This is a character sheet primarily for the Oxventure spin-off series Oxventure Presents One-Shot Wonders.
For tropes relating to the "main" Dungeons & Dragons campaign, go to the Oxventure character sheet. For tropes relating to the Blades in the Dark campaign, go to Oxventure Blades In The Dark. For tropes related to Deadlands, go to Oxventure Deadlands
Oxventure Presents One-Shot Wonders (D&D)
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The Games Masters
The Games Master (Luke Westaway)
The Games Master of Oxventure Presents Blades in the Dark, Luke returns here to GM Dread and Adventure Skeletons.
For tropes relating to Luke as a Games Master, see here.
The Games Master (Johnny Chiodini)
The Dungeon Master of Oxventure in D&D, Johnny returns here to GM You Awaken In A Strange Place and the Dragonlance one-shot.
For tropes relating to Johnny as a Dungeon/Games Master, see here.
The Games Master (Ellen Rose)
The player for Merilwen (and her sci-fi counterpart Mer-Ilwen) and Lilith Capellanaga, Ellen took the lead DM-ing in Teatime Adventures
The Games Master (Michael Channel)
The player for Egbert, Egbot, and Barnaby "The Butcher" Fortescue, Mike DM's the Blade Runner: Electric Dreams campaign.
Dread
The trio
Tropes Applying to the players in general
- Dwindling Party: Slowly, but surely, they start to die as the Jenga Tower in real life gets less stable.
Killian
- Played by: Andy Farrant
A nerd in the camp.
- Honour Before Reason: The party slows down while dragging an injured camper home, but Killian adamantly refuses to leave him.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's arrogant and snarky, but firmly believes No One Gets Left Behind and cares for his fellows.
- Killed Off for Real: Just to show that Dread isn't messing around, the initial rapids don't do him in, but a rock snaps his neck. Then the werewolf savages his body, just to dispel any doubt.
- Malicious Misnaming: Some of the times that Killian calls Brad "Gregg", he's clearly doing it deliberately to express his annoyance with Brad.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Sadly, his efforts to drag along an unconscious friend force Andy to do a skill check. This causes the Jenga tower to collapse and means that Killian's efforts to save his life only gets him killed as well.
Madison
- Played by: Ellen Rose
The de-facto leader of the band of survivors.
- Clothing Damage: Discussed and parodied. Madison tears some of her clothing as tinder to light a fire. Luke allows this because in slasher flicks, the leading lady's clothes always get torn.
- Genre Savvy: Madison recognizes the werewolf for what it is almost as soon as it reveals itself, mentioning that she's drawing on horror films she's seen in the past, and plans her subsequent actions accordingly.
- Killed Off for Real: Madison sleeps to regain her strength to fight the werewolf, only to be gotten in her sleep.
- You Watch Too Much X: Brad and Killian's initial reaction when Madison suggests they're up against a werewolf is to say that she's watched too many movies and the situation is bad enough without getting fiction confused with reality.
Brad
- Played by: Mike Channell
A college football star, and bit of a jerk.
- It's All About Me: Brad cares about Brad. And that's it. He plans on keeping the tour guide's keepsake rather than delivering it to his wife. when he survives he can't remember the names of anyone who died to help him survive.
- Jerk Jock: Brad is a star college footballer who acts like the world revolves around him.
- Malicious Misnaming: Some of the times that Killian calls Brad "Gregg", he's clearly doing it deliberately to express his annoyance with Brad.
- Sole Survivor: Madison and Killian both die, leaving Brad alive.
- You Kill It, You Bought It: Brad after killing the werewolf becomes the new alpha and gets a hunting pack of wolves to do his bidding.
The antagonists
The wolves
A pack of marauding wolves that pursues the campers.
- Savage Wolves: Justified. The werewolf has scared them into compliance and is leading them on a bloody hunt.
The Werewolf
A werewolf that has coerced the local wolves into submission, leading them on the warpath against any humans.- Alpha and Beta Wolves: The trio are menaced by a wolf pack under control of a werewolf that has taken over as the pack's alpha. Ellen points out the Artistic Licence – Biology involved in an out-of-character aside.
- Near-Villain Victory: It almost won against the party, and only failed because Brad/Mike had one hell of a stroke of luck.
You Awaken In A Strange Place
The player characters
In general
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: As fits Oxventure and an even weirder than normal
Bizarro Episode, this group are outright weird. - Total Party Kill: All player characters are dead by the end of the episode.
Lord Hortingly
- Played by: Luke Westaway
A naval veteran desperately looking for love.
