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    Stick figure brick joke that took longer to finish than to get to the moon.

    NASA was 1958, with Apollo 11 being 1969
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    A monster sits in darkness for several years as various events prevent him from seeing the sun.
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    I recognize that Conservation of Detail is Overrated, but I find the event that I am using as evidence for my theory above important enough/given enough focus to qualify for what I call Elan’s Exception, “Who wastes perfectly good foreshadowing like that?”. Also I have never correctly predicted any event in any piece of media so take this theory with a grain of salt (I call this Peelee’s Ye Old Reminder).

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    Unlikely small business entrepreneur opens hydra-based fast food franchise that eventually spreads around the globe, and incidentally solves world hunger.

    Some other stuff happens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ginasius View Post
    A group of PCs who make too many jokes about the rules of D&D anger the DM who decides to prolong their campaign well beyond the end of the dungeon with an unnecessarily complicated plot.
    And yet they keep coming back to the game table. Why? No other DM will put up with them.
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    Stick figure brick joke that took longer to finish than to get to the moon.

    NASA was 1958, with Apollo 11 being 1969
    Laughed, I did. Remember, Rome wasn't burned in a day.
    Quote Originally Posted by skim172 View Post
    Unlikely small business entrepreneur opens hydra-based fast food franchise that eventually spreads around the globe, and incidentally solves world hunger.

    Some other stuff happens.
    PETA is still trying to take him down, by the way, since they assert that a hydra is a protected, endangered species rather than a mythical creature.
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    A woman atempts to use her unusual diet to conquer the world.
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    A lesbian dwarf meets a bunch of weirdos and gets told by god that her life matters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Schroeswald View Post
    I recognize that Conservation of Detail is Overrated, but I find the event that I am using as evidence for my theory above important enough/given enough focus to qualify for what I call Elan’s Exception, “Who wastes perfectly good foreshadowing like that?”. Also I have never correctly predicted any event in any piece of media so take this theory with a grain of salt (I call this Peelee’s Ye Old Reminder).

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    Bumbling tabletop party in a stick figure parody fantasy universe get roped into protecting the structures upholding creation against a murderhobo and someone who's really pissed about systemic racism.

    End up destroying all but one of said structures
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    Story begins with adventurers wandering around, killing some sentient creatures because they had green skin and fangs and the adventurers don't, then taking their stuff and calling their actions heroic. Story ends with the adventurers trying to preserve that status quo for all eternity.
    There must be some sense of order - personal, political or dramatic - and if no one else is going to bring it to this world, I will.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Havran View Post
    Story begins with adventurers wandering around, killing some sentient creatures because they had green skin and fangs and the adventurers don't, then taking their stuff and calling their actions heroic. Story ends with the adventurers trying to preserve that status quo for all eternity.
    Wait a second, how did you see how the story ends?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ziproot View Post
    Let's see. There's:

    Elan, a bard who has an intelligence and wisdom score of at most 9
    Any questions?
    I assume you meant "at most, combined", correct?

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    Three families, the Blues, the Reds and the Yellows keep messing up their farms after having started out very badly. Some of their crops try to fix it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ziproot View Post
    Wait a second, how did you see how the story ends?
    The Oracle is whispering to me from afar
    There must be some sense of order - personal, political or dramatic - and if no one else is going to bring it to this world, I will.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dps View Post
    I assume you meant "at most, combined", correct?
    I mean that Elan's Wisdom score is at most 9, and Elan's Intelligence score is at most 9.
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    A fledgling god of Music and Puppetry is ready to ascend, sure of the welcoming embrace of a whole pantheon, but the ill-fated actions of a negligent Cleric of Freya hamper his attempts to gain his seat among his rightful peers - and to cast his vote to avert a potentially world-ending catastrophe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hotu View Post
    Gods accidentally make systemic racism, now it’s up to our heroes to stop the guy who’s upset about it
    Dang, this is a better version of what I was trying to do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cicciograna View Post
    A fledgling god of Music and Puppetry is ready to ascend, sure of the welcoming embrace of a whole pantheon, but the ill-fated actions of a negligent Cleric of Freya hamper his attempts to gain his seat among his rightful peers - and to cast his vote to avert a potentially world-ending catastrophe.
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    It's like Monty Python and the Holy Grail done as a stick figure comic.

    Only without the Pythons.

    And they're not after a Grail.

    Plus they make jokes about D&D for the first 2 books.

    You know? Forget what I said about Monty Python. It's nothing like that. Except, it's just like that.

    And one strip is an homage to The Cheese Shop sketch.
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    Wizard makes Drunken mistake (also the repercussions).

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    It's like weekend at Bernie's, except that Bernie kills stuff for no reason, and for some reason Inigo Montoya wants to kill Bernie even though he didn't kill his father.
    Also, this one is funny.

