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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 was recently approached by a player that I had already done a character illustration for, to paint the same character, but this time in a post battle setting. They also asked if I could include Lae’Zel from BG3.

It was cool to paint another illustration of the same character, Marcus, but in a different pose and lighting. It was tricky getting the armor consistent with the first illustration while being in a different pose, but in the end I feel it worked out well.

Lae’Zel was interesting, as this was my first time doing any art of her, and her armor is very intricate, but I feel I simplified it in a way that made it much easier for me to handle.

The player requested that there be a bit of blood on them and their surroundings, and I figured some arrows and vultures would also be a nice touch.

Overall I’m very pleased with how it all turned out, it was quite different than much of the work I typically do, but I definitely enjoyed it.

I just had my first session as an Eldritch Knight, and for some context, we’re playing a campaign set in the middle of a corrupted forest. Although a good portion of the encounters take place in open fields, we’re using the 2024 Player’s Handbook as our ruleset and started at level 15.

Honestly, I was still a little skeptical about the Eldritch Knight, it’s nowhere near the most talked about Fighter subclass, and I wasn’t sure if it would really deliver the fantasy I had in mind.

But during the session, we fought a boss that was a creature made of shadows, the kind of enemy that would be a huge pain for any ordinary martial character.

I already had my Phantom Steed summoned and my Owl familiar by my side. In the middle of the fight, I pulled away from the battle and left the Monk in our group holding the creature off for one round, during that round, I cast Haste on myself.

Then my next turn came, I enchanted my lance with Magic Weapon, making it a weapon capable of actually hurting the creature. I then charged toward it on my Phantom Steed, replacing one of my attacks with the True Strike cantrip and then the charge came.

The first charge dealt a solid amount of damage, and thanks to my weapon mastery, I knocked the creature prone, creating the perfect opportunity to follow up with more attacks from my magical lance.

Honestly, that moment completely validated everything I had built my Eldritch Knight around.

It was probably the closest I’ve ever gotten to actually experiencing the fantasy of being a knight in D&D, So yeah, after this session, I can definitely recommend Eldritch Knight to anyone who wants to roleplay this kind of character, it can deliver an incredibly satisfying knight fantasy.

It is relatively similar to a paladin, but without the need to swear an oath or serve a deity; you simply take up your weapon, forge a bond with a noble lady, and become a knight. You remain a warrior, a generalist and master of combat, only now you are a bit more versatile, exactly as it should be.

You know, the "player brings in a character from their other campaign", "and now (character) tries to flirt with (other character)", "DM makes a whole new magic system", or what have you. (I can't recall all the examples I've heard offhand.)
The stuff where if you're watching or reading DnD horror stories, someone inevitably makes a comment about "do not do this ever" or "I immediately leave the game if this comes up" or something.

For me and my friends, it's definitely DMPCs. I'm basically the forever DM for the most part, (slightly out of necessity rather than choice), and I prefer being a player, so it'd drain my motivation really bad if I didn't get to play alongside my friends like that. I think the biggest reason it works out (aside from everyone's temperament 'n' stuff) is just because the emphasis is on the player character part rather than the DM part.
Everyone else shares their Character Sheets, I do too. Everyone else shows their rolls, I do too. Level ups, gold, relationships, everything else is treated as you would normally treat a regular party. (Sometimes I use my ~Grand Powers as the DM~ to inflict, like...drawbacks on my characters because it's turned out very funny for us. Like, having a character of mine being unable to swim or something. I can imagine some of the things I do for amusement would be a pain for someone else to DM, which is why I bring it up.)
I'm not sure if this would actually work out if our group was larger, but it works great for us currently.

Y'all have any examples of that sort of thing?

So here is a living version of my character As'bel Iscarion. A litch version was the BBEG of my first campaign as a DM. Later played him as a reborn artificer in another campaign. This is As'bel as a human, before he became the cowboy litch BBEG. Animation is made with Heroforge and Photoshop's timeline.

I have an intro animation for a tiefling/aasimar tiwlight cleric I plan on posting in the future.

I have various animations from my Sunday campaign I run and might post them in the future. I was thinking of doing animated commissions, but it's too much work. Hope you all like this one.

The avaricious dragon is the result of a true dragon who takes their obsession with gold to the utmost extreme. By allowing their lust for wealth become all consuming, they transform into a grotesque tyrant who holds personal wealth above all else!

