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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.

I’ve been playing a homebrew campaign for a couple of years with some friends and my husband has been getting more and more intrigued in trying out D&D. Then a few weeks back he brought up he’d like to play some (non D&D) spicy game with me some time (complete with a hint hint maybe for his birthday vibe to the comment), so I had the great idea to look fo a spicy one shot campaign to be part of his birthday present. I’ve found a few ‘date night campaigns’ around but I’m a little wary because most are on their own websites so there’s no (proveably)independent customer reviews I can judge by and the couple I found on Amazon or Etsy say “suitable for all ages” which no, I’m looking to get very saucy thanks, so I’m wondering if anyone has recommendatiosn or any tips on how i could turn up the heat on a less spicy date night campaign.

Heres a few things the ideal version would have: - spicy (obv) - some combat and normal D&D fun so I can drag him to the dark side with the rest of us - ideally something digital or with quick delivery method as I live in Australia so physical shipping could make it arrive too late for me to do prep before his birthday - DM role to be lighter, I’ve never DMed before so something where I can be more of a player with him if that’s at all possible (I’m aware Ill haveto do some prep and rolling of npc dice etc, but i want to be having fun with him, not being too busy running the whole show and so too distracted to enjoy)

I’d love to hear any recommendations or suggestions. Thanks

All three players have come back with just great reasons why their character actually didn’t grow up here… Not sure what I was expecting, really.

Greetings fellow Adventurers and mad kings er I mean DMs.

Our Party has recently slain a demi-god and has been given a year of downtime before the next session (and a level up to 11) . Question is how to use it!

I'm currently playing a Land druid and have already begun forming a druid grove but that still leaves plenty of time most likely.

Of course increasing my Wisdom has come to mind as well (the most likely way I've currently found is procuring a tome of understanding) which I think would still only take part of that year (if the DM is so garcious)

So I've come here to look for any ideas you people might have.

From magic items to anything neat really.

I'm a bit more concerned with cool, flavorfull things rather than pure min-max-y options but I'll gladly hear out any of them.

Hi! I'm new to DnD and I'm currently playing my first campaign. My DM is a really close friend of mine and a really cool person who does voice acting and creates really interesting stories. However, she is doing some things with my character that I don't like but I don't know if this is just how this works.

Some context: my character is a ranger that has a complicated relationship with his father (the usual) and wants him to be proud but his father will never see him as enough. The thing is, he managed to make some "friends" (the other PCs) and they were at a market enjoying the food, attractions and min-igames.

One of the PCs had an item that my character had to steal for his father and for some time he was having second thoughts because these people are the first that ever treated him as a human and they have shown him that he is enough, they don't have big expectations and if he ever makes a mistake, they make it seem as it is trivial and that everyone makes mistakes.

The thing is, my DM said my character betrayed everyone and called his father to tell him the location and they all got captured by his family. I'm not sure he would have done that, I think he was trying not to think about it and yet, I had no choice. This has happened two more times with similar things.

She also does it with group decisions. An hour ago, when we were trying to find a way to cross a dense woodland with some beings that hate one of the PCs she would tell us "you shouldn't do that" or "remember how theis beings are, would that really work?". I don't know, I just think it takes some of the fun away.

Is all of this normal in DnD?

I will talk to her bc I read in this sub that communication with the DM is key, but first I want to know if it is a me thing or not.

Non english speaker so if there's something badly explained, let me know.

So I’m in my first D&D campaign and ran into a situation I’m not sure about.
Our party is hunting a magical stone and we got into a brutal fight. Everyone was basically one hit from going down and completely out of resources.

At one point, I was alone with a low HP enemy holding the stone and super close to giving the stone to the big bad. The problem was she had spirit guardians up, so if I got close I’d just drop before doing anything.

My idea was to grab a cultist cloak, disguise myself, get close, and trick her into dropping the spell so I could finish her off by making her think i was an ally.
But I was told that would break my Oath of Vengeance because it would be “showing mercy to the wicked.”

So instead I just shouted at the enemy, threw my greatsword, missed, but by doing that i stalled long enough for my party to arrive and use a spell to finish her before she could hand off the stone.

But i left the session confused:

Is using a disguise and deception an oath break?

Would running into Spirit Guardians and going down have actually been the oath of vengeance move?

Are there any tips that i as a beginner should know and keep track of?

We thought it was funny as heck.

I was watching the new official D&D actual play series and I was impressed by all the great video overlays and post production effects. One of the things that caught my eye was the smart use of one dice tower per two players and a camera showing the dice result. How do you think they did that? It could be a camera hanging high above the table and zoomed in on the dice tray. But I think it's more likely that it's some tiny close up camera that mounted on the dice tower itself. What do you think? And if it is a tiny camera, any idea what type and model it might be? I'd like to do the same for my stream.

Example 26:48 in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY9w7n84PmM

Hey hey folks! This is my first post here, and I'm rather poor at introductions, so I'll cut to the chase:

I'm conducting a quick seven-question survey for a research paper that I'm submitting for an English class, and I figured that this would be the best place to go! All I ask is that you answer honestly for the purposes of data collection.

This isn't a promotion to be clear, and I obviously cannot force anyone here to fill out said form.

Here is the link!

SO, DMing for the first time in a while, and using a collective homebrew campaign I am making with a friend. As part of it, the party (starting at level one) is meant to get their first glimpse at the BBEG - that being the advisor for a king that is secretly brainwashing half the kingdom into putting them in charge - when they need to sneak past them to explore the castle. The dude is a 25th level sorcerer so if they attack now it is most definitely a TPK… in session 2… not fun for anyone. Yet we ended session one with one of them opting to instead smash the window and charge them. (Note they have not yet, simply stated the intention to do so.) As much as I do not want to rail road the players, it seems a bad idea to let them get themselves killed. So my question here is how to nudge them in a way that is not a TPK but still not get rid of their wishes entirely. If anyone has any ideas, good or bad, say below please!

The 5.5e update was featured in UA before the 2024 PHB was ever released: https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/ua/ph-playtest-6

It was swapped out in favor of the Soulknife, but I was expecting it to release in a later book rather than be scrapped entirely. I was hopeful it might reappear in Heroes of Faerun, but it didn't make an appearance there either. Obviously nothing in Eberron since it doesn't fit as well, nothing in Ravenloft, and the next slated book is magic-focused so I don't imagine we'll see it there either.

Stranger still, it has never reappeared in any of the UA. It probably wouldn't make sense in Dark Sun (you know, the lack of water and all that), but a pirate isn't too far-fetched as a villainous option in my opinion. Yet no updated UA since the original 2023 release in playtest 6.

Do y'all think we'll get this in 5.5e, or do you think we'll just have to keep using the "backwards-compatible", but weak in 5.5e, 5e subclass? Do you foresee any future books including it?

Side note: Baldur's Gate 3 released the Swashbuckler subclass in their last major update, Patch 8. They added a new Level 4 feature called Dirty Tricks which lets you use a bonus action to either cast Vicious Mockery, toss sand in an enemy's eyes in an attempt to blind them, or try to disarm them. It's actually really cool and really flavorful. If there is a Swashbuckler update, I hope they work that in somehow.