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[Rath Darkblade]

Just for fun ...

"Gazebo Gallivanting"
(aka "The KODT Gang Do Christmas!"
to the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas")

B.A.: (Gamesmaster) As you stroll through the clearing, gazebo you do see...

DAVE: (Fighter) Plus-12 Hackmaster!

BOB: (Rogue) 'Leven bolts of slaying!

DAVE: Smash it to pieces!

B.A.: Guys, it's a GAZEBO!

DAVE: Man, it's a tough bastard!

BOB: I will Hide in Shadows!

B.A.: It's just flavour text here...

BRIAN: (Mage) Fire-balls online!!!
We have killed that thing -
What's that you said?!
Zero eee-pees?!?
I will flip the table right now!!!!!

THE END

[Tawmis]

Just for fun ...
"Gazebo Gallivanting"
(aka "The KODT Gang Do Christmas!"
to the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas")

I do love KODT!

These are back from around 1999 or 2000, where I used KODT art to tell my own story ... All of these are VERY MUCH based on our actual D&D games.

Part 1: http://neverendingnights.com/archives/950
Part 2: http://neverendingnights.com/archives/955
Part 3: http://neverendingnights.com/archives/961
Part 4: http://neverendingnights.com/archives/964
Part 5: http://neverendingnights.com/archives/975
Part 6: http://neverendingnights.com/archives/982
Part 7: http://neverendingnights.com/archives/988
Part 8: http://neverendingnights.com/archives/991
Part 9: http://neverendingnights.com/archives/997
Part 10: http://neverendingnights.com/archives/1000
Part 11: http://neverendingnights.com/archives/1007
Part 12: http://neverendingnights.com/archives/1014

[Rath Darkblade]

So, part 1 ... "I'm gonna kill the mage". "Me too." This is/was a real player, I take it? Little tip, Chris: never hurt the rest of your party.

Part 2 ... "Yeah, yo! We can take down Orcus Compton-style!" Um, what?! Did someone actually say that?

Um, again ... that guy at the end of the table keeps using "street-talk". "Word from the street, know what I'm saying? Word!" Er. I thought only people on TV spoke like that.

Was Chad/Brian really sleeping the whole time? Doesn't sound like a good player to me. But what do I know?

Part 3 ... oh dear. A shopping mall in the wizard's tower. That won't end well. And yes, people in D&D really make their own clothes. Weaving, spinning, etc.

Part 4 ... Chad stops snoring. What was wrong with Chad? I thought that a D&D session was for - y'know - playing D&D, not sleeping.

Part 9 (sorry - I've no idea about Star Wars) ... Adam the fearsome DM? Thanks, way to give away your secrets, Adam. "Priest good, fire bad!" "What?!"

"Cogg smash! Axe good, wall bad!" Uhm, half-orcs don't talk like that.

Part 10 ... oh dear. Is that Cogg's catchphrase now? "Axe good, [something else] bad"?

Part 11 ... Oh dear (again). "Good is good ... and bad is bad ... and ... what was Cogg saying?"

By the way, what's with that lady next to "Cogg"? She seems, er ... far too preoccupied with sex and double-entendres. (Reminds me of Nawar from Quest for Glory, only more so).

Part 12 ... (yay!) Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I agree. What the &%*@ is going on here? *shrug*

[Tawmis]

So, part 1 ... "I'm gonna kill the mage". "Me too." This is/was a real player, I take it? Little tip, Chris: never hurt the rest of your party.

Yes. He was what you would call your A-Typical "Power Gamer."

Part 2 ... "Yeah, yo! We can take down Orcus Compton-style!" Um, what?! Did someone actually say that?
Um, again ... that guy at the end of the table keeps using "street-talk". "Word from the street, know what I'm saying? Word!" Er. I thought only people on TV spoke like that.

That's Adam. We used to joke all the time. There's even a video where we did a parody of "The Real World" and called it "The Real Bored" and he played a "gangsta" in that too, talking the same way.
It was all out of character, but just for the sake of being silly.
Adam is the one who played Grayson the Fighter in Neverending Nights.

Was Chad/Brian really sleeping the whole time? Doesn't sound like a good player to me. But what do I know?

We used to joke that Chad had narcolyepsy. He's the same guy who played Alan the Astounding in Neverending Nights.

Part 3 ... oh dear. A shopping mall in the wizard's tower. That won't end well. And yes, people in D&D really make their own clothes. Weaving, spinning, etc.

The women loved driving Paul (the DM) crazy every time we hit a town to go shopping.

Part 9 (sorry - I've no idea about Star Wars) ... Adam the fearsome DM? Thanks, way to give away your secrets, Adam. "Priest good, fire bad!" "What?!"
"Cogg smash! Axe good, wall bad!" Uhm, half-orcs don't talk like that.
Part 10 ... oh dear. Is that Cogg's catchphrase now? "Axe good, [something else] bad"?
Part 11 ... Oh dear (again). "Good is good ... and bad is bad ... and ... what was Cogg saying?"

Dated reference (Priest good, fire bad) - from the Metallica/Napster cartoon.

By the way, what's with that lady next to "Cogg"? She seems, er ... far too preoccupied with sex and double-entendres. (Reminds me of Nawar from Quest for Glory, only more so).

Paul's (then) wife. They were trying to get pregnant at the time.

