What whitty DnD parodies can you think up?
The names Bard, James Bard.
These aren’t the druids your looking for. Move along.
Is that a Rod of Lordly Might in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
The thing I hate about role-playing games is that everyone’s always trying to be something they’re not. I always say “Just be your Elf.”
Not mine, but the work of some other wittier folks.
One of the characters in my most recent party was a former Playelf centerfold model… Does that count?
In an adventure I was in the other night, the guy playing the half-orc shpoke like thish for the entire adventure. “Draw your shword, you shunovabitch, sho that I might shlay you.” It was because of the tushks, you shee.
Was his battle cry ‘Have at thee, Trrrebek!’?
Oh, good…I’m not the only one who had that thought…
In one of my campaigns I had a player who named his character “Patrick O’ Furniture.” He insisted his friends call him “Patty”.
I should have had a dragon eat him.
Really, any thread like this needs to have a link to the Honknar story by Johnny Angel:
Actually, that whole thread is hillarious, and well worth a read.
One of hte funniest D&D stories I ever read was the transcript of this guy attacking a pagoda: it was one of thse things that just floats around gaming sites, but I can’t seem to find a copy. I don’t suppose anyone has it?
That would be a gazebo, not a pagoda. As the above link says, the story is “Eric and the Gazebo”. Very funny. Another very funny parody is the Dead Alewives’ skit about DnD - goto Dead Alewives.com/funny.ccc for the MP3. I love it…
“You attack the darkness. There is an elf in front of you”
Isn’t there some song by Weezer with the line “I’ve got my 12-sided dice?”
That story about the Gazabo is one of the damn funniest things I’ve ever seen.
It does sound familiar, though. I really think a player in our group did something similar a few years back. I think I remember. This idiot we play with, lets just call him John ;), while in one of the first sessions of our very first D&D game ever, was traipsing through the woods with his oafish fighter. He was suddenly set upon by a playful rock. Created by the DM, this rock was some sort of tiny morphing stone golem, that could change form from rock to little rock-man. Well, the oafish fighter is lost in the woods and alone, when suddenly he trips over this rock. Angry, he tosses the rock away and continues stomping through the brush. Minutes later, he trips over the same rock. I think you get the picture. This happens about twice more and finally John flips out (he’s not a very patient person to begin with). He begins shouting, “What is this thing?” The DM replies, “It’s a rock, John.”
“But what is it?” “It’s a rock John.” “Can I kill it?” “No, John. It’s a rock.” “I want to kill it.” “You can’t kill it, John. It’s a rock.”
I’m sure you can imagine the glee with which we watched all this.
That SNL comment was very funny as well. I too was thinking that very thing.
A running gag in all of our games is a bar. It started in my Star Wars game many years ago, where a friend decided to go to a bar, and whereapon finding a bar, and there not being a name at the ready, it was decided that it should be called the “Rusty C**t”, because of it being such a filthy dive. Well, this bar has shown up in pretty much every game since, with a slightly altered name. Currently, it exists in my D&D game under the name of “The Rusty Cudgel”.
Now I’m just rambling, so I’ll stop.
There’s always the comic book “Knights of the Dinner Table” which has pretty much made fun of every aspect of D&D at one point or another.
“there are some things you just can’t erase from a character sheet! <sob>”
One of my College groups constant NPC characters was Prince Haven De’Vageust, created when we asked the GM who was lord of the realm we were currently running through. His off guard comment became one of our running gags. (We once had to guard the caravan bringing his sons fiancee to his keep, her name of course, was Lady Ideah.) 
Want a whole game dedicated to parodying D&D? Including such memorable artifacts as the Pantyhose of Giant Strength, the +2 Flaming Armor, and the Mace of Kneecapping?
And, coming this month, it’s sequel…
Great game.
In The Garage, from the ‘Blue Album.’ Good song.
Not to take away from Munchkin (hey, it’s got art by Dork Tower scribe John Kovalic!), but if you’re collecting RPG parodies, you can also throw in:
- “Dungeons and Toons”, from the Tooniversal Tour Guide suppliment
- “Orcbusters!”, from Paranoia
- “Discworld,” from GURPS (okay, it’s not really a parody, but the Disc sure sends up the entire fantasy genre)
Not exactly a parody, but it’d be a shame to leave out Fantasy Game Unlimited’s Bunnies & Burrows, where the characters are all rabbits in a sort of Watership Down meets Redwall style world.
Was a infamous tshirt that circled around the Dragon Con a few years back…Really cheesed off a fruity pack of the little spock clones to no end.