I Hit It With My Axe: Episode 18: 200 lbs. Of Meat And A New Fur Coat

[Vitor Goncalves]

Is this some sort of scam to get together with moderately hot girls every week or how comes these keep popping up every other day? xD

I have no idea what this guy is talking about, but if there's anybody on this forum who has a clue what he's on about I or one of the girls will try to answer it.

No! Its a scam to see a hot guy doing proper smart ad inventive Gming and some hot girls who are more then enough smart and imaginative to role play with their caracthers and interact with all the stuff the GM "throws" at them.

OT: This series is surprising me every week. Thumbs up. Mde me curious to try out role playing but the problem is if I dont find a top notch GM like you zak and some players like the girls I will be very disapointed.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

This reminds me of the time when we ran into a pack of apparently hostile[footnote]By which I mean they growled at me, that was clearly a threat! Making my next actions extremely logical and not at all silly, no sirree![/footnote] cat-like things... that had combat reflexes and all sorts of other nasty aspects (how was I supposed to know that ahead of time?). When they got in our way and growled, I did what any self-respecting adventurer would - attack!

The problem was the bit where "pack" translating to "apparently infinite numbers for all we could tell" met with the abject cowardice of my fellow 'adventurers', who were content to toss bits of food around and distract the felines while they all made me their new chew toy instead of actually helping me (I did still kill 3 of them though!). At least they didn't get around to eating me before they eventually wandered off, though my DM made a point of mentioning how they used me as a litterbox.

Ever a pragmatist at heart, I choose to view that as an upgrade - it's like being a troglodyte and emitting a noxious stench, whee!

 

[rddj623]

Great episode, a nice comedic reprieve from the intensity of the last couple. The best part though is that they got distracted by the pretty kitty cat! Snow Leopards are my favorite animal in the world. Sorry girls but I'm kinda glad it trounced you gals! haha, just as long as no one else dies from the Snow Leopard attack! And as @alllagnofrag said too bad you couldn't befriend it and keep it as a part of the party! Perhaps name it Petey the Snow Leopard

 

[Justin1221]

I forgot, but what is this show about?

 

[Mooseman]

Awesome stuff! Just going to say, i am getting into D and D, since i started watching this show. Playing with some friends, but people always seam to get grumpy (thinking it's because they don't understand some rules) Doesn't help im the only one to ever read the players manual and have to then explain to everyone else. Anyway, thanks for giving me some hope that the game can turn out awesome and interesting hah.

 

[Legend of J]

We love animals, but probably wouldn't be invited to a PETA meeting.

Ha story of my life that quote.

 

[lethargychick]

I have to admit, I get a whole lot of entertainment from the boards. I am really proud of the progression of positive comments. Especially the now common sentiment of people who want to play D&D after watching the show.

For me, every episode comes with nostalgia for when I gamed with a really wonderful group of people in Nowheresville, Michigan. Years have passed and I now live in a large city with no gamer friends to my knowledge. Sniffle. But even if I don't get to game anytime soon, it's really nice to watch IHIWMA.

 

[DC_Josh]

This show just goes from strength to strength and I find myself laughing more and more each episode.

The bit with that magical eye was just classic of any D&D game i've played where imaginative but ultimately foolish things just seem to happen... like drinking invisibility potions, getting naked and swimming out to a ship to climb onto it so you can capture it, only to realize when you become visible, you are both naked and unarmed.

 

[Daselthechaz]

I have to admit, I get a whole lot of entertainment from the boards. I am really proud of the progression of positive comments. Especially the now common sentiment of people who want to play D&D after watching the show.

I've noticed the same things, as well as another interesting little pattern. Has anyone else spotted that this program's posts draw a disproportionately large number of new users? There are long timers here with four figures worth of comments over months and years, but what's presented here put something in the water to loosen the lips of those that had previously been content to sit and watch the site's material without a voice. I know I'm on that list.

I don't think such a thing was planned, nor could it have been, but it does add another element of irony to a show whose premise and content drip with it. Just as the overt, uninhibited personalities of adult entertainment aren't supposed to head home for the relative calm and not-so-relative nerdiness of tabletop gaming, the supposed audience of said adult entertainment is generally thought of as purposefully disconnected from those that provide their diversion. Moreover, their need for such explicit material presupposes (whether correctly or not) a lack of certain types of human contact in their lives. And yet here we sit with a slowly expanding group that start by using their eyes and ears, then progress to using their minds and mouths.

The boards for this show have shifted from near-exclusive shouts of "take this show down" to diverse, progressively lengthier reminiscences of gaming and friendship gone right. I don't know how this happened, but if it could be bottled and passed around, we'd have a viable third, fourth and fifth party candidate in time for 2012.

 

[Noumenon]

Sadly, this episode contains some of my least favorite things about D&D. How unforgiving first level characters are to newbies (you try out your suboptimal but cool spider sword one time and you go down?), people not playing as a group and letting each other die, and the medusa princess never getting to face off against her mum because she died in a pointless random encounter.

 

[McShizzle]

Good episode. I'm enjoying this series more and more as it goes along. Also, I love "continually exasperated" Mandy. I'm pulling for you brother, clerics are my favorite type of character too.

Off Topic: Props to my fellow Canucks on the show, even if some of them are Montrealers
(McShizzle <-- dour, stuffy, Ottawa resident)

 

[mandymorbid]

Good episode. I'm enjoying this series more and more as it goes along. Also, I love "continually exasperated" Mandy. I'm pulling for you brother, clerics are my favorite type of character too.

