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…
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…
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…
Death by Dying In most D&D games, the default attitude towards death is that it’s not really much of an impediment after 6th or 7th level. And even prior to that threshold, it’s often possible to be resurrected via a […] ↓ 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…
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…
Heart Attack Campaigns can be silly things. Going dark requires buy-in and coordination from the players. They need to be willing to have serious characters who are played straight rather than slipping into whimsy. Which can be tricky for gamers, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tentacle Fury More #flumphening. I’d like to tell you this was the end, but it might go all January. Or until I stop being amused by the idea of flumph adventurers. Specifically ones like barbarians. Barbarian flumphs are extra silly, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Impossible Load After the first couple flumph comics I began down the rabbit hole of “what would an adventuring flumph be like?” And after the obvious humour of “stinky” I began to wonder at some problems that being a Small […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Something New And here we go. 2019. Let the flumphening begun. #flumphening Flumphs are ridiculous monsters that have become a bit of fan favourites over the years, owing to their regular appearances in Order of the Stick and message board […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Price of Experience A few adventurers have scars. These tend to be the result of dramatic events during the character’s backstory. After that, no matter how violent and grievous the injury, it doesn’t scar. Critically hit by a falchion, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
