Welcome to Role of the Die, a comic for and about RPG players! Based off my own experiences as a gamer, the stories that others have told me, and a healthy dose of imagination/insanity, RotD will be updated on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Howdy hey, and welcome to the beginning of the first year anniversary festivities! Let's get cracking on this Year One commentary, shall we?
This, of course, is the first RotD I ever made, and to date it's the one that took me the longest. Approximately a year and a half, in fact. I tried drawing it a few times before, but I still didn't have the character designs just like I wanted them, so I generally ended up scrapping whatever I had managed to scribble out before finishing it up. So it was that when I starting showing off the proto-stages of my upcoming comic, almost every single different person I showed it to got to see a different version of this strip.
Eventually, though, I decided that if I didn't just settle for something and quit changing it a hundred million times a day, I'd never get the strip started at all, so I finally just pounded this one out and went with it. After jamming out a few more so I'd have a small buffer to start off with, I got an account at Free Webs and set up shop. I was originally trying for Keenspace, but their application system was all screwy at the time, so I had to make do with what I could find.
Finally, with one hand full of dreams, the other hand full of art utensils, and a pocket full of breakfast pasteries, I set out into the wild and wacky world of webcomics.
Now, a little bit about the strip itself before moving onto the next one . . . this isn't actually the first joke I made up for the comic (though for the life of me, I can't remember which one was anymore), but it was one of the first I came up with based off of something someone actually said to me. "Don't you know that only geeks with no lives do that?" is an almost direct quote from my then-girlfriend, now-wife Kat. Thankfully, she's come to realize that it's not true at all . . . or, well, mostly not true at all, of course. Either way, she now games regularly with my group, so it's all good.
already!