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Discord HQOkay if I just draw a Queen then my Photograph Joker should trigger again with my Sock & Buskin Joker to get the quadruple mult… OH! Hello there. Have, uh, you tried playing Balatro, the best mobile game of the year (according to The Game Awards)? It’s great. I’m tempted to gift it to some of my friends this holiday season but I don’t want to be the reason they vanish for a few months.
Speaking of gifting, have you ever been gifted a game SO GOOD it was an actual canon event in your life? I know I have (bless Tony Hawk’s Underground 2). We’re catching up with Emi, Matt, and Cody, and welcoming our new friend Scott, to hear what they’ve been playing lately and what games they’ve received that may have altered their brain chemistry for the better!
Hey there! I’m Scott and I’m on the Discord Quests team.
Because my long running 14 year obsession needed a friend, I recently introduced my husband to the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV which needless to say has entirely consumed our lives as he experiences the wonders that are Eorzea and the incredible plot for the first time.
Otherwise, I’ve been spending my December playing through Metaphor: ReFantazio as I’m a huge JRPG fan and love everything Atlus puts out. I’ve also been actively hiding my credit card from myself so that I don’t spend an absurd amount of money on all the incredible cosmetics in Marvel Rivals. Shocked it took this long for Marvel to come out with a large-scale multiplayer game like this given how successful the MCU has been over the last decade.
Without a doubt the best games (going to talk about two here) that I’ve ever been gifted had to be NieR: Automata and Persona 5, which my best friend got me back in 2018 for my birthday.
Both games instantly hit my top 5 games list of all time and have managed to retain their position on that list. Persona 5 is what helped to reignite my love for JRPGs and reminded me how much I loved playing them growing up and what sent me down a path of playing essentially every Atlus JRPG that has come out (Soul Hackers and SMT V are on my to be played list). Nier, while the story and lore is fairly convoluted, has been a game that has stuck with me ever since I beat it. The gameplay is fantastic and the story is gut wrenching, tragic, and just emotionally resonant.
Product & FeaturesIn this special edition of Changelog, we recap some of the year’s most helpful fixes from our Patch Notes series in the form of a festive poem. At the end of this blog post, you’ll see which fixes are referenced in the poem and which edition of Patch Notes they’re from.
We’ve made it to the end of the year! Over at Discord HQ, we’ve been looking back on all the small but important things we’ve fixed in 2024 to help make spending time in voice with your friends this season as smooth as possible.
And in the festive spirit, our bug-smashing reminiscing took the shape of a poem! To cap off the end of 2024, we’d love to share it with you.
Season’s greetings to all! The year’s at its end.
Discord’s even better at helping you talk with your friends,
So gather up close, we’ve got a lot to discuss,
There’s much we’ve improved for this year’s Fixmas!
We’ve fixed up some crashes to help iPhones function.
84%! That’s a huge reduction. [1]
Android, of course, got its own love and care,
Chat renders faster [2] to help quickly share. [3]
Is your phone a square? A rectangle? An oval?
Our app better adapts to many shapes on mobile. [4]
In a lot of servers? Scroll through ’em quicker. [5]
Mobile server switching is 30% slicker. [6]
Using GIFs on your phone? Post ’em way more.
The GIF Picker’s nearly twice as fast as before. [7]
And we gave a speed boost to our API, [8]
So Apps & Activities you’re using will fly.
When it’s time to share all those photos you took,
We better preserve colors as you remember they look. [9]
Since iPhones regained up to four gigs of space,
You can download ’em all — memories can’t be replaced. [10]
See you next year in 2025,
But for now, hop in voice, play, or Go Live. <3
P.S.
If you gift someone Nitro for this festive occasion,
you'll also get your own Avatar Decoration!
Product & FeaturesAs 2024 comes to a close and the holiday season begins, there’s a chance you might be thinking about what to give your friends to show your appreciation to them. Looking for a gift for someone who plays games throughout the night? Do they love streaming to their friends in voice? Are they someone with a unique profile on EVERY server they’re in?
We’ve got gift ideas for all types of Discord users — let’s dig in!
They’re always hanging out in voice chat, yet they keep sending default emojis like 😄... if this sounds like one of your Discord friends, consider gifting ‘em a membership to Discord Nitro!
