There are too many inside jokes to explain, but referenced games include: Bang!, Settlers of Catan, Curses!, Dread Pirate, and various incarnations of Flux.
What happens when you take a group of tipsy geeks at New Year's and give them a stack of board games? This.
There are too many inside jokes to explain, but referenced games include: Bang!, Settlers of Catan, Curses!, Dread Pirate, and various incarnations of Flux.
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My husband was controlling an NPC in my uncle's D&D campaign, set in a Russian folktale landscape. Every time the players started to coordinate a battle strategy, one of them would Leeroy Jenkins the plan. Simon was the main culprit that session.
What geeky alphabet would be complete without a Dungeons & Dragons reference?
D&D continued: I was playing a peace-loving warforged, on a quest to find its true name. Unfortunately, our party's Githyanki had an "attack first, maybe ask questions later if she is still bored" approach to diplomacy. It certainly kept things interesting. Also, explosive runes seems to be a Githyanki racial trait in our game.
Our D&D party acquired a giant riding sheep named Priscilla. She is battle-trained and good for lugging around our party loot, but we had to convince at least one of our colleagues that she is more useful to us alive than as dinner. (I'm looking at you, Githyanki)
Wrapping up the D&D posts we have Stomp:
Stomp is another space robot our party adopted. His defining feature was being able to jump off of cliffs and not take any falling damage, so El Sueco decided that riding on Stomp's shoulders was the new faster, safer(?) way to descend from perilously high mountain ledges. Yee-haw! "DM, we found this space robot in a tree, can we keep him?"
"No. He has head pigeons." "Pleeeeeeeease?" "Fine, but you are feeding him and taking him for walks." Okay, that's not actually what happened. It went more like "AHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh!" as we were being attacked by enemies in said trees, and then "Why doesn't this robot doooooo anything?" when we saw Popper. Today we have El Sueco, the battle-baker, who was my character in the D&D campaign. This was a silly concept that my husband let me get away with because he found it amusing.
El Sueco is a gnome chef who has an enchanted mixing bowl that lets him either prepare and fling lethal baked goods at his enemies, or prepare healing desserts for his party. (We used the stats for potions, but changed the names and descriptions to fit the theme; so, for instance, we called a potion of cold damage a "baked Alaska," and a cure potion an "angel food cake.") The character's name is derived from the Spanish word for "Swede" - a tip of the hat to the Swedish chef, and a play on El Greco. His armor is made from sewn-together oven mitts, and his outfit is decorated in cupcakes. About halfway through the campaign he befriended and adopted Sous Chef, the space robot. Continuing with our D&D lineup we have Fendrav, the burly lumberjack who is super-shy and afraid of everything.
Up next is a series of notes depicting characters from a one-shot D&D campaign my husband ran (v3.5 for those of you to which that matters).
First we have Meep, the kobald ranger/scout whose personal philosophy is "to eat a thing is to know a thing." He wields battle-tongs in order to grab samples of new creatures to study (via eating). Here we see him attempting to "study" a bronze dragon. This ended about as well as you would imagine. |
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