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'''''Tales From My D&D Campaign''''' is an internet-based campaign log featuring a set of four D&D PCs in a semi-original campaign world. Narrated by the GM, Demonac (also the creator of ''WebComic/AnotherGamingComic''), its simple art style disguises an intriguing world and epic storyline.

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'''''Tales From My D&D Campaign''''' is an internet-based campaign log featuring a set of four D&D PCs [=PC=]s in a semi-original campaign world. Narrated by the GM, Demonac (also the creator of ''WebComic/AnotherGamingComic''), its simple art style disguises an intriguing world and epic storyline.
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* ImpoverishedPatrician: Draven. He is the rightful Marquis of Rowan, a fairly wealthy region in northern Verandi. Unfortunately, the fact that Rowan, like all the rest of Verandi, has been occupied by KT troops for the past couple of generations means that Draven lacks most of the resources or servants a noble of his rank is actually entitled to.


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* NobilityMarriesMoney: Draven again. His father married him to the heir of the wealthy but low-ranked Silverlode Barony, to help him make something of himself.
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'''''Tales From My D&D Campaign''''' is an internet-based campaign log featuring a set of four D&D PCs in a semi-original campaign world. Narrated by the GM, Demonac, its simple art style disguises an intriguing world and epic storyline.

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'''''Tales From My D&D Campaign''''' is an internet-based campaign log featuring a set of four D&D PCs in a semi-original campaign world. Narrated by the GM, Demonac, Demonac (also the creator of ''WebComic/AnotherGamingComic''), its simple art style disguises an intriguing world and epic storyline.
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* HomeFieldAdvantage: The KTs get one so big it's practically a GameBreaker. Their amphibious nature means that they can attack us at will, but we can never attack them back because we can't breathe underwater.
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* OneManArmy: A single orc will frequently rout a regiment of 100+ human or elven soldiers.
** And Kua-Toa Monitors can CurbStomp orcs. Luckily, there's only about 50 - 250 of them, or all humanity would already have been wiped out.


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* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: The fate of all civilized races rests on the precarious balance of the EnemyCivilWar between the Deluvians and the Illud. If either side ever wins, they will wipe out humanity with ease.
** Similarly, deep within the Astral Sea, the BigGood Ioun fights an unending battle with BigBad Vecna for control of the Source. Should Vecna ever win, all magic and all gods will be blotted out, and [[DevilButNoGod Vecna will reign unchallenged and unchallengeable for all eternity.]]
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* SlaveLiberation: Y'Solas Turi, last [[LongList Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, ]][[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard Minister of Treasury, Minister of Science, ]][[OverlyLongName Minister of Agriculture, Minister of the Interior ]][[OverlyLongGag and Minister of Foreign Affairs]] of Ytarra pronounced all Warforged free on his deathbed. At first glance this seems quite redundant (since he was effectively the last Ytarran alive, his death would leave the Warforged automatically free), but there was a point behind this. Y'Solas was worried that should he not free the Warforged, all too many of them would simply keep carrying out their old duties: building houses, gathering food, and generally serving a race that no longer existed.

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* SlaveLiberation: Y'Solas Turi, last [[LongList Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, ]][[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard Minister of Treasury, Minister of Science, ]][[OverlyLongName Minister of Agriculture, Minister of the Interior ]][[OverlyLongGag and Minister of Foreign Affairs]] of Ytarra pronounced all Warforged free on his deathbed. At first glance this seems quite redundant (since he was effectively the last Ytarran alive, his death would leave the Warforged automatically free), but there was a point behind this. Y'Solas was worried that should he not free the Warforged, all too many of them would simply keep carrying out their old duties: building houses, gathering food, and generally serving a race that no longer existed. As even with the edict, some Warforged did in fact go on gathering food, building warehouses, and then building new warehouses as the food stored in the old ones rotted away uneaten, his concern was at least somewhat justified.
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* SlaveLiberation: Y'Solas Turi, last [[LongList Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, ]][[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard Minister of Treasury, Minister of Science, ]][[OverlyLongName Minister of Agriculture, Minister of the Interior ]][[OverlyLongGag and Minister of Foreign Affairs]] of Ytarra pronounced all Warforged free on his deathbed. At first glance this seems quite redundant (since he was effectively the last Ytarran alive, his death would leave the Warforged automatically free), but there was a point behind this. Y'Solas was worried that should he not free the Warforged, all too many of them would simply keep carrying out their old duties: building houses, gathering food, and generally serving a race that no longer existed.
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* BaldOfAwesome: Little One. Also, Marp the Orc.
** WordOfGod has it LittleOne's player imagines him with hair, but the creator of the webseries didn't know that initially, making his sprite bald mainly out of laziness.
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* Badass: ''Orcs''. Also Little One.