Discord Nitro supercharges their chat powers and gives ‘em all sorts of perks, including the ability to stream in higher quality, and the option to use a server’s custom emoji anywhere. (No more terrifying 😃.)
And for this year’s winter festivities, the love goes both ways: if you use the desktop or mobile app to gift either a month or a year of Nitro to a friend, you’ll receive an Avatar Decoration for yourself to keep! You can also purchase a Nitro gift in User Settings > Nitro and stash it in your Gift Inventory, keeping it safe for just the right moment to surprise a friend.
You can choose between one of the three festive Decorations after you gift someone Nitro:
Gift another friend Nitro? You can pick another Avatar Decoration! By the time you gift Nitro a third time, you’ll be able to claim all three decorations AND you’ll brighten up the day of three of your friends.
If you’re reading this on your desktop or laptop right now, use the button below to get directly to the gifting page on the desktop app:
You can gift someone Nitro on either desktop or mobile to claim one of these Avatar Decorations until January 6, 2025 (or all of them, you’re really nice). One more gift for you: a Help Center article! We updated it just for you.
How to DiscordWhen you’re hanging out with your friends on Discord, having the option to share what you’re up to, no matter where you’re at, helps make your friends feel just a bit closer. It’s like turning your phone or laptop towards your friend when they’re right next to you!
You can use the desktop or mobile app to stream whatever you’re doin’ faster than the time it took you to read this sentence. (And perhaps this sentence too.) Read on to learn how to stream to Discord, what the options you’ll see when setting up your stream mean, and which PC and mobile platforms you can stream from.
You’ve loaded up your favorite game, and now it’s time to show THE WORLD you’ve got what it takes. Or, at least show your friends that you can hold your own in an online match. Same stakes basically.
To start streaming using the desktop app, follow the steps below! This works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Engineering & DevelopersIf you’ve made it to this blog post, you likely know Discord as a desktop application where you talk, play, and hang out while gaming, but did you know that Discord was first launched in 2015 as only a web app?
Starting as a web app allowed us to offer people a way to chat with their friends from the portability of their browsers, but to deliver the experience we wanted to offer, we needed to leap out of the browser and take to the desktop. By using a web wrapper called Electron, we can run Discord in a browser-like environment but with access to all the extra little bits that allow us to offer features such as our In-Game Overlay. When we built that first executable on Windows, we had to decide whether to target 32-bit or 64-bit processors. With 32-bit, you can write once and it will work pretty much everywhere thanks to Microsoft’s backwards compatibility layers. That makes sense for a first version of an application — it will work on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines while only needing one version of the app.
Performance-wise, 32-bit uses less memory than 64-bit, but sometimes to a fault: 32-bit applications have a hard restriction on memory usage, which using 64-bit architecture is meant to solve in the first place. Though running as a 32-bit application on a 64-bit machine gives us extra memory for Discord, we occasionally still hit the limit, causing errors or even crashes.
Discord is built using an assortment of many libraries, such as Electron and WebRTC, which together help us deliver the ideal desktop Discord experience to you. These tools have supported 64-bit builds for years now, and, in fact, default to 64-bit architecture. As 64-bit becomes standard across more and more machines, we expect that it will receive significantly more refinement and bug fixes than 32-bit. If Discord were to stay on 32-bit for the foreseeable future, we may potentially expose ourselves — and in turn, our users — to new bugs and inefficiencies that aren’t addressed simply because there aren’t enough people maintaining 32-bit libraries to find them.
Since Discord is intended for PC gamers to run alongside resource-heavy programs, like AAA game titles, we have to share GPU and CPU resources with those demanding programs without impacting their ability to talk with their friends while using Discord. With this in mind, we intentionally added guardrails to Discord, such as capping Chromium’s memory allocation — we would rather Discord run out of memory than bring down your machine or your game! However, some pieces of Discord aren’t as easily limited. Our native modules, such as voice, don’t have any limitations.
We keep tabs on Discord’s memory usage across our clients to keep track of our average and peak memory consumption so that we can stay knowledgeable about our real-world memory footprint across a wide variety of machines. This data also helps us identify if we've pushed inefficient code and allows us to quickly address these scenarios.
