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Dr I am a Doctor posted:It's Hill Giant - 19 STR Cloud giant was 23, and storm giant was 24.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2011 16:57 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 05:46 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:In potion form, yes. In belt form, no. Page 145 of the first-edition DMG.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2011 11:24 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:The "game" in this case refers to Baldur's Gate. Well, gently caress.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2011 23:34 |
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Wanderer posted:Yeah, keep in mind that the older books didn't account for poo poo like "city adventures" or all that. Towns existed as places to get wasted and spend your gold as you headed off to the next mysterious ruin. In 1973, if your adventure wasn't in the crumbling remnants of some once-great civilization miles from nowhere, you were doing it wrong. By 1979, they had random encounter tables for cities and everything.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2011 02:15 |
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TremendousMajestic posted:Someone post the disease table from the same era so I can figure out what I caught from that expensive doxy
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2011 22:25 |
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Toussaint Louverture posted:That has to rank in the top ten of creepy poo poo I've heard of happening in a session. What is it about D&D that brings out all the crazy fetishists. It's a game that encourages you to use your imagination to think of fantastic things. Some of those things will frighten people.
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2011 17:58 |
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Dr I am a Doctor posted:Hey, look I don't know what I like better, the "you are ignorant cretins" bit, or the "how totally badass that fight was" bit.
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# ¿ Oct 10, 2011 15:16 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:Why are we pretending like the alignment system isn't a total piece of poo poo? You, sir, have no soul.
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2011 18:14 |
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Sergeant Rock posted:NOOOOOOO NOT AN ALIGNMENT DISCUSSION Muwahahahahaha...
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2011 17:42 |
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I am sad that they seem to be about to leave Tarquin.
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2011 18:45 |
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Toussaint Louverture posted:This is not true at all though. It's really very simple. Lawful Evil types have an ideological or logical reason to abide by the law. Chaotic Evil types have an idealogical or logical reason to flaunt the law. Neutral Evil types are about pure selfishness, and break or abide by laws when it serves their self interest. You want "flout", not "flaunt". (I learned that from reading a letter sent to Dragon magazine. (I'm such a nerd. (And so old.)))
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2011 18:57 |
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Red_Mage posted:You would be wrong. Certain Races (like demons and devils) are always certain alignments. You could be the kindest sweetest Succubus in the world and never harm a person and open a home for orphans etc.. Wasn't Fall-From-Grace Lawful Neutral in "Planescape: Torment"?
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# ¿ Nov 22, 2011 03:37 |
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Vorgen posted:However, within the context of the DnD world the alignment system is very well-defined and should be pretty easy to understand and use. In DnD, the Planes, the Gods, and the afterlife do not care about your secret, true, inner alignment. Your alignment is a property attached to you, like your mass or specific heat, and it is measurable and definable. Gods will look at your soul, check your tags, and treat you accordingly. So will tons of other people. I haven't played in ages; do they no longer allow alignment changes?
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# ¿ Nov 22, 2011 10:48 |
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Zetetica posted:It's very strongly implied that Geoff and Ivy are the associates Bozzok is mentioning. See his reaction here. Last panel best panel.
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# ¿ Dec 22, 2011 16:02 |
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Is it wrong that I'm now cheering for Xykon as the underdog against Redcloak?
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2012 14:46 |
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Cabbit posted:His soul isn't in there now. His soul retreats there when his undead body is destroyed, then proceeds to regenerate a new one for his soul to inhabit. So it's like a portable Zero Room?
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2012 19:23 |
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Bongo Bill posted:Comics Alliance has an interview about it. quote:RB: Being somewhat old school, I'm leaning toward electrum pieces myself. Though the encumbrance will be harsh, so I haven't decided. The success of this thing really makes me feel good about the world.
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2012 20:52 |
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Cuchulain posted:Playing that game while drunk on Halloween with my girlfriend was an experience. She's not from America, so she never did the whole Trick or Treating thing. I'm hoping there will be meat-mannequin loving.
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2012 15:08 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:I will say this for Garth Ennis- he totally avoided all the usual "I am edgy" cliches in Dan Dare. It's a straightforward modern update of the character, with a good war-story vibe. Garth Ennis can write the hell out of a war story. It's scary how well he does them.
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2012 23:21 |
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Affi posted:222 bucks gets you the whole story. Thank you for the summation; this is what I have ordered.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2012 13:57 |
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Tinyn posted:Its pretty clear he just wants to see the books on store shelves more than he wants profit. Nostalgia I guess? Nostalgia could certainly be a part of it. I know that I place more value on physical books than I do on e-books. It's probably because I'm old and have loved books for years.
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# ¿ Feb 13, 2012 14:08 |
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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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Captain Oblivious posted:I hope V survives all this so he can become an archetypically wise old wizard frustrated by his complete inability to stop future generations of mages from being as loving retarded as he used to be. I think V is capable of regret, but not humility.
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2012 18:39 |
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Speedball posted:I just want to know if V can pull his karma out of the screaming nosedive it currently is in. There's no "karma" on my alignment chart, buddy. Rumda posted:Theres also the possibility that the connection is on Haley's mothers side, which would protect Ian, and then were down to cloister protecting Haley and since epic must defeat epic it fits. Does V really have "friends" as we think of them? Even at his/her best, he/she is pretty distant towards the other party members.
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2012 13:59 |
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Rumda posted:I don't know s/he always seemed close to Haley, after all s/he didn't push theirself so to find Roy's corpse or Belkar, s/he wanted to prove magic is as powerful as s/he thinks it is by finding Haley, and if you have read OoTPCs then is shows that V and Haley were friend before they joined the party and V only joined up a her insistence Gotcha. I haven't gotten the printed books yet, so there are things I don't know.
