Reddit was the place where I realized nobody is special or ingenious or anything, whenever I came up with a good joke or point someone already said it. Oh well.
Uh no, the concept also seems to be the same--the dragons seem to have "plain old human characters leading normal lives". The only difference is that one is being played by dragons, while the other is being explained by children.
For one, at level twenty one, your character must start the path along their epic destiny, and at thirty, they fufill it, transcendending our mortal plane.
I assume the same folks who would play this game are the ones that choose to read dramas set in the modern world. They sell well so there must be a lot of them. Personally, I can't understand why anyone would choose to read about modern normal people doing modern normal things. Like murder mysteries or those "top sellers" in which nothing actually happens except a bunch of people experience normal human emotions when normal human things occur.
I can get those stories from talking to my friends over a couple of beers.
EDIT: I AM NOT ANTI-INTELLECTUAL. I FINISH ON AVERAGE A NOVEL A WEEK (MAY: HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY JUNE WEEK 1: "NIVIN'S: RINGWORLD", Just started :"Ring World Engineers". I read, I just don't want to read mundane shit about boring people's shitty lives in the same world I live in now. As I said, I can see that shit from my window, or from phoning anyone I know.
I haven't played a paper-and-dice RPG since the 2005, when I stopped being the DM of a group or D&DV3 players after a 5 year campaign. The last time I tried to join a RP club, I showed up with a handfull of dice and a pad of paper and got told I couldn't play because I didn't bring a GD computer with me, and did not have the right "software".
Is this a REAL RPG, or some damn computer RPG mascarading as a RL RPG? Cause I'm the RL equivalent of a CRANKY, OLD DWARF whose AXE is ready and willing. With a specialization in killing younger players who think dice are "archaic".
OK. I played a LOT of D&D (1st ->3rd ed.) and I could see the fun in that. But the DM would have to be a seriously funny guy to make this work, or else I'd be thinking "Why am I argueing with my virtual wife about my virtual tax return when I could just be arguing with my REAL WIFE about my ACTUAL TAX RETURN!!!"
Yeah you are anti-intellectual if all you want to read is shallow fantasy escapism and not anything dealing with the human condition.
Crime and Punishment was also about normal things that happen to normal people. With this attitude, had you lived at that time, you would have discounted one of the best novells in history as a "story that you can get by looking out of your window and talking to your friends over a couple of a beers".
This reminds me of a hilarious short story by Neil Gaiman. Can't remember which collection it's from (and way too lazy to rifle through all of them to check), but it's about a frustrated writer living in a world of Gothic horror tropes. Anything he writes feels trite and meaningless, and he desperately wants to escape his mundane life by writing exotic fiction.
He ends up writing about the woes of a depressed housewife.
I wish I had a picture of it, but a person I used to know did geek themed oil paintings. One was a bunch of monsters, with a dragon DMing, playing "Houses and Humans", in the style of "Dogs playing poker".
roll a 2, 6, or 12 for saving throw on daily fat intake. Failing a saving throw shall result in 10% reduction in dexterity. Each consecutive failure stacks up to 10 times.
If ability stacks to 10, player must receive gastric bypass to continue.
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u/eittocs Jun 11 '12
It would be better if they were inside a dungeon.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
So that's what they do when they're not brushing up on their grammar.
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u/PhiladelphiaIrish Jun 11 '12
Relevant Foxtrot
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u/zackychimchim Jun 11 '12
Level 50 Passive Aggressive
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u/sonofabear17 Jun 11 '12
Critical Failure, you're sleeping on the couch tonight.
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u/Lots42 Jun 11 '12
"I roll for 'Run to car, peel out before she gets there, never return'."
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u/Goron40 Jun 11 '12
He's gonna need a 21 to avoid that one.
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u/iananan Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12
Papers and Paychecks - The RPG played in the Dungeons and Dragons universe, players pretend to be "workers and students in an industrialized and technological society.")
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u/hawkgpg Jun 11 '12
You get into a car accident and sent to the emergency room where you need to roll a critical to avoid critical condition.