As we transitioned the app from 32-bit to 64-bit, we wanted to make sure the process was as seamless as possible. We tried to figure out what was the best way to deliver the goods, from asking users to manually download the 64-bit client from our website to an in-app pop-up with a download link, and even a dedicated delivery mechanism.
We ultimately decided to use our existing updater: It already delivers millions of updates successfully, we just need to add some smarts to prevent some edge cases from occurring, and then let it loose. This is both painless and seamless — you just hit the update button when the client is 32-bit, it takes an update as per usual, and then when it relaunches, it’s magically 64-bit!
Product & FeaturesWelcome to Patch Notes! In this series, we comb through the newest changes in performance, reliability, responsiveness, usability, and general bug-squishing we’ve done to make Discord better.
If you discover a bug of your own, check out our Bimonthly Bug Megathread on the community-ran r/DiscordApp subreddit. Tell us what’s been bothering you and our Engineering team will be more than happy to check it out.
After this entry, Patch Notes will be taking a short break while our team goes on a well-earned winter vacation to cap off the year. Keep an eye out for the next edition of Patch Notes in early February!
All fixes listed below have been committed and merged, but may still be rolling out to individual platforms at the time of this post.
Discord HQGood ol’ Wumpus: they’ve been a doctor. A professor. A doctor-professor. A marketable plushie, and sometimes, a zombie (they got better). Now, Wumpus has a new title to add to the collection: multidimensional traveler.
Somehow, Wumpus has made their way into one of the worlds of one of the biggest WEBTOON Originals series: School Bus Graveyard! And uh…. Wumpus still has chores to do over at Discord HQ, so we kiiiinda need your help bringing them back.
Your mission: download the WEBTOON app and explore the first ten episodes of School Bus Graveyard. While reading, keep an eye out where Wumpus may be sitting. See Wumpus in an episode panel? Click on them to report Wumpus’s whereabouts to us. Find Wumpus twice and receive a one-month trial of Discord Nitro for you or an eligible friend to use.
Yeah, uh… Wumpus might have multiplied during their interdimensional travels. Somehow. Or maybe they’re from different timelines? Either way, YOUR time to grab some Discord Nitro as thanks for your investigation efforts is limited: this opportunity lasts from December 4, 2024, to December 25, 2024.
Discord’s rascally blurple swine has somehow landed smack-dab in the middle of School Bus Graveyard. How’d they get there? Does the cast of School Bus Graveyard even notice them? Honestly, traversing multiverses can be stressful, so they want to get home soon — we get ya, Wumpus.
For your efforts in bringing Wumpus back to where they belong, we’re offering a 1-month trial of Discord Nitro for eligible users (or, eligible detectives in this case)! Nitro has a whole buncha perks to bring out your creative prowess, including higher screensharing resolution and larger file upload sizes to show off what you’re making.
You can even write messages up to 4,000 characters long, perfect for when you’ve got an idea for your own webcomic series that you just need to write down ASAP before it floats away. Just be sure to warn your friend by saying “hey can you hold this” before dropping that four thousand-character message.
We’ve heard reports of Wumpus looking like THIS, somewhere in the WEBTOON Originals series School Bus Graveyard, but weren’t able to confirm these suspicious sightings:
Nothing your investigative abilities can’t handle, right? Download the WEBTOON app below to get started:
This promotion is available for users in eligible regions who have not had an active Nitro membership, redeemed a separate Nitro trial, or accepted a Nitro membership gift in the last 12 months. If you have any questions about this special Discord Nitro promo, take a peek at our support article. (It’s like a WEBTOON, but way less pictures and a lot more words — hopefully you’ve got a vivid imagination.)
Find Wumpus, press the button, and get rewarded with Nitro! But don’t just sit around — this Nitro promo ends on December 25, 2024, so grab your magnifying glass and get lookin’! (And enjoy the rest of School Bus Graveyard while you’re there!)
Discord HQWoah! Only one more month until we say “BYE BYE” to 2024 and “HEYOOO” to 2025 — when one door closes, another door opens (so the legend says). Towards the end of the year, when many of us are visiting friends and family, it’s the perfect time to share some of the great games we’ve been playing and help some newcomers discover some games they should try!
