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Waffleimages isn't working, but there's a new strip: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0608.html Lime green. A grave conundrum.
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The Werle posted:Sheets mean nothing to the common housecat. I know housecats are tough, but I suspect Mr. Scruffy has become Belkar's animal companion, even more powerful than a common housecat. He's following Belkar's orders in battle, and look at the wounds he left on the dwarf.
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Nov 25, 2008 02:53
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shadysight posted:I'm having trouble verbalizing how inconceivably stupid that plan would have to be, between letting his friends he fully intends to save be ambushed, and then apparently aspiring to kill the entire thieves guild. I think his main goal was to get his eyes back, but it may be that he planned to help them after selling them out for his eyes. Of course, if he planned to take on the Guild afterwards anyway, he probably could have gotten a spell from his cleric friend or something at some point...
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Dec 11, 2008 08:14
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BrainWeasel posted:I think the Oracle got stabbed last time he tried to pass off a cheesy rationalization like that. Yeah, but the Oracle KNEW he was going to get stabbed for it and did it anyway. Clearly it didn't work as a deterrent.
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Dec 31, 2008 07:49
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But only because that particular demon owed him; he's unlikely to have more powerful demons that lost at cards to him.
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Jan 28, 2009 18:30
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Affi posted:Eh, wouldn't the black dragons antimagic sphere still gently caress V over? He's just getting the powers of 3 other mages.. ? It's been a while, but if I remember correctly antimagic sphere doesn't stop epic magic. Edit: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/spellsIntro.htm The antimagic field has to roll a d20+20 vs DC 11+caster level, meaning that at best an antimagic field has less that 50% of stopping epic magic, and has no chance of stopping a caster of level 30 or above. Sefer fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Feb 23, 2009 |
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Feb 23, 2009 23:18
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DoctorTristan posted:Assuming they actually survive. He stated in the last strip that V won't be able to replicate divine magic. That's about as blatant as "If you should happen to kill someone during your power trip, there will be no resurrecting them." He may not be able to raise them himself, but he can certainly teleport to someone who can (and should even be able to use wish or epic magic to create the material component).
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Mar 4, 2009 19:50
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Pope Guilty posted:What are the odds that V is bright enough to immediately end the Soul Splice, thereby minimizing demonic access? I think at minimum V will teleport his family to Durkon for healing. He could let the power go at that point, but I get the feeling he'll make excuses to just do one more thing while he has it.
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Mar 11, 2009 16:01
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New strip:
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Mar 18, 2009 00:31
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Cabbit posted:Intent counts, I think. The summary execution of a whole family tree, including children who have probably yet to even perform an evil act (to say nothing of unborn eggs) is hard to put a positive spin on. I dunno, Redcloak's backstory confirms that paladins in this world can kill off entire goblin villages and maintain their paladin status because the goblins are inherently evil; I think the baby goblin argument's already been covered as far as the OotS campaign setting goes. Edit: On the other hand, half-dragons aren't inherently evil, so there's a good chance he caught some good creatures in that spell too. Sefer fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Mar 20, 2009 |
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Mar 20, 2009 16:02
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Karma Guard posted:I had a big write up but basically the whole Miko v the... other dude paladin debate: You can't be a dick and pre-emptively strike. They have to DO something evil in order for you to start killing them. Redcloak's backstory from Start of Darkness involves paladins killing entire goblin villages to keep them from being a threat to the Gate; it's preemptive and doesn't cause the paladins involved to lose their paladin status, much less change alignment. Killing evil beings who haven't done evil you're aware of does not seem to be evil in this campaign world.
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Mar 27, 2009 15:56
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Shyrka posted:
It does have a bearing on the situation in that we know killing random evil creatures is not an evil act. If he'd just killed a bunch of good creatures for no reason, it's be evil; killing a bunch of evil creatures, though, is at worst neutral.