- Repression Never Ends Well: Lord Hortingly's ability to explode people with his mind is specified to be an outlet for his rigorously repressed emotions. He's initially not consciously aware that he's the one exploding people, and is horrified when he realises.
- Thunderbolt Iron: He wields two katanas apparently made from meteoric iron.
- Twice Shy: Hortingly and his lost love Bella are both still in love with each other, but due to living in a society characterised by timidity and emotional repression, neither can bring themselves to make the first move.
Queen Beatrice Poppy
- Played by: Liv Kennedy
The career-seeking queen of the country, whose rule is being contested. She also really likes large hats, and the game takes place in a nightclub she favours.
- Didn't Think This Through: Beatrice has no interest in starting a family and is focused on being a Queen. However, the people who support the sort of absolute monarch Beatrice wants to be also support a royal lineage. So there's plenty of friction between her and the people as a result.
- Pet the Dog: She takes time to protect a small orphan child by rendering them invulnerable.
- What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?: Beatrice considers the concept of "republic" to be punishable by guillotine.
Gad Ticklebottom
- Played by: Jasper Cartwright
A former noble and nudist who dwells in the forest and drinks a lot.
- The Alcoholic: He regularly drinks to excess.
- Drunken Master: He drinks to excess ahead of a big fight, reasoning he fights better this way.
- Psychic Nosebleed: When Gad discovers that he can also explode people with his mind, he gets a nosebleed the first time he successfully does it.
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
The party
In general
- Aerith and Bob: The adventurers' names are Rage, Anitari, Celena, Strife, Corvus... and Harold.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They're all reasonably competent, but don't exactly fit together well. Then again, this is par for the course with many D&D parties.
Rage
- Pedestrian Crushes Car: In a fantasy variant, Rage the barbarian is charged at by a soldier on a horse, but her attack on the horse brings it to a dead stop that flips the soldier off over her head.
Anitari
- Played by: Drak
- Head Pet: He's accompanied everywhere by Tiny, a robot kitten sitting on his head or shoulder most of the time.
- Ironic Name: Anitari's steel defender, a robot sidekick in the form of a saber-toothed cat larger than he is, is named Small.
Celena
- Played by: Ellen Rose
Strife
- Played by: Josh Strife Hayes
An outlandish bard fond of telling tall tales.
- Blatant Lies: At least to the audience, it's clear he's talking absolute nonsense quite a bit of the time.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Strife and Corvus's attempts to cheat in the fishing contest constantly fail or backfire. While they do catch Bennebog the Line-Breaker, it only gets them to second place, while Rage ends up winning first prize through fair play and consistent good catches.
- The Hilarity of Hats: Strife the bard wears an enormous floppy red hat with fur trim, and treats the prospect of losing it as Serious Business.
- The Münchausen: Strife the bard is an inveterate teller of tall tales about his own accomplishments and the alleged accomplishments of alleged family members, to the point of claiming that his great-grandfather played a key role in the founding of Vogler while talking to Vogler's own mayor.
- You Owe Me: As a price for giving Strife back his cool hat, which they'd extorted as the price of an earlier favour, Corvus stipulates that Strife now owes them a favor to be specified at a later date. (Although, they add, given that this is a one-shot, perhaps not that much later.)
Corvus
- Cheaters Never Prosper: As mentioned above, their cheating alongside Strife still can't compete with Rage's efforts.
- You Owe Me: As a price for giving Strife back his cool hat, which they'd extorted as the price of an earlier favour, Corvus stipulates that Strife now owes them a favor to be specified at a later date. (Although, they add, given that this is a one-shot, perhaps not that much later.)
Harold
- Played by: Luke Westaway
- The Comically Serious: He's a professional bodyguard and doesn't make many jokes himself, but his stuffy demeanour and seriousness become downright hilarious when the situation gets truly wacky.
- Only Sane Man: A little stiff and reserved, but compared to most of the party, he's the sanest and most sensible.
- The Stoic: He rarely emotes.
Non-Player Characters
The Innkeeper
- Super Gullible: One person who's gullible enough to fall for Strife's BS, leaving them in dubious company.
The Mayor of Vogler
- Super Gullible: Possibly worse than the innkeeper, as Strife lies to them about their own town's founding.
Adventure Skeletons
The party
In general
- Anti-Hero Team: The group are not a traditional adventuring party, and their morality seems to be Blue-and-Orange Morality at best.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Their morality can be described as "warped" in that it exists, but is clearly different from most others in the setting. At least some of this can be put down to them all being dead.
- Dem Bones: All of them, plus Benny, are skeletons, as fits the game.
- Everyone Has Standards: The quartet immediately steps up to stop the evil that the town summons. While this is primarily so they can keep having fun, there's an element of genuine horror.
