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Angela Hawthorne
Angela Palmer
Lawful Good Human 
Paladin, Oath of Devotion (Formerly Fighter, Battlemaster)
A heroine from Waterdeep, the daughter of the Waterdhavian captain of the City Guard, who embarks on a journey to form an adventuring party whose name brings to mind protectors and saviors of the Sword Coast, in hopes of finding her convicted father one day.
Angela Hawthorne is played by Angela Palmer, who spent much of her childhood playing with the other kids at the neighborhood while her father worked at sea as one of the admirals of the Royal Canadian Navy. She grew a colorful and imaginative mind, and had dreams and fantasies of embarking on adventures and taking on dragons, which she decided to fulfill when she joined one of Zack's games as a player.
- Action Girl: Naturally. Most of her swordfighting skills was learned from her father before his arrest.
- All There in the Manual: Outside of the comic's first Who's Who? Intermission, the description of Angela Hawthorne's Sheet
covers her backstory in great detail, from her birth all the way to the present. - Alternate Self: Both Angela Hawthorne and Angela Palmer are just about one and the same person, with the only difference being their place of birth, their upbringing, and their last names.
- Atrocious Alias: A part of her Backstory reveals that Angela had forgotten to come up with a fake name before disguising herself aboard a pirate ship, and ended up improvising one when questioned by the ship's captain. She called 'himself', "Guybrush Threepwood! Mighty pirate!"
- Beta Outfit: Before putting on her signature plate armor made by her father's blacksmith friend, Angela wore a splint armor at that time.
- Celibate Hero: When the party is hired to take care of a dragon that hungers for virgin flesh, it turns out that Angela refuses to have premarital sex. Apparently even Eriawynn, a priest, has had sex before.
- Clear Their Name: The most important objective behind her adventuring aside from finding her falsely convicted father. If she cannot rescue him, the very least she could do is to do good and help the people of the Sword Coast in hopes that this will clear his name.
- Cool Big Sis: Angela Palmer is this to her cousin, Katie Kendall.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Played for Laughs in the first episode, where after being bullied by a trio of Tiefling rogues in the tavern, the next panel shows the outside of it on fire, implied to be her doing. She apologises in the next episode and was forgiven by both the bruised-up Tieflings and the keeper of the tavern... Then this trope happens again when Casanova Wannabe Spoony tries to hit on her. Cue her and the rogues going into Pervert Revenge Mode on the bard.
- Holy Halo: An angelic Halo briefly appears above her head whenever she performs a smite.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Zigzagged. On one hand, she is able to rightfully deduce a wizard's evil nature with her divine senses. On the other hand, she apologises to the Antipaladin for judging him by his appearance, nevermind the fact that he was trying to explain to her he was about to sacrifice his puppy in a dark ritual.
- How Do I Shot Web?: Upon becoming a paladin, Angela tries to figure out how the class' spells work. And then she summons a horse with 'Find Steed', which ends up unintentionally sparking a bar fight.
- It Was a Gift: Angela's iconic plate armor is a gift from her father; before he went missing, he commissioned a blacksmith friend of his to have it made for her to wear once she was old enough.
- I Will Find You: Tracking down the whereabouts of her Disappeared Dad is one of the main driving forces behind her taking up adventuring.
- Knight in Shining Armor: A fighter who wears a knight-like plate armor, and later on follows an oath that encourages her to be an Ideal Hero.
- Martial Pacifist: She prefers diplomacy over fighting, but when forced into the latter option, she'll make sure to finish off her foes with a well-placed Divine Smite.
- Meaningful Name: Being a paladin who strives to bring forth goodness to her world while subjecting evil to their deserved retribution, her name befits her.
- Military Brat: Her father was a well-respected captain of the Waterdeep City Guard, and she idolize him to the point of begging him to teach her swordfighting.
- Modesty Shorts: She wears black shorts underneath her blue dress, though her player counterpart Subverts this in episode 30 where a panel shows a rather generous view of her backside without a skirt, her form-fitting bike shorts doing little to hide it.
- The Paladin: Angela attained her paladinhood when Kiruto killed a soldier she was interrogating before he could reveal the holding place of her missing father.
