Silver Sable Sucks
This version of Silver Sable is poorly designed, horribly written, and placed in the game for all the wrong reasons.
Best. Plot Twist. Ever.
Few people remember BioWare's Jade Empire, but it had a unique setting and a really well-executed plot twist.
id Software Coding Style
When the source code for Doom 3 was released, we got a look at some of the style conventions used by the developers. Here I analyze this style and explain what it all means.
Rage 2
The game was a dud, and I'm convinced a big part of that is due to the way the game leaned into its story. Its terrible, cringe-inducing story.
If Star Wars Was Made in 2006?
Imagine if the original Star Wars hadn't appeared in the 1970's, but instead was pitched to studios in 2006. How would that turn out?
Eeevveeeeeeerrrrrr.
Having Josh play WoW in the background is a nice touch — if he were distracted enough not to kill everything before the other PCs could move, he might even be fun to game with.
I figured it was a fun extrapolation from the very first CB, where Josh is playing some sort of handheld device.
Farewell, Chainmail Bikini. You will be missed.
Awesome art, I have to say.
If memory serves me right the last words uttered in DS9 were also, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
Josh and Chuck(? I can’t rember those names anymore) probably did not change shirts at allfor a year.
Sad for no “gnome paladin” joke…but a fitting end nonetheless
I commented on the comic, but I’ll say it here as well: This was the perfect end for CB. I love the idea that they’ll just stay on this cycle of dysfunctional games forever, but never quite be able to break up the group.
Damn you, now I want a Red Dwarf shirt :( (damn you, product-placement ads!)
It fits… I think I’m starting to develop my own gravity field O.o
Loving the comic… now make more :P
The comic now ends,
A fitting way to begin,
Joys of memory
Thank you Shamus and Shawn. A fitting memorial to a beloved comic.
Live long and prosper.
The comic ends, but the game goes on forever.
It was a comic, all in all, take it for what you will. We shall not look upon its like again.
Ah, well. ‘Twas fun while it lasted.
Couldn’t have done a more fitting ending. This was worth the wait, thank you Shawn and Shamus!
I must say, Vampire Chuck is DA BOMB. You’ve outdone yourself, Shawn.
Congrats on the comic.
Man, closure feels good. Really needed something good today; thanks Shawn and Shamus.
Would someone be so kind as to link me to the first Chainmail Bikini strip ever, I felt like reading them a while back but was confused about where they start?
If I had to guess, I’d say you might be able to find it by clicking the “<< First” link.
It was a perfect ending. I’m sad to see CB go. It was a rare combination of exceptional art and extraordinary writing. Still, better to die at the top of your game, I suppose, than in a smoldering pile of festering despair and fetid ignominy. Kudos again, gents.
I’m glad that you guys did this. It sounds neurotic, because the comic ended, but it’s nice to know that things worked out for the group. They finished up, then did another one, and another one. It’s still a bit of a letdown that things didn’t go well for the comic, but at least things went well for the players.
I’m really confused. Didn’t CB end like a year ago?
It did, but Shamus and Shawn promised a new bonus strip when they started reposting them after the originals were removed.
This time for real then, the end of an era. I think no-one expected a final comic of this magnitude, but it was certainly worth the wait.
Thanks for all the chuckles.
And so the group ends their run, but lives on in our hearts.
Especially Chuck.
I wonder what their ‘Call of Cthulhu’ group would look like. Imagine what Josh would play as in that group!
(I can’t believe I didn’t make a ‘Chainmail Bikini Forever’ joke.)
Thanks guys. Glad you’re all enjoying it.
I really did want to send these characters off in to perpetuity, playing terrible, terrible games happily ever after.
Great comic.
I love the idea of a Twilight campaign. Killing sparkly vampires would be so much fun.
Erm, is “one month ago” Clockworks at shawntionary.com? I just ran across Clockworks for the first time today and the similarities were … striking.
Yes. Clockworks is Shawn’s other comic.
The funny thing was at first glance I thought the Vampire campaign was a Call of Cthulhu game and Casey was playing a Lovecraftian ghoul.
…and for some reason imagining Josh finding a way to create a dual-wielding, insanity-immune Munchkin in CoC is so genre-destroying that I have to see it.
*Roll*
“Josh…Did…Did you just punch out Cthulhu?”
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu
Yes, I would almost be prepared to pay to see that.
“I think we broke the DM. Again. And look, Cthulhu’s crying too!”
That is the sweetest punchline for an imaginary comic ever. Shamus better watch out! ;-)
That happened in the last game of Arkham Horror my board game group played. Though we actually killed Cthulhu with a flamethrower, not a punch.
The all Jedi group is hilarious.
Can someone tell me what they are playing, frame by frame?
D&D
Star Wars D20 (probably)
Vampire (The Masquerade or the new one, either one’s possible)
As for the last one? I’m not sure, but I think it’s a nod to Shawn’s other comic, Clockworks.
Ah thanks! I thought the one where they hunted vampires could be White Wolf’s other game, Hunter: the Reckoning, or its latest version.
Vampire the Requiem. Because I’m a big enough WW dork, I even made sure the characters were accurate.
Casey’s a Nosferatu.
Ivy’s a Mekhet.
Chuck is a Ventrue.
Josh is a Gangrel.
I like the idea that Marcus’s Vampire game would be the wankiest combination of Interview With A Vampire and Twilight, some sort of horribly pretentious melodramafest, where clearly the Daeva are in charge (and sparkle), and our heroes instead ran around murdering all of the shiny vampires.
The new one, Hunter: The Vigil is really more in line with the old Hunter: Hunted supplements, from what I’ve seen. (Particularly Project: Twilight and The Arcanum)
As far as I know the Imbued are gone for good.
That was the best one!I enjoyed seeing the characters in all of those poses, as vampires, d&d characters and…whatever was that made Josh (I think) to say that it was ridiculous even for him (a cyborg werewolf zombie alien with perfectly equilibrated stats???).
I’m trying to read the whole thing through from the beginning, but the comic images die out between #41 and #43…
Ambience 327 – I think they died during this last weekend’s hosting issues. I have internets at home again, and will get the images back up asap.
Fixed. Everything in the archives should be working now.
48 and 49 are not showing up.
Fixed.
Thank you very much, sir.
When I went to click on the comic, I got this:
“Reported Attack Page!
This web page at http://www.shawntionary.com has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences.
Attack pages try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.
Some attack pages intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.”
Hey Shamus i’ve only recently discovered your blog and read through bout every thing you’ve posted (I discoverd it through The e
Escapist and “Shamus Plays LOTR online” and LULZY (and her desperate quest for some strange shiny discs? to buy something called “clothes”???).
But anyway i cant get to “Chainmail Bikini” as its domain (I think it said?) no longer exists.Anything you could do or show to me that could help me acssess this (Did i spell acssess right???).
AND, could yo tell me where and how the sight tells me when you’ve done something new because your blog is the only one i have ever read on this sight and i do not know the sights layout so yeah, apreciate any help you could give me!
= D