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Mar 28, 2009 00:56
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HKR posted:The character who's only goal in life was to amass as much arcane power as possible willingly giving up a massive amount of arcane power? V isn't necessarily planning on keeping the power indefinately; he may just seek to reunite the party and/or defeat Xykon before he gives it up. Just because he wants massive arcane power doesn't mean he's not smart enough to know he'll lose control of the souls eventually and that he needs to minimize the time he spends with the fiends.
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Mar 30, 2009 01:35
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What I like about this is that it makes everything V's fault; if he hadn't left the fleet, the dragon would have continued to bide her time waiting for V to be alone to attack and explain her revenge. V would have been there when the sending spell came in and the party would be well on its way to being reunited, making this whole soul selling thing unnecessary. Of course, there would still be a dragon waiting for the chance at revenge and the fleet would still be seeking a home, so some good came of doing it this way. It's just interesting that none of it would be necessary if V hadn't thrown a tantrum and left the fleet.
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Apr 5, 2009 19:46
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Sick_Boy posted:Paladins of the Sapphire Guard, at least. Wonder of there's a Ruby Guard somewhere. Was reading through the archives and noticed this: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0415.html At least some paladins wear red. It may or may not be a whole order. I think every paladin we've seen wears white under the cloak, though.
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Apr 9, 2009 00:49
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Apr 9, 2009 06:30
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bison wings posted:that'd be cool, but it would also be something useful. Burlew seems pretty intent on teaching V that arcane power isn't the one and only truth. New strip says you're right.  PS check the cast page: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/ootscast.html
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Apr 30, 2009 04:02
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bison wings posted:
Probably best to have it rehosted and save giantitp.com some bandwidth anyway.
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Apr 30, 2009 05:23
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ZorbaTHut posted:
Clearly that depends on whether demons (both demons in general and the particular demons you want to smite) are part of the pantheon you worship. Yeah, this could be awesome.
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May 6, 2009 00:41
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KOraithER posted:The classes have to have an oversaturated category while neglecting the others. For example: In addition to Street Brawler, we need Martial Artist. And Monk. Also, either every class needs access to alignment based abilities, or we need some kind of Holy Knight to have all the abilities like Smite Heathen, Smite Heretic, Smite Adulterer, Smite Someone Who Works on Holy Days, and so on. I kinda like the idea of a class whose every attack is some kind of smite, actually. And none of them work unless the person you're trying to smite actually fits into that category for your (subjective) belief system.
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May 6, 2009 03:26
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Having insomnia gets a little better when there's a new strip:
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May 6, 2009 08:51
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bartolimu posted:I'm pretty much loving Xykon too. I think we've seen his Epic Spell though - Maximized Energy Drain. That's about as mean as anything I've seen a GM do. The level loss is only permanent if they fail their saving throw; it's just the negative levels they carry around until they can make a save drops the spells they can cast.
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May 11, 2009 16:46
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Ashenai posted:Come to think of it, what exactly is V's motivation to stop Xykon? V lives on a planet whose existence is threatened by Xykon and Redcloak's plan? His family lives there too?
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May 13, 2009 20:13
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To be fair to V, when the party split up he didn't immediately go out to find a similar level party to adventure with to gain power quickly; he spent all his time trying to seek out Haley (who, presumably, had Roy's body). He was more interested in finding the lost party members than leveling up, which indicates he cares about some of them, at least (I have to assume that if Belkar was the only one missing V wouldn't care).
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May 14, 2009 17:10
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bison wings posted:"WAAAAAA! How come V gets to be left beaten and captured with 3 upcoming and unannounced instances where he forfeits control entirely and becomes an NPC???" I sometimes wonder whether Durkon is the cleric NPC the DM included in the party because no one wanted to play the healer.
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May 15, 2009 20:16
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Geshtal posted:The beauty of Rifts, if they mess it up, I can just kill 'em off and bring another version from another reality through a rift or whatever the heck I feel like. In fact, rifts in my games got the nickname ‘magic monster machines’. I consider an alternate name to Rifts to be "Abuse the Game Mechanics: the RPG."
