Exterminatus Now

Given my roots as a gamer (both computer and tabletop roleplaying), I tend to enjoy it when webcomics give shout-outs to gaming tropes. Thus when Alan Graham, Garry Weber, and associates decided to homage the Dead Alewives’ skit “Dungeons and Dragons” in their anthropomorphic parody comic Exterminatus Now while poking fun at the anti-gaming groups, I had to comment. This isn’t the first such reference to gaming in EN; we’ve seen several instances of the Chaos and Order Gods of EN playing roleplaying games. Given the trope of Gods playing games with the lives of mortals, it isn’t really that big of a surprise that tabletop roleplaying would be used by the Gods. No. It was the reference to Mountain Dew that won kudos by me; while I don’t drink it myself, the product placement in the Dead Alewives skit has made it tradition for most gaming groups to include at least an honorary bag of Cheetos and a Mountain Dew in their games. Well, that and the fact they thumbed their nose at 4th Edition D&D, which is pretty much an abomination.