- Reduced to Dust: This is what happens to those on the receiving end of her smite, as Kiruto and Tsiflam can attest.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Turns down an offer of gold from someone due to her oath. And considering who that 'someone' was...
- Survival Mantra: Played for Laughs when she learns Eriawynn has spent most of the party's gold on a useless weapon.Angela: Must uphold my oath... must uphold my oath... must uphold my oath...
- Sweet Polly Oliver: Before sneaking on board a pirate ship in search of her mother's killer, Angela cut her hair short and wrapped cloth around her chest to hide her breasts in order to pass off as a young boy in a crew full of male, grown-up pirates, though the captain sees through the disguise anyways since she is female as well.
- Token Human: She's the only human in a party that consists of an Elf, a Tiefling, a Dwarf and a Firbolg.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Angela always wears her hair in a ponytail, and only unties it whenever she is sleeping.
- Youthful Freckles: Being a tomboy who is brimming with idealism and energy, freckles complements those traits nicely.
Eriawynn Jhaeros
Sara Shirakawa
Neutral Good Wood Elf 
Cleric (Lathander, Life Domain)
A naïve but well-meaning elf who was chosen as the representative of her home village among the order of clerics at the Temple of Lathander in Myth Drannor.
Eriawynn is played by Sara Shirakawa, a half-Japanese who had recently moved to Canada and became best friends with Angela.
- Mental Health Recovery Arc: For Sara, playing Dungeons and Dragons with her friends is one way to help her cope and recover from... whatever traumatic event that befell her after she got along with Angela.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Eriawynn ends up sinking most of the party's loot into the powerful but intangible Non-Fungible Trident. For her trouble, she makes Rumples distraught at the uselessness of the item, gets strangled by Redwen and pushes Angela to the edge of Jumping Off the Slippery Slope.
- The Power of the Sun: She's a cleric of Lathander, the Faerûnian sun-god, and a lot of her spells take the form of bright light.
- Romantic Wingman: invoked upon her by Filia who asked to bless her marriage with Spoony, though Eriawynn did not mind.
- Token Religious Teammate: She's the only member of the party who's explicitly religious, worshipping Lathander. Angela is a paladin, but is not stated to worship any god, and many paladins draw power from more abstract concepts than literal gods.
- White Mage: She knows how to cast Cure Wounds as well as other spells learned by Clerics within the Life domain.
Redwen
Agatha Gauthier
Chaotic... Questionable? Tiefling (Asmodeus Ancestry) 
Rogue (Arcane Trickster)
A Street Urchin who turned towards crime after fleeing from the home of a Waterdhavian noble. She desires to build a reputation for herself in order to get a lot of food and gold.
She is played by Agathia Gauthier, a grade school teacher who is overwhelmed by the demands of her new job. Agatha vents her frustration by dressing up like a Goth during the weekends as well as partaking in recreational hobbies, one of which includes playing as an edgy, dark Tiefling rogue in a game of Dungeons and Dragons.
- Abusive Parents: While we did not see much of how her real parents treated her (since they already abandoned her when she was a baby), her adoptive father definitely counts for this trope, treating her like a maid and calling her a filthy demonspawn. It is no wonder why she decided to kill him before leaving his house to make a new life for herself.
- Adopt-a-Servant: Her adoptive father treated her more like a house servant than a beloved daughter. The dress he made young Redwen wear invokes this image.
- Ambiguously Evil: It is hard to pinpoint where she lies on the good-evil alignment axis. Even her alignment is described as "Chaotic Questionable".
- Berserk Button: Gets upset whenever a situation comes up that results in the party not getting paid. Or worse, causing a loss of their loot for nothing, like Eriawynn's investment into the Non-Fungible Trident did.
- By the Lights of Their Eyes: Redwen's eyes glow in the dark, and she spooks Angela with them when she speaks to her in episode 4.