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May 16, 2009 04:22
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Wolfsheim posted:Once, in an effort to get my Chaotic Evil character to not rob a series of shopkeeps that were trying to gouge the gently caress out of us anyway, my GM made them all world-class swordsman To some degree, D&D is a game of clichés. Some groups resist it and some groups embrace it, but it's part of the game. Old adventurers retiring and running a shop or tavern is one of the clichés of the genre; it's perfectly reasonable to assume that the reason none of the high level guys that were adventuring before your characters are out saving the world is because they retired, stepping aside for to allow the next generation to save the world and keep those fuckers from getting poo poo they didn't earn.
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May 17, 2009 17:44
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Lord Commissar posted:No I'm not, I just don't play D&D, because it's not really based on roleplaying. That's why you earn XP for killing poo poo instead of playing your character. I can't speak for editions before 2nd, but every edition I've played has granted XP for role playing. You can also get XP for peacefully avoiding battles rather than killing the monsters. However, since XP is used to advance your ability to kill things and use skills, I don't know why you'd care how you're getting XP, since the XP won't improve your ability to role play your character. I don't know that there is a system where XP (or whatever that system's XP equivilant is) can do that.
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May 17, 2009 20:50
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Vanadium posted:Yes. Roy's dad explains the gimmick to Roy and Haley in strip 293, and Roy seems to relay that to the rest of the party in strip 294. Haley has multiple bags of holding, so the sword wouldn't necessarily need to be visible for them to have it.
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May 19, 2009 03:33
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Druid wildshape referenced polymorph, didn't it? They couldn't ban it without banning druids.
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May 25, 2009 03:37
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ZorbaTHut posted:I remember a story about a dungeon where the first level was chock-full of . . . level one kobolds. http://www.tuckerskobolds.com/ I love that story.
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May 30, 2009 20:49
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New Strip The bird gets to be badass. Though I'm surprised V has no feather falls, at least.
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Jun 2, 2009 01:37
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Goffer posted:Featherfall maybe? We know V has featherfall in her spell book- she used it when she was polymorphed into a lizard. We don't know whether she prepares it when she can speak, though. I'd hope so, since it's one of those just in case spells that every wizard can have, but I don't remember her using it in any other case.
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Jun 2, 2009 16:00
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Grimwall posted:Damnit, this just makes him harder to destroy than before; it's not like a lich cares if it wakes up at the bottom of the ocean. I was hoping that SOME good would come of this side trip.
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Jun 8, 2009 15:53
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MitD has also used something like a souped up version of the psionic power stomp (or an earthquake supernatural ability that just happens to be triggered by stomping the ground); I don't know if that helps since my SRD searches aren't turning up likely monsters with stomp or earthquake powers.
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Jun 10, 2009 06:43
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NutShellBill posted:Becoming a Lich also gives you crazy bonuses to pretty much all of your stats. Taking into account that he's level 30, once beat someone to death with an improvised weapon, and can lift giant slabs of stone, his STR is probably 20, or higher. Liches get +2 Int/Wis/Cha and get paralyzing touch, but no other natural weapons. In that he's epic and a +5 book and +6 to all stats item are really cheap (and we can be pretty certain he's been fiddling with some epic item creation, too, since he has an item that makes him immune to fire), he probably does have a 20+ strength anyway.
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Jun 13, 2009 16:12
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It's looking likely that the MitD will switch sides during the final battle.
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Jun 29, 2009 20:21
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ConfusedUs posted:Also Tiamat has five heads, hence the "holding on lines 2, 3, 5, 8, and 11" joke. He also had all 5 of her breath weapon types coming out of the phone It's often the little things in this comic that I like the most.
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Jul 3, 2009 05:15
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seaborgium posted:I didn't think Crystal got killed. Belkar didn't do it, he said it was Haley's job and as with all fictional villains I don't recall seeing her get killed. Some minor healing and she'd probably be fine. You're forgetting something: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0648.html
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Jul 13, 2009 18:48
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YggiDee posted:Fibonacci sequence. Fibonnaci sequence adds the current and previous numbers to get the next number; it's 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13. So that isn't even part of it.
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Jul 14, 2009 15:38
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