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'Monsters and Other Childish Things: Legacy Of Nimh', Illustration for RPPR. Based on this game.

In this sequel to the classic childrens' movie, a team of heroic young rats must set out on a perilous journey to investigate and new threat to their home valley.

Franklin from Monsters and Other Childish Things, as requested by @itsnotashrimp16

Hey you! Yeah, you! Do you like actual play podcasts like The Adventure Zone and Critical Role? Do you like D&D but want to branch out to other games? Not sure where to start? Do you also really love food? BOY HOWDY do I have a podcast for you!

It’s called Tabletop Potluck! Here’s the stitch: my friends and I play a few sessions of a different TTRPG game, then review it and have a themed potluck where we talk about the game and share our (delicious) recipes. 

“But Charlotte,” you say, “I don’t want to listen to another podcast with a bunch of het white guys.” WELL YOU’RE IN LUCK cause we are queer as hell, and most of the cast is non-dudes/POC or BOTH! We like to use our own experiences to tell rich, diverse, and fantastical stories. 

We just finished up our 7th Sea arc, and next up is Monsters and Other Childish Things. Some of the other games we have planned are Mouse Guard, Masks, Call of Cthulhu, and of course, Dungeons and Dragons. A veritable smorgasbord of games for all you connoisseurs out there.  

If you’re like me, you’re going “Wow, that actually sounds really cool, where can I listen?” And the answer is most places you get your podcasts! While you’re listening, don’t forget to drop a review for us on iTunes~ ;)

TL;DR: We have a cool new AP podcast for you to listen to while you cook your grandma’s famous spaghetti.  

Next, we posted the Character Sheet for the beloved NPCs Marlon and the Banshee, on our PATREON. Check out our most recent post for a PDF!

The Technical Difficulties crew is going to start a campaign in Monsters and Other Childish Things soon, playing a remix of Ross Payton's campaign Road Trip, so I thought I'd share my character.

This concept originally started as 'a girl and her beholder' with the idea that she'd be the Dungeon Master for the kids' Dungeon and Dragons game and her monster would hide as her copy of the Dungeon Master's Guide. But then I started reading through the Baby Bestiary and got to the Blink Puppy. It very quickly became 'a girl and her dog, who happens to be a teleporting horror from beyond time and space. Who just wants to play fetch.'

Not having to ask the rest of the gaming group to incorporate my driving idea into their characters was also a nice bonus. Because there's cool ideas, and then there's cool ideas that the group should agree on as the motivating idea behind the game when you start, not in the middle of stuff kicking around in your brain.

I'll be honest, I wasn't getting real excited about this character; I'd put too much of what I remember myself as like at age 11 into Danielle, so it didn't feel like a character you know? It was going to be fine, I'd have a good time that would get better as the campaign progressed because I was confident I'd give her room to turn into her own character. But then our GM (hi Greg!) asked us for 'the bad thing we've done', and I came up with one that made me very happy. I'm just going to quote the email I sent Greg:

"Stole Jak-Jak. The plushie that Jak-Jak hides as was supposed to be a birthday present for her younger sister Liz, but Danielle substituted one of her newer stuffed animals that Liz liked into the box her parents were going to use for Liz's birthday present and then wrapped it up herself. She hides Jak-Jak's plushie in her backpack at all times. "

Gift to the GM that is :D

If I was rewriting that idea now, I'd make the gift giver be distant relatives who sent the stuffed animal in one of those open bags you shove tissue paper in and Danielle saw it in the mail and made the substitution before her parents ever saw it. Just for logistical reasons because right now I have to wonder what they were thinking when Liz opened her present and it wasn't the toy they'd bought. But other than that, I'm pleased by Danielle being sneaky but also making sure she gave her sister a toy Liz actually liked (in my mind it's the stuffed tiger Liz was always "borrowing" from Danielle's room).