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Everyone they've met since Hinjo has described them as 'high-level adventurers'. In terms of the setting they're pretty impressive.
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Also, one thing about this comic is that none of the characters are really, well, optimal, for their roles. Roy is, well, a straight Fighter, V is a blasting wizard, Durkon tends to focus on just healing and buffing rather then take advantage of the insane cleric spells. Haley is a bow focused Rogue in a world with Wind Wall. Ironically, Elan is the only character that's done any "munchkin" stuff, with his prestige class that lets him uses his stats to his benefit. Overall the OoTS world seems to be pretty low level over all though.
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Feb 22, 2012 19:53
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To be fair, if they were optimized the strip would have ended a very long time ago.
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Feb 22, 2012 19:59
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crime fighting hog posted:To be fair, if they were optimized the strip would have ended a very long time ago. I'm not so sure they can or could have optimized. Roy, at least, is a pure fighter because of his grandfather and because it pisses his father off. To optimize would be against his character.
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Feb 22, 2012 20:22
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He needs to crack open the Book of Nine Swords.
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Feb 22, 2012 20:26
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Elan has munchkinned, yes, but only to bring him up to the level of the rest of the party.
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crime fighting hog posted:To be fair, if they were optimized the strip would have ended a very long time ago. And the strip would be a lot less fun, because Roy wouldn't have put such a high stat in Intelligence.
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Feb 22, 2012 20:30
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Pope Guilty posted:Elan has munchkinned, yes, but only to bring him up to the level of the rest of the party. Eh, in direct combat at least. Bards play best as force-multipliers so his contributions are always going to be slightly difficult to measure. Adding +hit and +damage is unexciting, but potentially vital. Without seeing the numbers we'll never really know how much he actually contributed before his Dashing Swordsman upgrade.
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There's a thread to follow the post-drive information. Rich Burlew will be working on the PDF's in the order he thinks he can get them done most easily, and sending out them out as he finishes them. The O-Chul story will be the longest one, so not the first. His first priority is getting the colouring book to the printers. It's subject to change, but at the moment, the three bonus "Character of your Choice" PDF's will be about Therkla, the Cliffport Cops ("some sort of cop show parody"), and Belkar, Pre-OOTS days.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:It's subject to change, but at the moment, the three bonus "Character of your Choice" PDF's will be about Therkla, the Cliffport Cops ("some sort of cop show parody"), and Belkar, Pre-OOTS days. Man, I know it's buyer's choice and all, but you'd really have to try to think of a worse trio of choices with all of the interesting characters in the OOTS-verse. At least Belkar's will be interesting, maybe.
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Niton posted:Man, I know it's buyer's choice and all, but you'd really have to try to think of a worse trio of choices with all of the interesting characters in the OOTS-verse. I think the cops could be interesting depending on what Rich does with them, but I am annoyed no one picked Tarquin or Hinjo or an Order of the Scribble member. Those would have been my picks. Also what the hell kind of story do they think he can even tell about Thekla? We sat through basically the only interesting events in her life and she was by far the worst and most obnoxious part of them.
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Niton posted:Man, I know it's buyer's choice and all, but you'd really have to try to think of a worse trio of choices with all of the interesting characters in the OOTS-verse. Therkla's is an interesting concept at least, the Cliffport Cops is just Rich picking something specific from a vague request; I honestly think Belkar is the worst choice for that because he's a main character and we get lots of Belkar anyway, someone like Fyron or Gortok or that Druid from Cliffport would have been better I think
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My guess is Tarquin, Hinjo and the OotScribble are due to get their own prequel books at some point.
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Dr Pepper posted:Ironically, Elan is the only character that's done any "munchkin" stuff, with his prestige class that lets him uses his stats to his benefit. It's a running joke of the strip that Elan is actually the only optimised character in the group.
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I'm a sucker for police procedurals and comedy so I'm looking forward to that one.
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Wonder if he would've done a story on the Monster in the Dark before he met Xykon.
