Adventure In D&D With Rick & Morty As New Set Releases Soon
November 12, 2019 by brennon
Dungeons & Dragons and Rick & Morty have come together once again with a new set which follows on from the successful comic book pairing between Wizards Of The Coast and the animated phenomenon. Dungeons & Dragons VS Rick & Morty is releasing soon on 19th November.
This box takes a humorous and satirical look at Dungeons & Dragons through the lens of Rick. For example, the rulebook contained within the set to get you going is peppered with commentary by Rick, annotated in his own unique style which in some cases offers up funny jabs at the creators of the game and the stereotypes of Dungeons & Dragons. According to a few interviews the team had real fun being a little tongue in cheek with this one.
You also get inside a unique adventure for characters going from level one through to three, a Dungeon Masters screen with original artwork adorning it and also a bunch of pre-made characters and dice to get you started.
This set was also co-authored by Jim Zub (co-writer of comic book series) and illustrated by Troy Little (illustrator of comic book series) so it feels very authentic to the Rick & Morty that you've come to know from the screen.
The comic book series was good fun to read, flowing through the different editions of D&D and then turning into the way Rick wanted to play. So, it will be fun to see just how them embrace that in gameplay here as you tell a quirky new story.
Will you be giving this a go?
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Nope. Never got the hang on Rick and Morty… maybe I’m just old or my humour isn’t what it used to be but I think it’s all hype. Maybe I’m just getting tired of cross overs. Meh.
I think the best episodes to get into the show are “Meeseeks and Destroy” and “Rixty Minutes”. As for the humour, it’s very absurdist, and plays off many classic scifi, fantasy and horror films, but also has some deeper topics about abandonment, depression, and what a family is wrapped up in it.
Aye, the show does take a bit of getting used to but I like the style of humour and the deeper messages @doctorether mentioned are very interesting to see explored. I’ve enjoyed the show immensely so far.
Conversely, I freaking hate Big Bang Theory, and you can tell it is crap the moment you remove the gag reel as a marker for when laughter is expected.
I would rarely know where the jokes are if the cast didn’t pause for the canned laughter. And if a joke requires any thought at all to understand it, one of the cast will helpfully explain it once the canned laughter dies down.
Bazinga! (Canned Laughter Plays) It’s funny because I said it, and Pwaanny is a stupid girl. (Canned Laughter begins again and the universe eats its own asshole).
The show is really kind of a mash-up of different sci-fi tropes, but done really wrong. They take the intellectual absurdist humor from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, tie it into the premise of Back to the Future, and then ruin it all by mixing it up with lots of immature jokes, ugly animation, incredibly unlikable characters, and making light of things that really aren’t meant to be taken as jokes, i.e. alcoholism, suicide, depression, etc. So I don’t blame you.
Then don’t buy it? Plenty of other D&D material out there.
Nope. This series has already overstayed its welcome, and we don’t need any more of its attempts to branch out into other media.
Is it…
1) DnD continuing to be raped and milked
2) Shows clambering to become part of DnD
3) DnD clambering to be seen as hip
4) A genuine attempt to spread the appeal of DnD
5) All of the above
6) None of the above
Tune in this weekend folks! 😉 lol
I’ll go with 1
Going with 4. What’s wrong with creators who love the geek hobby to help put out a geek product?
South Park showed Zombicide in an episode, along with other hobby games. Plenty of Z backers were interested in a SP set of figures for Z!
I will also go with number 4. I’m not the biggest fan of reskins or cross-overs, but I think I would enjoy this as a D&D fan and a Rick and Morty fan. I think @ced1106 said it best. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.