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…
Muscle Magic There was an internet joke for a while that there needed to be a spellcasting class that used Strength as it’s primary attribute, much like wizards used Intelligence and sorcerers used Charisma. Strength was mostly the purview of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shake Down I do love 20s and letting a lucky roll really change the story. It provides a second element of narrative influence for the players, albeit a random one. You can’t plan on a natural 20: they just happen. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Raunchy Reading Savage humanoid art is probably fairly explicit. They likely have paintings and carvings that borders on the obscene. Especially a race like orcs that is all about violence and the strong dominating the weak. Their reproduction likely isn’t […] ↓ 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…
Victory Dance A few months back, while the internet had a fit over tokenism in gaming – specifically video games – I rolled my eyes and said “forget hate, my webcomic just became all female.” I’m paraphrasing (read: self censoring) […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Magic of Reading I still lament the lack of D&D books for children. There are so many novels, but their size means they’re aimed at far older readers. There were attempts and youth-orientated series (Junior High age), but this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Leading to Certain Doom Monsters should really surrender more. Ignoring the awkward moral choice it forces on the PCs (spare the monsters or execute them), somewhat intelligent monsters should have some kind of survival instinct and throw down their weapons […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stand Your Ground Yeah, another political/ topical comic. Sorry. I’ll try to restrain myself in the future. The topic of excessive force from police just seems to be everywhere these days. It’s mostly an American issue. Really, like other problems, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Appropriate Range If the party finds a dungeon and asks “Am I the appropriate level for this dungeon?” the answer is always “yes!” For the terribly meta-gamey reason that you’ll almost never encounter content in a tabletop RPG that you’re […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
