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Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The latter rose from the former, although the two are now so estranged that to reunite them would be an act of savage madness. Imagine a gaggle of modern hack-n-slash roleplayers who had somehow never been exposed to the original Tolkien mythos, and then imagine taking those players and trying to introduce them to Tolkien via a D&D campaign.
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[...] Sunday my husband asked me to go to the computer store for him after church. Why I went alone can be found here. He asked me to pick up a comic book creator program he had seen there a few months prior. I did and he set to it that same day. Yesterday he was still working on it. Over the past week he has combined The Lord of the Rings movie and the personalities of his D&D group. Basically he has made a comic strip of what would have happened had the party of gentlemen in Lord of the Rings been 17 year old gaming geeks who just want to fight giant spiders and goblins. It’s pretty funny, especially if you have ever sat in on a D&D group. If you get a moment, stop over and check it out. [...]
[...] [...]
[...] I’ve never watched Yu-Gi-Oh before, but if you’ve ever seen DragonBall-Z and you’re passingly familiar with Pokemon then you’ll pick right up on what the show is about. The Abridged Series is a homemade (?) parody of the absurdities of Yu-Gi-Oh and all those others childrens’ game-promoting anime shows. There seem to be 11 episodes in the Abridged Series so far, each roughly four minutes long. They remind me a lot of Shamus’ comics in the sort of self-referential humor they employ. Great fun, I was laughing out loud at every episode. [...]
[...] The comic starts here with the first episode. You can use the links to navigate from there. [...]
[...] (Yes, I already know that these aren’t actually spoonerisms, they’re just swapped words. If you are a huge nerd, you’re going to have to find something else to nitpick.) Comments » [...]
[...] The chap who’s doing DM Of The Rings, which I’ve linked to a couple of times recently, is really pumping ‘em out at the moment – one every day or so. The comics are just posts on his blog at the moment with no index, but the Next and Previous links will get you through. [...]
[...] DM of the Rings humor RPGsShare and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
[...] Wednesday, October 25 2006 @ 10:23 PM CDT Contributed by: corwin Views: 1 If you’ve ever been involved in role-playing games in any way ever, you simply must go read Twenty Sided. Among the many posts on the blog, Shamus is providing his readers with one of the funniest webcomics I have ever seen: The DM of the Rings. Picture this: you’re a DM with a group of almost exclusively hack-and-slash players (we’ve all been there, most of us on both sides. Except the role-player over there). Oddly enough, none of these players are at all familiar with the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, and the campaign you’re running is none other than The Lord of the Rings.I can pretty much stop describing it there. All of the gamers reading this are now furiously clicking the links to go read this masterpiece, and everyone else has lost interest by now. So far, the party has arrived at Balin’s tomb in Moria, and hilarity is in the midst of ensuing. I can’t wait for the next episode… [...]
[...] I recently stumbled across Twenty Sided Tale, a blog by Shamus Young, and found his series of comics entitled The DM of the Rings. It starts here, with DM of the Rings I, and fair warning: I nearly peed myself around number IX or so. [...]
[...] The DM of the Rings [...]
[...] Speaking of AD&D (as we were) here is a webcomic called Twenty Sided. [...]
[...] Tuesday and Thursday Bad; MWF Good Filed under: Geekery — Robert @ 8:28 am Because of this and this. [...]
[...] j’avais oublié de vous parler de ce bidule: DM of the Rings est un webcomic de rôliste, qui imagine ce que donnerait le Seigneur des Anneaux, de JRR Tolkien, [...]
[...] The DM of the Rings: by Shamus Young [...]
[...] some time now, and I don’t generally enjoy sprite/photo/screencap comics of this style, but DM of the Rings has been consistently amusing me, at least for the first twenty-three comics. I know my RP’er [...]
Been a while……
Yeah, I’ve been slacking. I took a few weeks away from work to study for a promotion test, and I kinda got out of the not-quite-well-established habit of blogging.
Susie’s taken David to London for the day, in anticipatory celebration of he…
[...] http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 [...]
[...] – http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 [...]
[...] DM of the rings Our DM send us this link to a comic about LoTR as a modern D&D style game, if gamers were to play it today. I got quite a few laughs from it. Twenty Sided DM of the Rings I:The Copious Backstory [...]
[...] guy by the name of Shamus Young did a series of screen-cap comics called “DM of the Rings” (DM = dungeon master), where he re-imagined “The Lord of The Rings” movies as a [...]