- Non-Human Undead: Three of the party used to be non-humans before dying. Having said that, they were humanoid: orcish, goblin and elvish.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Part of their reason for saving the day is to avoid upsetting their own schedule and actually having to do work.
- Punny Name: Both "Lionel Spinel" and "S. Kelly" fit the bill.
Lionel Spinel
- Played by: Mike Channell
- Beyond the Impossible: He somehow gets a rooster to lay an egg through fright. And a human, from a species that never laid eggs.
- Bowel-Breaking Bricks: : Lionel's approach to collecting eggs from the farm's hens is to scare them in the hope they'll drop an egg in fright. He's so successful that he frightens eggs out of all the hens and the rooster. It subsequently turns out to work on humans, too.
- The Dead Have Eyes: Played for Laughs when he takes a gravekeeper's eyeballs and puts them in his eye sockets. It does nothing functionally, just looks funny.
- Mythology Gag: His voice emulates Efelfrith's Chosen from the "main universe" Oxventure, albeit not quite as much as Johnny's voice for Cursed Skeleton No. 18.
Cursed Skeleton No.18
- Played by: Johnny Chiodini
- Do Wrong, Right: Cursed Skeleton No.18 objects strongly to the way Benny is treating the victims of his scam, but mainly on the basis that if they all die of malnutrition there'll be nobody left to take advantage of.
- Everyone Has Standards: The skeletons are in general very casual about whether the humans they encounter get damaged, but Cursed Skeleton No.18 gets very angry at a farmer who skives off to town and leaves his young son to do all the work on the farm.
- Old Shame: He's not proud of his life prior to becoming a skeleton, because he was an elf with a whimsical name and a tendency to skip around singing.
- Pet the Dog: 18 is surprisingly defensive of a farmer's son forced to the work all by himself. His attempts at childcare are... variable, but it's telling that he shows more concern for the boy than he does for anyone else.
- Talking Weapon: His magical sword sings and hums to itself, to the party's annoyance.
Dr S. Kelly
- Played by: Jasper Cartwright
- Combat Medic: He's implied to be one, by the fact he bought a number of axes from weapons merchant Lionel.
- God Guise: Dr Kelly pretends to be God to troll Benny, who is himself posing as a deity.
Boney Emily
- Played by: Liv Kennedy
- Motor Mouth: She's the fastest talker of the lot, talking quickly in run-on sentences.
- Slapstick: She's the only woman (or at least female-presenting) member of the party and takes just as much comedic punishment as everyone else.
Non-Player Characters
The grave-keeper
- Eye Scream: Lionel pokes him through both eyes, killing him. Said skeleton then takes both eyes for himself.
- Hero Antagonist: He's ultimately just a well-meaning soul who tried to stop what he thought was an unholy violation of the cemetery. It sadly ended poorly for him.
Benny
A skeleton who "lived" in the crypt with the party before running off, inadvertently kicking off the plot.
- Dem Bones: He's a skeleton like the rest of the gang.
- God Guise: He disguises himself as the Grim Reaper and gets a village to worship him.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: Cursed Skeleton No. 18 pulverises him very suddenly as part of a decree that skeletons must have marrow on toast.
The cow
- Amplified Animal Aptitude: When Dr. S. Kelly accepts the task of obtaining milk from a cow, Luke's attempts to mime the cow's reaction lead Jasper to conclude that the cow is unexpectedly intelligent and can understand what S. Kelly says. Luke decides to run with it, resulting in the cow desperately trying to mime instructions to S. Kelly about how to extract milk from a cow without injuring it.
The village
- God Guise: They're on the receiving end of this from Benny.
Teatime Adventures
The Party
The party in general
- Funny Animal: They are all animal types: Posy is bird-like, James has cervine features, and Tabitha is sort of crocodilian. It's not just the party members: All the creatures of this world are cute anthropomorphic animals.
- Supreme Chef: All are well known for their cooking, considering they are putting food into a magic potluck in the first place.
Posy Clackett
- Played by: Jane Douglas
- Green Thumb: Posy is a florist and well known for her skill with flowers.
Captain James T. Cosy
- Played by: Mike Channell
- Door Dumb: He pushes on a door marked pull.
- Noodle Incident: When a dog begins licking his face, James immediately references that one time with his cricket teammates trying to eat something they shouldn't have, and it ended with the teammate licking his face. Also, Tchaikovsky was playing in the background.
- Punny Name: His name is a pun on "tea cosy".
Tabitha Templeton
- Played by: Grant Howitt
- I Kiss Your Hand: Upon meeting a Supreme Chef heron, Tabitha immediately offers her hand to kiss.
