Nerd squared

The Gaffer · 11-05-2007, 02:02 PM

Just came across this strip:

http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1061

Thought it might be appreciated here. As someone who has been known to roll a d20 in years gone by, I was wetting myself.

***Earniel*** · 11-05-2007, 03:27 PM

Heheheh!

I feel like I should take notes or somethin'...

The Telcontarion · 11-07-2007, 10:39 AM

Hmmmm, interesting and some entertaining....isn't that what exactly happened at helms deep. Except for pulling up the ladder bit.

***Rían*** · 11-07-2007, 02:31 PM

I loved this:

"Being a turn-based game, D&D allows the player to ponder their every move and the ramifications thereof for as long as they need to, provided they have the real-life charisima to convince everyone else to wait. Studying possible moves is one of the most fun parts of the game (when you’re doing it) but also one of the most annoying and tiresome (when other people are doing it) and so care must be taken by the DM to ensure that in-game combat does not produce actual, real-life combat. "

***Rían*** · 11-07-2007, 02:44 PM

This was funny, too - and true!

"Players tend to treat horses like motorcycles: They are vehicles which can go anywhere you can walk, will never wander off, have no fear, feel no pain, and can travel at top speed for as long as you like.

And if you think players abuse the rules surrounding backpacks, just wait until they get their hands on the greatest of all interdimensional containers, saddlebags."

I was just saying on another board that all RPG people like to have stallions, but don't realize that stallions generally hate other stallions and it isn't practical for everyone in the group to have stallions!

And the skulls one -

Aragorn: "I'm not calling the device into question. I"m questioning the payload. Thousands and thousands of skulls? How does that work exactly? Was this a race of floating heads?"

Legolas: "Maybe they have another trap which just drops arms and legs."

***Valandil*** · 11-08-2007, 07:26 AM

Yes - I wandered around in there for awhile. Pretty funny.

Curubethion · 11-11-2007, 02:55 AM

Yep, read this thing a while back, and loved it.

Aragorn (to Legolas): I've seen your character sheet, and I'm positive you're an elven hottie.

The last sane person · 11-11-2007, 06:16 AM

Hahaaa! Awesome! Now that is just priceless.

Curufin · 04-21-2008, 07:25 AM

I just spent the last three hours reading that! Priceless!

mithrand1r · 05-20-2008, 12:10 AM

This was a fun read. The part about saddle bags and carrying around gear was a riot.

Below is a fair comment in my opinion. (& funny to boot.)

To be fair, I think Gimli is pointing out a problem with the original work: How did all those orcs get enough food to live? I’m having trouble picturing an orcish farm, much less orcs producing all the accoutrements needed to run one. Both the book and the movie depict orcs with their own bread. Can you imagine an orcish miller? An orcish milkmaid? An orcish baker, complete with apron and poofy chef’s hat? Imagine a couple of orcs side-by-side in front of a farm American Gothic style.

Kind of daft, innit?

orithil · 05-21-2008, 01:56 AM

I have read the entire thing twice and its still funny

Coffeehouse · 05-21-2008, 04:04 AM

The best part was when the RPG leader or whatever it's called was going to read up how the orc died after Aragorn had slashed it, reading up the same kind of kill that Aragorn has heard a hundred times

Made me laugh for real

Curubethion · 05-21-2008, 10:34 AM

I oughta reread this...but truly hilarious. I've shown it to a few friends. I think one that really got me was the "I rolled a 1 on my diplomacy check" by Gimli.

11-05-2007, 02:02 PM	#1
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	Nerd squared Just came across this strip: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1061 Thought it might be appreciated here. As someone who has been known to roll a d20 in years gone by, I was wetting myself.

11-05-2007, 03:27 PM	#2
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Heheheh! I feel like I should take notes or somethin'... __________________ We are not things.

