My wife once played a Wizard with the Hermit background, and decided that the "secret she knew" was that she was a character in a game. She would periodically make references to older rule sets. Yes, THAC0 was name-dropped.

In my head, that goblin is speaking with Homestar Runner's voice.

Shadowrun has entered the chat.

Hey, @ahdok@ttrpg.network would you be alright with me sharing your comics to my local facebook group for gaming if I link back to your site? Our gaming community isn't huge, so I wouldn't expect it to be a ton of extra traffic, but they're really cute comics and I know some people will like them.

Say it with me, folks.

Don't point the gun at anything you're not ready to shoot at.

And...

Keep your finger outside the trigger guard until you're ready to shoot.

You would think a half-orc would 'get it' more readily... Apparently not.

Not to mention which game you're actually playing.

An actual exchange in a group my wife was in, back before we were even dating:

Player: "I wanna catch the stone from his sling! What should I roll for that?"

DM: "Damage."

Your drawing style is adorable.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this before but it makes me chuckle every time.

Excuse ME, my half-orc cleric is quite well educated and very bookish. One of the first purchases she made in Waterdeep with her own money was a stack of books.

The Industrious Rogue has entered the chat.

Put the "Master" in "Game Master!" ~Professor DM, Dungeon Craft

Colville suggests that starting in a tavern is a chance to show off the setting in a microcosm. Put folks there that represent various factions or attitudes prevalent in the setting. When I ran a Savage Pathfinder game and had my players start in a tavern, I had some incurious off-duty town guards, the dillettante son of the mayor. I couldn't figure out a way to work in the diabolist church (I set my game in Cheliax), but I did have a choice of several "first jobs" for them to take.

I am sure that goblin is not a little mayhem engine at all. The one in my group definitely is not. Nooooo, sir.

Yes! 😆

Wait... 😟

Nooo! 😭

Storytime.

The campaign is Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. After being shunned by her family, my insecure half-orc cleric has fallen into split-ownership of some property, that she and the party finally settled on a plan for and made into a high-class club we called 'the Rising Tide'. Her crush (a buttoned-down and illegitimate, but very attractive, tiefling scion of some local nobles) showed up for the grand opening, and during their conversation, he assured her that a letter would be pretty welcome.

So the next day, when she spied a story about him in the local yellow rag, she took it as an opportunity. In short, she wrote something like "Hey, we all know the quality of story this idiot prints: I don't believe it, and I doubt anybody else does, but if you want to keep people from speculating on your romantic status, I'd be happy to hang around with you and discourage any admirers with ill intentions. HINT HINT."

Fast forward to the END of that day, after she and the rest of the party have spent several hours crawling through literal rivers of sewage, fighting gross monsters, and not getting very far on the actual plot. When we got back home, there was a letter waiting for my cleric--a reply already! Faster than she had ever moved before she ran up to her room, squealing "He wrote me baaaaaaack!" And spent the rest of the night cleaning up, reading, and re-reading her letter.

Yes, it turned out well.

Konsi, Lucas Swiftriver, Icefall Investigator. Where did you learn your keen fashion sense?

Volo sure has a lot to answer for.

I have promised myself a rogue named "Duncan Disorderly" but have yet to actually play him.