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* TheChick: Being the only female on the team, Mildred tends to fall into this category, despite having a fierce and intimidating nature. Although she does have a mothering side to her character, often its shown to a hostage...right after the party has just murdered their friends right in front of them.

%%* FiveManBand: Although not in the traditional sense, each team member plays the following parts.

'''Nerd Poker: Dungeons & Dragons with Brian Posehn & Friends''' is a comedic roleplaying podcast featuring Creator/BrianPosehn and his comedian friends on the EarwolfPodcastNetwork. The cast consists of five adventurers who were brought together after the hijacking of the pleasure cruise liner known as "The Queen's Laurel" by mysterious beings known as "the Collectors."

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* TeamPet: Stargoyle. See also RidiculouslyCuteCritter, as well as EmpathyPet / BondCreature / NonHumanSidekick for Blackee.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Damien Wormwood Darkomen.

* FiveManBand: Although not in the traditional sense, each team member plays the following parts.
-->TheHero: While initially, no one in particular is the leader amongst the group. However, as the adventure progresses, the new addition of Sir Richard seems to fulfill this role.
-->TheLancer: Blackee Green
-->TheSmartGuy: Bartho Shett, although he tends to show more cowardice rather than any insight through their adventures.
-->TheChick: Being the only female on the team, Mildred tends to fall into this category, despite having a fierce and intimidating nature. Although she does have a mothering side to her character, often its shown to a hostage...right after the party has just murdered their friends right in front of them.
-->TheBigGuy: Take a wild guess.

* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: Happens with hilarious and/or disastrous results whenever anyone in the gang rolls a 1 on the dice, also known as a 'botch'. Amarth follows this to a tee and impales his own leg with his sword while on the catwalk of the Collector Base.
** In the flashback segments of the show, the party few a few historical botches from back in the day when they played casually.
** In one flashback, Sark recalls a time when Sarah's character attempted an elaborate acrobatic attack against a zombie horde and tripped, resulting in a zombie suckling on her leg.
** In another flashback segment, Brian and Gerry reminisce about the time Gerry's character died while trying to sneak up on a dragon that was protecting a horde of treasure (while in full plated armor) and then botching on the roll, resulting in Gerry's character being sat upon and killed.
* FiveRaces: Mildred as the dwarf, Sir Richard as the human, Amarth as the goliath, Blackee as an elf and El Ryan as a High Elf, and Bartho Shett as half human half dragon.
* TeamPet: Stargoyle. See also RidiculouslyCuteCritter, as well as EmpathyPet / BondCreature / NonHumanSidekick for Blackee.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Damien Wormwood Darkomen.
* TheMultiverse: The Collectors seem to be "collecting" people from other worlds for some dire purpose.

As time went on, some new player characters have been introduced [[spoiler:to replace those that died]]:

As time went on, some new player characters have been introduced:
* '''Sir Richard''', played by Gerry, a human paladin from the "fucking rad" city-state of Glinnishmore, who often shows rather poor judgment in dealing with threats.
* '''Damien Wormwood Darkomen''', played by Brian, a Priest of Judas who shops at Hot Topic and was designed with the intent of pissing Sir Richard off.

-->*In the flashback segments of the show, the party few a few historical botches from back in the day when they played casually.
-->*In one flashback, Sark recalls a time when Sarah's character attempted an elaborate acrobatic attack against a zombie horde and tripped, resulting in a zombie suckling on her leg.
-->*In another flashback segment, Brian and Gerry reminisce about the time Gerry's character died while trying to sneak up on a dragon that was protecting a horde of treasure (while in full plated armor) and then botching on the roll, resulting in Gerry's character being sat upon and killed.

* '''Sir Richard''', a human paladin from the "fucking rad" city-state of Glinnishmore, who often shows rather poor judgment in dealing with threats.
* '''Damien Wormwood Darkomen''', Priest of Judas, who shops at Hot Topic and was designed with the intent of pissing Sir Richard off.

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