When you're high level, people notice you. Shock!
When you're high level, people notice you. Shock!
This comic follows on from the Previous comic which will almost certainly provide context.
You might not wanna be famous, but when you're level 10, every organization within a mile is watching what you're doing.
Here's a short little "meanwhile" comic as a bonus, since it's been a while.
Oh, apologies about my personal website. My hosting is done by a friend with a small server, and... well basically every wordpress site in existence is now under constant effective-DDoS by AI bots trying to scrape all the data. They're not subtle about it, and just try to download all the pictures simultaneously. My server is too small to handle that load, so just reboots when that happens (it's usually down for about a minute).
The fact that it's near constantly down is just a product of how often I'm getting these requests.
This won't fix it but it might help.
Make sure you have a robots.txt file with a crawl delay set for all agents once every 30 seconds and that you are disallowing most of the WordPress directories such as WP admin, the media directory, etc.
I would also strongly recommend that you use a caching system if you are not using one. It's a lot more efficient to serve the same image a hundred times to different bots from the ram than loading it off your drive.
Just my personal opinions working in a web hosting environment.
That'll probably help if it's i/o issues.
Welcome back. I love these comics. The website situation is super shitty, I wish you luck on that endless battle.
I ended up just switching to your Tumblr page in my webcomic rotation to get around it.
Yeah, I post to tumblr, extwitter, mastodon, and bluesky. https://linktr.ee/ahdok
Always happy to see you post!
Hnnnnggh. Cute af !fangmoe@ani.social.
I'm so happy you're back!
I'm making comics as often as I can - this plotline has a fair few left to run.
...isn't...all of that a reason why she's not a disposable scapegoat? Isn't the fact that she's a public figure the best possible refutation of any of the criticisms just listed?
Well that, but also she's still a goblin. Religious institutions in the Forgotten Realms traditionally view goblins as less than worthless, and most people in Waterdeep think of Goblins the same way, regardless of the person's actual accomplishments.
Most people would assume that the church would be willing to abandon a goblin at a moment's notice to protect their reputation - especially if they're not familiar with the people involved, or the full extent of her deeds. Honestly, most people in Waterdeep think the church is tarnishing its reputation by having a goblin in their ranks in the first place.
I suppose as a coda... Real world conspiracy theories often take root more strongly when they don't make complete sense. They're often self-selecting for irrational actors.
If rational people are quick to point out flaws in your conspiracy theory, it feels more like there are powers trying to cover something up.
Oh no, poor Konsi reaping what she unintentionally have sown.
This is awesome! And something we should see more of in campaigns.
Some ideas for GMs of high level parties:
- Low level party seeks our your party for advice, or help with something outside of their abilities
- Newspaper reporter seeks interview for puff-piece about adventurer lifestyles
- Newspaper reporter seeks interview so they can write hit-piece on a party member
- Fans of the party's exploits show up and ask for autographs
- That play scene from Avatar the Last Airbender
- Merchants keep pitching increasingly plausible investment opportunities
- Party encounters someone dressed up as the most famous member of the party, using their identity to claim free drinks at the pub
- Unskilled squire requests to join party to help with their adventures
- Legendary Swordsman seeks out party member for a duel
- Everyone you meet asks for money
At least two thirds of these can be solved by casting disintegrate.
My last character who was getting well known in the local area was also well known for blowing his gold on booze and gambling at every available opportunity, which is a good way to deter the money-seekers!
Thats funny, because I've seen some DMs where nobody cares wether or not lvl. 10, they still treat you as if you were lvl. one and don't know sh*t about you. (Mainly in campaigns where the characters travel a lot. I still find it weird. Rumors spread quickly.)
Do we have a church of konsi here in lemmy?
I think she has a lot of fans here :)
“But I don’t want to play this game, please unsubscribe me.”
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave
Your comics are so cute.
Also man. I was part of 1(one) campaign that made it to high level. And it is a bit of a magical experience.
When our crew of sky pirates flew into town everyone immediately knew who they were, local authorities and groups of people were always either trying to court their favour or get rid of them at any cost, they never needed to introduce themselves -- They were the Monarchs of the Storm, and their career had started with them causing an entire criminal empire to crumble (specifically because they'd messed with their friends), and only gotten more intense and destructive from there.
Shame one of our players disappeared because of Life :tm: and so we haven't played in almost a year.
That's sad. I discuss openess to new people to the group in a new group, as I think Life™️ naturally diminishes groups; best to stay open for new people coming in, no?
Also, why do people write numbers both on digits and letters sometimes? Is it to avoid confusion? I've only seen it happen in English, though, where numbers can never be confused for other words...
Seems like stealth checks at higher levels could alter DCs for this phenomenon