Ally Adjacent Right out of my homegame, there’s my party’s rogue attacking a giant purple worm and dealing bonus damage because the druid is currently making their way through its gastrointestinal system. A quirk of the rules in 5e compared […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dress For Success I wonder how many NPCs want to be adventurers and try to learn class skills. The gap between commoner and classed characters is pretty huge, so you’d think everyone would want to make that leap, increasing the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
SJC I’ve always wondered why it’s “warrior” and not “paladin” or “knight”. It feels like a crusade of sorts. I’m always amused how SJW gets thrown around as a pejorative. A warrior for social justice. As if the desire to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Don Rapidly Modern clothing is pretty easy to get on: T-shirt, jeans, socks, and potentially underwear. The hardest part of my wardrobe is the tie. Even then, getting dressed pre-coffee takes me several slow minutes as I grumble about the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Double Up Urban Dictionary has definitions for both “two fisting” and “double fisting” and surprisingly the first result for both is not a sex act. It’s still probably a good idea not to watch Googled videos of double-fisting at work […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Super Cute Halflings looks like small children. They probably sound like small children. An angry cursing halfling probably sounds like a five-year-old swearing like a sailor. This is both disturbing and hilarious. And nothing makes an angry person angrier than […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Job Being a murder hobo is a job with freedom: no boss but yourself, easy hours, lots of days off, freedom to choose your own path and make your own hours, and no dealing with HR. However, it’s health […] ↓ 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…
Smoted It’s been said that if the Christian god is real, she cannot be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. You can have two out of the three. Otherwise, why is there evil and suffering in the world? As fars as gods […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Making a Will I love a good Wilhelm scream. It always makes me smile. I can’t do it worth a damn – an eternal sadness during gaming when a monster or creature is knocked off a high place or caught […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fear of Pain Torture is tricky in most versions of D&D because the damage in unlikely to scale with level. It’s one of those times the abstraction of hit points gets weird. No matter how badass and tough a hero […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
