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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.

Built from scratch, probably took me around 40 hours of work over the course of about 6 weeks, it’s SO FREAKIN HEAVY FILLED WITH CANDY I HAD NO IDEA😂😂😂 (please be nice my back hurts so bad i finished this at 1:30am)

DISCLAIMER: I MADE AND OWN THIS PARTICULAR PRODUCT ONLY!!! ORIGINAL IMAGE IS NOT MINE!!! I USED A PICTURE I FOUND ON PINTEREST AS INSPIRATION FOR THIS PERSONAL PROJECT AND I HAVE NOT NOR WILL EVER INTEND TO USE IT FOR COMMERCIAL REASONS!!!

Unless they literally are, in which case, none of this applies. This is also all assuming that the group in question is a group of peers, and especially if they're a group of adults.

I'm curious how much agreement I'll get here.

I see countless posts in which someone is having some kind of interpersonal issue with another player that has nothing to do with mechanics or gameplay. Just cut and dry cases of person A being a jerk to person B. So many of the responses to these are along the lines of "talk to the DM and they'll take care of it."

I would like to push back on that.

Yes, the DM runs the game, but that alone is a lot of work. Plus, it's meant to be fun for them too. They are also a player in this game, just in a different role. If there's disagreement on mechanics, rules, and that kind of thing, then yes, the DM should make a ruling. What the DM should *not* be ruling on is whether person A is truly being a jerk and whether to put a real person in real-life time out.

If you have an interpersonal issue, hash it out with that person. Talk like grown ups. It is not part of the DM's role to have you pull them aside, tell them what your fellow player said outside of roleplay, and ask the DM to give them a talking to.

Edit: I'll add here something I've said in some comments. I'm not saying that the DM can't or shouldn't intervene or speak up. I'm only pushing back on the expectation that it's the DM's job. You're a group of peers at a table playing a game. DM is an in-game title. Tattling on someone with the expectation that the DM will take care of it is not the role of DM, that's the role of a teacher supervising recess.

Yes, sometimes a DM is also a host and responsibilities overlap, but by default, a DM's role is game oversight only. It's not about whether a DM is willing to do these things, it's about people expecting the DM to solve their interpersonal issues just because they happen adjacent to game night.

This weird to others? This players vs DM thing? Cause I’m FOR them! Not against em. We barely had one session and now they want to group up without me.

I know this question seems really easy to answer, like, “just use another spell lol”. But it isn’t that simple.

Ensnaring strike is great…. If we weren’t playing a campaign solely based of fighting Huge sized creatures.

Hail of thorns is sick….. until you realize it only does 1d10 and its aoe is insanely small.

Cure wounds is a fantastic spell!!…. but I could instead do tons of damage with my bow and let my Druid do that.

I love these other spells, don’t get me wrong, but they’re so so situational that I almost never use them. We don’t run into enough beasts for Speak with Animals to be very useful, Conjure Animals is concentration and doesn’t use the same damage as I could otherwise do, Cordon of Arrows doesn’t have any of my weapon enchantments and doesn’t stack with hunters mark.

I want to be useful and versatile, but I usually spend each of my turns adding up my d6’s (enchantments, swarm, hunters mark) because nothing else gives me that same value.

Is there any spell at all that could be as useful in battle and out of battle to use to that extent, for the purpose of utility and versatility?

I’ve heard a lot of things that DM’s ban because of a past experience and sometimes it’s certain builds so I’m curious what some builds that other DM’s don’t allow/ don’t like at the table.

So I had a session recently, where People cried out of character. My game has been running for a little over a year, and their were really strong bonds between characters. Two of my players are great at role-playing and over the course of a year and a half in game, their characters "fell in love". It was obvious to everyone that they were in love, but neither of them said it. For a bit of context, there is a changeling bard who is the "woman" but they change genders to fit the mood. On the other end is a Goliath fighter who was an absolute power house, but they are a historian who was just a huge nerd. So last session the party reunited after the party was split. The two lovers were split. Due to choices that were made by the Goliath. The changeling was really mad, and it caused a issue in their relationship. In the session they ended up in a library, with all the world's knowledge... (soo much lore shit for my campaign, I'll share another time) when the Goliath found out that his mentor used to study here, he made a choice. Right before the party was going to leave he stoped everyone. Explaining he was going to stay in the library. And there was a beautiful moment in their goodbyes where the Goliath said that they loved them. It was genuinely heart wrenching, even for me. A character that was a staple holding people together, was retired. (And for everyone who is going to say they could have came back to the library another time, they couldn't. More lore shit(It's a shit ton)) Feel free to ask questions. I love hear what people think.

I'm the player in question, when the DM was prepping us for the game they chose a preexisting campaign on D&D Beyond, I misunderstood and thought that was the setting for the game and built a character I thought would fit into that. Our DM tried to explain the actual setting over text but there was definitely some miscommunication.

Apparently we are in an entirely different setting and environment and while I'm enjoying playing with everyone, I'm not really enjoying playing with this character. I feel like I'm having a lot of trouble playing them to the best of my ability because, while it's a fantastic and very fun campaign, it's just not the one for this character. My character does get along with the other characters and has formed bonds, others have stated they enjoy this character but I'm playing it very shallow compared to how I intended.

I do however have a different character I made previously that fits into this world beautifully, including how it would interact with the other characters and I think I would enjoy it much more. I feel like I would be able to roleplay more effectively and fit better into battles. I was thinking of telling my DM how I feel and ask to kill my character off.

However I feel guilty just wanting my current character to just die so I can switch (which we are in an area of the story where it could work well) and I don't know if it's unfair to the DM or my fellow players.

We're roughly 5ish sessions in.

How would you as the DM feel if a player approached you asking for this?

How would you feel as a player at the same table?

Edit: One other player does know about me wanting to do this and is supportive but we're dating so it feels very biased, though I am good friends with everyone at the table

Hi there! First post, love this place, but let's get to the point

So, I find creating characters very satisfying and self-expressive thing, and sometimes good ideas just pop in my head

So after a few years without playing I have around 30-40 character concepts stored up. They are not very well written (since I'll need to adapt them for specific campaigns) nor have builds (except for some characters that are made based on the build and not on the person), but I really like them all and when I have to choose just one for the game - it takes me days or weeks to decide (and usually I just pick a concept that fits party's needs)

And I just wanted to know like

Is this normal guys? Do you also have many concepts while not playing or you have just a few? Or you just like, making character right before the game? Share your best characters tho

So, my DM started this campaign of Tomb 4 years ago and I myself joined in 3 years ago after a few players dropped out. We are apparently somewhere near the end of the campaign according to my DM, and now I am curious on how long this was even supposed to last. We meet once a week and sometimes miss a few here and there but are overall consistent with 2-3 hour long sessions.

Player has a pseudodragon companion, pseudodragon has ability sting which makes the target do a poison save and if it fails by 5 or more it falls unconscious. The enemy in this instance has poison immunity. Player argues while the poison doesn’t affect it, it would still fall unconscious as in the attack the unconscious effect isn’t directly tied to poison so nowhere in the rules it says the enemy wouldn’t be immune to the poison effect. Dm says that there is no way it would fall unconscious as that is a result of the poison which the enemy is immune to. Who is right?