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Even more reviled than a typical roleplayer is a roleplayer who insists on roleplaying. When the dorks need to feel superior, this is the guy they denounce as a dork. Honestly. The only person worse than him is the DM himself.
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“Son of Groin”
Brilliant.
god. i cant stand how hilarious these are. Its funny because its true. This is like a monntage clip from every campaign I’ve ever played. And with me as every character, at some point or another.
Heheheh. Too funny. I love this one.
Yeah, “son of Groin” had me going too, because it’s from a roleplayer and also because, you know, it’s true.
“Land of Krondor”
I see what you did there.
I can see it now.
DMotR:XXXIII
“I’m back in business guys, with a monstrous stat boost. But don’t you think Galdalf the White is kinda contrived? Call me Pug, or better yet, Milamber!”
Betrayal @ krondor?? hehehe haven’t seen that punned before.
and yeah, son of groin got me too!!!
Crap. I just choked and spit my coke all over the keyboard…
“Gimli Son of Groin”
“Waiting for Tolstoy to finish…” Bah, ha, ha…been there. I can laugh about it now, but at the time I wanted to gnaw off my arm…
243. Cannot cast haste on the king during a long winded speech to get him to hurry the hell up.
Of course, the only wizard in this group is the one speaking, so this is impossible, if the DM would even allow it.
Since this series is ending soon I am rereading all of the strips, and I can’t believe they still make me grin like an idiot.
Simply legendary work Shamus.
Dirkwood got me going, along with Gimli, son of Groin. Really funny stuff, Shamus. Great work.
It’s been long enough since I read Bored of the Rings that I can’t recall for sure whether the “Groin” joke was made there.
Yes, it was Gimlet, Son of Groin in Bored of the Rings. Which, you know, was written just about 40 years ago.
Still, this is a great strip. I found it the other day and I’m reading it through from the beginning. Wonderful so far!
Thought the Krondor bit was a nice touch.
Love the jab at roleplayers! We try to do some roleplay, but honestly, our group is really about getting together for the food…
The best part about “son of Groin”? Tolkien actually had a son of Groin in his book. It was pronounced “Grow-in”. I shit you not.
*ahem!* I am an avid roleplayer, (many different charecters, but my fave 2 are shadow, a hunter/archer, shes generally covered in some kind of blood though so she dosnt make freinds to well, and anna d’luso, though she 40k mainly, also a mean tempered girl with a gun in her hands, much prefers a sword though, even if its only meant for ceremonial purposes) and Im alpha female in my hive so nya!
(actually Im just alpha, the guys arnt even worthy to roll, let alone role play)
This one is the best of the series so far.
Cheesebunny: never tell other people about your roleplaying characters. They never care and it always makes you look like a geeky loser.
i kind of find that rude, shamus has posted his and the other characters of his friends, and beside, people find the D&D stuff kind of geeky. just putting it out there that you might want to think before saying anything
I agree with you, but seeing as how we’re commenting on a two-year old post commenting on a two-year old post, I don’t really think that it matters…
Well, better late than never?
I can’t fathom why people would want to play a roleplaying game and yet NOT ROLEPLAY. Regardless, this strip is high-larious.
They should call Gandalf “the Wizard of Oz” sometime. Heh.
hilarious! “i was playing D&D before you got your first nintendo!” ha! Krondor? tehehe.
Gandalf’s First Appearance~
“Oh, look! ‘Tis the Wizard of Oz!”
Hey, there’s no need to laugh, we are all sons of groins!
And extra points for making the dwarf the roleplayer. Roleplayers gravitate to dwarves.
Son of groin, read this thing 50 times and still makes me chuckle.
Also, it’s logical since he roleplayed before we got our first Nintendo.
Because, seriously, who plays a nintendo these days, eh? EH?
I do.
OMG, I never noticed this the other 5 times reading through this comic…. son of groin! LOL!
“Even more reviled than a typical roleplayer is a roleplayer who insists on roleplaying.” Ain’t it the truth????
My DM was kinda a prick… only gave xp if you roleplayed extensively. Then we all drowned in a sewer.
that sucks. however, i laughed when you said “Then we all drowned in a sewer” idk why it just struck me as funny
There I was, having lunch at my desk while innocently surfing the web, when I read “son of Groin”. Nearly choked on my sandwich!
Son of GROIN
HOLY CRUD
I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING
Aren’t we all sons/daughters of groin?
Krondor! Kudos to you, good sir.
Krondor? Heh, that’s actually pretty clever.
http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Gr%C3%B3in
You may laugh, but Gróin is in fact a canon dwarf name. Gimli’s grandfather, to be precise.
Fun fact: Gimli’s grandfather actually is named Gróin.
There’s a messed up character encoding in the comments.
cernael and Snowglowsblue both have Gróin, which should be Gróin.
16 years and several read-throughs later, and this is still hilarious.