The Nightmarish Legend of Deuse Baaj!
Feb. 11th, 2008 06:00 pmVia Mark Rosenfeld, I want to recommend the webcomic Chainmail Bikini: The Nightmarish Legend of Deuse Baaj. I find them savagely funny, like the earliest Knights of the Dinner Table strips. (Back when it actually was funny.) I also love the little comments the players or GM makes at the end of each strip. Here are two examples:
Players can roleplay with each other, or they can roleplay against each other. The former lends itself to creating great stories filled with interesting people. The latter is just a good way to amuse yourself if the campaign sucks.What can I say? You either like this stuff or you don't.
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The powers of a bard are telling tales and singing. Which means that pretty much anyone is a fully qualified bard once they get a few beers into them.
Imagine Indiana Jones, Jackie Chan, and Conan the Barbarian teamed up to fight evil. They would surely leave no ass un-kicked. Now imagine if they let Ricky Martin join the party and started giving him an equal cut of the loot and XP. You'd have no respect for them. They might as well put an dresses and be his back-up dancers, because nobody is going to think of them as brave warriors and adventurers. Everyone will think of them as the three guys that hang around Ricky Martin and keep him from getting beat up.