[...] Since I doubt Gygax would want people moping about, check out The DM of the Rings! [...]
[...] DM of the Rings [...]
[...] the other hand, friend John sent me this lovely link: Dungeon Master of the Rings. I laughed so hard I nearly peed my pants. It’s a Web comic using screenshots from the movie [...]
[...] genskabt et utal af gange på youtube. Det er også tydeligt i tegneserier som Chainmail Bikini, DM of the Rings, Darths & Droids og Dungeons & [...]
[...] Sie sich folgenden Webcomic auf Twenty Sided an. Hier wird die Geschichte von Herr der Ringe einmal ganz anders erzählt. [...]
[...] When all this work is done, a GM tends to want to share all this (it’s only natural, when you pour a lot of effort in something,seeking validation is normal). Thing is, the tendency of many GMs is to present this in the form of non-interactive presentations… (which often leads to this type of reaction from players) [...]
[...] ואצרף את המלצתי גם כן. הקומיקס מבוסס ברעיון ובביצוע על DM of the Ring, שעושה טיפול דומה לשר הטבעות, ושווה גם הוא את השקעת [...]
[...] DM of the Rings – Lord of the Rings as a D&D module. I cast Magic Missile at the darkness! [...]
[...] very funny webcomic (with a completed story) best summarized by the author at the start of the very first [...]
[...] DM of the rings : This is a very hilarious comic that poses the what if question to the D&D meets Lord of the Rings world. Using clips from the movie LOTR; the author asks what would happen if a group of D&D gamers were to play in the LOTR universe before it had ever come out to book or movie. Very, Very hilarious/true. This comic has been taken through completion. So if you make it all the way through it; you have read it all. [...]
[...] ad Alan per avermi passato questo link, é pura genialità. Bye [...]
[...] it just copied another person’s idea named Shamus Young. He had started a web comic called DM of the Rings. It used screencaps from the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy to tell a narrative of a bunch of [...]
[...] One of the Holy Grails of gaming is the “sandbox game”, where there is no overarching meta-plot, or even individual plot arcs, but where the characters are put into a world that is both realistic and autonomous, and allowed to interact in that world however they see fit. To a True Believer of the Way of the Sandbox, everything else is ‘railroading’, where the GM is nothing but a wannabe novelist who wants to Tell A Story. (Like this.) [...]
[...] Euch folgenden Webcomic auf Twenty Sided an. Hier wird die Geschichte von Herr der Ringe einmal ganz anders erzählt. [...]
[...] prequels being played out as a tabletop RPG. It’s inspired by Shamus Young’s DM of the Rings webcomic. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share [...]
[...] either (a) reads my blog, or (b) keeps an eye on my Facebook where my blog propagates. Either way: DM of the Rings Posted by THOR Filed in [...]
[...] folks are probably at least aware of Shamus Young’s DM of the Rings series. It was the only web comic I’ve ever religiously checked every day, on the off chance [...]
[...] folks are probably at least aware of Shamus Young’s DM of the Rings series. It was the only web comic I’ve ever religiously checked every day, on the off chance [...]
[...] folks are probably at least aware of Shamus Young’s DM of the Rings series. It was the only web comic I’ve ever religiously checked every day, on the off chance [...]
[...] folks are probably at least aware of Shamus Young’s DM of the Rings series. It was the only web comic I’ve ever religiously checked every day, on the off chance [...]
[...] 1. The DM of The Rings [...]
[...] by Shamus Young’s popular and LOL-able DM of the Rings, which takes scenes for the Lord of the Rings and replaces dialogue with that of a RPG group [...]
[...] Fan stuff, Odds and ends, News itemsMost folks are probably at least aware of Shamus Young's DM of the Rings series. It was the only web comic I've ever religiously checked every day, on the off chance [...]
[...] just happened across The DM of the Rings the other day, and it has given me many laughs, so I thought I’d share [...]
[...] the link: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 – if you have any experience with D&D (or other RPGs) and have seen the LotR movies, you should [...]
[...] The DM of the Rings [...]
[...] you want to laugh your ass off take a look at The DM of the Rings. Its a comic where LOTR meets your average RP group. Its a completed comic so you don’t have to try [...]
[...] av DM of the Rings och med Irregular Webcomics David Morgan-Mar som en av skaparna. En screencap serie om hur [...]
