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…
Slippery When Wet Sometimes the most effective and deadliest hazards are the mundane, commonplace dangers we ignore even in our day-to-day lives: the balcony without a proper safety rail, the uneven staircase, the old ladder, and the slippery floor. Because […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
School for the Gifted Whenever we get to a locked door, one of the players at my table invariably asks this question, only half teasing. Because he knows the GM is the kind who will teasingly reply “the door doesn’t […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
