History LetsPlay / SomethingAwfulDungeonsAndDragons

A tabletop RPG called Dungeons And Dragons was an unlikely candidate for the Something Awful let's play forum, until a team of plucky adventurers arrived to take on a world full of not only Dungeons And Dragons, but also insane time travelers, dance offs, and each other.

** Downplayed a bit with Bananaramawicz; while Bananaramawicz himself had a wide range of applications ''on paper,'' (Healer, tank, ranged attacker, party face) the way he was specced made it so, in reality, the only things he came close to excelling in were healing and being a face, and even then, Kensington and Joey, the two characters most reliant on Charisma, made the fact Bananaramawicz could use diplomacy moot. This is downplayed like with Minerelle above because for a time Bananaramawicz was the only dedicated healer in the party, meaning he still had a use. Joey can also heal, but nowhere near as efficiently.

* BadassBoast: Two in quick secession

* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: [[spoiler: Funnily enough, Algernon's death comes immediately after he's began boasting about his Strength score being the highest in the party...]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ironically enough, Joey. As much as he claims to only want money, there are ''dozens'' of moments in the campaign where Joey actually shows himself to be an overall decent person. He even lampshades it when trying to bring the elves and Bonerton into a mutual partnership despite Gibnaf baying for Elven blood, stating that he wouldn't profit either way, and just thought it was the right thing to do. Perhaps the sweetest moment is when a messenger of Ioun tells Joey his punishment for taking one of Ioun's books: Miriam Webster getting progressively worse punishment every hour. Keep in mind that Miriam has, at this point in the campaign, been gone an ''incredibly'' long time, and all the party members basically admit she's gone for good. [[spoiler: Thankfully, [[TheBusCameBack Miriam DOES rejoin the party only about nine sessions later]]]] How does Joey react, despite the fact Miriam has no way to thank him, reward him, or help him in ANY way? [[HeartWarmingMoments Joey shows genuine concern for someone who can do nothing for him, with one shocked word.]]

* CripplingOverspecialization: Minerelle is a character who relies on her massive Arcana roll to accomplish as much as possible. As a result of this, she isn't particularly useful in situations where she can't just throw Arcana at it till something happens. She suffers a bit from overspecializing in combat as well, since most of her attacks target the enemy's Will defense (and the one that doesn't was a fairly recent addition). As a result, whenever the party goes up against anything with an above average Will, she pretty much has no way to contribute to the battle.

* StatisticallySpeaking: Minerelle is a genius due to her huge Int. score. However she often makes ridiculously incorrect assumptions even with all the clue about her fellow party members as well as the world around her.

* [[OohMeAccentsSlipping Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Often, when Syrg forgets what accent is used for which character. Apafi is especially noticeable, with a different voice each time he appears. His first encounter with the party has him speaking like an old Lithuanian man. His appearance in the second Focus Tower has him being voiced by {{MyNameIsKaz}}, who uses his [[SonicUnleashed Professor Pickle]] voice. His third encounter has him taking a much more campy voice, which is lampshaded by everyone.

Sadly all the first season's video links appear now to be dead, with the audio only mirror (at time of writing) also being inaccessible. Approximately the first half of the first season is available on this [[https://www.youtube.com/user/magnacat93/ youtube account]] instead however.

* HumiliationConga: Algernon near the end of the tomb of horrors. First he got possessed forcing him to attack his part members, then threw off the ghost only to get re-possessed almost immediately. To fix this Minerelle and Gibnaf also take him over. [[spoiler: Then he gets hit with a soul trap and straight up dies, only to come back as [[ImprovisedGolem golem]], and almost dies again.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[CripplingOverspecialization Minerelle]] gets hit with a -2 to Int. checks and skills in the TombOfHorrors at which point she's had enough and tries to leave. This works out pretty well since she's the only one not [[EvilTwin cloned]] for a MirrorMatch but returns in time to help with it.

* Irony: Syrg tries to make the fight against [[ThatOneBoss Crazy]] [[BadAss Horse]] not an easy victory, and house rules that Minerelle's Dominate attack doesn't hit but can be used again. [[KarmicJackPot Guess what ends up trivializing Crazy Horse when Minerelle does it again, to the point Syrg starts drinking?]]

Some of these are now missing or have been taken down. But happily the lets play can instead be found uploaded on this [[https://www.youtube.com/user/magnacat93/ youtube account]].

