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Published: 2012-06-22 11:13:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 2815; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 13
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Just a little scene from out D&D game.My character, Lucy the drow paladin, was talking to some evil drow prisoners, she was trying to explain that she wouldn't kill prisoners, but she wanted to insinuate that she would be on her guard when dealing with them.
Unfortunately, even though drow speak elven (in 4e), it is only natural that thousands of years of separation form other fey would make the language develop into very separate dialects, where some words would be different and some words not exist at all on both sides.
Luckily Lucy has her boyfriend to explain about drow culture, crushing her every positive perception one small segment at the time.
You might notice that the male drow are way too big and muscly to be elves of any kind, after all drow males tend to be shorter then their female counterparts. However these drow are or were part of the "shock-troops" of Lolth's temple, they were especially chosen and bred like dogs to be big and nasty.
Made from scratch in Photoshop, no particular references used
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No I didn't even know that, I though it would be logical that she had a human name seeing as she was raised by humans, I just found the cutest name I could think of 
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Pfff, that's awesome! Ahh, and that's why she doesn't know Drow. Makes sense! (I only jumped in at this comic, lol)
Mine I made because there's another Paladin in our party who's currently taking a fall-of-evil right now and mine- my Lucy- is this goody-two-shoes, innocent-and-sweet 16-year-old girl. Hilarity ensues.
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Oh, it's not an ongoing comic or anything, I just like to illustrate funny things that happens in the campaign from one time to another.
I see, I suppose that will be a fun experience, having a (lawful?) good paladin together with an evil paladin. 16 eh? Young for a paladin, what god does she serve ?
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Sounds like fun! I wish I had time to do some of my campaign, but sooo much goes on every session!
Aw, it's tons of fun. She has this whole hero-worship thing about him while he's gleefully murdering innocent lady and children goblins, so the duality has been... interesting to say the least.
Hah, yeah, she's mad young (I wanted her to be 14-ish, but my DM drew the line at 16) which plays off a lot of her wide-eyed naivete. She serves Pelor (although this campaign calls 'im Peletic) so you can imagine just how goody-goody Lawful Stupid she can get.
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I see, that sounds fun to play, though to be honest I do have a rather severe bias against child characters, then again, that's my problem
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I've never actually played a character this young, but I thought it would be interesting to play someone *younger* than me, instead of older, like I usually do.
It also leaves a lot of high school-ish drama. "OMG, who will take me to the ball?!"
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High school drama indeed, as long as it's fun for you and doesn't sabotage the other player it's all good 
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Definitely! Or piss off the DM, that too is essential.
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Yes you don't want to piss off the DM, unless you break the game in a genuine way by taking the wrong character decisions
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Which I've done! Unintentionally! It's hilarious to watch the DM freak out when it happens
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Yeah, and the best part is that as long as you do it in character, the GM can't be mad at you
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Aaaand if your character was like my first one, being not all too bright...
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The best way someone broke a game I have been in was when someone asked "Sooo...how does the sun work in D&D?" after we agreed that the sun worked in a similar way to the real world, he made a good case for modifying a flying vehicle and flying it into the sun. And that's how we ended up transferring our souls into warforged bodies and flying a cube shaped tower into the sun to get rid of an indestructible artifact, we dubbed it 'The Borg Mission'
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Oh man! That's at least three flavors of epic! Reminds me of this story I read once about a player who- within five minutes of the game starting and arriving in this village- managed to set up a property, mortgage, securities, *loan* and insurance systems on what I think was a single Profession roll. Someone studied for that business class!
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Yeah, it was pretty epic, though in a sense it was just a glorified dungeoncrawl, our enemies stole the research and pursued us and every time they caught up a battle ensued, still I doubt I'll ever go into space in a D&D game again.
That's funny, I do wonder how he pulled that one off. So what's the most messed up thing that has happened in a campaign you were in ?
