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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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Hallo!

Need some ocs or things to sketch to tonight, please post ur dnd oc in the comment and I'll see what tickles my fancy to draw semi poorly lol

Not super good at drawing animals but I'm game to try anything!!

If u want u can throw me a coffee on ko fi

https://ko-fi.com/chikindraws

But I'm here cause I need stuff to draw while I pick a movie tonight. I don't know what else to type to get into the 400 character limit aaaah.

I recently convinced my family to play DnD with me. I played as a kid in the 80s, but never was DM. I remember the games going quickly over a 30 minute school lunch.

I bought the Mines of Phandelver starter kit and the 5.5 DM guide and 5.5 Players Handbook. When I asked if the family wanted to play my son really wanted to start right away. I had already skimmed the scenerio and agreed. (For background I have 5 kids, 12, 14, 16, 19, and 21. The two oldest aren't around enough to play, but my wife joined us. Also, my son (14) has ADHD).

I remember character creation was one of the fun parts so we started there. Instead of minutes to select a race and roll the stats it took hours to make the characters. It was a debacle. The next session we started the campaign and I wasn't prepared for all of the off-script actions and had to search for how to handle each one. Also, everyone was new to tabletop roll play and I spent a lot of time figuring out how to fight, cast spells, heal, etc. All we ended up accomplishing was joining the caravan and fighting the first set of goblins. After that I spent days prepping for the next session; planning the events, making maps and figurines, reading the books and tabbing them for reference. I was ready! We played and everyone enjoyed it, but it was still slow.

Now no one is really interested in playing, and even if I get them to play and it goes well I don't think they will really engage and enjoy it. I think the kids are used to constant action like Fortnight or having immersion provided like in Minecraft. The whole RPG thing is too slow and abstract. I still want to play and I am looking for any advice or support. Is there a way to speed-play to help hold their attention better? Is there a way to play with just my son who is still kind of interested? Thanks.

I’m playing a Tyranny of Dragons campaign where I led an army of townsmen and some guard drakes I befriended into a cultist cave. We cleared it, and stumbled upon three eggs. One of them hatched. I had to improvise and befriend it on the spot.

Very cute, and his broken draconic made me really fond of him.

I take him back to Greenest and I introduce him to everyone and ended the session heading back to my farmstead.

I went home and began to think, in which the happy- go lucky scenario in my brain is crushed like a can.

The DM explicitly noted he arised with BLACK glossy scales. He’s fucking black.

Im genuinely in shock, and have no idea how to go forward.

Edit: the other egg hatched. Im doomed.

Saren, is a half-elf gentleman scientist in a setting inspired by Bloodborne and Call of Cthulhu. He’s very driven and pragmatic, but unfortunately due to a lack of magical ability, his theoretical work was never taken very seriously. He inadvertently ends up making a pact with an outer god of sorts, becoming a warlock. As par for the course for the genre, he’s slowly losing his mind as he communes with a being beyond mortal comprehension. And he doesn’t realize that the power’s getting to his head.

For some reason it was hard for me to get the pose right, he's got a slight limp from an accident, and he uses a cane. And it was difficult to get right. But the most fun, was the pattern on his vest. Also a big inspiration for the character was lucious malfoy, obviously enough! 😆

Right now slots are open for commissions for september and october. Send me a dm for any details.

Find more of my work here:

Insta:

https://www.instagram.com/fabulous\_sutamatisukun?igsi=MTNlYnlsNmRuN2h2Yw==

Artstation:

https://spite_spitfire.artstation.com/

And on my profile on reddit

Had the pleasure to make this art for Nimble RPG, a very interesting addition to 5e combat system.

I had a lot of fun painting this one. Ellaborating the color compositions and design for the couatl was the coolest part I would say.

You can check more of my work in the following links:
https://www.instagram.com/assis_ink/
https://www.artstation.com/assis_ink

I'm open for some comissions slots at the moment, so feel free to send me a DM if you would like me to paint a character of yours, or your entire party group :)

Thank you for your attention.

I have both plans for if they succeed and if they all die, I don’t want to make anyone upset or it feel like a cop out that I have plans if they lose.

My very first time playing a DnD campaign was by a very very new DM and when he accidentally killed all our characters he gave us a cop out in the form of “the gods are giving you a second chance” even though we were level 1 characters with nothing to our names.

I do not want my party to feel like this is a cop out, because I have a very interesting and story related plot for if they lose. I also don’t want to go easy on them because this is the BBEG.

What do yall think?

*Edit: thank you everyone for your amazing reply’s! I will continue with my plan and ensure all my dice rolls are made out in the open, if they live they live, if they die they die. Thank yall!

Consistently, Druid is the least played class. However, for me, it feels like the most fun character to play as?

I know they struggle for identity, but, I think what sets them apart from all other classes is their independence. They are like Top Lane in league of legends. Capable of doing almost anything, and especially surviving difficult situations on their own.

Technically, they're meant to be crowd control, and it's true because of their enviable spell list, but it doesn't take much to change them into whatever you want. I struggle to think of a role they couldn't fill.

I suppose then, their greatest weakness is that you can feel choice paralysis while building or using one?

I'm so curious why WotC refuses to give them more subclasses.

As for my favourite, I know it sounds strange, but, I love the Spore Druid. They just seem like the character that can never die - especially if you can convince your GM to allow activating symbiotic Entity as a bonus action, as pretty much every reworked Subclass gets. 4xdruid level Temp HP, as a bonus action, is insanely good all on its own. Coupled with shillelagh, booming blade, and the necrotic damage of Symbiotic Entity, you're absolutely brutal in close range, and with thorn whip, nobody is getting away from you - especially when you get war caster. I love the idea of Moon druid, and they're just as tanky in their own way - but I like spore druid better because I don't lose access to my spell casting while in wild shape. And just when physical damage falls off- who says you need to stand in the front? You're a wizard,who gets awesome healing spells, that doesn't care if someone walks up and hits them a few times. Not to mention, halo of spores is invisible - there's a lot of fuckery you can do with that in and out of combat.

For example on how tanky you are, at level 3 when you get it, you can walk with impunity throughout the battlefield, tanking your base HP (which is probably around 24 or higher) + up to a whopping 96 extra temp HP if you use every single wildshape and spell slot on yourself. Or with healing word prepared, everyone can fight like a zombie horde as you bring back anyone who falls down.

And its not like you're a laggard when it comes to damage. I don't see the downside to druids.

And that's just One way to build one. Heaps of spells as a pure magic caster, or a flying artillery, spy, healer, or whatever!

So - Why do you love playing a druid? And how do you like to play them?

I run a homebrew campaign for a six-person group that's met 1-2 times monthly since start of this year, and in that time impressed me enough to gift them this art. From left to right:

Valra, Changeling Land Druid

Kim, Goliath Alchemist Artificer

Waylon, Tiefling Hunter Ranger

Leuthor, High Elf Wild Magic Sorcerer

Sevro, Half-Orc Hexblade Warlock

Neuctli, Dragonborn Life Cleric

Art commissioned from Motolog / u/Njarla

Liridia It's the Tiefling that I'm creating in a story inspired by the universe of DnD, I've been writing everything about it and its personal lore, plus a decent story to present it, as some of you may know, I'm even new to DnD but I really like the way I'm getting to know and entering this world

This trend is something that I saw a while ago, and that I always wanted to do but for many reasons I couldn't, and I don't know how to encourage either, so as a good modern artist, I decided to watch some tutorials and take the first step making my first animation, I think the result is quite good although with a lot to improve.

And as always ty for you tips ❤️