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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 told her I’m down for some kind of custom effect but maybe not that extreme or maybe when she hits level 5 and gets the enlarge/reduce spell. She seems pretty set on the fact that this would only be a negative effect because she can control it when she rages.

Another character is already a Goliath Barbarian so I don’t want him to feel useless if he sees another barbarian that can fly and be as big as he is.

Advice on how to still let her have fun with her character but not make it too OP?

*in before "You guys actual get to play?"*

For me: I don't enjoy players who only ever want to *just peek*. They don't want to open the door, no no no, they just want to *peek* (which at this point I just run as Perception at disadvantage + a flat stealth check in most situations) So, unless it's a moment where we explicitly **need** to be sneaky, I just open doors or if there's an expectation of privacy, I knock.

I also don't love when a table isn't really interacting with one another and are all kind of doing their own things, so when I'm playing I make a point to have my character speak with everyone else's at least once in a session, especially if I know they might have some knowledge on a subject. I'll also use downtime to invite other players to join me for shopping or whatever so that *we* can have antics occur not just me and an NPC.

When making characters for campaigns, I found that I have a tendency to give my characters a motivation to adventure related to some sort of tragedy. For example, revenge for a lost loved one, seeking a cure for a curse, or framed for a crime.

What character motivations make sense for an adventurer that aren't related to anything tragic, but would also make sense. Like why wouldn't someone in need of money start a business as opposed to risking their life?

Solving a mystery is the only one that comes to mind.

This seems like a very obvious thing at the outset, yeah? Only in practice this doesn't come across, and the two are muddled. Charisma is how well you can present and assert yourself. Likability has very little to do with that.

A character can be perfectly likable and make friends easily, and also have 8 charisma. Charisma will affect how you're viewed by said friends-- and being amiable doesn't mean you're persuasive. Persuasion is more than just charming somebody, and it should cover cynically manipulating somebody's insecurities-- intimidation and deception are more niche in their use.

Being amiable can detract from intimidation and deception, obviously, but *also* persuasion. A low charisma character might be overly honest, or just give people an off feeling of distrust. Being Good and charismatic and friendly doesn't lock you into any role either-- an example of a "good" character who fills these traits, though I use the word loosely, is

SPOILERS FOR DISCO ELYSIUM AHEAD

Evrart fucking Claire.

Despite being an utter slimeball, he is 1. Friendly to the player, nominally- therein, amiable. 2. Charismatic, being a leader, and an effective liar, and 3. Good. This one is shaky, perhaps, but it is rather textual that he has noble goals alongside being a ratherselfish, me-first man. i.e more or less how a D&D hero would be, really. Sure you tip well, and do a dangerous job, but you're using year's wages as pocket change, from the start of the game, by the phb.

Don't be afraid to break the molds and do funky shit with your characters, players AND Dms. Don't let yourself fall into the tropes of old if you don't want to, because of a stat-sheet.

From encumbrance to ammo tracking to rations to downtime to on and on and on and on I've been told that apparently a lotta the rules don't see much love at many tables.

What's some oft-neglected rules of the game you prefer to keep in play when you can?

Edit: Glad I'm not only one who considers "Write a number down and replace it with a different number more often than I level up" to be Part Of The Fun and not just "busywork".

I’ve wanted to play D&D for like 7 years now but I’ve always been too scared, I have social anxiety and in particular I find it quite scary to share things I have created in my head, improv in particular always scared me (eg when I had instrument lessons), so you see why D&D seems daunting. But I also think it seems really fun! Despite what I just said I do LIKE creating stories and things (though I’m a bit out of practice which adds to the anxiety), and I would like to feel more confident creating and sharing them, and I think D&D could help me build that confidence.

The thing is I always like to know what I’m doing before doing it, and watching other people is v helpful for this (I even do it with standard board games sometimes). I have a fairly good idea of how it works and I’ve started reading through the basic rules but I think it’d help to watch regular people play. I say regular people because I’ve watched some Critical Role and while it’s great, it’s kind of too great? Like they’ve been playing so long and are professional voice actors and whatnot. I used to listen to the Rusty Quill games podcast too (I was big into the Magnus Archives) and I think there was at least one person who at the start of that had never played D&D before but, again, they’re all professional voice actors, professional performers. Which obviously makes for better entertainment for an audience, but also sets the standard high (daunting) so idk what I should ACTUALLY expect if I start playing.

TL;DR I have social anxiety and want to see regular people (not voice actors, not performers; excellent if at least some are new to the game) playing D&D so I can get an idea of what to expect if I start playing

Hey all, just browsing the tomes of old and noticed how some of these monsters have evolved over the years.

The Rakshasa in 5.5e has auto-successes on magic and spell attacks automatically miss, but in 5e they were just outright immune to spells of 6th level or lower.

In both 5e/5.5e, most dragons were brought down to a select few spells per day but in older editions, dragons usually had Sorcerer spell lists.

In 3.5e, skeletons had a flat reduction to incoming weapon damage unless it was bludgeoning damage.

What are some cool ideas from the past we can re-implement if one was so inclined?

Hi there, y'all. I'm new to the subreddit because... well, I never thought I'd be here. But this last week has been wild for me, and here I am!

Lemmie set the stage for ya. I'm on the StartPlaying.Games Discord, and they're talking about Strahd. Which often happens; it's popular to run and players love it. Enter me, someone not really into horror and far too unserious to do it justice. Off-handedly, I say something along the lines of "If I were going to run Strahd, it'd have to be in an incredibly stupid way. Like, 'The Muppets' Curse of Strahd'.

The Discord goes nuts, and for days, it comes up again and again in conversation. Who's the human? Is Miss Piggy a great fit for Strahd? Or should that be Kermit, since gender rolls. But, isn't Count Von Count not being Strahd completely disrespectful? Absolute ridiculousness, and I'm there for it.

And, well, here we are: I've got artwork for Muppet Strahd Von Zarovich done and... I dunno, at some point in the future, I'll be launching a campaign - I just need to clear up my schedule a bit first. lol

I don't have all the bits and bobs figured out just yet, like which Muppet is which character. I did find that someone made a "Muppetborn" race, and someone else adjusted it to 5.5e, if any of the PCs wanna be Muppets. lol I do know about Strahd Reloaded and have been going thru it when I have time, cuz while this is going to be absolutely unhinged, that doesn't mean it has to be painful for any of the people involved. lol

The artwork is from one of my Strixhaven players, named Goose, and unfortunately, they don't really have any socials.

Howdy folks!

With recent return back to the land of posting comics, I decided to hit the ground running at full tilt with marketable plushies right off the bat!

The pre-order campaigns for the Trevor & Grogna plushies are now live over on Makeship! Links: Trevor & Grogna

In case you've missed my previous campaigns, you might wonder how this whole Makeship business works!

Basically, the campaigns last until the 15th of September, during which time you can pre-order Trevor and/or Grogna in marketable plushie format! Once the timer runs out, the plushies are no longer available, unless we do a rerun which isnt guaranteed. Should the campaigns fail to rack up 200 pre-orders, the plushie in question wont go to production. Not particularly worried as we're already at 42% funding!

Should you wish to have both of the plushies, you get 10% off if you pre-order the murderhobo couple together!

Also, the plushies will ship in early December so these lovely plushies would make a great christmas gift for your Trogna obsessed grandma!

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