When making ttrpg characters to play, it’s very easy to just make your character “you” if you don’t think about it or plan anything - you’ll naturally revert to how you approach situations without conscious effort - however that means after a while your characters all start to feel the same.

If you want something that feels unique or different to your previous characters, the easiest way is to take some aspect of your personality and greatly over-exaggerate it, and build the character around that - This way you’re still using some of your natural reactions and inclinations, so it’s much easier of a role to inhabit than someone who’s wholly different to you.

I really should add a couple of new T-shirt designs, it’s been a while, maybe I’ll make a Konsi shirt to celebrate comic 1000 :D

(Fanart by Sufferay https://x.com/sufferay )

I did once have a patreon, but it lapsed - literally nobody signed up for it in over a decade. These days, I’d feel a little bad having a regular payment, considering how little content I actually produce.

I don’t need any financial support to keep doing this, I’m lucky enough to not need financial support, and I draw to relax. The absolute best way to “support the comic” is to introduce more people to it, especially on bluesky. https://linktr.ee/ahdok for the social media streams I use.

If you really really want to put financial support towards me, there is a paypal link on the comic site, and also a few t-shirts at the “shop” link at the top - but again, I want to stress that the comic is not dependent on donations in any way.

Bonus Konsi?

Konsi did have a necklace of fireballs for a while. She’s used one of them, but eventually passed it off to Toron, since she has access to AOE magic anyway.

this is what the gauntlets of ogre power are for.

There’s a lot of people here who are invested in the story now, I gotta keep them up to date!

I suppose you can have a bonus Konsi.

It’s not particularly funny, other than as an extension of the current context. I needed to establish this as setup for the conversation I want the characters to have in the next strip.

Ongoing story be rough sometimes.

You still get a bonus Konsi though.

It’s actually a mimic disguised as a trouser press.

yep!

I shall fix

Honestly, it’s CR1. The guy has 18hp meaning you probably murk him in a round at any level. The most dangerous thing is the pit trap.

Bonus Konsi?

.~If you know what the Carabiner means, you know.~

A classic.

This one caused me so much trouble! I went into it thinking “this will be easy” but it’s surprisingly hard to get right.

I don’t think I 100% got it, her body proportions are too human (Konsi is 4ft tall) - but it was a lot of fun to try. Daily drawing challenges aren’t about being perfect, they’re about just getting the thing done and learning from it.

This was part of my october drawing prompts, the prompt was “meme pose”

Artist circles on Twitter (although now it’s blue sky) have a bunch of “meme” drawing challenges. Most commonly “outfit” challenges where you have to draw your character wearing a specific outfit. These challenges are like artist “memes”, seeing other people do them causes them to spread. Pose memes are less common, but there are a few.

This pose is the “cammy stretch” meme pose: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cammy-stretch

A long time ago I did spend a few months experimenting with ratios to make my own cookie recipe, it makes really good chocolate chip cookies. Not very christmassy though.