- Cerebus Retcon: Redwen's Punny Name turns out to be a variation of the nickname, "Red One" that her abusive adoptive father used to address her with.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Redwen's parents left her on the doorsteps of an orphanage when she was a baby, she grows up in the orphanage unloved, then gets adopted by a noble who orders her around like a slave before being murdered by her in his sleep before her escape, spending the rest of her childhood subsisting on whatever scraps she could steal.
- Deal with the Devil: Redwen's birth is implied to be the side effects of this. Her real parents, Eleanor and Cedric made a deal with a mysterious benefactor who could turn their worthless mine into a motherlode of gems, in exchange for nothing but their most precious gem, one that they'd come by in the future. When it turned out that "precious gem" was actually their daughter, they left her at an orphanage tenday before the collection, in hopes that the devil would not come for her and take them instead.
- Defeat Means Friendship: After Angela thrashed them and the Tavern off-screen, Redwen compliments her strength, and ends up joining the main party on nearly every episode onwards.
- Face–Heel Turn: When Tsiflam attempts to bribe the party with a treasure chest, Redwen walks over to his side much to the shock of her allies. Subverted, when Redwen backstabs him in the middle of his Evil Gloating, allowing Angela to finish him off.
- Foil: Serves as this to Angela, who also has Parental Abandonment issues like her. Whereas Angie is an honourable Celibate Hero who adheres strictly to her oath, Redwen is a thieving Tease who defies the law.
- Happily Adopted: Averted. Although the Selûnites that took her in as a baby were nice to her, she still felt unloved in the end. Then she finally gets adopted by a Waterdhavian noble... who turns out to be an abusive man who only used her as means of skirting around Waterdeep's anti-slavery laws.
- Human-Demon Hybrid: Naturally, all Tieflings are humans whose ancestry either got mixed with that of extraplanar beings from the lower planes or were cursed to be born the way they are. Redwen discusses the social stigma part with Angela, implying that her parents abandoned her because they probably did not want others to look at them wrong for having a Tiefling baby.
- Immune to Fire: Downplayed in episode 10, where slight burns and a loss of conscience were the only worst injuries she received after being scorched by a fire trap she set off accidentally. Tieflings are resistant to fire, not immune.
- Innate Night Vision: She has Darkvision as Tieflings usually do. However, it doesn't allow her to perceive colours in low-light conditions, which comes to bite her in the ass when she steps into a dark room filled with traps that are marked by red tiles.
- The Hedonist: She loves money, good food, money, a comfy bed with a side of sexy company, money, and all other pleasures of life. Is it also mentioned that she loves money, too?
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She may be jaded about the world around her, steal from people and even strangle her own party member for wasting gold, but she would never betray her own party for a bribe, and would even give up gold (albeit reluctantly) to save a child's life.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: She can hardly keep her hands off shiny objects when visiting other people's residence, best shown in Episode 32 where she tries to steal gem statues while Angela and Laeral Silverhand are holding a conversation.
- Master of One Magic: In Episode 17, Redwen demonstrates her innate cantrip Thaumaturgy by Milking the Giant Cow, with blue flames flaring up around her as she shouts in a loud, hammy voice. And the worst part is, she can cast it as many times as she wants.
- Orphan's Plot Trinket: The locket that she was left with when her parents abandoned her eventually turns out to be this in Episode 35, where it is suddenly pulled towards the Magic Mirror that the party just found, inserting itself into a slot before the mirror shows a Flashback, of her real parents leaving her on the doorsteps of an orphanage just tenday before the devil collects his due.
- Parental Abandonment: She was left on the doorsteps of an orphanage as a baby, and has only pictures of them in her locket to remember them by.
- Pet the Dog: Despite being furious at Eriawynn for blowing all their gold on a useless item, Redwen decides to use the treasure they found from Tsiflam's store to resurrect the Missing Child at the temple of Lathander.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: Redwen shuts Tsiflam up as he gloats to her party by stabbing him in the back. When pressed with the consequence of his research sinking with him, she tells him to keep it before letting Angela smite him.Tsiflam: Fools. If you kill me... Vast knowledge dies with me...Redwen: You can keep it, you monster.
- Street Urchin: This became her primary background when turned towards burglary and pickpocketing in the streets once she escaped from the Waterdhavian noble who 'adopted' her.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Her mother looks a lot like her, right down to the hairstyle she currently possesses in her adulthood.
