D&D General Humor Articles from Dragon Magazine

RealAlHazred

Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
Am I the only one who thinks that the toothpick of lightning is significantly less stupid than the javelin of lightning that it parodies?
The classic example is, the players round a corner in the dungeon and see an unarmed orc, casually leaning against a wall ahead, picking his teeth. They approach cautiously, as the DM is a known Killer DM, but the orc is unarmed and lightly-clothed -- it really looks like he's got no weapons. When all the player characters are within 30', the orc suddenly whips the toothpick out of his mouth and a lightning bolt fills the hallway, killing all of the PCs.

Really, the 80s were a special time in gaming...
 

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For your '80s pleasure.


Valley Elf,
He’s a Valley Elf,
Valley Elf,
He’s a Valley Elf...

So cool, so fair,
With chartreuse hair,
So young, secure --

“Fer sure, fer sure,
like, oh, man, I was really down today,
like, sooo down,
I almost flunked archery today,
I was blitzed totally, it was
wrong. Like, I wore my elven cloak
into the dungeon, y’know, and it got all
grody with, wow, Iike
spider webs and green slime all over it,
like yucko, like
when I saw it when we got out I thought, oh,
gag me with a wand,
it was grody to the max, just psionic, like,
and I had to clean it, oh,
Totally awesome. I hate to go in dungeons,
they are so rank, and some of the monsters just like
freak me out, man, like wow.
I even saw a fer real monster, like real close up
once, and it was really, like, totally
disgusting, barf city man, it was so gross
that I thought, like, Hey, keep away from me, man!
Like no way I’m gonna ever even use my sword
on you, I just waxed it, y’know, like
gag me with a mace.”


Valley Elf,
He’s a Valley Elf,
Valley Elf,
He’s a Valley Elf...

North of Geoff, South of Ket
By the River Javan wet,
Living with the stubby gnomes,
The Valley Elves do make their homes,

“Sure, totally, y’know, I had a dog, man,
a cooshee, like he was special,
a Gucci cooshee poochie,
he had designer genes, like, really rare,
he was just awesome, but not too housebroken.
I had to clean up after him, and that was like grody,
just gross to the max, but, wow,
like, no biggie, cuz he was my
dog, y’know, but he’s gone now, totally, see,
I met the mage the other day, and, wow, man,
the mage has got like no,
totally no sense of humor. Like, I made a joke,
y’know, I thought it was super,
like, I saw the mage and said like, hey,
we’re in the Valley of the Jolly,
like, Ho Ho Ho, Green Valley Mage,
just like the freakin’ commercials,
but he just looked at me, like wow,
he must have really been out of it, man,
like he was so out of it he threw
one of those, like, meteor swarms at me, it was just
awesome, I mean it was just, oh wow man, it was
astral, and it missed me and hit my dog,
my designer dog, like,
crispy critter city,
I was really bummed out, really bad like.”


Valley Elf,
He’s a Valley Elf,
Valley Elf,
He’s a Valley Elf...

He’s a super Valley Elf,
So chaotic, sure of self,
Tall and thin and fair of face,
His brain is lost in outer space.

“Oh, super, like I live in the
good part of the Valley,
y’know, where we’re all into, like,
real ethereal things, like
I got a set of designer ring mail
for my birthday, I was totally
freaked out, like, my old set was getting
full of wrinkles and it had
blood on it from where I cut myself
with my short sword, yeah, really, like
agony, man, I was in total agony
for an hour. Really,
but now I’m together, like,
fer sure, no problem.
That was close, man,
like I was so sure I was gonna
pass out fer sure,
I lucked out totally.
Good thing.”
 

RealAlHazred

Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
I forgot to update the thread. After getting Tony Caspar's permission last year, I posted the quazar dragon as a new Cosmic Dragon. I was pretty pleased with most of it, but I ran out of steam with creating interesting, appropriate Lair Actions and Regional Effects. As I've said before, I have a new respect for the guys who do full dragon writeups for 5E.

I'll eventually get back to these, as I still have more I had started working on, that I think are worthwhile. However, my daughter was born last year, and I have run out of free time to do a lot of these.
 

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