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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.

Commission I've made featuring Callista, the unimpressed and chaotic evil tiefling.

I wasn't given too much info about her besides that she's most of the time living in a place called a void prison, and she's only set free to aid on missions. Her violent behavior keeps her from coexisting with her peers. Once her quests are completed, she goes back to her place. She has learned to love solitude to the point that she prefers to be alone, although she doesn't mind the company of her annoying teammates once in a long while...

This gal was commissioned by a cool client of mine last year. And I was given the liberty to do whatever I wanted (except for the armor/sword design). I was contacted some weeks ago to give her a little makeup to match her current state. Now I love how she looks even more!

Anyways, hope you like her! If you liked this drawing, consider checking out my other pieces on my socials! or DM me if you'd like a commission or design for your campaing <3

This piece was a commission I worked on last week, and I’ll admit I was a bit intimidated when I first saw the references.

Chainmail coif, a long wedding dress combined with plate armor, a massive shoulder guard and a large shield. All great elements on their own, but together they can easily become chaotic.

And on top of that… a huge cross. I’m pretty sure she could use it as a weapon or just trip over it xD

Balancing all of those elements while keeping the design readable and elegant was the main challenge here, but I’m really happy with how it turned out in the end.

~

The character herself is a zealot paladin, raised in a brutal religious order that seeks “truth” through punishment. She sees herself as devoted, even married to her god, wearing white garments inspired by a wedding dress as a symbol of that bond.

Despite her cruelty and dogmatic nature, she shows genuine care for those she considers innocent. Her faith is both her strength and her flaw, masking deep insecurity and a desperate need for control.

I really liked the contrast between her sacred, bridal appearance and the violence behind her beliefs.

I’ll try to post more frequently around here, you guys always catch details I didn’t even think about.

And yes, I do read all the comments xD

If you're curious to see more of my work, you can find me on Twitter as FoxRabiscos, or just stick around, I’ll be sharing more here over time.

Deep within the Dwarven mines, high above the crevices of the Underdark, lie miles upon miles of track, often with little to no sign of intelligent life seen for days on end. While traveling these tracks, whether on foot, or by mine cart, there is no greater sight of relief than the stumbling upon of the wandering traders. These hardy Dwarves endure long journeys, and long days, of solitude, peddling their wares between the great Dwarvish fortress cities of the North, and are known to be the perveyors of many fine and exotic inventory, any adventurer would envy.

just looking for some ideas that dont involve players starting a campaign meeting up in a tavern. although there is nothing wrong with it, i feel like its too staple and a trope im trying to avoid even if its juts for the sake of being a bit more original

what are ur best campaign starts that dont involve a tavern

Here's the scenario.

My character is a veteran of a nasty war, he left when he became disillusioned with his side (he was very definitely fighting for the evil Empire before he left).

The party has brought him back into the war, and the themes have been heavily based around building a guerilla resistance movement. The character was reluctant to get back involved, but is now fully driven by his hatred for his previous nation and will do anything to force them back from their current invasion.

The problem is there is now a new hook - a new god that has come to be and is growing in power. At some point the god will become so powerful that it can bend reality to its will, and make it so that it always has been. We have just convinced another nation to join the war in our favour, so there is less need of our party.

The party wants to explore this, but my character is so engrossed in the war that I can't see why he would leave it to solve a theological problem that he really doesn't care about when people are being subjugated and enslaved by his previous nation.

I am enjoying playing the character, and exploring the themes of PTSD, hurt, rage, and redemption - but if the party stops focussing on winning the war I can't reconcile him staying. How would you handle? Is this a "New Character" moment, or do you find a reason to care about the Act 3 plot hook? What could that reason be?

I recently had this one specific moment where the dice knew exactly what they had to do and when rolling two separate D100 - they created the perfect situation for our bard! Our party got their hands on some fairy dust and the bard, who is HEAVILY inspired by a 70s rockstar (her name is Nikkie Steves …) and familiar with this substance (you get it), decides to “consume” it and our DM wants her to roll a D100, similar to a wild magic reaction.

The dice decide that this action causes her to shrink a bit, not half her size, but still visible (can't remember exactly). My warlock asks her if taking fairy dust is such a good idea, it could be dangerous after all, but our bard insists that she “knows this stuff” and that there’s nothing to worry about. To prove her point she takes another dose (I’m already freaking out) and rolls another D100 …
and she simply grows back to her regular size ...

