Burning Wheel

Burning Wheel is another fantasy role-playing game (FRPG) which I doodle through while waiting for my turn.

"Axe Bears" is a corruption of "Axe Bearers." Axe Bearers are some kind of organized dwarven militia.

"High Elves" are elves who live way high on a mountain or something, and represent highly urbanized elves. Elves are often characterized as being more in touch with nature, often living in trees, and thus they are basically a society of magical hippies. So it begs the question about other aspects of hippie culture, so here I depict elves as degenerate stoners.

If there is a vitally important roll, I will probably fail it. Thus, the biggest threat to my gaming group is my dice.

Another visual depiction of a pun, this time on "Bare-Fisted Fighting."

Gamers do not often mourn the death of an orc.

It always bugs me when someone else (especially a grubby adolescent) grabs my dice. How do you effectively discourage this?

It's fun to imagine orcs entertained by a puppet show.

My GM described a helmet as adorned with "chaos death spiky bits." What a great phrase, and a great name for an evil breakfast cereal.

If you see an orc running around through your town, you should probably dispatch it right away. But what if there's some kind of orc amity festival, where old border conflicts are reduced to pageantry?

Party healer got to get paid, son.

Doctors want to find out what's really wrong with you, so they tend to run a lot of tests. And everything Elven is a "Song," but what does that song sound like? Also, I hate that damn song "Everytime You Go Away," written by Daryl Hall and covered by Paul Young in 1985.

Elves even have songs to help them in swordfighting. Sung to the tune of "(They Long to Be) Close to You" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, most popularly recorded by The Carpenters, which became a hit in 1970.

Hey, let's have that young dwarf fellow chat up the young elf lady! I'm sure they'll have lots to talk about.

"Ironic" is a song recorded by Alanis Morissette in 1995. One line of the song reads: "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife;" I misremembered this as being "...all you need is a fork," which would make this cartoon funnier. If you have any influence over Alanis, have her get right on that "fork" version for me; make it danceable so it will be a hit.

With "Song of the Arbors," you can get trees to talk with you. What would a tree talk about, if it could?

See, elves are hippies, so they're totally into traditional crafts.

This one character is resentful of political figures; and they may be snakes, but it's rude to just outright SAY they're snakes.

Dwarves just don't understand coffee.

Is it coincidence that the skewered food is named after arrow sound effects?

Why do fabric stores call their rectangular rolls of fabric "bolts," anyway? And gnomes are known for wacky inventions.

Fork is an orc from my Snake-Eye Jake comics. Pork is his plump food-loving brother. Torc wears a single-piece necklace around his arm. Bork is a Swedish cousin. And Cork is another unfortunate orc who likes his wine.