Dueling Analogs : Gaming Web Comic

by **pierski** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:25 am

Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and father of the role-playing game, passed away yesterday. Without Gygax's brilliance games like Final Fantasy, Dragonquest and World of Warcraft would have never existed. Dungeons & Dragons is the true foundation of all modern role-playing games. So thank you Gary. Without you our gaming world would have been a lot less fun.

For this comic, I decided to go for true D&D joke. In fact, a friend of mine who has forgotten more about D&D than I've ever learned was like "huh... I didn't know that" after I explained it.

So why was it ironic that Satan was using the 2nd Edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rulebook? Because all mentions of demons and devils were removed from this edition to appease Christian zealots who were attacking D&D for Satan worshiping and such at the time. And now you know.

Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 ‚Äì March 4, 2008)

by **zayus1979** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:11 am

laughed so hard... love it...

by **The Anarchyz** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:06 am

Excellent way to pay tribute to a genius...

I heard about the news but didn't expect a comic about it 'til Thursday...

EDIT: zayus, if you don't claim first, i will :lol:

by **pierski** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:11 am

The Anarchyz wrote:Excellent way to pay tribute to a genius...

I heard about the news but didn't expect a comic about it 'til Thursday...

Matt Diagle IMed me about it on Tuesday and as soon as I heard about it I started planning the comic. Just didn't want to wait Thursday. I wanted to get the comic out as soon as possible.

by **Pitfiend** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:34 am

Gary Gygax wasn't all that thrilled with newer editions of the game actually. He would have prefered to play in 1st edition, his edition.

by **pierski** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:39 am

The character sheet in God's hand is a classic character sheet.

by **elvor** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:53 am

Not having played D&D, I didn't get the joke. However, I did really like the art in this one.

by **pdwalker** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:22 am

And the building is the Moat House from "T1 - The Village of Hommlet"

by **newfag** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:29 pm

Did he drop any good loot?

by **evilspacehopper** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:34 am

I never really played D&D, probably about once.... I got the joke and it was pretty good without mocking the fact he'd passed away.

I was a bit surprised O didn't do a comic about it but he saved his tribute for his comment underneath the comic.

Also I noticed you changed the map.

by **pierski** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:20 pm

The map will probably change again tonight as well or more so have additions. I'll explain it afterwards.

by **General WX** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:02 pm

Is it a bad thing if I understood that comic in its entirety?

by **pierski** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:21 am

General WX wrote:Is it a bad thing if I understood that comic in its entirety?

I don't think so. But my opinion might be jaded.

by **maniacs r us** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:35 pm

If it is a bad thing, uh oh.

Dueling Analogs : Gaming Web Comic

So Long, Gary

So Long, Gary

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