also formed a close bond with an old female saber-tooth cat who had lost her cubs. Mordaar affectionately named her Runa. Though they were companions, she remained a wild animal and kept to the wilderness near his home.

He now lives to enact vengeance on Aurakatarhoon, to avenge his son and restore his honor. To do so, he may need the help of a tribe of Frost Giants, said to have in their possession weapons of great might, strong enough to fell a dragon, all while being hunted by a vengeful and angry Dragaar.

During the year 1528 DR, his journey to hone his strength leads him in the city of Neverwinter, where he is about to cross paths with several adventurers that will eventually become his own clan. Together they would come to be known as The Exiled.

This guy originated from a campaign I played a couple years ago, an Elven Arcane Archer. Disowned by his wealthy lord father because of differences of belief after his sister died. He became a scholar in search of knowledge. Hoping learn the powers of the arcane to enhance his abilities to make sure something like that would never happen again.

I just thought the class was cool. Weird that it was a subclass of fighter though.

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I’m in need of inspo and I love to read about other people’s favorite dnd experiences!

•I’m going through some ideas I’ve had for a campaign for a long time

•This is my second campaign as a DM, but it’s been years since my first

•I’ve got some ideas for the first adventure, but I’m not sure what should be the incident incident, mechanic, or story device that gets them all together

•So let me hear it! Whether it’s a tavern meet, jail break, or royal ball- how did your campaigns come together?