Lord of the Rings considered as a D&D game -- webcomic
The DM of the Rings is a webcomic that retells The Lord of the Rings as a D&D campaign played by a group of impatient, juvenile (and hilarious) gamers.
The DM of the Rings (via Neatorama)
The DM of the Rings is a webcomic that retells The Lord of the Rings as a D&D campaign played by a group of impatient, juvenile (and hilarious) gamers.
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It's a fun (and funny) read.
There's a nice webcomic in the same style (because it's inspired by DM of the Rings) called Darths and Droids that I enjoy very much: http://www.darthsanddroids.net/
This has been around for a while (started in 2006, concluded in 2007)
in the same vein, is Darths and Droids following through the StarWars prequels. They're up to attack of the clones.
Little late to the party there, Cory! DMotR finished up in 2007. Oh well, still a great comic and I heartily recommend it to anyone who's a LotR or D&D fan.
2007 is SO 2008
Yeah, check out Darth and Droids, they are on to the second movie now. Its quite funny, put together by the guy who does irregular webcomic.
Hey, you should totally check out Darths & Droi-- oh, wait, like five people beat me to it. Well, since I took the time to copy the URL and login:
Hey, you should totally check out Darths & Droids, too. The same deal, but with Star Wars. It's pretty awesome.
http://www.darthsanddroids.net/
I'm just going to mention that darths and droids is anoth.. oh wait... Ok, let' try again. The guy who made DM of the rigs, Shamus Young, has an excellent blog well worth reading. He also writes an excellent column at the escapist abaout various computer and video game related matters.
Hey, I'm one of the writers of Darths and Droids, and a long-time Boing Boing reader - it's kind of exciting to see our "inspiration" listed here on BB, and the kind comments pointing readers in our direction!
Shamus Young is also doing game related comics now under The Escapist called Stolen Pixels. You should also consider following his blog beyond just DMotR. He has lots of insightful posts into both tabletop gaming and video gaming and his side projects like Pixel City are interestingly geeky reads too.
-Behold Edoras!
-Edoras!
-Edoras!
-Edoras!
-It´s just a model!
Except it wasn't.
I actually found out about DM of the Rings THROUGH Darths and Droids -- the annotations for the first strip of the latter explain what it was inspired by.
And I found out about THAT through my current Internet home, the TV Tropes Wiki.
I've loved this comic for a long time.
It, and Darths and Droids, reallyl does an excellent job capturing the various personalities and interactions that arise at a typical gaming table.
Maybe some folks games are nothing like this, but I've never met any of those folks if it's so. (or at least I've never gamed with them)
-abs really loves this site, and doesn't hesitate for a moment in suggesting that any gamers with a sense of humor should chuck a few hours of their lives away reading this (and D&D)
Funny but ooooooolddd!
The Lord of the Rings link no longer works! Bummer!
Someone needs to do this in machinima! What have those Red Vs Blue guys been up to in the past couple of years?
And thanks for posting it, despite it being from 2007 or whatever. I hadn't heard about this (or the Star Wars one) even though it's old. (Then again, I'm not a huge D&D enthusiast - although sometimes I wish I were. Kinda the same way I feel about Makers. And people who make RC airplanes. Ah, so many potential hobbies, so little time).
#9, last time I visited TV Tropes, it was like finding a black hole, and I was unable to tear myself away until 4AM the next day. Congratulations on being able to read it in moderation ;]
I think they got Boinged: The link doesn't work...
@Sekino #13: seems to be back now. I was working my way happily through it in the background and then it suddenly dropped out—the whole site—for about an hour. From past experience, I'm guessing that it's something to do with when US readers wake up, although I'm always a bit hazy on exactly how the timezone offsets work.
Some of his blog stuff is interesting, like the terrain viewer he created (source-code released into the wild BTW). There's an article on creating animated people that gave me massive déjà vu for some reason—something to do with accusations of ripping off somebody else's models—but I cannot for the life of me recall why this should come to mind because I so rarely read anything like that and it was in any case ages ago. It might even have been this guy doing the complaining, or it might be something completely disconnected altogether.
I miss my memory, we had some great times…I think.
As a long-time follower of Shamus Young's literary stylings, let me encourage Boing Boing readers to read beyond DMOTR - you may enjoy other things on the site!
I'd particularly recommend the Projects category, which includes such things as the terrain generator (mentioned above) and "Procedural City", a nifty project to generate a night-time cityscape using a set of rules, so that you can whip up different cities by fiddling with parameters. The project (like most on the site) comes fully annotated with blog posts about each stage, and it makes for very interesting reading.
[I have received no monetary consideration from Mr. Young, nor am I trying to break his site by directing the Eye of Sauron that is Boing Boing's attention in his direction. I'm just a fan, so I'm delighted to see him get some love on Boing Boing.]
this is hilarious! thank you so much for the link. even though it is apparently a few years old, it's new to me!
(don't believe him folks, he just acts friendly and then gets you to read his play.)
Don't read Act III.
I don't know who had copied who, but you've got a french version here:
http://www.lesludistes.fr/jeu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51:meneur-des-anneaux&catid=1:strips&Itemid=59&strip=1
Yeah, Tolkien's had this problem with being reinterpreted ever since he started making money on LOTR from an audience of hippies.
Early D&D also took a great deal of inspiration from Conan, and that metal-style fantasy is much more adolescent-enticing than the mature Edwardian sweep of Tolkien's prose.
And don't even get me started on the video game adaptations.
IIRC, Tolkien wrote in a letter his reservations about whether treating his subcreation as a kind of vast game was entirely wise or moral. Guess we now have an angle on how that plays out.
Thanks Cory. It may be old, but I missed it.
AND IT ROCKS! Remember kids, sacred cows make the best hamburgers. i was deep in both (was?), and this is a geek wet-dream (without the live action, costumed blow jobs).
-=so=- funny.. especially chapter 13
"Little late to the party there, Cory!"
"Funny but ooooooolddd!"
Right, because everyone knows that once something has been linked once on the web, it should never again be linked in any subsequent year and should disappear from being culturally referenced forever.