Existential D&D comedy: when characters realize they are trapped in adolescents' imagination

Carlton Mellick, III, the king of Bizarro fiction, has a new one out -- a kind of Dungeons and Dragons meets The Matrix. The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightenment +2 is "an absurd comedy about a group of adventurers (elf, halfling, bard, dwarf, assassin, thief) going through an existential crisis after having discovered that they are really just pre-rolled characters living inside of a classic AD&D role playing game. While exploring the ruins of Tardis Keep, these 6 characters must deal with their inept Dungeon Master's retarded imagination and resist their horny teenaged players' commands to have sex with everything in sight. "

OUT NOW: The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightenment +2 [CarltonMellick.com]

The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightenment +2 [Amazon]

(via Super Punch)

• [Rob Beschizza]

  Previously

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  I never thought of using crossed swords as pasties.

• [Anonymous]

  Some really old stories on the same concept:
  http://members.dslextreme.com/users/rogermw/ADnD/
  “The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters” is a classic

• [muteboy]

  Veteran game designer Jennifer Diane Reitz describes an RPG game she was running where her players’ characters became self-aware, and decided to track down their players, and nearly found them:

  http://unicornjelly.com/urulesmystories.html#night

• [turn_self_off]

  i am a sucker for bad girl apparently, as i would not mind dating the dreadlocks in the background…

• [VICTOR JIMENEZ]

  Brilliant, I´m sold. As a Dungeon Master (Director, Narrator or Keeper, etc.) for 17 years, I have to recognize that that sounds both familiar and utterly funny.
  Metagaming is the worst offender of the roleplayer´s capital sins.

  A-”I´m badly hurt, can you give me a Cure Heavy Wounds potion?”
  B-”No! You ate all the Cheetos while I was talking to the barman”
  A-”That was an useless NPC! You did it to get more roleplaying XPs!”
  B-”You did the same last week in Vampire”
  A-”Ok, I wield my longsword +2″
  Me-”Ok guys, roll for initiative… sigh”

• [Church]

  Now we just have to get a bunch of horny teenagers together and have them play this, for some meta-meta-gaming.

• [Robert]

  I can has sample?

• [optuser]

  I just noticed the module number.

• [optuser]

  Ordered. I am a consumer whore. Thank you, BB, for telling me what to buy (for under $20).

  Wiki says Dead Alewives member Dan Harmon created the D&D sketch and did one of the voices. He created and is head writer for NBC’s COMMUNITY. Explains a lot!

• [Avram / Moderator]

  One of the suggested adventures in the surrealist RPG Over the Edge involved the characters learning that they are just characters in a role-playing game.

• [musashi74]

  Wow – just in time for me to order a copy to take to Gen Con next weekend. W00t!