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i never blog about taz grad because it truly is a losing game no matter what you do. if I want to criticize it, either for minor story things (like how fitzroy losing his magic should have been a cool arc since he originally blamed his magic for his failure and now he wants it back but instead of grappling that he just rolls twice for self confidence and does hard drugs in the woods) or for major “this podcast is made by four cishet white guys and it shows” problem things (rainer’s introduction being incredibly performative allyship, the entire centaur arc has some wildly uncomfortable white savior overtones, teacher takes students into woods to do hard drugs and it’s played as a joke) you’ll get creeps who personally blame travis for everything wrong with mbmbam and taz jumping up to agree with you and drowning out your points with just vicious travis hate. you then get the people who are annoyed by those people jumping down your throat to be like “OH TRAV HAS ADHD AND NPD HE’S TRYING YOU’RE SO TOXIC.” and. neither of you see the fucking point.
at the same time, if you want to talk about things you like in grad (like the characters or them destroying capitalism as a cool plot point or Cool Gary the best npc) or just in general that you’re sick of people dunking on it by decrying every minor DM problem as the biggest problem in the world or just making fun of travis’s adhd, you’ll get people going “UGH CLASSIC NO BUMMERS FANDOM IGNORING ALL THE PROBLEMS OF THE MCELROYS” and there’s just… no… winning…
the adventure zone: three boys take turns trying to kill their dad
Might I add
And
i realised that the thundermen have the same dynamic as the Belcher children from Bob's burgers and I havent known peace since
Hell yeah, the wild magic table is absurd. There’s stuff like
You summon a unicorn
You cast fireball centered on yourself
Roll a d10. Your age changes by the number you rolled
You instantly grow a long, black beard of feathers. It explodes the next time you sneeze.
Each creature within thirty feet of you becomes invisible
Etc.
okay I might be incredibly late to this particular party but I decided to actually read through the Wild Magic Surge table in full following the most recent TAZ Graduation episode and there’s this:
Rough concepts of the new bois
I love Festo so much, but man do I don’t know how I want them to look
And they were roommates
Monochrome color palette bois! Is made hard by the realization that I only have like 3 orange markers, so they’re not especially far off from their normal palettes
Rest in piece Argo you’re just kinda extra blue now
Bonus lil bois
I honestly just wanted to draw fitz as a big dumb nerdy jock
Catching up on Grad has been quite the good time,,
Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt
The record so far
My 2022 candlelight’s gift for @winter-skye
So sorry about the wait! I wanted to go beyond what I usually do, hope you like it!
As a person who watched Dimension 20’s Fantasy high and TAZ graduation. Hearing Argo call fitz “boyo” brought back flashbacks that I never thought I’d have about a certain mind flyer.
This is Justin’s newest Character
”Murby”, a moss-covered Furby found on an old farm’s property during cleanup.
From: X
And there we have it, all thirty fighters from our hypothetical Adventure Zone platform fighter. I've loved making these, and may return to add some "DLC" at some point (gotta get the Steeplechase player characters, right?), but for now we're gonna leave it here.
12 Balance reps, 6 Amnesty reps, 5 Graduation reps, 4 Ethersea reps, and one each from Dust, Commitment, and Dadlands. Let me know who you'd main, what you'd like to see as hypothetical DLC for this hypothetical game, or any other thoughts!
Links to individual movesets under the cut, and I'll see y'all next time!
Magnus Burnsides | Taako | Merle Highchurch | Killian & Carey | Kravitz | Lup
Lucas Miller | Barry Bluejeans | Klarg | Roswell | Lucretia | Garfield the Deals Warlock
Duck Newton | Aubrey Little | Ned Chicane | Minerva | Mama | Arlo Thacker
Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt | Argo Keene | The Firbolg | Demon Prince Gray | Rainer Michelle | | Augustus Parsons
Amber Gris | Zoox | Devo la Main | Urchin | Kardala | Dad Squad
So I wanted to draw a lil' something in celebration of The Adventure Zone hitting ten years old this year! Which turned into me drawing a pretty big something featuring (almost) every player character from (almost) every campaign from these past ten years.
So here's to Adventure Zone Balance, Amnesty, Commitment, Dust, Graduation, Hootenanny, Ethersea, Dadlands, Steeplechase, Versus Dracula, and everything that's still to come!