She got the exact number needed to get the effect that reverts the previous one. A “one hundredth of one hundredth" chance. So 1 in 10.000 times.

And the moral of the story? The consequences of reckless substance use: Nothing. Our Bard learned absolutely NOTHING and she was indeed correct. Thank you dice.

To be transparent, I write for a german gaming website, where I focus on D&D, miniature painting and more, but foremost I’m just obsessed with Dungeons & Dragons and cool stories. I love spotlighting fun community stories and would love to hear your own moments where your dice were just paid actors in disguise and - if you consent - feature them in an article :)

Edit: Changed W100 to D100, sorry

Just ran my first D&D Purple Worm style one-shot and it was absolute chaos in the best possible way.

Almost a total party kill everyone died except the one news reporter player who somehow managed to escape and live to tell the tale, which honestly made it even more perfect.

Everyone absolutely loved it, people were literally rolling around laughing the whole time.

I was really loose with the rules and basically just let them try whatever ridiculous things they wanted, and it turned into brilliant, hilarious carnage from start to finish.

Absolute mayhem, maximum fun. Still buzzing after it! 🙂

For anyone who hasn’t heard of it, a Purple Worm one-shot by is basically a deliberately lethal D&D game where a group of level 1 players are thrown into a wildly overpowered encounter they have almost no chance of surviving the fun is in the chaos, ridiculous heroics, and the story of how gloriously everything falls apart.

Hi, so I'm playing a barbarian that has an 8 int but a 16 wis and I was trying to make his bouts of random smart things be intimidation one liners but the problem is that the only things I can think of my dm thinks are funny instead of scary so I was coming to y'all for good scary one liners.

Hello,

As those of you whom follow my onlyfans may have surmised already, I've sadly fallen out of love with the weekly roll and the bucket brigade as of late. The joy is no longer there for me anymore.

I owe it to you readers but most importantly to myself as a creator to focus my creative genius into projects that spark joy, as those are the comics and art that i enjoy creating and you enjoy reading.

Therefore, Before I go all game of thrones season five on it, i have decided to stop working on the weekly roll with immediate effect.

Instead, I will be focusing on my new webtoon originals series, which already has interest from parties that rhyme with "wetflix" and "cwunchywoll", which launches soon:

Reincarnated as the Tyrant's divorced level 99 borderline-underaged wife but I deeply despise the Isekai genre plus i have a literal handgun

(RATTDL99BUWBIDDTIGPIHALH FOR SHORT)

This is a project I've worked on for over a decade now and I've poured my heart and soul into this.

I'll be deleting all the previous weekly roll episodes from the internet tomorrow to prove to myself how much I've grown as a person and artist, how willing I am to move on to better things and leave the past behind.

It's been an honor!

Onwards to new horizons!

Also, did you know that Japan is turning footsteps into electricity! Using piezoelectric tiles, every step you take generates a small amount of energy. Millions of steps together can power LED lights and displays in busy places like Shibuya Station. A brilliant way to create a sustainable and smart city -- turning movement into clean, renewable energy!

Also, Ikea has nerve gas capsules in all their furniture for when the Swedish government decides that the World has fucked around too much and it's high time it found out. /s for legal reasons

Update: yes in hindsight posting this on April first and not making some shape corrections was an unfortunate coincidence 😂

Alright what a gorgeous lady! Literally made this on a whim today as one of my players is playing a southern mama Harengon in a western campaign. the token she was originally using was just a photo of a flop eared rabbit, but then she drew her own (very flat but gorgeous) pic of her character.

This was probably about 2 hrs of work maybe a little more but for that kind of effort she looks gorgeous, and i matched the art style this campaign was using (mostly). if i were gonna do more iterations id go through and edit her cheeks to be perkier and rounder and move her body portions around. maybe ill do that another time.

This type of art is Extremely different than the style i normally use and i really struggle with hyper realism so she's def a bit weird looking to me, since usually i use punchier colors and harder shading to match the official art in modules like waterdeep dragon heist!

What do you guys think? if you like it gimme a follow. i come out with all sorts of stuff for players and DMs alike, and if u wanna see the original token u can find it on my page as well.