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Fantasy Wasteland - 01 - HD
🕑 Added 2019-04-08 06:22:28 +0000 UTCGosh darn it all, post-apocalypse! Go home! Nobody asked for you!
Commentary
I couldn't decide which open world RPG to make fun of, SO I HAVE CHOSEN ALL OF THEM.
I'm sort of writing this storyline by as I go, but not entirely. I've got a couple jokes I know I want to have, and I'm trying to write them at least three at a time.
SCIENCE!
A common issue I've had with EGSNP lately is I've felt the desire for a bit more vertical space. Too much more could result in its own problems (like the potential for a lot of empty space), so I've started with about a 6.85% increase (end result being the low-res version is 21 pixels taller).
I'll probably stick with it for this storyline for consistency, and to get a good range of testing it, but I might change it up further later.
In tribute to...
For those with supposedly better things to do than play such RolePlaying video Games, this first comic has nods to The Elder Scrolls 5, Skryim with mention of a dragon slayer, Fallout 3 with the "lone" bit (the protagonist was known as "the lone wanderer), and Fallout 1 with the quest for a means of water purification.
The dwarven ruins could also be mistaken for an Elder Scrolls reference, but I was just thinking general Tolkien-style fantasy dwarves and mountain homes with vast interiors that were kept safe, but exteriors that, well...
There WERE exploding dragons.
Comments
Rodford E. Smith
The player was a gadgeteer in a super team lair. When another team member interrupted her there was a tiny, equine scream from the game. :-)
Sunblaze
Best game ever for sure!
The Sunroses
omfg
The Sunroses
gosh darnit Dan we've literally been working on a post-apoc fantasy world for like a year
Foradain
Or play if someone else will run. Not picky.
Foradain
OK, I want to run this for my next D&D campaign. ^_^
Alien Valkyrie
Or, alternatively, like my new punk band.
Dan Shive
I inadvertently helped inspire Fallout: Equestria, so this seems appropriate (I drew Applejack in a New Vegas setting, someone was like "that doesn't work, but how COULD it work?", and it snowballed from there. So I had very, VERY little to do with it, but I did put the question in someone's head).
Rodford E. Smith
Heh. Your comments remind me of the time I had a character playing _Elder Scrolls: Equestria_. :-)
Chordat
well, this is a setting I wouldn't mind seeing more of.
McZed
"Here, strap this magical computer to your arm." "How is it magic?" "All computers are magic. Also it makes you really good at aiming for some reason."
Yelani W
Move over Exploding Kittens
Raekuul
Isn't this also basically the introduction to Faxanadu, only with the races reversed?
Millie
This is also (mostly) the plot to the film Reign of Fire.
Simon Magid
A nuclear burn, even.
Sibyl Arnett
I legit thought this was a Fallout 76 burn given the game literally contains nuclear dragons.
Brooks Moses
"I beg all of the pardons?" is a excellent and very appropriate line there, indeed.
coredumperror
Exploding Dragons does sounds quite end-of-the-worldy.
Michael Brewer
Also, isn't that how Breath of the Wild started, pretty much?
