History Podcast / PenAndPaper

* RunningGag: [[FanNickname Pants Fuck]] is an as-of-yet unnamed non-player character that appears multiple times, spouting NonSequitur and trying to pawn off something bizzare to the players.

A playlist of every session can be found and listened to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5P8eFzcO88&list=PLCopp_l3DdwsXrl2j-q_f_b5l__EKHP12&index=1 here.]]

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Most location names in Dren Hep that aren't made from foreign words are this. Examples include Crabber's Passage, Very Many Trees Forest, Some Boats Town, Furnace of Savings, 20% Off Your Entire Order City, Linda's Tavern Plus Other Buildings and Nondescript Sand. Naturally, these are taken as SeriousBusiness by the world's residents.

* WordSaladTitle: Any location names in Dren Hep that aren't made from foreign words are this. Examples include Crabber's Passage, Very Many Trees Forest, Some Boats Town, Furnace of Savings, 20% Off Your Entire Order City, Linda's Tavern Plus Other Buildings, Nondescript Sand, and [[WordPureeTitle Port Busterbongle.]] Naturally, these are taken as SeriousBusiness by the world's residents.

* MemeticMutation: Sliced ham is a delicacy in Dren Hep, and many historical locations are obsessed with it.
-->-- '''Jazz:''' Ham is the delicious flavor circle that I crave.
** What's going on down there?

* WordSaladTitle: Any location names in Dren Hep that aren't made from foreign words are this. Examples include Crabber's Passage, Very Many Trees Forest, Some Boats Town, Furnace of Savings, 20% Off Your Entire Order City, Linda's Tavern Plus Other Buildings, Nondescript Sand, and [[WordPureeTitle Port Busterbongle.]]

* WordSaladTitle: Any location names in Dren Hep that aren't made from foreign words are this. examples include Crabber's Passage, Very Many Trees Forest, Some Boats Town, Furnace of Savings, 20% Off Your Entire Order City, Linda's Tavern Plus Other Buildings, Nondescript Sand, and [[WordPureeTitle Port Busterbongle.]]

->"Stinkledworck begins to glow kind of... yellow-ish green? And then it becomes a color you've never really seen before, and then it fades."

* {{Dramedy}}: While the setting is made in a balancing act of unadulterated silly and stock fantasy, the story focuses a lot on the moral weight of a given situation, with lots of internal conflict and extrernal tension building between (and sometimes during the direct aftermath of) climaxes. This leads to lighter-hearted moments of OffTheRails humor alternating with heavy-hearted SeriousBusiness.

* EvilWeapon: Grekk'it finds a cursed dagger while searching Gerald's hideout. Almost immediately, it begins telling Grekk'it to kill people, [[AxCrazy which he promptly does.]] [[spoiler:For a chair.]]
* NeverSplitTheParty: Due to the large number of players, every now and then one or two will miss a session. At one point, this happens during the exploration of a major dungeon, and naturally the two players missing were both of the team's healers. HilarityEnsues.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The adventurer's guild will pretty much hire anyone they can find, and so the team ends up to be a hodgepodge of skills, talents, intellect and, occasionally, the lack thereof.

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/our_guys_1.png]] [[caption-width-right:350:The seven player characters, rendered in beautiful t-shirt quality. [[note]]From left to right, top to bottom: Armiarma, Umi, Jazz, Grekk'it, Remmie, Stinkledworck, Gnarbo[[/note]]]]

''Pen and Paper'' is a fantasy [[CloudCuckooLand Cloudcuckooland]] tabletop campaign created and played in the homebrew system of the same name. It follows the adventures of questing veteran Remmie Booker and six new recruits (Grekk'it Cooper, Jazz Chives, Stinkledwork Mcrubbinfuffer, Gnarbo, Armiarma and Umi) under the employ of the Adventurer's Guild through the continent of Dren Hep. Throughout their travels they fight through snowy mountains, barren deserts, and even oceansides infested with [[GiantEnemyCrab deadly crabs.]] [[ButWaitTheresMore That's not all though-]] the world is populated with the mind-numbingly melancholy as much as it is with the [[MindScrew mind-screwingly]] silly. A playlist of every session can be found and listened to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5P8eFzcO88&list=PLCopp_l3DdwsXrl2j-q_f_b5l__EKHP12&index=1 here.]]

* NeverSplitTheParty: Due to the large number of players, every now and then one or two will miss a session. At one point, this happens during the exploration of a major dungeon, and naturally the two players missing were both of the team's healers.