Dolly did the original version (IIRC). It has, if not much else, at least the virtue of not having been so ostentatiously over-produced as the Whitney Houston cover.
Blasted memory, failing me, “Bodyguard”, not “Ghost”. I know that Parton and Houston had a good relationship, but some fans still cling to the “bitter rivals” conspiracy.
We signed up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library when my daughter was born (if you don’t know what that is it’s where your child gets sent a free book every month) and I choose to believe that Dolly personally puts them in the envelope 😉 Damn shame our council is cutting funding, we buy Sophia loads of books anyway but some kids parents wouldn’t bother, which is a sad state of affairs.
2? I have seven. I’ve got two TORG dice, a blue-white die which has been dubbed the ‘toothpaste’ dye, the die that came with the 5e Starter Set, and three pastel dice (green, pink, and yellow). 🙂 I’m set.
That would be pretty awesome. The Christmas arcs have been cool, but always so dramatic. Brett could use a truly good (not just silver-lined) year some time.
And I own far too many dice to name them all. That said, I DO have a VERY high-rolling d20 that I favor above most others. No, it’s not weighted; it loves me, is all.
I have 4-5 d20s and 3 giant d20s I only use when i’m DMing. I got them because there were no normal d20s in stock and decided that was a good use for em. Always roll them in a box though, they are heavy enough to worry people they’ll damage the table.
I think over the decades I’ve managed to amass over 5 pounds of dice, and almost a third are d20s. I had enough dice to give my 12 most commonly used 4E characters their own color-coordinated set of at least two d20s and a full complement of damage dice, while leaving enough left over in the “pile of shame” dice to give people who forgot their dice a few, usually the unloved ones from the “horribly fluorescent” assortment.
That being said, there was one blue die I was famous for, which my players nicknamed “The Demon Die”, which rolled high and critted often…
Ehh, I’ve got 5E, I’m happy to play it if given the chance, but I’m not an edition fanatic, I’ll still play 4E, 3.5, Pathfinder, or even hop genres over to Shadowrun or WoD. A game’s a game.
I have Capricious Blue, which I purchased at my first A-Kon and has served me well in the years since. And Ivory Death to the PCs. The latter of which seems to know when I’m rolling for the players as when I am one I rarely roll above a nine and when I’m the GM it rarely drops below a fifteen. And then there’s Blackie. Blackie is an honest d20, it shows no favortism and appeared in my collection mysteriously one day.
I have a REALLY big, and ugly, one that make a freakish amount of noise when rolling so I use it only when playing big monsters or really important rolls. I usually call it «Le Monstre».
I have 3 d20s total, but I do have a favorite. It was my first, and it was actually inherited via a copy of an extremely obscure RPG that my aunt’s ex-husband helped create (it was a terrible divorce, so somehow I ended up with the copy of the RPG, with no explanation). The d20 is opaque and solid creamsicle orange, and unlike every d20 I’ve ever encountered since, it’s incredibly pointy. All of the dice from that set are incredibly pointy (the d4 has its points cut off, or it would probably cause serious injury) which sets it apart as a set, but the d20 is the best and I roll specifically 20s a lot with it. It only has single digits though, half of which are accompanied by a +, and also used to be painted green, so a 20 shows up as (“0+”) and rolling an 11 brings an interesting combination of fear and then relief when I catch the sight of the barely noticeable “+” just to the side of the 1. And 10s are often more of a disappointment than a 1, honestly. 🙁
I bought my second one as part of a set and it’s green (my favorite color). But it doesn’t treat me nearly as well as my first, so I rarely use it. And then I found the third one on the floor at a gaming session and everybody present said it wasn’t theirs, so I’ve had it ever since. I don’t know that I’ve actually ever used it, especially not with any other choice available.
Depictions on dwarves in fantasy mainly. He isn’t a dwarf but he has some of the tendencies. I am trying to work in little signature things for each of the cast members. Sam’s shirt and glasses. Charlie’s hat and shades. Amy’s hat and glasses. Things like that.
