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DM of the Rings CXXVIII:
A Legacy of Deceit
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Most reasonable people refer to this strip by episode number, but as the guy who makes the pages I tend to think of it in terms of page numbers. Today’s strip brings us to the 200 page landmark. Pretty cool.
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Previous in DM of the Rings: DMotR Special 3: The Elven Hillbillies | Next in DM of the Rings: DM of the Rings CXXIX: While You Were Fighting |
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welcome back– you’ve been missed!
His pants his gold and his life.
Typo: Lairs vs liars.
“I excommunicate your curse.” Beautiful.
Well I’m not going back and counting the pages. I’ll take your word for it, oh Gallbladderless One.
Welcome back.
Steve
This is great.
Second best line:
“I dunno, kid, I can’t imagine how something like that could go wrong” delivered deadpan.
Best line:
“NO TAKEBACKS.”
[Gimli] What are “Undead Lairs”?
Confused of Middle Earth.
The typo on “lairs” (I assume you meant “liars”) threw me for a loop the first couple of readings … which puts the idea that you can arrange the letters inside a word in any way you want and people can still understand it to bed [grin].
Very funny! :)
Happy 200th page, and welcome back.
[shamus] This “outsmarting” dialog actually happened in a game I recently was involved in. The player concerned, whom we shall call “eric” (though his real name is Johann Greenblatt, 27 Armageddon Crescent, Lyndenhurst NY, phone 631-555-1212) was treating all the other players as blades in his personal Swiss Army Problem Solver. The “outsmarting” led to much loss of face, even more loss of temper, his leaving of the game in High Dugeon(TM) and a general improvement of morale as a result.
Now that’s what I call a good game.
Steve.
Ah man, you missed a great opportunity to throw in another famous line:
“The power of Christ compels you!!!!!”
Welcome back!
Welcome back Shamus! And a return to form, as always. I don’t know how you keep up the funny, but whatever you do, keep doing it.
“Lairs” vs “Liars” fixed.
Does this mean you’re feeling better now?
“I cancel your curse,” indeed…
Pure hilarity!
“Correction, he outsmarted YOU. Again.”
Classic. Welcome back. Hope you are feeling better.
For some reason the title of today’s strip, “A Legacy of Deceit”, reminds me of another movie starring Viggo Mortensen: “A History of Violence”.
Probably not an intentional reference. But maybe?
Also: UMPTEENTH POST!!!11!oneone!!
Great one, Shamus :D My rat got a bit startled from all the nloud noises I began to produce after reading it :D
Now I am looking forward who will be the next one who outsmarts Aragorn :D
Trial of liars vs. Trail of lairs?
Pimp!
Missed you, welcome back.
I cancel your curse… HAHAHAHAHAHA
I love this comic.
As long as Aragorn doesn’t ride Hidalgo into Mordor, do damage Carlito’s Way when he gets there, or Witness the invisible scourging of the Shire, I suppose a History of Violence reference will be acceptable.
You really should make this into a published comic book.
kind of reminds me of “cantripping” in Amtgard back before it was disallowed.
Amtgard is a LARP with a magic system that is based on reciting pre-written spells and/or throwing padded balls of cloth as “fireballs” and “magic bolts”.
Cantripping is the practice of pointing at someone and repeating some random grouping of words.
among my favorites to use:
“I banish thee to Cleveland!”
“Rock to stone! Rock to stone!”
one of the more famous examples:
A knight by the name of Sir Arthon approached a line of 10-20 warriors and started pointing at each of them and saying “Leave or die” to each in turn. True to amtgarder instinct, the response to random person pointing at you and saying something rhythmic/chanting, they all ran away. (Then again, Sir Arthon is one of the most skilled stick jocks/fighters in the game…though I still think 10-20 people would have taken him, somehow…depends on the 10-20, I guess)
My absolute favorite however, came from my brother’s stint as healer. He’d always by “Heal Extension” which lets him heal at range once in a game. However, the activating phrase “Extension” is the same as the wizard ability that doubles the range for any spell.
So, he’d go out with his sword and shield and randomly point at people, yell “Extension” and then start the heal spell. Most of the time they ran and he’d leave off casting the spell and thus wouldn’t use up the extension and be able to use it later.
“I am really starting to hate the undead.”
