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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.

I recently convinced my family to play DnD with me. I played as a kid in the 80s, but never was DM. I remember the games going quickly over a 30 minute school lunch.

I bought the Mines of Phandelver starter kit and the 5.5 DM guide and 5.5 Players Handbook. When I asked if the family wanted to play my son really wanted to start right away. I had already skimmed the scenerio and agreed. (For background I have 5 kids, 12, 14, 16, 19, and 21. The two oldest aren't around enough to play, but my wife joined us. Also, my son (14) has ADHD).

I remember character creation was one of the fun parts so we started there. Instead of minutes to select a race and roll the stats it took hours to make the characters. It was a debacle. The next session we started the campaign and I wasn't prepared for all of the off-script actions and had to search for how to handle each one. Also, everyone was new to tabletop roll play and I spent a lot of time figuring out how to fight, cast spells, heal, etc. All we ended up accomplishing was joining the caravan and fighting the first set of goblins. After that I spent days prepping for the next session; planning the events, making maps and figurines, reading the books and tabbing them for reference. I was ready! We played and everyone enjoyed it, but it was still slow.

Now no one is really interested in playing, and even if I get them to play and it goes well I don't think they will really engage and enjoy it. I think the kids are used to constant action like Fortnight or having immersion provided like in Minecraft. The whole RPG thing is too slow and abstract. I still want to play and I am looking for any advice or support. Is there a way to speed-play to help hold their attention better? Is there a way to play with just my son who is still kind of interested? Thanks.

Had the pleasure to make this art for Nimble RPG, a very interesting addition to 5e combat system.

I had a lot of fun painting this one. Ellaborating the color compositions and design for the couatl was the coolest part I would say.

You can check more of my work in the following links:
https://www.instagram.com/assis_ink/
https://www.artstation.com/assis_ink

I'm open for some comissions slots at the moment, so feel free to send me a DM if you would like me to paint a character of yours, or your entire party group :)

Thank you for your attention.

Saren, is a half-elf gentleman scientist in a setting inspired by Bloodborne and Call of Cthulhu. He’s very driven and pragmatic, but unfortunately due to a lack of magical ability, his theoretical work was never taken very seriously. He inadvertently ends up making a pact with an outer god of sorts, becoming a warlock. As par for the course for the genre, he’s slowly losing his mind as he communes with a being beyond mortal comprehension. And he doesn’t realize that the power’s getting to his head.

For some reason it was hard for me to get the pose right, he's got a slight limp from an accident, and he uses a cane. And it was difficult to get right. But the most fun, was the pattern on his vest. Also a big inspiration for the character was lucious malfoy, obviously enough! 😆

Right now slots are open for commissions for september and october. Send me a dm for any details.

Find more of my work here:

Insta:

https://www.instagram.com/fabulous\_sutamatisukun?igsi=MTNlYnlsNmRuN2h2Yw==

Artstation:

https://spite_spitfire.artstation.com/

And on my profile on reddit

I have both plans for if they succeed and if they all die, I don’t want to make anyone upset or it feel like a cop out that I have plans if they lose.

My very first time playing a DnD campaign was by a very very new DM and when he accidentally killed all our characters he gave us a cop out in the form of “the gods are giving you a second chance” even though we were level 1 characters with nothing to our names.

I do not want my party to feel like this is a cop out, because I have a very interesting and story related plot for if they lose. I also don’t want to go easy on them because this is the BBEG.

What do yall think?

*Edit: thank you everyone for your amazing reply’s! I will continue with my plan and ensure all my dice rolls are made out in the open, if they live they live, if they die they die. Thank yall!

I’m playing a Tyranny of Dragons campaign where I led an army of townsmen and some guard drakes I befriended into a cultist cave. We cleared it, and stumbled upon three eggs. One of them hatched. I had to improvise and befriend it on the spot.

Very cute, and his broken draconic made me really fond of him.

I take him back to Greenest and I introduce him to everyone and ended the session heading back to my farmstead.

I went home and began to think, in which the happy- go lucky scenario in my brain is crushed like a can.

The DM explicitly noted he arised with BLACK glossy scales. He’s fucking black.

Im genuinely in shock, and have no idea how to go forward.

I have at least two friends that, when it comes to planning out the party and rolling their characters, are obsessed with balancing out the party. To the point where i feel like they hinder their own experience.

We started a campaign not too long ago and there are 4 players. One wanted a wildfire druid. The other was pretty Set on wildmagic sorc. Since the campaign is Curse of Strahd, the third Player opted for a twilight cleric...

Now my friend was unsure and sorta "let the others go first" with their characters and felt that this party was too vulnerable. He didn't see the cleric as a viable option to stand in melee range solo, so they went battlemaster fighter.

From what i can tell this seemed like a rather uninspired choice for him, since that is by far not one of his favourite classes...but you never know until you try stuff out!

Through the last few sessions though, i felt him being rather disconnected from the RP, not talking much at all or adding to discussions. He said it's part of his characters personality tho.

Am i worrying too much and should leave it up to him, if he enjoys his character for now, or was my hunch correct that "perfect party composition" doesnt trump wanting to play a class that's more fun and engaging to you? (He is a big Warlock Fan and i floated the idea of a melee Warlock with something like Armour of Agathys, but nope.)

Edit: Maybe an Information to share as well is that he specifically voiced some annoyance/worry when the classes got picked: "I actually wanted to play something else, but everyone keeps picking casters."

Our Bard exited stage left, permanently.

After I messaged my DM, he told me he had already talked to Bard. What a champ. He told me that the Bard was on thin ice and if he didn't shape up, he would be asked to leave the group. My DM then talked privately with a number of other players in our group to suss out their feelings on the matter.

Our next session rolls around and Bard is a no show. The next day, I checked our discord and noticed he had left the server. At this point, I can only assume that he didn't want to shape up and left before he got kicked out.

Kudos to my DM and the other people in my party who handled this like mature adults.

Part I: https://old.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1wcvzx4/looting_during_the_boss_fight_vent/

I don't know how to put this into words...

Being a black person, it's rare to see people that look like you in the fantasy genre and even rarer to see art of people who look like you in the fantasty genre.

If it's ok, I would like to see yall's art of dark skin DnD characters, or characters like Orcs or Tieflings that have African features for character inspsrstion. I'd prefer Aasimars as that's my favorite race, but anything will be appricated.

I've tried google and most of it is AI generated garbage.

Liridia It's the Tiefling that I'm creating in a story inspired by the universe of DnD, I've been writing everything about it and its personal lore, plus a decent story to present it, as some of you may know, I'm even new to DnD but I really like the way I'm getting to know and entering this world

This trend is something that I saw a while ago, and that I always wanted to do but for many reasons I couldn't, and I don't know how to encourage either, so as a good modern artist, I decided to watch some tutorials and take the first step making my first animation, I think the result is quite good although with a lot to improve.

And as always ty for you tips ❤️