Having been doing a lot of cartoony style work on the GameKnights Adventures, and other projects, I was in a real mood to do something with more detail. Here's my sketch that I call Serpent Queen; I hope you all enjoy it.
Hello one and all, this is Coarey, and I'd like to introduce you to our new weekly segment. Tales From the Table will be a chance for the people in the role-playing community to share stories from their gaming sessions.
I'll kick off this week telling you a very old story from early on. Way back in the 80's there was a cartoon called Dungeons & Dragons. For those who have no idea what it is, I'll give you a brief description. A mix-matched group of kids, aged from pre-teen to teen ager, got transported to the realm of Dungeons & Dragons by riding a amusement park ride of the same name. Each week their efforts were focused on trying to find a way back home and it took them on many adventures.
In one such adventure, they encountered a beholder that lives in a desolate wasteland. In the episode a cowardly night, was aiding them and at one point had been given a flower that he wore on his vest. Well during the climax of the show, the coawrdly night is being draw in towards the beholder, when it suddenly sees the flower. The overwhelming "beauty" of the flower drove back the "beast" and I think destroyed it.
Fast forward a couple of years. I am playing D&D and encounter my first beholder. I ask the GM if there are any flowers around. He says, quite confused, yes. I let him know that I run over and grab one and walk right up to the beast and show it to it. At this point I am disintigrate by one of the beholder's eyes. So the moral of the story is, if you plan on using player knowledge, check your sources. The Dungeons & Dragons cartoon (still one of my childhood favorites) is not the most reliable source of credible knowledge on the topic of slaying just about anything in the actual role-playing game.
That's all for now. Please feel free to leave your own story in our comments section, and check back tomorrow for our second podcast Crocodile Tears and Kobold Poets!