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^^^^ Have you read SoD? The Cliffport Cops jokes were some of my favourite in the whole comic, so I'm not unhappy; on the other side, I couldn't care less about some comic relief characters' backstory, so the question is whether Rich can write more jokes that are just as funny. We'll see. Therkla is the one that interests me the least based on what I've read of her, but on the other side, I think there's definitely the potential for a really great story in how a half-orc ended up as Kubota's personal ninja. Problem is, I can't see that beind handled properly in 8-12 pages. So I'm bracing for disappointment there. Belkar... well, it's going to hinge on whether we get some actual background i.e. his days with the halfling community, or whether Rich goes for another cop-out (after the one in OtOoPCs) and starts with Belkar already being the same murderous criminal as always. NihilCredo fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Feb 22, 2012 |
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Well Belkar always refers to crazy events in the Bitterleaf family, so seeing some of that could be amusing. Of course I'd rather see things like MiTD or SoD spoilers: Redeyes daughter get answered, but these are probably reserved for the main comic.
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NihilCredo posted:Belkar... well, it's going to hinge on whether we get some actual background i.e. his days with the halfling community, or whether Rich goes for another cop-out (after the one in OtOoPCs) and starts with Belkar already being the same murderous criminal as always. Belkar doesn't have an origin. He was always evil. That's the joke. Still, him being evil in the stereotypically nice halfling village would be pretty cool.
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SoD spoiler: Xykon was always evil, too, but his origin story was still interesting.
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NihilCredo posted:SoD spoiler: Xykon was always evil, too, but his origin story was still interesting. Continued spoilers: Well, yeah - but he's a lich, a powerful once-human caster. By definition, he was something different before, whereas Belkar is just a halfling
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The Rooster posted:Of course I'd rather see things like MiTD or SoD spoilers: Redeyes daughter get answered, but these are probably reserved for the main comic.
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Those picks were pretty bad. I mean Belkar could be good, and the Cops could be funny (but definitely not interesting). I can't see Therkla being anything other then a miss though. Hinjo would've been awesome and so would Tarquin.
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Niton posted:Continued spoilers: Well, yeah - but he's a lich, a powerful once-human caster. By definition, he was something different before, whereas Belkar is just a halfling I don't think it's a spoiler to say that Xykon is a lich.
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Alchenar posted:I don't think it's a spoiler to say that Xykon is a lich.
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Colon V posted:But, he's also a sorcerer! I also think he might be evil!
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He's also an evil sorcerer who killed Roy's father's master - which, incidentally, was revealed in the webcomic, so I don't know why I'm spoilering that. But if you are, so shall I. I still am not getting how "rich burr low" makes any sense, though. Is it an anagram? I suck with those, and especially with palindromes! 
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Nenonen posted:
His first name is Rich, and he just made a lot of money. You're overthinking it.
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Alchenar posted:I don't think it's a spoiler to say that Xykon is a lich. Well, yeah, but the point was to not ruin the context of the rest of the spoilers  Maybe a lot of us don't care at this point, but there's probably someone reading the thread who just bought SotD and is now waiting for Rich to process his 25,000 books in orders.
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Sefer posted:His first name is Rich, and he just made a lot of money. Money? What money? oO
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The Kickstarter. 1.25 million dollars raised. Speaking of which, I am still getting a kick out of V lining up to kick Belkar in the shins in the final chart comic.
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"He's really good at this." Oh God yes, dungeon stuff. I love it.
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Niton posted:Well, yeah, but the point was to not ruin the context of the rest of the spoilers I also don't think it's a spoiler to point out that Start of Darkness contains Xykon's origin story. Also it's established on the very first page that Xykon has always been evil, that isn't a big story element.
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Mystic Mongol posted:He needs to crack open the Book of Nine Swords. He can't. His dad wouldn't pay for a graduate program.
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Jefepato posted:He can't. His dad wouldn't pay for a graduate program.
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So I had forgotten where the demon roaches come from, and reading through the archives, apparently the MitD attracts them naturally. I really wish we knew what the gently caress that thing is.
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He is the son of the lady of blades. Eh, who knows.
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Colon V posted:You know, thinking on it, Roy would actually make a very good Iron Heart/Stone Dragon Warblade with very little changing about his combat style except he'd suddenly be far more dangerous. I think that was the point of the joke in snips.
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Cuchulain posted:So I had forgotten where the demon roaches come from, and reading through the archives, apparently the MitD attracts them naturally. I really wish we knew what the gently caress that thing is. They are attracted to Xykon because (sod spoilers) He ate a bunch of hellfood at an evil diner
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