Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for March 31, 2014

Consider your self lucky.You must be blind to make a pass at the Wiz s women.

Yes, you could be a frog by now.

WTF does -175hp mean? Horse power?

hit points?

Hit points. Your character in any strategy game (pen and paper, cards and game board, console, computer, online or not) has a certain number of “hit points” which determine their health.

In the broadest sense, one tries not to deplete said hit points through foolish/clumsy/foolhardy actions. Or someone’ll be calling for a priest (that’s my specialty: healing, curing and resurrecting other players in my group).

@ratlum Or blind drunk….

http://www.suvi.org/funstuff/slapit.html

What scares me is that, at age 67, I understood that.

My mom, 80, understood that. She used to play in my D&D game with my husband, sister and daughter. I have a cool mom. :o)

The Wiz did not have his Gauntlets of Ogre power on.

Only 175hp? What is he a level 10 wizard?

Did he mean whopping? As in whup (whip)?Whoop usually means to shout ?

I worked with a man once that got very upset when he just suspected someone made a pass at his wife.(And at other times brag about the passes he had made!)

175 hit points in a single slap? That’s a dragon-slayin’ hand that the Wiz has on him. Poor gentleman in the bar would be so totally supremely toast.

I didn’t get it until Leeroy explained it. Thanks Leeroy. Gues I’m to old to be “in” on so much anymore.

whop , whopping : to pull or whip out, beat, strike, to defeat totally. From Middle English, whappen, alteration of wappen to throw violently

Did anyone notice that it was a -175 hp? And wouldn’t that actually make the guy who was hit stronger?

in ’78??!!!…I thought Dungeons and Dragons was an ’80s thing Tommy and his friends were playing it after school in the ’80s

“In the basement rollin dice, I’m a wizardWhen we play we do it right, candles flickerFighting dragons in my mind, (in my mind) just for kicks (kicks)DM says you’re gonna die, roll a D6!”

-from “Roll a D6,” by Assorted Intricacies