* CowardlyLion: Minerelle, whose main tactic in battle is to get as far away from the combat as possible and snipe at her leisure, and tries to run whenever things get hairy. Ultimately though she sticks with her party despite running into multiple other telepaths (her greatest fear) and despite the general danger. She's perhaps one of the most powerful forces on the table, who, despite being limited in HOW she attacks people, works REALLY well with it. Dominate has solved MANY problems for the team, [[spoiler: "INCLUDING TURNING A PYROCLASTIC DRAGON FIVE LEVELS ABOVE THE PARTY WITH BAR NONE THE BIGGEST HEALTH BAR AND STRONGEST ATTACKS INTO A JOKE."]] She also stopped a possession, made an incredibly powerful shapeshifter by the name of Alfonso De Tambor nervous, AND TOOK CONTROL OF A HIVE MIND CONTROLLING DRAGON/BUG HYBRIDS. Cowardly LION indeed.

* CowardlyLion: Minerelle, whose main tactic in battle is to get as far away from the combat as possible and snipe at her leisure, and tries to run whenever things get hairy. Ultimately though she sticks with her party despite running into multiple other telepaths (her greatest fear) and despite the general danger. She's perhaps one of the most powerful forces on the table, who, despite being limited in HOW she attacks people, works REALLY well with it. Dominate has solved MANY problems for the team, [[spoiler: INCLUDING TURNING A PYROCLASTIC DRAGON FIVE LEVELS ABOVE THE PARTY WITH BAR NONE THE BIGGEST HEALTH BAR AND STRONGEST ATTACKS INTO A JOKE.]] She also stopped a possession, made an incredibly powerful shapeshifter by the name of Alfonso De Tambor nervous, AND TOOK CONTROL OF A HIVE MIND CONTROLLING DRAGON/BUG HYBRIDS. Cowardly LION indeed.

* SureWhyNot: Common in Syrg's [=DMing=] style. The party has, for instance, named Skullfucker Johnson the demon and the city of Bonerton, the latter of which became a running joke until they finally managed to visit it.

As of time of writing some of these sources have since been taken down partially or fully. They have also been uploaded to youtube [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOofr9utLpxaVedafCvyTrF3DzQ0vTaJO/ here]].

* CowardlyLion: Minerelle, whose main tactic in battle is to get as far away from the combat as possible and snipe at her leisure, and tries to run whenever things get hairy. Ultimately though she sticks with her party despite running into multiple other telepaths (her greatest fear) and despite the general danger.

* BigBad: TECHNICALLY Apafi, as his plotline is the most prevalent and discussed, as well as the most pressing, but the party doesn't actually see him often [[spoiler: Actually, at all.]] after he starts his master stroke. It's practically played for laughs, as, after the one year timeskip to Paragon tier, the first time Miriam decides to check on how much progress Apafi has made in destroying the multi-verse, Syrg has to be given some ideas as to what area of the multi-verse he has eaten...and ends up choosing a first level adventure module as the unfortunate victim of Apafi's power. It's lampshaded to hell and back as well, with Syrg sometimes using Apafi's name or goal as a joke, such as naming one of the paths in [[spoiler: Kensignton's]] school 'A pathi.' It's implied however that Apafi may be the end boss, and he is brought up multiple times in the party as being considered a threat, so the jury's still out whether or not Apafi will stay the big bad.

* Jerk with a heart of gold: Ironically enough, Joey. As much as he claims to only want money, there are DOZENS of moments in the campaign where Joey actually shows himself to be an overall decent person. He even lampshades it when trying to bring the elves and Bonerton into a mutual agreement, stating that he wouldn't profit either way, and just thought it was the right thing to do. Perhaps the sweetest moment is when a messenger of Ioun tells Joey his punishment for taking one of Ioun's books: Miriam Webster getting progressively worse punishment every hour. Keep in mind that Miriam has, at this point in the campaign, been gone an INCREDIBLY long time, and all the party members basically admit she's gone for good. [[spoiler: Thankfully, [[The Bus came back Miriam DOES rejoin the part only about nine sessions later]]]] How does Joey react, despite the fact Miriam has no way to thank him, reward him, or help him in ANY way? [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Joey shows genuine concern for someone who can do nothing for him, with one shocked word.]]
--> '''Joey''': [[BigWhat WHAT!?]]