When I was an undergraduate in the late 90’s/early 00’s I was part of the RPG club on my campus. I used to suggest we try to address the gender imbalance, because guys tended to play stupid sometimes and women were smarter about it.
A guy in the group invited two of his classmates, who stuck around, but to this day I remember him bounding up to me and presenting them with a flourish, like they were prizes to be won, saying “look Matt, girls!”
The fact that more women are into gaming in general these days publically rather than as someone’s little sister or girlfriend thrills me to no end.
The math is not as hard as people make it out to be, and as the game has gone on it’s become less math-centric. It started out as a set of alternate rules for people who liked to do wargaming with minatures, so it used to be that there were tables for everything and anything under the sun. And I mean anything.
Other people have mostly explained it, but I’ll give my two cents.
For the first panel, Violet is describing the effect of the spell from the last comic. The thing is that that sort of spell isn’t supposed to have a useful effect — the actual D&D fifth edition spell it’s based on has a sort of list of minor magical things, like lighting a candle, that it can do. Elvis somehow made it actually do more than it should, and Lupin is noting that (the kind of player who does this on a regular basis can be useful but if they’re obnoxious about it they tend to get called a Rules Lawyer). Lupin’s character is not able to say anything, however, because he’s supposed to be effected by the curse of the crinkle toys, so Violet is calling him out on it in the second panel. The third panel shows the effect of the attempted conversation in the game world, and in the final panel, as others have noted, Puck is casting a spell of protection over all of the members of his adventuring group. In actual D&D it would be a circle rather than a cone, but depending on the version as other folks mentioned it would either provide a minor bit of protection or block one one type of entity — in this case the dust bunnies.
I like this reading very much. I don’t think there is any intent for romance, but it’s obvious she doesn’t dislike him as much as Tommy says she does when he talks to the guys.
When I was an undergraduate in the late 90’s/early 00’s I was part of the RPG club on my campus. I used to suggest we try to address the gender imbalance, because guys tended to play stupid sometimes and women were smarter about it.
A guy in the group invited two of his classmates, who stuck around, but to this day I remember him bounding up to me and presenting them with a flourish, like they were prizes to be won, saying “look Matt, girls!”
The fact that more women are into gaming in general these days publically rather than as someone’s little sister or girlfriend thrills me to no end.