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* ActuallyADoombot: As it turns out, [[spoiler: the "Darryl" Pucconici stabbed was actually the shapeshifter D.E.N.N.I.S, who was more than capable of surviving such injuries.


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* StealthSequel: For most of the season it seems to be a completely new campaign, unconnected to Season One. Then we get the WhamEpisode that is Episode 13, where it's revealed that [[spoiler: Darryl was aware of the Multiverse, had seen the Onion Dimension in his dreams, and was working to stop the Devourers.]]
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* ApocalypticLog: Darryl's briefcase turns out to contain one, detailing his studies of the Multiverse.
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* FacialCompositeFailure: Baby Gus, having mild facial blindness, gives the trio three utterly irreconcilable and ridiculous descriptions of the suspect, who are implied to be based om completely different people.
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* ThePowerOfFriendship: Pugilax is ultimately "defeated" by our heroines befriending him, after which he just gives them their ticket willingly.


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* WeNeedADistraction: In episode 4, our heroines distract Martin Threeman, the three heads of security, by pretending to be actors and putting on a three-act show while Francis takes him out from the back.
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* DeadlyGame: Pugilax is ''supposed'' to run One, with him devouring the souls of the players, but nothing he challenges the LBC to is even remotely dangerous.


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* IgnoreTheFanservice: Gus is completely unaffected by Legzi and Ryjinah's attempt at seducing him into giving them free drinks, being way to [[VagueAge old/young]] for them.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The main PowerTrio and some supporting characters, circa ''Season Two.'' [[note]] From left to right: D.E.N.N.I.S. Gregory Hamilton, Rah'ōxah, Rijinah and Legzi Shortstakk.[[/note]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:The main PowerTrio and some supporting characters, circa ''Season Two.'' [[note]] From left to right: D.E.N.N.I.S. Gregory Hamilton, Rah'ōxah, Rijinah Ryjinah and Legzi Shortstakk.[[/note]]]]



The show returned in 2016 with a wildly different format. Taking more inspiration from TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons, it now features Caldwell Tanner as the DM [[note]] which stands for "Drawing Master", in this case [[/note]], with Julia Lepetit and Jacob Andrews serving as players alongside Nathan Yaffe. This trio portrays the three main members of the adventuring group ''[[NonIndicativeName the Ladies Book Club]]'' -- Rah'ōxah, Rijinah and Legzi Shortstakk -- who were originally created for a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbHfokvc2sI&list=PLnA3NeUEhhq98dRuxDlMFr8aCvKXMAnPM&index=13&t=0s Drawfee Break challenge.]] The story has our heroines being hired by Francis the Goblin to solve the murder of his business partner Daryl, while the gameplay follows the mold set by ''Morning Drawfee'', with the three artists each making one drawing in every episode.

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The show returned in 2016 with a wildly different format. Taking more inspiration from TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons, it now features Caldwell Tanner as the DM [[note]] which stands for "Drawing Master", in this case [[/note]], with Julia Lepetit and Jacob Andrews serving as players alongside Nathan Yaffe. This trio portrays the three main members of the adventuring group ''[[NonIndicativeName the Ladies Book Club]]'' -- Rah'ōxah, Rijinah Ryjinah and Legzi Shortstakk -- who were originally created for a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbHfokvc2sI&list=PLnA3NeUEhhq98dRuxDlMFr8aCvKXMAnPM&index=13&t=0s Drawfee Break challenge.]] The story has our heroines being hired by Francis the Goblin to solve the murder of his business partner Daryl, while the gameplay follows the mold set by ''Morning Drawfee'', with the three artists each making one drawing in every episode.
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* ForcedMeme: InUniverse, Gasm Hamilton has the ''LBC'' create memes for him in exchange of letting them out of his digital realm.
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* {{Wendigo}}: ''Wendigo'' is a briefly-mentioned UsefulNotes/{{Wendys}} analogue which apparently [[ToServeMan serves people meat.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The main PowerTrio and some supporting characters, circa ''Season Two.'' [[note]] From left to right: D.E.N.N.I.S. Gregory Hamilton, Rah'ōxah, Rijinah and Legzi Shortstakk.[[/note]]]]
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* AudienceParticipation:
** While not an outright {{Gamebook}} like the first season, Season Two still allowed the audience to vote for which artist did the best drawing. The winner could then pick an item, also submitted by the viewers.
** Season Three replaced the audience vote with that of a guest judge, but kept the OfficialFanSubmittedContent prizes.
** ''Drawga Live'' let the audience help designing a new PlayerCharacter, and choose heroes for the MassoveMultiplayerCrossover.
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* PowerTrio: Rah'ōxah, Rijinah and Legzi fit the FighterMageThief version extraordinarily well.
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* TheBarber: Harry of ''Harry's Hack n' Slash'', who gives Paul Blart's mustache a beauty treatment, while also giving Legzi some intel about Hollace Quert.

