Crouching Peg, Hidden Hole D&D and similar RPGs are games are a weird mash-up of cultures and troped. knights from the Middle Ages, allied with Norse demihumans and Arthurian wizards fight monsters from Germanic folklore and Greco-Roman mythology. Then you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tickets Please What did people call displays of muscles prior to the existence of guns? I imagine body fat was higher, and precise exercise was rarer, so muscles were less pronounced. People likely just looked bigger without the definition and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Take The Bet In practice, there’s a finite number of encounters used to start typical new campaigns. There’s no shortage of low level/ challenge monsters, but many are just used in mobs at higher levels or as secondary encounters. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bring the Boom Spells like fireball and burning hands make the distinction that only bits of paper and kindling you’re not holding burst into flames from the spell’s effect and that anything you’re holding is immune to the ravages of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tools of Destruction Loosely inspired by a discussion on using cards for improvised weapons. Although that is much less ludicrous, being a fairly common trope. It wasn’t absurd enough to work as a comic. I considered a few other options. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dance Like No One is Watching When your dice are on fire, you celebrate. Party while you can. Because your dice will turn on you soon enough, and try their best to horribly kill your character. Don’t eff me, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One True Name dox /däks/ verb, informal search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent. Doxxing is bad. Obviously. It’s a cowardly tactic of fear and intimidation. Especially for people […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Aftermath At best, after destroying the establishment, the party of adventurers might toss the bartender a small pouch of coins and wryly comment “sorry about the mess” as if they’d never heard that line before. The gold might pay for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ultimate Destruction I’ve divorced rounds from being a set time in my game. There’s the loose acknowledgement that “1 minute” spells last 10 rounds, but roughly expire after the fight. But six-second rounds just feel awkward. It’s such a short […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over 9000 Experience Never ran a game where you had to spend a few rounds focusing and gaining energy before you reached your next level. A few groups believe in training before gaining levels. You have to practice your skills […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dripping the Stream Had you told me even two years ago that I’d be watching people play Dungeons & Dragons online for fun, I would have laughed. Laughed in your lying face. And had you told me that I’d be joining 35,000 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Level 15 Fashionista I’m honestly just amused by swapping a real worlddecade with a fantasy date, which would be a couple decades ago by the current “Dale Reckoning” of Faerûn. Although, it also works as a slightly anachronistic real world joke: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
