RPG Motivational Posters

Everyone has seen the kind of sappy motivational posters hung in most classrooms or offices. There are also parodies such as those found at Parodyville and also the Demotivators available at Despair.com. I love parody as a comedic art form and I also love role-playing games so when a coworker sent me the following link I laughed myself silly. These are only going to be funny to those of us that have played role-playing games.

The history on this one is that on the RPGnet forums earlier this year (2006/05/19) a thread was started inspiring and inviting any and all members to create their own 'Photoshopped' images of fantasy art and photographs made into these posters. The Photoshop: RPG Motivational Posters thread has grown now to 392 pages. One of the members downloaded the best ones and archived many of the images on his own site and this was the link I got. Here are just a few of my favorites.

Visit RPG Motivational Posters or a mirror of the same.

Dungeons & Dragons Campaign - Proboards Forum

As I mentioned here, we briefly used one Proboards forum for some chat/discussion. However, I knew this was not the correct current one.

Here is your invitation to our forum for our Dungeons And Dragons Campaign.

Wired News: Out of the Dungeon, Onto the Net

I'm not one to play MMORPGs, as I'm against the idea of buying a product and then continuing to rent a service to use that product. However, this one looks pretty cool.

The lineage of nearly all fantasy computer role-playing games can be traced directly back to the dice-rolling classic, Dungeons & Dragons. True, from there it can be traced back to Tolkien, Vance, Moorcock and other fantasy authors, but it took the genius of Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson to take the infinite subtleties and mysteries of magical fantasy and distill them down into a set of rules you can argue about until two in the morning.

Where's my dice bag? Oh yeah, I left it right next to my mouse... Is it really two in the morning already?

Foggy Dew

...and from the plains of Royal Meath
Strong men came hurrying through,
While Britannia's sons with their long ranging guns
Sailed in from the foggy dew.