I discussed whether or not this was acceptable content with the moderators and creators of this community before I started, and they’re supportive of artists posting their RPG comics here, it’s a part of the community. The community description even reflects this.

Refering to the comics from multiple creators here, not just me: These comic series do spawn actual memes often enough to be a good source of new funnies, but because they’re ongoing stories, it helps for people to be able to follow along.

If you don’t like this, you have a simple remedy available: You can just block me and never see another one again. You don’t have to be mean to random people on the internet.

Bonus Konsi drank a little bit too much this time.

While Mystery doesn’t have counterspell, Faelys does, and we own a hat of disguise.

You’d probably be able to do that and win the match, but, well, there’s a few problems…

First of all, Addis is a Tymoran priestess with level 5 spells, so she’d be pretty difficult to take down quickly unless you were serious adventurers. Chances of pulling it off without a hitch are non-zero. We don’t know for sure what is and is not on Addis’ spell list, but if we imagine it’s similar to Konsi’s list well… Konsi always has Dimension Door prepared, grabbing her would be very difficult.

Secondly, this is Konsi’s boss, you might win the match by default, but the repercussions within the temple would be much worse.

Third, Konsi would never approve of kidnapping anyone who wasn’t evil… She’s too much of a good bean.

Probably the biggest problem is that the entire point of this match is to have Konsi play a high-stakes poker match under scrutiny, to prove that she legitimately has skill at the game, and doesn’t cheat. They’re staging this whole thing to head off accusations of foul play… Kidnapping your opponent and winning by default doesn’t exactly solve the problem!

It is an artifact, the “Forgeringer”.

Some artifacts might be powerful enough to have function inside anti-magic fields… although the Forgeringer has never displayed that kind of power. More problematic though, it’d be kind of difficult to use a hammer in the middle of a poker match undetected.

Bonus Konsi, as usual

Since some people’s clients can’t properly display tall images, here’s the comic split in two for readability.

If that is ALSO not helpful to you, I recommend looking at it on my site

I am assured it was 2e

My fiancee played a whole campaign of Apocalypse World! She enjoyed it!

Here’s a Bonus Konsi I drew during Pride Month.

I live in a set of apartments (60 in all). Once a year we have an “AGM” where everyone’s supposed to show up, and we go over stuff like the resident’s association finances, and plans for future works and changes to policies. (e.g. we had to remove a tree because it died, or the council want to put parking restrictions in our neighborhood, or the bike sheds need repainting, etc.)

It’s not really as oppressive as a HOA, because your interaction with it is once-a-year, and if you have an issue you just email the people running the committee, you don’t really have to contend with constant complaints and jockeying about whether your driveway is tidy enough or any of that nightmare stuff… but the once-a-year-meeting can sometimes drag on for hours and it’s very tiring.

There’s sometimes a discussion around an issue before we vote on it. Sometimes particularly beligerant residents get into circular arguments where they’re not listening to each other, and neither of them are going to change their mind, they’re just taking up air in the room going back and forth and making no progress, sometimes the argument is in spite of a lack of needed information and everyone is just speculating on what might happen etc etc.

From my extensive time DMming, more than anything else, it’s become very easy to spot when such discussions have no chance of resulting in a productive outcome, and I’ve started to notice that a quick interjection that summarizes the situation and suggest we move on and deal with it via email, is invaluable. “Look, we don’t know yet if the change to the renter’s rights bill is going to pass at all, or what exactly it’ll contain. We should wait for that before trying to figure out how to handle it.” or “The motion we’re discussing is for the committee to research how much this installation will cost, not whether or not we’re going to do it.” or “That information sounds useful, you should email it to the committee after the meeting so they can make sure it’s considered.”

I think, just having anyone in the room who’s focused on staying on task can save you a huge amount of time, in basically any group-discussion forum. Our AGMs are almost an hour shorter now, and there’s an increasing number of attendees who are on board with my philosophy of “are we going to be able to solve this now? no? email the committee and move on.”

