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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.

My party has been playing together for about 5 years at this point and I woke up to our group chat a few days ago letting us know that one member is leaving. Everything seemed fine and we had plans to play this week. We are all friends and I haven't heard of any personal issues within the party. I texted her after I saw the message and I still haven't heard anything. I hope everything is okay, but this just feels so out of character for her. Maybe I'm being dramatic, but this feels like a break-up. She didn't mention anything about us all still being friends in the text. It was a "thanks for the memories but I'm going to go now" message. Thanks for listening. I just needed to get this off my chest to a community that understands how heartbreaking it is to lose a good party member.

Edit: Thank you all so much for your kind words. It truly helps. I agree, I think something happened outside of the party and they need to take care of themselves. I don't think it's a suicidal thing because of the wording, but I appreciate those who were concerned about that.

I sent her a text along the lines of "I know this was a hard decision, but I support and care about you". Like you all said, trying to convince her to stay isn't the move. Especially since I know it wasn't easy to leave.

I really can't express how appreciative I am of your comments. I didn't expect anyone to respond and was kind of just shouting into the void. Thank you so so so much.

This little guy is about 4 inches tall and carved from basswood with a knife and a couple small gouges, then painted with the cheapest acrylics I can find...

I was going for an old, tired wizard who looks like he’s been adventuring about 40 years too long.

And before anybody asks... No, I totally did not trap a wizard in a block of wood. That would be ridiculous...

Also probably illegal in at least three kingdoms!

He was definitely carved. By hand. With normal tools. No spells involved.

The fact that he occasionally whispers from the shelf and keeps asking for his staff back is completely unrelated. Thats just how realistic i made him look. Totally!

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Getting folks into carving is my passion, and you read this far.. want to give it a go, but need good advice? Consider me your wierd whittling uncle (but without the creepy vibes)

You need several things, a sharp knife, a leather strop with compound for honing your blade, safety gloves (A5 or better) and basswood (to carve like i do at least.)

Solid Knife brands, Flexcut, Badger State Blades (USA), Mstein (Europe) there are a lot of great knife brands. Stay away from kits on amazon of several knives. (Except the flexcut, thats actually a solid option) They're much much lower quality with inconsistently tempered steel. (What that means is its not hardened, and so it won't stay sharp easy, meaning you're fighting the knife and dont understand why its harder for you to carve when its easy for others.)

Why Basswood? Its softer than other hardwoods and holds detail well. Learning to carve with basswood is akin to learning to drive on an automatic. It simplifies and streamlines learning. Woods like Walnut and oak can be carved, but learning to carve with them as the starting point is like learning to drive on an 18 wheeler Semi Truck with manual transmission. Its needlessly difficult.

In europe, the equivalent is Linden, in Asia, Jelutong, and in south America Caxeta is a good substitute

Piece for a client on VGen! they were very enthusiastic about my interpretation of the drawing they provided me of what they wanted. Unironically I think I had the most fun doing all the dinks in the leather - but battle damage is always one of the funnest bits for doing adventurer portraits.

Turn around was just shy of a week for finishing this up. Always glad to help bring people's stuff to life, you know?

This is my character Zhúzi (it means bamboo). Originally I had her for a campaign two years ago but that never continued, so this is a remade version from this year!

Originally she is inspired by the chinese jiangshi, the hopping vampire. That is what's written on her forehead. She also suffers from amnesia before the reanimation so me as the player, have also no idea what her backstory fully is which makes things interesting. She'll be a monk in an upcoming campaign :)

(DnD 5e)

One of my players is a warforged and they wanted to try and use heat metal on themselves. How would you handle the situation?

Let them roll the Saving Throw and take damage, let them roll concentration to see if they keep up the spell and then letting them add fire damage to an unarmed strike?

Or maybe they're harder to grapple then?

I love that they're being creative with their spells and I dont want to just say "no thats not working"

I'm a fairly new DM and don't really know how to handle it tho.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

While I’m not an active D&D player, I wanted to share some pictures of a set I purchased from a family member quite a few years ago when they were in need of some extra funds. If I remember correctly, I paid around $30–$40 for the set at the time. I’ve always been curious about what it might actually be worth today, particularly for insurance purposes.

Complete set of pictures here
https://imgur.com/a/Gaq2jo5

Caelis Merrowyn is the second born of a very wealthy family that specializes in the trade of ships and other high value ocean related things. His entire family is sea elves but he is an Aasmiar (protector) because one of his parents had an affair with a god.

Since he was the second born, he was very lazy but loved to get into things like the arts, music, and especially astrology in which he loves. He is someone who all he wants is a close connection because his family is distant, but he hides behind a player-esque persona acting as though he does not need that.

My players have spent the start of our new campaign investigating a group mining an explosive green glowing crystal from underneath the city. Last week they went into the mines to face the group, so I used green fire pit glass and a LED strip to create glowing green "crystals" around the table. Nice bonus was turning everything red when the BBEG behind the mining operation was revealed at the end of the session, kicking off the main story of this campaign!