Keeping Nerd Humor Alive

[Cobra]

Just got this string of e-mails at work. Scott is our CFO. Adrienne is in marketing:

Just a reminder that the over use of DND is becoming a problem again. Too many of you are keeping it on for long periods of time. There are staff that will keep it on for an entire day, week, month and some even keep it on indefinitely. This means that more callers are requesting to be bounced back to the Receptionist. This increases Maribeth’s workload, increases complaints from callers, and creates inefficiency in the office because staff have to walk to someone’s office or workstation to talk to them because they don’t answer their phone.

Please keep the use of DND to an absolute minimum and remember to turn it off when you are done using it.

Thanks

Scott

Please stop playing DND at your desk. Thanks for ruining it for the rest of us.

My day is made.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

I'm surprised "Order of the Stick" hasn't made a crack at the "talking is a free action rule", just imagine the little evil one (Belkor is it? maybe I'm confused) deciding to take a new tactic in combat after gaining the ability to do sneak attacks. Instead of attacking as usual he refrains from making any actions at all (effectively freezing time, many RPG comics use this for a joke) and proceeds with incessant verbal torment, perhaps even a little Hannibal-Lecture (he has his moments, rare though they may be). Eventually the monster either succumbs to massive moral loss and thus becomes an easy kill or decides to completely ignore him in which case Belkor can do a sneak attack anyway (because the monster is not paying attention), either way Belkor wins, well until he starts questioning reality and has a existential crisis but then I doubt he'd stay fixated on it for long, there's still killing to do after all.

...it would be funnier in comic form.

 

[Latro]

Took me way, way too long to figure out the pun. I got the DnD part, but not the normal DND part, at first.

 

[Anthile]

This is as nerdy as nerdy it can get, watch out, it's about 40 minutes long: http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2008/01/05/dragon-strike-board-game-review/

Oh, the part with the elastic spring almost killed me.


@Cog: Maybe I got that wrong but I think that Belkar was Ranger with some levels in Barbarian and thus he is not able to perform sneak attacks. At least not officially. He would have to take a level in rogue or a prestige class and even then it would be rather pathetic at low level niveau. Not sure how the rules work there though.
Then again, when the opponent is "paralyzed" every attack is an instant hit that causes maximum damage.
*scratches head*