Hear ye, hear ye!
Tales From the Tables is back with episode 31: Innocence Lost!
The party’s polar opposites, Angela the paladin and Redwen the rogue continue bonding over their backstories, as Redwen’s tale is revealed.
So happy to have made it on time this month. I’ve been working crazy hard on art assets for our ActualPlay series, with a new episode coming out tomorrow! With an adorable little toddler under my feet, there’s hardly enough time to even eat or sleep, haha.
Anyway, as always, you can always find the rest of the story on either Tapas or Webtoon! All relevant links here :)
Enjoy!
Ah. What I like to call the “tiefling left on stairs background story”.
I shit you not. I’ve had three different players do that background lmao.
One was left at a monastery (cleric), one at a tavern (rogue) and one at the friendly baker (fighter).IT’S THE LAW
The only way to break the cycle is for a tiefling to leave a human child on a doorstep. Probably has to be their own kid, which is why it hasn’t worked yet.
I found Laerl’s weakness - she stopped calling us in to ask us to do stuff, because every time she did Konsi insisted on telling her the details of every adventure we’d been on since our last meeting.
Okay that explains her name, I guess… assuming the folks at the orphanage also called her “red one” for twelve years.
And after reaffirming her stereotypical rogueness with the backstory, I don’t think she has any right to complain about the paladin suspecting her of legally questionable behavior in the last panel.
Also I can’t be the only one wondering if Lady Laeral bears a striking resemblance to a certain Tiefling and has a story about being forced to give up a child for reasons that have only recently been resolved or something else like that. This kind of screams “character development arc.”
‘Lady Laeral’ is probably Laeral Silverhand, the Open Lord of Waterdeep, an canon character with an established romantic history–but it isn’t impossible. I guess we’ll find out!
She is also a 700-year-old wizard, so she wouldn’t be inclined to give a fuck about the “social stigma” of a Tiefling child.
Wow, nice association on Redwen, I totally missed that.
WOOOOO NEW TALES FROM THE TABLES!
Fun work as always, thank you for sticking with this when you’ve got so much on your plate!
Grats on your new pc :)
You remind me of when I used to write up planning documents with my son asleep on my outstretched feet. 🙂
I love conflicts in parties, those two are great together!
Nice!
Not that it really matters because the first goal is to have fun, but I’m pretty sure tieflings can’t have human parents (without a pact with a devil). The suspicion and mistrust of tieflings come from a pact their ancestors made that changed them. This doesn’t make the descendents evil though, nor do they themselves have any connection to devils, which is why the hatred is misplaced. They are just normal people with ancestors who consorted with devils.
It does happen though, and that’s exactly what happened to Doric in Honor Among Thieves.
I love this series thank you for sharing it here!