- Tragic Keepsake: Carries a locket with pictures of her real parents ever since she was born. She gets very distressed whenever it gets taken away from her.
Rumples Rockfist
Katie Kendall
Lawful Good Mountain Dwarf 
Fighter (Battlemaster)
One of the fighters in employ of the Forgetenders, a Dwarven organization found by the heroes who stopped the Fire Giant Duke Zalto's evil scheme. He joins Angela, Eriawynn and Redwen on their adventures whenever he is off-duty.
Rumples is played by Katie Kendall, a cousin of Angela's who is entrusted to her care during the weekends.
- Cross Player: The male Rumples is played by the female Katie.
- Recurring Character: Unlike the other members of the party, Rumples is infrequently absent in some episodes. Justified both in character and outside of character— Rumples has to return to his duties under the Forgetenders, whereas his player Katie only attends the sessions on weekends.
- The Roleplayer: Initially, Katie has a hard time roleplaying Rumples, such as hiding in terror because she's scared when they face a monster. Angela evenually gives her a peptalk encouraging her to think not of what she would do, but of what Rumples, the courageous dwarven warrior, would do. After this, she becomes very comfortable stepping into the role of her character.
- Tagalong Kid: Being a kid underneath the care of her older cousin, Katie ended up being introduced to Dungeons and Dragons and became one of Zack's newest players.
- Tempting Fate: When Rumples boast about the dungeon being so easy, the others shut him up in an attempt to defy this trope, though unfortunately the Forever DM has already caught on and let this trope play straight by introducing the party to an Adult Red Dragon.
- The One Guy: Until Rudolph joined later on, Rumples is (technically) this to the otherwise all-female party.
- Token Mini-Moe: Outside of the game his player, Katie is the youngest out of all partaking in Zack's games.
The Forever DM
Zackary Fairmont
Questionably Good Unearthly Dungeon Master 
Path of The Forever DM
A mysterious figure who is responsible for running everything that happens in the webcomics. He is one of the few Game Masters who have taken up the mantle of the Forever DM, dedicating himself to creating worlds and weaving tales and stories around them and the characters which the players cast themselves as, and makes it his responsibility to ensure that the players enjoy the games in the process.
Behind the Forever DM persona is Zack Fairmont, a club Bouncer who became a huge fan of D&D after playing it with his mother as a kid one day. He has run CYOA-style games of his own with other friends and the group he created with Angela, Sara, Agatha and a few others have received most of his attention and love.
- Author Avatar: Is this to DoodlePoodle's close friend who runs a real-life D&D campaign he's in as the DM.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Takes on the appearance of a malevolent and mischievious figure who seems like he takes a liking to tormenting the adventurers with his traps and trickery. Despite this, he is there to make sure that the players are all having fun during his games.
- Game Master: The Forever DM is responsible for running the world the party are in, giving them quests to take up as well as NPCs to converse with while setting up dungeons and pitting monsters against them.
- The Narrator: He fills in this role, describing the environment, the results of party's actions and the appearance of a new party member.
- Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: Not so much as that as it is Rock Falls, Someone Dies. When the resident Munchkin Kiruto spends the whole game stealing the party's loot, not helping out in fights and derailing a story by killing an important NPC, the Forever DM decides to turn blind-eye to the rulebook as he changes Angela's class to paladin before letting her smite him.
- Rule of Fun: Makes sure that his players are having a good time as they overcome the challenges he set for them. He is also not above ignoring the rules if one of the party members excessively spoils the fun for the others.
Rudolph
Mark Powell
A Firbolg barbarian who joins the party as one of its latest additions.
He is played by Mark Powell, who is currently in a relationship with Angela.
- Gonk: Downplayed. Rudolph is actually fairly handsome, but his Firbolg race gives him a very large and red nose, which disappoints Angela since she had expected him to play a handsome paladin.
- Love Interest: His player, Mark Powell is the boyfriend/fiancé of Angela Palmer.
- Punny Name: Named after Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for having a red nose as Firbolgs typically do.
