Shattered Honor – Part Eleven
Chapter: Season Ten
Graph paper adventures. This stroll down my personal memory lane is great and I hope that you enjoy it too.
Update. I was going to quietly let this bit go by but (and I should have expected this, I think) now I am just going to say it: I know how the light spell works. I even typed it out the description in panel 5. There is a reason he got away with 3 coins. Just keep reading and, respectfully, trust me to know what I am doing.
Is that meant to be “Anabelle *shudders* with rage”?
I grew up on, if not deathtrap adventures per se, this kind of old-school play. (Started playing around 8 years old.)
So this is gonna be fun!
Noticed the same thing, re: Shutter/Shudder.
Also, started with the same kind of play … at aroun the same age. 😀
It was indeed a typo! Thank you!
I probably missed something because I’m a doof, but is there a quick refresher/primer on which character is played by which player? I’m usually not too fussed about it, but because of Jeanie’s comment to Trevor, I realized I’ve lost track of who’s who and don’t know which character is missing.
You mean Charlie. Trevor is playing Annabelle the angry blonde, Sam is Calvis with the mullet, Jeanie is Burg the big thug, and Carlos is Gul’ren the mage. Charlie’s old character Deyla, Annabelle’s wife, was taken by the Forge Hand or whatever it was called and his new character hasn’t been introduced yet.
Ah, yes, you’re right. I did mean Charlie. Can’t even get the characters right in front of me straight…
But I appreciate the breakdown!
From what I can gather:
– Sam: Calvis Dwellow
– Jeannie: Burg Dwellow (taking over from Brett)
– Trevor: Annabelle Cero
– Carlos: Gul’ren
– Charlie: â‡
Sam – Calvis Dwellow, husband of Dwayla the Magnificent Bastard of the story, and “Favored Coin” (a cleric)
Jeannie – I think she took over Brett’s character Burg Dwellow, Calvis’ brother …?
Carlos – Gul’Ren, the Mage-Bound
Trevor – Annabelle the (blonde) Rogue, whose sister (Charlie’s old character Dayla) took one for the team last game.
Charlie …. hasn’t made his grand entrance, yet.
Deyla was Annabelle’s wife, not sibling. https://d20monkey.com/comic/karthun-characters-deyla-and-annabelle/
I sit corrected. 🙂
@Landwalker Are You caught up with LFG currently?
Not even remotely. Haven’t read it in years, to be honest.
there is no plot it’s all sad lil jokes, and the dead horse is a skeleton of broken bones it’s been abused so much.
Someday they will actually realize they lost their audience years ago.
The DM rules-lawyer in me wants to point out the line in the spell description that says, “The spell ends if you cast it again…” Seems like he should only be able to make one coin shine at a time; each time he casts it, the previous coin should stop glowing.
The story-telling DM in me says “Let it ride; rule of cool trumps written text”.
As a GM, I’d call “the small handful of coins” one object, at least briefly, so that this would work. At the end of the round, all but one coin’s light would flicker and go out (the one int he middle would stay lit). Because, yeah, “rule of cool” … and it’s a damned fine bit of creative thinking, too.
But is a stack of coins one object or multiple?
A bit like a pen should be counted as one object even though it consists of multiple parts that could then be taken apart as the spell doesn’t end if the object gets broken.
Heh, came down here to make a comment just like that. But yeah, a lot of groups would let a little thing like that slide as long as the character didn’t go crazy abusing it like lighting up every object in an entire castle or something.
Or, you know, read the text below the cartoon and realize we’ll get the explanation later.
We’ve already seen that there are feats in play that let these folks play with their spells and abilities in non-RAW ways.
FWIW, I think Pax’s style ruling is excellent. I might add that the coins all have half radius of light (and only ever dim) as they spread out (becoming multiple objects instead of one), then settle in at the end of the round on a central coin, with regular effect.
Sportsball?