Their breath weapon petrifies enemies into gold statues (to be added to their hoard), and precious metals seem to answer their beck and call as if animated by some magical force projected by the dragon's will. But they aren't entirely without weakness. They are vulnerable to weapons crafted from wood!

The avaricious dragon is one of my favorite pieces commissioned for a 5e/5.5 bestiary I've been writing over the past year, The Game Master's Menagerie of Monsters!

I am so grateful to the artist (Dakota Curry) who reluctantly (but skillfully) painted hundreds of tiny little coins to act as the dragon's scales. Here's a link to Dakota Curry's website/portfolio if you want to check him out! He did all of the art for my book and absolutely crushed it.

The Game Master's Menagerie of Monsters includes;

• 5E/5.5 stat blocks guaranteed to present your adventuring party with challenges they've never faced before.
• Tons of lore and worldbuilding information to ensure each monster feels like a living, breathing, part of your campaign's world.
• Random tables to assist with fleshing out fine details and motivations of each creature.
• Knowledge tables adventurers can roll on when encountering a creature for the first time to determine what they know, or if they roll poorly, what they think they know.

It feels kinda wild to be putting a hardcover D&D book out in 2026 without a Kickstarter or anything, but this book is just going straight to store shelves on February 2nd, 2027. So I have no crowdfunding page to link you to, but if you want to check out the bestiary, here is a link to all the pre-order options for depending on where you live! (If you live outside of Canada, the USA, or the UK, don't worry! Global options will be available soon!)

TL;DR What if a dragon was part of the 0.1% and that gave it magic powers. Also a new bestiary.

Thinking about opening a hobby / TCG shop. Mix of Warhammer/minis, MTG (Commander nights), Pokémon, and a private D&D room so a campaign isn’t playing next to a draft.

One thing I keep running into at shops: folding tables and banquet chairs. Fine for an event, miserable after three hours. I’m planning on real tables and real chairs — the kind you can sit in for a long Commander game or a 40k without your back yelling at you. Not folding camping chairs, not church-basement banquet chairs.

Before I sink money into that:

1. Would nicer tables and chairs actually make you pick one shop over another, or is that just something owners care about?
2. When you go to a shop to play (not just buy), what’s the stuff that actually decides it for you?
3. Smell. Be honest. Have you noticed body odor / a general “gamer funk” at shops? Does it bother you enough to leave or avoid a store? Would you want a shop to actually do something about it (air, policy, reminders), or is that overstepping?

Looking for input from:

• Commander / competitive + casual MTG
• 40k / AoS / Kill Team
• D&D / Pathfinder groups that want a closed room
• Anyone who’s quit a shop because the space sucked

Don’t spare me. If prize support, hours, “the regulars are cliquey,” food, noise, parking, or store credit matter more than furniture, say that. If a private D&D room is a gimmick and you’d rather have more open tables, say that too.

What’s missing at shops that you’d actually use?

Alexios "Alex" is my "tiefling" path of the world tree barbarian I've been playing Icewind Dale in.

He's not the brightest, he's basically a gym jock who has the looks of Fabio. But his heart is in the right place and he wants to make the world a better place. One lost chwinga at a time.

He's actually an asimar who looks like a tiefling, but he dosen't really get that. Mostly he knows he has the power to kinda heal people, and to fly which is super helpful. Also he might accidentally owe his soul to Asmodeus, but he's working on that.

I drew him in clip studio paint using a huion tablet. His horns are based on a few different kinds of spiral horned antelopes. He's convinced he has very red skin and looks barely human, but honestly if he wore a funny hat he'd be fine.

He puts a 'mitton' on his tail when it's entra cold because icewind dale be like that.

Easily one of my favorite dnd characters :)

I 3D printed these Bulettes on my Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra 16k, models are from Rescale Miniatures. (Formerly Lord of the Print.) I made one proper game size for Dungeons and Dragons, the other I scaled up to make a display model.

Base coated and highlighted with acrylics, enamel washes for tinting and shading. Base is dry pigment, real sand and gravel (augmenting the 3D printed base) and enamels with acrylic highlighting. These sculpts are so cool, knew I had to print some up when I saw them. Lots of fun to paint!

Astra van der Horne: Archeologist… Tiefling… Spirit bard…
She used to work for the head barons of the Rock of Braal before defying her orders in search of her own passion - collecting funky bones. Luckily the spelljamming party she was sent to intercept had quite the odd boney artefact already and so she joined the crew!

She is my character from my groups Spelljammer campaign and I love her very much <3