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.
On top of being freaking hilarious, though, Shamus’s comics are full of truisms about GMing. No, seriously. Like, “No matter how difficult or absurd you make a puzzle, your players will find an even more impossible and preposterous way of solving it,” and “The DM will do a lot of talking, but if he’s not rolling the dice then what he’s saying is probably not important.”
Who hasn’t felt that way at one point or another, on either side of the screen?
Ok. Yeah. Those are frigging hilarious.
Beautifully, each one points out one of the major fallacies of gaming, or odd stuff that players and GMS do. It’s definitely going on my comics link page.
I had to keep stifling laughter… yeah, he hit a lot of common points. Great link.
That was a great site. Really funny but full of truth. As a DM myself, I found a lot of insightful points.
If only there wasn’t a massive, glaring problem with turning these comics into a book! Or would there actually be a problem — could this fall under fair use as satire?
Whatever the case may be, I hope he keeps doing them. 🙂