History Webcomic / DMOfTheRings

** Legolas gets this a lot from Aragorn... make that ''everyone''.

* AnythingThatMoves:
** Sometimes, Aragorn's tendency to mistake elves for women is taken as this.
--->'''Théoden:''' Aragorn, we are in no position to turn away friends, no matter how disturbingly attractive you find them.
** Then later:
---> '''Aragorn:''' [Dryads are] like sexy tree ladies.\\
'''Legolas:''' Sexy? I thought they had leaves for hair. And bark skin.\\
'''Aragorn:''' Yeah, but they're ''all'' chicks. '''Naked''' chicks. Leafy, naked tree chicks.\\
'''Gimli:''' Ye need help lad. Ye really do. Keep this up and you'll end up with Dutch elm disease.

* ShaggyDogStory: After everything the players have gone through, nothing they do in the end matters and the story is determined by Frodo (who at that point is an {{NPC}}) succeeding at a will save. Aragorn and Gimli are not amused, but Legolas thinks it's hardcore.

This comic has inspired several FollowTheLeader comics applying the formula to other works, notably Wiki/TVTropes semi-favorite ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids''. It is the TropeMaker for the CampaignComic.

Other works by the [[Creator/ShamusYoung author]] include ''Webcomic/ChainmailBikini'', ''Stolen Pixels'', ''LetsPlay/SpoilerWarning'' and the column [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/experienced-points "Experienced Points"]] at ''Website/TheEscapist''.

* AggressiveNegotiations: The unnamed DM becomes rather upset at the heroes for [[spoiler:killing Saruman, Wormtongue, and the Mouth of Sauron in parley.]]

** Also when Legolas tries to shoot Saruman. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the DM ends up raving about how he killed Saruman before realizing Legolas scored a 1, so he changed it into killing Grí­ma instead.]]

* InSpiteOfANail: Despite Legolas [[spoiler:killing Gollum during the events of ''Fellowship of the Ring'']], Frodo and Sam still make it through Mordor and into Mount Doom [[spoiler:though it's partially because their players quit and the DM turned them into [=NPCs=].]]

* NoGearLevel: [[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=931 Unfortunately, the players know what's coming next.]]

'''Gimli:''' I wouldn't worry about it. He already agreed to let [[CanonSue Gandalf]] in [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy with his staff]], so it doesn't matter if we're armed or not.

* OffTheRails: [[DefiedTrope Defied by the DM]] most of the time, save for when the players get the drop on him. Like when [[spoiler:Legolas gets a critical/max damage and ends up scoring a OneHitKO on Gollum, removing him from the story before he really enters. All of the Hobbit players leaving the game also put something of a crimp on things; he ends up just declaring they made it to Mount Doom off-screen.]]

* RulesLawyer: Happens a ''lot''. The DM will do it [[{{Railroading}} to keep everyone]] [[ButThouMust buckled up in the campaign]] and the players to either annoy the DM (such as an instance Gimli argued against disturbing the army of the dead because [[LawfulGood it was against his and Legolas's in-character morals]]), or to cheat like a bandit (such as Aragorn convincing the DM that they took their horses through the caves, onto a boat and throughout Gondor, despite never using or riding them the entire way from there to Gondor).

* ShoutOut

* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: The solution to the corsair problem? [[spoiler:Aragorn knows how to sail ships, despite being nominally a ranger.]] Not that he cared to know it in the first place.

'''[[spoiler:Aragorn]]:''' Nice try, but I'm not quite desperate enough to read that thing just yet.

* JerkassHasAPoint: The players can be quite [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] bastards, but many of their nitpicks and pot shots towards the campaign do have valid points of criticism, as does their view towards The DM’s railroading.

* JerkassHasAPoint: The players can be quite [[DeapanSnarker snarky]] bastards, but many of their nitpicks and pot shots towards the campaign and The DM do have valid points of criticism.

* CanonSue: In-universe, that's how the players view Gandalf.

* ClicheStorm: InUniverse. Even the tropes that were [[TropeMaker made by the books]], and thus not cliches at the time, become {{RPG}} clichés in the hands of the DM.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** The game has eight players at one point, and by the end only three remain.

** Even Aragorn almost does this at the very end, before he learns of his AwesomeMomentOfCrowning.
** '''Players Gone''': [[spoiler:Boromir (because he's dead and wants to stay that way; see IDieFree), Frodo (because Dave wanted to play a ''Franchise/StarWars'' campaign, with him DM'ing), Sam, Merry, and Pippin (who went with Dave).]]
** The hobbits eventually return late in the game, but this time, they are [=NPCs=].

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: [[invoked]] In regards to ''The Lord of the Rings'' influencing ''D&D'', as Aragorn comments that the party has been fighting nothing but orcs (also, the blind pond squid being called Watcher):
-->'''Aragorn:''' Whoever wrote this story has no imagination at all!

* EightDeadlyWords: [[invoked]]In-universe. With the exception of Gimli, none of the players give a damn about the story, the setting or any of the characters within it. Even Gimli quickly loses his patience with the horrible pacing and railroading (don't tell TheRoleplayer how his character feels).

* HyperspaceArsenal: Aragorn's Backpack.
-->'''Gimli:''' You don't have a backpack. What you have there is an [[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=984 invisible leather]] [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]].