- One-Man Army: Rudolph singlehandedly clears out an entire horde of bandits that guards the burned mansion belonging to Eleanor and Cedric.
- The One Guy: Outside the game, Mark is the only male player in a group full of girls if one does not count the DM.
- Stealthy Colossus: Ironically for a class that focuses on the loud, berserker type of playstyle, Rudolph can turn invisible and sneak behind enemy lines to wreak havoc on the brigands that took over the burned-down mansion. This makes sense when one takes into account the Firbolg's innate trait, Hidden Step, which allows him to turn invisible as a bonus action up to a number of times equal to his proficiency bonus.
Recurring Characters
Bluriel
One of Redwen's former companions before she joined Angela's party.
- Childhood Friends: She once lived in the same orphanage as Redwen and Luv'Ander when they were kids.
- Hypocritical Humor: She tells Angela the human fighter to become more special unique just like her and her friends, and all the other patrons in the tavern who all happen to be Tiefling rogues.
- Out of Focus: Bluriel is pushed aside to background role once her friend Redwen joins the main party.
- Punny Name: Shares a color-themed name with Redwen and Luv'Ander.
Luv'Ander
One of Redwen's former companions before she joined Angela's party.
- Childhood Friends: He's seen living with Redwen and Bluriel in the same orphanage run by Selûnites.
- Cross Player: He is played by someone who is a woman.
- Gender Bender: His body suddenly becomes more feminine to the point where it has breasts which he covers when he breaks character during Angela and the Tieflings' Pervert Revenge Mode.
- Hypocrisy Nod: ...Which Angela calls him out on. He admits that he forgot.
- Out of Focus: Just like his friend Bluriel, they spend more time in the background once Redwen joins Angela's party as its member.
- Punny Name: Shares a color-themed name with Redwen and Bluriel.
- Stripperific: Is dressed in nothing but a cape, some long gloves and boots, and a thong. Makes it rather ironic when he calls Angela's armor 'sexist' despite it covering far more than his attire by sevenfold, and even moreso since his player is the opposite of his gender.
- Take That!: His calling Angela's armor misogynistic because of the boobplate brings to mind the people who criticise Bo-Katan and Kosha's armor on Twitter.
Tavernkeeper
An ordinary keeper of the Session Zero Inn & Tavern where many heroes hang out at.
- The Bartender: As the tavernkeeper, he serves food and drinks as well as provide accomodations to all weary adventurers.
- Insurance Fraud: Implied at least. The Tavernkeeper makes half of his income from insurance money, which he gains every time his tavern gets destroyed. And the dwarf insurance broker he is seen receiving bags of gold from is Flipping the Bird at him.
- Turn the Other Cheek: Easily forgives Angela for destroying his tavern for first time. Somewhat justified since half of his tavern income comes from insurance.
Spoony
A Tiefling bard who likes to perform, woo and bed the patrons visiting the tavern.
- Accidental Marriage: He becomes subject to this by Filia as she stops her father from frying him with his lightning breath before asking Eriawynn to bless their marriage, much to his confusion.
- The Bard: His stylish costume and the fact that he is playing a lute shouts "he's a bard".
- Commitment Issues: He runs like hell as soon as he finds out Filia wants to marry him, although this ends up being subverted in the next episode where he and Filia appear in.
- Happily Married: Episode 16 reveals he does not mind being in a relationship with Filia at all, and he asks Eriawynn to wrap up
- Horny Bard: In the first panel where he is introduced, he rolls to seduce Angela, despite the Forever DM pointing out he cannot make seduction checks against other player characters. He is also seen walking out of Filia's bedroom just as the party were practicing on giving relationship advice to her with her father. This turns back on him when it turns out that the dragon he seduced is quite set on settling down in a permanent relationship.
- Interspecies Romance: Though it is not known who were the other women he slept with, we do know that he's in a relationship with a bronze dragon.
- Odd Name Out: He's the only Teifling whose name isn't color related.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Spoony flees as Filia chases him in her dragon form after the latter locks him in a marriage with her.Filia: "Ooohohoho! You can't escape true love!"
