DM of the Rings: Difference between revisions

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Aragorn wants to sleep with Eowyn. So the DM lets him... and then tells him to make a fortitude saving throw vs disease.

* [[Canon Sue]]: In-universe, that's how the players view Gandalf.

* [[Critical Failure]]

** When they first meet the riders of Rohan, Gimli rolls a 1 on diplomacy and addresses them with "tell me your name, [[Curse Cut Short|horse f--" "GIMLI!"]]. What makes it even funnier is that Gimli's player said that on his own accord. He was [[The Roleplayer|role-playing]] his own critical failure.

* [[Cutting the Knot]]: The players come up with increasingly ludicrous (and hilarious) ways to do this to the entrance of the Mines Of Moria rather than come up with the password (which the DM ends up screaming at them in frustration).

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Everyone.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: The dungeon master is convinced that corsairs means sailing ship when it actually means pirate or privateer --- [http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1207 here].

* [[Discredited Meme]]: [[In Universe]], [http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=673 here].

* [[Face Palm]]: [http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=653 Frodo here.]

{{quote| '''Frodo:''' Oh no. Who let [[The Roleplayer]] into the group? }}

{{quote| ''Remember, nothing will spice up your campaign quicker than long descriptions of NPCs doing spectacular stuff while the players sit around and watch.<br />

The best way to keep players on the [[Railroading|railroads]] is to place large obvious landmines on either side of the tracks.'' }}

'''Legolas:''' You mean one for each of--<br />

'''Gimli:''' To share. }}

* [[Radial Ass Kicking]]: The tactical... originality of this maneuver in [[Real Life]] is lampshaded.

* [[Railroading]]: A really blatant case.

** The DM rambling on while the players talk amongst themselves.

* [[Rules Lawyer]]: Happens a ''lot''. The DM will do it [[Railroading|to keep everyone]] [[But Thou Must|buckled up in the campaign]] and the players to either annoy the DM (such as an instance Gimli argued against disturbing the army of the dead because [[Lawful Good|it was against his and Legolas's in-character morals]]), or to cheat like a bandit (such as Aragorn convincing the DM that they took their horses through the caves, onto a boat and throughout Gondor, despite never using or riding them the entire way from there to Gondor).

** The comic was originally supposed to end with all but one player leaving the campaign, [[Brick Joke|so he then goes off to play]] ''[[Mechwarrior]]''.

** Even Aragorn almost does this at the very end, before he learns of his [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]].

** And [http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1207 here].

* [[Trope Maker]]: The "movie as an [[RPG]]" comic.

* [[Traveling At the Speed of Plot]]: [http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=889 Lampshaded.]

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]