Penny Arcade

Dog · February 2020

Penny Arcade - Comic - Freestyle

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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OctoberRaven · February 2020

RIP Steve. Died as he unlived. In a dungeon.

KalTorak · February 2020

Steve was a loose cannon! He knew the risks!

Tofystedeth · February 2020

I had a DM once who named 1 character ever in our campaign. Anybody else we came across, if they needed a name, ended up with something really generic, like Bob or Sally off the top of his head. We had like 3 NPCs with the same name once.

Anon von Zilch · February 2020

I feel attacked.

Daimar · February 2020

If this was a 4 panel strip the last panel would be Chris Perkins hitting Gabe with a folding chair.

Giant Sloar · February 2020

Alas poor Steve, I knew him well.

RatherDashing89 · February 2020

Anon von Zilch wrote: »

I feel attacked.

You think you feel attacked? What about poor Steve?

GONG-00 · February 2020

The last game Mike DMed had microtransactions. How much for this session's Season Pass?

Syzygy · February 2020

He merely adopted the wing-it GM style. I was born in it, MOLDED by it! I didn't see players who stayed on the rails until I was already a man, and by that time it was befuddling!

Rhesus Positive · February 2020

My GM will frequently get the rest of us to name NPCs and businesses that we come across

Lucascraft · February 2020

Time to adopt the Pokemon (anime) naming convention. Every single police officer is Officer Jenny, and every single PokeCenter worker is Nurse Joy.

Can adopt that for all sorts of things in tabletop gaming.

"You roll into a new town and enter the tavern. Tavern Keeper Bob greets you with enthusiasm."

"As you enter the tavern in the great capital city of the east, Tavern Keeper Bob looks up from polishing a glass and gives you a dirty glare."

Hevach · February 2020

Lucascraft wrote: »

Time to adopt the Pokemon (anime) naming convention. Every single police officer is Officer Jenny, and every single PokeCenter worker is Nurse Joy.

Can adopt that for all sorts of things in tabletop gaming.

"You roll into a new town and enter the tavern. Tavern Keeper Bob greets you with enthusiasm."

"As you enter the tavern in the great capital city of the east, Tavern Keeper Bob looks up from polishing a glass and gives you a dirty glare."

Party goes the wrong way? No need to refiddle the script every town is the same town.

Rhesus Positive · February 2020

I use the list of example names that tends to be in every character generation chapter

Adventures are oddly alphabetical when it comes to NPCs

MarcinMN · February 2020

I call in the Warrior-Jumper!

Hevach · February 2020

Lucascraft wrote: »

Time to adopt the Pokemon (anime) naming convention. Every single police officer is Officer Jenny, and every single PokeCenter worker is Nurse Joy.

Can adopt that for all sorts of things in tabletop gaming.

"You roll into a new town and enter the tavern. Tavern Keeper Bob greets you with enthusiasm."

"As you enter the tavern in the great capital city of the east, Tavern Keeper Bob looks up from polishing a glass and gives you a dirty glare."

I thought of an even better use of this than free remapping:

After a couple campaigns when your players are no longer amused by this, randomly have an identical town but the tavern owner is Bill. Never acknowledge differences but every new location becomes different in a new way, starting mundane and progressing to eldritch to nonsensical. You can do a whole unraveling reality thing like Knights of Pen and Paper did.

Difficulty: you need to turn a gimmick of lazy writing into the pinnacle of master writing.