This week, I are mostly been printing... 3 Goblins in a Trenchcoat!!
3 Goblins in a Trenchcoat - MZ2450 Patreon
Our Friday game at Dragons Keep Roleplay Club has seen us sucked through a portal onto one of the levels of hell called Las Infernalis. Basically this is Disneyland for Demons and I'm sure is going to full of weird and deadly rides, games and equally weird characters.
Having recently joined the MZ2450 Patreon, imagine my surprise when I stumbled on a recent post containing an STL for this guy!!
This is exactly the sort of mini that floats my boat and so I quickly printed and painted him and sent a photo off to Alex the DM. He's a very amenable sort of chap and we share a love of weird cinema. His reaction was classic and I expect to bump into this trio of ne'rdowells in the very near future.
Miguel also does a version with 5 Wyrmlings in a Trenchcoat which is totally not Tiamat!
Three Halflings in a Trencoat (D&D 5e)
A very creative Reddit user put up a statblock for the 3 Halflings in a Trenchcoat for D&D 5e games. It would be a very challenging encounter and seems rather overpowered to me. It is written more as monster statblock and perhaps something that occurs as a consequence of donning a cursed magical trenchcoat which must be filled with 3 of something... Mwahahaha
Origins of the Totem Pole Trenchcoat Trope
This is one of those prints that irrespective of age we all seem to instinctively have a memory of it from our childhood. According to TV Tropes this is known as the Totem Pole Trenchcoat but there is no reference to a historical origin. I seem to remember an episode of Wacky Races or The Perils of Penelope Pitstop where the Ant Hill Mob used this technique.
Fun Fact, the names of the members of the Ant Hill Mob are different in each show. In Wacky Races they are: Clyde, Ring-a-Ding, Mac, Danny, Rug-Rug-Benny, Willy and Kirby. Their car is number 7 The Bulletproof Bomb.
Whereas in The Perils of Penelope Pitstop they are called, Clyde, Dum-Dum, Softy, Yak-Yak, Snoozy, Zippy and Pockets. Their car, Chug-a-Boom, is much more of a character in its own right in some episodes of this series, It gets the classic headlight eyes and is voiced by the late great Mel Blanc
If you know of any earlier uses of this trope, please feel free to comment in the box below.
