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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.

Me and a few buddies play D&D together around twice a week. We‘re all in high school and good friends. I am the DM.

We‘re currently playing through The Lost Mine of Phandelver module, as it’s two of my buddies first time playing.

In a dungeon underneath a manor in Phandalin there is a room where a few villagers are being held captive.

I describe that there are three NPCS in the cells chained to the walls, two females and a male.

Player says ‘I do have a rapier.’ And laughs. As a ‘joke’ obviously referring to raping the female NPCS.

I shut him down immediately at this disgusting ‘humor’. And so did the other players.

Later that night I messaged him that I wouldn't tolerate jokes like that again. And that if he made any more, I would be inclined to no longer play D&D with him again.

Am I overreacting? Or was this a proper response to the gross joke he made last session?

I have not posted in this sub before, and I‘m sorry if my flair is incorrect.

EDIT: He made it clear that he was referring to rape.

Just a quick preface: this isn't a “should I leave the table?” post. I already talked to the DM, made my peace with it, and left on good terms. I just thought the actual table interaction was funny enough to share.

I joined a campaign being run by a friend I’d played with before. Immediately, I thought it was a little odd that one player wasn’t going to be at session 0. We were told she “doesn’t take the game as seriously” and didn’t see the point of it.

I used to DM, so I’m always a little hesitant to tell other people how to run their tables. I figured it probably wasn’t a huge deal and let it go.

Session 1 starts, and things get weird fast.

The missing player is a Wild Magic Sorcerer who appears to just be… a normal girl from Earth transported into a fantasy world. During combat, she starts announcing spells I’ve never heard of and calling Wild Magic Surges completely at random, including during other people’s turns.

I thought it was strange, but it was the first session and I didn’t want to start drama in a new group.

Session 2 comes around and the same stuff keeps happening, except now she’s using spells I do recognize, but with completely different effects.

Shocking Grasp incapacitated someone.

Sorcerous Burst exploded midair for AoE damage.

At the end of the session, I finally asked the DM what was going on.

She explained that since she “doesn’t take the game as seriously as the rest of us,” she never actually bothered reading the rules. Apparently she made her character in D&D Beyond by choosing things entirely based on names and vibes, then just decides what they do in the moment.

The DM then explained that D&D is a cooperative game, so it’s not like anything overpowered she does hurts the party. In fact, she said we should probably be happy she can freely warp reality however she wants.

By session 3, the Calvinball energy had become fully unhinged.

Apparently the sorcerer player had started playing BG3 and now had a vague understanding of the rules, which somehow made things even worse.

In a single combat, she:

used Sneak Attack

healed a downed party member

cast Witch Bolt

then had the Witch Bolt chain lightning around the battlefield

I looked over at the DM.

She just nodded at me like this was all perfectly normal.

After the session, the sorcerer player started talking about Rule 0 and how this was totally fine because she was having fun.

And honestly?

The worst part is that, despite my overwhelming nerd rage, in some horrible way… she’s kind of right.

New DM, starting my 1st campaign, we started level 2. My players include a Ranger, a Wizard and a Bard.

It took 2 hours for the Bard to cast Thunderwave in a tight space. He missed all the enemies, and hit his own teammates, downing one of them and knocking them both away, into the thick mist, in which the downed Ranger nearly bled out, but luckily passed her death saving throws.

1. Session

Edit: I should clarify, he couldn't see the enemies because they were all in thick mist (party and enemies included). He did attack where the enemy was, but only where the enemy had been 2 rounds ago. He thought they'd still be there, because they'd still be attacking him, but I'd decided to make this a quick hit and run ambush, with the option of letting the party get one of them down and learn what was ahead of them in the dungeon (Kua Toa) and also teaching them that the Kua Toa had nets, spears, and liked to attack from the mist. Also, Yes they were using a battle map. No, he couldn't see the enemies on the battle map. Yes he could see his allies because they'd been holding hands as they went through the mist. And yes, I did try to dissuade him, but short of forbidding him, I couldn't stop him.

So essentially, we were doing a one shot of Strahd Must Die and we killed Rahadin in his room. My Paladin friend thought it funny to turn him into a zombie to help us in future encountera.

Fast Forward a bit after the tower encounter, and we manage to climb 200 FEET of stairs on to the highest point of the castle.

To get down to meet Strahd, instead of going down the stairs, we decided to kick Zombie Rahadin off the tower and Polymorph him into a Sperm Whale (Fun fact, CR8) and jump down using a giant eagle.

It ended up falling about 50 feet before breaking open the entire castle's facade. DM calculated 50D6 falling damage, around 163hp.

Fun fact: Sperm whales have 189 hp. So he meets us, with his 2nd in command turned into a giant sperm whale, with half his castle torn down.

Bonus part: Obvs, we were fighting Strahd, and he was forced to retreat because we charged with 32 ELK, which is a total of potential 96D6 + 96 damage. Half of them charged towards an illusion of him, killing a PC and a spawn, plus downing another character. The 2nd half dealt the blow that made him retreat.

Safe to say that animals aren't his best friend.

I think we’ve all seen Cleric players pick Lathander as a Light Cleric, Raven Queen for the edginess factor, Bahamut if they’re a Dragonborn, Elistraee if they’re a Drow, etc. etc. what are some of the most common options you’re tired of seeing? Any cool picks people should be using instead? Personally I think Sune works well as a Life/Light cleric and Waukeen for a Trickery cleric

I built a city that my players love I also built a king NPC that my players love.

I did this intentionally to make the world feel real. So I can later raise the stakes by sacking the city and having the king have a honourable but bloody end. The players will have a chance to save the people of the city (who they are also fond of). But the NPC king will sacrifice himself to save his people as that is absolutely what he would do and the players know that.

The aim of sacking the city and killing the king is to make the players pissed towards to BBEG to drive the story forward. The can obviously try and convince the king not to sacrifice himself but I don't think they'll be able to roll high enough, we'll see.

However now they love the King so much they can't wait to meet him again. In a way I think I've done my job perfectly but now I can't bring myself to follow through with my plan of killing him 🤣 help?

My nephews are graduating. They both play DnD. I have played VERY casually a handful of times. I also have painted a few minis.

I want to know if it's a super lame aunt thing if I had a DnD day/ night, where we painted minis and I hired a DM to play and maybe made themed snacks.

I know my favorite is a Bag of Holding.

I got into Dnd through the 2014 edition and I honestly loved reading about the lore of the different races, gods, monsters and pantheons within them. I feel like they brought so much life into what I was reading and like I was looking at a true world to explore. I loved learning about the different gods in the Forgotten Realms. I love how the halflings have little gods that describe a lot about their culture like the one where one baited a troll into a red dragon's layer. I even loved the little monster lore of the goblins, orcs, kobolds and all the rest and how they were just creatures that were designed by the evil gods to worship them and that all the player ones who defected kind of defied their original design even if the players never thought about it. It made the whole thing feel connected and full of life

I was excited to read about the lore every time I bought one of those books. And I don't even know the first thing about characters like Drizzt (seriously, never touched his story) Was I the only one? Am I just a sucker?

Hello friends, my players are tasked with going around country to country collecting artifacts to prevent BBEG from being summoned. My issue is that I want the plot twist of the BBEG still being summoned at the end of the campaign but i also want the players to feel that this task wasn’t for nothing. So far they collected 1 out of 9 artifacts. Does anyone have any ideas of what i can do? or any words of advice. The campaign is based on vampires that have infiltrated this continent and took over multiple countries and they are trying to take back the countries and stop “The Progenitor” from being summoned again