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pseudosavior posted:Yay for a fast grab on the mirror! I thought that was why they were lime green? 
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Mylan posted:Greysky city... that's where Haley worked as a thieve's guild member in On the Origin of PCs, right? Guessing Haley's gonna have a showdown with the goth assassin finally. It's also the city sending supplies into Formerly Azure City, so Evil-Subplot Central basically
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I'm super pumped to see how returning to Greysky will affect the plotline, and am antsy and spoiled by last weeks rapid fire strips. Save me Burlew!
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New Strip! Click here for the full 691x935 image. Welcome to Greysky City.
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I'm sure it's been an ongoing slow buildup to this, but today's comic marks the first time I ever really noticed that Celia had crossed from "naïve about mortalkind" to "functionally retarded."
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Jul 13, 2008 23:11
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It is also the first time I really get annoyed about that joke being dragging out over the entire strip instead of being done with after three panels, followed by some more plot movement. 
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A Big Dark Yak posted:I'm sure it's been an ongoing slow buildup to this, but today's comic marks the first time I ever really noticed that Celia had crossed from "naïve about mortalkind" to "functionally retarded." She's from the Monster Manual. Over in those parts, they probably have an Adventurers Manual which doesn't tell you much about any given adventuring race, other than their rough stat block, a paragraph or two about where they're found, and a half-page illustration of them in a menacing pose.
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Apparently, according to the front page they've had some sort of server issue that necessitated a new move, and also resulted in him being unable to post comics for some time (ending the 13th). I don't know when it started, but at least there's something of an excuse.
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Dominic White posted:She's from the Monster Manual. Over in those parts, they probably have an Adventurers Manual which doesn't tell you much about any given adventuring race, other than their rough stat block, a paragraph or two about where they're found, and a half-page illustration of them in a menacing pose.
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Jul 14, 2008 13:41
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In 4th Edition, it's a DC15 check to know that bears live in forests and caves. That means your average commoner only has a 25% chance of knowing that. This proves that not only does the average D&D peasant not know if a bear shits in the woods, he probably doesn't even understand the question.
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Jul 14, 2008 15:21
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Medieval peasant used to think that frogs were spontaneously created out of mud, so I have no problem with that. That said, peasants in my game that live near woods know what lives in them.
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Jul 14, 2008 16:54
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It's not exactly pushing the realms of believability to give peasants some ranks in Knowledge (local dangerous wildlife).
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Dominic White posted:She's from the Monster Manual. Over in those parts, they probably have an Adventurers Manual which doesn't tell you much about any given adventuring race, other than their rough stat block, a paragraph or two about where they're found, and a half-page illustration of them in a menacing pose. In this comic, however, she's beyond stupid. She's Elan.
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A Big Dark Yak posted:Which was fine for me when she was dumb/egotistical enough to assume that all creatures must have some kind of spell-like powers ("Not even lightning?"), because that's what she's used to. It's not drooling, blithering idiocy on her part.
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I thought she was studying to be a lawyer, and had previously been far more savvy than she is now.
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To be fair, we've only seen her previous in very limited doses. Also, to be fair, she is a celestial being made purely of lawfulness and goodness from a plane of existence where everyone is exactly the same. If something that was made out of sunshine, order, and lollipops was anything but naive to an absolute fault, I'd be wondering what the hell is up.
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I dunno, being from a plane of ultimate law/goodness would imply an acceptance of similar planes of ultimate chaos/evil and a corresponding realisation that the material plane is a balance of all of them.
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Shyrka posted:I dunno, being from a plane of ultimate law/goodness would imply an acceptance of similar planes of ultimate chaos/evil and a corresponding realisation that the material plane is a balance of all of them. I have met people who believe they are from a plane of ultimate law and goodness. They usually have no acceptance of other ideas, and no concept of "balance". Then again, they also tend to believe that everyone else is Satan incarnate, which is kind of the opposite of this.
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Cabbit posted:Also, to be fair, she is a celestial being made purely of lawfulness and goodness from a plane of existence where everyone is exactly the same. If something that was made out of sunshine, order, and lollipops was anything but naive to an absolute fault, I'd be wondering what the hell is up. Lawful good outsiders know all about evil. Celia's just being retarded.