I have a five gallon plastic jar about 80 percent full of dice… I couldn’t possibly name all the d20s. I do have “Mr. Sparkles”, “Billy-Killer” (that die has a serious mad-on for one of my players), and “Sexy” (she’s TARDIS blue)… but that’s about it.
I don’t have a favorite die, however I do have several names for series that I have: The understatement set (black #’s on flat gray), Mr. Sparkles (a glitter set), Fire & Ice (A red/black set & a blue/white set that often work well together for percentages).
I had to retire my Playa-Slaya d20 last year as I could no longer read the numbers and to ink them back in would have just ruined the MoJo. 4 crits on the same Dwarf Fighter in one encounter! I miss that die…
I have a round d6 called the Sharp Die, which loves being a rapier and short sword, and I have some bright pink d6s called the Sneaky Dice, which are used for sneak attacks.
I can’t explain why, but this is one of my favorites you have done. Welcome back Brett!!! I wish I was clever enough to come up with such awesome names for my D20s… “big purple” is the only one that has a name- it was my first which I am happy to say I still have.
I have a golden sparkly d20 I call “Gary glitter” My friend bought it for me to mix with my usual red black dice. It rocks and rolls, hey, rocks and rolls.
I have one of my six named: Ogre, which is my massive 630mm (2.5″) tall (when settled) d20. It’s been banned at all my tables, on account of damaging the tables. I was originally going to name it Blingtron (because it’s a random weapon) but Ogre was suggested and stuck.
Topically, my brother went back to his old-school d20 lucky die (he just calls hit his lucky die, no other names) playing Pathfinder last night, as his replacement regular d20 just wasn’t cutting it any more. (He had “broken up” with his lucky die because it just wasn’t rolling very well.)
It’s white, with two sets of numbers written 0-9, where numbers 1-10 are represented by lighter yellow-ish paint in the numbers, and numbers 11-20 are represented by black paint in the numbers.
Now it may be that his lucky die just doesn’t roll well when he’s a PC. When he was a DM it helped him take parties apart.
On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and typically in the morning but I have been spinning some plates lately. Sorry for the delay. Friday’s strip will be up later this afternoon.
Also, there is no cure for a fixation with Dolly Parton. The best thing you can do for it is to type 6922251 * 8 into a calculator, turn it upside down and smile.
I have my lucky d6s, I roll them when I roll for stats. They never let me down. And I have my lucky d20, the Orange Die of Death, that I only bring out for a particular group of Villains. It never rolls below a 16. Players are forbidden to touch it.
I generally have a seperate set of dice for each system, my oldest set being for DnD. Those are a family artifact, handed down to me from my father, and have never failed me…except the big d20. That thing hates me. The small one likes me though!
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HOVER-TEXT: I may have an unhealthy fixation on Dolly Parton. What do I take for that?
Jack Daniels, alot of Jack Daniels. and maybe a tub of ice cream.
I thought it was Whitney Houston that sung that.
Dolly did the original version (IIRC). It has, if not much else, at least the virtue of not having been so ostentatiously over-produced as the Whitney Houston cover.
Whitney Houston’s cover was in the movie “Ghost” so it had a great deal of exposure (or over exposure, depending on who you talk to).
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…(sigh)
To paraphrase Lois, almost everything you just said is wrong. I’ll explain it later.
Blasted memory, failing me, “Bodyguard”, not “Ghost”. I know that Parton and Houston had a good relationship, but some fans still cling to the “bitter rivals” conspiracy.
I always associated the song with the bodyguard
We signed up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library when my daughter was born (if you don’t know what that is it’s where your child gets sent a free book every month) and I choose to believe that Dolly personally puts them in the envelope 😉 Damn shame our council is cutting funding, we buy Sophia loads of books anyway but some kids parents wouldn’t bother, which is a sad state of affairs.
Dolly Parton.
I recommend a 9-5 regimen of her greatest hits.
Like, just… Like.
Take two double Dees and call me in the morning… on second thought, shower before you call me… don’t call me.
I can’t get over how amazing Brett’s new beard style is.
I’m so happy it’s still here. That there is a beard that demands respect.
I have a grand total of TWO d20’s – it’s not exactly like I have favorites.
What kind of gamer are you?
Go buy yourself a pound of dice, immediately.
