Oh hey, Princess, good to see you here too.

My wife once played a Wizard with the Hermit background, and decided that the “secret she knew” was that she was a character in a game. She would periodically make references to older rule sets. Yes, THAC0 was name-dropped.

Storytime.

The campaign is Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. After being shunned by her family, my insecure half-orc cleric has fallen into split-ownership of some property, that she and the party finally settled on a plan for and made into a high-class club we called ‘the Rising Tide’. Her crush (a buttoned-down and illegitimate, but very attractive, tiefling scion of some local nobles) showed up for the grand opening, and during their conversation, he assured her that a letter would be pretty welcome.

So the next day, when she spied a story about him in the local yellow rag, she took it as an opportunity. In short, she wrote something like “Hey, we all know the quality of story this idiot prints: I don’t believe it, and I doubt anybody else does, but if you want to keep people from speculating on your romantic status, I’d be happy to hang around with you and discourage any admirers with ill intentions. HINT HINT.”

Fast forward to the END of that day, after she and the rest of the party have spent several hours crawling through literal rivers of sewage, fighting gross monsters, and not getting very far on the actual plot. When we got back home, there was a letter waiting for my cleric–a reply already! Faster than she had ever moved before she ran up to her room, squealing “He wrote me baaaaaaack!” And spent the rest of the night cleaning up, reading, and re-reading her letter.

Yes, it turned out well.

The names are different but these map pretty well to the Approaches in FATE.

Your drawing style is adorable.

I didn’t, though I was tempted to–I did share it with most of the people I know, since I’ve run Savage Worlds for both of my regular in-person groups, and some of them (IMO) would be wise to pick up some player books. The new core book isn’t anything new enough for me to invest in (though, again, I was tempted), since I went ‘all in’ during the initial SWADE kickstarter, though I’m definitely overdue to print off a new copy of the updates.

I am sure that goblin is not a little mayhem engine at all. The one in my group definitely is not. Nooooo, sir.

Everywhere I’ve seen them posted, the episodes are full length, but they DO have a much smaller cast, only 4 PCs, which was what hooked me.

She’s not the BIGGEST bad, but there’s a major villain who’s a bard type in Red Hand of Doom. (My players are about to meet her, actually.)

Konsi really reminds me a lot of my half-orc cleric, I think they’d be good buddies.