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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.

At the end of our last D&D session, a player in my 3 year-old campaign cast the 3rd level spell "Conjure Ocean" from Obojima: Tales from the Tall Grass. He teleported a 20 foot cube of water into a closed underground room. The room is smaller than 8,000 cu ft (20'x20'x20').

The player was peeking in behind a door that opened inwards. There is nothing in the spell description that limits the volume of water to the size of the room. Water is incompressible. Real world physics tells me this is catastrophic.

We all found this fun. It ended our session, and the consequences haven't played out. I get to decide.

What do you think would happen to the room? What would you do as a DM running D&D (5th Edition)?

This question is for any other D&D players who use discord for their game and believe that age verification on any platform is an attack on free speech and privacy. Not because we don't want to protect young minds from mature content, but because what a company or government labels as “adult or “obscene" is subjective (generally to their bottom line, or increased power) and liable to change to serve them. And it's often packaged "to protect children."

Discord is an independent company and can do what they please, just as my dnd group is free to choose another platform that accommodates our values. If anyone feels the same - where will you take your game?

okay so baby dm here and i think i messed up 💀

i'm running a game for 3 of my best friends and we're all pretty new to this. one of my players made a way of the open hand monk and he was super excited about it at first.

the problem is the rest of the party is a vengeance paladin and a evocation wizard. now we're level 5 and he feels completely useless and i kinda see why.

last session, the wizard fireballed a whole room and the paladin one-shot the leader with a big smite. the monk's turn came up and he literally just ran up, punched a guy that was already almost dead, and that was it. he told me after the game that he feels like a "worse fighter with no armor and no damage" and that he's not having fun with it (he loves the background, history... the class is the problem)

he just messaged me asking if he could change his class to a fighter or something.

and idk what to do?? it feels like cheating but he's clearly not enjoying the game and i want him to have fun. do i just let him switch? how do we even explain that in the story? like he goes to sleep a monk and wakes up a fighter lol??

help pls i don't want to ruin the fun for him 🙏 any advice would be amazing

Hello! I'm organizing a short campaign or one-shot for my book club and looking for suggestions of what Species and Class might be good for our (mostly inexperienced) players.

The group is all women and we're going for a classic romantic heroine vibe - think "the princess saves the day while wearing a beautiful dress".

If there's anything similar to a mermaid, we have one player who would love to do that.

I've tagged as 5th Edition but our DM is flexible in creating what we're looking for.

Thanks for the suggestions! :)

Edit: Thank you for all of the wonderful suggestions! Knowing that we can make pretty much anything work as long as we're creative makes me feel much more confident that we'll have a great time.

As sickness laid upon the forest and all withered, once familiar and safe, now rotten and abandoned. Elders of the First Stag clan rose at natures call, rejuvenating places of corruption and death, seeking the source of the darkness. Along their side is a mystical lantern that illuminates the way, guided by its glow. Amidst the branches and fallen leaves there is something watching, waiting............

I’m a new dm and I have a new players. No one has ever played before (including myself). I’ve consumed lots of podcasts and media so I feel like I’m doing a decent job but I cannot get my players to stay on task.

I have a small group of 5-6, but it just feels like we can’t get anything done because no one is focusing.

I’m pulling out all the stops to make it interesting I’ve got custom music, light and map on a playable table for each scene but yet no one is focusing!

Whenever people aren’t playing (like if the group is split and the other people are playing) they just start side conversations (not even quietly) or start doing whatever on their computers (like shopping for clothes).

Maybe I’m just banging my head against a wall and trying to play with a bunch of ppl who don’t care for it, but I’m literally putting so much time into prep, having images for every character and the scenes and I just don’t think I’m getting the attention that is needed for this game to work. We play a group then everyone is just asking questions cause they weren’t listening after or confused or forget what we’re doing.

I think im good with the scene setting, improv and dialogue - I don’t think it’s a performance issue on my part cause I’m literally doing all I can.

I guess idk I’m just frustrated cause I’m putting in so much work and I feel like people don’t wanna play??

Am I just doing dnd wrong?

Should I just get new players?

I've joined a D&D group at my local library that has been running Curse of Strahd for the last couple of months. I'm not familiar with the lore of the campaign, and everyone's characters have been pretty embedded into the story at this point, so I'm having to play catch up.

The DM is also being fairly strict about character creation. Everyone is either a Barovian or Vistani (no outside adventurers), and my options for character class are limited because of the characters everyone else has already made. I'm fine with this; I am jumping into a group that's been playing for a while, so I'm mostly just interested in catching up on the lore, and making a character that works well with the story that's already been established.

At this point in the story, Strahd has already tried to seduce Ireena by disguising himself as Vasili, and the party have fled and barricaded themselves in a house that's being beseiged by wolves and zombies. My character is going to somehow meet up with them in the next session.

I'm thinking of playing a cleric based on Carl from the Van Helsing movie. Someone who's pious and kind of a nervous shut-in, but who has obsessive knowledge about the occult and supernatural. Or in general, any kind of self-righteous acolyte with a lot of knowledge but not a lot of experience.

The DM had suggested I could be trying to uncover the "lost religions"? He mentioned the existence of the Morning Lord and Lady Night, and that I could be trying to prove the existence of the Morning Lord, who is thought to have abandoned Barovia. I've tried looking at the Curse of Strahd wikis to figure out more about these guys, but it seems like there's kind of a mix of "old lore", "new lore", and then fan theories that aren't super clearly separated from each other.

I'd appreciate if someone could give me a bit of breakdown of the main points I should know before I jump into the campaign, and if anyone has ideas for crafting a character that fits within what's already been established.

TL;DR: What should I know before jumping into the middle of a Curse of Strahd campaign, and does anyone have ideas for a cleric character based around the Morning Lord and Lady Night?

Thanks!

I'm worldbuilding for my next campaign, which takes a bit of inspiration from Australia. I have most of my worldbuilding finished except for the commonly worshipped deities in the settings region. any recommendations to fill out 3-4 different deity roles would be appreciated.

Hey everyone I’m a director based in the UK and wanted to share the trailer for my feature film ‘Dungeons & Dickheads’ as a fan of the game myself for many years I would love to share this with the community.

https://youtu.be/73UCoIXZbfA?si=zDIg1I6nTnmtJrES - Trailer