Adventurers! is a webcomic authored by Mark Shallow and hosted by Keenspot. The comic is set in the world of a stereotypical console role-playing game filled with every single cliché imaginable; were it made into an actual game, it probably wouldn't be a very good one. Though crudely drawn, it vigorously lampoons a wide variety of RPG games. Adventurers! is the oldest and most likely the best known of the comics of its narrow subgenre of console RPG parodies. Mark Shallow is also the creator of Antihero for Hire, another Keenspot comic. As a cooperative work with Ian Jones-Quartey, he has also been working on StarSomething, which is hosted at Comic Genesis.

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 much intelligence, but he does have 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 party members as they journey to defeat the evil villain Khrima.

Adventurers! is near its conclusion, as the heroes are fighting the final boss. As yet another nod to the console RPGs it parodies, the comic's strip numbers maxxed out at 999 (because in many console RPGs, the maximum damage any character can do at one time is 9,999; or 999, in smaller-scale game systems). At this point a year's worth of strips have been numbered #999, with sub-numbers to indicate in which part of the Final Battle story arc they fall. This trend has continued into the similarly-extended 'Ending' arc.

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