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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Francis tries to access Darryl's old computer with a series of these ([[OfficialFanSubmittedContent all submitted by fans]]) with out much success. The actual password turns out to be [[spoiler: "guest."]]


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* DatingSim: Episode 8 is based around this concept, with one of the protagonists agreeing to go on a date with D.E.N.N.I.S.


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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Francis tries to access Darryl's old computer with a series of these ([[OfficialFanSubmittedContent all submitted by fans]]) with out much success. The actual password turns out to be [[spoiler: "guest."]]
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* Holodeck: Darryl's lab contains a smaller one, which D.E.N.N.I.S. uses to create three distinct settings for his dates with each member of the Ladies Book Club.
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Francis tries to access Darryl's old computer with a series of these ([[OfficialFanSubmittedContent all submitted by fans]]) with out much success. The actual password turns out to be [[spoiler: "guest."]]
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* ShoutOut: Legzi and the newly leg-gifted Pugilax dance to "Wrecking Mace" by [[Music/MileyCyrus Miley Siren.]] For that reference, DM Caldwell Tanner removes Nathan's poisoning and gives him more than full health.

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* EatingContest: The Player Character challenges Martin the Devourer to to one as their FinalBattle, and actually manages to win. However, [[spoiler: beating Martin at his own game means ''[[YouKillItYouBoughtIt becoming the new Devourer!]]''



* HorseOfADifferentColor: Big Humph, who is described as a cross between an elephant, a jellyfish, an ostrich and an onion. He also has four eyes, and is a TalkingAnimal. Well, [[TheUnintelligible sort of.]]

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* HorseOfADifferentColor: Big Humph, who is described as a cross between an elephant, a jellyfish, an ostrich and an onion. He also has four eyes, and is a TalkingAnimal. Well, [[TheUnintelligible sort of.of...]]


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* YouAllMetInABar: While the Ladies Book Club all know each other from the start, the story still starts with them meeting up at the lical inn. This is also where they first encounter their quest-giver, Francis the Goblin.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: Big Humph, who is described as a cross between an elephant, a jellyfish, an ostrich and an onion. He also has four eyes, and is a TalkingAnimal. Well, [[TheUnintelligible sort of.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: The Player Character and Gruyere try to atone forthe former's murder of Drop by jumping into the Goatlem's mouth and pulling a TakingYouWithMe. However, they then [[spoiler: learn that the Goatlem's stomach is [[BiggerOnTheInside actually the size of a large hall,]]]] and that [[spoiler: Drop is there, alive but ''very'' upset by the way he's been treated.]]
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* HumanSacrifice: The Player Character sacrifices Drop the Beet to the goat statue, opening another portal but also bringing the statue to life. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that Drop actually survived the sacrifice, but suffered a FateWorseThanDeath.]]
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* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse. When Nathan draws a goat statue made out of crystalized carrot, Jacob points out that carrots ''don't'' harden the way bread does. Nathan then claims that carrots and bread are the same thing.
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* {{Golem}}: The goat statue is revealed to be a hybernating golem, or rather a "[[{{Portmanteau}} goatlem.]]"


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* UndergroundCity: The Carrots are the "dwarves" of the campaign, living in cities carved into the carrot mountains.

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* AnachronicOrder: ''Drawga Live'' is set before Season 3 but after the Season 2 finale, was made after both, and premiered before either of them were released.

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* PowerTrio: Rah'ōxah, Rijinah and Legzi fit the FighterMageThief version extraordinarily well.


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* PowerTrio: Rah'ōxah, Rijinah and Legzi fit the FighterMageThief version extraordinarily well.


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* CanonWelding: Many previously unrelated characters from WebVideo/{{Drawfee}} are brought in to populate the world of Somewherica.
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* SpecialGuest: Each episode features a guest judge who gets to rank the artists drawings. They are always dressed in a BlackCloak and treated as a personification of the Youtube algoritm. Some of them also portray major {{Non Player Character}}s within the story itself.
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* AnachronicOrder: ''Drawga Live'' is set before Season 3 but after the Season 2 finale, was made after both, and premiered before either of them were released.
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* FeaturelessProtagonist: The Player Character is never given a name, and is only shown on screen at the very end, [[spoiler: after his transformation into the new Devourer.]] Heck, it takes most of the season before we even learn his gender.
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* {{Precursors}}: The Carrots once lived side-by-side with the Onions, but now their civilization has fallen into ruins, and the Carrots themselves survive only as {{Revenant Zombie}}s.


