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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.

She is my BBEG for the most recent campaign I write. Her name is Isnull Sylk. She became a Lich a year ago but she has scars everywhere, its because she has been tortured for a long time. But she escaped by slowly carving magical sigils on her cell mate's body with her own blood, making her a living spell book. Her cell mate died on the day of escape. But when she died Isnull skinned her and made this book from her body. She promised her drow mate that she is going to take revenge from their torturer. And she will become a lich to make him suffer for eternity.

This probably is more of an issue with online games, but twice this weekend I've been in games that used critical fumbles (1 on an attack roll means something additionally bad happens) without listing or stating that as a house rule. In the first one, I was blindsided by "you shoot an ally" mid-combat, so in the second one I asked the DM if they use critical fumbles when I didn't see any house rules listed. I was told "yeah, but it's not important."

Critical fumbles are a particularly egregious example of this; there are good reasons why the DMG recommends not adding additional affects to attack rolls of 1, including that it disproportionately disadvantages classes (primarily martials) who get multiple attacks. However, I've seen other major changes to how things work—"You can't cast a cantrip as an action and a bonus action leveled spell in the same turn [in 5.5e]," nerfs to sneak attack, etc.—imposed as house rules mid-game with the justification that they are "rule of cool" or "what the DM says goes." I suspect that in some cases the real reason is that DMs don't know the basic rules very well and just use something they read on some site or think a house rule they played with when they started actually is RAW.

It is true that the DM is the arbiter of what the game's rules are and that players can chose not to play if they don't like the rules. However, if the DM never communicates those house rules, then the players can't choose not to play beforehand. I think it is best to communicate house rules up-front so that people can decide not to join or to bow out before the game starts.

It's a bit different from other designs I've made for this campaign, but I'm quite proud of it. I wanted to find this balance between other dryad interpretations I’ve seen; ultimately trying to create this creature that while looking “separate” from a darker, grimier world around them nonetheless looks like it could believably exist in this universe. I also just wanted to give them weird satyr legs because I thought it looked cool shhhh don’t tell anyone.

A dragonborn piece I finished recently. He's a fierce, intimidating, yet kind dragonborn barbarian with a strong lust for battle, almost to the point where he thinks swinging his axe can solve all the world's problems.

At a glance, everyone would mistake him for a brute, muscle-brained barbarian who wrecks everything in sight. But once you take a good look and try to befriend him, he's surprisingly approachable and enjoys nurturing young warriors, indirectly acting as a sort of mentor figure.

This character actually came from my backlog of sketches and was once used as the base design for another character, which was ultimately scrapped. I thought it would be a waste to simply put him back into my backlog, so I decided to properly work on this dragonborn character, and boy, I'm glad I did! :D

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I drew this a few years ago, as I'm currently retired from art, but I wanted to share, as it took me so much time and effort and I'm still proud of the results.

This was a scene of a game that I played, where our characters fought a coven of hags. It was an exciting and emotional scene, as it was personal to my character (the red haired girl).

It's done with color pencils in A3 size and it took roughly a month of work (without full commitment as I was also working a full time job).

So in my group we have 4 consistent members, a Monk, a Fighter a Ceric and me, a World Tree Barbarian. I feel like I could just... not even be there at all. The monk and fighter do way more damage than me, enemies dont attack me so my 53 HP are useless, and im lucky if I roll a 6 on my D12 damage. I basically feel like a speed bump on my team. Everyone is doing x,y,z,a,b and c on their turn. I get to attack once for pitiful damage if I'm lucky enough to hit, and grant temp hp to the NPCs cause no one bothers to end their turn within 10 feet of me. I can basically go nap during the game cause I'm almost useless in combat, and provide little to no utility outside combat. I'm basically a spectator in my own game, and I'm starting to hate it.