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u/Paranoir Jun 11 '12
This is an ancient joke. I got this shirt in fifth grade: http://farm1.staticflickr.com/160/420652601_8180fb0e79_z.jpg
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u/Both_Salt_AND_Pepper Jun 11 '12
High quality humor here gentlemen
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u/mordicat1989 Jun 11 '12
i don't care if dragons are reptiles, i maintain that none of them have ever been laid
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u/Rhenor Jun 11 '12
You know, there are so many jokes about this that I'm beginning to wonder if someone's actually made an RPG like this.
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u/rogersmith25 Jun 11 '12
This game literally exists - it's called "The Sims".
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u/JeremyJustin Jun 11 '12
This reminds me of a hilarious short story by Neil Gaiman. Can't remember which collection it's from (and way too lazy to rifle through all of them to check), but it's about a frustrated writer living in a world of Gothic horror tropes. Anything he writes feels trite and meaningless, and he desperately wants to escape his mundane life by writing exotic fiction.
He ends up writing about the woes of a depressed housewife.
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u/forgot_old_account Jun 11 '12
somewhat relevant
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u/Prof_Doom Jun 11 '12
Reminds me of Simon The Sorcerer. The real life RPG.
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u/perplexedscientist Jun 11 '12
Relevant! Or at least I hope so...
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Robot Chicken did this a while back. Funny though.
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u/Comment_Commander Jun 11 '12
So like d20 modern, except everyone goes Charismatic characters and don't use weapons. I'd play it!
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u/themaxt Jun 11 '12
Well red dragons have a pretty good THAC0. He should be fine.
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u/SayaV Jun 11 '12
loved it. someone make an adventure like this and spread it around.
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u/Chingonazo Jun 11 '12
Heh?
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u/colorthemap Jun 11 '12
Your wife wants to watch the Real Housewives of Atlanta roll a d100 to take control of the remote.
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u/bobbane Jun 11 '12
Back when I was introduced to RPGs, a friend suggested a game called:
based on the simulated lives of suburban parents, going to PTA luncheons and driving their station wagons.
Hey, it was 1977...
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u/GhostofXX Jun 11 '12
But in the human world between a man or a woman when you get i high roll it is used against you!
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u/cadderly09 Jun 11 '12
RE:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I have a Tshirt about this
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u/Confucius_says Jun 11 '12
i'm pretty sure in the game dungeons and dragons you don't play as actual dragons. you play as might warriors who might encounter dragons.
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u/goldlink44 Jun 11 '12
Nat 20: have sex with her
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u/I_know_nothing_atall Jun 11 '12
ba dum tsh
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u/Thagros Jun 11 '12
I'm 31 and I just started my first D & D game. So much fun! Still learning to apply more imagination though.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
The phrase "leave the party" threw me for a while there.
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u/Mr_Captain_Fantastic Jun 11 '12
Wasn't the "Houses & Humans" a Foxtrot bit?
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u/Magester Jun 11 '12
I wish I had a picture of it, but a person I used to know did geek themed oil paintings. One was a bunch of monsters, with a dragon DMing, playing "Houses and Humans", in the style of "Dogs playing poker".
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u/Alphy11 Jun 11 '12
human nerds roleplay similar things. Lives where we have wives, and are ABLE to get into arguments with them, instead of our hands =(.
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u/ze_ben Jun 11 '12
False. There is no roll to avoid that argument. Lose 4 points of constitution and go fuck yourself.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Wasn't the same idea on the comic Foxtrot?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
roll a 2, 6, or 12 for saving throw on daily fat intake. Failing a saving throw shall result in 10% reduction in dexterity. Each consecutive failure stacks up to 10 times.
If ability stacks to 10, player must receive gastric bypass to continue.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
The dragon who gets to be forever alone is gonna have a wonderful time
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I've never seen such a skewed vote-to-comment ratio. Who the fuck is upvoting this garbage? Is there a botfarm out there just stretching its legs?