Shadow Dragon
Kai, not to be outdone by his sister, has his own explosive plans.
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There’s a really cool battle plan
as Kai sneaks across the room;
he’s going to get to that cart
and make some things go BOOM!
Dragon fire is a usual tactic
explosions seem to be their thing
when you’re around this pair,
it’s no phone you’ll hear ring.
Rex lends one a tender whallop,
being kind with his every clout;
the Paladin’s the darkest here
of that there’s now no doubt.
Who wants to bet that the dragons have one epic roll of their D20 each?
I’m betting that Kai’s next roll ends up a 1.
Have to resort to Ye Olde Flint & Steel to get things started? 🙂
Another 20 made the most sense here, seeing as that wood beam got obliterated :p
Dragon be nimble, dragon be quick, dragon don’t give poison a lick… that last one was hard….
In mountains deep and dark and cold, a dragon searches caverns old,
to make his fortune with lost gold,
in a team of adventurers bold.
A wolf in steel,
a snake in scales,
will join the dragons in great tales,
of derring do and epic fails,
while the force of good prevails!
(Thanks to a day of thinking, I could come up with this)
Is this a modified “Under the Misty Mountains” song from the Hobbit? Either way it I think it’s awesome.
Nope, although it was similar to some rhymes that I was thinking of when I watched the movie. It sure beats the teeth out of the crappy poem I came up with at first.
Third verse:
A canine lord,
with hair of green,
will guide the party’s acts unseen,
while many monsters stand between
the party and the hoard.
When dragons without wings or flight
get into trouble they must fight
with every bit of hybrid might
to once more see the sun’s light
aspiring song writer here ^^
Welsh Rat has some competition!
Panel 1: “Anyone /have/ any ideas?”
To elaborate to Robin: You are technically correct in that “anyone” falls under the same category as “everybody” being a singular 3rd person word and should use “has”. The word choice here, however, triggers one of those exceptions to the rules English is well known for. I’m too rusty to remember which specific exception is at play here but it has something to do with the sentence being a question.
If you remove the interrogative, the grammar rule plays out as it should: “If anyone has any ideas about what to do, speak up.”
These “zombies” aren’t very threatening for the moment . Even it seems that the white vixen finds funny what happens to the “fwomped” guy ^_^”
Good fifth panel , with Kai moving : very well represented . But now he has to run before to get the wagon on his head 😉
The question is what a gun powder barrel does in this era ? 0_o
I agree with Panther on panel five.
About the gunpowder: What era do you think it is? While not wide spread, gunpower and guns have existed in Europe since 14th century, i think.
As Cliff says it below , gunpowder appears in Occident during the XIII era
But it seems the team is in the heroic times of barbarians ages where magic was commonly used , oppositely with the XIII where it had disappeared ^_^”
What about them meeting Conan ? XD
Well, zombies are kinda slow, so they only start to become threatening after a while :p
I think gunpowder could exist in this time and universe. It’s a fantasy setting for a roleplaying game after all. ^^
But is it safe to mix “Demolition girl” and a gunpowder in the same room ? ^_^”
Let’s hope Kai get’s another good roll to evade the falling wagon.
Explosions are not the best idea in enclosed spaces, they tend to hit everyone.
But here’s my prediction what might happen:
1. Put wagon on rails and board it.
2. Cast fireball on gunpowder.
3. Ride deeper into mine with explosion in the parties back.
I don’t think Kai stayed still long enough to be hit by the falling mine cart. Looks like: approach-strike-leave all in one smooth motion, to me! Yay!
I love panel 3; especially, the expression on the blue-haired zombie girl at the other zombie with Rex’s “fwomp” sound effect is funny.
Good scenario’s, it’s going to be a little bit different though :p
Gunpowder made it’s way to Europe during the mideval era ( sometime during the 13th century is as close as I could pin down) I’d say it makes sense here. Granted it wasn’t normally used for mining.
PS. What level are they? Either they started at a higher level of Catacombs & Drakes gives you way more to work with at 1
I imagine we’re not going to see many hard numbers throughout this. Robin is probably making up the game rules on the fly and not giving any hard numbers for hit points and skill checks, etc. allows him to keep himself from accidentally writing himself into a corner.
