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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 character died last night after a chaotic going down twice and being healed before dying a true death. Made me realize, I've been playing D&D for 20 years. I started playing late '05, early '06. I've had so many characters die over that time. and it hasn't gotten boring. hasn't gotten monotonous. im still enjoying it. Here’s to another 20 🍺🍻

Edit: sorry if it seems like I'm rambling.

So as the title says, I see commonly that people dislike running high level games and I'm just curious to see why and what people have to say. I see regularly that games rarely make it past level 12 much less lvl 20... as someone who's run multiple games to lvl 20 and even one that used epic legacy 3rd party content to run a fame to lvl 30, I find high lvl games rather fun to run... so I'm obviously a little biased on my view.

Just to put it out there, if this is the wrong sub, let me know, and I'll transfer it.

To get some things out of the way, this is a 2-man campaign, and I am a lvl 2 wizard with my friend being a lvl 2 paladin.

I have been a DM for my friend group for about 3 years, and I've never properly played as a player, and a couple of my other friends outside the one I DM for asked if I wanted to play, so I, of course, accepted. So far I've had fun outside a couple gripes on how they ruled certain things. In this current session we were walking to a dungeon, and I ended up getting webbed and taken away by a large spider. I obviously couldn't talk, so I didn't say anything, but eventually the paladin entered combat with the large spider. During the combat I still wanted to engage at the table, so I asked questions about the spider and how it looked and how big, etc. I got told by the DM that I was metagaming and that I should stop since I was restrained and that he would punish me if I continued, so I stopped, but then the paladin was asking the DM about dropping stuff and swapping weapons, but he has a shield, so I decided to chime in and ask for more detail, like what kind of shield it was and would it be feasible for you to drop it, and the DM seemed to not pay much mind to the question and seemed fine with it, and so I asked another question because I was curious about what kind of shield it was since I don't really remember, and because of this the DM told me I was metagaming and told me he had to roll dice to punish me. The baby spiders attacked me and downed my character into unconsciousness, and even the paladin told me I needed to stop metagaming, so I obviously just stopped engaging whatsoever and decided to just watch with my lips sealed. My character would have had to do 5-8 death saving throws as the paladin tried to save me; I would've died if it weren't for my 2 nat 20s, which restored me back to consciousness. The paladin eventually got to me and was fighting the mass of baby spiders. I asked the DM if I could ask a question, and he told me no since I would be metagaming. Eventually I got up and was able to ask these questions, even though it was just more detail or stuff that I wanted to learn about the creatures he put in.

I mainly want a second opinion on this, because when I DM, I normally don't mind this type of stuff, especially if the character is down, since it's either they engage that way or they're just sitting on their phone. Am I wrong to feel salty? I tried arguing back but was left to a 2v1.

Also, to clarify the death saves if I remember properly, they do their death saves a bit differently, which im not entirely opposed to, but basically, I failed 2, then nat 20d got up and reseted the death saves counter then hit down, then failed 1 and if I recall i rolled a success and then nat 20'd back to being hit down and did one more successful save before my paladin got me

Edit: some grammar fixes

So I was in discussion about sexism in DND (specifically in Gary Gygax) with a friend of mine, and one of the examples which came up was something I remembered seeing

A character who would meet a woman, nearby somebody of water. She would offer the player and magical item, or herself.

The implication being that the player would obviously be a straight male, and that they only get the item that they refuse any sort of contact with her.

I seem to remember it being a holy avenger sword, but my initial thought was it being some kind of magical armor. And I’m actually relatively sure that she wasn’t offering the armor, or the sword, it’s only that you get that item by refusing her

I thought Matt Colville was talking about this, but I looked everywhere in his content and could not find anything about it.

I definitely remember seeing a PDF with this in it. But it may have been a picture of the book. It was black ink on white paper with some bold font and mostly regular font. I do not think it had any illustrations. And the woman was I think naked. Or described as being naked.

Can somebody corroborate this? I’ve looked everywhere and I’m at the end of the energy that I can spend on this. Thanks!

I'm playing my first campaign right now and I really can't get enough DnD right now (I've also been listening through Fantasy High on Dropout and just bought the Essentials kit to try my hand at DMing). But I really want to scratch the playing itch with the bit of gaming time I have on my PC, Steam Deck, or Switch 2.

The obvious #1 answer is Baldur's Gate 3, but I've played a fair amount of that and want to try something different. I'm not opposed to roguelikes, and in fact I'd love things that work in short bursts as well. I appreciate any suggestions.

I really like the idea of characters who are the "wrong" class, like a nercromancer who thinks they are a cleric.

I was thinking about a bard, but one who doesn't want to be a bard. Thinking they want to be either an edgy fighter or some dark magic spellcaster, but their greatest power and inate magic requires them to sing and dance to very upbeat, bubbly pop songs. Very magical girl k-pop idol engery.

They maybe tried to create a warlock pact to get access to a different set of powers, but a high fae who is a fan "bought" the pact from their original patron, and replaced the powers and gifts with ones that have the same popstar motif, like eldtrich blast now is flavored as working as a magical T shirt cannon.

I know there are gods of justice like Iomedae and Tyr, but I'm thinking specifically of the FURY part. About angrily going after the forces of evil with a loud, righteous zeal. Something like this moment with John Brown in The Good Lord Bird.

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.

More of my work & ways to contact me if you'd like to comm some art: https://www.isabellbartnicki.art/

So, for context, the current plot of my campaign is that four sorcerer/lich brothers are planning a full scale takeover of the kingdom of Vakoria. There's Albert, the brother of sickness, Albadro, the brother of bad harvest, Artep, the brother of memories, and Albreicht, the brother of corruption. Once their takeover is complete, Albert will have a hospital in which he heals and supports their undead army, which will also serve as his lair. The players will need to come here to kill Albert, however, I've been stuck on what to put in this dungeon. Any ideas?