RPG Comics

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:46 am

rkolter wrote:(when Jim can be bothered to update, you lazy bastard).

But this type fails a lot for the reasons already listed, mostly due to inside jokes and running out of ideas.

I have enough ideas written down in my little notebooks to last me for a few good years yet. Especially with my update schedule. When I come back from my current vacation, I plan on expanding a bit to include non-directly-RPG-based comics and focus a bit more on the characters themselves in other capacities, but that's more to help me expand myself a bit more rather than lack of funny RPG related stuffs.

As an avid gamer from way back when (I think... if I remember Jim North's birthday right, I started gaming before he was born)

1979. Whee! And if you did, you wouldn't be the first D&D player from the ancient pre-Jim eras I've met.

Netpoet · Post by **Netpoet** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:24 am

Jim North wrote:
As an avid gamer from way back when (I think... if I remember Jim North's birthday right, I started gaming before he was born)
1979. Whee! And if you did, you wouldn't be the first D&D player from the ancient pre-Jim eras I've met.

Heh. I think I rolled up my first character in 1980, or possibly 1981 (can't quite remember...) So I'm not quite pre-Jim era, but darn it all, you were still poopin in your diaper!

Now gimme back my sammach! *wanders into Jim's kitchen again*

>Net

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:55 pm

My first character was in '93. I was a late starter, mostly because I didn't have any friends before '93.

PS, I propose we now hijack this thread for RPG stories.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:33 am

Malaika · Post by **Malaika** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:16 pm

I'm good with that.

There was one, quite recently (I stopped playing cos everybody moved away for uni

) when 2nd edition was superceded by 3rd.

One of the players wanted to DM. We were playing Ravenloft.

Okay anyway, we come across this shack by a swamp. I decide to check out a little pier overlooking the boggy water, when suddenly a swamp beast (can't remember exactly what - a troll or ogre or something) leapt out of the water.

It attacks first. Hits. Rolls for damage on... 8d10?! WTF!?

In roleplay terms, it looked kinda like someone calmly squashing a fly with their finger.

Keep in mind this was a 1st level quest, so I knew something was wrong. I asked to see the monster's stat sheet (I was dead anyway) and noticed that, instead of rolling the damage number, he had rolled the HIT DICE for damage.

So we just ignored that bit and I was miraculously alive again...

And then we actually walked into the house. Anyone familiar with Ravenloft willbe familiar with the fear rules. Well, the images we saw in the house prompted a check. I was shocked, and my friends either had nightmares later or were overcome with rage. One of them though, rolled up a terror result (worse result), which happened to be constitution damage (worst result), and rolled maximum, which caused a heart attack and he died on the spot.

I just love those stories for the imagery. It makes me laugh to think how it would look in a movie. There was one time where things got a bit out of control and we ended up riding around the countryside in a wagon full to overflowing with kegs of beer, doing random things. That was actually a pretty cool quest...

Bekka · Post by **Bekka** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:56 am

The best advice that Stephen King gives in his book "On Writing" is write about what you know (which is disturbing coming from him - never stay at his favorite winter resort).

Don't worry if what you know and what you want to write about is an overdone topic like rpgs - after all you're going to do this as a hobby. If you are going to draw your stories to have fun you'll enjoy the whole process a lot more if you choose a topic that you like.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:01 am

In high school we had a rotating game of 5-8 players that ran throughout the summer months. At the start of summer we'd start at one friend's home. We'd game all night, some people leaving for work and coming back. Some'd crash and sleep, others'd game, depending on our schedules.

The next day we'd move the party to the next person's home. We'd game there all day and night, again rotating out for work and sleep.

The next day another home, and so on. We were at home 1-2 days a week. Our parents knew where we were so they didn't mind, and they only had to feed the whole group a couple times a week, so I think they liked it.

Man did we game hard. Mostly we ran AD&D, but we did do a bout of Robotech and Paranoia. Wow were those the days.

Hazardswake · Post by **Hazardswake** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:53 pm

My webcomic is probably a guilty party when it comes to those "horrendously overdone manga-esce style RPG-based webcomics." (Though it's much more in the CRPG vein, the characters aren't based on friends or DnD experiences.)

It's sloppy, poorly drawn, and despite having a good plan and much of the events worked out before even starting, its storytelling structure is a mess because I seem to be addicted to throwing in way more characters than most people could hope to remember in the long-run.

Add that to the fact that it's in an arguably overdone genre, and you can guess that it's not fairing very well. But I love it. I love updating it and getting what comments I can, so I'm gonna keep it going as long as I can, always trying to improve, despite having to wade in possible eternal mediocrity in the path. I draw what I want, reguardless of if anyone's gonna like it ^_^

TYL wrote:Hrmm..
If you're making comics for fun, do what you want.

Exactly.

Komiyan wrote:It really, really does need a lot of altering, though. My big mistake was not altering things enough, thus people like to spout nonsense at me from a million d&d books I've never read, and try to apply hard and fast d&d rules to the comic and all. It's very, very annoying.

I had no idea your comic was based on DnD, yet when I read through it a month ago I was hooked. (Great characters + engaging story). Then again I know almost nothing of DnD gaming mechanics. I just love the fantasy setting.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:17 pm

I guess you can really do whatever the hell you want when you're the Overmind, neh?

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:01 am

Jim North wrote:I guess you can really do whatever the hell you want when you're the Overmind, neh?

Not really. In the end the overmind loses. But it does have a damn cool song.

Hazardswake · Post by **Hazardswake** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:57 am

rkolter wrote:
Jim North wrote:I guess you can really do whatever the hell you want when you're the Overmind, neh?
Not really. In the end the overmind loses. But it does have a damn cool song.

That's gotta count for something.

>.> SERVE THE HIVE! FEEL THE GROOVE! .... Sorry, couldn't help myself.