- Too Kinky to Torture: Asks for more as Angela, Redwen and Bluriel smack and stomp him down on the floor.
Filia
The rebellious daughter of the Bronze Dragon As'trasahar who has a rocky relationship with him.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She is a sweet and kind girl who just happens to be a bit rebellious and likes to have fun. She is also a dragon, and thus in a weightclass far beyond any other character in the comic save her father and Laeral. After some thugs threaten her husband, she turns the entire tavern to ash with next to no effort on her part.
- Elopement: The party's attempt to reconcile the two ends with her running off with Spoony to elope.
- Freudian Excuse: Her mother's death is implied to be the reason why she acts like The Hedonist; she wants to enjoy her life as much as possible before some evil chromatic dragon ends it like it did hers.
- Happily Married: She ends up getting wed to Spoony, courtesy of Eriawynn for giving them her blessings.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She spends her days and nights partying at the tavern, bedding many boys there.
- Interspecies Romance: A bronze dragon who falls in love with a tiefling. Most of the partners who slept with her are also implied to be humans by her father.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is simply the Latin word for "daughter".
- Missing Mom: She mentioned her mother's life to have at the hands of some evil chromatic dragon.
- Really Gets Around: She's stated to have bedded with a lot of men at the tavern before she met Spoony.
- Shotgun Wedding: Inverted. It was her, not her father As'trasahar, who forces Spoony into a marriage with her.
- Shock and Awe: Like her father, Filia can use her lightning abilities as a Bronze Dragon and does so to a destructive effect, leaving behind Session Zero Tavern as a smouldering ruin. Again.
- Shout-Out: She's named after a character in Slayers.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: She growls at the orc and goliath pair when they approach her new husband, ready to bash his head for making jokes of their races. The result of their confrontation is yet another tavern destruction.
- Weredragon: She can shapeshift between her dragon form and her human form like most metallic dragons, although she prefers to stay in her human form most of the time.
Other Characters
Arthur Hawthorne
A father of three children who is married to Sabine of House Thann. He is the well-esteemed captain of the Waterdeep City Guard— well, he was, before that one fateful night when he was put under arrest for allegedly commiting high treason. Angela believes he is still an innocent man, and thus set out on a quest to find and save him from imprisonment, or at least hope that her good deeds will help clear his marred name.
- Disappeared Dad: He is taken away by some guards in different uniforms to an unknown place, leaving behind his wife and their children to scrape by themselves. Angela searching for him is a major part of her Story Arc.
- Mentor Archetype: Prior to his arrest, he served as this to his daughter, Angela teaching her swordfighting skills when the little girl begged him to do so.
- Resigned in Disgrace: Up until his arrest, he was a respected military instructor to not just the Waterdeep City Guard, but also other military forces within the Sword Coast.
Sabine Hawthorne
A mother of three children who is the wife of Arthur Hawthorne. She is a gifted artisan and painter who loved and cared for her children. All that changed when her husband ended up getting arrested and although she tried hard to prove him innocent, the law did not budge. It was not long until her life was cut short by the blades of the assassins who bear Shar's unholy symbol.
- All for Nothing: Her attempts to acquit her husband end in vain, and costed her life.
- Death by Origin Story: Sabine's death, alongside her husband's arrest is what spurred their middle daughter Angela to head out and investigate the causes behind her murder in the first place.
- Missing Mom: Shortly some time after her husband's arrest, Sabine met her end one fateful night at the hands of Shar-worshipping assassins.
- Post Humous Character: She is already dead by the time Angela gathers other adventurers for the party.
Kiruto
A new player who temporarily joined the main party. He was the best warlock they ever had, and all the players, even the DM were sad to see him go.
- Catchphrase: "It's what my character would do!"
- Expy: He is both based on and an amalgamation of both Dante and Kirito. He has the white hair, red open coat with no shirt underneath of the former. With the dual blades, too many belts, the Bishōnen looks, half of his name being based on the latter.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Though they're most likely for show as we don't get to see him fighting anything with them, even the abberations that he left up to the party to defend themselves against.
- The Killjoy: Gets easily bored by roleplaying, and will cut it short to get on with the game at the expense of other players' fun.
