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    Rofl DM of the Rings

    I stumbled across this web comic today. Hilarious stuff.
    DM of the Rings

    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.
    Stan: "If I had any sense I'd walk out on you!"
    Ollie: "Well, it's a good thing you don't!"
    Stan: "It certainly is!"

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    Re: DM of the Rings

    I started laughing out loud at episode 6 or 7. Good stuff!
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    Re: DM of the Rings

    Aragorn: I can heal wounds?


    Which raises the question: Since the Ranger class was obviously based on the character of Aragorn, thus the ability to use crystal balls at high level, why wasn't some ability to heal, even if limited by availability of herbs, given to the class to begin with?

    In fact, with the example of a fighter who heals clearly before the eyes of Gygax and everyone else there at the genesis of D&D, why did they need to create the Cleric class in the first place?

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    Re: DM of the Rings

    And another thing - what was TOLKIEN thinking?

    Of course Aragorn would bear the broken sword of his ancestor - probably stashed away, safely wrapped, at the bottom of his pack. In his scabbard rather than carry something that proclaims "Hi! I'm the HEIR OF ELENDIL!" he'd have a much more ordinary, much more mundane, but above all whole and useful sword. Unless he's an idiot. And, other than things like preferring Arwen to Eowyn, Aragorn is not an idiot. (All men are idiots when it comes to women.)

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    Re: DM of the Rings

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucius View Post
    Unless he's an idiot.
    If the scabbard does not fit you must aquit!

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    Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.

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    Re: DM of the Rings

    "Oh my God! He's using the Chewbacca Defense!"
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    Re: DM of the Rings

    "Oh no. Who let the roleplayer into the group."

    Best line yet.
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    Re: DM of the Rings

    I liked the one where the Orc with an arrow sticking out of its face is complaining "you sound totally retarded."

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    The palindromedary rather liked the nazgul uttering "Insipid mortals! Can't you stay in character for, like, five minutes?"

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    Re: DM of the Rings

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucius View Post
    And another thing - what was TOLKIEN thinking?

    Of course Aragorn would bear the broken sword of his ancestor - probably stashed away, safely wrapped, at the bottom of his pack. In his scabbard rather than carry something that proclaims "Hi! I'm the HEIR OF ELENDIL!" he'd have a much more ordinary, much more mundane, but above all whole and useful sword. Unless he's an idiot. And, other than things like preferring Arwen to Eowyn, Aragorn is not an idiot. (All men are idiots when it comes to women.)

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    The world of Middle Earth is not high fantasy. Generally people don't carry swords around in their daily lives - there aren't monsters wandering around randomly. Daggers would be the norm, unless you're in the military.

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    Re: DM of the Rings

    Quote Originally Posted by Curufea View Post
    The world of Middle Earth is not high fantasy. Generally people don't carry swords around in their daily lives - there aren't monsters wandering around randomly. Daggers would be the norm, unless you're in the military.
    Well Aragorn was, more or less, in the military. But in the case of the sword, I'm assuming he put it on special for impressing the hobbits he was waiting for - he already knew the main one of them was an elf-geek with an uncle in Rivendell, so the significance of the sword was unlikely to be lost on him.

    cheers, Mark

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    Re: DM of the Rings

    A painful read - and reminicent of some real world gaming groups.
    Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.

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    Re: DM of the Rings

    "Some"?
    ...and that's when the destruction began.

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    Re: DM of the Rings

    Pardon me, I have to go send this link to everyone I've ever known...
    "If I ever decide to kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed."

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    Re: DM of the Rings

    Hilarious.

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    Re: DM of the Rings

    "Oh no, now the GM's doing it."

    The biggest danger to our gaming (aside from work postponing sessions) is tabletalk about completely unrelated things. We've never had a conversation specifically about php vs mysql, but we certainly have had long rants on the limitations of both.

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