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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.

Our campaign is going strong after 3 years of almost weekly play! We recently started our third season with a long awaited incursion into Avernus and back.

From top left to bottom right:

- Fjalar, paladin more by chance than vocation at first, he is a grounding and carefree pillar of the team, but he grew more determined along the adventure

- Écaille, lovable and charismatic sorcerer, champion of the Raven Queen by accident, turned wear-bear, compulsory liar and currently struggling with a voice in his head urging him to consume anything magic

- Sybil, fallen noble woman on the run, eldritch knight blade-dancing with the elements

- Cosmos (left) our monk and local powerhouse, with their personal demon / friend / ???, Grufte (right), whose looking for a way to become mortal.

- Not pictured here is missing our grumpy traumatized ranger, Leif. I should draw him next!

We're having a lot of fun and spend an ungodly amount of time rotating these characters in our minds like rotisserie chickens. I know our DM sometimes lurk in this sub, so if you're reading this, thank you for all your hard work and giving us such a lovely playground ♥

If you're liking my art, my commissions are currently open and i always love to draw the diversity of D&D blorbos!

She is my BBEG for the most recent campaign I write. Her name is Isnull Sylk. She became a Lich a year ago but she has scars everywhere, its because she has been tortured for a long time. But she escaped by slowly carving magical sigils on her cell mate's body with her own blood, making her a living spell book. Her cell mate died on the day of escape. But when she died Isnull skinned her and made this book from her body. She promised her drow mate that she is going to take revenge from their torturer. And she will become a lich to make him suffer for eternity.

This is Ouriza Estelamar, a character I designed for a D&D campaign with some friends. Her lore is that she was raised by her grandparents in a village far from the capital, near the High Forest, in a sacred and peaceful place inhabited by devout elders known as the Hill of Stars.

She grew up learning about the strength of nature, the faith of her ancestors, and the importance of truth. From her grandmother, she inherited her sacred beads and spirituality; from her grandfather, discipline and the Celestial language.

Now, ready for her first pilgrimage and encouraged by the village guardians, Ouriza decides to venture beyond her homeland in search of an oath she can truly call her own. She is neither noble nor courtly, but a daughter of the people and the land. Honest, devout, and humble, she carries her hammer and shield as symbols of her faith, guided by the spirituality that has always walked beside her.

Of all the Saving Throws the Charisma Saving Throw was the hardest for me to wrap my head around, partially because in some [official] content it seems Charisma Saving Throws are narratively interchangeable with the idea of Wisdom Saving Throws.

Just now I realized how Charisma Saving Throws may work in the narrative sense.

A long time ago when I was at a summer camp, the boys and girls stayed in separate cabins. One night after lights out, the girls invaded the boys cabin. The girls were pranking all the boys with setting up traps with shaving cream, milk, and cereal directly in their bunks triggered when they wake up. I pretended to be asleep when it was all going on (DECEPTION CHECK). Two of the girls came to my bunk and I heard their conversation. They looked at me while I slept and one said to the other girl, "Look at him. We can't [prank] him" and they moved on to the other bunks. I believe I made my CHARISMA SAVING THROW at that point.

How do you see or use Charisma Saving Throws at your table?

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Just felt curious about how different folks on here got introduced to D&D and started playing/running. In my case, I had seen people talk about it online (mostly Reddit and Facebook back when I used it) and it kinda piqued my interest. One specific story that I particularly remember was from a teacher who was running a D&D game for young kids at school and the kids decided to start befriending every wolf they faced, instead of fighting them. By the time of the boss fight, they had a little wolf army of their own.

As someone who absolutely loves RPGs, I thought it would be cool to play something like this. Unfortunately TTRPGs aren't exactly that popular or known in my part of the world (especially back then it wasn't), so I thought it's a Western thing and never expected to be able to play it. Then one day I found a post on our local subreddit where someone mentioned an IRL D&D event happening nearby, and boom! Now I play regularly, both IRL and online, and have also dabbled in other systems a bit.

What's your story?

I had post campaign depression so I decided to draw my DND party as silly lil goobers.

Shep'n: Me, a 2 foot tall tabaxi rogue, very stabby, hates everyone, secretly doesn't hate everyone, loves arson, stealing and causing problems, embodiment of the phrase "peace was never an option"

Taurius: satyr warlock, very dramatic and stuck up but comes in clutch, thinks he is the center of the world

Oss'ssidian: big lizardfolk barbarian, has salt growing on him, the default leader, responsible and chill but can punt you to the moon

Choo: satyr monk twin number 2, became queen of the entire world, yes she actually became queen of the entire world after defeating the level 20 king, she was level 9 at the time, she defeated him single handedly, she eats rocks and can't read btw, Shep'ns only friend

Quan: Choos satyr monk twin, exploded, can read, almost died every single encounter, ded

Sercce'Iss'Ness: lizarkfolk paladin, has big glow bear, super chill, started a school for lawyers out of no where, the only reason we are alive

Pikks: pixie bard, the most powerful cretaure on the planet, blew up a mountain, has memory problems, really hates birds, like, a lot, it's a problem

Raiya: centaur cleric, the other reason we are alive, also exploded, very VERY ded, the mom of the group, Shep'ns other only friend, but it's a mom v daughter thing

I'm a beginner at DND and there's one of my friend's characters I cannot really stand as he's chaotic evil and tends to damage allies or abandon the party from time to time to work alone. All of this is pretty much allowed and makes me nervous as a player. Especially in a dungeon, why damage me randomly just for fun?

I play a morally good character, while my party has a neutral one and a chaotic evil one.

There's disparity in the whole party as the evil character got all the bonuses by stealing and selling and robbing houses, while others are never given much other than the master's choices at times playing against us.

My character got often limited by the master's choices, and the party isn't that cooperative so if I want to save someone I got no one to help and my actions are often mocked by the players - not characters. They're just like "it's not important, leave it there" or in the case of that one character attempting to damage me and others and the master allows it based on dice numbers.

So at times I don't have fun at all, it's actually annoying.

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."