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2012 14:07 |
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jng2058 posted:Precisely. Like the Big X said, "Be a vampire, or a ghost, or an immortal with a paint-by-numbers portrait in the rec room. Hell, even a brain-in-a-jar, in a pinch. Anything to avoid the Big Fire Below." drat, you. You made me go read a couple of comics, and they turned out to be the Xykon versus Mr. Stiffly ones. Poor Mr. Stiffly.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2012 14:07 |
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HKR posted:Neither does he if you read back where he explains the chart. Baracus?
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2012 18:02 |
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Pope Guilty posted:Roy is why you don't dump Int. I was really psyched when Roy explained why that wasn't Thog. I've always had a soft spot for fighters who have some Int. (I'm still bitter that my friend with the dumb-strong fighter used to get 10% bonus experience. ) prefect fucked around with this message at 15:11 on May 8, 2012 |
# ¿ May 8, 2012 13:10 |
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wiegieman posted:It's going to be so great when Tarquin gives the okay for Malak to snuff out Nale. I am waiting with bated breath for this one. It's going to be so sweet. (I bet Rich cockblocks me. )
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# ¿ May 29, 2012 12:30 |
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ImpAtom posted:This. As much as people like Tarquin? He's a villain. He's an arrogant self-confident villain who is utterly convinced he knows how things are going to happen. There is no way he's going to get what he wants. If anything, the only way to really defeat him is to give him an ignoble death, because nothing tarnishes a legend like a bad ending. I'm just hoping that Nale gets his comeuppance. Which almost guarantees he won't. (Not in a way that I find satisfying, at least.)
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# ¿ May 29, 2012 13:35 |
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Vorgen posted:That reminds me of some post I read on here about a dude saying his friend in middle school used Dungeons and Dragons 1st edition as the focal point of his arguments that women were inherently weaker, because they got -1 STR and +1 DEX or something. In Advanced D&D's 1st edition, I believe human women didn't get a bonus or a penalty, just a maximum strength of 18/50. (Which is worse than a bonus/penalty, because there's no counter-effect on some other stat.) Cabbit posted:Perpetuating racist or bigoted stereotypes ironically is worse than doing it out of pure ignorance, because you should bloody well loving know better. How about if they're stereotypes that nobody takes seriously any more? (I love my Polack jokes.) (Disclaimer: I am a Polack-American.) prefect fucked around with this message at 12:02 on Jun 2, 2012 |
# ¿ Jun 2, 2012 12:00 |
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Do mummies still give you some rotting disease when they hit you?
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2012 22:27 |
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I'm glad the doctor is confident it's going to go well. "Complications" is shorthand for "living nightmare".
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2012 14:08 |
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Apocron posted:Man I miss OotS, any idea when it will come back? Did all the KS stuff go down the tube as well? I'm pretty sure all the Kickstarter stuff he was going to do is still going to get done; just not as soon.
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2012 13:42 |
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ImpAtom posted:What the hell is this about hand-stabbing? I heard about the Wonderella guy and the OotS guy, did it happen to someone else? http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2309 quote:So: VVVV Is that why he did it? prefect fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Nov 2, 2012 |
# ¿ Nov 2, 2012 17:14 |
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SirDan3k posted:Who is the Lawful Evil Norse deity in D&D anyway? I don't have Deities and Demigods handy, but I seem to remember a serious shortage of Lawful in the Norse pantheon. Maybe Hel/Hela? Whilst Googling for Norse alignment info, I came across this, which is awesome: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeffdee/re-creating-my-norse-art-from-deities-and-demigods quote:This project is the third installment of my ongoing effort to re-create my old TSR / Dungeons & Dragons artwork – which was reportedly destroyed* by some thoughtless functionary to make room in TSR’s files. Last time, I re-created 16 drawings that I did for the 1980 AD&D module Q1: Queen of the Demonweb Pits! This time around, I’m re-creating my artwork from the Norse chapter of the original 1980 edition of the AD&D book called ‘Deities and Demigods’. Eventually, I plan to make a whole collection my re-created TSR illustrations available as an art book. Edit: I'm depressed by this "yes, master" business. I don't like that at all. No, sir. prefect fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Mar 6, 2013 |
# ¿ Mar 6, 2013 13:36 |
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Alchenar posted:But it is perfect for Xykon though. "Oh, these guys". The squabbling of the heros and the B-villains simply doesn't register with him because it's utterly irrelevant and I love it. That's the absolute best thing about Xykon. The strip needed some comedy; it was getting terribly depressing for a while there.
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2013 13:08 |
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Earnestly posted:He seriously considered forcing Redcloak to sail a boat built from Hobgoblin corpses. I don't know if I like Xykon better than I like the Order, but I like him better than Redcloak for sure.
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2013 17:30 |
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builds character posted:2nd Edition purists! Fools! First edition is the only pure edition!
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# ¿ May 30, 2013 13:49 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 05:46 |
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Alchenar posted:They're not going to die, they'll be fine. Gates don't inherently blow up when destroyed, that's just Girard and Soon's particular defence mechanisms. They're just going to weaken the fabric of reality/help doom an entire planet. Something that would net three devils a whole bunch of souls. Sure, you'll get a lot of souls in one big batch, but it's not sustainable. Wouldn't it be better for them to keep the planet non-doomed and farm souls forever?
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# ¿ Jul 3, 2013 01:38 |