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womzillaShamus Young is the proprietor of Twenty Sided, a blog about games and gaming. Its most notable feature is the web comic "DM of the Rings", which is a fumetti/photo-funny using image captures from The Lord of The Rings movies to retell the story as an actual D&D campaign.
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There's the usual mix of gamer types: clueless, inattentive, Really Into Role-Playing, sitting on the couch playing Xbox, all brought together by a GM who is great at backstory but who saddles the players with a railroad plot, too many NPCs, and not enough treasure.
It's winding to an end--Frodo is at Mt. Doom in the most recent installment, and the fate of Middle-Earth hangs on a die roll. But really you want to start at the beginning. And set aside some time--there are a lot of pages, and if you like it at all, you're probably going to have a hard time stopping.
"Hi, Guys! I'm Frank--I mean Boromir. I'm a fighter. Oh yeah. The stuff the DM gave me says I'm from the land of Krondor."
"Yeah, I'm Legolas. I'm supposed to tell you that I'm an elf from Dirkwood and that some guy named Gollum escaped from jail. So I guess I tell you guys about that."
"Greetings, lads! Tis a merry moment to meet such fine and brave heroes! My name is Gimli, son of Groin. I forsee we shall have great adventures together!"
"Oh no. Who let the roleplayer into the group?"
"You punks stay in character! I was playing D&D before you got your first Nintendo!"
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There's the usual mix of gamer types: clueless, inattentive, Really Into Role-Playing, sitting on the couch playing Xbox, all brought together by a GM who is great at backstory but who saddles the players with a railroad plot, too many NPCs, and not enough treasure.
It's winding to an end--Frodo is at Mt. Doom in the most recent installment, and the fate of Middle-Earth hangs on a die roll. But really you want to start at the beginning. And set aside some time--there are a lot of pages, and if you like it at all, you're probably going to have a hard time stopping.
