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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.

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First off, the winner of last week's giveaway: https://www.redditraffler.com/raffles/1w723w3

Congratulations, u/zobotsHS! I'll be reaching out to you to get the necessary information to fulfill this giveaway.

A little while ago, I came out with the Magical Code of Regulations, 500 pages of law governing the use of magic. It started as a fun little project while I was working as an auditor at the IRS, and turned into a whole worldbuilding project I don't think I'll ever truly stop. It has laws governing everything ranging from necromancy, magical conservation easements, and familiars, to dragons, fireballs, and Chosen Ones. Great for D&D players and DMs, lawyers, accountants, worldbuilders, fantasy writers, and people that just want a really cool coffee table book. I promise it is the most in-depth magical law you've ever read.

Here's what some people have had to say about it:

"An unnecessarily comprehensive and deeply inconvenient framework. Several of my longstanding plans now require prior authorization." -Glorgon the Destroyer, Antagonistic Entity of Prophetic Significance #33

"Clear, thorough, and appropriately burdensome. I have no notes, though I will be requesting additional documentation." -Arthur B. Wexler, Senior Auditor, Department of Magical Affairs

Since release, I've made nearly 5k sales, this book is #1 on IngramSpark in fantasy over the last 90 days (for you booksellers looking for a cool book for your store), and will even have an officially licensed Chinese edition on the way (more details to come later)!

As a way to give back a bit, I will be giving away one signed copy of my book with a free digital version, a customizable authorized spellcaster license, a few stickers and a bookmark, and a no-change audit letter. All you have to do to enter is comment below! The winner will be selected randomly on 9/18 using redditraffler, with only caveat being that your account must be at least 3 months old.

I appreciate all the support I've gotten from this community and others over the past couple of years, and if you'd like to support this project independent of this giveaway, you can find the Code at the following links:

Amazon (preferred): https://www.amazon.com/Magical-Code-Regulations-Spellcasting-Regulation/dp/B0GZF9PVQL?maas=maas_adg_47FC0A8EE6B4473FD3BD31EA1AC9CE35_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas

NOTE: If the shipping seems extremely expensive, you may need to go to your country's storefront. If you live in the EU and your country doesn't have one, Germany (amazon.de) is usually best. I'll try my best to find options for anyone that has trouble getting it!

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If you're still not convinced, and wanted a sneak-peek, Questing Beast made a great video on it!

https://youtu.be/ffP-xvpRS5Q?is=YXo5uFPHC4cDXeTo

If you're still not convinced, know that the second edition will make ownership of the MCOR compulsory, so you might as well give in now.

On another note, I have been working on another small project behind the scenes (one of many, lol): essentially a bunch of story prompts for each D&D class – including one new homebrewed class – followed by some fillable documents you can use to play this story. It's nothing massive or anything that will take you through entire campaigns, but just some jumping off points.

Maybe your barbarian raged too hard while trying to save the town from bandits, and was presented with a big award and a much bigger property damage bill. Or your bard is screwed out of a bunch of gold because of a sleazy royalties contract. The documents would be that bill and that royalties contract, respectively. Is this something you guys might be interested in?

I took on the role of DM for a party of 4 completely new players, running Dragon of Icespire Peak. None of the five of us had ever played D&D before (apart from me binge-watching D&D videos on YouTube).

Since my players were total beginners, I created a DMPC to help guide them. She was a Cleric who fully supported the party. My original plan was to write her out by having her die right before the final dragon fight. What I didn’t expect, however, was the bond that grew between the party and her.

When a very powerful enemy killed her in a single blow, the party did everything to save her. I warned them multiple times that the situation was dire and they needed to run and leave her there, but they stubbornly stood their ground, nearly causing a TPK. Thanks to some lucky dice rolls, they at least managed to retrieve her cursed body. At their low level, they had no way to bring her back from the death, so they buried her in a sacred stone grove to protect what remained of Iohanna.

What surprised me even more was how Iohanna became the glue that held the entire party together. They have no history or connection to each other before, but they still fought on and ventured beyond the Dragon of Icespire Peak not to defeat the BBEG and save the world, but to bring back their dearest friend. Saving Iohanna became the party's ultimate quest.

Dragon of Icespire Peak wrapped up in about 5-6 sessions (I can't quite remember, it's been almost a year since the first session). Now we're almost at Session 30, and our group is going stronger than ever. I’m so glad to be their DM, to have fun alongside them, and to share this experience here.

(Though running an almost 16-hour session some days is absolutely brutal lol. Even our usual 4-6 hour sessions leave me completely drained)

P.S. The text layout in the comic might look a bit awkward since this is my first time drawing one and English is not the intentional language when I drew the speech bubble. Also, if any phrasing in the dialogue sounds slightly off, it's because English isn't my first language

It would make more logical sense - looking at history, the skeletons of medieval archers are actually deformed because of their constant muscle straining working with longbows. Heavy ranged weapons are NOT elegant weapons - they are very difficult to work with and use, and require immense strength. Also, from the gameplay perspective, Strength is very under-utilized, while Dexterity is over-utilized, and maybe it's time to "balance the scales" a little bit. Also, it would open up the door for heavily armored archer builds in DnD - I don't know any RPG that does that. It's always: archers are "lithe and graceful". Just a quick look back at history proves how misguided that is. What do you guys think?

