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DM of the Rings LXIII:
Overly Requited Love
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Sometimes the most sadistic thing the DM can do to is to let the players have their own way.
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[...] my Gods, yes! I’ve known gamers who were exactly like this. And DMs who were just as righteously cruel to [...]
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I am so grateful to the person who sent me this link. I’ve been waiting for this moment. XD
Shamus said, “Every weekend I sit down on Saturday morning and think, “This is it. I really am out of ideas this time. I’ll never think of anything good.” I’ll then cobble together some strips, and wince. Are these funny? Am I losing it? Then I’ll post them, lots of people will like them, and at least one person will say they have a new favorite.”
Well, Shamus, I have a new favorite! It was Episode LII, when the Three Hunters are about to go into Fangorn, and the DM tells them that it’s enchanted. I just got that. That was great.
This one is probably the closest to an actual D&D game dialog I’ve seen so far. Well done Shamus on getting the artwork just right too. The penultimate Eowin frame is absolutely perfect.
Funny that I’ve seen this scene several times (hell, a very long time ago I played it, once) but I’ve never seen a player try and roleplay a serious crush or true love, both strong themes in many fantasy stories. You’d think there’d be a few players who went with the trope but I’ve never seen it done.
Maybe it’s another facet of the essential discomfort inherent in the situation from a DM/Roleplayer standpoint. Maybe it’s the inevitability of any DM supplied cute romantic possibility turning out to be one of the demonic types that apparently make up two out of every three townspeople that cools the players ardour.
Steve.
Oh. My. God.
I should know better than to read this at work – now I can’t breathe for laughing and my coworkers are all “bzuh?”
ROFLMAO!!!! STD like a biatch!!!! Oh little Rangers beware.
There was a ranger who used his wick,
to poke everything like a stick.
Then a blond beauty set his wick on fire,
and no more little rangers would he sire.
Muwaaaaahahahahaha!
Danged medieval hygiene!
Vaya!
The Eowyn shots are just perfect, especially the penultimate one. Its getting hard to laugh, I’m too reverent of the absolutely perfect match of screen shots with the plot. Then I started thinking of Aragorn’s dialogue with Gandalf (“look, could you cast, uhm, a spell of penicillin?”) and, yeah, it was pretty easy to laugh after all.
That was totally better than the “Hot Coffee” mod. ;)
Hahaahaha..
We knew our DM better than that. We’d know something bad would happen if we tried something along those lines. A disease would have been the least of our worries.
Haha, this is seriously one of the best ones yet! :D
I know i say that everytime, but this time its VERY seriously awesome ;)
OH MY GOSH! I’m in pain. Seriously. …. Thank you. XD
Funny but… “discrete” means separate, and “discreet” means capable of keeping his mouth shut. You picked the wrong one, dude!
Kiwi: Blast it. Fixed.
And that one wasn’t even a typo, like most of my errors. I really thought I was using the right word.
“Like I said hot” TEE HEE
good one Mister DM, had me chuckling
That’s the true purpose of the paladin’s immunity to disease.
I’d yell at you for profaning Eowyn, but really… I’m just laughing too damn hard to get angry. Hehehe.
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Wow, that’s awesome. Brilliantly awesome. Because I said it a few strips ago. :p
Not that Shamus necessarily stole my idea. We probably just thought the same thing. Which is called natural progression of story.
Yeah.
“That’s the same description I gave you for Legolas.” Bwah hahahaha!
From the player’s point of view, probably the cruelest thing the DM did in this episode wasn’t the STD, but to deny him a chance to roll the dice for his seduction and just let him succeed.
I find it really amusing that there never seems to be any shortage of good frames for Aragorn. The stringy hair, scruffy beard, the smirking and half-interested looks make it seem that you can really see the player’s personality coming through in the character.
“I’ll call you sometime. Maybe.”
My sides still hurt. Advice to readers: never eat a pound of barbecued ribs before reading Shamus’ posts.
Ow.
If there any girls there I want to dooo themm!
I love this comic!!!
“Nope. All done now….Yeah it was lots of fun.”
That is great, the poor horny geek looking for any wiff of sex he can get and that’s it right there!
OTOH, I once had to threaten a player, whose character had taken the Lechery disadvantage, with creative consequences if he did not finally, as in right now, get around to making a serious effort at seducing the lover of their NPC employer.
I find it really amusing that there never seems to be any shortage of good frames for Aragorn. The stringy hair, scruffy beard, the smirking and half-interested looks make it seem that you can really see the player’s personality coming through in the character.
In hindsight, the ideal thing would have been to cast Aragorn as a dumb, distracted stoner. He spends about half of the movie blinking very, very slowly. I can come up with a shot of him looking baked or mouth-open stoopid in just about any scene. I should make a “I am so high” montage out of all these shots.
Wow. Shamus, I’ve been DMing D&D for years, and so far you’ve been right on all along. The only thing that I have had little problem with in my gaming groups is this. Mostly because we’re all grown-ups and pretty often the group has consisted of couples. Girlfriends and boyfriends and so on. I’ve been laughing so hard at times I’m all tear eyed. Thank you for this. I hope you find the power to finish it. Outstanding work. ;)
Can I just say, I found this comic yesterday, and I love everything about it. I’m not a hardcore D&D player, but I have played enough that everything about this is familiar (the dice comic was totally me).
My half-elven warrior once slept with a dwarf for information… she didn’t get any, and then the GM made me roll to see if the sex was any good. (It wasn’t).