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* PunnyName: The beatboxing beet is named Drop, making him "Drop the Beet."
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* BestHerToBedHer: TamerAndChaster and [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender Inverted.]] The Player Character kisses Gruyere after defeating him with a PissTakeRap.


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* SoulJar: Gruyere's microphone is revealed to be one, as getting bested by a WorthyOpponent in a rap battle releases the spirit inside.
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The Ladies Book Club would go on to star in an eight-part prequel comic miniseries by the same name, and also in the 2019 ''Drawga Live'' show at the ''New York Comic Con.''

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The Ladies Book Club would go on to star in [[https://m.webtoons.com/en/challenge/ladies-book-club-/list?title_no=363005&page=1&webtoon-platform-redirect=true an eight-part prequel comic miniseries by the same name, name,]] and also in the 2019 ''Drawga Live'' ''[[https://youtu.be/RKpYVgSBKB0 Drawga Live]]'' show at the ''New York Comic Con.''



For WebVideo/{{Drawfee}}'s ''other'' art challenge-based RPG campaign, see ''Drawtectives''.

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The show can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDgUykm7H72xFYRc_dC6DIUvR4Gw73BYP on Youtube.]] For WebVideo/{{Drawfee}}'s ''other'' art challenge-based RPG campaign, see ''Drawtectives''.



* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: As it turns out, [[spoiler: Season 1 was the story of the PlayerCharacter becoming the new BigBad. [[/note]]

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''Drawga'' is a web series airing on ''[[WebVideo/{{Drawfee}} the Drawfee Channel]]'' on Youtube. It combines RolePlayingGame mechanics with the art challenges Drawfee has become known for, and has existed in several forms over the years.

The first incarnation of ''Drawga'' was released in 2014, hosted by Caldwell Tanner and Nathan Yaffe. Essentially a "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style {{Gamebook}} in video format, it tells the tale of a mysterious prisoner who is transported to an AfterTheEnd wasteland populated by AnthropomorphicFood, eventually coming face to face with the BigBad responsible for the apocalypse. Each episode ends with a {{Cliffhanger}}, [[AudienceParticipation and viewers could vote to determine how the story would continue.]]

The show returned in 2016 with a wildly different format. Taking more inspiration from TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons, it now features Caldwell Tanner as the DM [[note]] which stands for "Drawing Master", in this case [[/note]], with Julia Lepetit and Jacob Andrews serving as players alongside Nathan Yaffe. This trio portrays the three main members of the adventuring group ''[[NonIndicativeName the Ladies Book Club]]'' -- Rah'ōxah, Rijinah and Legzi Shortstakk -- who were originally created for a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbHfokvc2sI&list=PLnA3NeUEhhq98dRuxDlMFr8aCvKXMAnPM&index=13&t=0s Drawfee Break challenge.]] The story has our heroines being hired by Francis the Goblin to solve the murder of his business partner Daryl, while the gameplay follows the mold set by ''Morning Drawfee'', with the three artists each making one drawing in every episode.

The Ladies Book Club would go on to star in an eight-part prequel comic miniseries by the same name, and also in the 2019 ''Drawga Live'' show at the ''New York Comic Con.''

A third season of Drawga -- simply called ''Drawga: The All-New Season'' premiered in 2019, in which the now older members of the LBC set out to join a prestigious AdventureGuild to become "Verified Knights." Episodes are now more self-contained, contain live-action "gameshow" segments, and features a SpecialGuest judge OnceAnEpisode who rates the artists work. However, the season would be CutShort after only five episodes had been released on Youtube, as Website/CollegeHumor lost its financial support from parent company IAC, and it probably didn't help matters that this was followed by the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic]] shortly thereafter. While WebVideo/{{Drawfee}} itself is still running, ''Drawga'' seems to have been put on hold for the time being.

For WebVideo/{{Drawfee}}'s ''other'' art challenge-based RPG campaign, see ''Drawtectives''.

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!!''Drawga'' contains examples of:
* PowerTrio: Rah'ōxah, Rijinah and Legzi fit the FighterMageThief version extraordinarily well.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: As it turns out, [[spoiler: Season 1 was the story of the PlayerCharacter becoming the new BigBad. [[/note]]
* UrbanFantasy: Somewherica -- the setting of Season 2 and onward -- which combines tropes of a StandardFantasySetting with a bit of modern {{Satire}}. [[AnachronismStew Armored knights casually coexist with modern spy drones and even futuristic holograms.]] Basically, it's a FantasyCounterpartCulture of the present day Western world.
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