- Non-Mammalian Mammaries: Tabitha has an ample bosom. Despite being a crocodile.
- Southern Belle: Claims to be one from the bayou.
- You Have Researched Breathing: Tabitha has to be introduced to the concept of money.
Blade Runner: Electric Dreams
The Party
Margot Worth
- Played by: Jane Douglas
A sixteen year veteran Blade Runner, Margot was off-duty when called in to run a case.
- The Alcoholic: She drinks herself into a stupor every night. And the others notice.
- An Arm and a Leg: She severes a replicant's leg with a shot.
- Awful Wedded Life: Margot is divorced. Her "digi" is her ex-husband, which has some very odd implications about her married life.
- Hardboiled Detective: Of the cynical variety. Unlike Purvis or Static, she's fully aware of how the world works.
- Hand Cannon: Margot's service weapon is a .44 revolver. She blows off a replicant's leg with it.
- Surrounded by Idiots: She's pretty disappointed in how the beat cops didn't do their jobs very well.
STK-04.38 "Static"
- Played by: Aoife Wilson
- The Baby of the Bunch: As a Nexus-9, she is under a year old, and the other two comment on this.
- Cannot Tell a Lie: As part of her programming, she cannot lie.
- Captain Obvious: Purvis has an internal injury that makes driving difficult, and while he and Mike discuss whether or not driving a car counts as movement, Static asks a very important question: There are three of them there, why is the guy with internal bleeding driving the car?
- Food End: As the story ends, Static declares that the group should go out for noodles.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: She was able to shoot a fleeing target in the wrist to disarm her.
- I Will Find You: Static's former partner went missing and Static is actively searching. During downtime, the partner shows up.Purvis: Wow, that was easy.
- Not So Above It All: Static is normally very professional and sticks to her duties. That being said, she is not above joining Purvis in calling a murdering replicant a "trash piece." Upon discovering Lilith Tyrell does horrible things to Replicants and she's too powerful to be brought to justice, Static settles for trashing her office.
JLA-7.80 "Purvis"
- Played by: Andy Farrant
A nebbish tech replicant who wants a promotion to be a Blade Runner.
- Catchphrase: He calls criminals, and those he suspects of being criminals, as "trash pieces."
- Fake Relationship: He has a "digi", which is believed to be a holographic girlfriend. Purvis fakes that she is real, and her name is...Stacanie.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: Purvis attacks Lilith with the freshly severed leg of a replicant.Margot: Are you holding the wet end or the dry end?
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The most accurate thing he can do with a weapon is throw it down a hallway.
- The Lab Rat: He technically is one, although he wants to be a Blade Runner. Whether he's good at that is questionable, but does very well in the lab.
- Literal-Minded: Thanks to a questionable roll upon investigating a shattered mirror, Purvis thinks the concept of people being so ugly looking at a mirror breaks it is actually real.
- Made of Iron: He takes a massive beating in a street brawl, to the point where he has internal injuries.
- The Medic: He is a talented medic, all things considered.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: The chief was looking for Margot: Purvis was only brought along because he was with Margot at the time.
- Serious Business: He practices his technique on eating noodles.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Noodles. Although all three eat noodles, he eats them so much he perfected his technique to impress people.
D&D But Everyone is...
The Kobolds in the Warren
The Kobolds
The various kobolds who live in their warren. They spend their days mostly catching rats, fish, and otherwise living a subsistence existence, until a party looking to combat an evil wizard take a detour through their warren
- Anachronism Stew: Kirk the Fun-Loving shows up in a Hawaiian shirt. Keng the Modern shows up on a segue, is intermittent fasting, and films on a mobile phone.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Krawky the Forgiving is a very pleasant, peaceful kobold. He even tries to hug Milena the druid. After seeing the druid in great pain from being swarmed by kobolds, Krawky considers the most forgiving thing to be sending Milena to her deity, and slings her in the head, killing her.
- Hero Killer: While most of the kobolds participate, there are some standouts: Dakrid the Healthy kills Gelpnir by climbing on her while she is drowning, preventing her from saving herself (although Milena's failure with thorn whip the failure to use a rope, and Milena's poor dice rolls contributed), Thaz the Trendy convinces Bits to go on a fatal mine cart ride. Grain the Well-Read initiates an action to drop Soraglad to his doom, and Krawky the Forgiving finishes off Milena.
- Magikarp Power: On account of having survived pretty much the entire ordeal, Era the Vacuous is promoted to Grand Wyrm due to her wisdom. Notably, Jane played this kobold as extremely stupid, but surviving for so long earned her the respect regardless.