*cue sporty intro music*
CHAD: “Hello, dungeon fans! Welcome to beautiful Honor’s Hold. I’m Chad Nutley here with Sprunk McCrotch for another round of old-school crawl action on D&DSPN. Sprunk, it looks like the party has found themselves staring down the barrel of a traditional deathtrap, something they haven’t had to contend with yet this campaign.”
SPRUNK: “That’s right, Chad. Now, on paper this group can bring the thump like few others that we’ve covered this year. However, surviving this next game is going to require a high level of coordination and grit. The bi-directional vendetta between the party and Dwayla added into this mix means this is gonna be a charged, tense session. The X-Factors as we start the crawl are gonna be Charlie, whose character is yet to be introduced, and Annabelle. There is not much on Karthun that will slake her thirst for vengeance, and that may yet prove to be a detriment if she can’t keep her head in the game.”
CHAD: “It’ll be a riveting crawl for sure, Sprunk, both from here in the booth and for the viewers at home. Don’t touch that dial, folks! We’ll be back with the Shattered Honor dungeon crawl after these brief messages…”
*cue ad for Gold Bond Medicated Dice…*
Holy Crap! That’s genius. (Slow Clap)
That. Was. Marvellous!
If someone ever makes a D20 Monkey animated series, this needs to be in it. DVD extra at the very least, if not main feature material! Got to be! 😀
Dungeon crawl! Dungeon Crawl! Squeeeee!
I’m currently on an old-school nostalgia trip, too: my DM is running our group through Tales from the Yawning Portal. Even though I’m old enough to have played Tomb of Horrors in its first printing (my Thief didn’t even make it through the first corridor!), I’ve never done most of the dungeons in that book. I will admit to being a little freaked out, because dungeons in ‘history back’ were kinda randomly deadly. “Rocks fall—everyone dies,†is a trope for a reason.
Also, I spotted an error: when Calvis cast Light on the second coin, the first coin should have gone dark (and so on). I mean—the spell description is right there in the comic. I suspect, dear Brian, that error did not escape your notice, and is in fact not a bug but a feature. It could indicate that Brett isn’t an old hand at DM-ing 5e (or anything, for that matter), or that the group is accustomed to using Rule Zero: ‘Don’t let the rules get in the way of the fun.’
And finally, a sales pitch. I’m a patron, and I encourage everyone else who cares about this comic enough to post a comment to be a patron, too. (Yeah, yeah—I’m a little late for the pledge drive. I’ll tell you all about my problem with procrastination, someday.)
“(Yeah, yeah—I’m a little late for the pledge drive. I’ll tell you all about my problem with procrastination, someday.)”
Comedy gold. Love it.
Charlie’s nonchalance, here. Something’s up.
So Charlie doesn’t have a character yet, something tells me he is going to get to play Tiberius after he realizes that he is stuck in the dungeon because Dwayla doesn’t want any loose ends.
… or maybe his _previous_ character is going to make an appearance … 🙂
Wow! She is ready to becoming a Sith, Barbarian and a Red Lantern at the same time!!!
This is especially relevant to me because last session of my group’s adventure, one of the party got kilt after splitting off for RP reasons and finding the boss that was of an encounter level such as to require the rest of the party.
Lessons learned, RP is nice but DON’T SPLIT THE PARTY. Maybe that player’s next character will be more effective than a 5e ranger…
So, Gaming Paper?
Honestly I just figured the light spell was hand waved by the group as being fine since what is a few extra light sources really going to hurt
How dare you malign the underdark races with your callous disregard of their sensitivity to light and what throwing magical lights into their environment might do to their darkness calibrated vision systems! 😛
Fair but alternatively it likely wouldn’t be a strong enough light to properly hurt their eyes but definitely enough to draw potential underdark predators and adversaries
Hey yeah, where is Charlie’s Character? Did Brett forget that he needed to intro a new one?
hey man,
For these in character arcs a who’s who on the side/bottom of every page with the player and respective character would actually be awesome. for inspiration look at the who’s who on the grrlpower comic for example. Would make these a lot more readable.
Other than that; can’t wait to see how this plays out.
This has a bit of a Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson feel to it with the coins…