11-07-2007, 10:39 AM	#3
The Telcontarion The one true King of the human race, direct descendant of Adam and heir to the kings of old. "You owe me your fealty." The Tar Minyaturion Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: By the shores of cuivinien Posts: 694	Hmmmm, interesting and some entertaining....isn't that what exactly happened at helms deep. Except for pulling up the ladder bit. __________________ Proverbs 21:3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. Ecclesiasticus 2:1-5 1 My son, if thou come to serve the Lord, prepare thy soul for temptation... ...4 Whatsoever is brought upon thee take cheerfully, and be patient when thou art changed to a low estate. 5 For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. Romans 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

11-07-2007, 02:31 PM	#4
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	I loved this: "Being a turn-based game, D&D allows the player to ponder their every move and the ramifications thereof for as long as they need to, provided they have the real-life charisima to convince everyone else to wait. Studying possible moves is one of the most fun parts of the game (when you’re doing it) but also one of the most annoying and tiresome (when other people are doing it) and so care must be taken by the DM to ensure that in-game combat does not produce actual, real-life combat. " __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

11-07-2007, 02:44 PM	#5
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	This was funny, too - and true! "Players tend to treat horses like motorcycles: They are vehicles which can go anywhere you can walk, will never wander off, have no fear, feel no pain, and can travel at top speed for as long as you like. And if you think players abuse the rules surrounding backpacks, just wait until they get their hands on the greatest of all interdimensional containers, saddlebags." I was just saying on another board that all RPG people like to have stallions, but don't realize that stallions generally hate other stallions and it isn't practical for everyone in the group to have stallions! And the skulls one - Aragorn: "I'm not calling the device into question. I"m questioning the payload. Thousands and thousands of skulls? How does that work exactly? Was this a race of floating heads?" Legolas: "Maybe they have another trap which just drops arms and legs." __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! Last edited by Rían : 11-07-2007 at 03:05 PM.

11-08-2007, 07:26 AM	#6
*Valandil* High King at Annuminas Administrator Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Wyoming - USA Posts: 10,752	Yes - I wandered around in there for awhile. Pretty funny. __________________ My Fanfic: Letters of Firiel Tales of Nolduryon Visitors Come to Court Ñ á ë ?* ó ú é ä ï ö Ö ñ É Þ ð ß ® ™ [Xurl=Xhttp://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=ABCXYZ#postABCXYZ]text[/Xurl] Splitting Threads is SUCH Hard Work!!

11-11-2007, 02:55 AM	#7
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Yep, read this thing a while back, and loved it. Aragorn (to Legolas): I've seen your character sheet, and I'm positive you're an elven hottie. __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

11-11-2007, 06:16 AM	#8
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Hahaaa! Awesome! Now that is just priceless. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

04-21-2008, 07:25 AM	#9
Curufin The Ñoldóran Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Mishawaka, IN Posts: 2,050	I just spent the last three hours reading that! Priceless! __________________ Then Celegorm no more would stay, And Curufin smiled and turned away... ~The Lay of Leithian

05-20-2008, 12:10 AM	#10
mithrand1r Cyber Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Left of Rock, Right of Hard Place Posts: 986	This was a fun read. The part about saddle bags and carrying around gear was a riot. Below is a fair comment in my opinion. (& funny to boot.) To be fair, I think Gimli is pointing out a problem with the original work: How did all those orcs get enough food to live? I’m having trouble picturing an orcish farm, much less orcs producing all the accoutrements needed to run one. Both the book and the movie depict orcs with their own bread. Can you imagine an orcish miller? An orcish milkmaid? An orcish baker, complete with apron and poofy chef’s hat? Imagine a couple of orcs side-by-side in front of a farm American Gothic style. Kind of daft, innit? __________________ Sincerely, Anthony 'Many are my names in many countries,' he said. 'Mithrandir among the Elves, Tharkûn to the Drarves; Olórin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, in the South Incánus, in the North Gandalf; to the East I go not.' Faramir What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? Cicero (106BC-43BC) Last edited by mithrand1r : 05-20-2008 at 12:29 AM.

05-21-2008, 01:56 AM	#11
orithil Captain Jack Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: High Charity Posts: 598	I have read the entire thing twice and its still funny __________________ Captain Jack Sparrow: When you marooned me on that god forsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate: I’m Captain Jack Sparrow. Cortana: So have you got a plan to get out? Master Chief: I was gonna shoot my way out. Mix things up a little.

05-21-2008, 04:04 AM	#12
Coffeehouse Entmoot Minister of Foreign Affairs Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Copenhagen Posts: 2,145	The best part was when the RPG leader or whatever it's called was going to read up how the orc died after Aragorn had slashed it, reading up the same kind of kill that Aragorn has heard a hundred times Made me laugh for real __________________ "Well, thief! I smell you and I feel your air. I hear your breath. Come along! Help yourself again, there is plenty and to spare."

05-21-2008, 10:34 AM	#13
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	I oughta reread this...but truly hilarious. I've shown it to a few friends. I think one that really got me was the "I rolled a 1 on my diplomacy check" by Gimli. __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)