We’re bringing in familiar friends, Emi and Tyler, and also welcoming NEW friends, Veronica and Carlos, onto the main stage to talk about what they’ve playing, and offer some suggestions for those Level 1 gamers you might see soon.
Hi hi! I’m Veronica and I’m on Discord’s Quests team.
I’ve been playing a lot of Metroidvania games recently. Shoutout to my coworker Steve O’Hare for suggesting Ender Lilies to me! The art direction is fantastic and I adore the story. I wrapped up my first playthrough, but I’ve got my sights set on unlocking all three endings, so 100%-ing it is definitely on my list. I’ve also been dipping my toes back into Hollow Knight, one of my fav games of all time. Trying to get my fix while we wait for any news of Silksong (cue me putting on clown makeup).
Best game for someone who is new to gaming? Any Soulsborne title…just kidding. I would obviously have to choose Animal Crossing. I’ve been playing it since the Gamecube release and it continues to be my comfort game to this day (I won’t tell you how many hours I have in New Horizons…) It’s cozy, relaxing, and there’s no really “beating” the game - so it’s perfect for folks who are newer to video games and want something low-key where they can pick up and play at their own pace. Also: my favorite AC villager? Roald <3
Engineering & DevelopersCome with us, if you will, on a causal inference journey…
In 2023, Discord added a feature: users could now post Voice Messages in text channels, DMs, and Group DMs using the mobile app. The team felt excited about the feature and was curious to learn how users would react. Surely people love to hear each others’ dulcet tones, right? But how do we measure the causal effect?
This is where things became difficult for us. Discord is rife (rife, we tell you!) with networks. We usually use A/B testing to measure the impact of our work, but many of our tests are influenced by network effects - or the feature doesn’t even make sense outside of a network. Network effects occur when the behavior of users in Group A influences the behavior of users in Group B and vice versa. This can potentially skew the results by introducing cross-group interactions and violating the assumptions of independent units across control & treatment groups (SUTVA ♥️). A feature like Voice Messages is especially vulnerable to network effects. The feature only works if one person sends a Voice Message and another receives it, ya know?
The ideal then would be to randomize by network. This is challenging because, unfortunately, Discord’s testing platform doesn't (yet!) support cluster randomization.
So, we have a few options: a (bad) user-level A/B test or randomizing by country. The idea is that most networks are likely country or language-specific, so, we could mitigate network effects by comparing a treated geo against a control geo. But geo-testing isn't great either, as comparing a treated country to a control country conflates all their other differences with the treatment effect. So… what’s a better option?
🔥 Synthetic controls compare one treated unit (e.g. a country) to a weighted combination (a “synthetic control”) of all other non-treated units (e.g. other countries).
Synthetic controls are a method developed by academic economist Alberto Abadie. The main idea is: sometimes, you just can’t randomize - it’s either not possible, or it’s unethical, or you sacrifice too much precision. In those cases, you can release your treatment to one group and create a composite, synthetic control made up of a weighted combination of your untreated groups.
A typical "vanilla geo-test" design would compare one treatment geo, such as Brazil, to a “similar” control geo, like Argentina. Unfortunately, geo-tests typically fail on both internal and external validity as they are neither unbiased estimates (internal validity) nor generalizable (external validity).
But why is that? Say we compare Brazil vs. Argentina. Even if we check stats of each country’s average user engagement on Discord, we can't control for everything. We’ll still suffer from what’s called “omitted variable bias” — omitted variable bias would skew our estimate of the treatment effect. OVB is really out to get you. It would affect our testing even if we controlled for the countries' different languages, sizes, and histories!
The problem of external validity also applies: even if we managed to control for aalllll the ways Brazil and Argentina differ, we'll only get a reasonable estimate for the effect of releasing Voice Messages... in Brazil. That treatment effect may not generalize properly. Just because we learn that Brazil users love voice messages doesn't mean that users around the world would feel the same way. (Spoiler: Brazil loves voice messages. 🇧🇷)
For a place like Discord, synthetic controls are a much better option. Synthetic controls create a "fake" (or... synthetic) counterfactual using a weighted combination of all other geos that did not receive the treatment. So, instead of comparing Brazil to only Argentina, we would compare it to a “synthetic Brazil.” This “synthetic Brazil” could be something like 50% Argentina, 30% Uruguay, and 20% Chile (and 100% more helpful than a counterfactual of 100% Argentina).