[...] DM of the Rings which is an off-shoot from Twenty Sided. Very geeky, be warned. Hi, nice to meet you. [...]
[...] hysterical tale of gamers trapped in an epic, DM of the Rings is created from stills (in order) from the Lord of the Rings films. The author describes the [...]
[...] DM of the Rings: Você é fã do Senhor dos Anéis? E de D&D? Então leia. Agora. Pode ir, eu espero. Já leu? Ótimo. Muito bom, né? Mas falando sério, um webcomic usando screenshots dos filmes, mostrando como seria um cara extremamente railroader mestrando a história do Senhor dos Anéis para um grupo num mundo onde Senhor dos Anéis não existe? Hilário. (Esse webcomic já terminou, então tecnicamente não o visito regularmente… mas é tão bom que merece um espaço aqui.) Não esqueça de ler os comentários abaixo de cada tirinha! [...]
[...] The DM of the Rings [...]
[...] I recommend starting at the beginning. [...]
[...] is a pretty funny guy. You really need to check out his fictonal campaign where he acts as the DM for the Lord of the Rings movies. Great [...]
[...] watching The Two Towers tonight reminded me of the web comic DM of the Rings. It’s pretty funny if you’re familiar with Lord of the Rings and/or Dungeons and [...]
[...] and is at its best when consumed in mass quantities. Battles can take a while, and there are often deep, intricate story details that must be carefully revealed through nuanced roleplaying and charac…. This doesn’t take into account the vast amounts of recapping, reminders, joking, ordering of [...]
[...] of the Rings By pocaracas Há uns dias, mostraram-me este Web-comic: The DM of the Rings Essencialmente, é a história de LotR (Senhor dos Aneis), em versão Dungeons&Dragons, em que [...]
[...] rest of the site as well. Shamus is a clever, pithy writer and is also the author of the wonderful DM of the Rings Webcomic. Posted in Books & Authors January 9th, 2009 by [...]
[...] webcomic gira un poco en torno a esa idea. Todo empezó cuando Shamus Young, autor de DM of the Rings (una tira que hacía lo mismo para Lord of the Rings) se pregunta, luego de terminada su [...]
[...] admin on Jan.31, 2009, under Internet/Movies So a week or so back I came across this wonderful site Twenty Sided and it’s absolutely brilliant DM of the Rings webcomic. Some people watch soap operas, some [...]
[...] DM Of The Rings by Shamus Young http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 [...]
[...] and Droids, a webcomic by the creators of Irregular Webcomic and following in the footsteps of DM of the Rings. In their own words, “the essential conceit of this comic is that Star Wars as we know it does [...]
[...] DM of The Ring. If you are not an RPG nerd, or an LoTR nerd, don’t even bother. You won’t get it. [...]
[...] April 21, 2009 · Filed under humour · Tagged web comics I found Darths & Droids via Antick Musings. I can’t say anything about this webcomic better than Andrew Wheeler already has so: I’ve just spent the last two hours reading through the first two-hundred-and-some pages of Darths & Droids, a fumetti webcomic by a bunch of Australian guys, along the lines of the great DM of the Rings. [...]
[...] The DM of the Rings – Viewing the Tolkien fantasy through the lens of D&D & LotR screenshots [...]
[...] DM Of The Rings [...]
[...] DM of the Rings [...]
[...] I stumbled onto this and got a good laugh out of it. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to roll a saving throw vs. uber-geekyness [...]
[...] The DM of the Rings [...]
[...] The DM of the Rings [...]
[...] Thanks to BoingBoing for bringing this to my attention. These guys have created a comic strip based on Lord of the Rings, as if played by a bunch of ignoram…. Very, very funny. Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The latter [...]
[...] Shamus Young’s webcomic DM Of The Rings is a hilarious retelling of the Lord Of The Rings saga as a Dungeons & Dragons quest. Quite recognisable – I felt I was 20 years in the past again [...]
[...] while checking the latest posts on BoingBoing I stumbled upon the mention of this hilarious webcomic. If you are a fan of D&D and/or Tolkien’s work, you really should check this out, [...]
[...] http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 [...]
[...] DM of the Rings I:The Copious Backstory at Twenty Sided (via B²) — pretty funny (reminds me of that video short "Summoner Geeks" from… oh ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO?) (tagged: blog literature geek art humor comic fantasy fun parody ) [...]