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Wasn't Celia one of the defenders of the original Gate, too? It's not like this is her first time on the plane.
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Wait, where are you guys getting this "being of lawful goodness" from? I thought she was a sylph, albeit a homebrew, medium sized one.
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Yeah, there's a difference between being unknowledgable about humanoids and having no reading comprehension whatsoever. The drat character's a loving lawyer.
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So close to what I was thinking was going to happen, but Bone Golem is just as good as a Zombie Roy. Edit: Undead Zombie seems a little redundant. Also, Belkar hallucinating because of the vomiting is quite hilarious. Perfect background gag for the strip. Iggy Johnson fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Jul 16, 2008 |
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Jul 16, 2008 01:22
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Celia = still a loving moron. Cursed Belkar = still funny. "I'm a centaur!"
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A Big Dark Yak posted:Celia = still a loving moron.
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CapnAndy posted:At least she had some glimmerings of intelligence this time. Given her current rate and the approximate update schedule, in two or three months she might be able to outthink an average 8 year old. 
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I like how "Giro" is just a scrambling of the letters for "Igor." edit: Ha! I love that they have an umber hulk skeleton in the backround. Aren't those things insects? Would they even have bones? double edit: "I'm totally using sense motive on you!" loving awesome. We have all assuredly said something like this at least once in a game. SlimGoodbody fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Jul 16, 2008 |
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SlimGoodbody posted:edit: Ha! I love that they have an umber hulk skeleton in the backround. Aren't those things insects? Would they even have bones? I'm quite certain there was an adventure I saw that had an illustration that included an undead Umber Hulk (exo)skeleton.
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So, what are the rules for resurrection after your living vessel has been converted into a bone golem? I kind of wish Roy had been watching all this and making commentary, but I guess it would have made the comic too complicated. Edit: For some reason I'm now imagining a video series in the vein of Will It Blend titled "Will It Resurrect". For this challenge, we've fed a peasant's body through a wood chipper, then mixed the pieces into a giant-sized hamburger and fed it to a tarrasque! We've got one of the tarrasque droppings here, and it's time for . . . WILL IT RESURRECT? Yes, amazingly, the Resurrtec Total Resurrector has resurrected our peasant none the worse for wear! Don't try this at home, kids! Next week: acid submersion! ZorbaTHut fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Jul 18, 2008 |
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Raise Dead's long out of the question on the basis of time, so the main option here is Resurrection. The requirements for that are simply this:quote:So long as some small portion of the creature’s body still exists, it can be resurrected, but the portion receiving the spell must have been part of the creature’s body at the time of death. Seeing as the base component of the golem is still Roy's skeleton, and it's still intact (albeit with an earth elemental duct-taped to it), it's still viable for resurrection. Really, logically speaking, having your body made into a bone golem makes it a lot easier to move around and bring to a priest capable of resurrection-- plus, it can defend itself from being stolen or destroyed. It's a win-win situation!
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Cabbit posted:Really, logically speaking, having your body made into a bone golem makes it a lot easier to move around and bring to a priest capable of resurrection-- plus, it can defend itself from being stolen or destroyed. It's a win-win situation! Are bone golems considered 'evil'? Are they going to have a hard time finding a good-aligned priest who'll believe they're good guys if they'll being followed around by a bone golem?
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In AD&D at least, Bone Golems were Neutral.
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Golems in 3.5E are mindless constucts driven by "a spirit from the Elemental Plane of Earth" and are all neutrally-aligned.
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Just out of curiosity, if Roy were resurrected, what would happen to the Elemental Spirit bound to the skeleton? Also, I can't explain why I find panel 2 so hilarious. I think it's the way she doesn't even look up. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Jul 18, 2008 |
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Jul 18, 2008 06:33
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More importantly... NEW BOOK Order Here 288 pages! That's a lot of book.
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I seem to be recall there being a spell like True Resurrection or something that didn't even need a physical component. I remember 2ed having a 'Reincarnation' spell that would basically bring you back from anything, with a decent chance that you would remanifest as a badger or a fox or a nubile young woman or whatever. I have no idea if that stuck around.
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Resurrection, True Resurrection and Reincarnate.
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