A comic inspired by a Phandelver campaign I ran last year. When my party’s rogue came to me with his origin story I knew someone was in for a harsh lesson. The real imaginary world isn’t so kind!
“The heftiest of treasures go not to the skilled man nor the smart man but the man with the sickest gains.” – Dunbrill, The Tailor of Tristan.
I guess it's true what they say. One man's dump stat is another man's treasure.
Inspired by our resident bard, Kalvin the Red. It’s great to have a player who is invested in the plot and trusts the DM enough to follow big plot hooks! You just have to hope their foolhardy isn’t too grossly punished by your gritty survival setting!
5E has done an incredible job at balancing the different classes but sometimes it feels like martial classes lack a bit of flavor. Especially after you’ve finally gotten a good hit on the boss only for him to change the laws of physics.
Sometimes bad decisions are made. It’s the nature of the game! It helps when the death is impactful but sometimes it’s hard to make every bad decision seem super heroic. When a player dies, I give them one last action and a chance to share some parting wisdom!
I love moments where a player pulls out some obscure class feature and wins the day. While I don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of the game, I do consider myself well-read! Even so, my players still manage to surprise me with some crazy situational feature like Stillness of Mind or Feral Senses.
