A long time ago I did spend a few months experimenting with ratios to make my own cookie recipe, it makes really good chocolate chip cookies. Not very christmassy though.

But, if we’re going to get into DM advice, the way I’d recommend stopping “anything could be a mimic” from getting old is to have it constrained to a themed side-adventure, or a one-shot. For example: A wizard tower where the guy’s one weird hobby was breeding and training mimics. In such an adventure, you want to start fairly tame, but towards the end, the more outlandish and ridiculous the better.

As for the constraints on mimic forms, most of my DnD based jokes use 5e as their basis, as that’s what the majority of my audience are likely using.

Honestly, the system you run for new players should depend on who those players are, their preferences, and comfort levels with related things you can use to judge their preferences. A group of hardcore eurogame boardgamers are going to be a lot more comfortable learning a complex rule system than my in-laws.

Closest I have is this:

Bonus Konsi?

I suppose you can have some extra hair

Did someone say “Bonus Konsi”?

I think it was something like 10d8, plus poisoned condition until removed.

You could absolutely just put 25 gold pieces in a pile and cast the spell, but Konsi’s such a tryhard…

I think this largely comes from being a protagonist in a DnD campaign for a long time, especially a roleplay heavy one. DnD characters naturally build a portfolio of exploits that any NPC character would think insane to accomplish.

If you want the true gigachad energy though, the spell she used to contact Talona was Divination, which requires a sacrifice to the deity in question, worth at least 25gp.

Konsi thinks it’s good etiquette to make your sacrifice something the deity would approve of. For example, when she contacted Selune, she crafted some art-piece quality functional navigational tools out of silver and used those as the component in the spell.

As Talona is the goddess of poison and decay, Konsi decided that a suitable “sacrifice” would be a bottle of lethal, slow acting poison. She spent a few days gathering appropriate herbs and mushrooms, made the poison, then promptly drank it to sacrifice it.

I took a bit of a break from comics over October, so there wasn’t updates then. (Although this is where the bonus Konsis are coming from)

Here’s your bonus Konsi.

(Please be aware I’m talking about 5.0 here. Everything I say here is wrong for 4.0 and 3.5, and I don’t know anything about the new edition.)

It’s a little complex.

5e wasn’t really designed for multiclassing, the original intention was to disallow multiclassing altogether, and the feature was only added last minute after playtesters complained. They didn’t really try to balance it other than trying to make it weak enough that most players would be dissuaded from taking multiclass levels.

The main cost of multiclassing is that it delays your class features for a level, for some classes, such as primary casters, this is a big deal - a wizard doesn’t want to wait until level 6 for fireball. For other classes such as rogues and monks, they might not really care as much about higher level features. Once a rogue (played by a player who is minmaxing for power) has reliable talent, they often multiclass into something that’ll give them new features (Paladin is quite popular as it increases your damage, gives you a better hit die, and adds new spells and abilities.)

One of the biggest reasons to multiclass, or refrain from multiclass is roleplay - as this is entirely based on a character’s narrative and the story being told, the consideration of whether or not to multiclass for story reasons is essentially a personal choice.

For players looking to maximize their power, it’s important to consider whether the features you’d be taking in your new class are useful in your campaign. I mentioned Mask of Many Faces, but that’s a useless ability in a pure dungeon-crawler style “fight a new monster each week” style campaign.

It’s also important to think about the scope of your campaign. Many people look at the level 20 capstone abilities, which can be extremely powerful, and will argue that multiclassing is never good because it locks you out of those abilities - but consider how long you’re going to be playing your character and at what levels. Most campaigns that even get to level 20 wrap up after a couple of encounters, so is that exceptional power, for two sessions, better than taking a new feature that will last you for tens of sessions?

Most character classes, especially martials are very front-loaded. The first 5-10 levels contain most of the core features of your class, and before you’ve unlocked those, it’s often tough to justify multiclassing - but once a monk gets access to stunning strike, do they care about other Ki powers? If a campaign is planned to end on an even level, does a full caster care about that last level when they’re not getting any new spells?

As a very very rough rule of thumb, full-casters often want to avoid multiclassing altogether, or if they do multiclass, they want to take a single splash level of another class once they have the spells they care about. For most of those classes, that’s either level 6 or level 14. Martials are often more flexible, as higher level features often amount to more choice in abilities rather than mechanical power. Swapping to a different class offers different choices, and certain builds can by synergistic.

Rangers always want to multiclass, because ranger sucks. /j

One level of warlock buys you eldritch blast and mask of many faces.

One level of artificer buys you the ability to cast cure wounds with your spellslots, and the ability to use medium armour.

They’re real popular splashes.

I did a little digital trickery to make this work. It’d be possible to try and do it with blending pencils, but for a daily drawing challenge I figured it’d be a lot faster to draw the reflection faintly, and then chop it out of the image and add it as a transparent layer.

I’m happy how well it worked!

It’s close to her record.

Here’s a bonus Konsi

Addis explained in an earlier strip - the people making the accusations are not interested in whether or not the accusations are true, they’re interested in manufacturing a scandal.

When people with an agenda are pushing conspiracy theories, there is no test or proof you can administer that will satisfy them. They will just move the goalposts. “She found a magic way to cheat the zone of truth, that’s how awful she is.” “She’s so corrupt she doesn’t consider what she did to be cheating.” “The church cheated for her and she didn’t notice”. “The person casting Zone of Truth is part of the conspiracy.”

the odd stop signs told us to stop, but the even stop signs told us to stop stopping.