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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2754879" data-attributes="member: 18549">No, but I truly, honestly read that comic because I like the characters and plot.&nbsp; The D&amp;D jokes are just a way to fill time or make sure that there's a punchline at the end of each comic.&nbsp; I actually don't care whether the game follows the rules.&nbsp; What I do care about is that the story, the OotS campaign, isn't simply wrecked by a dumb plot device, which I care about in any story I read.&nbsp; Miko is that dumb plot device.&nbsp; She was fine as a paladin parody so long as the Order was going along with it willingly, but now they're locked into a pointless character's pointless plot.&nbsp; And that removes them from the equation.&nbsp; Now it's no longer the adventures of the Order so much as &quot;the Order watches some stuff happen to them.&quot;&nbsp; That's bad writing, in a game or in a comic.I say that the DM cheated much in the same way I could say that a hack writer creates poorly contrived situations and events to propel his characters through a novel to the conclusion he wants.&nbsp; If we're going to say &quot;it's a D&amp;D campaign,&quot; I want internal consistency, which means no DM cheating.&nbsp; If we're not going to say that, then it's still a story, and I want things to be believable and not reveal the hand of the author through a Deus Ex Machina like &quot;and then she beat them all singlehandedly off camera.&quot;Again, we're not reading it for the D&amp;D jokes.&nbsp; Back to my superman example: the comic has become &quot;all Mr. Mytzlplk, all the time.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 2754879, member: 18549"] No, but I truly, honestly read that comic because I like the characters and plot. The D&D jokes are just a way to fill time or make sure that there's a punchline at the end of each comic. I actually don't care whether the game follows the rules. What I do care about is that the story, the OotS campaign, isn't simply wrecked by a dumb plot device, which I care about in any story I read. Miko is that dumb plot device. She was fine as a paladin parody so long as the Order was going along with it willingly, but now they're locked into a pointless character's pointless plot. And that removes them from the equation. Now it's no longer the adventures of the Order so much as "the Order watches some stuff happen to them." That's bad writing, in a game or in a comic. I say that the DM cheated much in the same way I could say that a hack writer creates poorly contrived situations and events to propel his characters through a novel to the conclusion he wants. If we're going to say "it's a D&D campaign," I want internal consistency, which means no DM cheating. If we're not going to say that, then it's still a story, and I want things to be believable and not reveal the hand of the author through a Deus Ex Machina like "and then she beat them all singlehandedly off camera." Again, we're not reading it for the D&D jokes. Back to my superman example: the comic has become "all Mr. Mytzlplk, all the time." [/QUOTE]

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