How to DiscordDiscord is where anyone can connect and talk while playing their favorite games, or just doin’ whatever. We’re always doing our best to make the app easy to navigate, no matter what platform you use Discord on or how you like to breeze through your conversations.
One of those methods for navigating through Discord doesn’t involve a mouse or trackpad: Keyboard Navigation! Keyboard Navigation lets you get to wherever you want on Discord without using another device.
Interested in using your keyboard as your primary input method? Just wanna learn a few tricks to accessing different features without using a mouse, stick around for a bit as we give the lowdown on how Keyboard Navigation works.
First, open Discord (duh). Then, press the Tab button on your keyboard.
Look: a box appeared on your screen! This box is your gateway to navigating Discord with just your keyboard.
Think of this box as your “cursor” as you navigate with your keyboard — press Tab to move through interactive elements in the app, such as buttons and icons.
Once you’ve highlighted the button you’d like to press, press Enter/Return to “click” on it, just like you would a mouse. If your “cursor” is on a list, such as your DMs or a server’s channel list, you can use the Arrow Keys to move up and down lists.
When you highlight a message, you can interact with it directly! What sorts of things can you do?...
How to DiscordNeed to mute your mic? Answer that sudden call ASAP? Quickly edit the last message to fix that spelling mistake that no one would really notice, but you would? All doable with just a few key presses — no mouse needed!
Keybinds & Keyboard shortcuts let you quickly access different functionality on the desktop app by pressing a few buttons at once! In this article, we’ll go over helpful built-in shortcuts for text and voice chat, how to make your own keybinds, and how one really helpful shortcut lets you breeze through Discord.
If you’re using the desktop client, you’ll be able to access these shortcuts even when Discord isn’t in focus. You can also use most of these on our web app using a desktop browser, but they won’t work if your web browser isn’t in focus.
You type all your messages and replies with that new clicky keyboard of yours, so why should you use your mouse to go and edit it? Just keep using that keyboard and help break it in a bit more!
These keyboard shortcuts can help you quickly access ways to edit or reply to a message, add emojis and stickers, or pin a message to reference later on.
Lastly, pressing the Up Arrow Key lets you quickly edit the last message you sent. Spelling error? idk what you mean.
Product & FeaturesHere are the Discord updates from November 18, 2024. You can also find the most recent updates in the Discord app under Settings > What's New.
The world of Arcane collides with Discord for the first time — and for the final time.
We’re going all-in and bringing you a special Arcane collection in the Shop in celebration of the show’s final season, containing new Avatar Decorations and Profile Effects featuring Jinx, Vi, Ekko, and iconic Arcane technologies and weapons.
Learn more on our blog, or head over to the Shop and grab your favorites!
Product & FeaturesThe final season of Arcane has begun. If you’re reading this blog post and haven’t seen the first batch of episodes... WHAT ARE YOU DOING? GO WATCH RIGHT NOW!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA-
*ahem* As we were saying...
Like many of you, we’re huge fans of the show and League of Legends itself. With the final season in full swing, we want to help celebrate in style by bringing the magic, madness, and mayhem of Arcane to your Discord profile.
We’re excited to finally share what we’ve been cooking up leading up to this moment: we’re going all-in and bringing you a special Arcane collection in the Shop!
Add your favorites to your profile and remember everything that happened in that final season — how you and your friends were chatting away as you watched it, listening to each other’s reactions and the maybe-laughs, maybe-tears it brought to everyone. (After all, who knows what’ll happen...?)
Use the button below to jump straight to the Shop, or keep scrolling to learn more about the Arcane collection.
The world of Arcane collides with Discord for the first time — and for the final time.
This season’s been wild so far and the finale’s gonna be massive, we just know it. As the final episodes release, we’re bringing you the opportunity to rep your favorite Arcane characters across your chats and communities on Discord!
