The competition (if you can call it that) has arrived...
Nerd By Northwest #295 – “The Other Guys”
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TOLD you I wasn't gonna let go of Lady Karen the woke paladin or Dann Zando the bard that easily. 😁
We've already introduced those two previously... but as for the rest of the group, they're all completely new. Aran the high elf conjurer is the fantasy equivalent of the archetypical academic snob; the kind of person that believes university education & degrees are the one true indicator of intelligence and measure of rank. This isn't just someone who holds pride in their higher education, but rather one who uses it as an excuse to shut down any inconvenient or contrary opinion from one of the 'uneducated masses'. Maybe add a dash of 'smarmy cable news pundit' in for good measure, just to make him extra obnoxious.
Karth Ironfist the dwarven cleric of the Forge is inspired by my old jobs with American defense contractors. Take a useful & necessary service, then strip away any moral or societal considerations all in the name of profit. So if you wonder why I left a good-paying engineering career to mess with cryptocurrency and webcomics with barf jokes, well now you know...
Wayen Mizzrym the drow half-elf monk (or is it half-drow-elf monk?) is actually my own character (with a minor name alteration) in our current 'Out of the Abyss' adventure in the Underdark. While this strip doesn't say it straight out, he follows the "drunken master" style of monk martial arts, relying on swaying movements, unpredictability, and misdirection to conquer his foes. Well that, and more than a bit of beer & liquor to numb the pain when someone gets in a lucky punch to the face...
And lastly, yet again the bard character class gets no respect. Which might seem strange given that Dan is actually running the game... but hey, there are some immutable rules of the universe not even a dungeon master can change! 😉
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