Adventurers!

Adventurers! is a web comic authored by Mark Shallow and hosted by Keenspot. The comic is set in the world of a stereotypical computer role-playing game filled with every single cliché imaginable – it wouldn't probably make a very good actual game. Though crudely drawn, it offers a large amount of jokes at the expense of all kinds of RPG games. Adventurers! is also the oldest and likely the best known of the scarce few comics of its kind.

The characters show varying degrees of awareness about existing inside a video game. The protagonist is the hero Karn, complete with gravity-defying hair and a big sword. He seems not to be blessed with too much brains but has an innate understanding of how his reality works. He's the source of endless frustration for his sarcastic mage sidekick Ardam, who is highly intelligent and rational in a world where buildings on fire won't burn down until the heroes trigger a plot-related event. These two are accompanied by an eclectic group of varyingly stereotypical party members as they journey to defeat the evil villain Khrima.

Adventurers! is near its conclusion. There hasn't been much plot to build on, and there are only so many role-playing jokes to go around. The comic has apparently been set to end at 1000 strips. Consequently, at this point several dozen strips have been numbered #999.

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