More than this campaign? Surely not! :-)
I’m surprised he didn’t want the 10,000 x whatever the XP for a ghost is experience.
Proclaimate… excommunicate…
*gigglesnort* COMEDIC GOLD
Excellent idea….once you’re finished, you SHOULD publish these. I would gladly shell out tens of dollars to have this on my bookshelf. Maybe you could even quit your day job. Who knows, it worked for Rich Burlew.
And that would lead to his Slow Death By Lawyer. We don’t want THAT.
“Excellent idea….once you’re finished, you SHOULD publish these. I would gladly shell out tens of dollars to have this on my bookshelf.”
That’d be really cool, but I somehow suspect that New Line, Saul Zaentz, and / or the Tolkien estate might have something to say about that. :-(
Geh.
Look, if Shamus wanted to actually publish, he’d have to get into negotiations with New Line Cinema(Who own the movie and everything related to it-including the pictures bring used), Tolkien Enterprises(Who control The Lord of the Rings stuff in general), and possibly the agents of the actors(Who might object to how their character images are being used).
It’s take time, but more importantly, it’d likely cost quite a bit.
Welcome back, hope you are feeling well. If not, go back to bed and stop worrying about this website.
Signed, your mother.
Welcome Shamus, good thing to see they did not accidentally remove your funny bone while you were under.
Hope your recovery proceeds apace, and your other organs take the hint and don’t make any trouble for you. :o
;)
Swindeled out of his pants! Nice one shamus!
First time posting, long time reading, spent many an hour catching up on the ones i hadn’t read a while back, great comic, ingenious!
Welcome back Shamus
You’re so very worth waiting for. I loved the screen caps, and thank you for your thoughtfulness while you were down. You’re great!!!
An early edition of D&D contained a monster index; each monster included amongst its stats “% Lair”, which indicated the odds that at any given moment it would be in its dwelling (instead of out hunting or whatever).
Unfortunately, this was misprinted, and soon TSR began receiving puzzled inquiries about, e.g., why an owlbear would lie 75% of the time, but a goblin only 40%.
Also, King Carcass’s face when he says, “No Takebacks” is SO FUNNY!!! It’s like he has this secretive smirk. I love it.
Have I told you how much I love this comic?
Oh yeah, I have already done that once today. (Looks down and kicks dirt)
Wow. What nice timing, after a truly scary weekend game and the loss of my cat this past week (to asthma). I truly needed the laugh, and The Simpsons movie didn’t make my ribs hurt –
ENTER, DM OF THE RINGS!
Thanks for doing what you do.
Now THIS would be an appropriate time for the ranger to take a level of favored enemy: Undead… :)
And welcome back Shamus! :)
One thing, how are they going to destroy the Ring of Phoom without Dave?
On another note: Excellent!
Glad to see you’re back Shamus. Hope your recovery is going smoothly.
Glad to have you back, mang.
In reference to all the negotiations that would have to happen, don’t forget Lucas Arts. I’m fairly certain I recall a certain Mr. Fett being photoshopped in.
scientific proof that the gall bladder is not the seat of humor in the human body. Now all we have to do is remove Shamus’ organs one at a time while he writes the strip…
good work here, seriously.
Yippee!
He should have just used the ‘That was out of character’ line.
Aaah, undead armies of thieves and liars… Always so useful… Then you forget about the main force of the army still being around and release them… Then, two days later, while you march there with a small force that is weak from travel and prior combat, you ponder stabbing yourself in the eye for being such a moronic git.
Welcome back Shamus! Glad you’re back and in form.
I think the D&D item Sartorius refers to is the venerable Arduin Grimoire . They had a %Liar on *every* monster, including the molds and vegetation. I don’t know if they ever fixed it in any of the reprints, but it was confusing until you actually spared a brain cell or two to think about it. Of course, being a gamer my small collection of brain cells was trying to find ways to pimp out my character using the Arduin random PC altering tables, or trying to avoid instant death on the Arduin critical hit tables . Anyway, good to see you back.
“no takebacks”…heh
Hee hee hee “No Takebacks”
Great comic!!! I love it!! You are a true genius…
I love Aragon’s coment of “outsmarting us.” I sometimes forget that the intellegence of the group is not always equal to the loudest member, or the one with the highest diplomacy bonus