Seriously, you need as many good rolls as you can get.
Good ol’ Sir Crits-a-lot.
that face in the third panel. . . so awesome.
I have the Peaches and Herb chorus to Reunited absolutely jammed in my head. “Reunited and it feeeeeeels so gooood…”
2? I have seven. I’ve got two TORG dice, a blue-white die which has been dubbed the ‘toothpaste’ dye, the die that came with the 5e Starter Set, and three pastel dice (green, pink, and yellow). 🙂 I’m set.
I’ve been struck with the desire to see Sam DM a session with the King and the mantlebearers… Future Christmas arc?
That would be pretty awesome. The Christmas arcs have been cool, but always so dramatic. Brett could use a truly good (not just silver-lined) year some time.
God that last panel kills me…
I don’t wanna reveal how many d20 currently reside in my house…the number is probably to high but I hate for them to get lonely when I am not home
Brett’s face in that last panel… priceless.
And I own far too many dice to name them all. That said, I DO have a VERY high-rolling d20 that I favor above most others. No, it’s not weighted; it loves me, is all.
I don’t name my d20’s, but I have named a few d10’s for… reasons.
Don’t judge me.
Storyteller reasons?
You take Dolly Partin’ for that.
Only one has a title not a name.
I give it to players that can’t roll anything but 1’s.
My players call it the “Big Blue dice of Shame”
I have 4-5 d20s and 3 giant d20s I only use when i’m DMing. I got them because there were no normal d20s in stock and decided that was a good use for em. Always roll them in a box though, they are heavy enough to worry people they’ll damage the table.
Am I the only one who had a sudden thought of a group of d20’s fighting to the death in order to be the one favored by their owner?
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!
I think over the decades I’ve managed to amass over 5 pounds of dice, and almost a third are d20s. I had enough dice to give my 12 most commonly used 4E characters their own color-coordinated set of at least two d20s and a full complement of damage dice, while leaving enough left over in the “pile of shame” dice to give people who forgot their dice a few, usually the unloved ones from the “horribly fluorescent” assortment.
That being said, there was one blue die I was famous for, which my players nicknamed “The Demon Die”, which rolled high and critted often…
If 4E stands for what I think it stands for I do hope you’ve heard the word of god and transfered to next.
Ehh, I’ve got 5E, I’m happy to play it if given the chance, but I’m not an edition fanatic, I’ll still play 4E, 3.5, Pathfinder, or even hop genres over to Shadowrun or WoD. A game’s a game.
As long as it’s not F.A.T.A.L. that is…*shudder*
I have Capricious Blue, which I purchased at my first A-Kon and has served me well in the years since. And Ivory Death to the PCs. The latter of which seems to know when I’m rolling for the players as when I am one I rarely roll above a nine and when I’m the GM it rarely drops below a fifteen. And then there’s Blackie. Blackie is an honest d20, it shows no favortism and appeared in my collection mysteriously one day.
I have a REALLY big, and ugly, one that make a freakish amount of noise when rolling so I use it only when playing big monsters or really important rolls. I usually call it «Le Monstre».
I have 3 d20s total, but I do have a favorite. It was my first, and it was actually inherited via a copy of an extremely obscure RPG that my aunt’s ex-husband helped create (it was a terrible divorce, so somehow I ended up with the copy of the RPG, with no explanation). The d20 is opaque and solid creamsicle orange, and unlike every d20 I’ve ever encountered since, it’s incredibly pointy. All of the dice from that set are incredibly pointy (the d4 has its points cut off, or it would probably cause serious injury) which sets it apart as a set, but the d20 is the best and I roll specifically 20s a lot with it. It only has single digits though, half of which are accompanied by a +, and also used to be painted green, so a 20 shows up as (“0+”) and rolling an 11 brings an interesting combination of fear and then relief when I catch the sight of the barely noticeable “+” just to the side of the 1. And 10s are often more of a disappointment than a 1, honestly. 🙁
I bought my second one as part of a set and it’s green (my favorite color). But it doesn’t treat me nearly as well as my first, so I rarely use it. And then I found the third one on the floor at a gaming session and everybody present said it wasn’t theirs, so I’ve had it ever since. I don’t know that I’ve actually ever used it, especially not with any other choice available.
