1 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/generic-title-tvt_7662.jpg]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:250:And misquoted it to boot.]] |
3 | ->''"[[RunningGag Cookies]]!"'' |
4 | -->-- '''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Bubbles]]''' |
5 | |
6 | A relatively recent webcomic, ''Generic Title'' (subtitled ''The Quest for Grøn'') was inspired by ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'' and ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids''. As opposed to either of those, ''Generic Title'' was not a screencap comic, though - the images were 3D renders. The story was that of a fictional party of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' players in just as fictional a campaign. |
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8 | The distinguishing trait was that during writing, when the script called for a roll, a die (or several if needed) was rolled. As a result, the story is relatively unpredictable. |
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10 | Unfortunately the author put the work on [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160122185459/http://gt-comic.net/2015/12/02/enough/ indefinite hiatus]] in December 2015 and the domain expired in 2016. The comic can now only be accessed via the Internet Archive [[https://web.archive.org/web/20151227142136/http://gt-comic.net/2012/04/05/generic-title-01/ here.]] |
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12 | !!''Generic Title'' provides examples of: |
13 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: Gerod beheads a goblin sniper in a single blow. |
14 | * ActingForTwo: The GM when speaking for multiple [=NPCs=]. Discussed in-universe. |
15 | * ArtEvolution: Rather rapidly from undefined blobs to humanoids, and early on to boot. As of strip #78, the characters have faces. |
16 | * AuthorAppeal: Two of the four main characters are metalheads. |
17 | * BeatPanel: Used on occasion. |
18 | * BlindIdiotTranslation: A strip features German dialogue that is quite obviously copied and pasted from Google Translate. [[spoiler:Most definitely intentionally, considering the author ''is'' German]] |
19 | * CallingYourAttacks: Bubbles does it, often, loudly and gleefully. |
20 | --->''"[[Franchise/StarWars May the force]] [[ShoutOut be with you...]] the'' '''''Phantasmal Force!'''''" |
21 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Bubbles. WordOfGod states his alignment is "chaotic chaotic". |
22 | * ColorCodedCharacters: The [=PCs=]' speech bubbles. Gerod is gray, Sarto orange, Bubbles pink. The [=GM=] is a light yellow (and so are all [=NPCs=]) |
23 | * CriticalFailure: Rolling a 1 when jumping down somewhere would result in... missing the ground. You'd land on something less comfortable instead. Like a hedgehog. Or a jagged rock. |
24 | * CutShort: Since the author's reasons for creating the comic are for the most part no longer relevant and their own admission that it had become a chore to do it's unlikely that the story will ever be finished. |
25 | * DeadpanSnarker: Everyone to some extent, but Gerod takes the cake. |
26 | * DeepImmersionGaming |
27 | * DoomedHometown: Not a town, but the inn the comic starts in gets sacked, thus kicking off the adventure. |
28 | * {{Duck}}: In one strip, surprisingly not done by Bubbles. |
29 | * FailedASpotCheck: After [[CriticalFailure rolling a 1]], Sarto walks headfirst into a city wall. |
30 | * FunetikAksent: All the guards (and the King). |
31 | * GenreSavvy: All players to a certain extent. |
32 | * GoneHorriblyRight: Gerod [[spoiler:assaults a guard to get arrested and taken before the king to be judged... well, they get arrested and are supposed to be taken to the king. Sometime a lot later, it seems.]] |
33 | * {{Hammerspace}}: The characters wear tiny backpacks in which not even the starting equipment would fit, let alone the book and bottle Sarto picks up rather early on. |
34 | * HeyThatsMyLine: In "Guesswork": |
35 | --> '''Sarto:''' 'Does it matter, as long as it's good stuff?'\ |
36 | '''Bubbles:''' '"Good stuff" is my job!' |
37 | * InAndOutOfCharacter: Used. Abused. |
38 | * ItMakesSenseInContext: |
39 | --> '''Bubbles:''' 'River. Fell in. [...] I thought I saw a cookie at the bottom.' |
40 | * LawfulStupid: The party is arrested and put in a dungeon cell because (drum roll) [[spoiler:Gerod kicked a guard in the shins.]] |
41 | * TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: Discussed, with a pinch of RedHerring for flavour. |
42 | * MacGuffin: The Grøn, whatever it may be. |
43 | * {{Malaproper}}: Bubbles calls the one spell he uses by several different names, only one of which is right. |
44 | * MindRape: Essentially what ''Phantasmal Force'', the aforementioned spell, does. |
45 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: The annotation to "Break a Leg": |
46 | --> ''The worst bit? That is a real medical procedure.'' |
47 | * NotTheFallThatKillsYou: It's the landing on a hedgehog. Or a jagged rock. Or the drawn sword of an enemy who stands there. Or the gaping maw of a dragon. [[OverlyLongGag Or a cauldron of boiling oil.]] Or maybe [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment another jag-]] well, you get the idea. |
48 | * OffWithHisHead: The King, referring to Gerod. |
49 | * OverlyLongGag: All of "Low Roller". |
50 | * PrecisionFStrike: |
51 | --> '''Sarto:''' '[[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Belgium!]]' |
52 | * PrisonEpisode: The party spends some five episodes in a dungeon cell. |
53 | * {{Railroading}}: Mostly averted because the GM is making up stuff as he goes along anyway. |
54 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot: More like influences it: Probably the most distinguishing trait of the comic are the real random dice rolls, after all. |
55 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Gerod's eyes glow red when Sarto claims not to know who [[Music/{{Motorhead}} Lemmy]] is. Or [[Music/IronMaiden Bruce Dickinson]]. |
56 | * {{Retcon}}: In-Universe - Gerod [[BlatantLies totally always had that muttonstache]]. |
57 | * RuleOfCool: Why Grøn is spelled with an ''ø''. |
58 | * RunningGag: Cookies! |
59 | * ShopliftAndDie: The innkeeper early on throws the party out (after generally being rather rude) because they did not have money for mead. |
60 | * ShoutOut: Yep. |
61 | ** One strip is named after (and contains a line from) an Music/IronMaiden song. |
62 | ** Bubbles quotes ''Franchise/StarWars'' when fighting a Goblin (quote seen above). |
63 | ** Sarto using [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Belgium]] as a cuss word. |
64 | ** To VideoGame/{{Zork}}: |
65 | --> '''GM:''' 'It is pitch black. You are likely to be--'\ |
66 | '''Gerod:''' 'Shut it.' |
67 | ** WebAnimation/RedVsBlue: |
68 | --> '''Bubbles:''' 'They'll never see us coming!'\ |
69 | '''Sarto:''' 'That's because we ''won't'' be coming!'\ |
70 | '''GM:''' 'Thank you, Simmons.' |
71 | * YouAllMeetInAnInn: Played with. The adventure actually starts in the basement of the inn. |
72 | --> '''Bubbles:''' It's an inn!'\ |
73 | '''Sarto:''' 'An inn?'\ |
74 | '''Gerod:''' 'I act surprised.'\ |
75 | '''GM:''' 'Make a bluff roll.' |
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