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* Magitek: Fairly frequent. Most of it is leftover from the ancient Ytarran civilization, but Draven also makes a lot of magic stuff.

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** The Drow in the Shadowfel have enslaved several Underdark races, as well as the Ibixians (GoatMen)

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** The Drow in the Shadowfel have enslaved several Underdark races, as well as the Ibixians (GoatMen)([[FaunsAndSatyrs Goat Men]])



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* SlaveRace: Fairly common in TDDC, possession of slaves is an easy way to pick out an AlwaysChaoticEvil race in this world
** The Deluvian Kua-Toa enslaved all of the ocean prior to the [[EnemyCivilWar Civil War]]. They still dominate the Skum, Mermaids, Tritons and Aventi.
** The Illud KTs who broke off the TheEmpire brought with them the Sahaguin, Naga and others.
*** Tritons are prized for their ability to summon Elementals, while Naga have a variety of magical powers, making them an example of SuperHumanTrafficking.
** The Drow in the Shadowfel have enslaved several Underdark races, as well as the Ibixians (GoatMen)
* ServantRace: The Ytarrans created the Warforged to be this, and to fight the Dead Wars against the horrific Vampire Kings. Many continued to serve even after their creators [[EndOfAnAge died out]].
** The Dragonborn were created by (you guessed it) the Dragons to serve them. Originally they were [[HappinessInSlavery happy to serve]], but eventually most of them inevitably TurnedAgainstTheirMasters.



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** Could arguably be the MasterRace, since they do keep slaves of several aquatic races rather than exterminating them all. Then again, their ReligionOfEvil is the Goddess of Slaughter.



* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The rajs, a small number of rakshashas with utterly inexplicable powers and knowledge. In addition to the ability to predict someone's future with enough accuracy to calculate the casualties of a battle down to a tenth of a person by reading their "Fate Matrix", they appear to be able to use their "karma" to fuel RealityWarper effects. Among other things, they can cleanse someone of the Astral Plague, a feat beyond even the Ytarrans at the height of their civilization. They appear to be accumulating karma by investing in supernatural bargains, and have a vast communal reserve of karma known as the Great Pool. What they intend to do with that karma is anyone's guess.


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* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The rajs, Rajs, a small number of rakshashas with utterly inexplicable powers and knowledge. In addition to the ability to predict someone's future with enough accuracy to calculate the casualties of a battle down to a tenth of a person by reading their "Fate Matrix", they appear to be able to use their "karma" to fuel RealityWarper effects. Among other things, they can cleanse someone of the Astral Plague, a feat beyond even the Ytarrans at the height of their civilization. They appear to be accumulating karma by investing in supernatural bargains, and have a vast communal reserve of karma known as the Great Pool. What they intend to do with that karma is anyone's guess.

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\n* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The rajs, a small number of rakshashas with utterly inexplicable powers and knowledge. In addition to the ability to predict someone's future with enough accuracy to calculate the casualties of a battle down to a tenth of a person by reading their "Fate Matrix", they appear to be able to use their "karma" to fuel RealityWarper effects. Among other things, they can cleanse someone of the Astral Plague, a feat beyond even the Ytarrans at the height of their civilization. They appear to be accumulating karma by investing in supernatural bargains, and have a vast communal reserve of karma known as the Great Pool. What they intend to do with that karma is anyone's guess.

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* AbsoluteXenophobe: Deluvian courts hold that contracts or treaties with non-Kua-Toa are non-binding and may be revoked whenever it is convenient. The fact that the Illud have officially declared contracts with land-dwellers binding is one of the major causes of the EnemyCivilWar.
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* OneSteveLimit: [[spoiler: Early on the party recruits Daggerface, a dwarf driven (mostly?) insane by Drow torture and a magical fear cave. Later, they hear that a famed bounty hunter named Daggerface is after them. Turns out, there's a warforged Daggerface - his face is literally a sextet of protruding blades, thanks to some cosmetic artificing.]]
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* EnemyCivilWar: Pretty much the only reason the Kua-Toa haven't yet conquered the land nations and sacrificed all the humans to Blibaal is that around 300 years ago, they split into two factions: the Deluvians (the original and utterly evil KT civilization, worship Chaotic Evil Blibaal), and the Illud (mildly less evil, worship the True Neutral storm god Laarak). Since the Illud control about half the ocean and two of the five Monitor monasteries, the two factions are pretty closely matched.


