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Nice day for fishing, ain't it? Heheh!
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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I do not get this comic at all…
In DnD, there are many ways of approaching character creation. You can make a serious character with a deep background which influences the story and play style... Or you can completely ignore all that and just make a goofy little guy. You will usually get some mixture of both in most DnD groups.
So the first two characters are discussing their serious background and their motivations and then the other two are just like "I am a fancy lil frog nobel." and "I'm a farmer!"
I play a ton of DnD and pathfinder. I just didn’t get the comic. Especially about the stillborn child, which wouldn’t be stillborn if it was saved. And the final two panels didn’t make sense to me at all so thanks for explaining that. I didn’t get 3 of the 4 panels.
How are you struggling with the saved stillborn logic?
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Her kid was born dead.
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Then it was given life by her god.
Especially about the stillborn child, which wouldn’t be stillborn if it was saved.
Which is about as logical as 80% of character backgrounds from players trying to be edgy.
I always liked the messed up backstories, all you gotta do is make an edgey one but remove the part where you get some great destiny or power. My god gave me this task, I have no idea why and it sucks, I miss my family.
True. It can be cool. Character backgrounds don't even have to make a ton of sense as long as everyone playing is fine to just roll with it and have fun.
An edgy background also often lends itself to motivate a character to go adventuring with a loose group of weirdos.
If you try to squeeze in your main character issues though, that's rarely welcomed.
I think its saying that the two silly characters are breaking the fourth wall?
breaking the fourth wall
I think this has to be it-- good call
You're not the only one
My most iconic character (in the shared imaginations of my friends) is my sorceress pirate gal from a Final-Fantasy style campaign.
Our party included:
- A tragic Samurai looking to avenge his father who got war-crimed.
- A rogue who had their name stolen and is basically a blob of pure self-hatred.
- A warrior monk looking to develop her strengths so she can protect the weak
- A former slave who spent hundreds of years in slavery and wants to punish the slavers.
- A knight who lost all his memories except the traumatic memory that resulted in all the other lost memories.
........ And then there was my gal. A magic college professor who decided "**** it, I'm tired of being boring. I'm gonna go and be a sky pirate, and I want to die an epic death". She is the team mom.
I read them as a couple, though now I'm not sure the artist intended that way
Same. It has that resemblance to the classic American Gothic painting.
I very badly want to know the frog’s name.
Isn't that painting of a farmer and his daughter, not a farmer and his wife, though?
I don't know either, but having preexisting relationships is absolutely incredible for roleplay.
A certified session 0 moment :3.. the lighter side will probably end up adding something deeper to their characters if that's the direction the world will be setting them to
is very important.