I’m not seeing any mention of it, but I think a lot of people might be interested in Break! - it’s specifically aiming to make a game that has the vibes of an “adventure of the week” system, where you learn of an ancient ruin, gear up, venture through the wilderness, explore a crumbling tomb for loot, then get back in time for dinner and an ale. - Basically I’m saying that the game is specifically designed to try and tell the kind of stories that DnD is designed for.

Where break differs from DnD is in it’s approach to mechanics. Downtime, journeying, exploring an adventure site, and fighting are all their own small, light subsystems of rules, so there’s clear guidelines for how to run each of them, and they’re largely aimed at highlighting the cruical and interesting moments for each of those activities, while quickly glossing past the faff and monotony of what lies between.

I’ve lost track of the number of DnD campaigns I’ve played where the DM didn’t really have a clear framework for what to do on a long journey, and resorted to just tossing a couple of random encounter fights in because it “felt necessary”, but they never felt like they advanced the story or contributed anything interesting to the game.

It’s also a game you can recruit random NPCs and the like to join you and follow you around, and when they run out of HP you check to see if you remembered to give them a name. The world knows that characters who have their own names are important to the story, and characters who are just “that random bandit mook who surrendered and we brought them along” are not. If the character doesn’t have a name when they hit 0hp, they die on the spot.

Oh, and fights take 10 minutes, rather than 2 hours - so you can have one in the middle of a session without it becoming the whole session. Yum.

You’re right that it’s not clear in the spell text exactly how to handle this, (a common theme with 5e stuff.) - However I’m remembering having a discussion a whole while back about “how old is the new body?” and finding a Sage Advice post saying it’s however old that species is when it reaches adulthood, so I was basing my claim off that.

On average, it’s cheaper to use reincarnate, you just provide a bodypart, and, so long as you didn’t die of old age, reincarnate will make you a new “newly-adult” body. It’s more expensive than Clone in materials, but much lower level, and if you roll a long lived race like an elf, gnome, or dwarf, you get a lot more mileage out of it before having to go around again.

I’ve been meaning to ask for a while, do you have any official character art reference sheets for Angela (and/or the others?)

Your Laeral is very similar to the way I run Laeral in my games, which is lovely. I think she’s a good character, the tragic “I live forever” schtick works well on a genuinely good, intellegent, competent leader type.

I do always feel that she makes friends with the PCs too easily in most of my games. (I have a similar problem running Vajra… which at least evens itself out a bit whenever the PCs suggest having the two of them meet up…) - but also, if you do (good-aligned) adventures out of Waterdeep for long enough, you should probably end up friends with both of them.

Generally speaking, this is something that an experienced GM can handle in session zero. An important part of session zero is establishing expectations for the style of game to be played: Things like “are the player characters friends?” “Is PvP encouraged or discouraged?” “Do I as a DM want the characters to stick together?” etc etc.

Generally when running DnD, I request of my players to design characters who:

1. Have a disposition to get along well with their companions. (this can be for any reason: because they’re like that with everyone, or because they’re loyal to the group, or because they view it as useful to have some friendly scapegoats nearby or any other motivation.)
2. Be the kind of person who will go on adventures and take risks. (This can be because they’re a daredevil, or because they’re desperate, or because they’re devoted to their duty, or any other motivation.)

Fundamentally, most DnD games are the story of a group of friends going on adventures together. If your DnD game is the story of a group of friends going on adventures, then it’s extremely beneficial for your players to build characters who will be friends, and who will go on adventures. Together.

Oh yes, although with roleplaying setting metaphysics, it’s probably good to define this to be true if you’re using it in your game. (To make sure it interacts with the rules correctly and has the right keywords etc etc.)

For example if you cast “detect poison” do you detect bottles of alcohol, or a hidden wine cellar, etc etc. If your DM has never considered whether or not alcohol is a poison it probably wouldn’t occur to them to mention it, but if they have then they might!