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…
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…
