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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ycore Rixle" data-source="post: 18854" data-attributes="member: 675">NitpickingJust picking a nit here, but Macbeth starts with the three witches, and then the next scene describes Macbeth cutting a bloody swath through some bad guys to cleave the chief bad guy.  I never thought of those scenes as comic.  In fact, none of the big four tragedies have comic openings (Hamlet opens with the ghost, Othello with Iago's betrayal, and King Lear with the division of the kingdom).  Julius Caesar's string of puns in the opening lines probably qualifies as comic.  Romeo and Juliet's opening fight scene may have humorous counterpoints but its overall tone isn't comic, especially after the prologue.What Shakespeare did do was start with a super dramatic, super attention-grabbing scene.  For example, Hamlet's ghost, R&J's fight, Richard III's hunchback monologue, Tempest's storm, Henry V's chorus, and so forth.  But he didn't usually do it with comedy.FWIW, I think that it's great if the players find pleasant laughter and funny moments in the course of the adventure, but that, as and adventure, humor is definitely in the background.  Generally, when I DM, I never plan to make anything 'funny.'  I focus my energies on excitement and heroic opportunities; the humor generally seems to happen just fine on its own.</blockquote>