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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.

The people that designed the game we all love are making a stand for a better workplace where they are supported for their creative work. Stand with them and support real people living real lives with real costs. Support the people that bring us the resources for OUR games.

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcpetition/

Edit. Reading the first responses i wanted to clarify. i am not one of the workers at WOTC. I just saw this coming by and think it's important to share.

Did you ever see Deborah Ann Woll adlibbing a D&D opening scene for Jon Bernthal?

Could you do something similar; DM for about 30 minutes for someone (or even a small group) who has never played. Just an index card for character notes, and a d20. No special effects, not much more than a coffee table to play on?

Do you have a specific module virtually memorised, or could you freestyle a short session off the top of the dome!?

What kind of thing would you run?

[Edit: What great answers, everybody is like "Yes, Easy!" which warms my chaotic heart. I have a follow up question but I need to work out how to phrase it]

So as the title says. We got spells like Steel Wind Strike, Booming Blade, Green Flame Blade, True Strike etc that let casters emulate martials or even surpass what a martial is even capable of (like with Steel Wind Strike). When martials are so limited by "realism and grit" should casters have the ability to do what martials do as well?

I posted a question yesterday, and it was heartening (exciting) to see how many DMs are adlibbing and freestyling their way through the game. I like running this way but none of my friends do.

What I'd like to know from you guys is, when you're DMing in that style are you using a specific rules edition, or are you just running it loosey-goosey FKR style?

Same question about Lore - are you adlibbing your own lore, or using a published setting while you freestyle the scenario.

And lastly, to what extent do you freestyle the structure of the session? I always feel like I prefer to let the game go where it wants, but some answers were suggesting having an ending in mind.

Thanks for your positivity!

Correct might be a little bit too strong.

I am running as a first time DM a homebrew world, it's a bad idea I know, just bear with me 😅

After a TPK I got sent new backgrounds, they played some sessions so they new a lot more about my world and they tried to incorporate key aspects into their characters' story and I'm super appreciative tbh

Thing is, it's wrong. There's some "things" some cults/NPC/public institutions would have never done for reasons they don't know YET.

I could let them know why, but

- I don't want to spoil the various reveals, which they're really looking forward to

- I don't trust them (and I explicitly told them, we are all close friends) to discern between what Player knows and what PC knows, and also I'd rather not have them constantly think about it and ruin the immersion

Should I just fix their backgrounds 'because I said so' , which wouldn't be a problem honestly butttt I think there's a better solution I'm not seeing.

EDIT I'm talking about changing 5-10% of the background's body, nothing major and all key points and personality would stay intact. It's a couple of events that don't fit well enough, I'd have to bend the lore to accommodate them

Then the hobgoblin riding on his back threw a bead of fireball at the rest of our party. It was the funniest enemy turn I’ve seen in a bit. They had disappeared for a round after we killed the giants pet lion and when the GM said we were able to see the giant again 100 feet in the air I lost it. Then I rolled a nat 1 on my Dex save to avoid the rock.

Surprisingly I didn’t die and kept concentration on my hex spell. (Level six draconic Sorcerer, took 38 points of damage)

Trying to teach myself to draw and thought I’d try to capture the scene as I imagined it.

Wanted to share my girl, she's a political spy for a blue dragon (which currently only one party member knows about) and obsessed with stars 🙂‍↕️

After playing a wild magic sorcerer for two years, which was genuinely, even if fun, just pure chaos, it's kinda nice to finally have a rather competent and smart character. Just a pity that I myself am not very good at political intrigue lmao

We did our first puzzle last night with my new group. Everyone was excited and everyone wanted to help. But it turned into an unorganized mess where everyone was talking each other.

Not only that but we have 2 players who are online while the rest are live.

Any tips?

Lets be honest a Goose is already scary enough, but one that is a Wizard. Its game over. ^^

Its time to get ready for some Halloween one shot with the kid, So I create a new Paper tile set, A graveyard. New tiles, walls, accessories even a mausoleum! There is a lot of stuff, but i still feel i can expand it more in the future, with Corn maze tiles or field, more pumpkins for sure, but that's for later^^

As always its all paper, sometimes i use magnets to connect the tiles or the minis ^^

Enjoy!