A Gnome, a Kender, and a Gully Dwarf? (4 Nov)

Mikhail Dragoslav · Post by **Mikhail Dragoslav** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:46 pm

Can anyone explain Ben's reaction? I admit to knowing nothing about D&D or other RPGs, so I'm afraid I missed the joke of todays' strip.

On the other hand, Maggie looks cute in the middle panel!

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:15 pm

They all look interesting and cute but....I must confess the same confusion. What is a kendar and a "gully dwarf?"

Timtitan · Post by **Timtitan** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 1:04 am

kendar are kinda random half-elves, they pickpocket "acidentally" and tend to make a nusiance out of themselves. Its great fun watching a good roleplayer run one tho! A gully dwarf? I think they are small smelly and thicker versions of dwarfs.

thats about all i got on the subject

BlasTech · Post by **BlasTech** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:24 am

i wonder what creature Maggie will end up as ^^

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:41 am

in most Rpg's there is usually some annimossity between elves and dwarves.

that and in panel 3 it looks like they're all short characters.

lessee, ben wearing a viking helmet (imagine that). penny as a tiny pixy. and now three other characters picking half pint characters to boot.

can anyone say dragon fodder?

NydaLynn · Post by **NydaLynn** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:02 am

I know very little of the games myself, but I am guesses the biggest irony is that they might as well have chosen halflings in the first place!

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:34 am

BlasTech wrote:i wonder what creature Maggie will end up as ^^

Odds are either the pretty and helpless goal of the quest, or the villian.

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:18 am

In any case, Ben's difinitely got his hands full now.....G/DM or not!

S'aaruuk

GallenWolf · Post by **GallenWolf** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:46 am

Mmm could they be the same gully dwarves from the Dragon Lance series of books? Can't remember exactly how they came about though.

GW <- noob

GreyBlade · Post by **GreyBlade** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:54 am

The depressing thing is I got this reference right off the bat. XDD

It's a shoot-off to the Dragonlance series.

Gnomes are like dwarves, but prone to make inventions that explode.

Kenders are like halflings, but kleptomanaical without truely realizing it. Their hands have "a mind of their own", and things "fall into their pouches", or they "find them, and have every intention of returning them!" Cities have grown used to the presence of Kenders, and round them up in jail cells daily, strip them of their aquired goods and eject them from the city when the gates close.

Gully dwarves...well. They smell bad, they can't count higher than two, they'll make a living for themselves in the refuse and dreg of a society where not even the rats will go.......you get the idea.

This should be interesting. XDD

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:55 am

GallenWolf! welcome to the forums!

let me be the first to tell you that you will eventually go insane because of us if you haven't already

SirBob · Post by **SirBob** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:28 am

GreyBlade wrote:The depressing thing is I got this reference right off the bat. XDD

To elaborate on GreyBlade's comments, Kender, (Tinker) Gnomes, and Gully Dwarves are designed to be the most irritating, offensive characters you can ever play.

Kender are loud, child-like kleptomanaics with no survival instinct who usually managed to get the other characters imprisoned or killed while getting off scot free themselves.

Tinker Gnomes are an entire race of absent-minded professors who have a religious conviction that more complicated is always better, and if they accidentally blow themselves up they'll just be rewarded in the next life.

Gully Dwarves are... well, on the particular world they come from, crossbreeding between humans and dwarves apparently causes developmental problems, so playing a Gully Dwarf is basically an excuse to bust out every offensive "retard" stereotype you've got.

Most sensible GMs don't allow young players to play them - it takes a certain level of maturity to pull off any of these characterisations without pissing everybody off.

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:39 am

GallenWolf wrote:Mmm could they be the same gully dwarves from the Dragon Lance series of books? Can't remember exactly how they came about though.

GW <- noob

Welcome GallenWolf...aka "noob"

.....ALWAYS nice to see fresh meat....uuuhhhhh....a new face in the room....and another wolf at that!

*extends paw* I'm S'aaruuk (Sha-rook) pleased to meet you.

S'aaruuk

Roberto the Dane · Post by **Roberto the Dane** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:26 pm

SirBob wrote:
GreyBlade wrote:The depressing thing is I got this reference right off the bat. XDD
(snip)

Most sensible GMs don't allow young players to play them - it takes a certain level of maturity to pull off any of these characterisations without pissing everybody off.

"Dungeon Master, I whack the Kender upside the head with my Club of Sudden Maturity +2 which knocks him unconscious for two turns."

Roberto the Dane

Roberto the Dane · Post by **Roberto the Dane** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:32 pm

Hello, GallenWolf. Welcome to the forum.

Roberto the Dane

StrangeWulf13 · Post by **StrangeWulf13** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 4:11 pm

My first response to this...

Kender? KENDER?!?

*runs away screaming*

...hey, if you had any sense you would too. Or pick the locked room with the dragon.

CasVeg · Post by **CasVeg** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 12:09 am

What's your reaction to a bored kender nomad?

SirBob · Post by **SirBob** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 12:17 am

CasVeg wrote:What's your reaction to a bored kender nomad?

Fire, and lots of it.

BlasTech · Post by **BlasTech** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 12:34 am

Squeaky Bunny wrote:
BlasTech wrote:i wonder what creature Maggie will end up as ^^
Odds are either the pretty and helpless goal of the quest, or the villian.

Guess we need to go back and re-work those odds now.

Zjon · Post by **Zjon** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:17 am

Man, I almost wish I had read thorugh all the archives I missed before making my last post, I grew up with parents who aregamers, in fact my family runs a RPG shop in Ohio.

D&D as written by RHJunior? This alone 'aught to be worth all the time I had to miss due to classes.

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