It was just an attempt at z joke, I started slas a rougue on my first campaign and I wish I could’ve done shadow step that early, then I might not have been chewed on by guard dogs
Max level of course xD
It’s loosly based on real D&D so I didn’t really take all those things into account. Let Kai have a shadowstep :p
Wow; two 20 rolls in the same session – does that happen often?
I once saw a guy roll 13 boxcars (12) with honest dice (2D6). Calculate the odds, I think they are a quintillion to one.
1 in 400 chance (20^2). Depending on play style, you can easily end up rolling hundreds of times in a play session (and thousands throughout a campaign).
I guess it could happen :p
Lol I love using shadow step it’s a good ability
I like the idea of the skill. Being able to move through the shadows sounds cool 😀
As the old saying goes, you can solve any problem with a keg of gunpowder.
When in doubt, C4. — Jamie Hyneman.
Never heard the saying before, but I need to remember it xD
“There aren’t many troubles that a man can’t fix,
with ninety-nine dollars and a thirty-ought-six!”
Found this in an outdoors magazine -many- years ago. 🙂
See no such thing as to much explosives no matter what form they take.
Say it with me. Jamie wants BIG BOOM! — Adam Savage
They always make things better! For who, that’s another question :p
What a classic, i mean who didnt shoot a barrel of gunpower in a first person shooter to blow up all the enemys because i did and it was fun
Yeah, and they’re always placed in such strategic locations xD
Shadow step for Kai. Well chosen. Now let’s make sure he can reverse it in time to get back to that barrier. I don’t think those dragon scales get factored into his in-game damage resistance. Not unless Benji wanted Kai and Kaya to be super armored up right off the bat. Keep up the good work, Robin! I look forwards to seeing where THIS roll takes us. And remember, stay awesome!
He could stay in the shadows to evade the damage :p
Now, about that barrier… 😉
The funny part about this is that I know some players that would do something like this.
That’s great, must be fun to play with them xD
It was, I haven’t played with anyone since a few sessions in college, and that was a few years ago.
Chekhovs barrel of gunpowder. If it’s included in the scenery, it will go off at some point.
True, they couldn’t leave it alone :p
A sudden question , while looking closely at this strip : we all know that Rex is a plantigrade (able to wear shoes as seen in the BB challenge)
But the blue haired vixen is digitigrade . Why such a difference ?
Different degrees of hybridization I assume, Benji seems less canid than rex and Chloe could pass for a full human with some makeup and a floor length skirt, some people get hit with the hybrid stick more than others
There are different levels of hybrids, some have more animal in them than others. It’s pretty randomly decided. (in a design sense, I design until I have something that I’m happy with :p) The blue haired vixen is also a cameo character, and her design fitted very well into the universe so I kept it with digitigrade paws.
Hmmmm ……..
So ! What about a “real” dragon with wings and long neck ? ^_^”
Panel 2: “Happy Zombie in a Crowd” (at right). 🙂
He’s enjoying himself :p
See, this is when “needlessly reckless and overkill, probably might get us all killed” is indicated. It’s that situation where if you do something, you might get killed, but if you don’t, you WILL get killed.
That’s the difference between using an explosive in a confined space, risking a cave-in, and possibly killing the party vs. a zombie attack with a certainty of killing the party…
…and nuking a bunch of rats with a certainty of collateral damage.
I like how you worded it 🙂
90% chances to be killed VS 100% …….. Hard decision
Let’s see with Kaya , what she thinks about ? ^_^”
With regards the ‘other’ adventure, I’m actually feeling bad… for the Plushy. Aaaargh!
Don’t worry, it’s fine, it didn’t get abandoned :p
have you thought of having some of you friends to help make these comics?
but they might be able you help you keep up with the questions in your ask the dragon thing.
im only guessing your doing this by yourself.
I have thought about getting help, but I’m not comfortable giving the artistic process to other people for Twin Dragons, even for the asks. Guest art might be an option, but I can’t rely on that every time.
That said, I’m thinking of a solution for the asks that might be more doable for me to commit to. I also want to bring Gamer Dragons back, but I’ll have to see what’s possible.
can i ask you to make a pic for somone els i just think i funny i copyed this line from his story.
Fenek ended up flopping lazily on my head, making me look absolutely ridiculous, but he refused to move, so I was stuck with a dragon hat.
that would make a awesome and funny pic!
here is his profile on devent art.
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