Mort Springs Eternal

[crockpotcauldron]

It has been a while since I've played rpgs with friends, and I miss it, so the other day I pulled my copy of Deathtrap Dungeon off the shelf. For the first time, I decided to actually roll the dice instead of cheating my way through, and it's nowhere near as annoying as I thought it was in high school! You roll for skill, stamina, and luck, which you use to fight monsters and get through tricky situations. I spent a lot of time drinking Mysterious Dungeon Liquids, and I wholeheartedly recommend chugging as many as possible, even though one of them turned out to be acid that burned my jaw off. There's a certain charm to brutal old dungeon crawls. I spent some time mapping out the choice paths, and also doodling the funny bits. I figured, people treat video game protagonists like characters and write fanfic about them, so a choose your own adventure protagonist can be a character too. I have named him Mort Manifold, because he dies a lot.

I haven't warmed up to Dreamwidth's image hosting and I'm currently on mobile, so here are the Tumblr links.

https://crockpotcauldron.tumblr.com/post/682589702544670720/unearthed-my-old-copy-of-deathtrap-dungeon-and-im
https://crockpotcauldron.tumblr.com/post/682625568565608448/everything-is-going-great-for-mort-hes-a-well
https://crockpotcauldron.tumblr.com/post/682691840665927681/the-adventures-of-mort-manifold-continue-he-had-a

Drawing cartoons of the funny bits has always been one of my favorite parts of rpgs. I miss being able to hang out with my friends, but that won't be happening any time soon. Still, this was a fun set of afternoons, and I like how a lot of the doodles turned out! I have The Warlock of Firetop Mountain after this, but then I'm out of books. Back in high school I tried ordering an assortment of choose your own adventure books online going by the blurbs, but I only wound up liking two of them, so we'll see how it goes this time.