I can't remember if I have mentioned this: DM of the Rings

[womzilla]

Shamus 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.

"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!"

[all sic]

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.

Comments

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Better then K.O.D.T.?

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

No, but I think very, very highly of KODT.

[drelmo.livejournal.com]

I go back and forth on KODT a lot. B.A.'s inability to control his game frustrates me far more than it amuses me, but "Bag Wars" is an astonishing achievement. The strip moves at a glacial pace, and the sameness of the art causes the eyes to glaze when reading in bulk, but I actually give a crap what's going on in the characters' lives and I want them to succeed.