Mega Flurry I’ve mused about the design of non-human races a few times, and the abilities potentially granted by extra limbs. Specifically hands, which can hold weapons. This was big in 3e, as you could make those extra attacks, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Footwear Following up on the previous #flumphening comic about backpacks, the unusual (read: unnatural) anatomy of flumphs would pose other problems. Specifically, wearing and using most magical gear. You can imagine some working, such as belts, necklaces, cloaks, and most […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gas Attack And more #Flumphening Flumphs are known as floating jellyfish aberrations. But they’re also literal gas bags, as one of their primary attacks is releasing a cloud of foul smelling gas. This is useful against enemies, but continually smelling […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Eye Contact The #flumphening continues. After doing one Flumph comic I laughed at the result and immediately thought of a second. This one. Then when I finished this, I thought of a third. Now I’m going to see how many flumph […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Beastly Name Another strip pulled my homegame. Not the magical ape directly, but the puns. So many King Kong puns. I honestly can’t even remember how they started. But once they did, they just kept coming. Pretty standard for gaming […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lookie Loos I haven’t had much romance in my RPG campaigns, and there’s several reasons. A large part of that has to do with the fact the player having to act flirty with another player or the DM. Which can […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
False Advertising There’s a fine line between a “Wizard” and a “Magician”. And if you advertise for one in a fantasy world you’d better hope you get the exact type you want. Everyone in Waterdeep knows of the infamous time […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Semiclimax A comic right out of my Tomb of Annihilation game. Although the character in question was really a grippli rogue, played by my pretty wife. And she’s pretty insistent it was actually a “superclimax”. Climaxes are actually really hard to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Killing Bow In storytelling, a plot element set-up for future payoff is known as “Chekov’s Gun”. The idea being that you don’t introduce a gun in Act I if you don’t intent to fire it by Act III. Magic items […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Negotiator Don’t let the fighter who used Charisma as their dump stat take the lead in talking to, well, anyone. Some fighter archetypes seem like they should be good at persuasion, such as knights trained in courtly etiquette, or […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Blessed Brew Coffee has been around for centuries. From the early years of the 15th Century at the latest, and in the mid-1600s coffee spread to Europe through Italy via trade with North Africa. (Italy has had string trading ties […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
