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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.

They kicked the problem player.

This guy came in with 9 people in his backstory, all experts and part of an adventuring guild, all ready to die for him. "And this is his adopted aunt, the best alchemist in the world. And his best friend, and master artificer who gave him a flametongue sword. And etc."

Either he just read a book and wanted to throw all the characters in, or he just had major main character syndrome. He also gave himself like 4 magic items from his backstory, and "forgot" to remove them from his character sheet after the dm told him to.

He also kept trying to force a romance with the single girl at the table, despite her character literally saying "my characters lesbian brain hates this," every time he tried. He did not stop trying.

He also declared himself the group leader. I could go on.

It got to the point that I was dreading the game, until the DM reached out to all of us and said he was going to kick him. Sent the dude a message when we all agreed. Never heard from him again. And above all, I was like, holy shit it's that easy?

Changed the way I think about toxic players a lot. I think a lot of people just let shit go because they don't want to seem harsh or cause problems. But all of our sessions are 20x better now. Lesson learned.

Howdy folks!

A dragon? In my Dungeons & Dragons game? IN THIS ECONOMY?!

Crazy stuff.

Anyway, it's the last 24 hours left of the Grogna+Trevor Makeship plushie campaigns, so get yer plushies before they're gone!

That's it for now!

Stay excellent out there! Peace and carrots

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I received a request from a player recently to paint their character, a human paladin. They emphasized that her figure be somewhat long and thin, although in full plated armor. I felt it was an interesting challenge to try and give her a strong armored look while maintaining the elongated aesthetic they asked for.

For this piece I decided to stylize her features a bit more than usual, which I felt would suit her tall and thin frame. The player didn’t have much of a preference when it came to the placement of her sword and shield, so I decided to depict the back/inside of the shield rather than the front, and paint the details of the arm and hand rests, as it’s something I don’t do very often.

Aside from the elongated and stylized proportions, I focused on simple and geometric shapes, as it’s a feature of most of my work, and elements such as the cape, I kept pretty simple, flat, and shapely.

It was a very fun piece to work on, and I am genuinely happy with how it all turned out. I look forward to doing many more pieces like this, in which I can stylize quite a bit, as I find heavier stylization much more fun and interesting to view and work on.

I've been experimenting with different tree visuals for VTTs. People told me they would prefer to see the trunk to better navigate on maps, while keeping the visual of the canopy.

The Solid one is probably the most visually appealing but obscures a lot of detail one would need in a battle.

The transparent ones are the most tactically informative but make a map loot cluttered when on a map with lots of things.

Which one do you prefer and why?

Edits: Current vote count across all posts:
Solid 32, Solid with Trunk 7, Transparent 43, Transparent Middle 11, Shadow 73

A lot of people brought up combining Solid and Shadow which would be THE most ideal way to do trees.

If you can only choose one, the majority prefer Shadow alongside Transparent (with more transparency than shown)

Ex: dark speech, zombie templates for animate dead, black onyx to make raised dead permanent...

One of the things i have been working on for our take on Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus is fleshing out the locations in chapter three using the Alexandrian remix. One of the major locations i finished (which i actually released as a module!) is the Lair of the lost Golgari.

I had a lot of fun with the project but easily the thing i put the most time into is the artwork. i had intended for it to be even more detailed and essentially on par with my highest quality work, but because the background needed to be so detailed i ended up with something about 50% of what I'm capable of. still, I'm pretty proud of where i ended up even if its not up to the art standards of official modules which is what i like to do normally.

Hello! I'm a librarian at a small library on the East Coast. We have many patrons who are interested in D&D, so I want to build a small collection to support them. As of right now, I have The Dungeon Master's Guide, The Player's Handbook, and the Monster Manual as books and a Starter Set in our library of things.

Is it worth expanding the collection and what would you recommend getting that would have the broadest appeal? We are limited on space and budget, so I can't go too wild, which is why I want to be strategic on what other books I add to our collection.

Inside the world of DND, how likely am I as a common villager to know about liches? Are they a myth? Does everyone know how they work, that they store their spirits in something so they can come back to life? Would only mercenaries know of them, or only wizards, or only kings? Would actual in-world liches be known as liches or would everyone think they were just very very old people? Would liches try to pretend they are some other kind of creature to throw people off their scent?

I'd like some opinions because I have no idea how well known they supposedly are!