A What in the Room?
Chapter: Comics, Season Five
Well that escalated quickly.
And I did this sketch because I love you.
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Well that escalated quickly.
And I did this sketch because I love you.
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Hover-Text: Now I am thinking about a Tarrasque with a Dolly Parton wig singing islands in the stream. Now you are too. My work here is done.
googles Tarrasque…DUDE not cool
Thank you for loving me.
How did he pronounce that?
I pronounce it like Tar Ess Cue personally.
Tar-ask.
There is no right answer.
This IS the right answer…
And how did he know she was blonde???
Presumably someone told him.
Thanks, Hercule.
I understood that reference.
I think we discovered a secret.
We are on to you daredevil, normally blind people cannot see!
He’s heard the word and been in conversations where he would know the context. Charlie is a smart fella.
Evidently. I mean, he not only noticed, but remembered a trait that has no meaning to him whatsoever.
Yeah being blind doesn’t make you instantly stupid or incapable of understanding the real world around you.
Which is why Charlie is awesome. Among other reasons.
AND IIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-eeeee-IIIIIII WILL ALWAYS DO SIX ATTACKS PER ROUND-OW-OWND
Perfect.
Ain’t no mountain high enough!
Ain’t no valley low enough!
Ain’t no river wide enough!
To keep me from gettin’ to you, babe.
…kinda takes a sinister tone there, doesn’t it?
Love it. hah!
Ah so youre going there.
Very nice, dont want him to play favourites after all, which is always tricky when you are DMing for a loved one.
Well not for me but ive been told im at least a little heartless so who knows.
“Blonde Tarrasque” is going to become my new insult, many thanks.
I am not certain who, if anyone here, has seen this sketch yet. But it is a thing of much amusement to me. If my players do not read d20 monkey, I will be using this as a monster description if/when they piss me off. “Dolly Partarrasque. Ya done ****ed up. Now you get this thing.”
Oh that’s fantastic. I wish your players many nightmares.
She crits on… 9 or 5.
Claw Claw bitin anything livin’
Yeah, Sam, do not go with Amy. Everyone will regret that.
Last time you were feeling particularly strong emotions towards a particular player it ended… darkly.
Yeah, GMing for a partner can go really wrong. Of course, it can go fine as well, but it really depends what both people in the relationship are like. One of my friends ran a game that his girlfriend was in. While they were okay, things weren’t too bad, we just had to deal with rampant favouritism (she was playing a doppleganger, had far more loot, stuff like that, though knowing the way he thought and planned things I could generally connive to keep things on a relatively even keel for the rest of us)…
When they were on the way out though, and eventually broke up… Holy crap did things get ugly fast. He was totally fine to keep running, but she wasn’t going to stand for it. We had to swap GMs to try and keep things together, and eventually the group just fell apart for a while, then reformed without her… at which point she started stalking our games. Literally calling everyone one person after another when we were playing, showing up unannounced (she lived on the other side of the city, and didn’t have a car, so she’d show up late due to public transport taking forever, walk in, demand that we start the session again, then sit there being snarky, and demand we stop early so someone could drive her home). Eventually I sat down at a session one day, and decided I was going to have to be the bad guy to actually keep things going… told the GM I was murdering her character in the face. She showed up. I told her what happened, she left. Never did speak to me again.
I have had to do that sort of thing in the past, usually only after they have totally ignored being told they are no longer welcome.
Yup, that was pretty much what had ended up happening there. It had been made clear, she wasn’t taking the hint, I stepped in. There was a whole bunch of crazy involved in that situation though, at one stage she threatened legal action to recover some items from him. Those items? They were a set of 5 home made MtG cards she’d made for him that had pictures of him on them, one for each colour of mana. Who the hell threatens legal action over 5 literally worthless pieces of cardboard?
Thats kind of sad more than anything.
At least the way I see it.
I just picture this one girl who just really wants friends.
Except that we were all totally willing to still play with her. She’s the one who basically started sabotaging the group, staying fights every session and generally making the whole situation horrifically awkward. When it got to be too much we tried continuing without her, when she continued showing up anyway and kept causing problems, that’s when I killed off the character to see if that worked. It did. It makes me sad that it came to that, but I don’t regret doing it to keep the group from falling apart.
Been right in the situation of being the DM’s girlfriend. Never expected or got favouritism but then he probably knew I’d get pissed (and potentially kick in painful places) if he did start showing favouritism.
We broke up but we still game together and are still friends. Guess that still being friends thing helps a lot to prevent meltdowns.
Regarding the crazy stalking, I’d have just called the police because that is crazy shit right there.
Yeah, see she straight up expected favouritism, and got it. We generally didn’t care. I think if it would have helped keep things going normally he’d have kept playing favourites after the breakup, but rather than being a quiet breakup it kind of exploded.
If it had been my house I probably would have called the cops, but we played at his place, so we left that to his judgement. He didn’t want to make a big deal out of it, we left it at that until I couldn’t stand it anymore.
Am I the only one who thinks he might be talking about Brett?
Me too! That was what I first thought!
Until I read the hover text I was thinking, “Calm down Sam, He’s talking about Brett.” But maybe not.
I also thought he meant Brett…
ditto.
>.> I still think he might be talking about Brett, mostly because I could -imagine- a drunk Brett singing Dolly Parton songs. That, and sometimes, what we imagine when coming up with bizarre analogies might be entirely unrelated from the subject at hand. Plus…Brett -is- kinda big and hostile, like a Terrasque.
from the placement of Brett’s picture just above his head (Still in view) I would agree that he’s talking about Brett. He’s going to say he really likes his girlfriend and wants her to join but what happens when Brett comes back. Mark my words. And I don’t get why they can just add Brett when he comes back? An extra person is better than being short a person. imho.
I think he may be referring to Elephant in the room meaning there is a situation Sam isn’t aware of like Mel leaving; I could be totally wrong
Oh come on, girlfriends aren’t tarrasques! Mind flayers, maybe, but…
this man.
But what I really want to know is, does the tarrasque sound like Dolly?
Love the sketch. Thanks for the love.
Is he actually referring to the girlfriend or just putting a spin on that whole “Grey Elephant in the room” thing?
Unstoppable.
Relentless.
Able to reflect your own magic upon you.
Heals from a single piece.
Cannot be stopped by anything short of a WISH.
and usually used at the climax of a campaign….
others have noted it, i only affirm: gaming with a gf or significant other isnt a bad thing, but it gets problematic. they figure they can get away with anything, regardless of dice rolls and what they want they get or they make things difficult for the gm. I’ve seen this on both sides of the equation.
However, how is that any different from having a player that the DM favors regularly while you get the +1 longsword and 500 gold. that player gets a +5 holy Avenger, a suit of Full Plate +3, a dragon mount, and the entire treasury of the kingdom (and you worked 3x harder).
the problem is: people will ALWAYS suspect the GM of favoring the Girlfriend.
“Now I am thinking about a Tarrasque with a Dolly Parton wig singing islands in the stream. Now you are too.”
Ha! Joke’s on you, I’m not thinking about it!
…
Totally not thinking about it.
…
God fucking dammit.
That’s why I loathe couples at the table. Don’t get me wrong when I was young I did it as well, I learned frome experience at least with the people I play with, that it just does not work out well. At least for us.
Way too much of a chance for favortism.