Oh, how I loved to draw random splash panels on spare paper back in school. Since then, however, I have developed a much better sense of distance and perspective. This was part of a comic from February '11 that followed a fairly productive discussion on revising the ruleset for DYOS, the focus of which dealt with the ban on "magic" in the story. The rule was really a blanket ban on the typical powergaming devices that often led to fights between participants, and exceptions were constantly made: while strictly speaking it was broken several times from DYOS 10 onward, very rarely did the violations actually warrant reprisal. No doubt sensing a lift of the embargo would threaten his monopoly on reality-warping, The Hacker makes a plea to the audience to vote 'no' on Prop. 418 and leave powergaming to the technocrats, lest this image happen. I also believe that this sort of scenario is why, despite my constant lobbying, we never played free-form back in my D&D days. CivGeneral © GenSamus "Happy Cthulhu" by ursulav [Originally submitted to DeviantArt January 2012.](https://www.deviantart.com/el-thorvaldo/art/Magitek-DYOS-279981730)