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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.

This is the third time I've tried to publish this post, I hope this time it sticks:

Thanks to the creativity and creations of this community, I was able to inspire and create this very small Dice Tower of mine (much more similar to a box).

I'm quite happy with the final result, but I'm not entirely satisfied. I'd like to hear your thoughts, and if you have any advice to give me, whether it's aesthetic or technical. (which I might add later).

[I swear I'm pretty sure I've followed all the steps required to post on this subreddit exactly. But maybe I'm forgetting something, And I'm not even realizing it.]

My friends and I are arguing about how Heat metal works. While in combat, my friend said that it is impossible to take off armor, therefore the creature only need to pass the con save to not suffer the disadvantage on attack and ability rolls. But the spell said "If it doesn't drop the object, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the start of your next turn" so the creature always have disadvantage while in combat. What's your opinion?

I found an ad looking for more players for a DnD group, I know the basics about DnD but have never met anyone to play it with. I contacted the group and said I would love to learn. They told me it is a group of 3 people currently (DM included). They told me it takes hours to make a character sheet and we should meet up just to make the character sheets, they explained it was first edition DnD (I know of different versions but did not understand how different it is from what I understood as DnD).

I met with them and learned they've been playing DnD as a group for over 40 years. Members have passed away and it is hard for them to get new players. The DM and another player 62 and 66.

This is how im confused. Every thing was hand written and in binders very old binders. I follow their directions, first I picked my races ( they have me playing 2 characters). The races I had to choose from I've never heard of and the only info I had was quick summery hand written notes ( all in cursive) same with class there was a lot of classes to choose from ( some I heard of before like cleric, druid etc but there was a lot more I've never knew about). Being new to DnD I figured I would pick my race and classes off of what they gave and look more into it once I got home.

The 2 characters I made are: Korobokuru, Adventurer Aesir, Ghost Hunter.

When I got home ready to learn more, I look up the races and found a Korobokuru (limited info it seems the Korobokuru should not be an adventurer?) but can't find anything about an Aesir.

I found some info of people making Aesir Mark but it doesn't match the info I was given.

Ghost Hunters I can't really find nothing on.

I really was hoping to study up on this stuff so I could be ready for the first game but how can I study about it when nothing is lining up.

I want to play with them but I am also afraid that im going to ruin their game by not understanding what is going on.

Should I just roll with it and let them guide me? Or should I bring up what's confusing me? Or tell them that I think maybe some stuff was left out? Or added on? It kind of seems that they are set in their ways and I don't want to step on any toes.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

He alwavs knows where to investigate, how to talk to people, he always asks the right questions to the NPCs. I don't know if he found my Reddit and saw my posts, for example. How do I know if he knows? And what should I do if that's the case? Has anyone else experienced something like this?

Gonna try and keep this summary brief, but it was our first DND game ever. It was my first time as a dm, and we were all learning by the seat of our pants. We were all having fun, but as time went on, I began to grow displeased with my own work as a novice DM. I was disheartened and burnt out, and wanted to start something new with all the brand new experience and practice I'd gotten, but I was still down to see the campaign through to the end.

The party was very high level (15 because I leveled them up every session since I wasn't sure the whole DND thing was going to stick and I wanted them to experience as much as possible in case it didn't). Enter the super baddies that are trying to end the world. The party has to travel the planes in search of the mcguffins to help them stop the big bads. Except they ran into an ancient dragon in the pits of hell that rolled its breath weapon literally 6 times.

The entire party died besides the rogue, and with no way to revive the party in a plane that wanted them dead, he was offered one last deal: swim through the river Styx and find their souls yourself, or lose yours trying. He took the deal but failed.

It was a grim and dour way to end our very first game ever, and it's never sat right with me that the party essentially died to the dragon spamming its breath attack 7 times. I understand sometimes u just get unlucky, but narratively it's always left a bad taste in my mouth, and Ive thought about what it'd be like if there was some way to continue that story.

Fast forward ten years and one of our players is leaving to be stationed in Korea for the next year in May. I figured "if not now, then when?" And so we've begun talks to get the gang back together and pick up where they left off, much to their baffled surprise.

So here I am in need of some help. I already have ideas of what I want the next few months of games to cover, and how I'm going to handle the setting. I need help in hammering out the transition period of "we were dead, but now were alive again. How?" What entities in lore have this sort of power/interest? What can be done about literally retrieving souls that have been obliterated? Or at the very least, saving their souls before they are erased?

I'm open to any and all questions, input, insight, commentary, or whatever else have you 🙏 ty for listening to me yap

Hi! I'm setting up my commissions after a long hiatus and I want to focus on DnD characters (and other RPGs like Candela Obscura and such). I'm kind of at a crossroads here with pricing. I don't want to set the prices too high where I scare people off or too low where people would think there is something wrong, like a scam or AI. I have zero idea how to gauge that, I have a tendency to “sell with my own wallet” and lowball myself to hell.

