Darkest Dungeon Comics

Darkest Dungeon has all these great one-page comics, one for each of its character classes:

A Richard Sala Christmas

Not in the Christmas spirit? Maybe these will help.

Art by Richard Sala

Christmas Ghost Stories and "You're My Present This Year"

The two flavors of Christmastime:

A Plea to Resurrect the Christmas Tradition of Telling Ghost Stories
- Colin Dickey, Smithsonian

“You’re My Present This Year”: An Oral History of the Folgers Incest Ad
- Gabriella Paiella, GQ

Feast Your Eyes

The occasional image-dump of inspirational art

 Becky Munich

 Dino Buzzati

 Kekai Kotaki

 Michael Hussar

 Neal Adams

 Reza Sedhi

Virgil Finlay

Momentous Events Inspiration

These variant rules for awarding and using inspiration in 5e D&D can be implemented to establish a deeper connection between character development and the events that unfold as you play. When these rules are adopted, inspiration can be granted and used in the following ways:

EVENTS

• Make room on your character sheet to record events that happen to your character as you play them.
• After each session of play, you may record a noteworthy event that occurred during that session for your character. Try to write that event as a single descriptive line. (See below for examples.)
• An event can be invoked to grant your character inspiration if you can relate how that past experience is helping them in the current situation.
• A character can only have five events from past sessions recorded on their character sheet at a time.
• After accumulating five events, you can choose to replace one with a new event your character has just experienced after a session concludes—you get to decide which events are shaping your character’s personality, outlook, or growing infamy.
• The Game Master may wish to set a limit on the number of events a character can invoke per game session.

EVENT EXAMPLES

• Fought against overwhelming odds in a desperate melee.
• Convinced the invaders not to execute an ally.
• Nearly died from a poisoned arrow.
• Impressed a great warlord with my balalaika playing.
• Contracted the plague but survived.

One Man Black Metal

A documentary series on one-man black metal acts by Noisey.

Black Metal's Unexplored Fringes: One Man Metal, part 1

In the Darkest Shadows of Black Metal: One Man Metal, part 2

Everybody Dies Alone: One Man Metal, part 3

Raiders of Gor

Episode 38: Raiders of Gor

John Norman's long-running Gor series has a reputation that precedes it. Set on a brutal counter-Earth where beautiful women long to be enslaved by the strong men who maintain nature's moral balance, it would seem that the books have all the trappings of spicy, guilty pleasure reading. Jack and Kate dive into the sixth title, Raiders of Gor, alleged to be the last "good" entry in the thirty-five book series. Listen along as your hosts encounter sexual slavery, drunk crying, and enough tedious agricultural detail to break a lesser reader.

Why have critics neglected to acknowledge Norman's high-minded philosophical influences? Can civic pride transform a hive of scum and villainy into a city of heroes? Where do Home Stones come from? How is series protagonist Tarl Cabot a lot like a startup founder? All these questions and many more will be answered in this month's episode of Bad Books for Bad People.