[...] DM of the Rings I:The Copious Backstory (tags: LordOfTheRings comics) [...]
[...] Twenty Sided » Blog Archive » DM of the Rings I:The Copious Backstory (tags: lotr comics games humor comic) [...]
[...] This Lord of the Rings parody shows how things would have went with real gamers… [...]
[...] don’t know how on earth I managed to completely miss Shamus Young’s The DM of the Rings [...]
[...] If Lord of the Rings was a D&D Campaign: The Graphic Novel. [And related: Lord of the Ringlings.] [...]
[...] am really now sure how I came across The DM of the Rings comic strip, rather webcomic, earlier this week, but OMG, this thing had me LMAO. At times it was [...]
[...] have been enjoying reading ‘The DM of the Rings’ a web ‘comic’ that follows a DM trying to lead a group through the Lord of [...]
[...] would like to thank one Shamus Young for writing this comic, blog, other comic, other other comic, and column that everyone should, if you can read it as fast [...]
[...] By kirkal D & D version of LoTR:D&D LoTR spoof. Rotfl, LOL fun. And food for thought, too, about how lame LoTR can sound/read if looked at in a [...]
[...] avoid this comic at all costs. It’s long, and may have language that is not BAUT approves as you get further in. [...]
[...] Posted by Tog_ Then avoid this comic at all costs. It’s long, and may have language that is not BAUT approves as you get further in. [...]
[...] DM of the Rings By magneto Leave a Comment Categories: funny and movies The DM ["Dungeon Master"] of the Rings: It’s LOTR with dialogue as if it were dudes playing a [...]
[...] not checking up with Kotaku or checking out Your Mom’s foot fetish site I managed to bump into DM of the Rings: a comic re-interpretation of The Lord of the Rings films by Shamus Young (now on The Escapist). [...]
[...] [*]DM of the Rings – by Shamus Young – What if Lord of the Rings were a D&D campaign? [...]
[...] shamusyoung Commenters who threaten anyone while here because they are not smart enough to come up with a better answer will have some due diligence done on them. Foul mouthed lefty posters beware. [...]
[...] a Droids, the spiritual successor to DM of the Rings, is well underway and updating three times a [...]
[...] DM of the Rings [...]
[...] DM of the Rings, an imagining of Lord of the Rings as a tabletop campaign, along with witty asides, player cliches, [...]
[...] In the fine style of the Net classic > DM of the rings http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 enjoy, if you have not [...]
[...] play them, what he has to say is worth reading. Young obtained internet fame with his now-completed “DM of the Rings” series, a free web comic that dares to imagine how Tolkien’s famous Lord of the Rings saga [...]
[...] de persos pré-tirés, dont vous allez vivre l’histoire). Ce style est rendu comique par le site The DM of the Rings : où un MD qui adore Le Seigneur des Anneaux de Tolkien, décide de faire vivre cette histoire à [...]
[...] http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 a few seconds ago from Gwibber [...]
[...] Konzept ist damit ähnlich wie DM of the Rings: Die Bilder zeigen die Spielhandlung, und in Voice Overs hört man Spieler und [...]
[...] of this is Shamus Young’s take on Lord Of The Rings versus “Standard Gaming Group", DM of the Rings. Following the story to the letter the group has no fun. Sure Shamus intentionally creates friction [...]
[...] directly… except for when I indulge in one of my newest weird habits: reading webcomics like this one or this one while having lunch or dinner. At such a time, moving instantly from comic to comic is a [...]
[...] Spielleiter. Was für Tolkienianer (oder Jackson-Fans) unvorstellbar ist, wird beim Webcomic DM of the Rings zu schrecklich lustiger Unterhaltung. Szenen aus der Verfilmung werden mit Sprechblasen [...]
[...] vbmenu_register("postmenu_121341", true); Odin Die Plagen eines jeden Dungeon Master's: The DM of the Ring Sehr geil, zwar auch auf englisch, aber sehr lustig. __________________ Molly Grue: "Und [...]
[...] bring back Doohickey of Doom, return Raistlin’s book to the Libraries of Gehenna) or from complete lack of player interest about your background. You therefore have very limited resources (time, attention spans and [...]
[...] When all this work is done, a GM tends to want to share all this (it’s only natural, when you pour a lot of effort in something,seeking validation is normal). Thing is, the tendency of many GMs is to present this in the form of non-interactive presentations… (which often leads to this type of reaction from players) [...]