Part 12 ... (yay!) Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I agree. What the &%*@ is going on here? *shrug*

[Tawmis]

I've come up with an idea where I read my D&D adventure notes like a story, in hopes of maybe snagging more patreons... - and talking about what I did during each session as a DM and such...

Created a new youtube channel for it, because I don't have enough things I am trying to do creatively at once.......


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvoNQb ... spetnbdpVw


If folks wanted to subscribe. No content there yet - that will be in the upcoming weeks.

[Tawmis]

For the "Off Week Game" (where there's a lot of strong RP, the notes are written more "story" format rather than bulleted notes) -

Session 10 Notes for the **Servants of the Wizard** Off Week Game... where the party scales **Glacier Falls** with some difficulty (ahem, Galiena) and meet **Ossis**, the mad Satyr.
http://tawmis.com/kneurth/adventure-not ... -wizard-10

[Tawmis]

Was Chad/Brian really sleeping the whole time? Doesn't sound like a good player to me. But what do I know?

We used to joke that Chad had narcolyepsy. He's the same guy who played Alan the Astounding in Neverending Nights.

I knew I'd uploaded the video before...
So Adam, who we all used to joke was gay (but he's not really, just how he'd act sometimes...)
And even in that video, we make fun of Chad always falling asleep.

[Rath Darkblade]

Part 3 ... oh dear. A shopping mall in the wizard's tower. That won't end well. And yes, people in D&D really make their own clothes. Weaving, spinning, etc.

The women loved driving Paul (the DM) crazy every time we hit a town to go shopping.

Sounds interesting! What sort of thing would they go shopping for? Armour, weapons, food, adventure implements (e.g. rope, caltrops, 10-foot pole) etc.? Or ... other things?

Female Adventurer: Does this new armour make me look fat?

Male Adventurer: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! *runs away*

Female Adventurer: Heh. Screams and runs away. Not bad. Most males have much worse self-preservation techniques.

Part 9 (sorry - I've no idea about Star Wars) ... Adam the fearsome DM? Thanks, way to give away your secrets, Adam. "Priest good, fire bad!" "What?!"
"Cogg smash! Axe good, wall bad!" Uhm, half-orcs don't talk like that.
Part 10 ... oh dear. Is that Cogg's catchphrase now? "Axe good, [something else] bad"?
Part 11 ... Oh dear (again). "Good is good ... and bad is bad ... and ... what was Cogg saying?"

Dated reference (Priest good, fire bad) - from the Metallica/Napster cartoon.

Not that dated. I remember the Metallica vs. Napster kerfuffle, but then, I'm ancient.

Rath OLD! Aging BAD! Caffeine GOOD!

[Tawmis]

My normal Tuesday game session I DM for... two players couldn't make it so I didn't push the story forward to much and came up with a little "side quest/event"...

And it was a lot of fun and very lethal. 51 freaking sessions with this group. I love it.

http://tawmis.com/kneurth/adventure-not ... nturers-51

[Rath Darkblade]

Some gorgeous D&D sphinx illustrations ...

Answer my riddle, little toy!

Chillin'

[Tawmis]

Some gorgeous D&D sphinx illustrations ...

Answer my riddle, little toy!

Chillin'

Great art.

[Rath Darkblade]

Just wondering: how big are sphinxes in comparison to humans/humanoids? I had a look at the Monster Manual, but it doesn't say. Is there a way to measure (for instance) how tall or wide they usually are? Are they (say) as big as a house? As tall as the ceiling in a cave? As tall as a 100-year-old tree in the forest?

I'm only asking this so I know roughly how to depict mine. Can she blot out the sun in the forest? Can her head reach the ceiling in her cave? etc.

[Tawmis]

Just wondering: how big are sphinxes in comparison to humans/humanoids? I had a look at the Monster Manual, but it doesn't say. Is there a way to measure (for instance) how tall or wide they usually are? Are they (say) as big as a house? As tall as the ceiling in a cave? As tall as a 100-year-old tree in the forest?
I'm only asking this so I know roughly how to depict mine. Can she blot out the sun in the forest? Can her head reach the ceiling in her cave? etc.

You can make'em whatever size; but for example, the gynosphinx is considered a Large monstrosity and a D&D table is -

Size..................Space...........................Examples
Tiny................. 2½ by 2½ ft. .................Imp, Sprite
Small................5 by 5 ft. .....................Giant Rat, Goblin
Medium.............5 by 5 ft. ......................Orc, Werewolf
Large..............10 by 10 ft. ....................Hippogriff, Ogre
Huge..............15 by 15 ft. ....................Fire Giant, Treant
Gargantuan .....20 by 20 ft. or larger ........Kraken, Purple Worm

[Rath Darkblade]

OK. So (say) a Tarrasque would be Gargantuan, I take it? What about full-grown Dragons - are they Huge or Gargantuan?

[Tawmis]

OK. So (say) a Tarrasque would be Gargantuan, I take it? What about full-grown Dragons - are they Huge or Gargantuan?

Tarrasque - Gargantuan monstrosity (titan)

And Dragons... depends on their age.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/gold-dragon-wyrmling - Medium
https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/young-gold-dragon - Large
https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/adult-gold-dragon - Huge
https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/ancient-gold-dragon - Gargantuan