History Webcomic / TheWeeklyRoll

* NotSoDifferent: While high on chamomille, Becket briefly wonders if they are right to persecute cultists, since even the church of Stevicus started out in a basement. [[MoralEventHorizon Then the cultists throw a puppy into the fire]].

The Weekly Roll is a D&D based webcomic created on reddit by CME_T in late 2019, it follows a party of misfit adventurers, consisting of [[TheParagon paladin]] [[OnlySaneMan Sir Becket]], [[LovableRogue mischievous wild magic sorcerer]] [[ComedicSociopathy Trevor]], [[ActionGirl Half Orc warrior]] [[TheBrute Grogna]], {{Necromancer}} [[CreepyGood Torvald]] and [SquareRaceRoundClass tiefling celestial Warlock]] [[NaiveNewcomer Klara]]. The group fumbles and murders their way across the world in search of riches, glory and cool magical weapons.

The Weekly Roll is a D&D based webcomic created on reddit by CME_T in late 2019, it follows a party of misfit adventurers, consisting of [[TheParagon paladin]] [[OnlySaneMan Sir Becket]], [[LovableRogue mischievous wild magic sorcerer]] [[ComedicSociopathy Trevor]], [[ActionGirl Half Orc warrior]] [[TheBrute Grogna]], {{Necromancer}} [[CreepyGood Torvald]] and a tiefling Warlock named [[NaiveNewcomer Klara]]. The group fumbles and murders their way across the world in search of riches, glory and cool magical weapons.

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[[caption-width-right:299: A real softie that one]]

* WeirdTradeUnion Trade Union: Torvald is so good at raising the dead, they have a chance of being smart enough to unionize.

* WhatTheHellHero: The first comic consists on Sir Becket chewing out Trevor and Grogna for having set a whole town on fire [[spoiler: over a complimentary mint from the alchemist's store]].

* MundnaeUtility: The Bag of holding, a portable bag shaped portal to Astral Space that allows for almost endless storage space is one of the most vital tools for an adventuring party, and Trevor uses it primarily to store [[MushroomSamba "magical" mushrooms]]

* MushroomSamba: Trevor grows some "magical" mushrooms in the bag of holding.

* RealityEnsues: For defeating a cultist, Becket is rewarded with the sword of a legendary warrior king. Unfortunately, sitting at the bottom of a lake for several centuries didn't do wonders for its structural integrity.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Subverted, the events in the comics are somewhat unrelated but there is a pretty clear continuity, with frequent call-backs and a few tenuous {{Myth Arc}}s developing

* CreepyGood: Torvald, a [[spoiler:[[ILoveTheDead potentially necrophiliac]]]]dwarf whose magic centers around reanimating dead corpses is probably the least likely to kill you on sight.

* CoolSword: Grogna seems to have a knack for getting those.

** Klara's angelic patron's true form is that of a pentagonal trapezohedron (better known as a ten-sided die) with various wings and eyes and flames.

** Klara's angellic patron's true form is that of a pentagonal trapezohedron (better known as a ten-sided die) with various wings and eyes and flames.

* SkewedPriorities: Torvald's clan put a price on his head, not because of his unnatural practices of renting out his clansmen as zombies for manual labour, [[spoiler: but because he didn't pay income tax on the profit]].

* BadOlBadger: The badger who adopted Trevor is most of the reason he ended up the way he is. Their last request was that Trevor turn their coat into a cloak and burn the entire forest to the ground.

* LaughablyEvil: Grogna, normally seen killing someone or disposing of a dead body.

* SoMuchForStealth: In the aptly-titled [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-weekly-roll/ch-25-when-stealth-fails-go-for-intimidation/viewer?title_no=358889&episode_no=27 When stealth fails go for intimidation]], Torvald ''tries'' to sneak up on grave robbers. But, well, he's moving in heavy armor and his shovel makes SinisterScrapingSounds.
* SquishyWizard: Subverted with Torvald, who, being a dwarf, is covered head to toe in armour and is not above carving goblins up with a shovel when out of spells.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Subverted, the events in the comics are somewhat unrelated but there is a pretty clear continuity.
* TemptingFate: The party is recruiting their fifth member, [[OhCrap and it's Trevor's turn to pick.]] Becket requests that he picks someone more pious, like a Cleric. Cue Klara the [[DealWithTheDevil Warlock]] making her entrance.

** Trevor is a Wild Magic Sorcerer (and ''not'' a druid despite wearing a badger as a hood, as he would like to remind you).

* FullFrontalAssault: Grogna's dad's take on armour is that either you wear something practical or wear nothing. He chose to just an apron, [[NakedPeopleAreFunny because it's very liberating]].*

* ImprobableWeaponUser: As [[VillainOfTheWeek Konrad the Breaker]] finds out, Sir Becket can be rather brutal wielding a brick.

* PragmaticVillainy: The giant in chapter 16 has [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-weekly-roll/ch-16-an-evil-secret-weapon/viewer?title_no=358889&episode_no=18 a way of dealing with adventurers.]]

* RetiredMonster: Grogna's dad describe adventuring as "going out in the world and indiscriminately killing for fame and gold", then there's the fact her mother's [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy orc]] of the kind that normally goes around pillaging for a living. Its some pretty heavy hinting at [[RapePillageAndBurn what kind of adventurers they were]] before settling down for the bakery.

--> "If I had a copper for every time you time you psychos accidentally burned down a town over some inane argument with a shopkeeper that you managed to escalate beyond belief, I'd have 2 copper, which isnt a lot but its fucking weird it happened twice."

* TwentyFourHourArmor: Torvald and Becket are never seen without their face-concealing helmets or out of their armor. Justified for Becket, who keeps the helmet to "never forget the face of [his] shame."

* [[WeirdTradeUnion Zombie Trade Union]]: Torvald is so good at raising the dead, they have a chance of being smart enough to unionize.

--> '''Hugh the Zombie''': No one is getting paid, that's the problem
--> '''Skull Cap Zombie''': Do we need to unionize? I feel like we need to unionize

* AngellicAbomination: Klara's patron looks like an Old-Testament style angel, one of those who say "Fear not" for a ''very'' good reason.

* FiveTokenBand: The party consists of a human, a halfling, a dwarf, a half-orc, and a tiefling. Between them, they also cover the major class types in D&D, with some overlap: Caster (Torvald and Trevor), Tank (Becket and Torvald), Damage Dealer (Trevor and Grogna) and Support/Utility Caster (Becket with his divine magic and Torvald with his useful zombies).

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: In chapter 27, Trevor decides to spare a random bandit partially because he's getting tired of killing them, but also because he wants to make Becket happy.