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* DirtyOldMan: Artax has grey-white hair, a moustache down to the ground, and can still come across as a bit of a sleaze, although admittedly not as much of one as Yeager.
-->'''Artax:''' My invitation was to participate in a sunrise ceremony with the Sisters of Sylvanity. The magician's mark on the paper seemed genuine enough...\\
'''Yeager:''' Aren't they the ones you told me about that do all their spells in the buff?\\
'''Artax:''' Maaaayyyyyybe...


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* GuileHero: When he's not reluctantly serving as either ammunition or bait, Nodwick's lack of combat power tends to force him to use his wits to prevail, such as by repeatedly tricking Beobor into leaving him alone during the "Brotherhood of Evil Henchmen" storyline or calling on the other henchmen to make "krutz" uncool.

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* ActionGirl: Rowen in the print comic.

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* ActionGirl: Rowen in the print comic. There are also quite a few that show up as one-offs, ranging from other adventurers to several female immortals (most if not all of whom killed Nodwick) in the ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' parody.



** [[spoiler:A more serious example is Utharr, who's eaten by a monster when the party first fight their {{Evil Counterpart}}s, then brought back because someone has to wear the Gauntlet of Supremacy and Yeager has managed to shake it off.]]



* [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Good thing you can resurrect]]: Inverted in the "World Without Piffany" story line. The second that Nodwick is unable to be resurrected on demand, suddenly he's able to escape certain death numerous times. Of course he also didn't have Yeagar and Artax there to throw into the way of certain death so that helped.

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* [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Good thing you can resurrect]]: Inverted in the "World Without Piffany" story line. The second that Nodwick is unable to be resurrected on demand, suddenly he's able to escape certain death numerous times. Of course he also didn't have Yeagar and Artax there to throw into the way of certain death death, so that helped.



* HumanPackMule: The main job of henchmen such as Nodwick. They have the ability to carry a much heavier load than their strength would otherwise allow.

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* HumanPackMule: The main job of henchmen such as Nodwick.Nodwick ([[ButtMonkey trap disarmer, dragon bait and monster chew toy only being regular side duties]]). They have the ability to carry a much heavier load than their strength would otherwise allow.



** It even causes a DistantFinale. Nodwick claims that This One Rock (A randomly selected stone from the volcano where This One Ring was made) had just as much power as This One Ring - meaning none at all. A hundred years later, [[IdenticalGrandson an adventuring party that bears a considerably resemblance to Nodwick's party]] finds This One Rock, [[MetaphoricqllyTrue believing that since it is just as powerful as This One Ring, it must also be an incredibly potent evil artifact]], and seeking to destroy it.

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** It even causes a DistantFinale. Nodwick claims that This One Rock (A randomly selected stone from the volcano where This One Ring was made) had just as much power as This One Ring - meaning none at all. A hundred years later, [[IdenticalGrandson an adventuring party that bears a considerably resemblance to Nodwick's party]] finds This One Rock, [[MetaphoricqllyTrue [[MetaphoricallyTrue believing that since it is just as powerful as This One Ring, it must also be an incredibly potent evil artifact]], and seeking to destroy it.



* JustThinkOfThePotential: everyone wishes that Artax would stop doing this.

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* JustThinkOfThePotential: everyone Everyone wishes that Artax would stop doing this.



-->''(Consulting with the Orb of Omniscience's creators)''\\
'''Not!Tom Baker:''' But his little clerical friend would be ''doomed'' in that scenario. She'd be crushed by the falling stones.\\
'''Artax:''' Piffany ''dying'' isn't an option.



* TokenEvilTeammate: No, not Yeagar; ''Artax'' is portrayed this way in the "Giants in the Earth" article dedicated to the crew in Dragon Magazine. Highlights of his past include the fact he left his last adventuring party specifically because he thought they were ''too heroic'', his blatantly implied role in murdering their former fighter (who was "mysteriously struck dead by lightning on an open field in the middle of a cloudless day"), and the fact he deliberately took up with Yeagar because said former party rejected Yeagar for not fitting their standards of behavior.

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* TokenEvilTeammate: No, not Yeagar; ''Artax'' is portrayed this way in the "Giants in the Earth" article dedicated to the crew in Dragon Magazine. Highlights of his past include the fact he left his last adventuring party specifically because he thought they were ''too heroic'', his blatantly implied role in murdering their former fighter (who was "mysteriously struck dead by lightning on an open field in the middle of a cloudless day"), and the fact he deliberately took up with Yeagar because said former party rejected Yeagar for not fitting their standards of behavior. Yeager is more likely to get this treatment in the actual stories, although it may just be that Artax 1) is more likely to have thought things through than Yeager, and 2) gets on slightly better with Nodwick, who is after all the usual viewpoint character.
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[[http://comic.nodwick.com/?chapters=the-dungeons-dragons-strips Here's old issues]], from Magazine/{{Dragon}} and Magazine/DungeonMagazine. [[http://comic.nodwick.com/?chapters=issue-01-the-adventure-begins Here's newer web comics.]]

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[[http://comic.nodwick.com/?chapters=the-dungeons-dragons-strips Here's old issues]], issues]] from Magazine/{{Dragon}} ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' and Magazine/DungeonMagazine.''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}''. [[http://comic.nodwick.com/?chapters=issue-01-the-adventure-begins Here's newer web comics.]]
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** It even causes a DistantFinale. Nodwick claims that This One Rock (A randomly selected stone from the volcano where This One Ring was made) had just as much power as This One Ring - meaning none at all. A hundred years later, [[IdenticalGrandson an adventuring party that bears a considerably resemblance to Nodwick's party]] finds This One Rock, [[FromACertainPointOfView believing that since it is just as powerful as This One Ring, it must also be an incredibly potent evil artifact]], and seeking to destroy it.

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** It even causes a DistantFinale. Nodwick claims that This One Rock (A randomly selected stone from the volcano where This One Ring was made) had just as much power as This One Ring - meaning none at all. A hundred years later, [[IdenticalGrandson an adventuring party that bears a considerably resemblance to Nodwick's party]] finds This One Rock, [[FromACertainPointOfView [[MetaphoricqllyTrue believing that since it is just as powerful as This One Ring, it must also be an incredibly potent evil artifact]], and seeking to destroy it.

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