Check out our Arcane collection in the Shop, containing new Avatar Decorations and Profile Effects featuring Jinx, Vi, Ekko, and iconic Arcane technologies and weapons from the show.
We’ve been working on these items for a long time. For each piece of the Arcane collection, we started by carefully picking which iconic Arcane imagery would go best on your Discord profile. From there, we get to sketching, coloring, and of course, the final step: animating!
Each item takes several months of ideation, planning, and finally, creation from scratch to finish. We really hope you enjoy using them as much as we did making them!
Add your Arcane favorites to your collection while they’re available — check out the Shop here:
You’re probably gonna be talking about the crazy things that happen between Jinx, Vi, and everyone in Arcane — we know we are. If your friends start DM’ing you asking who your favorite characters are and whose story ends on a good note, just point them toward your profile — after all, you’re too busy watching to talk right now.
There’s more to look forward to: Keep your eyes out for a second drop of even MORE Arcane decorations in the Shop on November 18th, designed around some mysterious aspects of Arcane that have yet to be revealed… until this weekend’s batch of episodes, that is. Shhhh... :)
Got any questions? We got you — this is a teamfight, after all! Send a message to us on X if you need backup.
Product & FeaturesWelcome to Patch Notes! In this series, we comb through the newest changes in performance, reliability, responsiveness, usability, and general bug-squishing we’ve done to make Discord better.
If you discover a bug of your own, check out our Bimonthly Bug Megathread on the community-ran r/DiscordApp subreddit. Tell us what’s been bothering you and our Engineering team will be more than happy to check it out.
All fixes listed below have been committed and merged, but may still be rolling out to individual platforms at the time of this post.
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How to DiscordApps on Discord help bring a bit more liveliness to your conversations with useful features, text-based games, and tools for any situation. Apps also include Activities, that bring larger full-screen experiences to you and your friends, including casual and competitive games, shared collaboration tools, and ways to listen to music together, all on mobile or desktop. Enjoy ‘em wherever you go!
So, where do you find apps? How do you use ‘em? Do you have to add Activities or other apps to your server before using them? How can you make your own application for Discord?
Read on for some quick-but-sweet responses to these popular questions.
Look under your seat: they’ve been with you the WHOLE TIME! Well, only until just recently…
We recently released the App Launcher, where you can check out thousands of apps, including Activities, in a single space. It’s in your chat bar in text chats and at the bottom of voice calls. You're just a click away if you see the button with shapes on it!
When you press that playful-lookin’ button, you’ll be presented with the App Launcher! You can browse some of the latest featured apps, or use the search bar on the top to find the perfect one for you.
There are apps for servers and DMs, Activities to play with your friends… if you can’t think of something you want right now, the App Launcher is always just a click away.
You can also browse through the Discord App Directory, where you’ll find an even BIGGER selection of apps that includes some specifically designed for servers and the communities that live within ‘em.
You can explore the Discord App Directory for yourself by clicking on the name of any server you’re viewing, and then choosing “App Directory.”
Discord HQForget ghosts, ghouls, and goliaths… we know the REAL monster is the games backlog that hides in the shadows! The good thing about the spooky season is the cool weather and chill vibes make it the perfect time to face that backlog monster head-on!
We’re catching up with Emi and Alex to hear how their figurative (and virtual) monster slaying is going. Plus, we’re saying a harrowing “hello!” to a couple NEW friends, Serena and Tyler, who have some great game recs to share if… for any reason… maybe you want to keep feeding your backlog monster?
Heyooo! I’m Tyler, and I’m on Discord’s Recruiting Operations team.
As many of you can probably relate to, I have a huge game backlog. I do my best to power through it, but… I’m a sucker for JRPGs and Atlus games specifically, so I couldn't resist picking up Metaphor: ReFantazio!
It feels like a high fantasy version of Persona, which I dig. My favorite feature, Social Links, has returned as “Bonds:” You build relationships with NPCs by spending time with them, which in turn unlocks new classes and upgrades them. I’m about 15 hours in (to what is probably an 80+ hour game), but already am loving all of the characters and what I’ve seen of the story.
