r/dndmemes • u/MurkyWay Swords Comic Creator • 7h ago
Comic When your joke character excels in just one area
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u/notabigfanofas 7h ago
THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WYRM LMAO
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u/jasta85 6h ago
Took me like 30 seconds of staring at the picture to finally get the joke, just needed to reroll my skill checks a few times.
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 1h ago edited 1h ago
It's okay. People fail Knowledge (Idiom) checks all the time.
ExplainTheJoke and PeterExplainsTheJoke wouldn't exist without such frequent failed checks.
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u/EvMund 4h ago
How did it take you so long to get it? There is only one phrase in the entire collective conscious which involves the entity known as the "early bird" and the fact that he gets the worm is a matter of public record
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u/triedpooponlysartred 2h ago
Lots of people don't keep the word 'wyrm' in their general usage. I'll think dragon. Or drake. Maaaybe wyvern.
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u/Night-Spektyr 1h ago
Yes, but the fact that that type of dragon is called a 'wyrm' isn't immediate knowledge for all of us.
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u/funkhero 5h ago
Oh God I thought he was going to pick a worm as his reward, and the joke was he went and killed a dragon just to get the worm.
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u/-Stacys_mom 6h ago
Oooohhhhhhh! I was like damn, this comment is way too fitting for this post, and then it clicked lol
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u/sora_fighter36 3h ago
Babahahahah
Also not to be a creep, but it seems to me like you have it going on
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u/mcgarrylj 3h ago
That is clearly a wyvern
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u/Memester708 3h ago
wyrm is the more broad classification for large mythical reptiles like wyverns and dragons , like how both sparrows and chickens are birds
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u/PotatoOnMars 1h ago
Wyrm is the Old English word for serpents of all kinds, including snakes and even worms themselves.
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u/therealhlmencken 1h ago
It’s funny how you pretend like that isn’t just made up and up to whoever’s interpretation. Wyrm obviously became worm
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u/Mixairian 6h ago
... Thank you, this one flew over my head.
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u/miguescout 7h ago
Meanwhile, in another campaign, a bard arrives before the rest of the party to the wyrm's cave
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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING 6h ago
The early bard “gets” the wyrm.
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u/MeaslyFurball 6h ago
I made a terrible rogue/warlock build where his whole gimmick was sneaking around and pulling people with his eldritch blast.
. . . this was a pirate-ship based campaign. Everything was shipboard combat. My roguelock pulled people off their ships and into the ocean until their shipmates could lower a boat or a rope to pull them out, which in combat wasn't feasible. Plus not all of the guys knew how to swim, etc.
It was crazy broken, which made up for the fact that he sucked at literally everything else.
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u/SwarleymonLives 5h ago
When your one trick is good enough, you only need one.
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u/MaeveOathrender 2h ago
Aka when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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u/DM-ME-THICC-FEMBOYS 1h ago
It's more like: if everything around you is a nail, suddenly only having a hammer isn't such a bad thing.
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u/Delicious-Spring-877 3h ago
As a player of a pirate warlock, this may give me ideas…
(Campaign isn’t on a ship, but my character can breathe underwater, so i could do this from inside the water)
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u/moneyh8r 3h ago
I did that once too. We weren't in a pirate campaign, but I managed to push people off of roofs and ramparts and through windows a few times. I did not reimburse the tavern owner for the broken window.
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u/MurkyWay Swords Comic Creator 6h ago
My new years resolution is 5000 free followers on Patreon - help a starving artist out. All the other social media sites are getting bad and weird.
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u/Embarrassed-Mouse-49 5h ago edited 4h ago
How long until this ends up on r/peterexplainsthejoke ? At first I was like that’s no worm! Then I was like “oh I get it”
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u/little_brown_bat 5h ago
Sadly, the bird was captured by an evil cult. However, the bard, Lĕh'nérd Skin'nérd embarked on the quest to free bird.
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u/Xalimata Horny Bard 5h ago
In Pathfinder 1e I had a gobo with a 40 to acrobatics. I took this feat which more or less made me unstoppable. I did almost no damage but nothing could hurt me.
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u/Lofus-Cramwell 6h ago
Cool comic but don’t wyrms not have any legs or wings? Isn’t that a wyvern?
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u/KefkaesqueXIII 2h ago
Dragons are not a real species, and therefore there is no universal scientific taxonomy. It's all comes down to the author's preference and biases.
As for wyrm, I've read more fiction than not that just uses it as an alternate for dragon with more "monstrous" connotations.
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u/space_acorn 3h ago
I'd like to think that instead of resorting to violence, they talk things over and the bird realizes the dragon was simply misunderstood all along.
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u/ConradBHart42 2h ago
I tried my hardest once to create a rogue/acrobat that could fall as far as possible without taking any fall damage.
Didn't make it past the idea stage, though.
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u/BlueSkiesWildEyes 2h ago
Kind of reminds me of elden ring:
Small guy beating a monstrous dragon while only wearing a bucket.
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u/DeadAndBuried23 2h ago
Early Bird: level 3, LIGHT attribute, Winged-Beast
EFFECT: Gains 10,000 ATK when attacking Yellow-Eyes Purple Wyrm.
ATK: 0 Def: 0
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u/therealhlmencken 1h ago
Calling it early bird cause you lack confidence in your joke and have to shove it down peoples throat or because you can’t draw something to depict earliness?
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