DM of the Rings I: The Copious Backstory Filed under "DM of the Rings" - LotR as a D&D; campaign Posted by Shamus on September 7th, 2006 |
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Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The latter rose from the former, although the two are now so estranged that to reunite them would be an act of savage madness. 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.
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31 comments on DM of the Rings I:
The Copious Backstory
Gothmog Says: September 7th, 2006 at 4:28 pm | ||
Brilliant. I love it. |
BeckoningChasm Says: September 7th, 2006 at 4:31 pm | ||
Very funny indeed. |
Graced by Christ ? Blog Archive » Hubby’s new project Says: September 7th, 2006 at 8:36 pm | ||
[…] Sunday my husband asked me to go to the computer store for him after church. Why I went alone can be found here. He asked me to pick up a comic book creator program he had seen there a few months prior. I did and he set to it that same day. Yesterday he was still working on it. Over the past week he has combined The Lord of the Rings movie and the personalities of his D&D group. Basically he has made a comic strip of what would have happened had the party of gentlemen in Lord of the Rings been 17 year old gaming geeks who just want to fight giant spiders and goblins. It’s pretty funny, especially if you have ever sat in on a D&D group. If you get a moment, stop over and check it out. […] |
Skeeve the Impossible Says: September 8th, 2006 at 6:44 am | ||
Whew that sure was funny, and I can HONESTLY say I have never read that before. Nope that bit was completly new to me. |
MOM Says: September 8th, 2006 at 7:43 am | ||
very funny. Makes me nostalgic for the Lemon |
David C. Says: September 13th, 2006 at 8:39 pm | ||
Funny stuff! I’m enjoying these. However, I have a quibble… “Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The former rose from the later…” You have “former” and “lat[t]er” reversed; if LOTR is the “foundation” of D&D, then LOTR came first. The sentence should read “The latter rose from the former…” |
No Eres Tu, Soy Yo » Blog Archive » The Dungeon Master of the Rings Says: September 13th, 2006 at 10:34 pm | ||
[…] […] |
Shamus Says: September 14th, 2006 at 3:02 am | ||
Whoops. Former / Latter Fixed. |
Augury » Blog Archive » Elsewheres Says: October 1st, 2006 at 5:31 am | ||
[…] I’ve never watched Yu-Gi-Oh before, but if you’ve ever seen DragonBall-Z and you’re passingly familiar with Pokemon then you’ll pick right up on what the show is about. The Abridged Series is a homemade (?) parody of the absurdities of Yu-Gi-Oh and all those others childrens’ game-promoting anime shows. There seem to be 11 episodes in the Abridged Series so far, each roughly four minutes long. They remind me a lot of Shamus’ comics in the sort of self-referential humor they employ. Great fun, I was laughing out loud at every episode. […] |
Terminally Incoherent » Blog Archive » What we need is a Battering Ram… Says: October 15th, 2006 at 5:17 pm | ||
[…] The comic starts here with the first episode. You can use the links to navigate from there. […] |
How To Spot A Psychopath :: Lyrical spoonerisms :: October :: 2006 Says: October 18th, 2006 at 3:52 pm | ||
[…] (Yes, I already know that these aren’t actually spoonerisms, they’re just swapped words. If you are a huge nerd, you’re going to have to find something else to nitpick.) Comments » […] |
How To Spot A Psychopath :: Super-Fun-Pack Comix :: October :: 2006 Says: October 23rd, 2006 at 2:33 pm | ||
[…] The chap who’s doing DM Of The Rings, which I’ve linked to a couple of times recently, is really pumping ‘em out at the moment - one every day or so. The comics are just posts on his blog at the moment with no index, but the Next and Previous links will get you through. […] |
Enemy of Entropy - Purposefully perverse since 1995! » Funny gaming-related comic Says: October 24th, 2006 at 4:56 pm | ||
