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Vorgen posted:So its going to be made of Rifts Sourcebooks? FATAL? So the rift really was between Girard's buttcheeks all along...
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my dad posted:FATAL? So the rift really was between Girard's buttcheeks all along... Roll d100?  oh god I don't even play P&P games why can't I get that poo poo out of my head
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Vorgen posted:So its going to be made of Rifts Sourcebooks? The Snarl is the 3rd-party splatbook apocalypse! It's killed 3rd and 3.5, and now it's going to kill us too!
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Aug 23, 2013 14:59
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The Snarl was a baby the last time the gods saw it. A big angry baby that destroyed the world, but still a baby. Imagine if the only human you had ever seen was a toddler throwing a temper tantrum, and you thought that was the whole of human behavior. The Snarl is literally supposed to be made of the stuff of creation. The threads of creation tangled by petty gods. I wonder if it hurts to be tangled? After destroying the world and striking out at one fourth of its parents, the Snarl got to watch the remaining gods weave its prison, weave a new world around it. If it was more than merely a force of mindless destruction, then it is possible that it was learning as it watched. Time passes. Is the entity inside the prison still a tantruming child? Nobody knows.
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Aug 23, 2013 16:15
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Captain Oblivious posted:Really, what's to say the Snarl didn't just...mellow the gently caress out in its prison and decide to do something constructive? Maybe it was pure chaos and deicidal fury once, but is it now?
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Aug 23, 2013 16:30
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It took Roy's sword generating the anti-undead energy for him to crack the pyramid crystal. Does this mean the gate crystals involve evil/negative energy?
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Aug 23, 2013 19:12
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Hog Butcher posted:It took Roy's sword generating the anti-undead energy for him to crack the pyramid crystal. Does this mean the gate crystals involve evil/negative energy? Until otherwise told I just assume it was for added dramatic effect.
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Aug 23, 2013 20:25
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CapnAndy posted:Maybe it still is pure chaos. Truly pure chaos looks an awful lot like order. Chaos is just order that's too complex to understand.
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Aug 23, 2013 20:27
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Hog Butcher posted:It took Roy's sword generating the anti-undead energy for him to crack the pyramid crystal. Does this mean the gate crystals involve evil/negative energy? I'm on record (though I can't be arsed to look up the post) as saying that I think Roy's energy effect happens every time he critically hits. The extra damage against undead/evil (since it hurt Sabine too) is similar to other "burst" weapons that do extra fire damage or cold damage or what not when you critically hit. Same deal here, just with custom anti-evil energy instead. So the energy in the gate's case just indicated that Roy hit it really well, and the critical hit bonus is what killed the gate, not the energy effect itself.
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Aug 23, 2013 20:35
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You can't critically hit objects, though.
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Aug 23, 2013 20:45
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Mystic Mongol posted:You can't critically hit objects, though. The gates are alive!
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Aug 23, 2013 20:47
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You cant crit undead in 3.5 either. Im betting on dramatic effect, although i woulnt be surprised either if it turns out to have been important in 200 strips...
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Aug 23, 2013 20:53
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peak debt posted:You cant crit undead in 3.5 either. Im betting on dramatic effect, although i woulnt be surprised either if it turns out to have been important in 200 strips... Xykon is alive!
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Aug 23, 2013 20:57
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Maybe it just activates when you threaten, not crit.  Or it happens when the plot deems it important. 
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Critical hits is a very clunky mechanism, which shows its incoherences. One the one hand, it's a function of the wielder's skill. You have to roll a threat (natural 20 with most weapons, can be a whole range of numbers with some minmaxed cheese), and then make another successful attack roll to confirm. If confirmed, On the other hand, it's a function of the target. It needs to have an anatomy with vulnerable organs. On the third hand, it's a function of the weapon. If it has a "burst" effect, then it'll activate randomly from time to time, this is chosen by having it activated during critical hits. The way I've always played it is that certain monsters such as undead, constructs, oozes, elementals, etc. are merely immune to critical hits. The subtlety is that it doesn't mean you cannot inflict critical hits on them -- you can. But they'll be immune to the extra damage from the critical hit. In the same way, a red dragon is immune to fire, but you can still throw a fireball at it. It will not inflict any damage to the dragon, but it'll happen nonetheless. So, if you have a burst weapon, then you do have a good reason to try to confirm critical hits on undead & co.
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Glory of Arioch posted:Or it happens when the plot deems it important. Told you Elan was going to be worth having around. "Roy! Wait two rounds to hit or you'll critically miss because THE PLOT WILLS IT!"
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Aug 23, 2013 21:49
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Finally got around to reading the Haleo and Julelan story, and it makes me wonder Something about it feels oddly prophetic, though V hasn't died yet (Though I think he's supposed to?) I wonder if Nale going to come back as a vampire-whatever somehow.