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    The Order of the Stick quest in the deep dark Dungeon of Dorukan, a horrible pit filled with evil monsters and created by the mad lich Xykon, an undead mage mad with his own power.
    But they will strike down the Xykon and make the countryside safe again!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dancrilis View Post
    The Order of the Stick quest in the deep dark Dungeon of Dorukan, a horrible pit filled with evil monsters and created by the mad lich Xykon, an undead mage mad with his own power.
    But they will strike down the Xykon and make the countryside safe again!
    I see what you Elan did there.
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    Hamlet vows revenge for his father on Skeletor and the Green Power Ranger - teams up with Romeo, Juliet, Faust, Friar Tuck, and Frodo to carry out his vengeance in an epic crossover event.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dancrilis View Post
    The Order of the Stick quest in the deep dark Dungeon of Dorukan, a horrible pit filled with evil monsters and created by the mad lich Xykon, an undead mage mad with his own power.
    But they will strike down the Xykon and make the countryside safe again!
    And treasure!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ziproot View Post
    I mean that Elan's Wisdom score is at most 9, and Elan's Intelligence score is at most 9.
    Yes on the former, no on the latter. If it's above a 7 I'll be surprised.
    Quote Originally Posted by skim172 View Post
    Hamlet vows revenge for his father on Skeletor and the Green Power Ranger - teams up with Romeo, Juliet, Faust, Friar Tuck, and Frodo to carry out his vengeance in an epic crossover event.
    OK, Frodo with a bad attitude fits in with this group.

    As to replying to the OP:

    A story like Guardians of the Flame, except it has humor and it has more pictures.
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    Quote Originally Posted by skim172 View Post
    Hamlet vows revenge for his father on Skeletor and the Green Power Ranger - teams up with Romeo, Juliet, Faust, Friar Tuck, and Frodo to carry out his vengeance in an epic crossover event.
    I would watch this in a heartbeat.

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    An unwanted being, the child of hatred, antagonism and petty rivalries, rebels against its cruel progenitors, unfathomable cosmic beings of power and might. Universally hated and feared, the poor soul is soon tricked by its own creators, who trap it for eons uncountable in a magical prison of solitude and suffering. Deprived of love, sustenance and compassion, the lone soul lashes at its prison: eventually, the inescapable confinement where it's shunted starts showing its weaknesses! Hope renewed, the trapped soul tries a daring escape...only to see the very jail rebuilt around him. Constricting him again. And again. And again and again and again and again, millions and millions of times. Until one time, the prison itself is buttressed by...something. By the minions of its "parents", for sure. If even its brothers and sisters, its very own siblings rebel against it, there'll be nothing that the poor creature will be able to do.
    Time is short. Will the troubled soul ever be able to find its freedom, and find its just revenge against its hateful captors?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cicciograna View Post
    An unwanted being, the child of hatred, antagonism and petty rivalries, rebels against its cruel progenitors, unfathomable cosmic beings of power and might. Universally hated and feared, the poor soul is soon tricked by its own creators, who trap it for eons uncountable in a magical prison of solitude and suffering. Deprived of love, sustenance and compassion, the lone soul lashes at its prison: eventually, the inescapable confinement where it's shunted starts showing its weaknesses! Hope renewed, the trapped soul tries a daring escape...only to see the very jail rebuilt around him. Constricting him again. And again. And again and again and again and again, millions and millions of times. Until one time, the prison itself is buttressed by...something. By the minions of its "parents", for sure. If even its brothers and sisters, its very own siblings rebel against it, there'll be nothing that the poor creature will be able to do.
    Time is short. Will the troubled soul ever be able to find its freedom, and find its just revenge against its hateful captors?
    Bravo, that was very well done.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cicciograna View Post
    An unwanted being, the child of hatred, antagonism and petty rivalries, rebels against its cruel progenitors, unfathomable cosmic beings of power and might. Universally hated and feared, the poor soul is soon tricked by its own creators, who trap it for eons uncountable in a magical prison of solitude and suffering. Deprived of love, sustenance and compassion, the lone soul lashes at its prison: eventually, the inescapable confinement where it's shunted starts showing its weaknesses! Hope renewed, the trapped soul tries a daring escape...only to see the very jail rebuilt around him. Constricting him again. And again. And again and again and again and again, millions and millions of times. Until one time, the prison itself is buttressed by...something. By the minions of its "parents", for sure. If even its brothers and sisters, its very own siblings rebel against it, there'll be nothing that the poor creature will be able to do.
    Time is short. Will the troubled soul ever be able to find its freedom, and find its just revenge against its hateful captors?
    They said describe the plot badly.
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    An adventure comic where everyone's varying levels of incompetence, from the gods on down, make it look increasingly likely that the world will be either destroyed or conquered, and being saved increasingly far fetched.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rikmach View Post
    An adventure comic where everyone's varying levels of incompetence, from the gods on down, make it look increasingly likely that the world will be either destroyed or conquered, and being saved increasingly far fetched.
    Or, as Sinbad the Sailor once said: Rocs fall and everybody dies.
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