[…] DM of the Rings humor RPGsShare and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […] |
shirlee53 Says: October 24th, 2006 at 5:45 pm | ||
I Love it. |
The Last Exit to Babylon - Twenty Sided Says: October 25th, 2006 at 10:32 pm | ||
[…] Wednesday, October 25 2006 @ 10:23 PM CDT Contributed by: corwin Views: 1 If you’ve ever been involved in role-playing games in any way ever, you simply must go read Twenty Sided. Among the many posts on the blog, Shamus is providing his readers with one of the funniest webcomics I have ever seen: The DM of the Rings. Picture this: you’re a DM with a group of almost exclusively hack-and-slash players (we’ve all been there, most of us on both sides. Except the role-player over there). Oddly enough, none of these players are at all familiar with the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, and the campaign you’re running is none other than The Lord of the Rings.I can pretty much stop describing it there. All of the gamers reading this are now furiously clicking the links to go read this masterpiece, and everyone else has lost interest by now. So far, the party has arrived at Balin’s tomb in Moria, and hilarity is in the midst of ensuing. I can’t wait for the next episode… […] |
Morcamil Says: October 26th, 2006 at 12:07 pm | ||
Absolutely hilarious. Reminds me of my crew when we were playing about ten years ago, huh. |
Vinterdaeck Says: October 31st, 2006 at 3:33 am | ||
That’s so funny! More of that please! |
DM of the Rings: Full of GMing Insights (and Hilarious) - Treasure Tables Says: November 2nd, 2006 at 10:27 am | ||
[…] I recently stumbled across Twenty Sided Tale, a blog by Shamus Young, and found his series of comics entitled The DM of the Rings. It starts here, with DM of the Rings I, and fair warning: I nearly peed myself around number IX or so. […] |
Purple Pyro » Blog Archive » The DM of the Rings Says: November 10th, 2006 at 5:10 pm | ||
[…] The DM of the Rings […] |
Khall Says: November 22nd, 2006 at 7:37 pm | ||
Actually, the progeniator of D&D is/was Jack Vance’s Dying Earth novels. This is why we have things like Melf’s Acid Missile and things. At least according to Gary Gygax. But obviously a lot of the mythos and settings were…inherited from Tolkien. K. |
Erick Says: November 27th, 2006 at 3:26 pm | ||
Very good! You’re so cruel to the poor players, though. Withholding their mechwarrior ;_; |
Greg Says: December 14th, 2006 at 12:10 pm | ||
Great |
Mindwheat » Blog Archive » World’s Tallest Man Saves 2 Dolphins Says: December 15th, 2006 at 4:33 am | ||
[…] Speaking of AD&D (as we were) here is a webcomic called Twenty Sided. […] |
Tuesday and Thursday Bad; MWF Good « Creative Destruction Says: December 29th, 2006 at 7:28 am | ||
[…] Tuesday and Thursday Bad; MWF Good Filed under: Geekery — Robert @ 8:28 am Because of this and this. […] |
Joreal Says: January 7th, 2007 at 1:29 am | ||
He is right though, Mechwarrior is awesome. Who wants to be Clan Widow Maker with me? |
Blog à part (2: La Mission) : DM of the Rings, ou, "les rôlistes, ça ne respecte rien" Says: February 5th, 2007 at 1:05 pm | ||
[…] j’avais oublié de vous parler de ce bidule: DM of the Rings est un webcomic de rôliste, qui imagine ce que donnerait le Seigneur des Anneaux, de JRR Tolkien, […] |
Orichalcum Roleplaying Blog » The DM of the Rings Says: February 5th, 2007 at 6:46 pm | ||
[…] The DM of the Rings: by Shamus Young […] |
DM of the Rings at Abandoned Factory Blog Says: February 12th, 2007 at 3:11 pm | ||
[…] some time now, and I don’t generally enjoy sprite/photo/screencap comics of this style, but DM of the Rings has been consistently amusing me, at least for the first twenty-three comics. I know my RP’er […] |
VinnyC Says: February 15th, 2007 at 11:23 pm | ||
I always did wonder what they were thinking while they were shooting =-] Verry funny. :):):) |
Rex Venom Says: February 18th, 2007 at 10:38 pm | ||
Cool! |
Arca Says: February 20th, 2007 at 7:55 am | ||
Is it normal that the strips don’t show up? Or does nothing ever wrok for me ? :_( |