I’m amazed that none of these comments are mentioning the subject line of the post is a reference to “Stop! Hammer time!”

Okay that explains her name, I guess… assuming the folks at the orphanage also called her “red one” for twelve years.

And after reaffirming her stereotypical rogueness with the backstory, I don’t think she has any right to complain about the paladin suspecting her of legally questionable behavior in the last panel.

Also I can’t be the only one wondering if Lady Laeral bears a striking resemblance to a certain Tiefling and has a story about being forced to give up a child for reasons that have only recently been resolved or something else like that. This kind of screams “character development arc.”

Is the chicken by chance inspired by the turkey from The Gamers: Darkness Rising?

Sounds like you haven’t been hanging out with competent clerics, much. They say stuff like that all the time.

Perception check fell short of noticing the do-me eyes? Or was it a low Persuasion roll to convey flirtatious intent? At a guess I would imagine Konsi has a high charisma score and clerics do get access to Persuasion as a proficiency. Then again I’ve had cleric characters with both of those things botch rolls that resulted in violence I was trying to avoid, so a failed flirtation isn’t the worst outcome, even if it’s frustrating.

Some people enjoy the simple pleasures in life, and more of a good thing is an even better thing.

The best part is how surprised the horse looks.

Commune is a fifth level spell. It only gets answers to three yes or no questions but that does mean that a ninth level cleric is able to literally talk to their god and have the god acknowledge and respond to them. Daily. Think for a moment about how anybody else would react to meeting someone that has conversations with a deity and isn’t just delusional.

Clerics are awesome.

Defaulting to a professional inquiry is a valid method of overcoming anxiety. Paladins are supposed to fight monsters. Aboleths are bad and tend to need disposed of. It’s a perfectly legitimate question. Out of left field, perhaps, but this apparently badass adventurer is probably the most likely person she’s met all day to actually have a line on some Aboleths blood.

When you try to outsmart the person who dictates the universal laws that control how the setting’s gods operate you’re just asking to have that attitude forcibly returned to you. Most likely in suppository form.

“Shall I disrobe to make the moment more memorable?”

I think a lot of groups would try to play it like the episode “Crackers Don’t Matter,” but a lot would end up coming out more like an episode of Lexx.

One of my favorite characters of all time would default to using her mace to open locks if the rogue wasn’t around.

I used to be a repair tech for a company that makes postage meters and mail processing machines. Everything from a desktop stamping machine to big industrial sorters larger than some apartments I’ve lived in. I mainly worked on the big ones and the techs for the smaller machines liked to make fun of us for frequently defaulting to banging on stuff with hammers because we used the term “percussive maintenance” unironically. Also “four by four engineering,” used to describe employing a long wood 4x4 as a lever for lowering and raising the hundred and fifty pound gearbox from it’s inconveniently placed mounting on a certain model of inserter.

“Homebrew” is usually code for “rules are boring I wanna do crazy super cool shit, no I don’t give a damn about game balance.”

Cast speak with dead, the victim will tell you who they are, how they died, who killed them, and whatever other two things you want to ask them.

Edit: I looked up your comic and read all the ones in the Konsi storyline. Very nice, cute, funny, and fun, particularly speaking as someone who identifies as a cleric main. Please make more. One question I have is what’s her divine domain?

DM says “That’s clearly not how the spell was ever intended to work and your explanation defies anything resembling common sense. You take two death save fails and lose the spell. Fuck off.”

My alignment as a DM is “Dubious Mercurial.”

If you’re able to do it in a way that’s actually enjoyable for the rest of the group, go for it. The problem with this sort of preference, however, is that a lot of people I’ve met and gamed with who set out with the specific intention of being “the weird one” end up just acting like annoying idiots. The ones who are good at it usually don’t try to be weird on purpose, at least not as a primary defining feature of their character. They just play something fun and it works out however it does. Contrary to the popularity of the Slappy meme, most people don’t enjoy playing with someone who thinks they’re an actual clown, especially if they’re bad at it. And if you must try to accomplish weirdness on purpose, do it in little bits, like the example in this comic. Be subtle and leave the polka dot costume, rainbow wig, and airhorn out of it.

I believe the proper way to signal to the government monitors that you’re just a nerd and not a serial killer is to simply add "5e” to the end of the search qiery (or whatever other edition or game system you’re using). Because people involved in cyber monitoring are all nerds too so they’ll recognize the lingo. Heck, if your search looks interesting enough they might even make up an alias and ask to join your game.