Today’s strip on PvP is absolutely hilarious. It had me laugh so hard, I damn near fell out of my chair. I think I sprained my spleen while I was at it (don’t worry, it’ll heal.)

What made me laugh so hard was the fact that I’ve been in this situation before. One of our regular gamers, Kelin, hooked up with a new girlfriend (who would eventually become his wife a few months down the road.) We, being good friends, invited the girlfriend over to join the Ravenloft game (this is 2nd edition D&D at the time) that was being run by Jim. Jim is the best horror GM I’ve ever had the pleasure of gaming with, but that’s another story.

Kelin’s girlfriend wasn’t too enthused about gaming, but she decided to roll up a cleric since we told her there would probably be lots of undead and clerics rock against undead (that is, they used to, but that’s another story, too.)

We got through the character generation process and got to the deity portion, and she wrote down “God through Jesus.” We all paused for a few moments to carefully consider how to explain things to her, and Jim jumped right in with the exact same conversation you’ll find in the comic I linked to. However, Kelin’s girlfriend didn’t want to “roll for” creating Christianity. She just said something along the lines of, “I create my own religion that follows the righteous and true God, and that’s that.”

Well, she lasted a few sessions, and then bailed. She was more of a roll-player (as in, when do I get to roll my dice?) instead of a role-player (as in, can I talk my out of Castle Ravenloft?) and none of us were really sad to see her go. However, when she left, so took Kelin with her. He gamed with us on-and-off (more off than on) for a while and then vanished all-together. We were sad to see Kelin go because he was a great player.