# Old-School D&Ders: Favorite Dragon Mag Serial Comic Strips! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792 "2015-05-11T17:08:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/21 "2015-05-12T14:26:06Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Just to blow my own horn, I had a single-frame cartoon published in Dragon Magazine. It’s “The Charisma Role,” where the guy is thinking about movie stars – Donald Sutherland, Robert Redford, Peter O’Toole – and the dice are thinking, “Ernest Borgnine.” “Charisma Roll”. I remember it! Pleased to meet you, sir. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Lars\_Aruns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/22 "2015-05-12T15:23:30Z")
I used to love Yamara. It kinda lost steam towards the end, though. [It restarted online](http://yamara.com/) only many years later, but unfortunately didn’t last long. At least I can read the old strips again there! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/23 "2015-05-12T15:37:03Z")
Yamara and Snarfquest were ones I had in mind, too. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/24 "2015-05-12T15:46:45Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Just to blow my own horn, I had a single-frame cartoon published in Dragon Magazine. It’s “The Charisma Role,” where the guy is thinking about movie stars – Donald Sutherland, Robert Redford, Peter O’Toole – and the dice are thinking, “Ernest Borgnine.” > > (Yes, I know, Ernest Borgnine had tons of real charisma. In D&D, it’s a substitute for physical beauty, and that, the poor bloke had none whatever.) > > (And, yes, I know, I’m not quoting the cartoon caption accurately. I don’t have a copy to hand, and it’s been a long time. Sheesh.) Dude, it was funny. Ignore the rules layers. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/25 "2015-05-12T17:59:22Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > Hillarious losers, jerks, douchbags or assholes of exactly the types gamers meet all the time. I have managed not to play with those sort of dudes- at least not for more than a game or two. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/26 "2015-05-12T18:14:39Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Dude, it was funny. Ignore the rules layers. I’m sure there were letters that didn’t make “Chain Mail” (because the letter-writers rolled a 3 for Humor, Sense of) about how it should have been a Comeliness roll. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/27 "2015-05-12T20:20:44Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I have managed not to play with those sort of dudes- at least not for more than a game or two. Generally, all my long-term games have been with much less obnoxious players. But I knew examples of all the stereotypes back when I was living in the dorms, abuzz with gamers back in my day. But reasonable players are much harder to make fun of. [Table Titans](http://www.tabletitans.com/) is mostly about one group of reasonable players, but the story is mostly about what happens in the game, not what happens outside of it. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/28 "2015-05-12T21:18:11Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Dude, it was funny. Ignore the rules layers. Rules lawyering is the SDMB’s official pastime! But…gracias! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/29 "2015-05-12T21:47:35Z")
> [@Lars\_Aruns](#): > > I used to love Yamara. I loved Yamara, too. I really wanted to play a wizard who researched the spell, “Transmute Flesh to Plush”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/30 "2015-05-12T22:41:54Z")
[The Hundred Classic Episodes of Yamara](http://yamara.com/archives/) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/31 "2015-05-12T22:56:24Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Rules lawyering is the SDMB’s official pastime! But…gracias! Um, _actually_, the official pastime of the SDMB is demanding more pictures of cats. It was _almost_ rules lawyering, but it lost in the final run-off vote. [sub](Guess which way I voted?)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/32 "2015-05-14T21:44:56Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I bought the SnarfQuest “graphic novel” compilation. > > I is one lucky Zeetvah! I have it as well… I’m actually overdue for a reread! Apparently he did a follow on version as well in the past year or so. I’ve not yet found how to order one, but I did find a kickstart campaign from early 2014. If I had known, I’d have gotten in and scored a copy early! ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/33 "2015-05-15T09:26:19Z")
Oh yes, and meanwhile: “Robinson’s War” was an OK story and so was “Snarfquest” (shame it fell apart in the sequel story, Elmore had the occasional teaser in later issues that the characters were still out there, but it never came back; the original story had a pretty good ending); but “Wormy” was in a league of its own on account of Trampier’s amazing artwork. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/34 "2015-05-15T09:57:44Z")
For me it can only be Phil and Dixie. That said, Order of the Stick ran in Dragon for a while too, although I don’t think it hit its stride until the webcomic arcs kicked in. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/35 "2015-05-15T21:39:45Z")
Phil & Dixie, Fineous, & Yamara. For those of us who would like something new in this vein, [Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic.](http://yafgc.net/) Also, for the Horror Fan, [The Deadlys.](http://www.hauntedpixelstudio.com/the-deadlys-page/) ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792/36 "2015-05-15T21:57:56Z")
Snarfquest & KODT for me… Man, I miss those! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-d-ders-favorite-dragon-mag-serial-comic-strips/719792.md?page=1)