- The Millstone: Contributed absolutely nothing to the party before taking the boot; he stole the party's loot for himself, refused to help them fight off Grells and even killed a man in the middle of answering Angela's important question. To say that the party were unhappy about him being with them would be an understatement.
- Munchkin: Uses his character's personality as a flimsy excuse to get away with screwing over the party and is quickly bored by RP stuff. And then he cries foul play to the DM when Angela suddenly smites him despite not being a paladin when they played.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: His last catchphrase gets cut off as Angela slashes him in half. Fitting, given what he did to the man she was questioning for her father's holding location.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Killed a man before Angela could find out where her father is being held, much to her dismay. The Forever DM has enough of him, and so decides to ignore Angela's rule-breaking when she smites him despite not being a paladin.
- Ninja Looting: Is shown keeping the spoils of victory for the party all to himself in the first panel of an episode he appears in, and serves as the trope's current page image.
- Shout-Out: His name is a portmanteau of Kirito and Naruto.
- Stupid Evil: has “no reason to care for his party” and therefore sits out of fights with monsters who will likely kill him if they win. Also fails to realise that his party can and will kick him out if he doesn’t contribute until they do.
- Take That!: His name, appearance and personality are a not so subtle jab at not only those who are a little too enthusiastic about Japanese tropes and media but also Munchkin-type players.
- Token Evil Teammate: Deconstructed. Being a selfish murderhobo who does not give a crap about his fellow adventurers, the party (and the DM) gladly return his sentiment by kicking him out of the game.
- Too Many Belts: Has not one but *six* belts on his person.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Is a white-haired warlock who has "no reason to care for his party".
As'trasahar
An adult bronze dragon whom the party helps with his issues regarding his daughter, Filia.
- Benevolent Boss: To the surprise of the adventurers, who expected an evil chromatic dragon with a taste for virgins, the assumed victims of his kidnappings actually reveal themselves to be maids who are voluntarily employed to serve him, the bronze dragon, who treats them well and pays them handsomel for their time.
- Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Is very pissed off when Spoony walks out of his daughter's bedroom shirtless, having laid her behind his back. Filia ended up loving him a lot though, and when the two run off to elope (or rather, Spoony runs away from her to avoid being wedded), he could only watch in silence before giving the party a Facepalm for their help.
- Shock and Awe: As a Bronze Dragon, breathing lightning comes naturally for him and his daughter.
Brian
A small intellect devourer that suddenly appeared on the streets while the party were begging for gold.
- And I Must Scream: Retains the old personality of its host, and is understandably terrified about its ordeal.
- Back from the Dead: The party brings him back to life as a human at the Temple of Lathander after they defeat Tsiflam, using the treasure that the wizard attempted to bribe them with to afford the Resurrection cost.
- Body Horror: His real body had the top half of his head already sawed off by the time the party found him, a result of Tsiflam extracting his brain to transform it into an Intellect Devourer.
- Brain Monster: Just like other Intellect Devourers, it is a brain walking on four reptilian-like legs. Though unlike them, it is much smaller in comparison and has no abilities it can use.
- Came Back Wrong: Something happened to it in the middle of its transformation that caused it to be smaller than other Devourers, and retain its memories as a human boy.
- Forced Transformation: Turned out to be the way it is because of Tsiflam's research.
- Missing Child: The poster of a missing child turns out to be the Chekhov's Gun that leads Angela back to Tsiflam.
- Non-Malicious Monster: It does not attack the party even as they point their weapons at it.
- Punny Name: Brian is a simple placement of letters off from brain.
- Quaking with Fear: When the party shows it to Tsiflam, it trembles when the wizard shows interest in it. Justified, since the wizard is the one who pulled it out of its body. His body.
- Visual Pun: When Angela tells Redwen to "Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter", Redwen points at it while it is crawling in a literal gutter.
- Was Once a Man: It was once an ordinary human boy before he got kidnapped by Tsiflam and had his brain extracted and turned into what it is. The party manages to give him back his humanity in the end.