[...] descriptions is not always an easy task depending on your natural style (and some DM just drone on and on). But from my own experience, short, enthusiastic burst of descriptions, especially during [...]
[...] DM of the Rings is a web-comic that was produced from 2006 to 2007. It uses still shots from the Peter Jackson [...]
Brilliant. I love it.
Very funny indeed.
[...] Sunday my husband asked me to go to the computer store for him after church. Why I went alone can be found here. He asked me to pick up a comic book creator program he had seen there a few months prior. I did and he set to it that same day. Yesterday he was still working on it. Over the past week he has combined The Lord of the Rings movie and the personalities of his D&D group. Basically he has made a comic strip of what would have happened had the party of gentlemen in Lord of the Rings been 17 year old gaming geeks who just want to fight giant spiders and goblins. It’s pretty funny, especially if you have ever sat in on a D&D group. If you get a moment, stop over and check it out. [...]
Whew that sure was funny, and I can HONESTLY say I have never read that before. Nope that bit was completly new to me.
very funny. Makes me nostalgic for the Lemon
Funny stuff! I’m enjoying these.
However, I have a quibble…
“Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The former rose from the later…” You have “former” and “lat[t]er” reversed; if LOTR is the “foundation” of D&D, then LOTR came first. The sentence should read “The latter rose from the former…”
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Whoops. Former / Latter Fixed.
[...] I’ve never watched Yu-Gi-Oh before, but if you’ve ever seen DragonBall-Z and you’re passingly familiar with Pokemon then you’ll pick right up on what the show is about. The Abridged Series is a homemade (?) parody of the absurdities of Yu-Gi-Oh and all those others childrens’ game-promoting anime shows. There seem to be 11 episodes in the Abridged Series so far, each roughly four minutes long. They remind me a lot of Shamus’ comics in the sort of self-referential humor they employ. Great fun, I was laughing out loud at every episode. [...]
[...] The comic starts here with the first episode. You can use the links to navigate from there. [...]
[...] (Yes, I already know that these aren’t actually spoonerisms, they’re just swapped words. If you are a huge nerd, you’re going to have to find something else to nitpick.) Comments » [...]
[...] The chap who’s doing DM Of The Rings, which I’ve linked to a couple of times recently, is really pumping ‘em out at the moment – one every day or so. The comics are just posts on his blog at the moment with no index, but the Next and Previous links will get you through. [...]
[...] DM of the Rings humor RPGsShare and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
I Love it.
[...] Wednesday, October 25 2006 @ 10:23 PM CDT Contributed by: corwin Views: 1 If you’ve ever been involved in role-playing games in any way ever, you simply must go read Twenty Sided. Among the many posts on the blog, Shamus is providing his readers with one of the funniest webcomics I have ever seen: The DM of the Rings. Picture this: you’re a DM with a group of almost exclusively hack-and-slash players (we’ve all been there, most of us on both sides. Except the role-player over there). Oddly enough, none of these players are at all familiar with the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, and the campaign you’re running is none other than The Lord of the Rings.I can pretty much stop describing it there. All of the gamers reading this are now furiously clicking the links to go read this masterpiece, and everyone else has lost interest by now. So far, the party has arrived at Balin’s tomb in Moria, and hilarity is in the midst of ensuing. I can’t wait for the next episode… [...]
Absolutely hilarious. Reminds me of my crew when we were playing about ten years ago, huh.
That’s so funny! More of that please!
[...] I recently stumbled across Twenty Sided Tale, a blog by Shamus Young, and found his series of comics entitled The DM of the Rings. It starts here, with DM of the Rings I, and fair warning: I nearly peed myself around number IX or so. [...]
[...] The DM of the Rings [...]
Actually, the progeniator of D&D is/was Jack Vance’s Dying Earth novels. This is why we have things like Melf’s Acid Missile and things. At least according to Gary Gygax. But obviously a lot of the mythos and settings were…inherited from Tolkien.
K.
Very good! You’re so cruel to the poor players, though. Withholding their mechwarrior ;_;
Great
keep on!
[...] Speaking of AD&D (as we were) here is a webcomic called Twenty Sided. [...]
[...] Tuesday and Thursday Bad; MWF Good Filed under: Geekery — Robert @ 8:28 am Because of this and this. [...]
He is right though, Mechwarrior is awesome.