And this is exactly why Jeanie is perfect for Brett….
I don’t name my d20s… for the same reason my dog was called dog and my cat is called cat.
Random question, but what inspired the clasp on Brett’s beard? Really think it’s a nice touch for our resident Santa.
Depictions on dwarves in fantasy mainly. He isn’t a dwarf but he has some of the tendencies. I am trying to work in little signature things for each of the cast members. Sam’s shirt and glasses. Charlie’s hat and shades. Amy’s hat and glasses. Things like that.
I have a five gallon plastic jar about 80 percent full of dice… I couldn’t possibly name all the d20s. I do have “Mr. Sparkles”, “Billy-Killer” (that die has a serious mad-on for one of my players), and “Sexy” (she’s TARDIS blue)… but that’s about it.
I don’t name my D20’s. Mostly cause I’m more of a D10er.
I don’t have a favorite die, however I do have several names for series that I have: The understatement set (black #’s on flat gray), Mr. Sparkles (a glitter set), Fire & Ice (A red/black set & a blue/white set that often work well together for percentages).
The only die I named is my ruby tetrahedron “Tenacious d4”
Oh and my chocolate d20’s–NOM nom nom
I have a steel D20 I named StarSteel, which I only ever used for drama rolls.
I named a d4 Penetrator, because it’s a caltrop-styled glass die.
I have a top-based d10 my players call the Wheel of Fate.
I think having an attachment to your dice is a good thing for us~
I had to retire my Playa-Slaya d20 last year as I could no longer read the numbers and to ink them back in would have just ruined the MoJo. 4 crits on the same Dwarf Fighter in one encounter! I miss that die…
I have a round d6 called the Sharp Die, which loves being a rapier and short sword, and I have some bright pink d6s called the Sneaky Dice, which are used for sneak attacks.
I can’t explain why, but this is one of my favorites you have done. Welcome back Brett!!! I wish I was clever enough to come up with such awesome names for my D20s… “big purple” is the only one that has a name- it was my first which I am happy to say I still have.
I have a golden sparkly d20 I call “Gary glitter” My friend bought it for me to mix with my usual red black dice. It rocks and rolls, hey, rocks and rolls.
omg i have not laugh that hard in months
I have one of my six named: Ogre, which is my massive 630mm (2.5″) tall (when settled) d20. It’s been banned at all my tables, on account of damaging the tables. I was originally going to name it Blingtron (because it’s a random weapon) but Ogre was suggested and stuck.
Topically, my brother went back to his old-school d20 lucky die (he just calls hit his lucky die, no other names) playing Pathfinder last night, as his replacement regular d20 just wasn’t cutting it any more. (He had “broken up” with his lucky die because it just wasn’t rolling very well.)
It’s white, with two sets of numbers written 0-9, where numbers 1-10 are represented by lighter yellow-ish paint in the numbers, and numbers 11-20 are represented by black paint in the numbers.
Now it may be that his lucky die just doesn’t roll well when he’s a PC. When he was a DM it helped him take parties apart.
I have seven d20s and they all actively hate me. Ask anyone I game with.
When does this strip update?
On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and typically in the morning but I have been spinning some plates lately. Sorry for the delay. Friday’s strip will be up later this afternoon.
I just have no idea how to name my d20s…
My favorite d20 is a yellow and tan colored one i named ‘Banana Split’
This is now my favourite Brett & Jeanie page. :3
Also, there is no cure for a fixation with Dolly Parton. The best thing you can do for it is to type 6922251 * 8 into a calculator, turn it upside down and smile.
I have my lucky d6s, I roll them when I roll for stats. They never let me down. And I have my lucky d20, the Orange Die of Death, that I only bring out for a particular group of Villains. It never rolls below a 16. Players are forbidden to touch it.
I generally have a seperate set of dice for each system, my oldest set being for DnD. Those are a family artifact, handed down to me from my father, and have never failed me…except the big d20. That thing hates me. The small one likes me though!
Oh you nailed Brett’s expression *perfectly* in that last panel.