It's been said before, but goddammit I love the material components for spells in D&D. They're so stupid.

Detect Thoughts requires a copper to cast. Gust of Wind needs beans. Sunbeam requires a magnifying glass. Passwall uses sesame seeds.

Darkvision needs fucking. Carrots.

My favorite is the Pathfinder version of Hideous Laughter, which requires tiny fruit tarts and a feather.

I like to imagine that apprenticing to a wizard means being put in charge of gathering/arranging all of these spell components before you even get to learn your first cantrip.

Disclaimer, if a spell component makes no sense, it's often based on a pun.

Many of the illusion spells require fleece, because your pulling the wool over the target's eye

Polymorph spells need caterpillar cocoons because the targets are metamorphosed

The component for the Tongues spells (which lets you speak and understand other languages) is a model ziggurat... which is was most likely inspired the Tower of Bable story... the one where people started speaking different languages

I'm 99% sure that the reason the component for Detect Thoughts is a copper piece (aka the smallest denomination of currency in D&D) is because it's a penny for your thoughts.

The art for 5e Planescape is just incredible.

I have been waiting literally my entire career of playing D&D for this to be released.

every new make some noise episode gives me a new favorite make some noise clip of all time.

make some noise, season 2, “the wicked switch of the west.”

The party planning on what they’re going to do next:

The second the plan is commenced and things start falling apart immediately:

every time a game ends I'm out here like

Dab...us

Drew a cool Julian while he was unconscious for a good chunk of last session. xD

my dnd party has run into an npc who may or may not be evil and may or may not decide to betray us and the dm was in chat today like “just so everyone knows…not addressing this comment at anyone in particular…his favorite colors are red and black…wink” so now i’m desperately trying to get a real physical friendship bracelet done before session tomorrow in the vain hope that i can somehow stop this npc from trying to do a murder on my party

UPDATE: the npc was in fact a shapechanged adult black dragon with violence and conquest in his heart. however he did let merry put a friendship bracelet on him and then when she was like “hm okay how big is your wrist in dragon form” he was like “you wanna see?” and then turned into a dragon and let merry measure him for a second, dragon-sized friendship bracelet. the dm described him afterwards as being deeply confused as to why he did this or let any of this happen to him. call that the merry effect

this guy is now a recurring npc because merry was SO determined to make him her friend that it actually somehow worked. he cast dream to talk to one of my party members like “hey…how’s it going…how are the tieflings in the party…not that i care…also i’m not lonely. bye” and the player was like “is he still wearing merry’s friendship bracelet in this dream” and the dm was like “yeah…”

fsdfjhskdf the dm just sent us all this image

so merry taught naeric (the dragon) the power of love, obviously, and because his heart was open and beautiful he started dating…a SECOND evil dragon. and then that gf betrayed him and cast ninth level imprisonment on him so now naeric is our damsel in distress and we have to save him from his girlfriend, the actual villain. how the turntables…

and. in the most horrible plot twist of all. the gf stole his friendship bracelet.

azz-ah-mar

When the group plays over VC/Discord and the party starts losing their shit and goes feral:

There's been a lot of art for this new character this week, but this is honestly the first picture of Sera I really feel like is her.

Made myself a pretty Rigo to put in my journal. :D

Sometimes self care is drawing a picture of your D&D character NOT in armor.

I mean, the Astral Sea is cool and all, but I feel like we’re losing a part of D&D’s heritage, like the Wildspace, the Crystal Spheres and the Phlogiston, yanno? #dnd #memes #tabletop #ttrpg