Anyway, kudos, and you’re awesome, and etc. I enjoy your other posts too–I’ve never played Neverwinter Nights 2, but I loved reading what pissed you off about it.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The only reason I’m not on the floor, rolling about in laughter, tears streaming out of my eyes is because I’m at work!
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(Note: I’m not sure how to do a proper trackback link thing, so am trying to replicate the linking style manually…)
That was just cruel to do to him. Nice ending though.
Wow, this week, on a very special Valentine’s Day ‘DM of the Rings’, love is in the Aragorn…
:)
Yeah, most games I’ve seen, romance is treated by the GM as either an annoyance to be hand-waved aside, or a death-trap.
As a DM I never put anything in there that I am not prepared to actually run.
This leads to a lot of extraordinarily hot NPC’s turning out to have lots of levels of bad attitude.
Not to say that I haven’t run some interesting things, like Spartans. Oh dear that was a ha… um… difficult session. I put it there though so I ran it.
Heh. Oh, that’s funny.
“Nope. All done now.” Awesome.
(it’s “weird” I think, btw)
What truly frightens me here is that my DM pointed at this particular strip and said it gave her ideas for our campaign. Thank Obad Hai that my character is far too much of a misanthrope to go after anyone in the game.
Great work. Favorite is still LII, though. “Railroad tracks, I’m sure.”
Man, those are always the terrible “god we really are a bunch of lonely geeks” moments, aren’t they…
XD
Wow. I have to say my DM let me off with a much nicer encounter- with a Drow tavern server who might have tried to cut my throat if I did anything wrong – than the wham bam thanks Banger, I mean Ranger (and funny again is how those two words read so very differently).
My DM is not averse to the facts of life entering into the game-sphere. Most gamers being nerdish, and therefore socially stunted/disadvantaged/just plain shy and awkward, the default is nobody goes after the brass ring that is, after all, just a virtual hookup. On the other hand, it’s great can of worms to open and HEY, GUESS WHAT? you can get XP without killing anything (unless the encounter is on the rough side – eugh! I just creeped myself out!). XP for nerds as smooth operators – no STDs, no locking braces – thought there might ba an angry Dad or Clan, whatever.
I just love that you’ve meshed the collective neurosis of the gamer group – so much for “Fellowship” in this Ring, eh? Maybe the Two Towers is a homoerotic comedy of errors? Return of the King shows Aragorn is for some mysterious reason _really_ tired for the final battle but CAN’T stop grinning? Heh! Elves visiting in the night will do that to ya…
OMG this was the funniest one to date. EVERY game seems to involve some rendezvous with a chick in a bar or a castle. And yes, it skeeves me to no end to have to walk them through the details. ECH! I’ve just given up and turned all my female NPC’s into wayward women – when you turn the tables the players start acting like 5-year-olds on a playground and run. Great strip, man. I never laughed so hard at a comic…
Eeeww! Now I have to make a saving throw to preserve my former view of Eowyn intact. :-p
I just got introduced to this truly oddball series last week. I have to say that this one has to be my favorite so far, even moreso than the ones about Monty Python. I used to DM for the horniest group of guys you ever saw, and I was always trying to make sure the story never got around to the romantic stuff. This is a technique I’ll have to use if I ever get the group together again. Thanks for the laughs, Shamus!
I just got introduced to this truly oddball series last week. Thanks for the laughs, Shamus!
This one had me in fits of uncontrollable laughter (as have several others).
This is definitely one of the best comics ever!
New favorite! You worry for nothing!
These comics are absolutely brilliant! My all time favorite is XXXVI:Hates the Dice! Hates Them Forever. This one ranks up pretty high though.
In my old campaign group one of the players had a female character that was…quite friendly with the men. It got so annoying after awhile that the DM gave her a slew of diseases AND she got pregnant. Now that puts a damper on adventuring!
Anyway, keep up the good work. I have been recommending this strip to anyone who has the slightest interest in LOTR.
I’ve introduced so many friends to this site over the last week, and everyone loves it, myself included! Today’s was just so completely true, and like many others, I checked in from work and nearly hurt myself laughing. Making time to game hasn’t been a priority lately, but thanks to you, Shamus, I think I’ll just have to! Appreciate the laughs, and please keep ‘em coming.
Been Reading since strip two, this strip is really funny. Favourite still has to be Aragorn and his “keen ranger senses”.
It got so annoying after awhile that the DM gave her a slew of diseases AND she got pregnant.
Boy, I’m not sure what a saving throw versus morning sickness is, but I’m betting it’s a doozy.
Well done, Shamus. Well done. This may be my new favorite.
Let’s just say, “Let’s just say, you might want to find a discreet cleric in the next 1d6 hours” comes close to my old favorite line: “Ahem, tell me your name, horsefu(GIMLI!)er, and I’ll tell ye mine.”
and also “Oh no, are my keen ranger senses telling me I have to walk?”
oh, and “hark, thy faith sucketh?”
Boy, I’m not sure what a saving throw versus morning sickness is, but I’m betting it’s a doozy.
heh heh heh heh hehe heh *choke* *cough* *sputter* *dies*
I did the exact same thing in a WFRP game I ran once. The player insisted on trying to bed the serving girl in some down and dirty tavern (aren’t they all in WFRP? ;)
Of course, then the physician’s student (another player) badly failed his healing roll and caused real damage :D
My brother just linked me to your comic and I’m so glad to see you’re still updating it! It’s fabulous, keep up the good work, I seriously need a good laugh to get me through the cold right now u.u