Stockholmed As a DM I love a captive audience. I don’t know if I’d like being forced to play D&D for several hours. But it’s probably not as bad as some of the sketchy basements I’ve ended up walking into […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Final Tactic I hate scheduling. It’s a personal pet peeve. Juggling and trying to coordinate the fun of multiple people. It’s my personal hell that I have volunteered for by running a game. But adulting is hard, especially around Christmas […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Minion Might Minions are a 4th Edition rule. Monsters with a single hit point that die after one blow. They’re an element of cinematic play, where the heroes face off against a dozen weak enemies. They can kinda exist in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
God Paradox Who created the flumphs? Well… we know WHO created the flumphs: they’re credited to Ian McDowell and Douglas Naismith. But we don’t know how or why they were created in-world. Who they revere as their creator or pray […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Eternal Questions Of course, the DM dodge is: they speak the truth, but they don’t know everything and will respond with “I don’t know.” It’s a classic riddle and one that never survives contact with the player characters who will, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In The Eyes Beholders hate other beholders, viewing them as imperfect and not “true” beholders. Reflections in general should instinctively infuriate them, being almost the perfect beholder but flipped visually. Beholder lairs should be filled with broken mirrors and shattered […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
See Me Striding Spinning off the previous strip… When I considered this strip, I had to imagine what a flumph’s mount would look like. A bigger flumph was one option, but the idea of a floating gas bag on a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hoofing It In the Twitter conversation regarding Mike “Sly Flourish” Shea’s newest Kickstarter (Fantastic Adventures: Ruins of the Grendleroot) the conversation turned to flumphs. Like it does. More specifically, flumph mounts. Which inspired several amusing ideas to run through my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Failure to Negotiate The problem with diplomacy in D&D is that while the bard or sorcerer is chatting away as the party’s face the rest of the party is lurking elsewhere, getting into all manner of shenanigans. Which may or […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Life Is Cheap This situation came up in a Living Greyhawk module back in the day. The noblewoman was in peril and we failed. She died. But we had a free “raise dead” through favours and boons, and simply brought her […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
