Alternate Solution It never fails for rogues. They search the floor. They search the doorway. They search the chest. Each time they get a super high number but find no traps. But the one time they roll a “3”, that […] ↓ 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…
Mob Scene A lot of thought goes into the idea of the “balanced” party. The fighter (tank), the cleric (healer/ buffer), the wizard (controller), and the rogue (striker/blaster). Which is one way to look at the party, skipping the subroles […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Parkour The spiritual cousin to last week’s strip. Bounding across rooftops is a staple of fantastic fiction. While less common in fantasy campaigns, it’s the standard mode of travel for most urban vigilantes. As such, you’d think rogues would be […] ↓ 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…
Stay On Target The various flavours of D&D are games where you regularly fight monsters two or three times your size, if not even larger. Despite barely being able to tap the kneecaps of your opponent with a particularly long […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Irrefutable Logic There’s a fine line between the philosophies of “if it has stats, we can kill it” and “if it has stats, we should kill it.” A lot of player’s first reaction to adversity and opposition is violence. Sometimes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sneaky Attack The rules for hiding in roleplaying games can be funny sometimes. And by “sometimes” I mean “often”. The 5th Edition rules are often dismissed as vague or requiring too much DM fiat, while the Pathfinder rules underwent a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Soylent Green Food is an interesting limited resource in dungeons. Most of the time, tracking food and mundane purchases is needless. The cost of a few meals and some arrows is negligible, especially in editions with assumed magical wealth. But […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ye Olde Yelp The Flying Huff inn and tavern. 3/5 stars. A decent establishment. Would stay again. The smell of urine was discrete, and the horse dung was freshly swept out of the common room. Despite the historical existence of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Paying Suspension of Disbelief Overlooking the annoyance of having to stop playing a game for a few hours unless you want to throw money at it micro-transactions are weird from a story perspective. It’s a little weird for adventurers to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
