A Song About the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual

Posted by John Farrier in Video Clips on November 19, 2009 at 10:27 pm


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“Monster Manual” is a song by the band Mixel Pixel. It tells the tale of a role-player’s struggle with a particularly brutal Dungeon Master, who is throwing just about every creature in the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual at him. The video is animated by Dan Meth, whose work has been featured extensively on Neatorama.

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D&D Character Sheet As Resume

Posted by John Farrier in Arts & Crafts on November 9, 2009 at 1:53 pm


Image: Sean McNally

Sean McNally, a 15th-level artist and 7th-level animator, created a resume that looks like a character sheet from Dungeons & Dragons. He claims to have a Base Art Bonus of +11, of which I am skeptical. But maybe a little exaggeration is expected on a resume. Click on the link for a larger image.

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Pop Culture Alignment

Posted by John Farrier in Movies & SciFi, Toy & Video Games on November 4, 2009 at 4:12 pm

This chart shows the moral alignments of nine pop culture characters using the Dungeons & Dragons alignment system. Rorschach as Chaotic Good? I think that Chaotic Neutral is more likely. And Neutral Good for John Locke at best.

Top row, left to right: John Locke of Lost, Dwight from Sin City, Rorschach of Watchmen.
Middle row: Indiana Jones, Niko Bellic of Grand Theft Auto 4, Tyler Durden of Fight Club.
Bottom row: Darth Vader, Anton Chigurh of No Country for Old Men, and the Joker.

I’m not sure who’s responsible for this chart — it’s been floating around the net. I’ll edit with a photocredit when someone claims responsibility.

via Popped Culture | Explanation of Alignment System

 
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Dungeons and Dragons-Themed Sodas

Posted by John Farrier in Food & Drinks, Toy & Video Games on September 19, 2009 at 1:42 am

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Gourmet soda maker Jones Soda has released five new flavors inspired by the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. They are Potion of Healing, Sneak Attack, Bigby’s Crushing Thirst Destroyer, Eldritch Blast, and Dwarven Draught. I hear that drinking any will add +2 to your constitution for 1d4 rounds.

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10 Amazingly Geeky Origami Models

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts, Movies & SciFi, Pictures on September 6, 2009 at 7:40 am

Origami, the age-old discipline of folding paper into amazing figures, has its own masters, and as this post demonstrates, these geniuses can truly transform paper into any form they desire.

Origami – the traditional Japanese art of paper folding – is something that a geek could really get into. It’s all about visual math, and problem-solving, but with that artistic nuance as well. The origami artists below came up with some very cool designs, which we can definitely appreciate – so check them out!

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10 Business Lessons Learned from Dungeons & Dragons

Posted by John Farrier in Toy & Video Games on July 12, 2009 at 9:19 am

Esther Schindler played D&D for years, and has discerned principles from those experiences that can be used in her working life:

5.  The best quests require a mixture of skills in the party. Find new friends and cultivate ancillary skills. That pesky little hobbit thief may eat you out of house and home, yet sometimes he comes in pretty handy. This is the point of all those tedious “diversity training” exercises from your HR department; perhaps the message would get across better if they talked about the apparently-weak wizard and the bard with those amazing negotiation skills.

Link via Geek Dad, who notes that July is Dungeon Master Appreciation Month

 
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The DM of the Rings

Posted by John Farrier in Cartoon & Comic on June 29, 2009 at 4:40 pm

The DM of the Rings is a webcomic by Shamus Young which imagines the characters of The Lord of the Rings movies as players in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign who consistently refuse to stay in-character.

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Never Take Your Dungeon Master with You on a Blind Date

Posted by John Farrier in Funny, Video Clips on March 31, 2009 at 5:14 pm

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A short film by Atom Films user The555 about a man who decides to bring along his dungeon master to mediate a blind date. Clearly, he botched an intelligence check. 2.5 minutes long.

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