Flowers Called Algernon The spell speak with plants says “You imbue plants within 30 feet of you with limited sentience and animation, giving them the ability to communicate with you and follow your simple commands.” Which means you literally give […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Money For Days By “the rules” 50 gold pieces weigh a pound. Which doesn’t seem like a lot but adds up quickly. An 11th level adventurer, fresh from splitting a treasure hoard, might have 3,500 gold pieces on them. This […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Aggressive Negotiations I’ve been playing rather than running D&D for a while now. Which is odd. And less fun for me in many ways, not the least being my rolls are garbage. I have terrible luck. I’ve rolled double 1s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Forced Rest As someone who is typically a Dungeon Master rather than a player, I tend to like to encourage the rest of the party to continue to adventure rather than blowing all of our spells in a single fight […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
End of the Road Anyone who collected D&D Miniatures in the early 2000s likely recognises this “boss.” It was a Common rarity miniature, so if you bought more than three packs of Desert of Desolation’s randomized minis, you had a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