EDIT: I'm seeing the same argument over and over again, saying that this would make ranged martial characters depend on both strength and dexterity, but what if their hit chance was also changed to strength, with heavy ranged weapons specifically? They wouldn't need dexterity anymore. Logically, it would also make sense - strength would help you keep your aim steady with a heavy weapon. Now you might be thinking, what if I like dexterity, and want the advantages of a heavy ranged weapon? They could easily introduce new weapons that increase the damage more based on dexterity. Now that the Arcana Unleashed book came out, it would be logical for the next book to be oriented on the martial classes, and NOW would be the perfect time to look at things like new weapons.

EDIT #2: Now, I'm seeing a lot of comments saying: "What about rangers? They still need DEX". This might be a little controversial, but in my opinion, rangers should be completely re-designed from the ground up again. I know they just did that, but I think they missed the mark.

Happened in my game last night. I got killed by a lich casting power word kill. A few rounds later when the lich was dispatched the paladin attempted to cast revivify on my corpse, and the lich's henchman counterspelled it.

The other players were a little surprised, as was I.

Then the henchman dimension doored away, and the paladin cast it successfully, but at the tune of my last diamonds (I am the party's Cleric).

Resources are scarce in the campaign, so having to burn two diamonds to bring a player back to life is painful.

I've never experienced such a thing.

Just wondering if any of you have ever had this happen to you before or experienced it at one of your tables?

*Edited for typo.

**This is 5e not 5.5 sorry I did not specify this when I first posted.

***I was killed in a surprise round, so no initiative roll

asking this cause i have a mind flayer friendly npc and wanted to know if a colony could just go by and take him back, and if there's a way to prevent it from happening

Howdy folks!

So the Makeship campaign for the Trevor and Grogna plushies have both reached 200 units, meaning that they will be entering production and ship out in early December! Congratulations to everyone that pre-ordered so far, and to me because I get a bit of money, which goes toward supporting my dumbass decision to abandon my Law career for the life of a struggling (relative to my previous work in government service) artist!

Reminder that the plushies can still be pre-ordered until Tuesday BUT they are limited edition, once the campaign ends, yer out of luck!

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This story begins, as all good stories do, late at night. I opened my usual DnD group chat, only to see a drawing from my DM of a new character she created for a different campaign (one separate from this group, I'll add for the sake of clarity).

Her character was a squat, serious Old West-looking gnome man with a bushy white mustache and overalls -- she described him as a grave cleric gravekeeper who takes his job very seriously. But the completely unserious part was the gravestone illustrated beside said gnome cleric, engraved with a name that will live in infamy one day (probably): Chunt Grugly.

Little did my DM know at the time, but that name...Chunt Grugly -- well, it would spark shenanigans that would last perhaps a lifetime, or at least well into the next day's game.

For some much-needed background info, our group is small with just the DM and two players, including me. But having only a few members has allowed us to actually schedule games consistently for well over two years. We've got one long, serious(ish) campaign that spans all that time...aaaand we've got a few silly, mostly unrelated ones scattered along the way.

So, my fellow player (who I'll affectionately call Late (as she is often late)) and I started riffing off Chunt Grugly's name, bantering back and forth a bit in the chat, pretending to be his brothers, Khunt and Chump. It seemed harmless and, at the time, it was.

The next day arrives, and all seems well -- we have standing plans for our usual Thursday game at 6pm, as per usual. Then Late messages me. I'm intrigued. She suggests showing up to the session as Khunt and Chump, a small prank in a sort of payback for last week's session, wherein our lovely DM was insultingly unimpressed by our surprise flying boots and fireball bard level-up reveal. She told us to try harder if we wanted to impress her...and those words were echoing in my head when I said to Late, "Wish I could learn to DM in an afternoon so I could force her to play with you instead," followed closely by my hairbrained "Hear me out..."

So, starting at 2:53pm, I began my mad dash to become a DM with a one-shot campaign that (hopefully) wouldn't get me disowned. The premise was obviously centered around Chunt, who I decided to make the darling of an Old West almost-ghost town called Copper Rush. Late would play his brother, Chump, and my DM, unbeknownst to her, was going to play her new grave domain cleric for the very first time.

6pm rolled around, and I logged on and made small talk with my DM while Late hung back a bit so she wouldn't be suspiciously on time and blow our cover.

Then, at 6:08pm, the coup began. Instead of waiting for my DM to start the game as she always does by asking if we have our dice, I beat her to the punch and asked, "Does everyone have their dice?"

My DM replied, "Hey, that's usually my line!"

"Not today!" I said, absolutely steamrolling in with an audacious amount of gumption to read them both my intro and drop them into Copper Rush. This was possible only due to her momentary stunned confusion at being perhaps the first DM to be on the receiving end of a benevolent coup -- before she knew it, she was a gnome grave cleric locked in a pokey with a barbarian named Chump, about to be approached by the mayor about a rescue mission to find poor Chunt Grugly.

This is a good time, I'd reckon, to tell everyone that Late and I were fully willing to let our DM veto the fuck out of us at this time. But she's a rule-of-cool DM through and through, and she allowed it. And so began my first foray into DMing, done in much the same style as the Spanish Inquisition.

The game ran...smoothly. Incredibly smoothly. We laughed, some cried, and even the BBEG got theirs in a satisfying fashion. I cannot tell you if that's because I can somehow DM quite well or, more likely, due to our close bonds and excellent teamwork. Either way, we finished exactly on time by the grace of the DnD gods or something, and everyone, including Chunt, lived happily ever after.

TLDR: I stole our usual DnD session and popped my DM cherry on the fly for the sake of surprising my incredibly unflappable, rule-of-cool DM with a prank oneshot that went suspiciously well, thus concluding an incredibly successful coup centered around a presumed dead man named Chunt Grugly.