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* ItCanThink: Since they live forever, trolls in this world are a lot smarter than the usual and tend to use magic gear.
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Available [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL4wcBrYwyo&list=SPylLGJF4VZY7Wya1zdWY3ExLfitPCdJEN here]].
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* IShallTauntYou: Little One seems to have put skill points into Knowledge(Insulting KTs). From getting Angel to write insults in Kuar on his shield to decorating that same shield with teeth taken from dead KTs to dropping a fishing line in the water he suspects to be occupied by KT warriors, he goes to great lengths to make sure the KTs are as pissed off with him as possible. Perhaps the best is when, after slaughtering a KT patrol, he cuts the heads off, stakes the bodies upside-down, then sticks the head back on top of the whole affair (i.e., the KTs have their heads up their behinds.)
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* BodySurf: There are a handful of Warforged known as "Dark Ancients" who use this method to stay alive, jumping from Warforged body to Warforged body.


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* EpicFlail: Black's signature weapon.
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* AllTrollsAreDifferent: These ones can regenerate from nothing more than their indestructible jawbone.



* FromASingleCell: As a result of some meddling by a dark god, trolls in this world can eventually regrow their bodies from nothing more than their jawbone. Since the jawbone itself is indestructible by any known force, this makes the trolls true immortals.



** The Ytarran race were legendary artificers and crafters.



* Magitek: Fairly frequent. Most of it is leftover from the ancient Ytarran civilization, but Draven also makes a lot of magic stuff.



* MurderInc: The Organization. Originally founded to harass the Kua-Toa invasion forces, has branched out into assassination and bounty-hunting missions to help with funds. [[spoiler: Angel is a member]].

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* MurderInc: The Organization. Originally founded to harass the Kua-Toa invasion occupation forces, this group has branched out into assassination and bounty-hunting missions to help with funds. [[spoiler: Angel is a member]].member]].
* MysticalPlague: The Astral Plague, a confusing and mysterious ailment that wiped out the entire Ytarran civilization. It is believed to have originated from Ytarran research into teleportation portals. As a result of being near such a portal when it malfunctioned, the heroes are currently infected with this, and though they are shielded from the effects by a friendly spirit, the protection is beginning to fail, and they will need to find a cure soon, or die.
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* ChestInsignia: Black's Ytarran PoweredArmor manifests the symbol of the wearer's god on the pauldrons.


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* InstantCostumeChange: When GE-7 gives Black his PoweredArmor, it instantly turns from blue to black, and the shoulder symbols change from those of Ytaru (GE-7's god) to those of Sirus (Black's).


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* MurderInc: The Organization. Originally founded to harass the Kua-Toa invasion forces, has branched out into assassination and bounty-hunting missions to help with funds. [[spoiler: Angel is a member]].


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* PoweredArmor: Black gets a suit of this about halfway through. It comes with an absolute load of little cool features.

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Meet the skilled artificer [[GadgeteerGenius Draven Rowe]], the heavily armored priest of Sirus [[MightyGlacier Reginald Black]], the lethal gnome Rogue and assassin [[TheTrickster Angel Bloodright]], and the half-dragon Warblade [[ActionHero Little One]]. As they battle extra-dimensional dark elves, body-stealing golem spirits, absurdly {{Badass}} orcs, evil FishPeople, invincible trolls, and more, they leave a trail of heroism and adventure behind them.


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Meet the skilled artificer [[GadgeteerGenius Draven Rowe]], the heavily armored priest of Sirus [[MightyGlacier Reginald Black]], the lethal gnome Rogue and assassin [[TheTrickster Angel Bloodright]], and the half-dragon Warblade [[ActionHero [[OneManArmy Little One]]. As they battle extra-dimensional dark elves, body-stealing golem spirits, absurdly {{Badass}} orcs, evil FishPeople, invincible trolls, and more, they leave a trail of heroism and adventure behind them.



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* MasterSwordsman: As a Warblade, Little One knows a lot of exotic martial techniques that let him do things like ignoring damage reduction, bypassing armor, or just doing a boatload of extra damage.

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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Little One picks up the nickname "Orcslayer" after his climactic duel in Episode 4.
** Also, it turns out that Kua-Toa literally means "Masters of All".



* BlobMonster: The heroes fight one at one point.



