Under the Influence
PSA: Friends do not let friends drunk DM.
Today, the recent winner of the Obsidian Portal caption contest takes center stage as I finish up a few last minute deadlines and begin to rebuild my buffer for GenCon.
Once I complete the two pressing obligations on my plate (finishing up on Thursday) normal comics resume on Friday. It’s been a little sketchy update-wise and I imagine some folks are annoyed but believe me when I say this is not the norm. I just fell into a perfect storm of pressing freelance work while juggling a day job and d20monkey. Once this settles down, things shall return to normal.
Thank you for your patience and understanding. Believe me, I want to get back to the Brett’s a virgin arc very badly. I have thiiiiings planned.
– Brian
What about drunken players? They like to burn down my citys and kill npcs whom have hours of quests attached to them. Though the sober ones seem to do that too…
I’ve seen that. And one of my old DM buddies told me about the time they had a character (possibly drunk, or just plain ornery) killing random npcs right and left….so he introduced a beggar, who of course, said character attacked…and bounced off of, as the beggar revealed himself to actually be a Bronze Dragon. Needless to say, the problem was…quickly solved.
This makes me glad we’ve never had alcohol at the gaming table.
Concerning your updates being “off” I just wanted to let you know that you have a fan who gets all sorts of excited when he sees a new comic, no matter how long I’ve waited. You, sir, are brilliant and should not feel compelled to apologize for non-regular updates. This is your comic that you so graciously share with us. Your freelance and day job work pay your bills and put food on your floor – er, in mouth. We understand those come first. Now bring on the dick jokes!
That is the most frightening thing I have ever seen.
I’m a better DM when I’m drunk… I think…
Hmm, now I don’t remember.
We tried bringing wine to a game. Everyone handled it pretty well…. except the DM. It was a very interesting exploration of Castle Ravenloft. “There’s ANOTHER staircase? That makes four in this room alone!” Later, it turned out that most of the places we’d been never existed.
I learned the lesson not to drink and DM when the following game I learned the party managed to get me to allow absurd items and rules into the game.