Off Topic: Props to my fellow Canucks on the show, even if some of them are Montrealers
(McShizzle <-- dour, stuffy, Ottawa resident)

I have lived in Ottawa as well. Stuffy would be a good word for that city.

 

[mcspankie]

Great episode.
I would like to thank Mandy for posting the blog address. There is great stuff in it as well. Including some of the sexiest photos I have seen in a while. I also feel Mandy's pain of being the cleric. The rest of my party is always tring to see if they can get killed on my watch. The latest attempt was to steal the Remorhaz eggs out of the nest. Then race down a mountian in dog sleds before momma knows we had been there. All we managed to do was break every egg and get all of the dogs killed. Next time I will save the dogs they were better company.

 

[Zak Sabbath]

Sadly, this episode contains some of my least favorite things about D&D. How unforgiving first level characters are to newbies (you try out your suboptimal but cool spider sword one time and you go down?), people not playing as a group and letting each other die, and the medusa princess never getting to face off against her mum because she died in a pointless random encounter.

First: nobody died, they just got knocked unconscious.

Second: we had fun. That's way more important than whether the imaginary people we use as game pieces had fun.

 

[lethargychick]

I have to admit, I get a whole lot of entertainment from the boards. I am really proud of the progression of positive comments. Especially the now common sentiment of people who want to play D&D after watching the show.

I've noticed the same things, as well as another interesting little pattern. Has anyone else spotted that this program's posts draw a disproportionately large number of new users? There are long timers here with four figures worth of comments over months and years, but what's presented here put something in the water to loosen the lips of those that had previously been content to sit and watch the site's material without a voice. I know I'm on that list.

I don't think such a thing was planned, nor could it have been, but it does add another element of irony to a show whose premise and content drip with it. Just as the overt, uninhibited personalities of adult entertainment aren't supposed to head home for the relative calm and not-so-relative nerdiness of tabletop gaming, the supposed audience of said adult entertainment is generally thought of as purposefully disconnected from those that provide their diversion. Moreover, their need for such explicit material presupposes (whether correctly or not) a lack of certain types of human contact in their lives. And yet here we sit with a slowly expanding group that start by using their eyes and ears, then progress to using their minds and mouths.

The boards for this show have shifted from near-exclusive shouts of "take this show down" to diverse, progressively lengthier reminiscences of gaming and friendship gone right. I don't know how this happened, but if it could be bottled and passed around, we'd have a viable third, fourth and fifth party candidate in time for 2012.

Well said. I'd never been compelled to read or post on boards until this show. While I love seeing so many people changing their stereotypical opinions of D&D, I've had my mind changed about people who make porn.

I admit, I'm a girl and watching porn doesn't do it for me. I'd never been one to discount the porn profession, per se. I mean, of course they're real people and (one hopes) are making a career out of doing what they enjoy doing. Who cares. But I had always seen porn stars the same way I had seen, say, professional snowboarders: People doing something I have little interest in and are unlikely to meet and/or have common interests with me.

This show has reminded me that cool, smart, and interesting people are found in all walks of life. ...Yay!

 

[Dave Michalak]

#1: Best title so far.
#2: Ha! Pwned by a kitten.
#3: I <3 Gnolls, however you pronounce them. One of my favorite chars is a Gnoll.
#4: The She-Ra shirt is awesome.
#5: The magic eye rocks. I love weird little talismans like that.
#6: Is there something wrong with me that, of all the girls on the show, the only one who doesn't get naked on camera is Frankie, so naturally she's the one I most want to see naked? I hope that's not creepy. Obviously I would never want to impinge on anyone's right NOT to be naked in front of strangers, cuz that'd be fucked.
#7: Please don't take #6 as any kind of dis against the rest of you, ladies; as far as I'm concerned, you're all hawtsome. Some of you do porn that's not to my tastes, but whatever. You're all cool and would be hella fun to chill with.
#8: The style of this game is slowly growing on me. Mostly because everyone seems to be having more fun lately than in the earlier eps. Granted, that may have been more about the editing.
#9: There is no #9.
#10: Aww, you guys have a mascot! He's so cute ^_^

 

[Tom Roberts]

[quote="Dave Michalak" post="
#4: The She-Ra shirt is awesome.

Ummm, are you SURE that's a She-Ra shirt? Cause it looks rather like the logo of a film company I...think I saw once. At a friend's house. Out of a drawer with a bunch of other movies that aren't mine.

#6: Is there something wrong with me that, of all the girls on the show, the only one who doesn't get naked on camera is Frankie, so naturally she's the one I most want to see naked? I hope that's not creepy. Obviously I would never want to impinge on anyone's right NOT to be naked in front of strangers, cuz that'd be fucked.

If you were to scan the interwebs, you could find pics of Frankie on Alternative sites wherein she too is without clothes. Scout the comments carefully of the earlier episodes and you should find a clue as to where as well...

 

[JeanBurger01]

Now I wanna play DnD. Thursday is too long to wait!

I'm glad my friends finally talked me into playing it.

 

[vagrantsoul]

Bravo.

Watching you guys have fun really makes me want to jump in on a campaign again. At the end of the day, it's all about having fun (and that's the only thing that should matter!). I've always found the gaming experience to be more entertaining when characters are slipping in and out of consciousness. (SUSPENSE!)

A quote for the critics:
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." -Brendan Behan

 

[mandymorbid]

[quote="Dave Michalak" post="
#4: The She-Ra shirt is awesome.

Ummm, are you SURE that's a She-Ra shirt? Cause it looks rather like the logo of a film company I...think I saw once. At a friend's house. Out of a drawer with a bunch of other movies that aren't mine.

It is a She-Ra shirt.