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Oh man, I've read stories where people do things like set up whole property sales and management systems with insurance and bank loans on the first turn and stuff like that before, but nothing too bad happens in my campaign. The craziest stuff usually comes from Tordek (yeah, straight from the freaking corebook) who has a few Chaos Arrows from Olidimarra himself. Shoot one and roll the outcome off a table, it's glorious. Once, we ended up turning a Blue Dragon into Tiny size and one of the characters now has him as a pet.
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Aaaaw tiny dragon pet, did the dragon loose some brain-smarts too ? I wouldn't think that a dragon would accept being anyone's pet no matter the size.
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IIRC, it was re-configged to a Psudodragon but it had some... power struggles. We locked it in the rogue's Bag O' Holding when he did that.
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I thought one went insane and then suffocated from the lack of air when put in a bag of holding....
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Probably...? I think we were allowed to do that on DM Says So rules, gotta love 'em
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Anything you can get away with ! that's my policy in roleplaying
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Welcome to the under dark, where if you smile, fate throws lich's at you.
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Indeed 
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Ha! That would be an example of Drow thinking. I sure hope you had a lie detection spell on them when you got them to say they'd change their allegiance.
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Nope, no lie-detector, that's what fun and quite risky about playing Lucy, she is quite naive' and very trusting. So when four of them swore to follow her she let them out, the last one were very devoted to Lolth, he would have nothing of Lucy's offer, so she let him out and banished him back to the Underdark, cursing him so that he could not return to the surface bearing evil intentions
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Risky move for sure. I'd really expect them to try something sneaky. Still, good to see that they got a choice and a chance to prove themselves.
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Oh as a player I certainly expected some of them to try something, but they behaved well, and she has collected over 18 000 none evil (it would probably be a bit optimistic to call them all good) drow at this point, so she must be doing something right.
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Thanks, it means a lot that I can put a smile on peoples faces from time to time
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You're welcome.
You did well for me.
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I tend to run into this with goblins more often then not. But my goblin's talk like either backwoods red necks or extreme stereotype ghetto depending on rather there from the Depths, small tribe or a human city. Love the comic.
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Redneck goblins, that actually sounds really funny, and why not ? seems generally accepted that dwarves has stereotypical Scottish accents. Luckily my character have found a solution to this problem : learn to speak true supernal
Glad you like the comic
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My dwarves sound kinda viking mixed with Germans depending on location but I can not due a Scots voice for the life of me, Irish, wales, English, all accents I'm good with but never the Scottish. I use twenty to thirty different voices when I play my favorite by far though is the inner city goblins. High pitched with a slight snarl ("Lisen motha Foka me say one time real gud an nomo he be big boss man an kick humin ass gud an fas") Does not type as well as it sounds though..lol
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You sound like a fun GM, I couldn't do voices or accents to save my but.
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Lol. Honor=dead idiot. Truth in Drow society.
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indeed, drow are messed up, thanks for the fave
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Thanks, yeah, drow society is pretty messed up
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I just want to see a chocolate skinned Dark Elf from before Lolth decided to be a bitch.
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If only more people did art of true Dark Elves...
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I don't know, dark elves are cool and all, but I really like the design of the drow though, the white on grey is a really cool and very distinct colour combination
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Hee. 
A proud people like the drow understand things like that - if you're very skilled, weak foes or helpless targets don't exactly earn you much glory for killing them. 
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It is certainly a good phrase, but it's not exactly subtle, what Lucy was trying to convey with a throwaway comment about being "honorable" was that she most importantly would treat them fairly and be kind to them, but she would also be on her guard against trickery. It's all about the way you say it, but when the word you are looking for doesn't exist, or has a so radically different meaning, all the subtle meaning kinda falls away
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Yeah, some things just don't translate very well. Like the difficulty translating puns and plays on words when books are released in new languages.
Drow love their subtleties, I know, but sometimes "Behave or I'll kill you" is the only thing that works.
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Fair enough, a direct threat would work quite nice if her main message was not a message of mercy. It worked out in the end though, despite awkward translations of the languages she did convince four of them that Lolth sucks and that they would do way better joining her army, she cursed the last one so that he couldn't return to the surface bearing evil intentions. All in all a good day for Lucy
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Hooray for her success, then.
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