Tsiflam
An old wizard who runs an emporium in Waterdeep and spends most of his time researching Illithids.
- Arc Villain: The first non-comedic villain who plays an active role in a Story Arc involving an Intellect Devourer.
- Bad Samaritan: When the party presents him with a harmless Intellect Devourer, Tsiflam takes it in, promising the party he'll save whoever poor soul got transformed into it. Angela's divine sense enabled them to act before he was going to do anything heinous to it.
- Brain Theft: Has extracted the brain of Brian which he ends up transforming into an Intellect Devourer. And then the backroom where the party found Brian's body revealed he is not the only one subject whose brain got stolen...
- Evil Gloating: Gloats to the party that their Tiefling friend is smart enough to not make a foe out of him when she walks to his side. Then she Backstabs him while he's in the middle of boasting about becoming the next Blackstaff.
- Evil Sorcerer: He fits the bill of being a villain who wields magic.
- Familiar: Tsiflam owns a crow familiar that is actually a quasit that polymorphed itself into one.
- Femme Fatalons: A rare male example. Tsiflam has long, pointy fingernails that hint not-so-subtly at his true nature.
- It's All About Me: Considers one life of an innocent child insignificant in comparison to what he is about to accomplish with his research.
- Knight of Cerebus: Unlike other objectionably evil characters, nothing about him is ever Played for Laughs, whatsoever.
- Playing with Syringes: He has a thing for sawing off his captives' craniums for their brains on which he conducts experiments.
- The Resenter: Holds a long grudge against the late Khelben Blackstaff whom he claims has snatched away his "rightful position" at the Blackstaff Tower from him. So long was his grudge that Angela lampshaded it.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Tsiflam has claimed that some of the Masked Lords of Waterdeep support his research, and that justifies him cutting out people's brains in the name of advancement.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: He attempted to get the party to turn a blindeye to his inhumane research in exchange for his chest of gold. Most of the party defies this... except for Redwen who defects to his side, seemingly accepting his bribery... until she winds up stabbing him in the back, defying this trope once more.
- Starter Villain: The first speaking antagonist of the webcomic who is not a subversion.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Episode 32 implies this might be the case as Tsiflam's research on Mind flayers, supported by some of the Masked Lords, is presumably done to help find methods of dealing with the recent emergence of Illithid threats in Baldur's Gate. However, Tsiflam is more outward about his desire to be granted the rank of Blackstaff, so this may not be the case.
- Would Hurt a Child: One of his latest victims is a boy whom he has no problem with stealing a brain from.
The Kender
A minute being who serves as the party's guide in one dungeon.
- Borrowed Without Permission: As typical of their race's hat, they ste— err, I mean... "borrow" some of the party's possessions, which include Rumples' coinpurse, Eriawynn's holy symbol and Redwen's locket.
- The Cat Came Back: After being tied up with rope (that is enchanted to untie itself after some time has passed) and stuffed inside a chest, the Kender somehow manages to follow the party's trail all the way to the inn where they were sleeping at, and reintroduces themselves by entering their room through the fireplace.
- Eyes Always Shut: Never once does the Kender opens their eyes in any panel they appear in.
- Faux Horrific: Eriawynn and Redwen becomes terrified of the three-and-a-half foot tall humanoid once they track them all the way to the tavern they were sleeping at.
- Fearless Fool: Attempts to pick a fight with an Owlbear while the party tries to sneak past it. Heck, the Kender even congratulates the party on pulling off an 'elaborate prank' whereas anybody else would have been mad at them.
- Let Me at Him!: Just like a certain miniature dog, the Kender says this almost word-for-word when they try to charge at the Owlbear.
- Motor Mouth: The Kender talks so much to the point where it looks like their mouth grows bigger on each panel.
- Noodle Incident: Apparently a group of Kenders were dropped onto Toril by a Hadozee spelljammer captain, and it was a tough decision between that or jettisoning them into outer space.
- Too Dumb to Live: Around seventeen Kenders have died, reduced to skeletons from being stuffed inside chests for too long. This one is lucky that the party used self-untying rope.
- Unwanted Assistance: Becomes this to every party they serve as a guide for.
