Darths & Droids. Many of you probably know DM of the Rings. If not, and you are familiar with Lord of the Rings or roleplaying games, you might enjoy it. If you are familiar with both, you will enjoy it. Basically, Shamus Young, the creator, has treated Lord of the Rings as the fantasy campaign of a long-suffering Dungeon Master saddled with all too typical players, and illustrated it in the form of a comic using screencaps from the movies. Brilliant idea, and very well done. And I constantly boggle that (a) nobody did it before, and that (b) nobody has copied him yet.
Alas, DM of the Rings has recently come to an end, having told the story to the ending. Shamus: Which reminds me: This comic is popular enough that I'm surprised nobody else has done something similar. I smells me a challenge... Transcript GM: Right. Cats. Lindazzy. Mixedbreed. Newtoy. Twenty Sided » Blog Archive » A Star is Born:Let’s Play Champions Online Pt. 12. Despite my better judgment, I return to Socrates for my reward and for another job. So… our creepy 1984-style big-brother cybermind just saw an explosion that mutated a bunch of scientists.
He has no idea what caused it or why, or if it mutation is contagious, but he’s got the antidote worked out and he wants me to go over there and whip up a batch of the stuff for the eggheads. Well, it’s rotten nonsense, but I have to say it’s a lot less crazy and shame-inducing than fighting Foxbat. (Of course, the same could be said of using baby seals as a melee weapon to beat up crippled orphans on Christmas Eve.)
I arrive at the scene of the disaster to have a look at the damage. There are the refrigerator-sized containers strewn around the parking lot amongst the burning cars, mutated scientists, and terrorist soldiers. The scientists do not look well: They’re green, confused, and horribly deformed. Let’s see. 5 Acetylated Gemmulites. 5 Synthetic Chomatin 5 Unstable Ribonucleic Nucleotides You see? Girl Genius Online Comics! Xkcd - A Webcomic - Static.