Ideal: YOLO Player characters might not live once. They might live three or four times, being resurrected through powerful magics when bad luck or poor tactics should normally have ended their tale. Very little can permanently end the adventuring career […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Management Style You want to give players spotlights from time to time. Moments when their character is the focus of the story as someone engages them in single combat or a lengthier roleplaying moment relevant to their character arc and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Being Ghosted I’m deep into a rewatch of Critical Role campaign 2. Episode 47 as I type this. Prompted by the absence of new episodes and being stuck at home and jobless for the foreseeable future. One of the neat […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do It In Your Sleep People can walk in their sleep. Talk in their sleep. Do chores in their sleep. And even have relations with their significant other in their sleep. If you had magical powers that could be unleashed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Exactly Where You Think Some strips I’m proud of. This isn’t one of them… Especially as the doors seem scaled for halflings. Big art fail right there. I like what 5th Edition has done with familiars. Making them Pokemon that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Deeply Wounded Hit points are an imperfect system. Anything above 0 and you’re at 100% fighting efficiency and suffer no penalties. As such, many Dungeon Masters have tried to introduce lingering wound subsystems, that add penalties when injured in some […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
God of Gawds Based on a true campaign event. My cleric follows the god of medicine, so his angelic spirit guardians were armed with surgical scalpels. It just seemed appropriate to make them cherubs. With scalpels. Which is inherently horrifying […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Baddest of Asses Inspired by my homegame, where a highly paid leaping assassin with a rapid fire magical crossbow obliterated the party while leaping across rooftops and eluding capture. He was basically the Deadshot of the campaign setting, absolutely humbling […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Job Fair The question “how common are adventurers?” has come up in a few editions, but only 3rd Edition had firm demographics, where as many as 5% of people in a city would have levels in an adventuring class. Which […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ordering Delivery Eight months ago (give or take) the strip went on an unexpected hiatus, after my campaign ended and, at the same time, I ran low in material. The worst time for a idea dry-spell. Then, the longer I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
