A Chat Between GMs: Part Three
Chapter: Comics, Season Five
This is partially based on true events, mine in particular. It’s well documented (at least here and in various podcasts) that I played my first session of D&D at the age of ten and it really was my first natural 20 that hooked me for life. It’s funny to me how natural 20’s are game changers but in this case it really was a life changer. I sometimes wonder who I would be if I never played D&D and then I am grateful that I did because the game and the culture of gaming played a huge role in making me the man I am today.
Hover-Text: 10-year old Brian also thought you had to pee on ladies to make babies.
Suddenly remonded of dio in pick of Destiny
Until I was 8, I thought kissing on the mouth made babies. Then my mother showed up with THE BOOK and I was forever scarred.
Man, if I didn’t already absolutely adore this comic, I sure as hell would after this. A Ronnie James Dio reference!!!! Holy smoke, how awesome.
(we miss you, RJD)
Good on ya, mate!
cheers,
Phil
I remember my first natural 20 quite fondly.
It was in my very first session of D&D… An ogre splattered my druid onto a tavern wall. It was then that I knew I could never go back.
RJD! Yes! \mm/
Hmm, nope…not enough goat there. I NEED MOAR!!
\mmm/
*nods* Damn right! A three-hander!
As your girlfriend, i am thankful that someone informed you before now that you don’t have pee on me.
Right? That would’ve been awkward as hell.
I’m choosing to read that in mind as:
“Right…. that would have been… awkward as hell.” While Brian squirms and looks about nervously.
There is another way to read it??? o.O
I’m not a D&D player, but I enjoy this comic and others like it. But I have a question. I see the term “Natural 20” thrown around a lot. I understand it, but is there a such thing as an “unnatural” 20? Or would it just make more sense to just say you rolled a 20?
A ‘natural 20’ is when you roll a 20 on the die. It’s used to differentiate it from a ‘modified 20’, which is when your die roll plus modifiers equal 20. In the 1st edition of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, the to-hit tables had a number of 20’s in a row; the first one could be a ‘modified 20’, but all the rest needed to be ‘natural 20s’ in order to score a hit (or at least that’s how I remember it, from 30 years ago…)
Thank you! I can appreciate the reference better now. Makes all the difference.
So I can only assume that if you had rolled a natural 1 first you’d be serving 25 to life.
No, but he would be a full on neckbeard.
The summer of 1984 was a glorious year for me. I was 12, and my hot college-aged neighbor and her similarly hot college-aged girl friends invited me to play with their D&D group every Thursday night. To which of course I said “YES!!”
I’ve been a gamer ever since. Not only was that summer of gaming very good from an objective standpoint, it was quite glorious for me subjectively as well for various (and obvious) reasons. That summer I became a man. And gaming became my passion.
Mine was when my siblings away at college can home with a bunch of friends and taught my D&D. We spent most of the night rolling up my character,a weretiger. We didn’t get to play long, but I entered my first ever battle and when asked what move I wanted to make, I chose to change into a tiger. The odds were so long that my brother tried to talk me out of it, but I stuck to my choice, rolled my dice and changed form into a badass tiger. At which point Mom came in to tell me it was time for bed (I was eleven and it was the 70’s, there was no saving throw for going to bed at that time.) Since then I’ve rolled Paladins, Rangers, painted miniatures made from lead (we lived dangerous back then) and even LARPed. What I’ve never done is let a DM talk me out of my roll of the dice.