My plan is to time myself for each type of commission and use an hourly rate for setting flat pricing, but I've noticed I'm a little faster than most people and I fear if I use the minimum wage in my state I’m going to be finding that issue of people thinking it’s too good to be true.... So now I'm trying to reverse engineer my hourly rate and I need your help. I’ll take all responses into consideration, take out anything that would put me below min wage, and I guess average it out? So my question to you is:

TLDR: How much do you guys think this art commission should be? (for one character)

It doesn't have to 100% represent that character. Just inspired on maybe how your character would look, a build to replicate the character's fighting style, or just how you roleplay your PC in general.

There is nothing more to this post really, tagged as misc because nothing else felt right.

I'm drawing fan art of my and another player's characters and they are travelling via his PC giving mine a piggy back ride/shoulder ride, and it occurred to me he has to carry his halberd somehow, and I cannot find a single decent reference for how a hlaberd is carried outside of combat. Help!

Throwaway cause I'm not risking my DM seeing this ha

Honestly I feel kind of embarrassed even posting about this but you know how it goes. You get stuck multiple campaigns together and then one day you realize you are crazy. Tale as old as time.

I'm pretty decent at keeping crushes under wraps and not letting it affect friendships or anything of that sort, but sometimes I feel like there is something there. I don't know if I'm just being crazy or if I'm genuinely seeing something. Sometimes when we talk (in real life, our campaign group chat, and imessages) we joke about dating each as often as we joke about being born enemies (frequently). Sometimes I catch them staring at me and looking away. Our non-campaign friends have made multiple jokes about how we should kiss/date. Our friends in campaign keep hinting towards them liking me but only vaguely enough to have plausible deniability and I feel like I'm going crazy.

The reason I feel like they might not feel the same is that outside of those weirdly flirty or considerate moments in both texts and real life, they don't exactly exhibit "typical crush behaviour" towards me if that makes sense? We aren't always texting or talking 24/7, they don't make outward indications of having randomly thought of me for something, etc. This might just be because they've told me in the past that I'm hard to read, so they might not be understanding that I have feelings as well. The rational side of me is saying they just don't feel the same though.

The problem is I don't want to risk saying anything and then unintentionally ruining the dynamic of our campaign and friend group. The other problem is I genuinely feel like I've never clicked with anyone more than them in my life. Which sounds pretty dramatic, but we have a lot of similar interests and it's just something about them.

I guess my reason for posting this would be if anyone has any advice about how to handle this without making it awkward at the table. Should I just let it go? I've never felt so conflicted in my life.

Please send help haha

Hey all. I (28) have been playing with my best friends from high school, weekly for 10 years now. There is one player (we will call Benny) that I personally have always had issues with outside of game.

Benny and I were roommates before Covid, and he’s done me dirty multiple times in the past (getting him a job and then he no call no showed the next day, telling me I had to move out of the apartment early because he was terminating our lease 2 weeks early. And another incident where he quit a start up business without any warning that he and I were working on). So needless to say, I’ve always had more issues with Benny than the rest of the group outside of the game.

I host our sessions at my house, in my basement that I’ve turned into my ideal gaming set up. Beautiful handmade table, comfy chairs, a handmade full bar, the whole 9. I also print terrain and paint all of our groups miniatures…the reason I bring this up is because this “friend” is consistently making a mess, leaving beer cans, food scraps, and garbage around no matter how often I tell him to clean up. Benny is always grabbing and picking up my cats aggressively which drives me insane, but he says it’s fine “because he has more cats than I do”. And overall he is just disrespectful to the space and to me and my rules in general.

In game Benny is consistently unengaged and disruptive. He talks over everyone constantly about things that don’t have to do with the game. And when he does have the spotlight, he quickly turns into a murderhobo or wants to bang the nearest female NPC. In 10 years time, every character has been exactly the same.

I know other players have in game issues with him, and have seen my frustrations peak over the last year or two. I hit my breaking point right before the holidays and said I needed to step away from the group for a bit and we would regroup after new years.

During this time I told the current DM and other members separately that I won’t be returning if we continue playing with this person. I am fully okay with them keeping Benny over me and I step away if it comes to that. I have invited the other members excluding Benny to my house to discuss what to do about the situation. But I’m at my breaking point…my closest friend in the group is too and he has my back on this, the other two members are much closer friends with Benny at this point so I guess we will see what happens..it’s either him or me, I’m at my breaking point.

Thanks for reading. Feel free to leave suggestions on how to handle this situation. Although it was mostly a rant.

Rhalâta’shera

EDIT: I didn’t think I had to say this part, but I’m not really seeing advice or feel like I don’t know what to do, I’m all good, I just felt like putting something out there. It “taking ten years to realize you didn’t want to play” or whatever is missing context.

This person USED to be one of my closest friends, all through high school and up until us being roommates right before Covid. Since then it’s been a slow decline that’s snowballed over the last year or so. It’s not like I couldn’t stand him from day 1. He’s always been abit of a problem player but it used to be easy to ignore and he would just be on his phone more than anything. Nowadays he’s loud, rude and hijacks scenes. On top of the out of game things I’ve mentioned.

UPDATE: We are kicking him out this week. Thanks for reading