* OurOrcsAreDifferent: As a result of a divine curse turning their homeland into a DeathWorld, there are only a few thousand orcs left. But those few thousand display Badassery rivaling that of ''[[Literature/Dune the Fremen]]. It is not uncommon for two or three orcs to burn a small city to the ground or butcher a hundred-man infantry patrol.
* SeeTheInvisible: Kua-Toa can see through invisibility spells automatically, which makes their trademark {{InvisiblityCloak}}s useless for internicene war.

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* OurOrcsAreDifferent: As a result of a divine curse turning their homeland into a DeathWorld, there are only a few thousand orcs left. But those few thousand display Badassery rivaling that of ''[[Literature/Dune [[Literature/{{Dune}} the Fremen]]. It is not uncommon for two or three orcs to burn a small city to the ground or butcher a hundred-man infantry patrol.
* ProperlyParanoid: As a precaution against slave uprisings, the KTs built their capital and other major cities on islands. Kua-Toa can breathe both air and water freely, but all other aquatic races can't survive for more than a few hours out of water.
* SeeTheInvisible: Kua-Toa can see through invisibility spells automatically, which makes their trademark {{InvisiblityCloak}}s {{InvisibilityCloak}}s useless for internicene war.

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* AlienSpaceBats: The goddess Blibaal invested the [[FishPeople Kua-Toa]] with a sliver of her own divine essence, granting them everything from scales harder than chain mail to ridiculous strength to massive immunity to electricity to an innate ability to see invisible things. They returned the favor by conquering the entire ocean and a good part of the land and sacrificing billions of slaves to Bibaal.



* GiantSpaceBats: The goddess Blibaal invested the [[FishPeople Kua-Toa]] with a sliver of her own divine essence, granting them everything from scales harder than chain mail to ridiculous strength to massive immunity to electricity to an innate ability to see invisible things. They returned the favor by conquering the entire ocean and a good part of the land and sacrificing billions of slaves to Bibaal.



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* FishPeople: The Kua-Toa, as well as their various aquatic slave races.

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* FishPeople: The Kua-Toa, as well as their various aquatic slave races. It should be noted that Kua-Toa are one of only two true amphibious races in this setting, and the other was hunted almost to extinction. All other aquatic races can't survive for long, if at all, out of the water.


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* Golem: The Warforged, a race of sentient {{Golem}}s created by an ancient civilization of artificers known as the Ytarrans.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Little One is half-dragon, though he doesn't manifest any visible signs of it.


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* InvisibleMonsters: One of the Kua-Toa's biggest assets are the Colos cloaks, an alchemical cloak powered by KT skin secretions which can make the wearer invisible but cost a fraction of the cost of a regular invisibility item.
* LastOfHisKind: GE-7 is one of the Ancients, a small group of Warforged who learned enough artificing to maintain themselves after their masters all died to the Astral Plague.
* MightyGlacier: Black is very hard to hit in his full armor, and hits pretty hard himself with his flail, but his movement speed is about half the normal.


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* SeeTheInvisible: Kua-Toa can see through invisibility spells automatically, which makes their trademark InvisiblityCloaks useless for internicene war.
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* Badass: ''Orcs''. Also Little One.
* ChainsawGood: Angel's spiked chains tend to resemble this.
* ColdIron: Little One's greatsword is made from this, allowing it to cut though the defenses of Fey creatures. This comes in handy a few times.



* EyeOfNewt: In this setting, one must have an "eldritch eye" (the eye of a sufficiently powerful abomination), to cast long-range teleportation spells.
* FishPeople: The Kua-Toa, as well as their various aquatic slave races.



* NonIndicativeName: Little One is about six and a half feet tall, and built to match. {{Justified}} in that he was named by his mother, who was a dragon.

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* GiantSpaceBats: The goddess Blibaal invested the [[FishPeople Kua-Toa]] with a sliver of her own divine essence, granting them everything from scales harder than chain mail to ridiculous strength to massive immunity to electricity to an innate ability to see invisible things. They returned the favor by conquering the entire ocean and a good part of the land and sacrificing billions of slaves to Bibaal.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Mentioned in one episode when Little One reveals that his mother was a dragon. Explained by the fact that dragons can assume human form if they so desire.
* NonIndicativeName: Little One is about six and a half feet tall, and built to match. {{Justified}} in that he was named by his mother, who was a dragon.dragon.
* OurOrcsAreDifferent: As a result of a divine curse turning their homeland into a DeathWorld, there are only a few thousand orcs left. But those few thousand display Badassery rivaling that of ''[[Literature/Dune the Fremen]]. It is not uncommon for two or three orcs to burn a small city to the ground or butcher a hundred-man infantry patrol.

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