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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.

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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.

I am a DM, and in my homebrew game this question has come up more than once. In RAW PHB14, I think the line, "The creature's location can be detected by any noise it makes or any tracks it leaves," means that you would be able to see a person underwater, you could see the outline of their body, this makes sense in RAW as the creature is touching all parts of the water.

The party seems to be split on whether or not you would be able to see anyone or anything invisible underwater, they bring up terms like refractive index etc etc. I was wondering whether any of you have come across as situation like this? and your thoughts on how I should rule this going forward, thanks.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/p1z4o5VVkn

We actually had our next session yesterday night, so here is what happened:

​As soon as the session started, my character immediately turned around and attacked the Wizard.

​The rest of the table completely froze. They had no idea whether to step in, help me beat him down, or just let it happen. The Wizard actually didn't fight back—he spent a few rounds just trying to dodge and practically begging the rest of the party to intervene and save him.

​While we were in the middle of this internal mess, the noise from the previous fight and our current brawl ended up pulling more enemies right on top of us.

​Total chaos broke out. In the middle of the scramble, the Wizard just casts Invisibility on himself and runs away, leaving the rest of us to deal with the ambush. We were already low on resources from the earlier fight, and we ended up losing another PC in the encounter. The rest of us managed to grab the body and barely escaped down into the sewers.

​Right now, only three of us are left alive. We managed to get Gentle Repose on the teammate who died during the escape, so we might actually be able to bring them back once we get our hands on some diamonds. The two who died from the fireball earlier are permanently dead, though.

​As for the Wizard, he’s just completely gone. We have no idea if the DM is going to turn him into an NPC villain and have the player roll a new PC, or what the plan is there. For now, we're just hiding out in the sewers trying to figure out what to do next.

​Thanks to everyone who gave advice and chimed in on the previous post! Despite all the character deaths and in-game drama, out of game the group is actually handling everything really well and having a great time with the chaos and the story unfolding from it.

As a black man who loves DnD, I always like to make my DnD characters have black features and hair textures as well. My DM is cracking down on the sources players can get their art from, and suddenly I find it hard to find art for my characters. It's easy enough to find elves, but Triton or Genasi forget about it.

• I know Hero Forge is popular, but I really dislike the way their stuff looks.
• I do not have the money to hire an artist to draw characters. I play a lot of DnD
• I try Pinterest, but finding characters with black features is fine until you change away from human/elf. Also, I find art for black men is a bit harder to find.
  

Thanks in advance! <3

My first character was a Human Swashbuckling Rogue teaming up with an Orc Champion fighter, a Halfling Assassin and an Elven Wizard as my companions.

I only played with one. Probably the chillest lady I Met. Brutal with details in her transformations and even had sound effects ready for us. Her character learned to control her changes and embraced her lycanthropy. Fun times

Notice I didn't say "fix." Also, I'm combining a few elements from different editions, but I think we should mostly be able to follow what I'm saying.

For those who never played 2nd ed, one thing it did get right was the idea that some spells took longer to cast than others. Each spell had a casting time that was basically an initiative modifier. For example fireball had a casting time of 3 meaning there was a short part of the round (a much larger time back then when a round was just 1-10) where an unarmored target was wildly gesticulating and loudly chanting in a weird language while unable to perform other actions without interrupting themselves. Give martials and baddies a chance to interrupt that casting by forcing a concentration check during the casting. Casters would have to be be more strategic and enemies would have a chance to prepare (dive for cover for example).

EDIT: Holy crap some of you need to read. It'd be an initiative modifier. It would not extend a spell to take multiple rounds to cast.

Howdy folks!

Long time no see eh?

So, quick update in case you haven't kept up (how dare you not have an unhealthy parasocial relationship with your fave dnd webcomic creator, do you even love me?): I've been MIA from most of my platforms now for over 100 days due to my son being born on the 1st of May and I've been on holiday/parental leave since!

Now, I'm back!

Some stuff is happening now:

On Monday August 24th, the Grogna and Trevor plushies will have a joint drop over on Makeship, LINK HERE! I wanted to get both out this year (partly as there was no plushie last year) and I thought it would fit nicely for the party's power couple to go out swinging together, plus if you buy both you get 10% off :P Though I've not had that CONFIRMED confirmed, my Makeship contact has said it should work and she's REQUESTED it but I haven't gotten a solid confirmation, so lets see!

Also coming soon is the first ever Weekly Roll 75mm statue, both as a physical statue and as a STL file! So stay tuned for that!

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Hey everyone,
I recently learned about Dungeon Synth (Casette music) while looking into audio setups for TTRPG sessions.

It´s not a genre I have ever paid attention to, and honestly it's not really my personal taste in music.
It feels very niche, but I keep seeing it mentioned in RPG circles, and now I’m genuinely curious.

For those of you who actually run games with background music: Why Dungeon Synth?

I got myself (DM) in a pickle. A while ago, I came up with two revenants trying to kill each other, but each of them keeps coming back once they do. So they're locked in some eternal stalemate. Fun, right?

Well, I kind of forgot about this little fact when I had my warlocks patron give him a task to kill one of these Revenants. They are going to try to figure out a way to do it next session, which means that I have to figure out a way to do it before then as well. The party is 6th level so Wish is not really on the table.

Do any of you have idea's as to how I might solve this problem? I am open to some homebrewery and creative/lenient interpretation of the rules as written, but I still want it to make sense.

Fellow dms how do you deal with players not wanting to put in any effort?

I'm getting ready to run my second ever campaign, and have 2 new players joining us. We're all excited BUT the new players refuse to do more then a small sentence for the back story, arguing what's the point if they're back story doesn't come up. As a dm and writer I do not get that line of thinking. Backstory brings your character alive it tells how they came to be, and how they see and deal with the world. I'm already having to build the world story, maps, events/encounters, help them make they're characters and level them up for them. (Plus do most of the EP as the 2 new players never talk in character just say that they nod)

How do I get them just to put work in for they're character?