When I can tear myself away, I’m practicing my speedrun of Gravity Circuit for an upcoming event. It’s an indie platformer, Mega Man-like game that I highly recommend! It has really tight controls and the platforming feels great — you have a ton of movement tools like wall jumping, a hookshot, divekicks, and even super moves. You’ll feel like a speedrunner even just playing through the game normally! The music is also incredible — I caught myself humming a few of the stage songs while working or doing chores around the house.
For my speedrun, I’m doing the “Dog%” category - throughout the stages, there are a variety of friendly robots that need to be rescued. In the whole game, two of them are lil pups (Yuki and Amadeus). In Dog%, you need to rescue both dogs in their two stages, head back to base, and last but not least, pet them both.
So I guess the spookiest thing about all this is that the ghosts of my backlog will continue to haunt me another day. xD
I’m a big fan of Final Fantasy, and one of my favorite monsters is the Tonberry. “He’s just a little guy!” you might exclaim upon first seeing one, and then the Tonberry will one-hit KO you. From then on, Tonberries are quite a bit spookier. Super adorable, but super deadly — which, in my opinion, should be the fundamentals of all monster design!
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Product & FeaturesFifty years of adventure! 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons. Fantasy adventures, friendships getting closer than ever, and most importantly: fireballs flung towards evil creatures. Over the years, the D&D community has shown off their incredible creativity and passion for exploring new worlds with the release of many unique D&D spinoffs, or creating their homebrew rulesets and content!
Never grabbed your trusty sword and shield to set off on a journey before? You’re in luck: the newly refreshed Player’s Handbook makes it a snap for beginner and experienced players alike to set forth on exciting new journeys with ease.
Discord has become a core component for many D&D adventurers across the world. Some play the game completely digitally with apps like Roll20, while others use their cameras in a Discord voice chat to show off huuuge, custom-made terrain, and meticulously crafted figures that represent their fantasy selves.
We also LOVE D&D at Discord, so in honor of Dungeons & Dragons’ 50th anniversary, we’re celebrating in two stylish ways: bringing you some brand new tabletop adventures — directly in Discord — to you and your party, and offering more ways to look the part when you’re playing your next campaign in chat.
This Halloween season, we’re bringing a Discord twist to your adventures into worlds unknown. How? Well, adventurer... you’ll have to discover that for yourself when you gather your party and play our haunting new Discord-themed One Shot adventure: Voyage Into Discord!
One Shots are a special type of adventure that’s playable in a single sitting (hence the “one”). They’re perfect for those who are still learning the ropes of the game or if you’re supporting your friends through their first foray and making sure they’re having a great time.
Within the raging tempests and chilling voids of the planes, there lies a sanctuary where the separate became whole and lost became found: the realms of Discord. The secrets of these worlds have been lost to the ages, but there are those who seek to recover them — and to discover the manifold wonders of Discord for themselves. Band together in Voyage Into Discord and uncover these secrets for yourselves!
Since it all takes place in Roll20, there’s no need to track physical maps, paint any miniatures, or worry about your first time being a good story-telling Dungeon Master. But don’t stop us if you eventually want to obtain some trinkets and miniatures to remember your adventure with. :)
Voyage Into Discord is completely playable in Discord! Open up the App Launcher, then find and launch the Roll20 Activity to get started. You’ll see the “Voyage Into Discord” campaign for free in the list of available campaigns and rulesets.
Policy & SafetyDiscord’s mission is to be the best place for players to talk and hang out before, during, and after gaming. People deserve a safe and welcoming online space to explore their interests and connect with friends. We’re deeply committed to helping bridge the gap between our users and the mental health resources they deserve by meeting them where they are.
From the start, we aim to design our products to allow Discord users to be in control of their experience: they decide with whom they interact and what communities they join. Discord is not a platform designed to maximize engagement. We try to ensure that our platform emphasizes real-time interaction and connection among friends. In addition to our platform’s design, we are committed to continuing to evolve and improve so that we can better support our users.
First observed by the World Federation for Mental Health on Oct. 10, 1992, World Mental Health Day raises awareness on a global scale, mobilizes efforts, and champions those efforts to foster mental health and well-being.
Over the past year, our team has focused on conducting research, offering more resources for users, and supporting activities centered on the intersection of mental health and games. This World Mental Health Day, we’re excited to share what we’ve been working on!
