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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.

Modeled in Blender, 3D printed in resin, and painted by me. This was a mimic idea chosen by my Patreon members, and it was super fun to create!

Without having ever seen a lawn flamingo "in the flesh", I have no idea how large one is meant to be. But after some guess-timations based on Google searches, I think this sculpture is almost as big as a typical lawn flamingo. The metal poles I purchased to stand them in the lawn are 18 inches long, if that helps you visualize how big they are.

I have a video going into a little more detail on the design process on my social media:

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@too.many.mimics

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Like Brennan Lee Mulligan calls his players "Intrepid Heroes", do you have a pet name for your players?

So in my campaign, my son created his own weapon he calls the Titan. In game it’s a combination punching weapon and buckler. (Not a full glove, more like an oblong shield bent at a right angle and added ‘knuckles’).

1d8 bludgeon damage, chance to knock an enemy prone and +1 AC.

The full size version is cardboard, hot glue and paint. It’s his first cardboard project and he knocked (pun intended) out of the park.

Do you think the stats are fair?

Thanks for looking

The human barmaid, a half blood aarakocra pickpoket, a zombie rogue, an infected fly man, a nocturnal sorcerer with pink flame hair, a young fighter,a mage apprentice and a senior gunsmith.

I pretty much only work in pencil these days. Digital doesnt do it for me anymore, I need to feel the sketchy lines.

Each little sketch takes about 5 to 15 mins and it helps everybody remember the story elements for the next weeks session. I'm in the middle of a big dungeon crawl, and there are taverns in the dungeon for convenience. Its been fun to draw mare and more high level npcs the further down we go.

I will crop all of these out and post their full descriptions so they can pop up in your sessions too.

Some of the pages on my 5.5e players handbook (specifically 355 and 358) have this weird separation of red and black writing when on other pages the writing doesn't have this 'affect' and it doesn't appear to interact with the black writing. Is this normal?

I don't know how to write four hundred characters worth of description... Sooo because of this colour separation thing it's kinda giving the sprite a chromatic aberration effect that looks cool, the quasit not so much the colour separation is happening to all brown text so the name stats even the size is being seperated from different grays and the box's that house their stats is also being seperated. Not even the page number is safe! It happens in those two pages though and I don't think they have any relation other than they're both stat blocks.

Hello all, I’ve been playing with my most recent group for about two years now, and I’ve been playing dnd for almost a decade at this point. Something I’ve always struggled with is getting my group into the rp. It’s fine, I understand that not everyone enjoys that part of the game, but it’s difficult to run a long campaign when your pcs aren’t invested in the story. Picked up this little game I thought was a one shot, but turned out to be its own thing, it’s called raccoon sky pirates. It’s essentially a board game but you’re forced to describe everything you do. There’s no rules about what you can do, and the only thing that matters is if you succeed or fail your dice roll. I played it with my group thinking it would be a quick thing but it turned into everyone getting attached to their characters and really getting into it, far more than I’ve seen before. We played for about five hours and it was a blast, we ended up adding a few things to make it more interesting, like rolling to see if their ship lost any bits between turns. We went back to dnd for our next session and all of a sudden they were all into it, just as much as the silly raccoon game. I believe it was due in part to the very simple, low stakes manner that game is played, and the whimsical nature of the setting, but I’m not entirely sure. Either way it’s nice to see them getting into the game more.

I've got a group of 4 to 5 players, the lvl 2 encounters are balanced CR wise. The encounters take forever. People lose interest between their turns. They also want to long rest between every single encounter. I've explained that they have been awake for the walk up the stairs, and the 4 round encounter. so.. about a minute. If you really want to take a long rest here, you will need to use rations, and roll for random encounters as you are inside a stronghold filled with patrols and enemies. They just leveled up to lvl 3.

It's a bunch of newish players. I let them build their characters as they wanted, and after a few sessions I brought up how they use their skills and spells. Lvl 2 wizard is out of spell slots on round 3, warrior has used everything, cleric is out of spells, etc.

Does it get better as they level up, Is this a learning curve, or something I should have a table discussion about?

Edit: there should be a question mark instead of a period in the title

Not sure if there's a better sub for this but whatever.

Hello all! Possibly considering volunteering to DM for the second time for a game at my local library, players will likely be preteens to young teens.

I's important to mention that I have COFD, or Childhood Onset Fluency Disorder. It causes me to have a fairly severe stutter. It's often brought on by nerves, and is completely involuntary. The closest and shortest metaphor I can give is that someone else is seizing control of what I want to say. Even though I know exactly what I want to say, I can't.

When I've played as a player before, I've been playing one character, and it's never been a problem.

However, since I'm DMing, I'll have to play different characters, and all of them will inevitably stutter.

Will kids understand that even though all of them are played by me, and thus share a very distinctive trait, that they're different characters?

Edit: Thank you all for your input!

I feel like creating such a world is impossible for me, but I know others have certainly managed to do it. Do you have worlds like that? By "core races," I mean things like elves, dwarves, orcs, halflings etc. I'm most interested at 1790s-1900s tech level. But will not be picky