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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.

My DM absolutely broke me this session.

My characters (a bard) parents were killed for their musical instruments. She has mudered the killers, and is now seeking answers as to why they were killed in the first place. We had an awesome combat round where my character finally locates her mother's lyre. A voice echoed out after touching the lyre and my dm had a recording ready. I was so excited to hear the lore. As soon as I heard the voice my face and heart just fell.

It was my long distance best friend (who I NEVER get to see) playing my characters mother. I couldn't contain myself when she started saying how much my I (my character) means to her and she's sorry she didn't get to tell me more about our life story. She ended with "Never forget, we love you so so much" and I was a ball of tears and snot on the floor.

I love my DM 🥹❤️

Been trying to find a "bff" group for years. Even the best groups I found fizzled out after a campaign ended. Most people seem to want a content creator to run games for them, and not a friend they want to share an experience with.

I figured you know what, fine. I'm gonna sell myself. I started running paid games and now I actually feel like I'm finally actually getting something back for my work and effort.

10/10, would recommend for underappreciated DMs

Disclaimer, I have no idea if this game actually exists or not beforehand, but I've never seen it anywhere.

It's played in a "best of" format - best of 3, best of 5, etc. There are two players.

There is a target goal of 18 that you want to get as close to, without going over (like blackjack).

You roll ANY three dice you want. Want to play it safe? Roll 3d6 to guarantee you don't go over 18. Need to play it riskier? Roll a d10 and 2d6. Just remember, if you go over 18, you lose that round.

Assuming neither player breaks 18, the higher number wins.

That's it! If this game exists already, PLEASE tell me. I seriously doubt I'm the first person to come up with this, but I've never seen it anywhere else before!

I was researching dragons for a characters backstory and wanted to look through the monster manual to see what features the different dragons have and which ones could be relevant to my story.

But when I looked at the Adult red dragon I couldn't believe my eyes when I didn't find Frightful presence, one of the most iconic and interesting features of John Dungeons and Dragons.

The only still existing version of Frightful presence is now reserved for the Adult black dragon as it can cast the 3rd level spell Fear.

A beast so Legendary and powerful that just it's mere proximity strikes fear in everything that can perceive it. Reduced to a lvl 5 spellcaster.

I think a dragons frightful presence is as iconic as its breath weapon and taking either away or simplifying it to a low level spell is taking a lot of flavor out of all the dragons. Especially since there are multiple dragon related features that are based on the frightful presence in previous dnd editions.

I know this was an attempt to make dragons/ monsters easier and each dragon more unique but I don't really see how taking away this iconic feature significantly helps either.

Edit: I'm not the Dm and I'm not running Dragons. I'm building a dragon themed player character, this is my second time doing this actually since I briefly played a dragon themed character in 3.5 that actually had a feat progression to get and improve your own frightful presence. (Wich I though way cool and interesting)

Now to the most common things I have read: 1. It's a Safe or Suck mechanic.

It's not really IMO, it's a relatively light effect that restricts your movement and gives you disadvantage on some checks that can easily be removed by any prepared cleric or paladin. Entanglement is a harder Safe or Suck than frightful presence.

1. It makes each dragon unique.

In the same way that removing the breath weapon from all but 1 dragon is not necessary to make dragons unique it doesn't make it unique if they remove the frightful presence

My newest D&D character called doesn't-have-a-name-yet, and he's a dragonborn :3 He's actually my old D&D character's brother. My old D&D character, Kai, either died or was sent into the ether, we don't really know- my party was meant to find his body because I couldn't come to the last session of our campaign, but our dungeon master spared him for some reason

I unfortunately never really drew Kai because drawing snouts intimidated me at the time, but I gave it a go now, and his brother was so fun to draw :3

Just saw this post on Instagram! Seems interesting

Hello earthlings! Soo I don’t know much about dnd, I’m trying to get some gifts for someone that is into it & plays with friends regularly. I’m looking at some artisan dice sets & came across this little doodad. It has the D4,D8 & D12 on one side with the D6,D10 & D20 on other side.
What do we think?I thought it was a nice unique type of dice I’ve never seen before, but I want to make sure it’s actually usable for the game & makes sense lol.