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DM of the Rings IV:
Uphill Battle
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I’ve mentioned before how I’ve had trouble with coaxing players to rest. You have to watch these guys: They will do everything they can to escape the finely crafted rails you’ve put them on.
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I think I’ve played in this campaign.
Me too. Sounds very, very familiar.
…Where’s our cleric? He stands watch the entire night, and we’ll carry him tomorrow.
(Ahem. You put this one in “Random Thoughts” instead of “Comics”.)
Whoops. Fixed.
Thanks.
I love these. Too bad none of my friends get them. I guess most Christian, homeschooling moms don’t hang out Sunday nights watching their hubbies play D & D, let alone play along. Man, I miss my rogue, she was fun. :) Too bad Lord of the Rings doesn’t have a chick playing along. That threw them for a loop plenty of times. :)
I must admit I’m finding these enjoyable, and rather addictive as well. If you keep this up, I may have to say there’s TWO worthwhile web comics.
“Man, I miss my rogue, she was fun.
Kids these days. Back in the old days, we didn’t have ‘rogues’, we had thieves. Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, Cleric, Druid, Magic-User, Illusionist, Thief, Assassin, Monk and Bard. That’s it.
…but we were PROUD! Where’s my walker? Get off my lawn!
Mr. Duck, you’re too young. I learned FRPG’s with the original D&D, using the Greyhawk supplement, in the late 1970′s. I think that there were only six specialties: fighters, mages, thieves, clerics, illusionists, and paladins. The latter two were more recent; the original system had only the four.
Just in case you start to run out of material Shamus I think the best thing for all of us is for you to just come up with another campaign and let us just inspire your comic to greatness. Even though I’m sure we’ve probably given you more then enough material to work with for a very long time.
Yeah, but now you ALSO have to get Eric and Dan to quit their jobs if we ever want to play again.
Stupid society. Stupid jobs. Stupid grown-up responsibilities.
How come the rogue hasn’t tried to rob anyone? Where’s his greed? Shouldn’t he have tried to shiv the bartender and rob him?
” I learned FRPG’s with the original D&D, using the Greyhawk supplement, in the late 1970’s.”
Yes, true, but I learned from Gygax hizzown self. I think I was nine or ten at the time. Can I help it if he had already laid plans for the 1st Edition rules?
Hmm, this is actually pretty good. Also, I added 2 and 2 and discovered that Shamus was the guy who made The Lemon. Now I understand. BTW, this is the funniest thing I saw in whole week:
http://www.shamusyoung.com/lemon/issues/index.php?030820
Heather, where do you live? I don’t home school, but the rest, yeah.
Sara: Heather is my wife, and we both live near Pittsburgh. :) Here is her site, if you’re curious.
I play a halfling. In first Ed.
LOL! Yes, I too have experienced specific levels of tired…
Great job!
Heh. You forgot a few classes, Mr. den Besten: back in the original boxed set days, halfling, dwarf, and elf were _classes,_ not races. There weren’t any half-elves or gnomes yet, either.
Actually, Harlock, you’re thinking of the BECMI D&D line (Basic Expert Companion Master Immortals, the boxed set names), which started in the early 80s after AD&D and had demihuman races as classes. The original version of D&D from the 70s had only three classes, the Fighting-Man, Magic-User, and Cleric. Others were added in three supplements (Greyhawk, Blackmoor, and Eldritch Wizardry).
Goodness, all us Oldtimers have pamphlets of one variety or another…
Now where’s that wandering damage???
I think most of us have played in this game…
Anyhow, those days are long gone – try KULT RPG.
Reminds me of a GM I once had for a Star Wars (WEG) campaign We were on an Imperial-held backwater planet (that wasn’t a desert! …much) and we had to hunt down some bandits or something… or visit the administration building, I can’t remember.
Now, we were pretty bored, and the admin building didn’t look much more interesting, so we turned around and walked set off in the opposite direction, out towards the desert (…oh….) to bag us some bandits. But nary had we started walking before the following exchange took place:
“You see a note falling from the sky.”
“Is it in an envelope addressed to us and delivered by a red van with EIIR on the side?”
“No.”
“Sod it, then. Not for me.” (We’d played a few games with this guy.)
“No, it is for you.”
“How do you know?”
“It just is, okay?”
“Fine. I read the note.”
“Finally. It says, ‘Note from God: go to the administration building.’”
Then the desert mysteriously became inaccessible.
I ran the next game.
I love you, man! lol this stuff stuff is just inspired!
thats right stuff stuff….don’t hassle…lol
waaaaaaaaaaa
RPGs that had four classes? You think THAT was old? By cracky, *I* played the very first RPG that had only TWO classes: Cops ‘n’ Robbers! (Or was that…Cowboys ‘n’ Indians..?) Dice, shmice! We had to use our fingers–our FINGERS! Not even paper and pencil for stats or anything! (grumble, mumble…something about “whippersnappers”..!)
Every good player knows exactly what the DM wants them to do and exactly how to avoid doing it.
WHAT????? YOU DIDNT HAVE HALF ELF????? DANG. My character is like down the drain then.
Well I started to play the game after my group of friends picked up Chain Mail . Were there were just Hero Fighters and Mages .
My world is still useing 1.5 D&D rules and Dates Back to 1975 when we started with Chain mail .
I swear you must have been spying on my sessions dude!
I’ve not laughed this hard at something in quite some time, and the best bit is I can share it with my fiancee, she too has been infected with the D&D virus!!!
I love the DM trying to get them up Weathertop. Reminds me of my DM days, you plan all this great content, but the party walks right by the door where all the good stuff was. “There’s a door to your left.” “Yeah, we saw that, we’re pressing forward.” “It’s a really cool door, very inviting.” “Forward we go.” “It’s the kind of door that probably would be made by somebody to keep adventurers away from something really GREAT.” “Uh, cool. So, we go forward…” “DANG! There’s a big rockslide blocking your path… Possible exits are backwards and this door on your left.”
“That is a very specific level of tired.”
This is my second time reading DM of the Rings and that line still made me bust out laughing.
Thanks for the funny :)