Who wants to be Clan Widow Maker with me?
[...] j’avais oublié de vous parler de ce bidule: DM of the Rings est un webcomic de rôliste, qui imagine ce que donnerait le Seigneur des Anneaux, de JRR Tolkien, [...]
[...] The DM of the Rings: by Shamus Young [...]
[...] some time now, and I don’t generally enjoy sprite/photo/screencap comics of this style, but DM of the Rings has been consistently amusing me, at least for the first twenty-three comics. I know my RP’er [...]
I always did wonder what they were thinking while they were shooting =-]
Verry funny. :):):)
Cool!
How do I get a lot of dice next to my comment?
Rock on.
Is it normal that the strips don’t show up? Or does nothing ever wrok for me ? :_(
LOL! Its usually a bad sign if the players don’t pay *any* attention to the opening backstory…looks like we’re about to go on an interesting trip. :)
That’s hilarious! I hate backstory myself ‘blah, blah, blah’, when the frig are we going to play?
Been a while……
Yeah, I’ve been slacking. I took a few weeks away from work to study for a promotion test, and I kinda got out of the not-quite-well-established habit of blogging.
Susie’s taken David to London for the day, in anticipatory celebration of he…
[...] http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 [...]
[...] – http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 [...]
This webcomic is awesome. I’ve been reading since one of the first strips came out, and it’s been a thoroughly enjoyable ride so far.
Thanks Shamus!
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[...] DM of the rings Our DM send us this link to a comic about LoTR as a modern D&D style game, if gamers were to play it today. I got quite a few laughs from it. Twenty Sided DM of the Rings I:The Copious Backstory [...]
As a Player and GM. This story has compelled me to follow Shamus’writting antics throughout.
The art of humor is: Exhibiting very funny incidents seriously.
The old master says:A world is defined by it’s occupants. I am merely here by definition.
Commenting on the change made.
It’s interesting that the player of Merry is more…confrontational. Before he was ‘O.K, whatever, sure I wanted to play Mechwarrior, but…’. Now he’s actively calling the group lunatics.
“Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D.”
Not really. D&D was developed out of Chainmail in 1969-71 by Gygax and Arneson, who were active before the Tolkein revival spawned the vast hordes of 3-or-more volume bad fantasy series and made fantasy overwhelmingly prevalent on the SF shelves. The Tolkien revival was brought about by the availability of the single-volume paperback edition from 1968 coinciding with its adoption by the hippy movement.
Gygax and Arneson quoted three references in the first D&D rulebook: Jack Vance’s “Dying Earth” stories (where the magic system in particular comes from), Fritz Lieber’s Lankhmar tales of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser (rogues, thieves, sword-and-sorcery adventuring), and Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions, quoted as the place where the alignment system came from, although Michael Moorcock’s Elric stories were published around the same time and develop the alignment system more deeply.
Poul Anderson was also a founding member of the SCA.
Lankhmar is also the inspiration for Ankh-Morpork, in the same way that Niven’s Ringworld is the inspiration for Pratchett’s Discworld. Read “Strata” if you need convincing.
The only obvious Tolkien presence is the halfling class, which Gygax said were an attempt to hitch a ride on the Tolkien-led fantasy revival.
And so it begins. I might reveal some very funny things that happen in later strips but that would be spoiling, wouldn´t it? I never watched Titanic because I got so spoiled by people who did watch the film: they told me that the ship will sink. No sense watching the film knowing that, eh?
Just keep on clicking the Next button. This gets better and better.
i am playing the hobbit the moment and it is called lead the quest that started it all not a bad game is there any games that i can download as i brought this one have not seen any more in the shop here can you please help me
How about adding an index so I can leave, come back and not have to flip through a jillion episodes!!
I love it, miss playing D&D on all the time. Keep up the good work.
lol, try using your favorites or clicking the ring at the top of the comic ;-)
Excellent!
This pure genius! I haven’t laughed that hard in a while! LOL!!!
Hmmm… I would like to read this comic, but where it is? Maybe my browser blocks some links, but I cannot see the link. Anyone willing to help without making harsh comments?
The start of a legacy!
Man Tolkin would be turning in his coffin if he knew of this!
i also hate looong intros. give me a cliff notes any time!
Yo, love the Dm of the rings thing, but where have the pics gone? I don’t see any of the work you’ve done one here now. NO hobbits or nothing.