<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>For fans of DMotR, I’d like to point out that Aragorn’s “player” made an appearance in last Friday’s Chainmail Bikini<\/a>. I’d originally intended the relationship between the two comic strips to be very loose and open to interpretation. But once the strip got rolling it was pretty much the first thing everyone noticed and was a topic of much speculation. Some people asked about it point-blank, and I couldn’t not<\/em> answer the question without looking like a jerk. So, there now seems to be widely-recognized continuity between the two. <\/p>\nInasmuch as the characters are related, here is how I picture it:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Casey = DM of the Rings <\/strong><\/p>\n Now, that’s how I see it, but the facts don’t really match perfectly and I’m not making any effort to force<\/em> continuity between the two. The DM in DMotR had a rich, fantastic story (Lord of the Rings) but was a terrible at running a game. In Chainmail Bikini, Casey’s is still bad at running a game, but his story is also awful, cliché, and dull. Chuck is more of an instigator of trouble than Gimli ever was. If I’d given Chuck Gimli’s personality in full, he would have been too much of a protagonist or “good guy”, which I wanted to avoid. Also, I’m having a hard time picturing the Chainmail Bikini gang being ignorant of Lord of the Rings. Still, it’s fun to allude to these connections. I don’t know why. Even ignoring the art, the two comic worlds are pretty different and each employs its own logic. <\/p>\n The Steve series is going to run for a few strips, but he’s not going to be a permanent character. It’s pretty hard to always run things where you have six people in the same room, all the time. It adds more overhead to the art production, and in truth you really can’t use all six at once. The scene gets too crowded. Maybe Steve will pop up again later. We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For fans of DMotR, I’d like to point out that Aragorn’s “player” made an appearance in last Friday’s Chainmail Bikini. I’d originally intended the relationship between the two comic strips to be very loose and open to interpretation. But once the strip got rolling it was pretty much the first thing everyone noticed and was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChuck = Gimli
\nJosh = Legolas
\nSteve = Aragorn
\nIvy and Marcus did not participate in the “Lord of the Rings” campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n