- Military Brat: Bing the Private and Grak the Paternalistic
- Pragmatic Hero: When Kragock the Impratical gets killed in a duel, Colgrace the Opportunitistic steals his things, then skins the dead Kragock and comes out wearing leather armor made of kobold skin.
- Religious Bruiser: Shrang the Puritanical, who contributes almost all of the force in the failed attempt to kill Soraglad. To a lesser extent, Krawky the Forgiving.
- Super-Toughness: Dakrid the Healthy has more health than the average kobold (7HP instead of 5HP).
- Taking You with Me: Several kobolds kill the adventurers travelling through: Dakrid the Healthy clambers on the elf who dragged him into a river, biting her face as the two of them are swept away by the current and drown. Thaz the Trendy kept the halfling in the minecart which raced away in the tunnel until it crashed (this killed Thaz, but it left the halfling unconscious but far away from any aid until he succumbed to his wounds), Grain the Well-Read knocked a dragonborn into the river as he pulled the switch that retracted the bridge while the dragonborn was on it.
- That Came Out Wrong: Luke generated the names through a random generator, and "Bing the Private" generated quite a few snickers.
- Too Dumb to Live: Kragock the Impractical duels a fighter and is killed for his trouble easily. Scoker the Winning is arrogant and immediately shot with a crossbow. Zubrish the Dry doesn't get out of the way and is booted into a chasm. Era the Vacuous clubs one of the heroes with a salt lick, but it ends up working.
- Total Party Kill: A casting of Ice Storm killed all five of the players' kobolds at once: Dazdier the Enthusiastic, Zaria the Easily Discouraged, Zrer the Sage, Kirk the Fun-Loving, and Dakrid the Vulnerable.
The Adventurers
A group of four adventures who are going to fight Ratfar the Evil Wizard, preventing him from blighting the overworld. They were informed that the swiftest way through would be through a kobold warren, where this adventure takes place. The group includes Gelpnir the high elven warrior, Bits the halfling rogue, Soraglad the dragonborn sorcerer, and Milena the human druid.
- Forgot About His Powers: Milena attempts to turn into a bear, but since druids can only shapeshift twice a day, she can't, as she already turned into an octopus and a sparrow.
- Friend to All Living Things: Milena as a druid deeply loves all of the natural world and the creatures within. However, she can get pushed to her limits.
- Hero Antagonist: The heroes are against the kobolds, however, their dislike is purely due to the kobold interference, they did not come to kill the kobold.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Soraglad delivers the first Total Party Kill by hitting all five kobolds with an Ice Storm. He also uses his flame breath to kill two kobolds and severely maim two more. Bits the halfling does kill several at once by throwing the kobolds into a swift river.
- Rage Quit: Soraglad gets frustrated enough with the kobolds to decide killing them is simpler, and immediately blasts them with Ice Storm.
- Religious Bruiser: You do not interrupt Soraglad when he is in prayer. It will go very badly. Milena, as a druid, also has divine backing.
- Total Party Kill: Gelpnir is pulled into a river and her party fails to rescue her as Dakrid the Healthy bites her face preventing her from helping herself. Bits races on a minecart that crashes into a wall (while this does not kill him, it renders him unconscious and he succumbs to his wounds afterwords since no one can assist him), Soraglad is dropped into a crevasse, and a group of kobolds swarms and kills Milena enough for Krawky the Forgiving to sling her in the head, the last wound in the Death of a Thousand Cuts.
The Amnesiac troupe
The Amnesiacs
A trio of adventurers who wake up in a dungeon with absolutely no memory of themselves.
Red
- Real Name: SeanRace: HumanClass: Monk (Four Elements Discipline (Fire))Played by: Jane Douglas
- Badass Bookworm: The first thing Red notices is shredded arm muscles. Later, it is learned Red can cast spells.
- Playing with Fire: She can use Burning Hands.
Tiddles
- Real Name: Page OverbrookRace: TabaxiClass: RoguePlayed by: Mike Channell
- Hanging Judge: Discussed during his backstory. He has a memory of condemning a hungry tiefling for hunting on the Lord's lands. The law is absolute.
- Sherlock Scan: When he tries to do magic, he doesn't have it. Instead, he is good at picking out clues.
- When Elders Attack: He's an old tabaxi, but he's incredibly good with a harpoon.
Manbird
- Real Name: CrussRace: AarakorcaClass: PaladinPlayed by: Sullivan Beau Brown
- Holy Hand Grenade: He has a technique that allows him to smite evil.
- Religious Bruiser: He has the favor of some divine force.
