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…
Slots to Burn When you’re low levels, every spell slot is a precious jewel to be hoarded and used carefully. After a few levels, it’s significantly easier to “waste” spell slots on smaller tasks. By the time you’re high levels, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sooey There were a lot of cruel animal sports in the Middle Ages. Fox hunts, bear baiting, dog fighting, bull fighting and the like. A few survive to this day. The least cruel is probably wrestling or catching a greased […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Eye Sore During my 3e/ Pathfinder days, I sometimes wondered how effective it was to cast detect magic when the rest of the party was standing a few feet away wearing more magical items than a hockey player wears pads. It […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Spelling Counts We have a history of horrible jokes at my table. Most tables do. Because you’re hanging with friends getting sillier and sillier, and comfortable to really push the line into some black humour or dark territory. It helps […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gesundheit Verbal and somatic components – and the majority of material components – are pretty useless. They have no hard mechanical effect, but instead serve to differentiate magic beyond damage types. This way the firebolt dealing an average of 10 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hot Stuff Coming Through Another strip pulled directly from my home game. Is lava rock to be made muddier? Mud to be turned rockier? Does it become fast moving boiling mud or steaming red-hot stone? So many questions and so […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Summoning Cycle Summoning a fiendish creature, such as a demon or devil, is a trope of fantasy fiction. Of fiction really, with the story of Faust being ages old. This has always been an awkward fit with the D&D rules […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Total Tool Necromancy is odd. It’s often presented just like any other wizard school or subset of spells, but it’s pretty darn evil. What with animating the dead and soulless minions and all. Yet, what keeps most gamers away […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Barbecue Area My University minor in Anthropology is bleeding through with the name of the strip. I enjoy how wacky certain spells can make the game. Stone to flesh is the perfect example. Its purpose is plain: allow people to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
