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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.

Worked on this for a client recently! Here’s some description

Human Paladin
A tall human woman with sharp amber eyes and intricate black tattoos framing her face like sacred script. Her polished armor is dominated by a massive engraved steel neck guard covered in holy markings, giving her the presence of a battle-worn saint.
Half-Elf Bard
A charming half-elf with warm olive skin, soft green eyes, and long chestnut hair tied loosely behind his head. He wears elegant traveling coats and carries a finely crafted lyre, his easy smile hiding a quiet melancholy.
Tabaxi Swashbuckler Rogue
A lean tabaxi with dark striped fur, piercing aqua eyes, and a long muzzle. Dressed in fitted leather and layered belts, he carries himself with effortless confidence, always looking one step ahead of everyone around him.

This is something that's struck me playing both Pathfinder and... most editions of D&D, in addition to my recent runthrough of CRPGs Baldur's Gate 2, 3 and Wrath of the Righteous (in which they had to re-homebrew the Assassin class because they messed it up so bad).

In 5e, the Assassin procs his 'special ability' only on Surprise which is basically entirely GM dependent, and means that after the first round of combat the trained Assassin is indistinguishable from a basic Rogue.

If that wasn't strange enough, they then introduced the Gloomstalker class, which gets an additional attack on the first round, improved initiative and a bunch of tools that are arguably more Assassin than Ranger, and fairly inarguably more Assassin than... well... Assassin! Why do Assassins have to multiclass to properly realise their class fantasy?

Then they tried to fix this in 2024 with a sort of half-baked 'Assassins do more damage equal to half their level'. This feels like such a lazy, underdeveloped bandaid on the problem, and as far as I know has been met with an equally muted response.

What about Pathfinder, then? It, too, has a fairly underwhelming Assassin... and then it has the Slayer.

The Slayer studies it's target for bonuses to knowledge skills about that target and bonuses to hit and damage - something essential for a Rogue with it's lower BAB.

So what gives? Why is there another class that's had very Assassin-like abilities loaded into it, rather than into the Assassin class?

Studying targets, making extra attacks at the beginning of combat, reacting quickly at the beginning of combat? Outisde of janky surprise rules, these seem like things that belong to this class.

I've got a new player joining the party; she'll be playing a life cleric. She wants to make it one of her character's convictions that the character will not kill 'people'. That would apply to all playable races, but she obviously can't have her elf say: "I will not kill playable races."

She also can't say 'humans', because that applies to only one race, or 'humanoids', because there are humanoid monsters. So, what would you have her say?

I just had to make the version of this meme with the characters from the campaign I am a part of (with Iggy). ;w; I originally made it for a reel, hence the format.

Ignis - my beloved tiefling. He is the one who sends meteors down on upon enemies in the name of protecting those he cares about.
Ko'orin - our hexblade elf that has a (problematic) fondness of alcohol and a fascination for lightnings.
Ronnie - absolutely the most wholesome NPC in the campaign. People would wage wars over him to try and keep him safe.
Nyx - a former succubus and the wizard of the group. She had to work hard for her magic.

Oi, pessoal! Essa é minha personagem original! Ainda não pensei bem em uma história para ela mas amei como ficou sua aparência! A única coisa que posso citar é que ela é uma arqueira élfica. Eu escolhi essa pele dourada pra contrastar com cabelo azul vibrante (alguns dos meus amigos disseram que era preto azulado, mas eu considero azul escuro mesmo). Eu queria algo que transmitisse poder, mas também graça, e eu acho que consegui! Eu amo muito ela, futuramente pretendo criar uma HQ com essa personagem. O que acham? = )

Personagem original por mim. @sonniarttes [Instagram]

I had a bit of a polarizing boss fight. Group of 4, we've all been playing like 10 years. They show up to BBEG, last session of the campaign, who has an amulet that sets off an illusion spell which made the players swap bodies. Mechanically I told the group to give their character sheet to the person on the left, "dont tell anyone how to play your character". 2 of them loved it. Their jaws hit the floor, they got all excited etc. The other 2 got upset because I didn't have them make a saving throw. Under normal circumstances I'd have done the throw, but the whole swap was kinda the gimmick of this entire encounter. Else it would have just been a standard fight with an orc with flaming swords. I told them my rationale, and to just roll with it and have fun with it, but they spent the entire boss fight irritated.

I guess I could have deceived them with an impassable saving throw but that's not really my style.

I dunno what do you guys think? Was I wrong?

EDIT: I just wanna clarify the campaign wasn't very long. About 5 sessions. So I wasn't expecting a ton of attachment to their characters. I would not have done this in a longer campaign as the final boss fight. We've been playing as a group for a long time, but this specific game was short.

Just wrapped up another session of a undead/crunchy campaign that has been going great!

The party just fought against a raised Paladin being controlled by an evil sorcerer

Two party members die!

The Undead Paladin coldly impales the two by the heart. The Barbarian thanks the survivors for trusting her, the party's paladin tosses them his Orders amulet before dying by his old masters undead hand

After we've wrapped up session, my girlfriend says:

"You need to go fuckin shake G. R. R. Martin's hand after this one, ye fuckin _rude bastard_"

This feels like a dumb question, but I've been reading the lore of these races and it doesn't quite make sense to be. Dragonborn and Half-Dragons both seem to be half-dragon half-humanoid races descendant from dragons and both Cambion and Tieflings seem to be demonic humanoids descendant from fiends. In both cases, what's the difference between the two? Couldn't I just play a Dragonborn and roleplay it as a Half-Dragon, or roleplay a Tiefling as a Cambion?

I am a DM starting up a new campaign. Currently then players are figuring out characters. Our youngest player is 21, our oldest players are 30. I have one player who wants his character to be 15 years old. I personally don’t feel comfortable having a minor character, as I cover very adult themes in my campaign (drugs, vampiric seduction, brothels, and the like). This player is saying he’s okay with changing it to 18 but he’s being kind of passive aggressive, arguing age 15 “makes more sense for his character”. Another player is saying that I’m being too strict. I will note that a few other players have expressed concern, comments like “uhhh what the ****?” Or “that’s a little weird.”

What’s the verdict? Am I being too strict, or is this a fair rule to have in place?