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Make your own luck. (comicpress.socksandpuppets.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ahdok@ttrpg.network to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
 

This comic is part of an ongoing story that might make more sense with full context.

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Please be advised that if you use the connect app, it doesn't always correctly parse links to lemmy posts. If they're not working for you, you can follow the whole plotline on my site. (These comics are in reverse chronological order, so start at the end and work backwards.)


Addis' design is (loosely) inspired by Mel Medarda. She's a force to be reckoned with.

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[–] sammytheman666@ttrpg.network 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But seriously, what is back pay ? I have no clue

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Back pay" is when an organization you work for realizes they should have been paying you more than they have been, and returns that lost pay to you.

[–] sammytheman666@ttrpg.network 16 points 1 year ago

Huh. Nice. Thank you

[–] Fogle@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't tell if you're being serious but back pay is when you get a promotion or something like that and it applies retroactively to hours you have already worked. So you get backpay for all those hours. Sometimes it can be a few years with so you get like 5000 hours of an extra 1 dollar pay or whatever

[–] sammytheman666@ttrpg.network 16 points 1 year ago

Im not english native, so I was being serious

[–] Papercrane@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably some extra money for the work she has done.

[–] sammytheman666@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh. It would make sense. More money for the special Konsi fun fund then

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not shown in the comic, but Konsi puts that pay into a charity fund in the temple that funds a soup kitchen in the Field Ward.

[–] sammytheman666@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course XD I expected nothing short of it.

Althought as a smithing cleric with expensive spells to use, Im surprised she still got as much left.

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We-ell... we've got about 100k stashed between the party from adventures... the pay of a priestess isn't going to be much in comparison.

We've been on a lot of adventures with large payouts, and Konsi's not had much time to smith stuff - and some of the stuff she's made has sold for insane amounts of cash.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What level is she? If she's not already, you might consider the 5th edition version of the old Dwemersmith prestige class. Sounds like she's got all the prerequisites, and spending way less time, money, and XP on magic items is useful for making ridiculously overpowered magic items :)

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

Ah so... the "5th edition version" of prestige classes is "we removed the concept of prestige classes"

Artificer does have some features that reduce the cost and time to make magic items... but in Konsi's case, there's four problems with taking the artificer class as a multiclass.

  1. Multiclass rules are... pretty bad in 5e, and honestly the game is better if you just don't use them (this is my subjective opinion)
  2. Artificer is a really bad class for Konsi - it gives a lot of features and proficiencies she already has, and some low level spells she doesn't need. (Also it's int-based, and her int is 9, also she doesn't even qualify to take the class.)
  3. She wants to focus on being a cleric (Smithing is mostly a side-gig because she has the hammer.)
  4. The artifact hammer is giving insane discounts to the cost and time of making magic items already, other bonuses probably wouldn't stack. It takes her 6 days and 500gp to make a pair of sending stones.

In the comic here, she's level 9.