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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.

Built from scratch, probably took me around 40 hours of work over the course of about 6 weeks, it’s SO FREAKIN HEAVY FILLED WITH CANDY I HAD NO IDEA😂😂😂 (please be nice my back hurts so bad i finished this at 1:30am)

DISCLAIMER: I MADE AND OWN THIS PARTICULAR PRODUCT ONLY!!! ORIGINAL IMAGE IS NOT MINE!!! I USED A PICTURE I FOUND ON PINTEREST AS INSPIRATION FOR THIS PERSONAL PROJECT AND I HAVE NOT NOR WILL EVER INTEND TO USE IT FOR COMMERCIAL REASONS!!!

I’ve heard a lot of things that DM’s ban because of a past experience and sometimes it’s certain builds so I’m curious what some builds that other DM’s don’t allow/ don’t like at the table.

D&D's resting system feels like it depends on a resource that usually isn't a resource.

One thing that has always bothered me about D&D's resting mechanics is that they're balanced around time, but in many campaigns, time isn't actually a meaningful resource.

Imagine this situation:

A level 5 party has their first encounter of the day. The fight lasts five rounds.

The Monk spends all of their Focus Points.

The Spellcaster uses most of their high-level spell slots.

Combat ends.

The Monk suggests taking a Short Rest. The Spellcaster suggests taking a Long Rest instead. The party agrees.

In-game, it's only around 9 or 10 AM, so the characters effectively spend the rest of the day doing nothing, go to sleep early, and wake up the next morning with all of their resources restored.

From the players' perspective, though, that "entire day" lasted maybe 30 seconds: a brief discussion followed by, "Okay, we long rest."

People often respond by saying, "The DM should create time pressure."

I understand that argument, and I think time pressure is a great narrative tool when the story naturally calls for it. If the villain is performing a ritual, the hostages are in danger, or an army is marching, then resting becomes a meaningful decision.

My issue is that if the resting system only works because the DM has to constantly invent reasons why the party can't stop, then it feels like the narrative is serving the mechanics instead of the mechanics serving the narrative.

But, not every adventure day should need a countdown timer. Some adventure days are about exploration. Others are investigations, diplomacy, or simply clearing out a dangerous location over several days. In those cases, it seems perfectly reasonable that the party would retreat, recover, and come back tomorrow.

If the system struggles whenever the players make that perfectly reasonable decision, doesn't that suggest the resting mechanics themselves might be carrying too much of the game's balance?

We did it. We reached the end. Yeah sure, there's higher than CR 20, but really, is there? Who is out there using CR 25 monsters besides the few of us running level 20 campaigns. I personally say it's not D&D if you aren't fighting god in the end, but that doesn't mean I don't understand that the majority of people never will outside of and end of campaign fight.

We did it reddit, we reached 20. I do plan on continuing, but I don't have high hopes for heavy activity.

This Morning we'll be going over the Most Iconic CR 20 Monster!

The vote is open for 24 hours. In 12 hours is when I'll open the vote for deadliest (if I don't fall asleep before 7pm)!

Note: Feel free to comment, but only the votes on the top comment will be counted!

Note2: It's a community vote. I personally say no homebrew, but if it has a unique stat block then I say it's fair game. That said, you guys vote for what you want!

So I gave my players an npc to have as a member of their party. He’s a lower level than all of them but other than that he’s functionally an npc with a class and full character sheet. What they don’t know is his real purpose is to essentially be a one time get out of death free card, I want to have him to “take the bullet” if any of them die. Is there a player ability like a feat that can allow for this?

Just a question.

Here’s the description I was given:

Maybelle is an antiquarian in a world where all the gods are dead. She initially had no divine power/religion until she stumbled upon an artifact in a derelict shrine to the late goddess of joy. Then suddenly, she's "blessed" with new powers and becomes a (eldritch) cleric, thinking the goddess has returned. Little does she know the entity that she's actually unwittingly worshiping is an eldritch god. The "joy" that she feels when connecting to her "goddess" is actually madness and zealotry. After a test of faith, the initial artifact, which she used as her holy symbol, was absorbed into her body, leaving a faint outline of arcane light in the shape of her amulet's sigil glowing from her chest. She is consumed with finding more artifacts connected with her god, and had recently found a blessed reliquary that she keeps on her person.
Personality-wise, Maybelle is very cheerful and upbeat, always willing to lend a hand. But lately her
"joyous" disposition has been teetering on the line of madness.

I don't see a lot of dwarven sorcerers so I made one! I'm happy with how she turned out, so I just wanted to share :D

I know there are tons of paladin/clerics and what not but you really don't see many arcane reps from them. I still wanted her to feel very dwarven in design so I went with that tried and true art deco look for her robes.

The staff is actually based of a cool axe is saw from a mobile game ad but I think it works pretty good for a staff too lol!

I've recently started turning some of my fantasy illustrations into pixel art, and this Tiefling Fighter is the first one in the series.

My goal is to recreate my characters in a pixel art style while keeping their personality and design.

I'd love to hear what you think!

If she were a character in your campaign:

• Which Fighter subclass would you choose for her?
• What weapon do you imagine she uses?
• What kind of backstory would she have?

I'd love to read your ideas!

So I might make some veteran role players uneasy with my new player hot take but I want to have the discussion anyways.

First and foremost I'm a video gamer at heart that's playing in my first ever D&D 5.5e (2024) campaign with some good work colleagues. Most of us are playing for the first time except for the DM and the barbarian.

I love a good story in the many single player games I've played but I also very much appreciate great mechanics and gameplay. I mention this as a preface if that's "clouding my judgment" when I'm trying my hand with the TTRPG of D&D.

Anyways we were playing last night (session 13 or so) and a couple of situations popped up. No major issues this time or anything like that but it got me thinking again.

Our bard (we're all level 4) got exclusively targetted by the bandits in the sole combat encounter before they fled. I was tallying up the shots in my head but couldn't remember how many HP his character had but I was thinking damn he must be close to dropping to 0.

He then said to the party "I'm down to 1 HP". Yikes that's good to know I thought to myself. The more experienced barbarian quipped something along the lines of "that's a bit meta gaming". I’m assuming he referred to the bard giving us his exact HP status rather than a more role playing description ("I'm heavily bruised and battered and barely standing on my feet").

Nobody really responded and we moved on without a fuss. Shortly thereafter the bandits fled and in the aftermath the bard used various spells and whatnot along with the DM's NPC to regain some HP.

At the end of it the barbarian wanted to be nice and use his special once per day healing ring to recover a lot of the bards HP. I don't think he was particularly focused on just how much healing the bard had actually received.

He rolled high with at least 10+ HP recovered or more. The bard replied "but I'm only missing 3 HP?" and broke into a big laughter. The barbarian was exclaiming "dammit!" when he realised he needlessly wasted his powerful healing ring.

We were all laughing and grinning about it as it was an absurd moment that was just so involuntary funny so no real hard feelings hurt in this particular moment.

But it got me thinking that I would've been annoyed about it after the laughter settled if it had been my ring and we might have to rely upon it in a potentiel next encounter.

My thoughts are at the end of the day D&D is just a game that has various rules and mechanics that allows us as players to immerse ourselves in the role playing by making great stories of make believe.

But that doesn't mean we can't have a civilised discussion about rules and above the table strategize how we want to tackle certain encounters.

Have I just been conditioned to this line of all info available upfront like I'm playing Baldur's Gate 3?

EDIT: Wow that's a lot of replies! Thanks for all of the input it's really helpful to read various opinions about this.