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Zogundar posted:Finally got around to reading the Haleo and Julelan story, and it makes me wonder You do realize that Haleo and Julelan is based on Romeo and Juliet, right? And that pretty much all the deaths come straight from the play? Belkar is the one who's literally prophesied to "take his last breath, ever" in this story. V is in the clear. The only way I see Nale coming back into the story is as a demon and through Sabine's influence. I'm not really sure how likely that is. Burlew might want him for a final encounter for Elan, but I think Tarquin's been built up for that role instead.
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Ursine Asylum posted:Told you Elan was going to be worth having around. "Roy! Wait two rounds to hit or you'll critically miss because THE PLOT WILLS IT!" They did that one already. More or less, that is.
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jng2058 posted:I'm on record (though I can't be arsed to look up the post) as saying that I think Roy's energy effect happens every time he critically hits. The extra damage against undead/evil (since it hurt Sabine too) is similar to other "burst" weapons that do extra fire damage or cold damage or what not when you critically hit. Same deal here, just with custom anti-evil energy instead. My first thought was that maybe he just took 20, but then I remembered that you can only do that if you have a lot of time on your hands, which they most definitely did not with every recurring villain in the series headed their way. So yeah, I'd agree that the green positive energy flame shows up with a crit roll or whenever it's most dramatic to do so. Elan must be proud.
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Uranium Phoenix posted:You do realize that Haleo and Julelan is based on Romeo and Juliet, right? And that pretty much all the deaths come straight from the play? Belkar is the one who's literally prophesied to "take his last breath, ever" in this story. V is in the clear. Yes I know all of that, but I find the stuff with Nale (His dying, his interaction with Tarquin) a little eyebrow raising given recent events. As for V, when the Oracle was trying to convince Belkar that his prophecy had already come true for several of the people he asked about, he was cut off once he got to V. Suggesting that he would somehow have at least some roundabout technical connection to V's demise.
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Zogundar posted:Yes I know all of that, but I find the stuff with Nale (His dying, his interaction with Tarquin) a little eyebrow raising given recent events. No because the Oracle was the one he was prophecied to kill. That's why the Oracle was beating around the bush.
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Zogundar posted:Yes I know all of that, but I find the stuff with Nale (His dying, his interaction with Tarquin) a little eyebrow raising given recent events. You really don't have to spoiler speculation or things that have already happened. Again, though, everything that happens in the parody comic is basically straight from the play. You're focusing in on events in Haleo and Julelan to analyze because of related events in the strip and ignoring all the things that don't line up at all. Do you think Thog and Crystal are going to duel because they did it in the parody? Obviously not, that would be ridiculous. Haleo and Julelan is not going to be useful in making predictions for OotS. As for what the Oracle didn't say, it could have been anything. For all we know he was going to go on a rambling explanation about how because of Belkar, V lived a more stressful life and that stress caused her to die several years earlier than she normally would have. Besides, remember he ends the whole thing with "yeah I wasn't buying it either."
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Aug 24, 2013 02:18
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That or he was going to say yeah you're just not going to kill the elf.
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Uranium Phoenix posted:You really don't have to spoiler speculation or things that have already happened. I was mainly trying to mark spoilers from the kickstarter story. And I never claimed it was a perfect 1:1 representation on all points. I just found a couple of things that stood out to me.
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W.T. Fits posted:They did that one already. More or less, that is. No they didn't, that was the "red speaks true" thing. Or at least we're supposed to believe it was anyway.
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Cliff Racer posted:No they didn't, that was the "red speaks true" thing. Or at least we're supposed to believe it was anyway.
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Aug 24, 2013 05:42
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Odd, I totally forgot that pre-Liched Xykon showed up for a single panel in early OOTS.
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I got caught in a bit of a re-read and noticed just now that the title of strip 207, around the start of Miko's arc, is "Now If Only We Could Organize the Fiends Somehow". So that's some foreshadowing.
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Aug 24, 2013 12:08
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Man, I hope churning out all these strips so fast isn't too hard on the ol' thumb. 
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Kajeesus posted:Man, I hope churning out all these strips so fast isn't too hard on the ol' thumb. Didn't he mention at some point that he might be buying a Cintiq with some of the Kickstarter profits? Maybe he got around to it.
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Aug 25, 2013 15:39
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New strip http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0914.html
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Aug 26, 2013 14:05
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh shiiiiiiit this is going to be good.
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Aug 26, 2013 14:07
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... Ah. I need a cigarette.
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Aug 26, 2013 14:10
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At least we know now that V's body is still safe somewhere in the crater. This is probably gonna segue into him being release.
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Aug 26, 2013 14:15
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Man, I know we are running circles with this, but Tarquin is really ice cold.
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Aug 26, 2013 14:18
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Tarquin, you are going to die very, very soon.
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Aug 26, 2013 14:19
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What does Sabine even have class levels in? Her CR seems a little low for any of these guys at this point.
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I don't get the strip title. Interesting (if overt) summary of the overall themes of the series (alignment vs choices framed as nurture vs nature), and another line from Tarquin that perfectly sums up lawful evil. Nice callback to the TV being filled with blood too
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